Black Fox Literary Magazine Issue #21

Olivia Piper is a Connecticut native, a poet, and works as both an Academic Coordinator and an English Instructor with multiple educational equity nonprofits. She has been published in HerHeart Poetry, The Connecticut River Review, and Funicular Magazine. More of her work can be found on her Instagram @sunflowerpoetryblog JC Reilly is the author of the narrative poetry collection What Magick May Not Alter (Madville Publishing, 2020). She won the Sow's Ear Poetry Prize in 2020 for the forthcoming chapbook Amo e Canto, and she serves as the Managing Editor of Atlanta Review. Since the pandemic started, she has worn out all of her pajamas. Follow her @aishatonu.

Aurin Shaila Nusrat Sheyck is a poet and a PhD student based in the beautiful city of Ottawa, Ontario. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Without a doubt by New York Quarterly, Cotyledon by Vancouver Poetry House, in THAT literary review, Reality Break Press, etc. Her self-published poetry book, Nostalgia or Sunset, was published in 2017.

Introspection, pacifism, mysticism, love for nature and being—these are the ideas she explores in her work wrapping them around relatable mundane pictures of daily lives. Her pieces accentuate the elements of extra-ordinary hopes, ambitions, and stories of ordinary people she observes in the metro, subways, or streets. Aurin is a bilingual poet and writes in English as well as in Bengali.

Kris Spencer has written seven books. He is a regular contributor to magazines in a journalistic career that spans over 20 years. His poems have been published in a number of journals across the continents. Most recently in Briefly Write, Allegro, The Literary Bohemian, Acumen, Orchards Poetry Journal, Fenlands Poetry Journal, and The Balloon Literary Journal. A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a theme in his work is sense of place. Kris is a Headteacher living and 225