SUSAN BRIANTE is the author of three books of poetry: Pioneers in the Study of Motion, Utopia Minus, and The Market Wonders, all from Ahsahta Press. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of Arizona, where she also serves as faculty liaison and co-coordinator of the Southwest Field Studies in Writing Program. The program brings MFA students to the US-Mexico border to work with community-based environmental and social justice groups. Defacing the Monument, a series of essays on immigration, archives, aesthetics and the state, will be published by Noemi Press in December 2019.


MIKE CORRAO is the author of Man, Oh Man (Orson's Publishing) and Gut Text (11:11 Press). His work has been featured in publications such as Collagist, 3:AM, Always Crashing, and The Portland Review. He lives in Minneapolis. Learn more at www.mikecorrao.com


FELICIA ZAMORA is the author of the poetry books: Quotient (Tinderbox Editions 2021), Body of Render , winner of the 2018 Benjamin Saltman Award from Red Hen Press (2020), Instrument of Gaps (Slope Editions 2018), & in Open, Marvel (Parlor Press 2018), and Of Form & Gather, winner of the 2016 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize (University of Notre Dame Press 2017). She is a 2019 CantoMundo Fellow, won the 2015 Tomaž Šalamun Prize from Verse, and was the 2017 Poet Laureate for Fort Collins, CO. She received her MFA from Colorado State University where she teaches creative writing courses online and is the Associate Poetry Editor for the Colorado Review. She lives in Arizona and is the Education Programs Manager for the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University.


SAM TAYLOR is the author of three books of poems, Body of the World (Ausable/Copper Canyon), Nude Descending an Empire (Pitt Poetry), and The Book of Fools: An Essay in Memoir and Verse (forthcoming, Negative Capability). A native of Miami and a former caretaker of a wilderness refuge in New Mexico, he currently tends a wild garden in Kansas, where he is an Associate Professor and the Director of the MFA Program at Wichita State. His work has been recognized with the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship, among other awards, and his poems have appeared in such journals as The Kenyon Review, AGNI, and The New Republic. www.samtaylor.us


SUSAN LEWIS www.susanlewis.net is the author of ten books and chapbooks, including Zoom, winner of the Washington Prize, and Heisenberg’s Salon. Recently, her work has appeared in Agni, Boston Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Conjunctions (online), Diode, Interim, New American Writing, VOLT, and many other journals and anthologies. She is the founding editor of Posit www.positjournal.com.


REBECCA ARIEL PORTE is a member of the Core Faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. She is at work on a long, wicked book about Paradise, Arcadia, and the Golden Age.


BABAK LAKGHOMI is the author of Floating Notes (Tyrant Books, 2018). His fiction has appeared or forthcoming in NOON, Ninth Letter, Green Mountains Review, and New York Tyrant, among others.


VI KHI NAO is the author of four poetry collections: Human Tetris (11:11 Press, 2019), Sheep Machine (Black Sun Lit, 2018), Umbilical Hospital (Press 1913, 2017), The Old Philosopher (winner of the Nightboat Prize for 2014), & of the short stories collection, A Brief Alphabet of Torture (winner of the 2016 FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize), the novel, Fish in Exile (Coffee House Press, 2016). Her work includes poetry, fiction, film, and cross-genre collaboration. She is the current Fall 2019 fellow at the Black Mountain Institute.


ADAM STRAUSS lives in Louisville, KY. Most recently, poems of his appear in Dream Pop, Sporklet, and Prelude. The poems in this issue are from a chapbook manuscript titled Syntactic Ekphrastic.


BRANDON SHIMODA's most recent books include The Grave on the Wall (City Lights, 2019) and The Desert (The Song Cave, 2018). He is the curator of the Hiroshima Library, an itinerant reading room/collection of books on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which appeared at BRUNA press + collective in Bellingham, WA (August-October 2019), and will be taking up residence at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, CA, November 2019-June 2020. He is currently writing a book on the afterlife of Japanese American incarceration. He lives in the desert.