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For everyone who’s been patiently waiting, we’ve received more submissions than ever and have given each one the time and care it deserves to create this edition. Over the coming months we will be sharing each featured poem and story on Substack. But if you’d like to read the full collection now, just click the button below or go to our website.
Thanks to all of these amazing contributors featured in Ginosko #33.
Michael Rerick lives and teaches in Portland, OR. Work recently appears or is forthcoming at Brief Wilderness, Cola Literary Review, Epigraph Magazine, Marsh Hawk Review, Slouching Beast Journal, and Word For/Word. He is also the author of In Ways Impossible to Fold, morefrom, The Kingdom of Blizzards, The Switch Yards, and X-Ray.
Bridgette James Poems and stories by Bridgette James have appeared in various UK online and print publications. She won the 2024 Fiction Factory Summer poetry competition and has been shortlisted for the Bridport prize.
Divya Gottiparthy I'm a third year undergraduate student studying neuroscience at Binghamton University. I am interested in the medical humanities, and storytelling, and hope to integrate my interests for both literature and medical science in the future.
Kristin Roedell graduated from Whitman College (B.A. English 1984) and the University of Washington Law School (J.D. 1987). She practiced family law for 10 years in the Pacific Northwest. Her poetry has been published The Journal of the American Medical Association, Switched on Gutenberg, CHEST, and VoiceCatcher, among others. She is the author of a chapbook (Girls with Gardenias, 2012, Flutter Press), and a full length poetry collection (Downriver, Aldrich Press, 2015.) She lives with her family in rural Washington.
Carole Greenfield grew up in Colombia and lives in New England, where she teaches multilingual learners at a public elementary school. Her work has been featured in such places as Sky Island Journal, Dodging the Rain, Amethyst Review and many others. Her first collection, Weathering Agents, was released in summer 2023 by Beltway Editions.
Diane Glancy lives in Gainesville, Texas. She is professor emerita at Macalester College. Her latest books: Island of the Innocent, a Consideration of the Book of Job, 2020, A Line of Driftwood, the Ada Blackjack Story, 2021, Home Is the Road, Wandering the Land, Shaping the Spirit, 2022, Psalm to Whom(e), 2023, and Quadrille, Christianity and the Early New England Indians, 2024. Lazarus, the Intended Writings is forthcoming in 2025.
Glenn Marchand is a poet-writer holding an MFA in Creative Writing from Mount Saint Mary’s University. Marchand is speaking to various realities created by the human condition. In exploring religious and scientific truths, Marchand carefully employs observations. It is with a sense of pleasure and enthusiasm that Marchand presents these prose poems. Each one was written with an eye on enlightening the author and the given audience.
Swetha Amit is the author of two chapbooks, Cotton Candy from the Sky and Mango Pickle in Summer. An MFA graduate from the University of San Francisco, her works appear in Had, Flash Fiction Magazine, Maudlin House, Barzakh, Oyez Review, and others. Her stories have been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net.
Anne Dyer Stuart My journal publications include NELLE, Pleiades, North American Review, AGNI, The American Journal of Poetry, Raleigh Review, Cherry Tree, Sugar House Review, The Texas Review, Louisiana Literature, New World Writing Quarterly, and The Louisville Review. My work won a Henfield Prize, New South Journal's Prose Contest, was anthologized in Best of the Web, and nominated for Best New Poets. What Girls Learn, a finalist for Comstock Review's 2020 Chapbook Contest, was published by Finishing Line Press, and the title poem was featured on WPSU’s Poetry Moment, selected and read by Majorie Maddox. I edit IMPOST: A Journal of Creative and Critical Work and teach at Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania-Bloomsburg.
Greig Thomson I am an author living in Adelaide, South Australia. I recently completed my First Class Honours in Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide. My work is heavily influenced by 'transrealism', including authors such as Philip K. Dick, Margaret Atwood, Virginia Woolf, and Samuel Beckett.
Greg Zeck A native Minnesotan, Greg Zeck has published fiction and poetry in such magazines as Ambit, Barrow Street, Caesura, and the Spoon River Quarterly. Now retired in Fayetteville, Arkansas, he reads, writes, hikes, bikes, and gardens. In 2020 he published a first book of poetry, Transitions, and in 2021 a second book, Lost & Found: Poems Found All Around, both of which can be found on Amazon. He's about to come out with a third, Glioblastoma Variations, about brain cancer. You can read more about Greg at www.youngzeck.com.
Irena Praitis walks, runs, and cares for loved ones in Fullerton, California. She’s a professor of creative writing and literature at Cal State University, Fullerton, and is currently serving as Department Chair. Her most recent books are *Cage of Bone,* (2023) *Rods and Koans,* (2018) and *The Last Stone in the Circle,* (2016) all published by Red Mountain Press.
Glen Delpit Born in New Orleans, raised in California. Been a professional musician for the last 45 years. Writing poetry for the last 50 years. This is the first time he is being published.
Mary Lewis has an MFA in creative writing from Augsburg University, an MS in Ecology from the University of Minnesota, and she taught in the Biology Department of Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. In 2023 two of her stories have been nominated, one for a Pushcart prize, another for both the 2023 Best of the Net Anthology and the Best American Series. A sampling of journals where her work appears: Allium, Antigonish Review, Blue Lake Review, Book of Matches, Boomer Lit, Cleaver Magazine, Evening Street Review, Feels Blind Literary, Inscape, Litbreak Magazine, Map Literary, North American Review, Persimmon Tree, Rivanna, RiverSedge, r.kv.r.y. quarterly, Rundelania, Sensitive Skin, Sleet Magazine, Superstition Review, Taj Mahal Review, The Spadina Literary Review, The Woven Tale Press, Thieving Magpie, Toasted Cheese, and Wordrunner. Forthcoming: Main Street Rag, Minerva Rising, Nonbinary Review, Valley Voices, Wilderness House Literary Review. My website: marylewiswriter.com.
E M Schorb My work has also appeared in Agenda (UK), The American Scholar, The Carolina Quarterly, The Mississippi Review, The Hudson Review, Outposts (UK), The Queen’s Quarterly (CA), The Southern Review, Stand (UK), The Sewanee Review, The Massachusetts Review, Sand Literary Journal (DE), The Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry Salzburg Review (AU), The Yale Review, and Oxford Poetry (UK), among others.
Jerome Berglund has worked as everything from dishwasher to paralegal, night watchman to assembler of heart valves. Many haiku, haiga and haibun he’s written have been exhibited or are forthcoming online and in print, most recently in bottle rockets, Frogpond, and Modern Haiku. His first full-length collections of poetry were released by Setu, Meat For Tea, Mōtus Audāx press, and a mixed media chapbook showcasing his fine art photography is available now from Yavanika. Berglund is a committed activist as well, and has been thoughtfully involved in the Occupy, Standing Rock, and Black Lives Matter movements, supported grassroots efforts promoting the Green Party.
Ron Jevaltas is a phenological poet whose poetry often takes the form of journal entries. Since 2010 he has made over 1,500 such entries that recently have found homes in The Font, Moss Piglet, 2River, Bramble and The Wisconsin Review. He has been writing poetry for 60 years.
Barry Fields lives with his wife and dog in North Carolina. His short stories have recently been published in 34th Parallel Magazine, Sundial: A Magazine of Literary Historical Fiction, New English Review, and Unlikely Stories Mark V. Two stories placed in contests, and numerous nonfiction articles have appeared in a variety of publications.
Beth Sherman’s writing has been published in more than 100 literary magazines, including Portland Review, Tiny Molecules, 100 Word Story, Fictive Dream, and Bending Genres. Her work is featured in Best Microfiction 2024. She’s also a multiple Pushcart, Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Net nominee. She can be reached at @bsherm36 or
https://www.bethsherman.site/
Pia Borsheim Previous work has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Tar River, Birmingham Poetry Review, Southern Review, Barrow Street, Northeast Narrative and The Bear River Review, among others. Full-length collections Moon on the Meadow (2008) and Above the Birch Line (2021) were both published by Gallaudet University Press in Washington, DC, while three chapbooks have appeared: Two Winters (Finishing Line Press 2011), Mother Mail (Hermeneutic Chaos Press 2015) and Love Poems (Cherry Grove Collections 2018). I live in Presque Isle, Michigan, and have a Ph.D. from Michigan State University. I had been a professor for 43 years, the last 28 of those years at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC before retiring in 2020. Now, I spend my time writing, sailing, and tromping the woods of northern Michigan.
Connie Johnstone her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Scarred Tree: Poetry of Moral Injury; Ravenous: le terroir du Montolieu; The Amethyst Review; Loss Anthology 9; The Calendula Review: Journal of Narrative Medicine; Voices 24: Anomalies, Pathologies & Paradise; and elsewhere. In her other lives she published a novel, The Legend of Olivia Cosmos Montevideo (Atlantic Monthly Press); edited an anthology, I’ve Always Meant to Tell You (Pocket Books); was a professor of English and chair of creative writing at American River College; changed careers and was a hospice chaplain with Kaiser Permenente using Narrative Therapy. Degrees include MFA Bennington and MTS Harvard Divinity School. She lives and writes in Davis, CA, with her cat named Baxter. She will travel to France with her son Charles in 2025.
Nancy Alvarado My fiction has been previously published in Relief Journal, San Diego State University MFA Anthology, Santa Clara Review, A Year in Ink (Volumes 14, 15,and 16), the Mason Jar Press Journal, the San Diego Decameron Project Anthology, and LatinoLA “Expresate!” I was one of the Honorable Mention winners in the Writing Away Refuge First Chapter Contest.
Patrick T. Reardon , who was a Chicago Tribune reporter for 32 years, has published six poetry collections, including Darkness on the Face of the Deep and Puddin’: The Autobiography of a Baby, A Memoir in Prose Poems. His manuscript Every Marred Thing: A Time in America won the 2024 Faulkner-Wisdom Prize for poetry collection from the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society of New Orleans. He has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize for poetry.
Hayley Phillips A Virginia native, Hayley Phillips received her MFA from Randolph College in 2021 and is now a PhD candidate at Louisiana State University. Her work is included or forthcoming in Blue Earth Review, ONE ART, Evergreen Review, Appalachian Review and elsewhere.
Jenna Putnam is a writer based in California. She is the author of the novelette Cicadas and the poetry collection Hold Still. Her work has appeared in Hero, ExPat Press, The Moth, The Sun, The New York Times, and others. Her poem “The End (pt. II)” was nominated for a 2023 Pushcart Prize, and her screenplay Northern Lights was a quarterfinalist for the 2024 Outstanding Screenplays Feature Competition. She directed and produced the short film “Agathe” in 2021. Putnam has written two feature-length screenplays: Northern Lights and Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. She is currently working on a novel.
Mark’s Substack is the author of three novels, Beside the River, its sequel River’s End (McCaa Books, 2021), and Butterfly on the Wheel (McCaa Books, 2022). He served for ten years on the Sonoma County Poet Selection Committee for the poets laureate of that county. His book of poems Walking Scarecrow won The Blue Light Press Book of the Year Award, published December 2023 (Amazon, Barnes and Noble). He is a long-time resident of Sonoma County where he lives with his wife, Lori.
Jane Spencer After working in the fine arts for decades, Jane switched to poetry. She loves expressing visual images in words, pulling meaning from the natural world, and contemplating our place within it. The pandemic turned her focus on how we think about death, vaccination lead her to the afterlife. Jane says poems allow her to connect unrelated experiences. A wonderful process of surprise and discovery for the soul. She has been published by: LindenAveLit, hummingbird Press, Tinyseed Journal, Hauntedwaterspress, Halcyone Press, Deep Water column/Portland Press Herald, and Black Mountain. In December, will be published in anthology called the Power of the Feminine on amazon, Thresh Press-Donna Biffar. Finishing Line press will publish her first chapbook in fall of 2024 via Amazon. Matches Strike Boxes.
Jacob Friesenhahn teaches Religious Studies and Philosophy at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio. He serves as Program Head for Theology and Spiritual Action and as Lead Faculty for Philosophy. His first book of poems is forthcoming from Kelsay Books.
Linda Scheller is a retired elementary school teacher and the author of two books of poetry, Fierce Light (FutureCycle Press) and Wind & Children (Main Street Rag Publishing Company). She serves as vice president of Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center and volunteers as a programmer for KCBP Community Radio. Her website is lindascheller.com.
Marcia L. Hurlow's chapbook of poetry, Dog Physics, was published by Main Street Rag Publishing, fall 2024. Her second full-length collection, Practice Rapture, will appear in the summer of 2025 from Pine Row Press. Her poems have recently appeared in Baltimore Review, I-70 Review, Chiron, After Happy Hours, The Naugatuck River Review, Gyroscope and Humana Obscura, among others. She is co-editor of Kansas City Review.
Dennis Maloney is a poet and translator. A number of volumes of his own poetry have been published including The Map Is Not the Territory, Just Enough, and Listening to Tao Yuan Ming. A bilingual German/English volume, Empty Cup was published in Germany in 2017 and In 2021 a chapbook, Some Windows, with translations in several languages appeared in Germany from hochroth Verlag. Recent collections include The Things I Notice Now, The Faces of Guan Yin, and Windows.
Brenan Wednesday I’ve been writing poetry since I was a child, and have taken inspiration from masters such as Sylvia Plath, Robert Frost, and Edgar Allan Poe. However, I am new to the world of publishing and hopeful to find my poetry published for the first time in a literary journal.
Collin Garrity (He/Him) is a woodworker and poet based in St Louis, Missouri. He grew up in a small Black Forest town in Germany and studied poetry at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC.
Lyndsey Knight lives in Auckland with a special interest in creating hybrid works combining printmaking, collage and poetry. Her short stories and poetry have been published in various anthologies, Landfall, A Fine Line, The Listener, Kiwi Diary, with articles, reviews and poetry in various publications abroad.
Adele Failes-Carpenter (she/her) is a queer parent, public educator, and labor organizer residing on Ohlone land where she teaches Women’s and Gender Studies at City College of San Francisco. Adele has spent decades organizing with young people, GI resisters, anti-war veterans, and labor unions. As a writer and educator, she aims to tend abolitionist imagining and is committed to ongoing experiments in solidarity and the proliferation of possible futures. Adele is a Lambda Literary Summer 2024 fellow in Nonfiction.
Rachel Hoskins grew up in Ohio and recently pursued theological studies at The University of Oxford and at Princeton Theological Seminary. Her work appears in The Christian Century. This piece is her first work of published creative nonfiction.
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Great issue. I especially loved Diane Glancy's spacious, wandering poem that made me feel like the land she was writing about.
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Thanks for the good word.