Noctua Review Issue 14, 2021

Contributers Artisan baker by trade, Alfredo Salvatore Arcilesi has been published in over 60 literary journals worldwide. Winner of the Scribes Valley Short Story Writing Contest, he was also a finalist in the Blood Orange Review Literary Contest, and was awarded the Popular Vote in the Best of Rejected Manuscripts Competition. In addition to several short pieces, he is currently working on his debut novel.

Daisy Bassen is a poet and practicing physician who graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University’s Creative Writing Program and completed her medical training at The University of Rochester and Brown. Her work has been published in Oberon, McSweeney’s, and [PANK] as well as multiple other journals. She was a semi-finalist in the 2016 Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry and the winner of the So to Speak 2019 Poetry Contest, the 2019 ILDS White Mice Contest, and the 2020 Beullah Rose Poetry Prize.

She was nominated for the 2019 Best of the Net Anthology and for a 2019 and 2020 Pushcart Prize. She lives in Rhode Island with her family.

Emi Bergquist is a Brooklyn based poet originally from Idaho whose work often explores identity, family, grief, and spirituality. Emi is an active associate of the Poetry Society of New York, a regular cast member of The Poetry Brothel, an editor of Milk Press Books, and is a current collaborator with the Pandemic Poems Project. Emi has work in What Rough Beast, Oxford Public Philosophy, Oroboro, Passengers Journal, For Women Who Roar, and The Nervous Breakdown. Emi regularly writes commissioned poetry and donates a portion of all proceeds to charities and social justice organizations.

Jackie Chicalese is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Arkansas. Her work has appeared in Salt Hill, Italian Americana, and elsewhere.

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