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Danielle Speakman, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Cambridge, MA. She is a graduate of Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Her enduring interest is in Jungian depth psychology, and she seeks to hold a therapeutic space where…
Mahsa Nourzadeh (Mahsa Nouri) is an Iranian poet who writes in both Persian and English. She has not only found poetry a means to share her feelings and heal her wounds but also considers translation an adventurous and helpful path.…
I know not what A mother can say To a daughter Who was ripped from her Before they’d barely begun The long alliance usual to a mother and child
Ann Shenfield works across various media. Her animated films have received local and international prizes including selection to the Berlin film festival. Her poetry has received numerous awards including the Judith Wright Poetry Prize. Her book A Treatment (Upswell Publishing)…
John Pring is a poet and author based in the UK, where he is an MFA candidate at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has poems published or upcoming in Epiphany, The Comstock Review, SoFloPoJo, Poetics, B O D Y, The Passionfruit…
Ariana Suits is working towards her master’s degree in history with a focus on Latin America. Her Ecuadorian heritage and graduate studies are common themes in her poetry. She has been published in both academic and literary journals, most recently…
Natasha Kinsella is an Irish poet and essayist drawn to the places where faith, silence, and inheritance converge. Her work listens to what the body remembers when language falters. It has been highly commended in the 2025 Patrick Kavanagh Award,…
Nan Cohen is the author of two books of poems and the chapbook Thousand-Year-Old Words (2021). She is a past recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award, and an NEA Fellowship. She teaches high school in…
Kathleen Hellen is the recipient of the James Still Award, the Thomas Merton Prize for Poetry of the Sacred, and prizes from the H.O.W. Journal and Washington Square Review. Her debut collection Umberto’s Night won the poetry prize from Washington…
D.M. Black is a Scottish writer and retired Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society. His translation and commentary on Dante’s Paradiso is due out in the NYRB Classics series in August 2025. A collection of psychoanalytic papers, Psychoanalysis and Ethics:…
Mary Buchinger, whose recent books include Navigating the Reach (Salmon Poetry, Honors, 2024 Massachusetts Book Award), and The Book of Shores (2024) and Virology (2022), both from Lily Poetry Review Books, is the winner of the 2024 Elyse Wolf/Slate Roof…
Ann Shenfield works across a number of media. Her animated films have received various international honors including selection in the Berlin Film Festival. Her poetry has also received numerous awards including the Judith Wright Poetry Prize. Her poetry book A…
Ali Asadollahi, an award-winning Iranian poet, is the author of six Persian poetry books. Asadollahi is a permanent member and the former secretary of the Iranian Writers’ Association (founded in 1968). His poems and translations are published/forthcoming in Bellingham Review,…
Charles Byrne is a writer and teacher in San Francisco with poems published or forthcoming in Notre Dame Review, New American Writing, and 45th Parallel. He has read submissions for RHINO Poetry and Autumn House Press.
Nancy Kuhl is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently On Hysteria (2022) and Granite (2021). She has studied psychoanalysis as a research fellow at the Western New England Institute of Psychoanalysis. She is the curator of poetry…
Sara Shaheen was born in Haifa in May 1996 and raised between the mountains of the Galilee in Northern Occupied Palestine, holds a master’s degree in clinical psychology, and is currently doing her clinical internship in Jerusalem, where she lives…
Sara Shaheen was born in Haifa in May 1996 and raised between the mountains of the Galilee in Northern Occupied Palestine, holds a master’s degree in clinical psychology, and is currently doing her clinical internship in Jerusalem, where she lives…
Katherine J. Williams, art therapist and clinical psychologist, was the director of the Art Therapy Program at George Washington University, where she is now associate professor emerita. Her poetry has been published in journals and anthologies such as Poet Lore,…
Adrienne Pilon is a writer, editor, teacher, and booster of literary magazines. Recent work appears in The Tiger Moth Review, Susurrus, Open: Journal of Arts and Letters, and elsewhere.
Fasasi Abdulrosheed Oladipupo is a Nigerian poet and the author of the micro-chapbook Sidiratul Muntaha (Ghost City Press, 2022). His work has been published or is forthcoming at Ambit magazine, Southern Humanities Review, Obsidian: Literature and Art in the African…
