Fran Qi
blueberries

Fran Qi - blueberries

Poetry
Fran Qi is a lost engineer and a renewed writer based out of San Francisco. She writes some fiction, but mostly poems, published in Sky Island Journal, Orange Blossom Review, Dawn Review, Cincinnati… Read more »
Rook Rainsdowne
Doing Everything Right

Rook Rainsdowne - Doing Everything Right

Poetry
Rook Rainsdowne is a poet currently attending Eastern Washington University's MFA program. They have been previously published in Fifth Wheel Press, ANMLY, and #EnbyLife, among other wonderful… Read more »
Emily Ransdell
November Night

Emily Ransdell - November Night

Poetry
Emily Ransdell is the author of One Finch Singing, winner of the 2022 Lewis Award for Concrete Wolf Press and published in 2023. Her work has appeared in Rattle, New Letters, Tar River Poetry, Poetry… Read more »
Leanne Shirtliffe
September

Leanne Shirtliffe - September

Poetry
Born and raised in rural Manitoba, Leanne Shirtliffe is a writer and educator now based in Calgary, Alberta. She is working on a poetry collection at the intersection of farming, feminism, and family.… Read more »
Nancy Takacs
The Parakeets

Nancy Takacs - The Parakeets

Poetry
Nancy Takacs’s latest book is Dearest Water (Mayapple Press 2022). She is a recipient of the Juniper Prize, a Pushcart Prize, The Sherwin Howard Award, two 15 Bytes book awards, Utah Original… Read more »

September

Leanne Shirtliffe

The combines whirred in the fields surrounding the headstones the day we buried my father, and the gravedigger from God-knows-where covered him with topsoil more costly than coffins. After we walked away, the backhoe went back to work, excavating extra graves that were deemed more likely than canola hitting twelve bucks a bushel. This is how farmers prepare for darkness: get the crop off before the freeze.
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