ISSUES | Contributing Authors

Sara Greene is an American film and music video producer currently based in London. She’s also the author of two children’s books, Los Angeles 1 to 10 and Portland 1…    read more

Austen Leah Rose is a Dornsife Fellow at the University of Southern California, where she teaches poetry. Her debut book, Once, This Forest Belonged to a Storm, won the 2022…    read more

Sarah Mullens is a Hammond-Schwartz Fellow at Colorado State University and associate editor of the Colorado Review. Her work has appeared in NBCTHINK, LitHub, and elsewhere. A sixth-generation West Virginian,…    read more

Brecht De Poortere was born in Belgium and grew up in Africa. He currently lives in Paris, France. His writing has appeared in the Hudson Review (third prize 2024 Short Fiction Contest), the Baltimore Review, Grain, X-R-A-Y, and Consequence, among others. You…    read more

Geneviève Mathis is a writer based in upstate New York. She is a graduate of New York University’s MFA program in fiction and was a Center for Fiction Fellow. She wrote the…    read more

Wayne Zade teaches creative writing, American literature and jazz studies at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. He has published poems in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, Notre Dame Review and…    read more

Charlie Clark has published poems in Crazyhorse, Forklift, OH, Smartish Pace and other fine journals. He lives and works in Washington, DC. [2008]

Tarfia Faizullah’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Cincinnati Review, diode, Ploughshares and elsewhere. She is the recipient of an AWP Intro Journals Project Award and is currently…    read more

Kimberly Johnson is the author of two collections of poetry, Leviathan with a Hook and A Metaphorical God, as well as a verse translation of Virgil’s Georgics. She is a recipient of grants and…    read more

Anthony Doerr is the author of three books, The Shell Collector, About Grace and Four Seasons in Rome. His short fiction has won three O. Henry prizes and has been anthologized in The Best…    read more