Marzelle Robertson
Abundance

Marzelle Robertson - Abundance

Poetry
Marzelle Robertson is a former teacher and school counselor from East Texas. She has published poems in numerous journals and is the author of four chapbooks: Listen (Dancing Girl Press), Toward the… Read more »
Jennifer Keith
Albany, Georgia, July 1994

Jennifer Keith - Albany, Georgia, July 1994

Jennifer Keith’s poems have appeared in The Kansas City Review, Able Muse Review, Sewanee Theological Review, Quartet, Free State Review, Welter, Best American Poetry 2015 and elsewhere. Keith was a… Read more »
Alyce Miller
Animal Wisdom

Alyce Miller - Animal Wisdom

Alyce Miller is the author of five books and more than 250 essays, stories, poems, book chapters, and articles in anthologies and magazines. Awards include Flannery O’Connor Award for Fiction, Mary… Read more »
Franziska Hofhansel
Blueprint for a House in Rural Maine That Is Meant to Be an Exact Copy of Another House That Was Destroyed in a Fire

Franziska Hofhansel - Blueprint for a House in Rural Maine That Is Meant to Be an Exact Copy of Another House That Was Destroyed in a Fire

Poetry
Franziska Hofhansel is a poet and fiction writer with an MFA from the University of Montana. She is the author of the chapbook Sorry to Miss You (Dead Mall Press) and her writing has been featured in… Read more »
Sid Gold
Chronicle

Sid Gold - Chronicle

Sid Gold is the author of five books of poetry, including Very Eyes (Writers' Choice, 2023) and a two-time recipient of a Maryland State Art Council Individual Artist Award for Poetry. In 2019, he was… Read more »
Beth Kephart
Fine Adjustments as You See Them

Beth Kephart - Fine Adjustments as You See Them

Creative Nonfiction
National Book Award finalist Beth Kephart is the award-winning author of some 40 books in multiple genres, an award-winning memoir teacher, co-founder of Juncture Workshops, a paper artist, and the… Read more »
Linda Dove
Fire Follower

Linda Dove - Fire Follower

Linda Dove holds a PhD in Renaissance literature and teaches college writing. She is also an award-winning poet of five books: In Defense of Objects (2009), O Dear Deer, (2011), This Too (2017), Fearn… Read more »
Jona Colson
Ghost Crab

Jona Colson - Ghost Crab

Jona Colson is a poet, educator, and translator, and is the author of Said Through Glass (a poetry collection). He is also the translator of Aguas/Waters by Miguel Avero and the co-editor of… Read more »
Davin Faris
Masks

Davin Faris - Masks

Davin Faris studies philosophy, literature, and the natural sciences at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland. His writing has appeared in the North American Review, CRAFT, the Masters Review,… Read more »
Chido Muchemwa
My Father's Child

Chido Muchemwa - My Father's Child

Fiction
Chido Muchemwa is a writer and academic from Harare. She is the author of the short story collection Who Will Bury You and Other Stories. Her short stories have previously appeared in Canthius,… Read more »
Seth Peterson
Seeing Hearts

Seth Peterson - Seeing Hearts

Poetry
Seth Peterson is an emerging writer, researcher, and physical therapist in Tucson, Arizona. His work is in 32 Poems, Cincinnati Review, Rattle, Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. Read more »
Ned Balbo
Stygian Colors

Ned Balbo - Stygian Colors

Ned Balbo’s books include The Cylburn Touch-Me-Nots (New Criterion Poetry Prize), 3 Nights of the Perseids (Richard Wilbur Award), and Lives of the Sleepers (Ernest Sandeen Prize and Foreword INDIE… Read more »
Dewey Fox
The Second Story

Dewey Fox - The Second Story

Dewey Fox is a poet from Perryville, Maryland. He was a 2025-26 Fulbright grantee, serving as a lecturer and poet in residence at Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. His work has appeared in Best… Read more »
Stephanie Staab
They’re baptizing people in the river again

Stephanie Staab - They’re baptizing people in the river again

Poetry
Stephanie Staab is a poet living in Alsace, France. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Copper Nickel, 32 Poems, New Ohio Review, Gulf Coast, Southern Indiana Review, and Salamander, among… Read more »
Jay Aelick
To My Grandmother, on All Hallows’ Day

Jay Aelick - To My Grandmother, on All Hallows’ Day

Poetry
Jay Aelick is a nonbinary writer and critic who makes up 1/2 of the SBU English Club Podcast, where real critique partners at a fake university workshop the internet's most infamous books. They hold… Read more »
Kate Myers Hanson
Unfinished

Kate Myers Hanson - Unfinished

Fiction
Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Kate Myers Hanson is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (MFA, 1998). There’s a Child Living in This House, a memoir, was awarded the Editors’ Prize in… Read more »
Rosemary Jones
X-ray Eyes

Rosemary Jones - X-ray Eyes

Creative Nonfiction
Rosemary Jones was born in Australia and lives in Connecticut. Her essays and stories have appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Cimarron Review, Cleaver, Sweet, Denver Quarterly, Sonora Review, Brilliant… Read more »

Blueprint for a House in Rural Maine That Is Meant to Be an Exact Copy of Another House That Was Destroyed in a Fire

Franziska Hofhansel

Everyone has already said this to you: you can never return anywhere to anyone. There is no place that awaits your arrival untouched. I can draw these lines for you. I can draw for you a simulacra of that which you most desire. I can draw you line after line. I can make the lines kiss. I can make them touch each other and I can make them almost touch each other which is almost better than touching: everyone knows this. What I cannot do for you is to return that which has been taken. I cannot make legible the violence of this world. I cannot give you a map of everything wrong. What would such a thing even look like? There would be lines everywhere and they would all be touching.

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