David Landon was the winner of the 2019 Write Prize from Able Muse. His poems have appeared in the Cumberland River Review, The Dark Horse, The Southwest Review (Marr Prize Runner-up), Georgia Review (featured finalist: Loraine Williams Prize), Think Journal, Birmingham Poetry Review, Sewanee Theological Review, Subtropics, American Journal of Poetry, Southern Poetry Review (Guy Owen Prize finalist), Poetry Porch, and elsewhere. As an actor he has performed with the […]
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Maria McLeod
Maria McLeod writes poetry and prose. Honors include the Indiana Review Poetry Prize, the Robert J. DeMott Short Prose Prize, and three Pushcart Prize nominations. She was named the 2020 WaterSedge Poetry Chapbook Contest winner, judged by Oregon State Poet Laureate Kim Stafford, for “Mother Want,” published in 2021. Her second poetry chapbook, “Skin. Hair. Bones.,” […]
Karolina Zapal
Karolina Zapal is an itinerant poet, essayist, translator, and author of two books: Notes for Mid-Birth (Inside the Castle, 2019) and Polalka (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018). As an immigrant and activist writer, she writes frequently about her native Poland, languages, borders, and women’s rights. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Inverted Syntax, Tupelo Quarterly, The Seventh Wave, and others. She works as […]
Lillo Way
Lillo Way’s poetry collection, Lend Me Your Wings, was released in July 2021 by Shanti Arts Publishing. Her chapbook, Dubious Moon, won the Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Contest. Her poems have won the E.E. Cummings Award and a Florida Review Editors’ Prize. Her writing has appeared in such journals as New Letters, Poet Lore, Tampa […]
Jac Smith
Jac Smith is a MFA graduate from the University of Notre Dame and a recipient of the Studios of Key West Fellowship. She is currently seeking representation for her novel, The Loose, which explores grief as a form of addiction and is set in the Florida Keys. She lives in the mountains of Southern California […]
Stella Reed
Stella Reed (she/her) lives in Ogha Po’oge (White Shell Water Place) also known as Santa Fe, NM, unceded Tewa land. She is the co-author with Tina Carlson and Katherine DiBella Seluja, of We Are Meant to Carry Water, 2019, from 3: A Taos Press, an AZ-NM Book Award winner. Stella’s chapbook, Myth from the field where the fox runs with its tail on fire, was the winner […]