AUTHOR BIOS
Millicent Borges Accardi, a Portuguese-American writer, is the author of three poetry books, most recently Only More So (Salmon Poetry). Her awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Fulbright, CantoMundo, Creative Capacity, the California Arts Council, The Corporation of Yaddo, Fundação Luso-Americana, and Barbara Deming Foundation.
Brent Armendinger’s most recent book is Street Gloss, a hybrid work of site-specific poetry and experimental translation, featuring Argentinian writers Alejandro Méndez, Mercedes Roffé, Fabián Casas, Néstor Perlongher, and Diana Bellessi (The Operating System, 2019). His first book, The Ghost in Us Was Multiplying (Noemi Press, 2015), was a finalist for the California Book Award in Poetry. Brent teaches creative writing at Pitzer College and lives in Los Angeles.
Emily A. Benton is a graduate of the MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Hawai’i Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Southern Poetry Review, Bamboo Ridge, and ZYZZYVA. As an editor, she’s worked on publications for University of Hawai’i Press, The Greensboro Review, and storySouth. Originally from Tennessee, she splits her time between Hawai'i and Georgia.
Katharine Beutner is an assistant professor of English at the College of Wooster; from 2013-2017, she taught at the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa. Her first novel, Alcestis, was published in 2010 by Soho Press, and her writing has also appeared in the LARB, The Toast, Public Books, TriQuarterly, and other publications.
Allison Blevins is the author of the chapbooks Susurration (Blue Lyra Press, 2019), Letters to Joan (Lithic Press, 2019), and A Season for Speaking (Seven Kitchens Press, 2019). Her books Slowly/Suddenly(Vegetarian Alcoholic Press 2021) and Cataloguing Pain (YesYes Books, 2023) are forthcoming. She is the Director of Small Harbor Publishing and a Poetry Editor at Literary Mama. She lives in Missouri with her spouse and three children where she co-organizes the Downtown Poetry reading series. For more information visit http://www.allisonblevins.com.
Yuan Changming grew up in rural China, and currently edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan in Vancouver. Credits include ten Pushcart nominations, Jodi Stutz Award in Poetry & publications in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17) & BestNewPoemsOnline, among 1,689 others across 45 countries.
Genève/Geneva Chao is a poet and visual artist splitting time between la Manche and the west coast.
A former John and Renee Grisham fellow, Joshua Davis holds an MFA from the University of Mississippi, an MFA from Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine, and an M.A. from Pittsburg State University. Recent poems are forthcoming of have appeared in Muse/A, The Museum of Americana, and The Midwest Quarterly. He is a doctoral candidate in American Literature at Ohio University, and he lives near Tampa.
Steve Denehan lives in Kildare, Ireland with his wife Eimear and daughter Robin. He is the author of "Miles of Sky Above Us, Miles of Earth Below" (Cajun Mutt Press), "Of Thunder, Pearls and Birdsong" (Fowlpox Press), "Living in the Core of an Apple" (Analog Submission Press) and "A Chandelier of Beating Hearts" (forthcoming from Salmon Poetry). Twice winner of Irish Times' New Irish Writing, his numerous publication credits include Poetry Ireland Review, Acumen, Westerly and Into The Void. He has been nominated for Best of the Net, Best New Poet and has been twice nominated for The Pushcart Prize.
Liam Ferney’s most recent collection, is Hot Take (Hunter Publishing) His previous collection, Content (Hunter Publishing), was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award and the Judith Wright Calanthe Award. His other books include Boom (Grande Parade Poets), Career (Vagabond Press) and Popular Mechanics (Interactive Press). He is a media manager, holder of the all-time games record for the New Farm Traktor Collective and convener of the Saturdays readings in Brisbane, Australia.
Born in Tokyo, half Japanese, Kathleen Hellen is the author of The Only Country was the Color of My Skin, Umberto’s Night, winner of the Washington Writers’ Publishing House prize, and two chapbooks, The Girl Who Loved Mothra and Pentimento. Her poems have been featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, and they have appeared in American Letters and Commentary, Barrow Street, Cimarron Review, Colorado Review, Diode Poetry Journal, jubilat, The Massachusetts Review, New American Writing, New Letters, North American Review, Poetry East, and West Branch, among others. Hellen has also won prizes from the H.O.W. Journal and Washington Square Review.
Rose Hunter’s book of poetry, glass, was published by Five Islands Press (Australia, 2017), and her next, Anchorage, is forthcoming from Haverthorn Press (UK, 2020). This poem is part of a new memoir-in-verse manuscript. More about Rose can be found at rosehunterwriting.wordpress.com.
Kate LaDew is a graduate from the University of North carolina at Greensboro with a BA in Studio Arts. She resides in Graham, NC with her cats Charlie Chaplin and Janis Joplin. Kate is currently working on her first poetry collection, I Am Not Beautiful.
Genevieve Kaplan is the author of (aviary) (Veliz Books, 2020), In the ice house (Red Hen, 2011), and three chapbooks. She lives in southern California where she edits the Toad Press International chapbook series, publishing contemporary translations of poetry and prose.
Twice nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net awards, J.I. Kleinberg is an artist, poet, and freelance writer. Her poems have been published in print and online journals worldwide. She lives in Bellingham, Washington, USA, where she tears words out of magazines and posts occasionally on Instagram @jikleinberg.
M.G. Martin is the author of U U O U (Cyberwit, 2020) and One For None (Ink, 2010). His work has appeared in Bamboo Ridge, Juked, ZYZZYVA, Sink Review, PANK, and Hobart, among others. A 2019 W.S. Merwin Creative Teaching Fellow and Pushcart Prize nominee, M.G. teaches middle school English and lives in upcountry Maui. Find him online at mgmartin.ink.
Eileen R. Tabios has released over 60 collections of poetry, fiction, essays, and experimental biographies from publishers in 11 countries and cyberspace. Recent books include a short story collection, PAGPAG: The Dictator’s Aftermath in the Diaspora; a poetry collection, The In(ter)vention of the Hay(na)ku: Selected Tercets 1996-2019; and her third bilingual edition (English/Thai), INCULPATORY EVIDENCE: Covid-19 Poems. In 2021, she releases her first long-form novel: DoveLion: A Fairy Tale for Our Times. More information is at http://eileenrtabios.com
Bronwen Tate is assistant professor of teaching in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. Her debut poetry collection The Silk the Moths Ignore, National Winner of the 2019 Hillary Gravendyk Prize, is forthcoming from Inlandia Institute. Her poems and essays have appeared in publications including CV2, Bennington Review, The Rumpus, and Journal of Modern Literature.
Valerie Volk is an award-winning Australian author of poetry, verse novels, short stories and longer fiction, whose nine published books have received enthusiastic reviews. She is fascinated by the perennial question: What if …? and is a self-confessed voyeur of other people’s lives. She loves film, music, travel, opera and cats - not necessarily in that order - but, most of all, she loves to write.
Les Wicks’ 14th book of poetry is Belief (Flying Islands, 2019). For 45 years Les has been active in the Australian literary community. He has been a guest at a substantial list of international festivals. Publication has been seen in over 350 different newspapers, anthologies and magazines across 32 countries in 15 languages. Equally well known is his work as a publisher and editor. Australia saw Artransit which put poetry/art into Sydney and Newcastle buses but that is just one of dozens of similar roles: some predictable like literary magazines while others range as far afield as publishing a poem on the surface of a river. The most recent publication is To End All Wars (Puncher & Wattmann, Nov 2018). Find Wicks at http://leswicks.tripod.com/lw.htm
A. B. Ulep lives and writes in Hawai‘i, where he grew up in Waipahu. His work can be found in Bamboo Ridge, TAYO Literary Mag, Rambutan Literary, Stone Pacific Review, and was featured in the Winter Tangerine anthology “Sing That Like Dovesong.” He is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at Pacific Lutheran University’s Rainier Writing Workshop.