Chelsea Jackson (they/she) is a writer, editor, consultant, and the author of the poetry collection All Things Holy and Heathen (April Gloaming, 2024). Their work asks hard questions, interrogates social narratives, and explores what it means to be human. Chelsea has an MFA from Drew University and is published in Passengers Journal, Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine, Hearth and Coffin Literary Journal, and Beyond Queer Words, among other publications. After moving around for more than a decade, they recently returned to their home state of Virginia and now live in Richmond with their partner and cuddly pitbull. You can connect with them at chelsea-jackson.com, via social media @sea_c_j, or via email at chelsea@mainereview.com.
Zanny Fran (she/her) is an immigrant writer and editor based in Boston, MA. Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in The Iowa Review, The Cincinnati Review, Solstice, and other publications. She previously wrote for the Ploughshares Blog, and her current projects include a thematically linked short story collection and collaborations with local artists and musicians. She can be reached at zanny@mainereview.com.
R.S. Saha (they/them) is a Tamil American writer, translator, and editor. When Saha isn’t translating Tamil novels and short stories, they write speculative fiction and poetry. They have been published by Baffling Magazine, Kaalam Magazine, Unstamatic, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere. You can reach them at saha@mainereview.com.
Molly Hanna (she/her) is a writer, gardener, and freelancer. She was born, raised, and resides in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, though travels around at every opportunity. Molly enjoys storytelling across many platforms and through a variety of media. Her passion for storytelling lies with nonprofits who do work around social justice and equity issues. She is a creative writer whose current work focuses on creating time capsules—especially surrounding the human experience of emotions and mental health as experienced by queer and neurodivergent people—and environmental writing. Her published poems can be found in The Susquehanna Review, Tar Heel Verses, Wingless Dreamer Anthologies, and Carolina Woman Magazine. You can reach her at molly@mainereview.com and find her work on her Instagram page, @mollyhannawrites.
Avanti is a media and publications manager based in Boston, Massachusetts. She is currently working on investigative and multimedia projects, in both visual and literary mediums. Her body of work focuses around uncovering hidden stories; she enjoys searching for secrets, puzzles, and mysteries. You can reach her at avanti@mainereview.com.
Basmah Sakrani is a Pakistani-Canadian writer living in Memphis TN, with her husband and two dogs. Her work has appeared in The Baltimore Review, High Shelf Press, Woven Tale Press, and other journals. In addition to contributing to The Maine Review, she works at Wunderman Thompson and holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Shanta Lee is an award winning artist who works in different mediums as a photographer, writer across genres, and a public intellectual. Her work has been widely featured in a number of anthologies and in places such as Harper’s Magazine, the Poetry Foundation, The Massachusetts Review, ITERANT Literary Magazine, Palette Poetry, BLAVITY, and DAME Magazine. Author of several collections, her forthcoming, This is How They Teach You How to Want It…The Slaughter (Harbor Editions) is out May 2024. To learn more about her work, visit: Shantalee.com.
Megan Vered is an essayist and literary hostess. Her recent essays and interviews have been published in Shondaland, Kveller, The Rumpus, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Writer’s Chronicle. Her essay “Requiem for a Lost Organ” was long-listed for the DISQUIET 2022 Literary Prize and she was a finalist for the Bellingham Review’s 2021 Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction. She holds an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Megan lives in Marin County, where she leads local and international writing workshops, participates in literary readings, and heads the governance committee on the board of Heyday Books. Her memoir, A Dance to Remember, Confessions of a Medical Maid of Honor, is currently being considered for publication.
Chanel lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her writing on gender, reproductive health and justice, as well as popular culture and religion, can be found in New York Magazine, Lilith, Rewire, Cosmopolitan, and others. She has an MFA in Fiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is at work on a novel about American Jews in Israel and Palestine in the aftermath of the 1967 war. She appears in the new documentary, My So-Called Selfish Life, about the choice to be childfree. Follow her on Instagram at cdubofsky.
Shavahn received an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her poetry has appeared in Cimarron Review, Carve Magazine, Salamander, The Baltimore Review, and Sugar House Review, among others. She was nominated for a 2018 Pushcart Prize and awarded a Crossfield Fellowship by Cuttyhunk Island Writers Residency. You can reach her at shavahn@mainereview.com.
Lauren Myers-Hinkle recently completed an MFA in Poetry and Literary Translation at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has a background in Cinema and Media Studies from The University of Chicago and studied English and American Literature at Brown University. Her work has appeared in such publications as RHINO and Carve. She lives in Evanston, Illinois with her family. You can reach her at lauren@mainereview.com.
Adam Grabowski’s poems have appeared in such journals as New Ohio Review, Ninth Letter, OVERSOUND, and elsewhere. A multiple Pushcart nominee, he is the author of the chapbook Go on Bewilderment (Attack Bear Press, 2020) and the recipient of a Parent-Writer Fellowship from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. Adam served as Associate Managing Editor of The Maine Review from 2021–2024. He currently lives in Western Massachusetts. You can reach him at adam@mainereview.com.
David Grubb, a retired US Coast Guard Warrant Officer, has been a creative writer his entire life, yet never focused on it because of career and family. In 2013 he flipped the script and everything is going quite well. Debut novel, A Trip From God Book 1, released on Dec 6, 2022. https://www.agrubbylife.
Nan Byrne is a feminist poet and television writer who has developed a variety of content for cable networks, and worked on seven television documentaries. The author of two books, her latest poetry chapbook, Wonder City is from Plan B Press. Her work has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Fiction Southeast, Seattle Review, New Orleans Review, Cherry Tree, as well as many feminist journals including The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture, So To Speak, Phoebe: A Journal of Feminist Scholarship, Earth’s Daughters, Canadian Woman Studies and others. She’s currently at work on a screenplay about Margaret Fuller, an early 19th century feminist, journalist, and literary critic. You can reach her at nan@mainereview.com.
Emily’s writing has appeared in Ninth Letter, Under the Sun, Pithead Chapel, Fourth Genre, The Maine Review, Under the Gum Tree, and Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies. She was a contest finalist in Fourth Genre and Creative Nonfiction Magazine, nominated for the AWP Intro Journals Project, and given honorable mention in Glimmer Train. She holds a BA in English with a concentration in creative writing from Middlebury College, an MA in English education from Columbia University Teachers College, and an MFA in writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lives with her wife and two pups in New York City where she works as an English tutor/learning specialist and runs the Figure Eight Writer’s Workshop. You can reach her at emily@mainereview.com.
Jocelyn Winn is a New Hampshire–based freelance writer, workshop instructor, and founder of The Eleventh Letter editorial services. She earned a BS in speech from Emerson College and an MFA in writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work can be found in Past Ten, Eratio, Waterwheel Review as a Pushcart Prize nominee, and Fourth Genre as a Steinberg Memorial Essay Prize finalist. You can reach her at jocelyn@mainereview.com.
Shranup Tandukar (he/him) is a poet and writer based in Lalitpur, Nepal. His work has appeared in the Lucky Jefferson, Salamander Magazine, Riverstone Literary Journal, and elsewhere. His interests lie in the intersectionality between language, relationships, and identity.
Fiction: Kathleen Siddell, Sara Marzana, Darren A. Deth, Emmy Ritchie, D.E. Hardy, Linda Yoon, Richard Stimac, Gina Thayer, Kaitlyn Martin, Marc Allen, Shannon Meehan, Melissa Loftus, Sarah Lawrence, Omi Anish, DC Restaino, Meredith Davidson, Diana Kurniawan, Veronica Marshall, Ripley Nolan, David Lee, Rachael Workman, Tom Storch, Tucker Struyk, and MK Manoylov
Nonfiction: Tamzin Mitchell, EJ Bowman, Brooke Middlebrook, Kris Haines-Sharp, Kate Macolini, A.E. Ryan, Shelley Gaske, Amy Schenier, Wendy BooydeGraff, and Peter Welch
Poetry: Japman Aneja, Katherine Hagopian Berry, John Browning, Jenny Doughty, Michelle Lewis, Eric Morris-Pusey, Kate Morgan, Bill Frayer, Sara Backer, Preeti Parikh, Jonah Meyer, Tanya Young, Briggs Helton, Caryn Dreibelbis, Elizabeth Galoozis, Daisy Bassen, and Rachel Ouellette
Rosanna (she/her) lives in Maine with her family and the perfect number of dogs (six, in case you were wondering). Her award-winning work has appeared or is forthcoming in New South, Sweet: A Literary Confection, Bacopa Literary Review, Tahoma Literary Review, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is currently pursuing a PhD in environmental remediation at Antioch University.
Ian (he/him) is a grant writer, a professional cook and gardener, and a broad reader based in Maine. A graduate of Bennington College, his literary interests include questions of genre, literary work as a commons, agrarian and environmental fiction, and Wittgenstein. He may be found at the edges of mixed hardwood forests and under stands of old hemlock. You can contact Ian at development@mainereview.com
Dewaine is the author of the novel Revolutions of All Colors (Syracuse University Press, October 2020). His stories and essays have appeared in the Southern Humanities Review, the New York Times, CRAFT, Literary Hub, the Rumpus, and War on the Rocks, among others. You can find more of Dewaine’s writing at dewainefarria.com.
Elizabeth’s recently completed novel, The Space Between, was shortlisted in the 2019 William Faulkner William Wisdom Competition, Novel-in-Progress category. She holds an MFA Fiction and Translation from Vermont College of Fine Arts, an MA in English from Middlebury College, and an A.B. from Harvard University. She writes and teaches in the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts.
Brett Willis is a former resident of Hewnoaks Artist Colony. His writing is forthcoming in an anthology of short fiction published by Littoral Books and has appeared in Intrinsick Mag and The Maine Review. He lives with his wife, daughter, and large dog in Portland, Maine. You can reach him at brett@mainereview.com.
Megan holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a BFA in poetry from Goddard College. Her essays have won numerous national awards including a Pushcart Prize. She has been published in such journals as The Threepenny Review, The Florida Review, Hotel Amerika and Creative Nonfiction Magazine’s True Story. She currently lives in Syracuse, NY, with her fiancé and their three beloved dogs.
Tyler Orion (they/he) is a trans/non-binary writer and photographer living in northern Vermont. Orion works at a small, independent bookstore, and is in the process of starting their own pop-up bookstore called Lucky Cloud Books that focuses on work by queer/trans and BIPOC writers and books in translation. Orion is also Assistant Flash Editor for Split Lip, and they have work published recently in Orion, The Hopper, GASHER, The Offing, Brevity, an anthology from Damaged Goods Press, and elsewhere. Orion holds an MFA in Writing & Publishing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. IG: @luckycloudbooks.
Rebecca’s poems can be found in RHINO, Spillway, Carve, and elsewhere. Named the 2020 Monson Arts: MWPA Poetry Fellow, she has received residencies from Norton Island, SAFTA, and Hewnoaks. Rebecca holds an MFA from VCFA, and lives in Portland, Maine. Her website is rebeccairene.com. She tweets @cicadacomplex.
Meghan Sterling’s work has been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes in 2021 and has been published or is forthcoming in Rattle, Colorado Review, Idaho Review, and others. Her collection These Few Seeds is out from Terrapin Books. Read her work at meghansterling.com.
Fiction: Erica Kent, Bree Leslie, Matthew Schwager, Rhonda Zimlich, Kathrine A. Boyer, Katherine Cart, Reed Patterson, Cassie Powers, Robert Atwood, Terri Bruce, Jonathan Calloway, Frank DiPalmero, Siarra Riehl, Laci Mosier, Sruthi Narayanan, MK Sturdevant, Jeanette Le Quick, Emma Cecil, Jennifer George, Jieen Zheng, Elizabeth Lemieux, Lauren Davis
Nonfiction: Aaron Hand, Anne McGrath, Deanne Battle, Grace Gilbert, E. Isabel Park, Teo Garza Linda Presto, Andrea Vassallo, Susanna Childress, Elizabeth Royer Johnson
Poetry: Santino DallaVecchia, Zackary Lavoie, Madeline Miele, Elizabeth Austin, Anna Turner,
Robert Wilson, Carolyn Ogburn, Janine Horber, Katherine Hagopian Berry, Jonah Meyer, Caryn Dreibelbis, Bill Frayer, Japman Aneja
Embody: Kimberly Ann Priest, BellaBianca Lynn, Brittany Capozzi, Alex Andy Phuong
Lisa Folkmire, Social Media Editor
Lisa Folkmire is a writer from Warren, Michigan. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts where she studied poetry. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Up the Staircase Quarterly, The Mantle, Glass, Barren Magazine, Alegrarse, and Okay Donkey. She is also a reader for The Masters Review. You can read more about her at lisafolkmire.com.