www.jjournal.org/post/toxic-a... A queer social worker focused on forced migration, he left Chicago to begin working at a refugee resettlement agency in New Haven, where he continues as a grant writer. He has been published in TAYO Literary Magazine and the Best Gay Romance 2014 anthology.

www.jjournal.org/post/_post Meridian’s Short Prose Prize, PRISM Creative Nonfiction, CANSCAIP’s Writing for Children Competition; residencies - British Columbia, CA, OR. Currently writer-in-residence, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Publishing: Grain, Malahat Review, The Masters Review

www.jjournal.org/post/decisio... Michael Jones poetry appears in journals such as Salamander, J Journal, Sugar House, and Beloit Poetry Journal. He has taught since 1990 in Oakland (CA) public schools.

www.jjournal.org/post/maybe Wolfgang Wright is the author of the comic novel Me and Gepe and the forthcoming science fiction novel Being. His short work has appeared in over forty literary magazines, including Dark Yonder, Oyster River Pages, and Paris Lit Up. He lives in North Dakota.

www.jjournal.org/post/my-deal Sullivan’s stories have appeared in journals including Big Muddy, Moment Magazine and Cherry Tree. Her essay “The Perfect Height for Kissing” won Columbia University’s Non-Fiction Prize and was published in Issue 53 of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art.

www.jjournal.org/post/severe-... A 30-year cooking career led to moderate renown. Today, after fallout from destructive choices, Jim is in prison preparing meals for fellow incarcerees, writing with wry humor about the care and feeding of those behind bars.

www.jjournal.org/post/things-... Author of 3 poetry collections: Meet Me at the Bottom, The Only Country Was the Color of My Skin, Umberto’s Night, which won the poetry prize from Washington Writers’ Publishing House. James Still Award, Thomas Merton prize, H.O.W. Journal, Washington Square Review.

www.jjournal.org/post/past-life Billie Pritchett is an English professor in the Department of Creative Convergence at Kyungnam University in Changwon, Korea. His work has appeared in Delmarva Review, Washington Square Review, and most recently in Arkana.

www.jjournal.org/post/smoke-b... Books: SCAR ON/SCAR OFF, When Trying to Return Home and Kinds of Grace. Fellowships from NEA, Kimbilio, CantoMundo. Heralded by NYT, Kirkus Reviews, Elle, Latinx in Publishing, Ms. Magazine. Fiction editor, Pleiades. Assistant professor U Missouri - Kansas City.

www.jjournal.org/post/wilding J. E. Robinson's poem “Panaetius” appeared in J Journal in Spring 2024 and received a “Best of the Net” nomination. Currently, he enjoys retirement.

www.jjournal.org/post/custome... A documentary poet who writes using a unique method of homophonic translation. Authored Arizona SB 1070: An Act (Downstate Legacies) and How I Pitched the First Curve (Lit Fest Press), + forthcoming chapbook Suppose / a Presence (Action, Spectacle).

www.jjournal.org/post/the-bar... Amrita De is a Visiting Research Fellow at Penn State. She specializes in masculinity studies and global south literatures. Creative works have appeared in Café Dissensus, Aaduna, Muse India, Cerebrations, Snarl, Barricade, Hong Kong Review.

www.jjournal.org/post/new-ter... Nina Ellis’s short stories have appeared in Granta, American Chordata, Carve Magazine, The London Magazine, Ambit, 3:AM, the Mays anthology and elsewhere. Her essays have appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, The Oxford Review of Books and elsewhere.

www.jjournal.org/current-issue The cartoon voice saying, "I am what I am," sounds simplistic. But we are what we are and like. We like low-to-the ground, less-is-more, tangential routes to justice. Still, in new issue #35, more than real seems possible; possible enough to move toward the fantastic.

www.jjournal.org/post/murmura... Poems published in The Atlantic, The New Republic, Plume, Ploughshares, Innisfree Poetry Journal, The Literary Review, and others. Two poetry collections published at CavanKerry Press: The Fork Without Hunger; Without Wings. Professor emeritus, Whitworth University.

www.jjournal.org/post/i-labor Wrote feminist noir novel Found, Committal, poet-friendly spy-fy, & spare change, finalist Stafford/Hall Award, poetry. Published in Denver Quarterly, The Feminist Wire, The Rumpus + more. Supports creative writing at regional prison, teaches, editor at Airlie Press.

www.jjournal.org/post/the-las... Joshua Brorby was born and raised in rural North Dakota. He holds a PhD in nineteenth-century English literature and has taught at institutions in St. Louis; Columbia, MO; Zhuhai, China; and Atlanta, where he currently resides. This story marks his fiction debut.

www.jjournal.org/post/where-c... Paul's fiction has appeared in Aethlon, Ruminate, storySouth, and elsewhere. He won a Pushcart Prize (XXXVII) for his story “The Fall of Punicea,” which was nominated by the editors of JJournal. He currently teaches English in a public HBCU in North Carolina.

www.jjournal.org/post/the-kee... Mike Piero, Ph.D. (he/him) is a bisexual writer and professor in Northeast Ohio, where he teaches courses in writing, literature, the humanities, and game studies. www.mikepiero.org.

www.jjournal.org/post/in-reve... Christina Simon, is the former nonfiction editor for Angels Flight Literary West. Her essays have been published in Salon, The Offing, Cleaver Magazine, Slag Glass City, Columbia Journal (winner of the 2020 Black History Month Contest for Nonfiction).

www.jjournal.org/post/in-engl... Heather Jessen has poems appearing or forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Southern Humanities Review, Jabberwock Review, and elsewhere and is a finalist for the Charles Simic poetry prize.

www.jjournal.org/post/the-roa... Sam Feldman is a graduate of the MFA Fiction Program at Columbia University. His work has appeared in The Catamaran Reader, The Dillydoun Review, The Journal of Wild Culture, and elsewhere. He grew up in Wyoming

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