Author Profiles

Authors

Ari Laurel

Ari Laurel is a fiction writer in Seattle who writes about radicalism, orientalism, climate, and the Pacific Northwest. Her work has appeared in Ninth Letter, Passages North, Blue Mesa Review, The Conium Review, The Toast, Duende, and more. You can learn more about her work at arilaurel.com.

B. Tyler Lee

B. Tyler Lee is the author of With Our Lungs in Our Hands (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2016) and the winner the 2021 Orison Anthology Award for poetry and the 2020 Talking Writing Prize for hybrid essay. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in 32 Poems, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Crab Orchard Review, and elsewhere. She can be found online at www. btylerlee.com. A Texas native, she now lives in the Midwest with her partner and two sons.

Tess Fahlgren

Tess Fahlgren is a nonfiction writer based in rural Montana. In past lives she directed the Montana Book Festival, taught K-12 art, and drove an Art Mobile across Montana. Her work has appeared in Joyland, Blue Mesa Review, Permafrost and elsewhere. She has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Minnesota and is currently at work on a memoir.

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Justin Anderson

Justin Anderson is a writer who lives and works in Seattle, Washington. He earned his bachelor’s from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He’s interested in how technology and humanity shape one another, so he enjoys the wild (and mild) possibilities explored in speculative fiction.

Deya Bhattacharya

Deya Bhattacharya is a freelance writer and former business development manager from India who started writing fiction during the Covid-19 lockdown. Her stories have been published or are forthcoming in Eclectica, Litro Magazine, Beloit Fiction Journal, Blackbird, and elsewhere. Her work has received support from the 2021 Sewanee Writers’ Conference and has been nominated for a Best Of The Net award. Deya holds a Bachelor’s in Economics from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata and an MBA in Marketing from Management Development Institute, Gurgaon. She really, really loves cats.

S.N. Rodriguez

S. N. Rodriguez is a writer and photographer in Austin, Texas. She is a Writers’ League of Texas Fellow, and her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in the Journal of Latina Critical Feminism, River Teeth, and elsewhere.

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Marvin Contreras

Marvin Contreras is a poet, editor, and outdoor enthusiast. He was raised in the San Gabriel Valley, and he has since graduated from the University of California – Riverside with a bachelor’s degree in English. When not working, reading, or writing, he is outside watching the sparrows. He currently lives in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

Kasey Peters

Kasey Peters has been a small-scale farmer and occasional school teacher for a decade. She is pursuing her MA in Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her work can be found in Pinch, McNeese Review, and North Dakota Quarterly and her book reviews are forthcoming with The Chicago Review of Books and Nashville Review. She co-hosts a podcast with poet Katie Marya called “The Tell Don’t Show.”

Gardiner Brown

Gardiner Allen Brown (he/him) is a queer essayist and environmental writer from Texas. He holds an MS in Environmental Humanities from the University of Utah and currently works as a writing instructor. Much of his writing and research is about disasters, our relationship to more-thanhuman nature, and queer perspectives. His work has previously appeared in Edge Effects, the Boiler Journal, and elsewhere.