SQN - Sine Qua Non - Issue Two - Journal - Page 135
Contributors
Andrea Ferrari Kristeller is an Argentinean teacher, bilingual writer and naturalist.
Her poems and short stories have been published by several American, Canadian and
British magazines. “The Land Without You” was published by the University of Misiones
Press, and self-published as The Land without You and Other Stories on Amazon in 2023.
She has recently twice won the Horacio Quiroga International short story contest, and her
book was chosen to represent the province of Misiones in the Buenos Aires Book Fair
2024. She is 昀椀nishing a new sci-昀椀 novel on the Atlantic rainforest’s trees.
Angela Townsend (she/her) is an eleven-time Pushcart Prize nominee, twenty-one time
Best of the Net nominee, 昀椀ve-time Best Small Fictions nominee, and the winner of The
Iowa Review’s Tim McGinnis Award and West Trade Review's 704 Prize for Flash Fiction. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Arts & Letters, Blackbird, Chicago Quarterly
Review, Five Points, Fourth Genre, JMWW, The O昀케ng, SmokeLong Quarterly, trampset,
and Witness.
IkeChukwu Henry is an Igbo Nigerian writer whose writings tackle the issues of environmental and climatic crises, family dynamics, queerness and speculative otherworldliness. He was 昀椀fth place in Christian Speculative Fiction Prize, Shortlisted for The Oriire
Folktale Prize and has stories published in, but not limited to Brittle Paper, The Kalahari
Review, Lampblack Magazine and others. When not writing, he can be found searching
for the next magazine to submit to.
Rowen Holder has a BA in English from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She loves
writing in all genres but also enjoys working on the editorial side of the writing process,
having spent her college career editing for her student newspaper, The Sentinel, and a student-run creative journal called The Quill. Rowen is heavily inspired by her grandmother,
who wrote practically every day of her life and always enjoyed sharing her personal
history with Rowen. She recently completed her intensive senior thesis on monstrosity
and morality in Gothic horror and hopes to continue sharing her work with the writing
community.
Editorial Team
Raúl Rodríguez Calvoz is the founder and editor-in-chief of Sine Qua Non. He is a
novelist, critic, and essayist whose work explores authorship, transmission, and the construction of experience through literary form. He holds a Ph.D. in Literature from The
University of Texas at Dallas and writes 昀椀ction under the pseudonym J.K. Franko.
Carmon Brandow, Ph.D. is a Visiting Lecturer in the Writing and Reasoning Program
at Southern Methodist University. She has been teaching in Texas since 2001, educating
children and young adults for most of her professional career. Her middle-grade novel,
Fairview, is an echo of her scholarly work that explores regionalism and girls’ 昀椀ction.
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