DAN BERICK is a poet and fiction writer in Cleveland, Ohio (USA), and a husband, a father, and a lawyer. His work has also appeared in Gulf Stream Magazine, The Storms, The Interpreter’s House, One ART, Epistemic Literary, The Pierian, Stone Poetry Quarterly, The Rivanna Review, FULL HOUSE Literary, 34th Parallel Magazine, Cerasus Poetry Magazine, Citywide Lunch, October Hill Magazine, Thin Skin, Argyle Literary Magazine, Santa Barbara Literary Journal, The Monterey Poetry Review, Ghost Light Lit, The Last Syllable, Canary and The Penmen Review.
ROBERT CHRISTGAU’s writings on music have informed several generations of listners and been trementiously influential on other critics. His work is characterized by its concise, often trenchant style, its breadth of appreciation, and clear love of music. No one, writer or musician, has a better ear.
WALTER DUNN JR. is a NYC, Brooklyn born novelist, and literary fiction writer whose work explores addiction, memory, redemption, race, and identity. Holding degrees in Film and Television and English, he writes psychologically complex, character-driven fiction shaped by the urban landscapes of New York City. He currently lives in New Jersey. His debut novel, “The Wino Must Die: Author’s cut” is available through this ISBN 979-8258115393
SAM FARHI’s debut novel, The Sapsuckers, is now available anywhere. His work has appeared in The Opiate, PACKET Biweekly, ThoseThatThis, Vogue Italia Online, HBO’s New York Latino Film Festival, Yale’s Paprika! and Cable Street. His zines have been sold at OHWOW Bookclub and aNYthing in downtown Manhattan. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from Long Island University.
LIZZIE FOX is an actor, translator, and writer. Her work has been supported by the Rona Jaffe Foundation, Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference, and the Martha Boschen Porter Fund. Lizzie recently performed in the Off-Broadway premiere of her translation ofThe Martyrdom, a Medieval Latin play by Hrotsvitha, the first-known female playwright. She is pursuing an MFA at the University of Arkansas.
ULRICA HUME writes at the intersection of women’s issues and spirituality. She is the author of An Uncertain Age, a novel, and House of Miracles, a collection of stories, one of which was selected by PEN and broadcast on NPR. Her work appears online, in literary journals, and in anthologies. Find her on Bluesky at @uhume.bsky.social.
ANDREA JACKSON has an MFA from the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in many journals, and she has received two Pushcart nominations and one nomination for the Best of the Net Anthology. Her book, Who Am I and Where Is Home? An American Woman in 1931 Palestine, was described by Small Press Bookwatch as “an absolutely fascinating, deftly crafted read from cover to cover.“
STRIDER MARCUS JONES is a poet, law graduate, and former civil servant from Salford, England, with proud Celtic roots in Ireland and Wales. He is the editor and publisher of Lothlorien Poetry Journal. A member of The Poetry Society, nominated for the Pushcart Prize three times and Best of the Net three times, Jones has five published books of poetry that reveal a maverick, moving between cities, playing his saxophone in smoky rooms. Find him at https://stridermarcusjonespoetry.wordpress.com/.
JODI LIN identifies as a gender expansive poet, filmmaker and a person who hears voices. Taiwanese of the Seediq Tribe, they are currently based in Manhattan. Graduate of the ART Institute at Harvard, Sarah Lawrence College and a former Brooklyn Poets Fellow. Their short film, Borte, Queen of Tibet, was nominated for the festival prize at Soho International Film Festival, exhibited at New York City’s Center for Art, Research and Alliances, and received numerous other screenings. Their writing practice is enriched by the certified peer recovery coaching and support they provide. The Tenderness of Glass is their debut collection from new words {press). The book was written as an offering of a new world to their ancestors.
MARILYN KLEINBERG, from New York City, is a singer who has been performing jazz and blues music since the 1970s at venues such as 55 Grand Street, Sweet Basil, the Blue Note, Smalls and Mezzrow, and Birdland. Russ Musto, writer at The New York City Jazz Record wrote, “At the heart of it all is Marilyn, moving in the humanity of its sound, commanding in cadence of her phrasing. She makes each song a story worth hearing over and over.” Her latest album, Let Your Heart Lead the Way, features, John DiMartino on piano, Noriko Ueda on bass, Will Galison on harmonica and Victor Lewis on drums. The album includes standards as well as “If I Only Had A Brain” from The Wizard of Oz, with an introductory verse not in the movie. The album producer is featuring the album on his website. www.WillGalison.net
JEANNINE MARIE PITAS is a teacher, writer, and Spanish-English literary translator living in Pittsburgh, PA. She teaches at Saint Vincent College and is on staff at Eulalia Books, a small press dedicated to publishing Latin American authors appearing in English for the first time. She is excited to have two books in translation coming out in 2026: Chilean poet Úrsula Starke’s Wisteria, co-translated with Jesse Lee Kercheval and published by Diálogos Books, and Colombian poet Daniela Prado’s Espacios habitables, forthcoming in late 2026 from Lugar Común.
DANIELA PRADO is a Colombian poet and multimedia artist currently living in Cuernavaca, Mexico. She is founding editor of both Mujer Oblicua, a cultural and literary organization dedicated to increasing the visibility of Colombian women poets and artists, and of Tristes Trópicos Editorial, a small press dedicated to publishing poetry by young and emerging Colombian and Latin American writers. She is also a visual and collage artist with the Bad Education Collage project. Her other books of poetry include Mujer oblicua (Tristes Trópicos, 2019) and Ya no soy esta carne trémula (Proteo Editorial, 2021).
ROYAL RHODES is a retired educator who taught courses in global religions for almost forty years. His poems have appeared in numerous literary journals in the US, the UK, and Canada. He lives now in a small village near to a nature conservancy, a green cemetery, and Amish farms.
IAN C. SMITH has published his work in BBC Radio 4 Sounds, Cable Street, Griffith Review, Honest Ulsterman, North of Oxford, Rundelania, Stand, and Westerly. His seventh book is wonder sadness madness joy, Ginninderra (Port Adelaide). He writes in the Gippsland Lakes area of Victoria, and on Flinders Island.
ALINA STEFANESCU was born in Romania and lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her partner and several intense mammals. Recent books include a creative nonfiction chapbook, Ribald (Bull City Press Inch Series, Nov. 2020) and Dor, which won the Wandering Aengus Press Prize (September, 2021). Her debut fiction collection, Every Mask I Tried On, won the Brighthorse Books Prize (April 2018). Alina’s poems, essays, and fiction can be found in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, World Literature Today, Pleiades, Poetry, BOMB, Crab Creek Review, and others. She serves as editor, reviewer, and critic for various journals and is currently working on a novel-like creature. My Heresies, a poetry collection was published by Sarabande in late April 2025. More online at www.alinastefanescuwriter.com.
RAFI ZABOR: Born in Brooklyn, still here decades later but have lived betweentimes in California, Paris, Istanbul, Scotland, Woodstock, Nashville, the list goes on. Sometimes drummer, always writer, best achievement a novel. The Bear Comes Home, set on the jazz scene. Currently writing a novel set in Paris in the ‘60s.
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ERIC DARTON’s novel Free City, was recently re-released by Dalkey Archive Press. He is also the author of the New York Times bestselling cultural history Divided We Stand: A Biography of The World Trade Center (Basic Books, 1999, 2011). Other of his writings may be found at bookoftheworldcourant.net, ericdarton.net, and tupeloquarterly.com as well as in numerous journals and several anthologies. Darton is a partner in Love Child, a Berlin-based content developer for film, television, print and online media. He teaches writing, and urban studies at NYU and the Harry van Arsdale School of Labor Studies (SUNY), and leads Writing at the Crossroads, an ongoing interdisciplinary prose workshop. Darton is an Internal Arts International-certified instructor in foundational Ba Gua Zhang.
DANA DELIBOVI is a poet, essayist, and translator. Her new book of translations and essays—Sweet Hunter: The Complete Poems of St. Teresa of Ávila—was published by Monkfish Book Publishing in 2024. Her work has appeared in After the Art, Apple Valley Review, Asymptote, Ballast, Lothlorien, Moria, Noon: The Journal of the Short Poem, Psaltery & Lyre, Salamander, Spinozablue, and many other journals. She is a 2020 Pushcart Prize nominee, a 2020 Best American Essays notable essayist. Delibovi’s poems traveled the St. Louis Metro as part of the Poetry in Motion Series sponsored by the Poetry Society of America. She posts at Bluesky, LinkedIn, and https://sweethunter.org/.
HARDY GRIFFIN is a writer and translator who won The Masters Review‘s 2025 Summer Short Story Award, and whose novel, Broken Kismet won the Eyelands Book Awards grand prize and has been published in Greek from Strange Days Press. He has published writing in Fresh.ink, New Flash Fiction, Alimentum, Assisi, The Washington Post, American Letters & Commentary, and a chapter in The Gotham Guide to Writing Fiction (Bloomsbury). His translations can be found in Words Without Borders, The Istanbul Biennial, and for the award-winning EU-sponsored study Ermeniler, which documents the lives of Armenians living in contemporary Turkey.
BRONWYN MILLS is the author of Beastly’s Tale (a novel) and Night of the Luna Moths (poetry); her education, an MFA from UMass, Amherst, a Ph.D. from NYU. Mentored by James Tate, Samuel Delany, Kamau Brathwaite, and Ngugi wa Thiong’o she was an Anais Nin Fellow and Fulbright Fellow (La République du Bénin, West Africa) she has lived in Paris, France, New York City, Istanbul, Turkey; Cotonou, Bénin, and Latin America and taught Caribbean literature, African literature, and writing in Istanbul, Bénin, and just outside New York City. Formerly a dance and theatre writer in New England, Bronwyn is a founding co-editor for Cable Street and a Senior Prose Editor for Tupelo Quarterly. Guest-editor for the Turkish issue of Absinthe; New European Writing (#19), her current projects include By the Spoonmaker’s Tomb, a collection of vignettes from her time in Istanbul and the newly finished Journeys from Seferad, a novel set in medieval Spain. Most recently, Agni Online has published an excerpt from Spoonmaker. She has also published work on African vodou. More of her work can be found at bronwynmills.org/. Bronwyn now lives and writes in a tiny mountain village far, far away.
JAN SCHMIDT is a writer living in New York City. Her short story “Returns Department” was published in Calyx recent issue, Vol 34 no. 3. “Pandora” was a Solstice Fiction Prize finalist and published in their 2023 summer issue. Litro Magazine published “EX-TING-GWISH-ER” online November 9, 2023. Other fiction writing appeared in Anti-Heroin Chic, The Wall, Tupelo Quarterly, The Long Story, IKON and New York Stories. Her short story collection “Everything I Need” was a finalist for the Eludia Award, Hidden River Arts, 2019. Her unpublished novel “Sunlight Underground” was a finalist for the Novel Slices Award, 2021. Till 2015, she held the position of Curator of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Some of her published writing can be seen on her website https://janschmidtwriter.com/
† CHRISTOPHER SAWYER-LAUÇANNO, whose memoir, Becoming, was serialized in these pages, authored more than two dozen books including biographies of Paul Bowles, E.E. Cummings, and The Continual Pilgrimage, a group portrait of American writers in Paris 1944-1960. For Cable Street, he translated Salvador Dalí’s prose poem, “San Sebastien,” and several other works. His book translations include work by Paul Eluard, Rafael Alberti, Panaït Istrati, García Lorca, Isidore Ducasse (Comte de Lautreamont as well as the Mayan Books of Chilam Balam. His work was featured in the inaugural issue of Wet Cement Magazine: www.wetcementpress.com/wcpmag. Night Suite, his most recent book of poems, was published by Talisman House. Other books include, Dix méditations sur quelques mots d’Antonin Artaud, translated by Patricia Pruitt (Paris: Alyscamps, 2018), Remission (Talisman House, 2016), and Mussoorie-Montague Miscellany (Talisman House, 2014). He wrote librettos for Thomas Adès (America: A Prophecy Part I), Faber Music/Warner Classics CD, 2011, and for Andrey Kasparaov (Lorca: An Operatic Cycle in Five Acts. Alyscamps, 2022). Until his retirement, Sawyer-Lauçanno taught writing at MIT for over a quarter-century. Many of his books may be found on Amazon and Bookshop.org.
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