Herausgegeben von: Joe Vallese

Joe Vallese is Clinical Associate Professor in the Expository Writing Program at New York University. His creative and pop culture writing appears in Bomb. , Vice. , Backstage. , PopMatters. , Southeast. Review. , and North American Review. , among other publications. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and named a Notable in The Best American Essays. He is coeditor of the anthology What’s Your Exit. A Literary Detour Through New Jersey. (Word Riot Press). He holds an MFA from NYU, and MAT and BA degrees from Bard College. Kirsty Logan’s latest book is Now She is Witch. (Harvill Secker, 2023), a queer medieval witch revenge quest. Forthcoming is The Unfamiliar. (Virago, 2023), a memoir of queer pregnancy and parenthood. She is also the author of two novels, three story collections, two chapbooks, a short memoir, a 10-hour audio play for Audible, and several collaborative projects with musicians and visual artists. Her books have won the Lambda, Polari, Saboteur, Scott and Gavin Wallace awards. Her work has been optioned for TV, adapted for stage, recorded for radio and podcasts, exhibited in galleries and distributed from a vintage Wurlitzer cigarette machine. Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the short story collection Her Body and Other Parties. , which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the best-selling memoir In the Dream House. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and the Abrams Artist-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania. Samuel Autman writes at the intersections of identity, place, and pop culture. His essays have appeared in Kept Secret: The Half-Truth in Nonfiction, The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction, The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays, The St. Louis Anthology, Sweeter Voices Still: An LGBTQ Anthology from Middle America. , and numerous literary magazines. He teaches creative writing at DePauw University. www. samuelautman. com. Jen Corrigan is a prose writer who lives in Iowa. Their writing has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Catapult, Literary Hub, Salon, and elsewhere. They are currently working on a novel. Viet Dinh was born in Vietnam and grew up in Colorado. He attended Johns Hopkins University and the University of Houston and currently teaches at the University of Delaware. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Delaware Division of the Arts, as well as two O. Henry Awards and the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction from Ploughshares. His stories have appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, Witness, Fence, Five Points, Chicago Review, Threepenny Review. , and Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017. His debut novel, After Disasters. , a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Prize, was released in 2016. He is still wary of summer camps. Jude Ellison S. Doyle is the author of Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear. and Why. (Melville House, 2016) and Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power. (Melville House, 2019), the latter being named one of Kirkus Reviews. ’s Best Non-Fiction Books of 2019. Maw. , his horror comic series from BOOM. Studios, debuted in September 2021. Ryan Dzelzkalns has poems appearing with Assaracus, DIAGRAM, The Offing, the Shanghai Literary Review, Tin House, and others. He received an MFA from New York University and a BA from Macalester College, where he was awarded the Wendy Parrish Poetry Prize. He was recently a Fulbright scholar in Tokyo, where he still lives. www. RyanDz. com. Sarah Fonesca is a self-taught writer from the Georgia foothills who lives in New York City. Her fiction and cinema writing have appeared in Bosie, Evergreen Review, Leste Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Museum of the Moving Image’s Reverse Shot. , and others. She is a coeditor of The New Lesbian Pulp. , forthcoming from Feminist Press. Bruce Owens Grimm is a Pushcart-nominated, queer ghost-nerd based in Chicago. He is a coeditor of Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives. His essays and reviews have appeared in The Rumpus, Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog, Sweet: A Literary Confection, Entropy, AWP’s Writer’s Notebook, Iron Horse Literary Review, Older Queer Voices, Ghost City Review,. and elsewhere. He attended the 2021 Tin House Winter Workshop as well as residencies and workshops at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) among others. @bruceowensgrimm. Richard Scott Larson earned his MFA from New York University, and he is the recent recipient of fellowships from MacDowell and the New York Foundation for the Arts. His creative and critical work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Chicago Review of Books, Harvard Review, Colorado Review, Electric Literature. , and elsewhere. His writing has also been listed as notable in The Best American Essays. , and he is an active member of the National Book Critics Circle. Jonathan R