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Jay Rogoff

Jay Rogoff has published seven collections of poetry, most recently Loving in Truth: New and Selected Poems (LSU Press, 2020). His other books include The Long Fault (2008), The Art of Gravity (2011), and Enamel Eyes (2016), all from LSU. His poetry and criticism have appeared in many journals, including the Georgia Review, the Kenyon Review, Salmagundi, and the Southern Review, and he recently completed a thirteen-year stint as dance critic for the Hopkins Review.

 

Jenna Le

Jenna Le is the author of Six Rivers (NYQ Books, 2011); A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora (Indolent Books, 2017), an Elgin Awards second-place winner, voted on by the international membership of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association; and Manatee Lagoon (Acre Books, 2022). She is a two-time winner of the Poetry by the Sea Sonnet Contest. Her poems appear in AGNI, Denver Quarterly, Los Angeles Review, Massachusetts Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Pleiades, Poet Lore, Verse Daily, West Branch, and elsewhere.

 

L. M. Brown

L. M. Brown’s short story collections Treading The Uneven Road (Fomite 2019) and Were We Awake (Fomite 2019) were both featured on World Literature Today. She has two novels published. Her latest novel Hinterland (Fomite 2020) was an honorable mention finalist in the Eric Hoffer Award (2021).

 

Thomas Mampalam

Thomas Mampalam is a board certified neurosurgeon who has practiced in Northern California for over thirty years. He writes poetry and short stories informed by his medical practice, immigration, and family experiences. He has published poems in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Neurology, the Healing Muse, Intima Journal of Narrative Medicine, Ailment: Chronicles of Illness Narratives, the Avalon Literary Review, California Quarterly, the Cortland Review, Metonym, Good Works Review, and Iris Literary Journal.

 

Terese Coe

Terese Coe’s poems, translations, and prose appear in many international journals including Able Muse, Agenda, Alaska Quarterly, American Arts Quarterly, Cincinnati Review, Classical Outlook, Crannog, Cyphers, Hopkins Review, Metamorphoses, the Moth, New American Writing, New Scotland Writing, Ploughshares, Poetry, Poetry Review, Stinging Fly, Threepenny Review, and the TLS.

 

R. S. Powers

R. S. Powers’s  stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Sou’wester, Juked, JMWW, Entropy, Speculative Nonfiction, Glimmer Train, X-R-A-Y, World Literature Today, the Hunger, and other journals. He teaches at West Chester University in Pennsylvania.

 

 

Silvia DiPierdomenico

Silvia DiPierdomenico is an Italian teacher and private tutor. Her previous publications include a work of literary nonfiction in McSweeney’s Quarterly and an essay in Elle Magazine. Raised bilingually in Central Massachusetts, she completed a BA in English at Yale University, where she continued her studies and received an MA and MPhil in Italian literature. While living in New York City, she taught Italian at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Currently settled in Los Angeles, she lives with her husband and their Swiss White Shepherd dog, Fia.

 

 

Susan McLean

Susan McLean, professor emerita of English at Southwest Minnesota State University, has written three books of poetry: The Best Disguise, which won the Richard Wilbur Award, The Whetstone Misses the Knife, which won the Donald Justice Poetry Prize, and Daylight Losing Time, which is forthcoming from Able Muse Press in 2023. She also has translated a collection of Martial’s Latin poems, Selected Epigrams, and has served as the translation editor at Better Than Starbucks. She lives in Iowa City, Iowa.

 

 

Peter Vertacnik

Peter Vertacnik’s work has appeared recently in 32 Poems, the New Criterion, the Hopkins Review, Literary Matters, and THINK, among others. A finalist for the 2021 Donald Justice Poetry Prize and the 2022 New Criterion Poetry Prize, he currently lives in Florida.

 

 

Brooke Clark

Brooke Clark is the book-review editor for Able Muse and the author of the poetry collection Urbanities. He is also the editor of the epigram website the Asses of Parnassus.

 

 

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