jjournal.org/post/immigrant NY-based. Published in Poetry South, Sheila-na-gig, and others. Her work reflects her geographically diverse background, work in mental health, and, occasionally, her love for her cats. Debut poetry collection, Wilder Centuries, (Fifth Wheel Press, 2022).
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Eckerd College: creative writing BA, literature minor. Lives in Tampa with her twin sister consuming media in all forms. Published in Collision Literary Magazine, editor-in-chief @ Eckerd Review, editorial team for Cleaver Magazine and Creation Magazine.
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A journalist based in Atlanta, Kim Brunhuber's novel Kameleon Man was excerpted in an anthology of Black Canadian writing. His nonfiction has appeared in the Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, National Post. He is completing a degree in Writing at Johns Hopkins.
jjournal.org/ The work here, which we’ve happily argued into the issue, runs a range of experience—first publications, an undergrad, a recent grad, journalists, professors, established authors, incarcerated and formerly incarcerated writers—J Journal ’s 37th.
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Eric Eschweiler is a writer living in New York City. He is currently working on a memoir about his experiences with the legal systems in Chicago and New York.
jjournal.org/post/bang-a-gen… Her work has or will appear in The Westchester Review, Amsterdam Quarterly, The Wild Umbrella, and more. Educated principally in the school of hard knocks and droll encounters, earned her degrees at Harvard and is now a last-chance athlete in San Diego.
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Maya Connor is a young poet from Texas who plans to further pursue creative writing in her college years. She adores enjambment and Adrienne Rich. Her first publication is thanks to J Journal.
jjournal.org/post/the-park-b…, a grateful SUNY & CUNY graduate + MFA in fiction from The City College, teaches composition and creative writing at BMCC. Work has been rejected by many great publications but can be found in VIA, Promethean, and the online publication Fleas on the Dog.
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A fiction writer & journalist based in Chicago, Bergen is working on short stories set in the post-WWII era. Published in Consequence, The McNeese Review and The Briar Cliff Review. For Chicago Tribune reporter, she covered regional economic issues.
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Paula Yup, currently resides in Spokane, Washington. She has poems published in Exit 13, Trajectory, Evening Street Review, and elsewhere. Paula’s husband Dean Jacobson taught Marine Biology and passed away in 2018 after an illness.
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NYer Colette Parris, a Caribbean-American attorney returned to her literary roots during the pandemic. Work can be found in Michigan Quarterly Review, Scoundrel Time, Gordon Square Review, The Healing Muse, LEON Literary Review... coletteparris.com.
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A native New Yorker, J.W. Seabrooke studied writing at Columbia University and is currently living and writing in Switzerland.
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Josephson is based in Washington, DC and teaching at the University of Maryland. Her fiction and essays have appeared in Does It Have Pockets, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She is working on a novel about a furloughed intern during a government shutdown.
jjournal.org/post/the-man-wh… A writer and poet from Mexico, US, MFA in fiction from the University of Houston, and currently a PhD Student at LSU's Comparative Literature program. He writes in English and Spanish. His first novel, Flight of the Chicxulub to be published Pegasus Press.