Phoebe - Volume 47.1

Julius Taranto’s work has appeared in The Fiddleback, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Lawfare. He is a graduate of Pomona College and Yale Law School.

Kailey Tedesco is the author of These Ghosts of Mine, Siamese (Dancing Girl Press) and a forthcoming collection, She Used to be on a Milk Carton (April Gloaming Publishing). She is the editor-in-chief of Rag Queen Periodical and a staff writer for Luna Luna Magazine. She also performs with the Poetry Brothel. Her work has been featured in Bellevue Literary Review, Prick of the Spindle, Prelude, Poetry Quarterly, and more. For more, please visit kaileytedesco.com.

Justin Noah Wells is referred to by most as the “Dilettante of the Hinterlands.” He studied Fine Art and Environmental Science at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and eventually dropped out of the UCLA creative writing program to pursue a life of forestry in the Pacific Northwest. He has since returned to the Appalachians of North Carolina where he spends his time with the trees, his ink pens, and a surly canine named “Yeti.” His drawings and paintings are imbued with stygian humor, but tend to favor the beauty of the natural world rather than strictly providing social commentary. It must be noted that it is in fact he that is surly. Yeti is a loving marvel.

Find out more at his website, www.whalesink.com.

Lauren W. Westerfield is an essayist, poet, and editor from the Northern California coast. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in PANK, Permafrost, The Los Angeles Times, The Butter, Redivider, and The Rumpus, where she has also served as an Assistant Essays Editor. Lauren is a Centrum Fellow and MFA candidate in Creative Nonfiction at the University of Idaho, where she recently received Honorable Mention for the Academy of American Poets Prize. She currently co-hosts the POP-UP PROSE reading series in Moscow, Idaho, and is the Nonfiction Editor of Fugue. contributors | 117