LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Adriana Beltrano is a Floridian poet living in Baltimore and pursuing her MFA in poetry at Johns Hopkins University. Her work can be found in Backchannels Journal, Oberon Poetry, In the Mood Magazine, and Free the Verse.
Sarina Bosco is a chronic New Englander.
Jennifer Bowering Delisle’s collection of lyric essays, Micrographia (2023) won the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize and was recently shortlisted for the Writers Guild of Alberta Memoir Award. I am also the author of Deriving, a collection of poetry (2021) and The Bosun Chair, a lyric family memoir (2017). A new collection of poetry, Stock, is forthcoming with Coach House Press in 2025. I am on the board of NeWest Press and live in Edmonton on Treaty 6 territory.
Sam Canney is a gay poet with degrees from UNC Chapel Hill. He examines the gay experience through a spiritual lens workshopping his poetry with Brooklyn Poets, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, and the Sadagat School of Motion and Text. His published works include honors from Cloudscent Journal, The Lickety Split, Vocivia Magazine, and the forthcoming issue of Sonora Review, among others.
Bryce Coulton is an undergraduate at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, a Creative Writing / English major, and a transplant from back East writing fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction who absolutely cannot resist a laborious and unnecessarily lengthy sentence. His work is seen in Hi Omaha and 13th Floor Magazine.
Joe Ditchett brings a unique perspective shaped by his experiences in service, government. A graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Joe proudly served his country in the Navy as a Surface Warfare Officer. He has deployed multiple times and has served as a company officer in Arlington National Cemetery. Following active duty, he transitioned to a successful career within the federal government as an acquisition professional.
Joe became deeply interested in photography following his sea service as a means to express creativity, emotion, and explore the persisting questions of humanity. He currently lives in a historic millhouse with his wife, two boys, adopted greyhound, two cats, and chickens.
Joseph Donato is super cool & popular. He is Editor-in-Chief of Block Party and Overlord of Horror Pop Mag. His stories and poems have appeared in The Ampersand Review, The Foundationalist, and The Hart House Review, among others. His debut chapbook, 'Toothache', was published by above/ground press in 2023. Joseph enjoys horror, Weezer, and string.
Dagne Forrest (she/her) has recent work forthcoming or appearing in The Inflectionist Review, Pinhole Poetry, The New Quarterly, december magazine, Unlost, and On the Seawall. She belongs to Painted Bride Quarterly’s senior editorial and podcast teams. Her debut chapbook will be published by Baseline Press in spring 2025.
Ewen Glass is a screenwriter and poet from Northern Ireland who lives with two dogs, a tortoise and lots of self-doubt; on a given day, any or all of these can be snapping at his heels. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Okay Donkey, HAD, Poetry Scotland, Maudlin House and elsewhere.
Catherine Graham’s eighth book, Æther: An Out-of-Body Lyric, was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award, Toronto Book Award, and won the Fred Kerner Book Award. Published internationally, her poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, shortlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize and appear in Best Canadian Poetry. She teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto SCS where she won an Excellence in Teaching Award and co-hosts The Hummingbird Podcast—part of the WNED PBS Amplify app. Put Flowers Around Us and Pretend We’re Dead: New and Selected Poems is her latest book. Visit www.catherinegraham.com @catgrahampoet
Frances Klein (she/her) is an Alaskan poet and teacher. She is the 2022 winner of the Robert Golden Poetry Prize. Klein is the author of several poetry chapbooks, including “(Text) Messages from The Angel Gabriel” (Gnashing Teeth Press, 2024). Her full length collection Another Life is forthcoming in 2025. Klein’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Harvard Advocate, The Atticus Review, HAD, and others.
Yvette LeClair is a workers' rights activist, a mother, and a compulsive note-taker. She grew up across the street from a library in the suburbs of the seventies. Her poetry is published or forthcoming in Queen’s Quarterly, Contemporary Verse 2, Pinhole Poetry, and The South Shore Review. She has a day job in downtown Toronto, where she lives with her husband and calico cats.
Dorothy Lune is a Yorta Yorta poet, born in Australia & a best of the net 2024 nominee. Her poems have appeared in Overland journal, Many Nice Donkeys & more. She is looking to publish her manuscripts, & runs the substack "Ladybug central" at dorothylune.substack.com
Anna Mark is a mother, teacher and poet living in rural Ontario; a new voice to the world of poetry, she has published 10 poems in two anthologies: No More Can Fit Into the Evening: An Anthology of Diverse Voices, edited by Standing Feather and Thomas Davis, Four Windows Press, 2020; and Indra's Net: An International Anthology of Poetry in Aid of the Book Bus, edited by Kristina Burgess, Bennison Books, 2017. She has degrees in history, art and education from the University of Guelph and Toronto.
Jacob McGuinness earned a BFA in Photography from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. His studio practice focuses on photography and printmaking with an emphasis on alternative processes. He has shown at Wayne Art Center, Unique Photo, and is featured in Jill Enfield's Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes. Jacob finds joy in designing and building cameras, tailoring each one to the specific needs of his projects.
Jessica Lee McMillan (she/her) is a poet and teacher with an English MA and creative writing certificate from SFU’s The Writer’s Studio. Her work has appeared/is forthcoming in Crab Creek Review, The Humber Literary Review, Funicular, Pinhole Poetry, Rose Garden Press, QWERTY, and The New Quarterly. Jessica was a finalist for The Fiddlehead’s 2023 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Contest. She lives on the land of the Halkomelem-speaking Peoples (New Westminster, BC) with her little family and large dog.
Paul Nicol is from Aberdeen, Scotland and graduated in 2021 at Gray's School of Art with a BA in photography and works in digital, analogue and alternative based practice. His work explores slowness, temporality and investigates the effects of working with a mindful approach and the positive benefits this can bring not only to one's creative practice but to our lives. https://paulnicol.co.uk/
Nikki Ratanapanichkich is a Thai and Filipino-American poet and writer. She has lived in southeast Michigan all her life.
Ron Riekki has been awarded a 2014 Michigan Notable Book, 2015 The Best Small Fictions, 2016 Shenandoah Fiction Prize, 2016 IPPY Award, 2019 Red Rock Film Fest Award, 2019 Best of the Net finalist, 2020 Dracula Film Festival Vladutz Trophy, 2019 Très Court International Film Festival Audience Award and Grand Prix, 2020 Rhysling Anthology inclusion, and 2022 Pushcart Prize. Right now, Riekki's listening to Modest Mussorgsky's A Night on Bald Mountain.
Stan Rogal lives and writes in Toronto. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies in Canada, the US, Europe, and most recently, Asia. The author of several books, including 12 poetry and several chapbooks, he was also a master bowler and champion Legion dart player in a former life.
Kirsten Self is a queer poet and former English teacher currently living in Boston, Massachusetts by way of St. Louis, Missouri. She received her BFA in Creative Writing and MAE in English Education at Truman State University. She is delighted to call this piece her first publication.
René van den Weerd is a passionate pinhole photographer who loves the magic of the analog image. He loves the imperfect and surprising element of pinhole photography. For many years, he has been making his own pinhole cameras from coconuts, baobab fruits and many other objects and he is inspired by his surroundings. You can find him on instagram @pinholeum
Jacqueline Trieber Willcocks is a writer and poet originally from Calgary AB who currently resides on the Ancestral Lands of the K’omoks First Nations. She is a graduate of The Writers Studio certification program at Simon Fraser University mentored by Joanne Arnott and completed their graduate program under mentor Aislinn Hunter. Her poems have appeared in Line and Lens and Emerge 19.
Elana Wolff lives and works in Thornhill, Ontario—the ancestral lands of the Haudenosaunee and Huron-Wendat First Nations. Her poems have recently appeared in The Antigonish Review, Arc, Best Canadian Poetry 2024, DUSIE: Tuesday Poem, FreeFall, Juniper, The Nashwaak Review, Prairie Fire, talking about strawberries all of the time, and The ‘temz/ Review. A multiple Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee, Elana received the 2020 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry for her collection, SWOON. Her cross-genre Kafka-quest work, FAITHFULLY SEEKING FRANZ, was released with Guernica Editions in 2023.
Zeid (he/they) is an author, poet, and scientist from Jordan. After writing for almost a decade, they’re finally submitting their pieces to be published. And here they are in Pinhole Poetry! Other poetry of theirs can be found in Assignment Literary Magazine, In Parantheses, Panorama, and Rising Phoenix Review.