Tipton Poetry Journal – Fall 2021
Contributor Biographies Gil Arzola is the second son of a migrant worker living in Valparaiso, Indiana with his wife Linda. He was named Poet Of The Year by Passager Press in 2019. His first book of poetry Prayers of Little Consequence was published in 2020. Rattle published a chapbook The Death of Migrant Worker in September of 2021 after selecting it from 2000 submissions for their annual prize. A story Losers Walk, originally published by Chaluer, was nominated for a Pushcart Award in 2018. His work has appeared in Whetstone, Palabra, Crosswinds, Tipton Poetry Journal, Passager, Slab and The Elysian Review among others. Victoria Woolf Bailey lives in Kentucky and is recently retired. Her first full-length collection, Cannibalism and the Copenhagen Interpretation: a Love Story will be released in March 2022 by Finishing Line Press. Raised on a rice and catfish farm in eastern Arkansas, CL Bledsoe is the author of more than twenty books, including the poetry collections Riceland, Trashcans in Love, Grief Bacon, and his newest, Driving Around, Looking in Other People's Windows, as well as his latest novels Goodbye, Mr. Lonely and the forthcoming The Saviors. Bledsoe co-writes the humor blog How to Even, with Michael Gushue located here: https://medium.com/@howtoeven. His own blog, Not Another TV Dad, is located here: https://medium.com/@clbledsoe. He’s been published in hundreds of journals, newspapers, and websites that you’ve probably never heard of. Bledsoe lives in northern Virginia with his daughter. Leah Browning lives in California and is the author of three short nonfiction books and six chapbooks of poetry and fiction. Her work has recently appeared in Four Way Review, The Broadkill Review, Oyster River Pages, The Forge Literary Magazine, The Threepenny Review, Valparaiso Fiction Review, Watershed Review, Random Sample Review, Belletrist Magazine, Poetry South, The Stillwater Review, Superstition Review, Santa Ana River Review, Newfound, The Homestead Review, Bellows American Review, Coldnoon, Clementine Unbound, The Literary Review, and elsewhere. www.leahbrowninglit.com Cindy Buchanan grew up in Alaska and has lived in Seattle since graduating from Gonzaga. Work has been published in Evening Street Review, The MacGuffin, Rabid Oak, Hole in the Head Review, and Chestnut Review, and is upcoming in Main Street Rag. An avid runner and hiker with a deep interest in Buddhist philosophy and Zen meditation practice, she has completed the Camino de Santiago in Spain, the Coast to Coast Walk in England, and the Milford Walking Track in New Zealand. Brian Builta lives in Arlington, Texas, and works at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth. He has recently published poems in Jabberwock Review, Juke Joint Magazine, Rabid Oak, Triggerfish Critical Review and Unbroken Journal, with poems forthcoming in Thimble Literary Magazine, Main Street Rag and South Florida Poetry Journal.
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