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Contributors
A.E. Abitz is an MFA student in poetry at Emerson College. She holds a BFA in poetry
from Texas Tech University, where she received the Stephen Ross Hu昀昀man Poetry Award
in 2021. Her poems have appeared in The Dewdrop, Beyond Words Magazine, and others.
Her critical writing is also forthcoming in Fork Apple Press. She volunteers as Art Director
and Print Editor for Redivider in her free time.
Michelle Alexander is an American-Trinidadian poet, creative non昀椀ction writer, and interdisciplinary practitioner. She graduated from New York University Gallatin School of
Individualized Study, receiving the Herbert Rubin Prize in Poetry, and holds an MFA from
Columbia College Chicago, where she was a Nathan Breitling Poetry Fellow. Among
her publications is work that has appeared or is forthcoming in the journals Third Coast,
Epiphany, and Puerto del Sol. She has served as a poet in residence for the Chicago
Poetry Center and as a Visiting Teaching Artist for the Poetry Foundation’s “Forms and
Features” series. She is a teaching artist at ChiArts and an Interdisciplinary Humanities
Instructor at the Odyssey Project. She is the recipient of the Furious Flower 2024 Poetry
Prize and the Director of Interdisciplinary Arts at Unwoven Literary & Arts Magazine.
Her manuscript, A Stone’s Throw from C r a y, has been a 昀椀nalist for The National Poetry
Series, The Word Works Competition: Washington Prize, The 42 Miles Prize, and The
Lightscatter Prize.
CJ Brady is a poet and 昀椀rst year MFA student at ODU who was born and raised in Los
Angeles. She has been published in Zaum, hias, and has forthcoming work in Mantis. She
also enjoys music and 昀椀lm production, and has been awarded a bronze medal from the
international Association of Audio Engineers.
Gospel Chinedu is a Nigerian poet from the Igbo descent. He currently is an undergraduate
at the College of Health Sciences, Oko昀椀a where he studies Anatomy. He loves music and
is a big fan of Isak Danielson. His poems are mostly speculative and cut across di昀昀erent
themes. He is a 2021 Starlit Award Winner, 1st Runner Up for the Blurred Genre Contest
(Invisible City Lit), 2023, Honorable Mention in the Stephen A. Dibiase Poetry Prize,
2023, and also a 昀椀nalist in the Dan Veach prize for younger poets, 2023. His works of
poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in Chestnut Review, Worcester Review, Augur
Magazine, Mud Season Review, The Drift, Consequence Forum and in many other
journals. Gospel tweets @gonspoetry.
Born in Puerto Rico and raised with a North Florida accent, Andrea Figueroa-Irizarry
is an MFA candidate from the University of South Florida. She writes about family,
relationships, and mental health. When not writing, Andrea can be found taking pictures
of her basset hound or struggling with a crochet hook.
Chandler Garcia is a 23-year-old Latinx and transgender student at California State
University, Long Beach, pursuing a degree in Creative Writing with a focus in poetry.
They use their experiences being a trans person of color in various aspects of their
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