"The whole of human comedy is here: the great farcical masque of society seen from the inside of a cage."
—Maria Gainza, Optic Nerve
Big Edie: The c...
Bailey Cohen-Vera
twitter: @BaileyC213
Bailey Cohen-Vera is an Ecuadorian-American poet, essayist, and book reviewer studying English Literature and Political...
Eva Griffin
twitter: @evagriff
Eva Griffin is a poet living in Dublin and a UCD graduate with an MA in Gender, Sexuality & Culture. She is a founding memb...
“‘I’m all booked up on buddies tonight. I’d rather redecorate my home with the staved-in skulls of deadbeats, assorted freeloaders, and other once-beautiful chi...
Corey Farrenkopf
twitter: @CoreyFarrenkopf
Corey Farrenkopf is a writer living on Cape Cod with his wife, Gabrielle. He is also the assistant director of Stur...
Domenica Martinello
twitter: @domenicahope
Domenica Martinello is a writer born and raised in Montreal, QC, where she is currently based. She's also...
Marisa Silva-Dunbar
twitter: @theSweetMaris
Marisa is a latina poet, born and raised in New Mexico. She attended the University of New Mexico as an undergrad ...
Sarala Estruch
twitter: @saralaestruch
Sarala Estruch is a writer, poet, and critic based in London. As a writer of mixed European and Indian heritage, her wo...
ARIES (March 21st- April 20th)
Trying days are ahead of those of you who are ten for ten. A ten for ten Aries is someone whose moon and planets are all i...
Sara Eliza Johnson
twitter: @saraelizaj
Sara Eliza Johnson is a poet and essayist. Intense and lyrical in its use of language and imagery, her writing primari...
Suyi Davies Okungbowa
twitter: @IAmSuyiDavies
Suyi Davies Okungbowa is a Nigerian author of speculative stories inspired by his West-African origins. Born and...
Matthew Minicucci
twitter: @MattMinicucci
Matthew Minicucci is a writer currently living in Portland, OR. His most recent collection of poems, Small Gods, w...
Jenny Tinghui Zhang
twitter: @pantaloonies
Jenny Tinghui Zhang is a Chinese-American writer currently living in Austin, TX. She holds an MFA in nonfiction f...
ARIES (March 21st- April 20th)
This week, you will finally do the thing your mom told you were going to end up doing anyway, and she will laugh at your f...
Carson Lee
twitter: @thecarsonage
Carson Lee is a writer from Seoul, South Korea. She is a recent graduate from NYU and is currently getting her MFA in creati...
Kim Sousa
twitter: @_kimdow
Kim Sousa is a poet and open border radical currently living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her two senior pugs. Kim was born in...
Anthony AW
twitter: @an__o__
Anthony AW (he/they) is a Los Angeles-based writer who mainly focuses on poetry. He identifies as gender non-conforming, & sw...
Maya Phillips
twitter: @mayabphillips
Maya Phillips is a poet, culture writer, and born-and-bred New Yorker. She studied poetry and journalism in Emerson Co...
Rax King
twitter: @raxkingisdead
Rax King is a gay, disabled former latchkey kid and anxious person. She has a problem with paring down her adjective use, a...
Adolfo Aranjuez
twitter: @adolfo_ae
Adolfo Aranjuez is infamous around the Australian literary traps as an overachiever extraordinaire; he’s been warned about...
Carlina Duan
Carlina Duan is a sister, a poet, a friend, a fan of basketballs and sugar. She hails from Michigan, and has taught writing in classrooms across...
Claire Hopple
twitter: @clairehopple
Claire Hopple is a just steel town girl on a Saturday night. What that means: She is originally from the rural outskirt...
Leslie Marie Aguilar
twitter: @lesliemaguilar
Leslie Marie Aguilar originally hails from the heartland of Texas. She received her MFA from Indiana University,...
Tiana Nobile
twitter: @tiananob
Tiana Nobile was born in South Korea and adopted as an infant. Currently, she lives in New Orleans, Louisiana, where she w...
Lauren Davis
twitter: @WriterLDavis
Lauren Davis is the author of Each Wild Thing’s Consent, available from Poetry Wolf Press. She holds an MFA from the...
Jenna Velez
twitter: @northernbruja
Jenna Velez is a queer Latinx poet from suburban Philadelphia. Her work seeks to draw out the blood and guts of painful a...
J. David
twitter: @LookingAtLilacs
J. David is a laboratory scientist from Cleveland, Ohio and serves as poetry editor for Flypaper Magazine. Lately they have...
Ava Wolf
twitter: @wownicebuttdude
Ava Wolf is a writer, designer, and several children stacked on top of one another inside a trenchcoat. Ava grew ...