CONTRIBUTORS Mark Adel was raised in South Jersey and settled in North Georgia after stops in San Francisco, Manhattan, Hartford, and Southeastern Pennsylvania. Educated in four elementary schools, two junior high schools, one high school, and three colleges, he attended a night school class taught by David Stern, author of the Francis the Talking Mule books. His work has appeared in Cimarron Review, Santa Clara Review, Exit 271, 365 Tomorrows, and Review Americana. Bailey Cohen is a first-generation Ecuadorian-American poet studying Politics, English Literature, and Creative Writing as an undergraduate student at NYU. A finalist for the Boulevard Contest for Emerging Poets, his work appears or is forthcoming from Boulevard, The Shallow Ends, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Okay Donkey, Bluestem, Noble / Gas Quarterly, and more. He is on staff at Frontier Poetry, and can be found tweeting about poems, full of wonder @BaileyC213. He loves everyone Latinx. Aaron Coleman is the author of Threat Come Close (2018) and the chapbook St. Trigger, selected by Adrian Matejka for the 2015 Button Poetry Prize. A Fulbright Scholar and Cave Canem Fellow from Metro-Detroit, Aaron has lived and worked with youth in locations including Spain, South Africa, Chicago, St. Louis, and Kalamazoo. Aaron’s poems have appeared in journals including Boston Review, FENCE, and New York Times Magazine. As a poet and translator from Spanish, Aaron has received awards including the American Literary Translators Association’s Jansen Memorial Fellowship, the Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Contest, and the Cincinnati Review Schiff Award. Aaron is currently a PhD student at Washington University St. Louis, studying 20th Century literature of the African Diaspora and Translation Studies in the Comparative Literature Program’s International Writers’ Track. Charlotte Covey is from St. Mary's County, Maryland. She currently lives in St. Louis, and she earned her MFA in Spring 2018. She has poetry published or forthcoming in journals such as The Normal School, Salamander Review, CALYX Journal, the minnesota review, and The Monarch Review, among others. In 2015, she was nominated for an AWP Intro Journal Award. She is coEditor-in-Chief of Milk Journal. Dinah Cox’s first book of stories, Remarkable, won the fourth annual BOA Short Fiction Prize and appeared in 2016. A second collection, The Canary Keeper, is forthcoming from PANK Big Books. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in a number of publications, including Prairie Schooner, Cream City Review, Copper Nickel, The Laurel Review, and StoryQuarterly. She
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