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contributors



JULIA SHIOTA is a writer and editor based in Minnesota. Her fiction and nonfiction work has appeared in Catapult, Electric Literature, the Asian American Writers Workshop, Poets & Writers, and elsewhere. Her work can be found at www.juliashiota.com


MIKE CORRAO is the author of numerous works including Gut Text (11:11 Press), Rituals Performed in the Absence of Ganymede (11:11 Press), Desert Tiles (Equus Press), and Smut-Maker (Inside the Castle). His work often explores the haptic, architectural, and organismal qualities of the text-object. www.mikecorrao.com


VI KHI NAO is the author of six poetry collections: Fish Carcass (Black Sun Lit, 2022), A Bell Curve Is A Pregnant Straight Line (11:11 Press, 2021), Human Tetris (11:11 Press, 2019), Sheep Machine (Black Sun Lit, 2018), Umbilical Hospital (Press 1913, 2017), and The Old Philosopher (winner of the Nightboat Prize for 2014), and of the shortstory collections The Vegas Dilemma (11:11 Press, 2021) and A Brief Alphabet of Torture (winner of the 2016 FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize), and also the novel Fish in Exile (Coffee House Press, 2016). Her work includes poetry, fiction, film and cross-genre collaboration. She was the Fall 2019 fellow at the Black Mountain Institute: vikhinao.com


JESSICA ALEXANDER’s novella, None of This Is an Invitation (co-written with Katie Jean Shinkle) is forthcoming from Astrophil Press. Her story collection, Dear Enemy, was the winning manuscript in the 2016 Subito Prose Contest, as judged by Selah Saterstrom. Her fiction has been published in journals such as Fence, Black Warrior Review, PANK, Denver Quarterly, The Collagist, and DIAGRAM. She lives in Louisiana where she teaches creative writing at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.


SAMUEL M. MOSS is from Cascadia. Recent work has been published in 3:AM Magazine, New World Writing, and decomP, among other venues. He is an associate editor and web lead at 11:11 Press. He currently works as a farmhand in rural Washington. Find more at perfidiousscript.com and on twitter @perfidiouscript


STEVEN ALVAREZ is the author of The Codex Mojaodicus, winner of the Fence Modern Poets Prize. He has also authored the novels in verse Manhatitlán published by The Operating System and The Pocho Codex and The Xicano Genome, both published by Editorial Paroxismo, and the chapbooks, Tonalamatl, El Segundo's Dream Notes (Letter [r] Press), Un/documented, Kentucky (winner of the Rusty Toque Chapbook Prize), and Six Poems from the Codex Mojaodicus (winner of the Seven Kitchens Press Rane Arroyo Poetry Prize). His work has appeared in the Best Experimental Writing, Berkeley Poetry Review, Fence, Huizache, The Offing, and Waxwing. Follow Steven on Instagram @stevenpaulalvarez and on Twitter @chastitellez


JACQUELINE FELDMAN's work has appeared in Socrates on the Beach, 3:AM, Triple Canopy, and The White Review. A fuller index can be found at jacqueline-feldman.com. She is currently an MFA candidate in prose and a Delaney Fellow at UMass Amherst, where she teaches writing.


ALVIN LU is the author of the novel The Hell Screens (Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000; reissued by Camphor Press, 2019). Recent work has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Your Impossible Voice, and the Akashic Noir anthology San Francisco Noir. He lives in San Francisco, California. alvinlu.co


DELIA RAINEY is a writer and musician from St. Louis, Missouri. She received her MFA in nonfiction from Columbia College Chicago. Her writing has been featured in DIAGRAM, Brink, and Hobart and many others. She is the author of the chapbook CRUMBBOOK (Bottlecap Press, 2021). Find more on her website: deliarainey.com


PAUL BISAGNI is a lapsed classicist and current MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Idaho. His poems can be found in TIMBER, Harpur Palate, Afternoon Visitor, Heavy Feather Review, Guesthouse, SELFFUCK, the Action Books blog, and elsewhere. Alternative versions of him float around Instagram and Twitter @sapphojane