Contributors Tobi Alfier is well-published nationally and internationally. Credits include War, Literature and the Arts, The American Journal of Poetry, KGB Bar Lit Mag, Cholla Needles, Galway Review, The Ogham Stone, Permafrost, Gargoyle, Arkansas Review, and others. She is co-editor of San Pedro River Review (www.bluehorsepress.com). Cate Asp has had work accepted into Penultimate Peanut Magazine. She has been writing her whole life, having taken creative writing courses since she was seventeen years old. Now, at twnty-two, Cate is currently looking forward. After graduating with a Bachelor’s in Economics and a Master’s in Public Policy, she plans to switch courses and get her MFA in Creative Writing. David Banks was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1943. He has been living abroad since 1975, for a short time in Iraq and since then in France, where he is now Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale. He lives in the village of Plougonvelin on the western coast of Britanny, not far from the most westerly point of the French mainland. He has been writing and publishing poetry since the early 1970s, and his first published poem appeared in the magazine Ludd’s Mill; his writing incorporates the influence of Basil Bunting, and of Old English poetry. His publications include Celt Seed: Selected Poems (Poetry Salzburg, 2003) and Radicals: Poems 2002-2008, (Poetry Monthly, 2009). His academic publication, The Development of Scientific English: Linguistic Features and Historical Context (Equinox), won the ESSE Language and Linguistics book award 2010. His other interests include choral singing and coastal rowing. Robert Beveridge (he/him) makes noise (xterminal.bandcamp.com) and writes poetry in Akron, Ohio. Recent/upcoming appearances in Eternal Haunted Summer, Pulsebeat, and Corvus Review, among others. Dmitry Blizniuk is an author from Ukraine. His most recent poems have appeared in Poet Lore, The Pinch, Salamander, Willow Springs, Grub Street, Magma Poetry, and many others. A Pushcart Prize nominee, he is also the author of The Red Fоrest (Fowlpox Press, 2018). He lives in Kharkov, Ukraine. Member of PEN America. Poets & Writers Directory: www.pw.org/directory/writers/dmitry_blizniuk. Gaylord Brewer is a professor at Middle Tennessee State University, where he founded and for 20-plus years edited the journal Poems & Plays. The most recent of his 16 books of poetry, fiction, criticism, and cookery are two collections of poems, The Feral Condition (Negative Capability, 2018) and Worship the Pig (Red Hen, 2020). Katley Demetria Brown is the pen name for Carol Marrone, who was born in New York City. She grew up in a housing project in the South Bronx and has lived in a number of places including Minot, North Dakota, Kastellaun, Germany, and Springfield, Massachusetts. She enjoys writing about people, places, nature, and her large tabby cat, Munchie. She watches the “Gloom and Doom” reports every night at 6:30 and visits the chiropractor regularly. Lorraine Caputo is a documentary poet, translator and travel writer. Her works appear in over 250 journals in Canada, the US, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa; and 18 collections of poetry, including On Galápagos Shores (dancing girl press,
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