Jennifer Blackledge is a Detroit-area poet who works in the automotive industry. She has a B.A. from Michigan State University and an M.F.A. from Brown University. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in JAMA, I-70 Review, Red Cedar Review, and the Impercipient.
Kelly R. Samuels is the author of the full-length collection All the Time in the World (Kelsay Books) and three chapbooks: To Marie Antoinette, from, Words Some of Us Rarely Use and Zeena/Zenobia Speaks. She is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee with work appearing in The Massachusetts Review, Court Green and RHINO. She lives in the Upper Midwest.
Stefanie Lee is an ambitious 18-year-old computer science student from Montréal, Canada. Living with a rare neuromuscular disease called Nemaline Myopathy, she is passionate about literature and finds comfort in writing poetry. Overcoming challenges such as multiple surgeries, chronic fatigue, and countless hospital visits, she hopes to share her unique worldview as a young disabled woman who continually seeks the beauty in every difficult situation.
Jessica Harkins, a native of rural Oregon, currently teaches creative writing and medieval literature at a small liberal arts college in central Minnesota, where she lives with her husband and two sons. Her first book of poems, The Paled Guest, was published by Kelsay Books, and her poems and translations have appeared in journals such as Copper Nickel, Interim, Versodove, Cimarron Review, and Exchanges Literary Journal.
Susan Starbird is alive and well in Sebastopol, California.
She is the author, illustrator, and anthologist of Susan The Magazine [1].
This piece was originally published in Unbroken.
Written by Antonio Igbokidi
Heis a MS4 at TCU & UNTHSC School of Medicine|Class of 2024.
He is National Chairperson for @SNMA
He is an Aspiring Psychiatrist and a Poet
Written by Antonio Igbokidi
Heis a MS4 at TCU & UNTHSC School of Medicine|Class of 2024.
He is National Chairperson for @SNMA
He is an Aspiring Psychiatrist and a Poet
Julene Tripp Weaver, a psychotherapist and writer in Seattle, worked in AIDS services for twenty-one years. Her third poetry collection, truth be bold—Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards, won the Bisexual Book Award and four Human Relations Indie Book Awards.
Jason Tandon is the author of five books of poetry, including This Far North, The Actual World, Quality of Life, and Give over the Heckler and Everyone Gets Hurt, winner of the St. Lawrence Book Award from Black Lawrence Press.
This poem was originally published in the Southern Poetry Review.
Frederic Foote MD is physician who lives near Washington DC. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Commonweal, The Progressive, and The South Carolina Review. My 2014 book of war poetry, Medic Against Bomb, won the Grayson Poetry Prize and other honors
(www.medicagainstbomb.com).