Four

After Fiona Apple’s “I Know”

Alicia Byrne Keane

is a PhD student from Dublin, Ireland. She has a first class honours degree in English Literature and French from Trinity College Dublin and a MSt. in English Literature 1900-Present from Oxford University. She is working on an Irish Research Council-funded PhD study that problematizes ‘vagueness’ and the ethics of translation in the work of Samuel Beckett and Haruki Murakami, at TCD. Her poems have been published in The Moth, Entropy, Abridged, and The Honest Ulsterman, among others. She has poems forthcoming in Blue Earth Review, The Account, and the Berkeley Poetry Review. She has performed at Electric Picnic, Body & Soul, and Lingo Festival, and has had two spoken word performances recorded for Balcony TV.

​V. S. Ramstack

 is a Pisces, a selective extrovert, and an avid crier. Besides poetry, she enjoys cats, flowers, and checking out too many books at the library. She received her MFA from Columbia College Chicago. Previous work can be found in Columbia Poetry Review, Night Music Journal, Curator Magazine, Oxidant | Engine, and Posit.

Oak Morse

is a poet and theater instructor born and raised in Georgia. He was the winner of the 2017 Magpie Award for Poetry in Pulp Literature as well as a Semi-Finalist for the 2020 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. Awarded the 2017 Hambidge Residency, Oak’s work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Indianapolis Review, Star 82 Review, Menacing Hedge, Nonconformist Mag, Gone Lawn, and elsewhere. Oak has a B.A. in Journalism from Georgia State University and he currently lives in Houston, Texas where he teaches creative writing and performance and leads a youth poetry troop, The Phoenix Fire-Spitters. 

​Stephanie Hauer

works as a contracted staff writer at Rehumanize International.  She contributed to the fourth edition of the Catholic Youth Bible from Saint Mary’s Press, and has published articles with Array of Hope, To Write Love on Her Arms, and Celebrate Life magazine.  Her poetry is featured in Young Ravens Literary Review, Pinnacle Anthology and Create | Encounter.  When she’s not muttering at a manuscript, Stephanie is usually sipping an iced chai tea latté or fussing over her succulents.

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after kaveh akbar

Sal Kang

is a professional sluggard and occasional writer who spends most of her free time sleeping and reading Anne Carson. Her work has been published in Canvas Literary Journal, The Rappahannock Review, and Yes Poetry, among others.

Cole Pragides ​

is a teenage Asian-Pacific-Islander-American undergraduate at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he studies Environmental Engineering and Creative Writing. By focusing his work on environmental stewardship and artistic expression, he hopes to help cultivate a world where communities lift each other up. He stands against racial injustice and discrimination everywhere. BLACK LIVES MATTER.

Katherine Beaman

is a writer and engineer who lives across the street from a Family Dollar in rural Texas. Her writing may be found in 3:AM, DIAGRAM, and Asymptote, among other places.

Corey Hill

is a human rights activist, journalist, and occasional lizard chaser. On the masthead at Taco Bell Quarterly, the literary magazine for the Taco Bell arts and letters. Journalism at The Independent, Alternet, Yes!, others. Fiction and poetry at Clarion, The Moth, Antithesis, Sierra Nevada Review, Cordite Poetry Review, more. Second place in the St. John's County Creative Writing Contest, Fifth Grade.