More about Issue 19…

More about Issue 19…

Thirty-three tal­ent­ed poets, drama­tists, writers, and artists came togeth­er and made Issue 19 a reality. Read their works in Stonecoast Review Issue 19, now avail­able for pur­chase from local book­seller Kelly’s Books to Go.

 

 

Yael Valen­cia Aldana is a Caribbean Afro-Latinx writer and poet. Yael and her mother and her mother’s mother and so on are descen­dants of the indige­nous people of modern-day Colom­bia. She earned her MFA in cre­ative writing from Florida Inter­na­tion­al Uni­ver­si­ty (FIU). Her work has appeared or is upcom­ing in Type­house, The Florida Book Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, and Slag Glass City, among others. She lives in South Florida with her son. Valen­cia Aldana is on Insta­gram @Yaelwrites and Twitter @Yaelwrites71. She can also be found at YaelAldana.com.

Kellam Ayres’s poems have appeared in New England Review, Guer­ni­ca, The Cort­land Review, and are forth­com­ing in Ninth Letter and On the Seawall. Her first man­u­script, In the Cathe­dral of My Undoing, was named a 2023 Alice James Award final­ist. A grad­u­ate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program, she works as a librar­i­an at Mid­dle­bury College. She can be found at www.kellamayres.com and on Twitter @KellamAyres.

Charles Byrne is a writer and teacher in San Fran­cis­co with poems recent­ly pub­lished or forth­com­ing in Merid­i­an, New Amer­i­can Writing, and Notre Dame Review. He has read sub­mis­sions for RHINO Poetry and Autumn House Press.

Dinah Cox has pub­lished three short story col­lec­tions; Remark­able (BOA Edi­tions), The Canary Keeper (PANK Books), and the forth­com­ing The Paper Anniver­sary (Elixir). Her indi­vid­ual stories have appeared in Redi­vider, Sto­ryQuar­ter­ly, Prairie Schooner, Copper Nickel, and elsewhere.

Terence Degnan is the author of three books of poetry. His most recent work, I Can Wonder Any­thing was pub­lished in March of this year. He lives in Brook­lyn with his wife and daugh­ter. He can be found on Twitter @terencedegnan, GI @terencedegnan, and FB @TerenceLDegnan.

Jennie Evenson is an alum of Tin House Summer Work­shop ’22, and has work in Ninth Letter, Beneath Cease­less Skies, Escape Pod, Flash Fiction Online, and Every Day Fiction.

Ben­jamin Faro is a green-thumbed writer cur­rent­ly pur­su­ing his MFA at Queens Uni­ver­si­ty of Char­lotte, where he served as poetry editor for Qu Lit­er­ary Mag­a­zine. He is also the editor of Equa­to­r­i­al Lit­er­ary Mag­a­zine. His work has been nom­i­nat­ed for a Push­cart Prize and appears or is forth­com­ing in EcoTheo Review, Nimrod Inter­na­tion­al Journal, Port­land Review, TIMBER Journal, West Trade Review, and others. He can be found at www.benjaminfaro.com or Insta­gram @may_your_problems_end.

Jessica Good­fel­low’s poetry books are White­out (Uni­ver­si­ty of Alaska Press, 2017), Mendeleev’s Mandala, and The Insomniac’s Weather Report. A former writer-in-res­i­dence at Denali Nation­al Park and Pre­serve, she’s had poems in The South­ern Review, Ploughshares, Sci­en­tif­ic Amer­i­can, Verse Daily, Motion­po­ems, and Best Amer­i­can Poetry. Jessica lives and works in Japan. She can be found at.

Kelly Gray’s writing appears or is forth­com­ing in Witness Mag­a­zine, South­ern Human­i­ties Review, Per­mafrost, Trampset, and Rust & Moth, among other places. She writes about what she knows or is trying to know; par­ent­ing, eco-grief, mental health, dead things, mon­sters, prophet­ic animals, rela­tion­ships to self and others, and rural life. She can be found at writekgray.com and @_west_of_west.

Mike Guerin is a writer of stories and a roarer of poetry from rural North Cork in the south of Ireland. He won Listowel’s Bryan McMahon short story award in 2022 and was placed in com­pe­ti­tions at Kanturk Arts Fes­ti­val and Bal­ly­donoghue Bardic Fes­ti­val. He has had work includ­ed in ‘New Irish Writing,’ ‘The Same Page Anthol­o­gy,’ ‘Howl,’ ‘The Martel­lo Journal,’ ‘The Galway Review’ and ‘The Hoogly Review.’

Rachael Hanel is the author of Not the Camilla We Knew: One Woman’s Path from Small-town America to the Sym­bionese Lib­er­a­tion Army, a work of nar­ra­tive non­fic­tion released in 2022 by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Min­neso­ta Press. Her memoir, We’ll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down: Memoir of a Gravedigger’s Daugh­ter (2013, Uni­ver­si­ty of Min­neso­ta Press), was a final­ist for a Min­neso­ta Book Award. Her essays have appeared in online and print lit­er­ary jour­nals such as Belling­ham Review and New Delta Review. She teaches cre­ative non­fic­tion at Min­neso­ta State Uni­ver­si­ty, Mankato.

Summer Hardinge returned to writing after step­ping away from teach­ing high school English. Fre­quent­ly digging in her garden or hiking on the C & O Canal, Summer feels at home in the natural world. Her poetry may be found in The Ekphras­tic Review, The Rap­pa­han­nock Review, Beltway Poetry Quar­ter­ly, and Pere­grine. Summer is the 2019 recip­i­ent of First Place in the Poetry Contest, spon­sored by the Bethes­da Urban Part­ner­ship. Summer lives in Mary­land and leads Amherst Writers and Artists work­shops in the Wash­ing­ton D.C. area.

Russell Karrick is a poet/translator living between New York and Colom­bia. He has won trans­la­tion awards from World Lit­er­a­ture Today and Lunch Ticket. His poetry has appeared or is forth­com­ing from Bat City Review, The Offing, Spoon River Poetry Review, Blue Earth Review, and Magma Poetry, among others.

Ste­fanie Kirby lives and writes along Colorado’s Front Range. Her poems have been nom­i­nat­ed for the Push­cart Prize and Best of the Net, and appear or are forth­com­ing in Pas­sages North, Port­land Review, Qwerty Mag­a­zine, The Offing, DIALOGIST, and else­where. She is on Twitter @MsStefanieKirby.

Tamara Kreutz is a poet resid­ing in Antigua, Guatemala, where she writes and teaches high school ELA at a small inter­na­tion­al school. She is cur­rent­ly pur­su­ing an MFA through Pacific University’s Low Res­i­den­cy Program, and her work has been fea­tured in pub­li­ca­tions such as Rattle’s Poets Respond, Cathex­is North­west, and Verse-Virtual. She can be found online at https://www.instagram.com/tamara_kreutz/.

Marisa Lainson (she/they) is a queer poet from South­ern Cal­i­for­nia. She recent­ly earned her MFA from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, Irvine, where she served as Poetry Editor of Fault­line Journal. Their work appears in The Journal, Poet Lore, The Pinch, Fron­tier Poetry, Peatsmoke Journal, Foothill Poetry Journal and else­where. Lainson can be found at marisalainson.com and IG @risa_lainson.

Steven Lang’s work has appeared in the anthol­o­gy Fiction on a Stick, pub­lished by Milk­weed Edi­tions, in the book The Art of Wonder, pub­lished by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Min­neso­ta Press, and in the lit­er­ary jour­nals CutBank, Chest­nut Review, and Slush Pile Magazine.

Nadja Maril is a former mag­a­zine editor and jour­nal­ist living in Annapo­lis, Mary­land USA. She has an MFA in Cre­ative Writing from the Stonecoast Program at Uni­ver­si­ty of South­ern Maine (Winter 2020) and her work has been pub­lished in lit­er­ary mag­a­zines that include: The Journal of Com­pressed Cre­ative Arts, Lunch Ticket, and Invis­i­ble City Lit­er­ary Review. She is cur­rent­ly working on a novel and addi­tion­al credits include weekly blog­posts at Nadjamaril.com.

Shannon Marzel­la is a poet and teacher from Con­necti­cut. Her poetry has been pub­lished in several pub­li­ca­tions includ­ing Caul­dron Anthol­o­gy, Glacial Hills Review, San Pedro River Review, Last Leaves Mag­a­zine, and is forth­com­ing from Evening Street Review and #SPIRIT Anthol­o­gy. She is pur­su­ing an MFA in Cre­ative and Pro­fes­sion­al Writing from Western Con­necti­cut State University.

Will McDon­ald is orig­i­nal­ly from Min­neso­ta but cur­rent­ly lives in Brook­lyn. His work has appeared in the Village Voice and the Bush­wick Daily.

Laura Leigh Morris is the author of The Stone Catch­ers (UP Ken­tucky, forth­com­ing) and Jaws of Life (West Vir­ginia UP, 2018). She teaches cre­ative writing and lit­er­a­ture at Furman Uni­ver­si­ty in Greenville, SC.

Serena Norr is a writer, play­wright, and founder of Let’s Make a Play, a play­writ­ing program for kids and adults. Norr’s plays examine the inner work­ings of the human psyche, specif­i­cal­ly through the lens of women who are oppressed, con­trolled, and emo­tion­al­ly strug­gling in a variety of ways. She writes plays that are psy­cho­log­i­cal­ly layered and reflec­tive that ques­tion society and its impact on women, mothers, and girls while placing a lens on stereo­types. She is also a member of the Drama­tists Guild, Westch­ester Col­lab­o­ra­tive Theatre, Cut Edge Col­lec­tive, and a par­tic­i­pant in the 2021 Kennedy Center Play­writ­ing Inten­sive and Nation­al Women’s Theatre Fes­ti­val (WTF) Direct­ing Program (2022) and Producing/Directing Program (2023). For more infor­ma­tion, visit http://www.serenanorr.com/.

Kerry Neville is the author of two col­lec­tions of stories, Nec­es­sary Lies, which received the G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize in Fiction and was named a Fore­Word Mag­a­zine Short Story Book of the Year, and Remem­ber to Forget Me. Her work has appeared in pub­li­ca­tions such as The Get­tys­burg Review, Epoch, Tri­quar­ter­ly, The Wash­ing­ton Post, The Huff­in­g­ton Post, and else­where. Her fiction and non­fic­tion have been named Nota­bles in Best Amer­i­can Short Stories and Best Amer­i­can Essays

Andrew Payton grad­u­at­ed with an MFA in Cre­ative Writing and Envi­ron­ment from Iowa State Uni­ver­si­ty in 2014. His poetry has been pub­lished in The Journal, Third Coast, Poet Lore, Mid-Amer­i­can Review, Rattle, and else­where, and won the James Hearst Poetry Prize from North Amer­i­can Review. He lives in Har­rison­burg, Vir­ginia with his partner and chil­dren. Payton can be found at @adpayton.

Ayvaunn Penn (Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty Dean’s Fellow) is an African-Amer­i­can play­wright pas­sion­ate about theatre for social change. Best known for her play *For Bo* (Eugene O’Neill NPC Final­ist), the work of this emerg­ing play­wright has been seen by audi­ences within the USA and inter­na­tion­al­ly. Penn is also a TCU theatre professor.

Kim­ber­ly Ann Priest is the author of Slaugh­ter the One Bird, final­ist in the Amer­i­can Best Book Awards, and chap­books The Opti­mist Shel­ters in Place, Parrot Flower, and Still Life. She is an asso­ciate poetry editor for Nimrod Inter­na­tion­al Journal of Prose and Poetry and assis­tant pro­fes­sor at Michi­gan State Uni­ver­si­ty. Priest can be found on IG kimberlyannpriest.poet, and Twitter kimberlyann.poet.

Michael Rogner is a restora­tion ecol­o­gist, self-taught poet, and husband bat­tling stage IV cancer. His work appears or is forth­com­ing in Willow Springs, Belling­ham Review, Crab Creek Review, Barrow Street, Moon City Review, and else­where. He can be found at @MCRogner.

Amy Scheiner’s writing has been fea­tured in Slate, Blue Mesa Review, The Southamp­ton Review, and Lon­greads. She is cur­rent­ly seeking rep­re­sen­ta­tion for her memoir.

Justin Smulski is an emerg­ing writer with no pub­li­ca­tion history. By trade, an edi­to­r­i­al and outdoor/adventure pho­tog­ra­ph­er, his poetry is inspired by time explor­ing the quiet spaces of Maine. He can be found on Insta­gram @tidetopine or online at www.tidetopine.com.

Sarah Dick­en­son Snyder lives in Vermont, carves in stone, & rides her bike. Travel opens her eyes. She has four poetry col­lec­tions, The Human Con­tract (2017), Notes from a Nomad (nom­i­nat­ed for the Mass­a­chu­setts Book Awards 2018), With a Polaroid Camera (2019), and Now These Three Remain (2023). Poems have been nom­i­nat­ed for Best of Net and Push­cart Prizes. Recent work is in Rattle, Lily Poetry Review, and RHINO Poetry. Her website is sarahdickensonsnyder.com.

Helena Steel is an Anglo-Italian writer from London. She runs cre­ative writing work­shops for chil­dren and loves her “job”! When not working with words, she plays with them and dream about them. Her poetry is inspired by life, from the daily mundane to big life-chang­ing events. Her website is www.storyroom.co.uk.

Liam Strong (they/them) is a queer neu­ro­di­ver­gent cot­tagecore straight edge punk writer who has earned their B.A. in writing from Uni­ver­si­ty of Wis­con­sin-Supe­ri­or. They are the author of the chap­book every­one’s left the home­town show (Bot­tle­cap Press, 2023). You can find their poetry and essays in Impos­si­ble Arche­type and Emerald City, among several others. They are most likely gar­den­ing some­where in North­ern Michi­gan. They are on Twitter/Instagram @beanbie666.

Sage Tyrtle’s work is avail­able or upcom­ing in New Delta Review, The Offing, and Apex among others. She reads for Hip­pocam­pus and Frac­tured Lit. Her words have been fea­tured on NPR, CBC, and PBS and she’s been nom­i­nat­ed three times for Push­cart, once for Best Amer­i­can Short Stories. She runs a low cost online writing work­shop collective.

Thank you to our con­trib­u­tors. Thank you to our readers. And thank you to our tire­less editors and first-readers for another issue out of the imag­i­na­tion and onto the shelves.

Sub­mis­sions for Stonecoast Review Issue 20 open on August 1st. Get your work ready!

 



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