POETRY ISSUE JANUARY 2023 CONTRIBUTORS
Shelby Hartness
she/her / half moon bay, ca
Shelby Hartness is a writer & poet based in Northern California. Her work has appeared in passerby, Silver Operation, Spectra Poets, The Skirt Chronicles, and WONDER, among others. She is the editor of Elizabeth Wolfe's (@bloodhound.jpg) forthcoming poetry project 7 POEMS FOR 7 MEN: a love letter to vegas. Find more on www.shelbyhartness.com.
geyl wells
she/her, murfreesboro, tennessee
@ebigeylwells
Geyl Wells, 21, is a writer & graduate student of English at Middle Tennessee State University. Her work often reflects on coming-of-age experiences of female-identifying people, confabulated memories, fraught relationships, & yearning. You can find Geyl's work in Blue Marble Review, Bullshit Lit, Let's Stab Caesar! Magazine, & more. In 2021, she was a recipient of the Richard C. & Virginia Peck Award for poetry & fiction. Wells was born in the heart of Mississippi, raised in the shadows of Arizona’s Superstition Mountains, and lives in the suburbs of Nashville.
Soon Jones
none/they, Springfield, MO
Soon is a Korean lesbian poet, writer, and failed missionary originating from the rural countryside of the American South. Through poetry, Soon processes their childhood and religious trauma, as well as the confusing and complicated intersection of growing up an Asian American redneck. Their work can be found at soonjones.com.
@thesoonjones
Abu Bakr Sadiq
he/him, Minna, Nigeria
@bakronline
Abu Bakr Sadiq is a Nigerian poet. He is the winner of the 2022 IGNYTE award for Best Speculative Poetry. His work is nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Rhysling Award and is published/forthcoming in Boston Review, Mizna, Palette Poetry, FIYAH, Uncanny Magazine, Augur Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, Covert Literary Magazine, Zone 3 Press Magazine, Iskanchi Press and Magazine, Lolwe, The Lit Quarterly, Rockvale Review, Best of New Myths Anthology and elsewhere. He writes from Minna. Find him on Twitter @bakronline.
BEE LB
they/them, Rochester, Michigan
@twinbrights
BEE LB is an array of letters, bound to impulse; a writer creating delicate connections. they have called any number of places home; currently, a single yellow wall in Michigan. they have been published in en*gendered mag, FEELS Zine, JAKE, Ouch! Collective, and G*Mob, among others.
Artist portrait by @bachz.art
they/them, Rochester, Michigan
@twinbrights
BEE LB is an array of letters, bound to impulse; a writer creating delicate connections. they have called any number of places home; currently, a single yellow wall in Michigan. they have been published in en*gendered mag, FEELS Zine, JAKE, Ouch! Collective, and G*Mob, among others.
Artist portrait by @bachz.art
Rigel Portales
he/him/his, Las Piñas City, Philippines
@rrportales
Rigel Portales is a 20-year-old Filipino poet afraid of disappearing. Fortunately, his works have appeared/are soon to appear on Kritika Kultura, Nat. Brut Magazine, The Drift, and Cha with a poetry chapbook, DEAD BOYS MAKE THE BEST MEN, forthcoming from FlowerSong Press in the US. He's currently the poetry editor of the Malate Literary Folio and a reader for Palette Poetry. You can find him on his Twitter account @rijwrites where he writes to preserve and preserves to write.
Lilith Noah
she/her, Vienna, Austria
@lilithnoah
Lilith Noah is a 23 year old poet and artist from Austria. She fell in love with poetry when she saw a poetry slam on YouTube in 2018 and has been writing ever since. Her poems are written on things that would otherwise land in the dustbin: on receipts, tickets or flyers, turning it into a canvas for art. She posts her receipt poetry on Instagram and her first poetry collection titled "Receipts" has been published in 2021.
she/her, Vienna, Austria
@lilithnoah
Lilith Noah is a 23 year old poet and artist from Austria. She fell in love with poetry when she saw a poetry slam on YouTube in 2018 and has been writing ever since. Her poems are written on things that would otherwise land in the dustbin: on receipts, tickets or flyers, turning it into a canvas for art. She posts her receipt poetry on Instagram and her first poetry collection titled "Receipts" has been published in 2021.
Christie Valentin-Bati
she/her, Chicago. IL
@christie.vbati
Christie Valentin-Bati is (officially) a hybrid writer and photographer who often blends images and text to create work that's rooted in everyday life/the mundane (where a bulk of life resides). Unofficially, she’s just a suburban kid from Florida with too many plants to water. Her work has been commissioned by the ACLU of Illinois, exhibited in Davis Street Drawing Room, and received an honorable mention twice by the Academy of American Poets. For more, find her at @christie.vbati or https://bit.ly/christievb
