Dure Ahmed is an immigrant, Muslim writer. A 2023 recipient of the Monique Wittig Scholarship, their work has been published or is forthcoming in Guernica, ANMLY, Black Warrior Review, Autofocus, and Berkeley Poetry Review among others. Dure lives in New Jersey.

Jo Blair Cipriano is originally from Hyattsville, Maryland. For their poetry, Jo has received support from Tin House, Brooklyn Poets, and the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, and was a 2021 finalist for both Frontier Magazine’s New Voices Contest and its Industry Prize. Formerly a college dropout, they are now an MFA candidate at the University of Arizona. Jo lives in Tucson with her partner and the street cat they accidentally adopted.

Dillon Clark is a Queer writer from New Jersey. They are a first-year MFA student at the University of Arizona, and are Managing Editor of Sonora Review. You can read some of their work in the most recent issue of the tiny. Outside of writing, they love listening to live music around Tucson and hunting for the best restaurants in town. 

Claire Taylor is currently an MFA student in Illustration & Design and a University Fellow at the University of Arizona. Her work conveys the intelligence and agency of non-human animals, plants and abiotic entities, and questions the binary of what is and is not nature. The media she works with includes watercolor, relief printmaking, book art and creative writing. She has held artist residencies at the Natural History Museum of Utah and the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. She holds an MS in Environmental Humanities and a BFA in Printmaking from the University of Utah. Her most recent solo exhibition, “Snail Snake City,” was held at the Utah State Capitol.

Aria Pahari is a Nepali American poet whose work can be found in Waxwing and is forthcoming in The Margins from the Asian American Writers Workshop. She is originally from Virginia and adores novels, running, and birds.

A writer from Ohio, Geramee Hensley edits Sonora Review and Tinderbox Poetry Journal. Their writing has appeared in Button Poetry, Indiana Review, Lantern Review, The Recluse, The Margins, and elsewhere. You can find them at geramee.com.

Matisse Rosen is a descendent of bootlegger-turned-doctor Polish Jews. She spends her days living outside in Tucson, under air force practice, beside the birds.

Lucy Kirkman is a writer from Zimbabwe who received her MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Arizona. Her work deals with the ruins of colonization. More of her writing is forthcoming in terrain.org.

Marianna Ariel ColesCurtis received their MFA in poetry from the University of Arizona. Their work has appeared in Yes Poetry, Hunger Mountain, and Wend, and is forthcoming in Sundog Lit.

Logan Phillips is a bilingual poet, performer, educator and DJ based in Tucson, Arizona. Born in Cochise County, Arizona to a family of Irish-Slavic ancestry, Phillips lived in and around Mexico City 2006-2011, where he contributed to organizing and hosting the country’s first regular poetry slam series. He has regularly performed in venues across the U.S., Latin America and beyond since 2007, and is author of the full-length book of poems Sonoran Strange (West End Press, 2015). Phillips is currently a MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Arizona.

Hannah Rego is a writer from Louisville, Kentucky. They are an MFA candidate at the University of Arizona and a founding editor of ctrl+v, a journal of collage. Their work appears or is forthcoming in Bettering American Poetry Vol. 3, Best Small Fictions 2020, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. (Author photo: Don Calva)

Jaclyn Sipovic is an MFA candidate in nonfiction at the University of Arizona. Originally from Michigan, she writes about landscape, boundaries, water, sound.

Katerina Ivanov is a Mexican-Russian writer raised in the swamps of Northern Florida. Her work in multiple genres has been published in Bird’s Thumb,The Florida Review, and The Nashville Review. Most recently, she won the John Weston Award for Fiction. She is currently an MFA student at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Miranda Trimmier grew up in Milwaukee, lives in Tucson, and is writing a book about how concepts of land shape place. She recently completed her MFA in creative nonfiction at the University of Arizona. Her work has been published in Places Journal, The New Inquiry, Terrain, and other outlets.

Logan Phillips is a bilingual poet, performer, educator and DJ based in Tucson, Arizona. Born in Cochise County, Arizona to a family of Irish-Slavic ancestry, Phillips lived in and around Mexico City 2006-2011, where he contributed to organizing and hosting the country’s first regular poetry slam series. He has regularly performed in venues across the U.S., Latin America and beyond since 2007, and is author of the full-length book of poems Sonoran Strange (West End Press, 2015). Phillips is currently a MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Arizona.

Katerina Ivanov is a Mexican-Russian writer raised in the swamps of Northern Florida. Her work in multiple genres has been published in Bird’s Thumb, The Florida Review, and The Nashville Review. Most recently, she won the John Weston Award for Fiction. She is currently an MFA student at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Emilio Carrero is a memoirist from Orlando, Florida. Born to an immigrant family, his work explores the intersection of Latinx and American culture from the perspective of a brown body. His writing is narrative-driven, exploring issues of poverty, sexual violence, and suicide along with questions of otherness that arise from these experiences. The memoir he is currently working on investigates the nature of creaturely life and serves as a foreground for the exploration of memories (both repressed and remembered) and the socio-political realities of American life.

Sophia Terazawa likes the color purple. She is working toward the MFA in Poetry at the University of Arizona. In a past life, she was set on fire and publicly executed. Sophia also likes to dance. She wrote I AM NOT A WAR, a winner of the 2015 Essay Press Digital Chapbook Contest, selected by Rosebud Ben-Oni. Work appears most recently in Peach Mag, Entropy, Cosmonauts Avenue, Poor Claudia, and elsewhere. This country is simply purgatory.

Lee Anne Gallaway-Mitchell grew up working on a family farm in Lockney, a small town between Lubbock and Amarillo, Texas. Her writing explores agricultural and military land use as well as the intersections between coming from a farm family and a military family. She is committed to telling the stories of women in both farm and military subcultures as they relate to caregiving, mental health, and identity. She enjoys traveling, reading to her children, and being outside. She is an MFA candidate in creative nonfiction.

Abby Dockter is an MFA candidate in Creative Nonfiction from Farmington, New Mexico. She spent a few years following field and lab science jobs up and down the Rockies, and currently writes as a science communicator for the Institute of the Environment. Her most irresistible interests are (pre)history and ethnobotany, how we change our surroundings and how they in turn change us. She enjoys long, dry archaeological reports, and usually hikes with poetry.

Gabriel Dozal is an MFA Candidate in Poetry at the University of Arizona from El Paso TX. He is concerned with defining the extreme code-switching, camouflage, and chameleon nature of the culture of the borderlands.

Raquel Gutiérrez is a bilingual poet and essayist pursuing an MFA degree in poetry at the University of Arizona. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she writes about language, history, space and institutionality and publishes chapbooks by queers of color with the tiny press Econo Textual Objects, established in 2014. Her work has found homes in Huizache, The Portland Review, Los Angeles Weekly, GLQ: Gay and Lesbian Quarterly and Entropy.