Contributors

Kirstin Allio

Contributor History

Four Poems, Online 05-23-2017

Biography

Kirstin Allio is the author of the novel Garner (Coffee House) and the short story collection Clothed, Female Figure (Dzanc). She is a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize for First Fiction and has received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award, as well as fellowships from the Howard Foundation at Brown University and the MacDowell Colony.

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In Print

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Grendel’s Kin: The Monsters Issue

Spring 2020
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Eleison for Solo Migration

by Quintan Ana Wikswo

September 30, 2020

The birds here
Have not changed
They drop salt not seeds
Into my open mouth

Now—my back bare to the sky
Breasts buried in soil
Thrust into the darkness of this
Searching out each star

Rigmarole

by Sarah Gridley

September 23, 2020

A poem listens
to both rooms from the middle
ground of its title, the threshold strip

Four Poems

by Elizabeth Metzger

September 16, 2020

An exhibit was all you wanted

and me to lay close
my face

like a film behind a curtain