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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.

 

 

N. S. Thompson

N. S. Thompson is the nonfiction editor for Able Muse and lives near Oxford, UK. A poet, critic, and translator of Italian fiction, with Andy Croft he edited A Modern Don Juan: Cantos for These Times by Divers Hands (Five Leaves). His poetry publications include Letter to Auden (Smokestack Books), Mr Larkin on Photography (Red Squirrel), and two recent pamphlets, After War (New Walk Editions) and Ghost Hands (Melos Press).

 

Michael Hettich

Michael Hettich has published a dozen books of poetry, most recently The Mica Mine, which won the 2020 Lena Shull Book Award from the North Carolina Poetry Society and was published in 2021. A “new and selected” volume is forthcoming from Press 53 in 2023. His poems and essays have appeared in such journals as Orion, Poetry East, Boulevard, Rattle, Ploughshares, and Terrain.org. He lives in Black Mountain, North Carolina.

 

 

Evan Fiscella

Evan Fiscella is a non-binary person who uses they/them pronouns. They were born in New York and currently live in Boston. They write about their struggles with mental health and addiction.

 

 

Amina Lolita Gautier

Amina Lolita Gautier is the author of three short story collections: At-Risk, Now We Will Be Happy, and The Loss of All Lost Things. More than one hundred and thirty of her stories have been published, appearing in Agni, Boston Review, Callaloo, Cincinnati Review, Glimmer Train, Greensboro Review, Gulf Coast, Joyland, Kenyon Review, Latino Book Review, Mississippi Review, New Flash Fiction Review, Quarterly West, Southern Review, Triquarterly, and elsewhere.

 

Randy Nelson

Randy Nelson is a multiple award-winning writer whose work has appeared in numerous national and international publications. His first short story collection, The Imaginary Lives of Mechanical Men, won the Flannery O’Connor Award for short fiction. Nelson’s individual stories have also been recognized in Pushcart Prize Stories, Best American Short Stories, and as a Carson McCullers Award winner in Story.

 

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