atmospheric 1.1 contributors (spring 2024)
Mahrukh Aamir
Mahrukh Aamir is a writer from Lahore, Pakistan. She has an MFA in fiction from Boise State University. She has also taught undergraduate courses in creative writing, most recently a course on autofiction at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). Mahrukh is at work on a novel.
Instagram: @mahrukhaamir
S.M. Badawi
S.M. Badawi is an Arab American poet and teacher whose work has been published in Diode Poetry Journal, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Cream City Review, and many other journals. Her poetry has been featured in Poetry Daily and has been nominated for Best of the Net, the Nina Riggs Poetry Award, and the Pushcart Prize. She is a Tin House workshop alumna and has received fellowships and awards from Summer Literary Seminars and Florida Atlantic University. She currently lives in the Pacific Northwest where she teaches writing at Portland Community College.
Twitter @smbadawi and IG @sm_badawi
J. Mae Barizo
Born in Toronto, J. Mae Barizo is a poet, essayist and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of The Cumulus Effect and Tender Machines. She is on the MFA faculty at The New School and lives in New York City.
Twitter: @jmaebarizo
IG: @jmaebreeze
Brian Blanchfield
Brian Blanchfield grew up in the prurient humidity of the central piedmont South and feels most at home in the high-desert, big-skied Mountain West. He is the author of three books of poetry and prose, most recently Proxies: Essays Near Knowing, for which he received a Whiting Award. Recipient also of the James Laughlin Award and a Howard Foundation Fellowship, his newest work appears in Chicago Review, The Yale Review, A Public Space, CounterText, New England Review, Grand, Poem-a-Day, Essential Queer Voices of U.S. Poetry, Best American Essays 2022, and other publications. He lives with his husband in Missoula and teaches at the University of Montana.
DeeAnna Brady-Leader
DeeAnna Brady-Leader has been teaching and experiencing the wilderness of Western Montana since birth. As founder of a non-profit, the International Traditional Games Society (traditionalnativegames.org), she wrote grants to support the restoration of pre-contact Native American games. DeeAnna was 80 years old when her youngest daughter, Francesca Leader, who is an artist and writer, encouraged her to try writing a poem. "Nothing Was Its Name" was her first.
Stephanie Burt
Stephanie Burt is a literary critic and poet who is Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University. Her most recent book is We Are Mermaids.
Julie Carr
Julie Carr’s most recent books are Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West; Real Life: An Installation; Climate, co-written with Lisa Olstein; and the essay collection Someone Shot My Book. Underscore, a book of poems, will be out from Omnidawn in 2024. She lives in Denver where she co-founded and helps to run Counterpath and teaches at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Jessica Coles
Jessica Coles (she/her) is a poet from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (Treaty 6 territory), where she lives with her family, a tuxedo cat named Miss Bennet, and a tarantula named Miss Dashwood. She is an associate member of the League of Canadian Poets and co-chair of its Parenting Poets Committee. Her work has appeared in Prairie Fire, Moist Poetry Journal, Full Mood Mag, EcoTheo Review, Stone Circle Review, League of Canadian Poets Poetry Pause, CV2, The Fiddlehead, and elsewhere. Find her chapbooks at Prairie Vixen Press.
X/Twitter: @milkcratejess
Bluesky: @prairievixen.bsky.social
john compton
john compton (b. 1987) is gay poet who lives in kentucky with his husband josh and their dogs and cats. his latest full length books are the castration of a minor god published with Ghost City Press (dec 2022) and my husband holds my hand because i may drift away & be lost forever in the vortex of a crowded store published with Flowersong Press (dec 2024); his latest chapbooks are blacked out borderland from an exponential crisis published with Ethel Zine & Micro Press (aug 2023) and melancholy arcadia published with Harbor Editions (may 2024).
instagram: poet_johncompton
twitter: poetjohncompton
Elisheva Fox
Elisheva Fox is a poet with roots firmly planted in Texan soil. A finalist for the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, she has also been nominated for Best of the Net; her work has appeared in Rust + Moth, Paper Brigade, Strange Horizons, and Sand Hills Literary Magazine, among others.
Instagram: @elisheva.fox
Bluesky: @thefoxmother.bsky.social
Adrian Dallas Frandle
Adrian Dallas Frandle (they/he) is a poet and queer fish who writes to the world about its future. They are Poetry Acquisitions Editor for Variant Press. Book of Extraction: Poems with Teeth out now with Kith Books. Read more at adriandallas.com.
(Please feel free to link water-borne cow, if you'd like...)
Social handles:
Twitter (X): @adrianf
Instagram: @afrandle
Raye Hendrix
Raye Hendrix is a writer, photographer, and disability scholar from Alabama. Her debut poetry collection, What Good Is Heaven, is forthcoming from Texas Review Press (2024). Raye is the author of two chapbooks and the winner of the Keene Prize for Literature (2019) and the Patricia Aakhus Award (Southern Indiana Review, 2018). Their work appears in American Poetry Review, Poetry Northwest, 32 Poems, and elsewhere. Raye is the poetry editor at Press Pause Press and co-editor of DIS/CONNECT: A Disability Literature Column (Anomalous Press). She is a PhD candidate and Oregon Humanities Center Dissertation Fellow at the University of Oregon.
@_rayehendrix for both Twitter and Instagram
Rebecca Hussey
Rebecca Hussey is a teacher, writer, and critic living in Connecticut. She is an incoming board member of the National Book Critics Circle, and her writing has appeared in Words Without Borders, The Kenyon Review, Full Stop, The Rumpus, and more. She is a co-host of the One Bright Book podcast and author of the newsletters Reading Indie and #KateBriggs24. She is a Professor of English at Connecticut State Community College Norwalk.
Twitter: @ofbooksandbikes
Bluesky: @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social
Instagram: ofbooksandbikes
Anton Hur
Anton Hur is a translator and writer. His novel Toward Eternity will be published by HarperVia in 2024.
IG and Twitter: @antonhur
Di Jayawickrema
Di Jayawickrema is a Sri Lankan New Yorker. Her writing has appeared in New Delta Review, The Pinch, wildness, Entropy, and elsewhere. A Kundiman fellow and VONA and Tin House alumnus, her writing has been nominated for Best of the Net and anthologized in Best Microfiction. She is an editor for features at The Rumpus and for fiction at The Offing. Find her at dijayawickrema.com and on Twitter @onpapercuts.
Ben Kline
Ben Kline (he/him) lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. Author of the chapbooks Sagittarius A* and Dead Uncles, as well as the forthcoming collection It Was Never Supposed to Be, Ben is a storyteller, Madonna podcaster, and poet whose work has appeared in Pithead Chapel, Poet Lore, Copper Nickel, MAYDAY, The Florida Review, DIAGRAM, Poetry, and other publications. You can find him online at benkline.wordpress.com.
Socials: @BenKlinePoet on X/Twitter and bentheauthor on Instagram.
Cameron McLeod Martin
Cameron McLeod Martin is a poet and essayist currently living in Moscow, Idaho. Their work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Fence, Afternoon Visitor, The Journal, and elsewhere. They hope you have a really nice day.
Twitter handle: @CMcLeodMartin
Instagram handle: @CMcLeodMart
Michael McGriff
Michael McGriff is the author of five poetry collections, including the forthcoming Angel Sharpening its Beak (Carnegie Mellon, 2025). His other books include the short story collection Our Secret Life in the Movies (co-authored with JM Tyree); a translation of Tomas Tranströmer's The Sorrow Gondola; and an edition of David Wevill's essential writing, To Build My Shadow a Fire. More information can be found at michaelmcgriff.com.
Robin Myers (translating Susana Villalba)
Susana Villalba (Buenos Aires, 1956) is a poet, playwright, and theater critic. She is the author of nine poetry collections and one novel. La bestia ser received a Guggenheim Fellowship and won Argentina’s National Poetry Award in 2019. She teaches at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes in Buenos Aires.
Robin Myers is a poet, translator, and 2023 NEA Translation Fellow. Recent and forthcoming translations include The Brush by Eliana Hernández-Pachón (Archipelago Books), What Comes Back by Javier Peñalosa M. (Copper Canyon Press), and The Law of Conservation by Mariana Spada (Deep Vellum Publishing).
Instagram/Twitter handle is @robin_ep_myers.
Emmy Newman
Emmy Newman’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, CALYX, New Ohio Review, Yemassee, and elsewhere. She has been nominated for Best New Poets, several Pushcart Prizes, and was a finalist for Best of the Net 2022. Find her on Instagram @she_wins_an_emmy.
Róisín Ní Neachtain
Róisín Ní Neachtain is a writer living in Kildare, Ireland. She has been published with Abridged, Firmament (Sublunary Editions), Broken Sleep Books and Poetry Jukebox. Her work was awarded the Dennis O’Driscoll Literary Bursary Award, second place at the Red Line and shortlisted in a number of competitions.
Twitter/X: @RoisinCNorton
Instagram: @roisin_ni_neachtain
Threads: @roisin_ni_neachtain
Blue Sky: @roisinnorton.bsky.social
Alexander Pyles
Alexander Pyles is a writer, editor, and critic based in Chicagoland. His chapbook MILO (01001101 01101001 01101100 01101111) was published by Radix Media as part of their award-winning Futures series. His nonfiction has appeared in the Chicago Review of Books, Ancillary Review of Books, Full Stop Magazine, On the Seawall, Fare Forward Magazine, and Analog Science Fiction & Fact Magazine. He is a member of the National Book Critics Circle.
Andy Sia
Andy Sia is a poet from Brunei, currently residing in Cincinnati. Find him at andysia.com.
Tom Snarsky
Tom Snarsky wrote Light-Up Swan and Reclaimed Water (both from Ornithopter Press). A Letter From The Mountain & Other Poems is forthcoming from Animal Heart Press in 2025.
@tomsnarsky on Twitter & IG
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social on Bluesky
Anna Laura Reeve
Anna Laura Reeve is the author of Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility (Belle Point Press, 2023). Winner of the Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry, selected by Jane Hirshfield, her work has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Salamander, Terrain.org, and others. She lives and gardens near the Tennessee Overhill region, traditional land of the Eastern Cherokee.
Social handles: @AnnaLauraReeve (IG and Twitter)
Amie Souza Reilly
Amie Souza Reilly is from Connecticut. Her most recent work can be found in Wigleaf, Atticus
Review, The Chestnut Review, HAD, and elsewhere. She teaches and is the writer-in-residence
at Sacred Heart University.
Twitter: @Smidgeon227
Isabella Streffen
Isabella Streffen is an artist currently based in the UK, you can find her on social media as @MinxMarple and at isabellastreffen.com.
Lauren Theresa
Lauren Theresa is a divergent writer, plant witch, and depth psychotherapist living in a NYC-ish corner of NJ with her two baby witches and vast menagerie of plants & animals. She’s the founding editor of Persephone’s Fruit, CO-EIC at Icebreakers Lit, and the author of Lost Things (BS Lit ‘22) and All the Times I Craved Taco Bell’s 7 Layer Burrito as a Metaphor for Something and I’m Still Not Sure What It Is (Maverick Duck Press ‘23.) She can be found working on her novel, staring at a wall, and at laurentheresa.com.
Addie Tsai
Addie Tsai (any/all) is a queer nonbinary artist and writer of color who teaches creative writing at William & Mary. They also teach in Regis University’s Mile High MFA Program in Creative Writing. Addie collaborated with Dominic Walsh Dance Theater on Victor Frankenstein and Camille Claudel, among others. They earned an MFA from Warren Wilson College and a Ph.D. in Dance from Texas Woman’s University. Addie is the author of Dear Twin and Unwieldy Creatures, which was a 2022 Shirley Jackson finalist. She is the Fiction co-Editor and Editor of Features & Reviews at Anomaly, contributing writer at Spectrum South, and Founding Editor in Chief at the LGBTQIA+ fashion literary and arts magazine just femme & dandy.
IG: @addieisunwieldy, T: @addiebrook