Faultline Journal of Arts and Letters, Volume 30

Myles Taylor (they/them) is a transmasculine poet, organizer, award-winning poetry slam competitor, barista, Emerson College alum, Capricorn-Aquarius cusp, and glitter enthusiast. They run Moonlighting: A Queer Open Mic and host at the Boston Poetry Slam. Their work can be found in The Shallow Ends, Academy of American Poets, Washington Square Review, Underblong, Crab Fat Magazine, Slamfind, and others.

Richard Foerster was born in the Bronx, New York, the son of German immigrants, and holds degrees in English literature from Fordham College and the University of Virginia. He is the author of eight poetry collections, the most recent of which is Boy on a Doorstep: New and Selected Poems (Tiger Bark Press, 2019), which received the 2020 Poetry by the Sea Book Award. He has worked as a lexicographer, educational writer, typesetter, teacher, and editor of the literary magazine Chelsea and Chautauqua Literary Journal. He lives on the coast of southern Maine.

Swathi Desai was born in India and raised in the US. Her work has been published in Orca: A Literary Journal, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Prometheus Dreaming, the San Francisco Examiner Magazine and elsewhere.

She was a semi-finalist in the Chestnut Review’s 2020 Stubborn Artists Contest, short fiction category and shortlisted in the Hippocampus Remember in November 2020 Contest for Creative Nonfiction. She lives in the Bay Area with her family.

David Preizler lives in Santa Monica. His short fiction has appeared in the Santa Monica Review and his poetry is forthcoming in Slipstream.

Catherine Bloomer is a deafblind woman who has used hearing aids since age two. She was born with Usher Syndrome, the leading cause of deaf-blindness. She graduated from Barnard College, and received an MFA at The New School in fiction in 2016. She is currently a PhD candidate in Italian literature at Columbia University. She is the Associate Director for WriteOn NYC, which trains MFA candidates as instructors and provides creative writing classes to underserved school children. Her first poem is forthcoming at The Gateway Review.

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