Ruth Danon

that earth’s magnetic field is weakening. This will make

space travel far more difficult.

No doubt I say. No fucking doubt.

MARLENA MADURO BARAF’s poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from The Ekphrastic Review and On the Seawall. She is author of the memoir At the Narrow Waist of the World and lives in White Plains, NY. marlenamadurobaraf.com CARMEN BARDEGUEZ-BROWN is the author of Dreaming Rhythms: Despertando Silencios (Pandora Lobo Estepario Productions, 2015). During the pandemic, she’s living in Chiangmai, Thailand. PATRICIA J. BARNETT’s poems have been published in Prairie Schooner, New York Quarterly and others, and set to music (Awilda Villarini, 1991). CURTIS BAUER’s third collection of poems is American Selfie (Barrow Street Press, 2019). He lives in Lubbock, TX. | curtisbauer.net; IG:@ curtis.bauer M.C. BOLSTER’s poem “Haibun: Pittsburgh” appears in 2 Horatio No. 2. She lives in New York City. | FB: marycatherine.bolster JAMES BRASFIELD’s third collection of poems, Cove (LSU Press), is expected to appear in 2022. He lives in Belfast, ME. MICHAEL BRODER is the author of This Life Now (A Midsummer Night’s Press, 2014), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for gay poetry. He lives in Bed-stuy, Brooklyn, NY. | TW: @MichaelBroder; IG: @michaelbroder JOANNA D. BROWN’s poems have appeared most recently in the online magazines Gertrude and eclectica. She lives in Providence, RI. MARION BROWN is the author of two chapbooks of poetry, most recently The Morning After Summer (Finishing Line Press, 2015). She lives in Yonkers, NY. TW: @marionsbrown1 TERRY CASTLE (cover artist) is a writer, critic, scholar at Stanford University. Her most recent book is The Professor (Harper Collins, 2010), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. | terrycastle.com; IG: @chateauthierry. THERESA BURNS is the author of a chapbook of poems, Two Train Town (Finishing Line Press, 2017). She lives in South Orange, NJ. | theresaburns.org LINDA HILLMAN CHAYES’ chapbook of poems is The Lapse (Finishing Line Press, 2014). She lives in Scarsdale, New York. | Lindaehillman@gmail.com JOAN CAPPELLO’s chapbook of poems is why i travel alone (Finishing Line Press, 2019). She lives in Long Island City, NY. | FB: joan.cappello.50 KAY L. COOK’s poems have recently appeared in Wild Roof Journal and The Write Launch. She lives in New York City. PETER COVINO’s most recent collection is The Right Place to Jump (New Issues Press, 2012). He lives in Providence, RI. | petercovino.com RUTH DANON’s most recent book is WORD HAS IT (Nirala Publications, 2018). She lives in the Hudson Valley. | ruthdanon.com RENÉE CHRISTINE EHLE’s poems have recently appeared in Gyroscope Review, Carve Magazine, and Common Ground Review. She lives in the Bronx, NY. BONNIE JILL EMANUEL’s poems have recently appeared in American Poetry Review and Mid-American Review. She lives in New York. | bonniejillemanuel.com

JENNIFER FRANKLIN’s most recent collection is No Small Gift (Four Way Books, 2018). She is the Program Director of the Hudson Valley Writers Center and lives in New York City. | jenniferfranklinpoet.com; TW/IG: @JFranklinPoetry MINDY GILL’s poems have recently appeared in Australian Poetry Journal and the Institute of Modern Art (AU). She lives in Brisbane, AU. | mindygill.com JULIO CÉSAR PAZ GONZÁLEZ is the author of Lo que aprendí al otro lado del mundo (2020). He currently lives in Hanoi, Vietnam. | jcpaz.tilda.ws JESSICA GREENBAUM’s recent book of poems, Spilled and Gone, came out from University of Pittsburgh Press in 2019. She lives in Brooklyn, NY. poemsincommunity.org DAVID GROFF is the author of Clay (Trio House Press, 2013). He lives in New York City. | davidgroff.com MYRONN HARDY’s most recent collection of poems is Radioactive Starlings (Princeton University Press, 2017). He lives in Maine. | myronnhardy.com KATHERINE HARRIS’ prose “Lift to the Sun” appeared in North Salem Review: Prose and Poetry Volume 1, (2011). She lives in Holmes, NY. IG: @katherineharrisart PAMELA HART is the author of Mothers Over Nangarhar, winner of the 2017 Kathyrn A. Morton Prize (Sarabande Books, 2019). She lives in North Salem, NY. pamelahartpoet.com, TW: @PamelaHart5 SCOTT HIGHTOWER is the author of four books of poetry in the U.S. and two bilingual (English/Spanish) collections published in Madrid. His last in the U.S. was Self-evident. He lives in Manhattan, NY. | scotthightower.com RICK HILLES’ most recent book of poetry is A Map of the Lost World (Pitt Poetry Series, 2012), and he is currently working on two more books, The Empathy Machine and The Invisible Thread. He lives in Nashville, TN. PAOLO JAVIER’s fifth book, O.B.B., a full-length comics poem, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books in spring 2021. He lives with his family in the unceded territory of the Rockaway, Canarsie, and Matinecock peoples, otherwise known as Queens County, New York City. “Moonbird Moonbird” appears in Sean Hanley’s documentary The Whelming Sea (2020). | nightboat.org/bio/paolo-javier PATRICIA SPEARS JONES’ fourth collection of poems is A Lucent Fire: New & Selected Poems (White Pine Press Distinguished Poetry Series, 2015). She lives in New York City. | psjones.com MICHELE KARAS’ poems have most recently appeared in The Northern Virginia Review, Mid-American Review, and Pretty Owl Poetry. She lives in Canaan, NY. michelekaras.com DANIEL LAWLESS’ recent collection of poems is The Gun My Sister Killed Herself With (Salmon Poetry Press, 2018). He lives in St. Petersburg, FL. plumepoetry@gmail.com DENTON LOVING’s first collection of poems is Crimes Against Birds (Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2015). He lives near Cumberland Gap, TN. dentonlovingblog.wordpress.com MAJA LUKIC’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Colorado Review, Prelude, Salamander, RHINO, Poetry Northwest, Sugar House Review, Vinyl, and other journals. She lives in Brooklyn, NY. | majalukic.com; TW: @majalukic113

MAYA MAHMUD’s poems have appeared in Frontier Poetry and Brio Literary Journal, which also published her visual art. She lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY. | FB: maya.amina.mahmud; IG: @lawful_chaos SEBASTIAN MATTHEWS lives with his family in Asheville, NC. Beyond Repair: Living in a Fractured State comes out in August 2020 from Red Hen Press. sebastianmatthews.com MARILYN MAZUR lives in New York City, but she has been in Vermont since the onset of the pandemic. Her work has appeared in Verse/Virtual (online), Five Poets & Their Poems (The New York Society Library), 2 Horatio, and Palo de Arco. KAYE McDONOUGH’s most recent book is Pagan: Selected Poems, (New Native Press, 2014). She lives in Branford, CT. | citylights.com/info/?fa=event&event_ id=1990 JENNIFER STEWART MILLER’s second collection is the chapbook The Strangers Burial Ground (Seven Kitchens Press, 2020). She currently lives in Orleans, MA. jenniferstewartmiller.com ROGER MITCHELL’s most recent book is Reason’s Dream (Dos Madres Press, 2018). He lives in Jay, NY. JANE WALLACE PEARSON’s poem “Doggerel” will appear in an upcoming issue of Light Poetry Magazine. She lives in Ledyard, CT. MARY ELLEN PELZER’s work has appeared in Intersections International, on itscomplicated.vet, and Seaport Magazine. She lives in New York City. TW: @maryellenpelzer; IG: @marypelzer JOANNE PROULX’s debut novel, Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet, won Canada’s Sunburst Award, and her sophomore novel, We All Love the Beautiful Girls, was one of The Globe and Mail’s Best 100 Books for 2017. She lives in Ottawa, Canada. joanneproulx.com CASSIE PRUYN is the author of Lena (Texas Tech University Press, 2017), winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry. She lives in Portland, ME. cassiepruyn.com SHEILA RABINOWITCH’s poems have appeared in previous issues of 2 Horatio. She lives in New York City. MARTHA RHODES is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently The Thin Wall (Pitt Poetry Series, 2017). She lives in New York City. martharhodespoet.com FRANCES RICHEY’s second collection of poems is The Warrior (Viking Penguin, 2008). She lives in New York City. | francesrichey.com AMELIA ROSS hasn’t been published since college. She’s excited to be included in 2 Horatio. She lives in Bronxville, NY. | LinkedIn: rossamelia JASON SCHNEIDERMAN’s fourth collection of poetry is Hold Me Tight (Red Hen Press, 2020). He lives in Brooklyn, NY. | jasonschneiderman.net ELAINE SEXTON’s third book of poems is Prospect/Refuge (Sheep Meadow Press, 2015). She lives in New York City and East Marion, NY. | elainesexton.org; IG: @elainesexton NEIL SHEPARD’s most recent book is How It Is: Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry, 2018) He lives in Johnson, VT. | neilxshepard.com

SEAN SINGER’s most recent book is Honey & Smoke (Eyewear, 2015). His collection Today in the Taxi is forthcoming from Tupelo Press. He lives in Ossining, NY. seansingerpoetry.com RON SLATE is the editor of On The Seawall: A Community Gallery of New Writing & Commentary (www.ronslate.com). His most recent poetry collection is The Great Wave (Houghton Mifflin). He lives in Aquinnah, MA. AARON SMITH is the author of four books, most recently The Book of Daniel (Pitt Poetry Series, 2019). He lives in Massachusetts, but during the pandemic has been living in West Virginia. | LitAppetite.com SHERRY STUART-BERMAN is a psychotherapist. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Guesthouse, The Night Heron Barks, Rise Up Review, and 2 Horatio. She lives in Staten Island, NY with her husband and son. MATTHEW THORBURN’s latest book of poems is The Grace of Distance (LSU Press, 2019). He lives in Kingston, NJ. | IG: @thorburnpoet MICHELLE YASMINE VALLADARES is the author of Nortada, The North Wind (Global City Press). She lives in Brooklyn, NY. | michelleyasminevalladares.com SARAH VAN ARSDALE’s most recent book is a single narrative poem, The Catamount (Nomadic Press, 2017). She lives in New York City and Medusa, NY. sarahvanarsdale.com