Themed Issue - Dystopia, January 2020
poetry by Daniel Priest and Risa Denenberg // fiction by Ren Ellis, Sara Cahill Marron, and Roberta Beary



Guest Editor: Kelly Boyker

Kelly Boyker’s poetry has appeared in many places. She has received a number of award nominations (Best New Poets, Pushcart, Best of the Net), but no actual awards. Her work has been included in a number of print anthologies in the U.S.A. and Canada, has been translated and published in Italian, and has been made into small films. Her chapbook Zoonosis (Hyacinth Girl Press) was listed by Entropy as one of the best sixteen poetry books published in 2014. In her free time she enjoys gardening, food science, and gaming. She is also the founding editor of Menacing Hedge.
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"After the Fires" @ 2:48
Daniel Priest's poems have appeared in Menacing Hedge, Image, The Southern Review, Concho River Review, The Rumpus, Star*Line, and Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review. He lives in Austin where he works as an arborist.
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"Deluge" @ 5:24
Ren Ellis is a writer with an addiction to tea, dresses, and fantastical places. When residing in the real world, she lives in her hometown of Nashville, TN. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Mississippi University for Women in 2018. 
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"Call Me Spes #6" @ 19:29
Sara Cahill Marron is a relocated Queens, New York poet currently living in Washington, D.C. She is the author of Reasons for the Long Tu’m (Broadstone Books, 2018). Her work has been published widely in literary magazines and journals.
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"Lunar Miles Charge Card" @ 23:24
Roberta Beary identifies as gender-expansive and writes to connect with the disenfranchised, to let them know they are not alone. Her work appears in The New York Times, Rattle, 100 Word Story, Cultural Weekly, and Best Microfiction. She lives in County Mayo, Ireland with her husband Frank Stella.
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"Selfie Apocalypse" @ 28:12
Risa Denenberg lives on the Olympic peninsula in Washington state, where she works as a nurse practitioner. She is a co-founder and editor at Headmistress Press, publisher of lesbian/bi/trans poetry. She curates The Poetry Café, an online meeting place where poetry chapbooks are celebrated and reviewed. She has published three chapbooks and three full length collections of poetry, most recently, “slight faith” (MoonPath Press, 2018).
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Surrogate Reader for "Deluge"
Jennifer Schomburg Kanke, originally from Columbus, Ohio, lives in Tallahassee, Florida, where she edits confidential documents for the government. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, and Nimrod. She is the author of the chapbook of micropoems Fine, Considering (Rinky Dink Press, 2019) and serves as a reader for Emrys.