9th Annual
Fall Literary Festival

Madison Kapisak is a MFA graduate from Chatham University. While in her last semester, she co-taught in a CBL class with Literacy Pittsburgh. She loves writing poetry and exploring abandoned places hidden in her community. Madison’s story “Dravo” was published by Northern Appalachia Review in the Spring of 2025.

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Diane Kendig‘s latest books are Woman with a Fan: on María Blanchard and Prison Terms, and she co-edited the tribute anthology In the Company of Russell Atkins. Kendig led a prison writing workshop for eighteen years and now curates Cuyahoga County Public Library’s  weblog Read + Write and writes for Free Poetry Cleveland.

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Rosary Joyce Kennedy is a Cleveland-born and raised poet and educator. She is the author of the chapbook The Journey of Other Sons, published by Outlandish Press in 2024.

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Tessa Kilby is a Graduate of Chatham’s MFA program, focusing on fiction. Tessa has worked with The Fourth River, co-taught in a CBL with Vincentian, has taught Intro to College Level Writing, and taught high school students through AmeriCorps and as a visiting artist at Environmental Charter School.​

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Richard Klin is a writer based in New York's Hudson Valley and Nashville. He is the author of (among other things) the novel Petroleum Transfer Engineer (Underground Voices).

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Ben Kline (he/him) lives in Cincinnati, and is the author of the collections It Was Never Supposed to Be (Variant Literature,) Twang (ELJ Editions) and Stiff Wrist (fourteen poems.) His work has appeared in Cherry Tree, Copper Nickel, Florida Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, DIAGRAM, Poetry, and other publications.

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Ellen Kombiyil (she/her) is a visual artist, poet, and educator from the Bronx. She is currently at work on a project of “erasing war” and creating original erasures, collages, and visual art from war ephemera in the Western canon. She is the author of two poetry collections, Histories of the Future Perfect (2014) and Love as Invasive Species (2024) a tête-bêche exploring matrilineal inheritances.

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Virginia Konchan is the author of five poetry collections, including Requiem (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2025), and a short story collection, Anatomical Gift. coeditor of Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems, her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, and The Atlantic.​

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Aaron Kreuter is the author of five books, including the poetry collection Shifting Baseline Syndrome, a 2022 finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award. His work has been shortlisted for two Vine Awards for Jewish Literature, a Raymond Souster Award, and a ReLit Award. He lives in Toronto.

Bridget Kriner

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Becca J.R. Lachman serves as communications director at the Athens County Public Libraries and earned her MFA from Bennington College. Her poetry collections include A Third Chair: Contemporary Fraktur for a Most Unusual Time; What I say to this house; Other Acreage; and The Apple Speaks. She edited A Ritual to Read Together: Poems in Conversation with William Stafford. Her work has been recognized by the Ohio Arts Council and the Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center. becca-jr-lachman.com

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Paula J. Lambert of Columbus has published several collections of poetry including Sinkhole (Bottlecap 2025) and As If This Did Not Happen Every Day (Sheila-Na-Gig 2024). Her work has been supported by the Ohio Arts Council, the Greater Columbus Arts Council, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. paulajlambert.com.

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Daniel Lassell is author of Frame Inside a Frame (Texas Review Press, 2025) and Spit, winner of the 2020 Wheelbarrow Books Emerging Poetry Prize. He is also the author of two chapbooks: Ad Spot (Ethel Zine & Micro Press, 2021) and The Emptying Earth (Madhouse Press, 2023), which was a finalist for the 2024 Medal Provocateur Award. He grew up in Kentucky and lives in Bloomington, Indiana. daniel-lassell.com.

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Sarah Layden is author of Imagine Your Life Like This (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023), The Story I Tell Myself About Myself, winner of the 2017 Sonder Press Chapbook Competition, and the novel Trip Through Your Wires (Engine Books, 2015). Her work can be found in Boston Review, Stone Canoe, Blackbird, Best Microfiction 2020, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Poets & Writers, Salon, and River Teeth. She is associate professor of English at Indiana University Indianapolis. sarahlayden.com

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Dawn Leas is the author A Person Worth Knowing (Foothills Publishing), Take Something When You Go (Winter Goose Publishing), and I Know When to Keep Quiet (FLP). Her poetry has appeared in Literary Mama, The Pedestal Magazine, SWWIM, and elsewhere. She’s a writing coach and arts educator who lives in

northeastern Pennsylvania. thehammockwriter.com 

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Caira Lee, originally from Baltimore, is Marketing Coordinator for Literary Cleveland and author of the book Slaying with No Dents in My Afro. Her work appears in her TEDx Talk and has also been featured by The Huffington Post – Black Voices and For Harriet. Caira has represented Cleveland at Brave New Voices Poetry Festival & National Poetry Slam and was an Ohio state champion for The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Poetry Out Loud competition.

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Michael Loderstedt is Professor Emeritus of printmaking and photography from Kent State University. His recent writings have been published in Naugatuck River Review, Muleskinner Journal, Kakalak and the NC Literary Review. His debut book of poems Why We Fished (2023) received the silver medal from the UK Poetry Book Awards.

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Diana Lueptow is author of the chapbook Little Nest, many published poems, and two plays. She has three Individual Excellence awards from the Ohio Arts Council and MFA from Warren Wilson College. She frequents art installations everywhere she goes, most recently Madrid, Donostia, and Bilbao, Spain.

CE Mackenzie (cemackenzie.com) is a postdoctoral scholar in the Humanities Center at the University of Pittsburgh, where they collaborate with multi-disciplinary scholars, activists, and artists across local and international communities. Their debut memoir is Achy Affects: Crisis and Compositions of Selfhood (2025).

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Commonwealth University Professor Emerita of English, Presence assistant editor, and WPSU-FM "Poetry Moment" host Marjorie Maddox has published 17 collections of poetry—most recently Small Earthly Space and Seeing Things—as well as a story collection, four children’s books, and the anthologies Common Wealth and Keystone Poetry (co-editor). marjoriemaddox.com

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Kristy Mahoney is an MFA in Creative Writing student at Chatham University where she specializes in realistic fiction with an emphasis on the relationship between identity and place. She is the Managing Editor of the MFA program’s literary journal The Fourth River, and co-facilitates writing workshops for underserved Pittsburgh communities.

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Charles Malone teaches community-based poetry through Wick Poetry Center. He’s authored three poetry collections: After an Eclipse of Moths, Questions About Circulation, and Working Hypothesis. He edited the anthologies A Poetic Inventory of Rocky Mountain National Park and Light Enters the Grove: Exploring Cuyahoga Valley National Park Through Poetry. cjmalone.com

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Jessica Manack's writing has appeared widely in anthologies and journals, including Still: The Journal, SWWIM Every Day, and Women Speak. Awarded a Curious Creators Grant and a Getaway Artist Fellowship, she lives in Pittsburgh and serves as a poetry reader for TriQuarterly. Gastromythology is her first book. jessicamanack.com

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Born and raised in Youngstown and an alumnae of Youngstown State University, Jamie Marich is an expert in the field of trauma and dissociation and the author of over 15 books and manuals in the field of trauma therapy and recovery, and work in the Huffington Post and New York Times. Their memoir You Lied to Me About God (North Atlantic Books, 2024) received a Kirkus starred review.

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Chloe Martinez is the author of two books of poetry, Ten Thousand Selves and Corner Shrine; co-editor of an anthology of essays on writing and ADHD (UChicago Press, Spring 2026); and translator of Mirabai: Sixty Songs (New Directions, Spring 2026). The Assistant Editor of Beloit Poetry Journal, she works at Claremont McKenna College.

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Nancy McCabe is author of nine books, most recently the middle grade novel Fires Burning Underground (Fitzroy/Regal House 2025), the comic novel The Pamela Papers: A Mostly E-pistolary Story of Academic Pandemic Pandemonium (Outpost 19 2024), the young adult novel Vaulting Through Time (CamCat 2023), and the memoir Can This Marriage Be Saved? (U of Missouri Press 2020). Her work has won a Pushcart, a Pennsylvania individual artist fellowship, ten recognitions on Best American notable lists, and the 2024 Next Generation Indie Award for Humor.

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Jen McConnell has published prose and poetry in more than forty literary magazines and her fiction has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize. Her first story collection, Welcome, Anybody, was published by Press 53. Her second collection, Current Disasters, is due out in May 2025 from Roadside Press.

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Sharon Fagan McDermott—poet, essayist, and teacher at Pittsburgh’s Winchester Thurston School— has published four collections of poetry, including Life Without Furniture. Her essay collection Millions of Suns: On Writing and Life (co-authored M.C. Benner Dixon) was named one of the “Best Books for Writers” by Poets & Writers magazine. sharonfaganmcdermott.com

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Ray McNiece has written two haiku collections, wet sand raven tracks and breath burns away. His haiban, "The Frozen Freeway to Mile Zero," is from his last book Bone Key Sutra. He studied haiku in Tokyo with Tadashi Kondo. He’s led Ginko (haiku hikes) as Poet Laureate of Cleveland Heights.

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Robert Miltner is author of Ohio Apertures: A Lyric Memoir,  And Your Bird Can Sing: Short Fictions, and poetry/prose poetry collections including Orpheus & Echo, A Box of Light, Horse Skull Moon, and Always the Geography Leans in on Me and Tomas Tranströmer Comes to Ohio (both forthcoming in 2025).  An Emeritus Professor of English at Kent State University Stark, he received an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, an Ohio Arts Council Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center, and a Poet-in-Residency at the Chautauqua Institution.

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Ron Mohring is the author of five poetry chapbooks and two full length books, Survivable World and The Boy Who Reads in the Trees. In 2007 he founded Seven Kitchens Press, which still operates from his kitchen table. Ron lives with his husband in Cincinnati. sevenkitchenspress.com

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A Best of the Net and eight-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Julie L. Moore is the author of four poetry collections, including, most recently, Full Worm Moon, which won a 2018 Woodrow Hall Top Shelf Award and received honorable mention for the Conference on Christianity and Literature's 2018 Book of the Year Award.

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Melanie Murphy is a poet from Northeast Ohio. Her work has been published in various journals including Cutthoat, A jJournal of the Arts, Border Senses, A Bilingual Literary Journal, and others. She holds an MFA from the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts at Kent State.

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Heather Myers is from Altoona, Pennsylvania. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from West Virginia University. She is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of North Texas. She was a 2018 AWP Intros Award Winner. Her work can be found in Door=Jar, The Journal, Palette Poetry, Puerto Del Sol, and elsewhere.

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Transplanted from Buffalo, NY, Aimee Noel now lives with her wife in Dayton, where she teaches and advocates for food access. She has twice been awarded the Ohio Art Council’s Individual Excellence Award for poetry and her work has been published in several literary journals. Her debut collection, Slag, will release in 2025 by Sheila-Na-Gig. aimeenoel.net

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Dora Odarenko, a poet in Pittsburgh, publishes locally and beyond. A former university teacher of literature, farmer, spinner, and a Yale-trained pastor, she serves two churches (where neither brain nor heart is left at the door). Her poems are on-going conversations with the natural world. She writes for environmental justice.

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Eric Odum is a Libra, poet, brother, lover, and friend. He works in the nonprofit arts field in Cleveland as a way to nurture and amplify the voices of communities and neighborhoods that are often forgotten or silenced. He is the creator of the One Mic Open Poetry Slam and is also in the process of bringing his second collection of poems and essays to completion, titled The Stars We Call Home.

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Maria S. Picone/수영 is a Korean American adoptee with three chapbooks: Anti Asian Bias, Adoptee Song (Game Over Books), and This Tenuous Atmosphere (Conium). She received prizes from Salamander and Cream City Review, and grants from Kenyon Review, Juniper, Hambidge, SCAC, South Arts, and elsewhere. mariaspicone.com

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Jeannine M. Pitas is a Polish-American teacher, writer, and translator living in western Pennsylvania. She has served as a Spanish-English legal/medical interpreter and a volunteer with Hello Neighbor, a refugee resettlement agency. She teaches at St. Vincent College and serves as an editor at Eulalia Books.

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Eric Potter is a professor of English at Grove City College (Pennsylvania) where he teaches courses in poetry and American literature.  His poems have appeared in such journals as 32 Poems, The Christian Century, Spiritus, The Midwest Quarterly, and Presence. He has published two chapbooks and a full-length collection, Things Not Seen (2015). eapotter.wordpress.com

Courtney Poullas is an adjunct instructor of composition and a short form, non-fiction writer. She has been published in Scary Mommy, Her View From Home, and Youngstown Art Scene Zine. Her style is often voicey, sarcastic, and snarky, She freelances regularly for local publications, and her best advice for writers is to think you’re simultaneously the best and worst writer in the world.

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Josiah Quarles is Director of Organizing and Advocacy for The Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless (NEOCH). He has a background in grassroots organizing, public speaking, education, sport-based youth development, and multimedia arts, including hip hop music and poetry.

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Varun Ravindran was born in Chennai, India and lives in Pittsburgh. His work has appeared in various journals and a full-length collection, Betweenness, is forthcoming from Baobab Press. varunravindran.com

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Srikanth Reddy’s latest book of poetry is Underworld Lit. He is the poetry editor of The Paris Review, and a co-editor of the Phoenix Poets book series at the University of Chicago Press. His book of lectures on poetry and painting, The Unsignificant, was published by Wave Books in 2024.

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Dana Reeher is the author of Code Domesticity, her first poetry collection. Her poems have appeared in Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. She works full time as a nurse practitioner
while also working as an adjunct professor at Baylor University. She has a PhD in Nursing and earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Carlow University in Pittsburgh. She lives in western Pennsylvania with her family.

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Phoebe Reeves is Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati. She has three chapbooks of poetry, most recently The Flame of Her Will. Her first full length collection, Helen of Bikini was published in March 2023. She lives in Cincinnati with her husband Don, amidst her urban garden. phoebereeves.com

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Micah Ruelle is a queer poet who holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Texas State University. Their first chapbook, Failure to Merge, was published in 2019 by Finishing Line Press. Their second chapbook, Clean Getaway, has been a finalist in three competitions.  micahruelle.com

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Barbara Sabol’s collection, core & all: haiku and senryu was published by Bottom Dog Press. Her work has been included in anthologies by the Haiku Foundation, and published in journals such as Modern Haiku, Under the Bashō, Acorn, and The Heron’s Nest, and short-listed for a Touchstone Award in 2024.

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Born in Youngstown, Carly Sachs attended Kent State on a Wick Poetry Scholarship. She is author of the steam sequence (Washington Writers’ Publishing House) and Descendants of Eve (Blue Lyra Press). She is editor of the why and later (Deep Cleveland Press), poems about rape and assault. Her work appears in The Best American Poetry series, Mid-Atlantic Review, Three Fold, At the Well blog, Earth Etudes for Elul project, and read on NPR’s "Selected Shorts." She lives in Lexington, Kentucky.

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Inga Lea Schmidt is a poet and public library worker in Pittsburgh. She proudly serves as a union officer for Local 9562 which represents several workplaces, including the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Her poems can be found in Kenyon Review; Forklift, Ohio; Black Warrior Review; HOBART and elsewhere. ingaleaschmidt.com

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Jolene ScottRoller is a single parent writer living in rural Ohio. She is a Team Leader for Pen Parentis, an editor at Mom Egg Review, an instructor at Literary Cleveland, and faculty for the Ashland University MFA program.

Jessica Sentgeorge is a Pittsburgh writer and graduate student at Slippery Rock University. She is the current Managing Editor of Rockscissorspaper and is a Fiction Editor on the staff of SLAB. Her short stories have been published twice by the literary magazine FACETS. Three of her poems have also been published in FACETS.

Tabassam Shah is the author of the poetry collection Red & Crescent Moons. Her poems appear in Beak Bone & Feather: An Anthology of Poems About Birds, Mad as Hell: An Anthology of Angry Poetry,  North/South Appalachia: Vol 3. She is active in the poetry advocacy group BerksBards and in Poets Against Racism & Hate USA. Tabassam is working on picture books about Pakistani American girlhood.

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Samira Shakib-Bregeth is an Iranian-American writer from Chicago who teaches in suburban Atlanta. Samira earned an English M.A. in Literary Studies and has a soft heart for creatives and dreamers. Her #ownvoices novel about a struggling artist and her feminist mother is currently on submission. samirashakibbregeth.com

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Barbara Shoup is author of nine novels and Executive Director of the Writers’ Center of Indiana. Her young adult novels Wish You Were Here and Stranded in Harmony were ALA Best Books for Young Adults. Vermeer’s Daughter was a School Library Journal Best Book for High School Students. She won the 2006 PEN Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Working Writer Fellowship for Everything You Want, published by FLUX in 2008. Her most recent novels are Looking for Jack Kerouac (Lacewing Books) and About Grace (Querencia Press). barbarashoup.com

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Jess Simms is co-founder of Scribble House and the Managing Editor of After Happy Hour Review. They're the author of Cryptid Bits (Last-Picked Books, 2024) and have published stories and essays in Mythaxis, Orca, SLAB, Atlas Obscura, and elsewhere. They live IRL in Pittsburgh, and online at jesssimms.com.

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From Rockford, Ilinois, Christopher D. Sims's poetry, spoken word, and poetic essays have been performed and published in various venues,  journals, anthologies, and online publications. Christopher is a teaching writer for The Porch (Nashville) and Lighthouse Writers Workshop (Denver).

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Tom Sleigh’s fourteen books include The King’s Touch, winner of the 2023 Paterson Poetry Prize. He has been a finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize and the James Laughlin Award. His most recent book of essays, The Land Between Two Rivers: Writing In an Age of Refugees recounts his time as a journalist covering refugee issues in the Middle East and Africa. He has received numerous awards, including the Kingsley Tufts Award, Shelley Memorial Award, a Guggenheim, and two NEAs. His poems appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Threepenny, Poetry, and many other magazines.

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Michelle R. Smith is a writer, poet, educator, cultural facilitator, and native Clevelander. She is the current Poet Laureate of Cleveland Heights and University Heights, Programming Director for Literary Cleveland, and author of the poetry collections Ariel in Black (2015) and The Vagina Analogues (2020).

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The author of eleven poetry collections, most recently The Sorority of Stillness: A Gallery of Women in Art (forthcoming from Shanti Arts), Judith Sornberger is also a certified Tai Chi instructor and a professor of emerita of Mansfield University, where she taught creative writing. She lives on the side of a mountain outside Wellsboro, Pennsylvania.

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Ellen Stone advises a poetry club at Community High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, co-hosts a monthly poetry series, Skazat! and co-edits Public School Poetry.  She is the author of Everybody Wants to Keep the Moon Inside Them (Mayapple Press, 2025) and What Is in the Blood (Mayapple Press, 2020).

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Anne Dyer Stuart’s journal publications include NELLE, Pleiades, North American Review, AGNI, The American Journal of Poetry, Raleigh Review, Cherry Tree, Sugar House Review, The Texas Review, Louisiana Literature, New World Writing Quarterly, and The Louisville Review. She is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Commonwealth University-Bloomsburg.

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David Swerdlow’s third book of poems, Nightstand, was published in 2023 by Broadstone Books. His work has appeared in Poetry, The American Poetry Review, West Branch, The Ohio Review, The Iowa Review and elsewhere. Since 1990, Swerdlow has taught literature and creative writing at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania.

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L.J. Sysko’s debut The Daughter of Man was selected by Patricia Smith for the 2023 Miller Williams Poetry Series. Battledore, a chapbook about pregnancy and postpartum depression, and literary journals such as Ploughshares and The Georgia Review are among her publication credits. Sysko is a Tupelo Quarterly Contributing Editor.

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Zuggie Tate (she/they) is a Black, larger-bodied, trans feminine individual who lives with HIV. She has lived in Cleveland her whole life and attended college at Case Western Reserve University. She considers herself to be an artist in many genres, but her favorite outlet is definitely poetry. To date, she has been published in the Black Midwest Anthology and was a recipient of the Baldwin House Writing Fellowship with Twelve Literary Arts.

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Philip Terman’s recent books are The Whole Mishpocha and My Blossoming Everything and, as co-translator, Tango Below a Narrow Ceiling: The Selected Poems of Riad Saleh Hussein. He co-curates the Jewish Poetry Reading Series, sponsored by the JCC Buffalo and directs The Bridge Literary Arts Center in Western Pennsylvania. bridgeliteraryartscenter.org

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Kristen Tetzmann (née Tetzlaff) is a poet and painter from Wisconsin. She is an editorial assistant for the Cleveland State University Poetry Center and a second-year poetry candidate in the NEOMFA program. Her writing has appeared in Bodega Magazine, Furrow, and elsewhere.

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Patricia Thrushart writes poetry and historical nonfiction. Her latest book of poems, Goddesses I Have Known, benefits a domestic violence shelter. Recently, she edited an anthology of poems about birds titled Beak, Bone & Feather that benefits her local Audubon society.  She is co-founder of the group Poets Against Racism & Hate USA. patriciathrushart.com

Sara Moore Wagner is the author of three books of poetry, Lady Wing Shot (Lynx House Press Blue Lynx Prize 2024), Swan Wife (Cider Press Review Editors Prize, 2022), and Hillbilly Madonna (Driftwood Press Manuscript Prize, 2022), and two chapbooks. She is Managing Editor of Driftwood Press.

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Robert Wallace is the author of the story collection As Breaks the Wave Upon the Sea (Main Street Rag 2021) and novel Smell the Bright Cold (Main Street Rag 2025). He has published over sixty essays.

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Cleveland writer Michelle Tackla Wallace is the daughter of Lebanese immigrants, and often finds herself negotiating different cultures and values, a struggle that informs her poetry. Her work has been published in Fragrant as Cloves, an anthology of Asian-American poets; and Babel, a journal of the International Cities of Refuge Network. She has an MA in English from John Carroll University.

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RA Washington is a polymath living on Cleveland's West Side. Washington's work spans three decades and several genres, including fiction, memoir, and poetry. He is the founder/composer of the Afrofuturist music collective Mourning [A] BLKstar and co-curator of the longstanding futurist record label, CLEVELAND TAPES.

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Willow Watson (she/her, they/them) is a Black transfemme poet, narrativist, and creative hailing from the Black Midwest via unceded Mississauga, Kaskaskia, and Erie territory (Cleveland). Before interning for Literary Cleveland in 2023, Willow served as the Programs Manager for Roots. Wounds. Words., where she curated literary arts programs led by renowned BIPOC faculty such as Jesmyn Ward, Ryka Aoki, Deesha Philyaw, Xan Phillips, Nisi Shawl, Daniel Jose Older, and Elisabet Velasquez.

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Gabriel Welsch is the author of Groundscratchers: Stories, and four poetry collections, including Four Horsepersons of a Disappointing Apocalypse. Recent work appears in Tar River Poetry, Moon City Review, Eclectica, Red Rock Literary Review, Main Street Rag, I-70 Review, and Novus Literary Review. He works at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.  

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Holly M. Wendt is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Lebanon Valley College and the author of Heading North (Braddock Avenue Books, 2023). Wendt has received fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society, Jentel Foundation, and Hambidge Center. Their work has appeared in Passages North, Shenandoah, The Rumpus, and elsewhere.

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Karen J. Weyant's poems and essays have been published in over 100 newspapers, literary journals, and anthologies. Her first collection of poetry, Avoiding the Rapture, was published last year. She is an Associate Professor of English at Jamestown Community College in Jamestown, New York. She lives, reads and writes in northern Pennsylvania.

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Central Pennsylvania native Shanna Powlus Wheeler (MFA, Penn State) has published two books of poetry, Lo & Behold (Finishing Line Press) and Evensong for Shadows (Wipf & Stock Publishers). She's on faculty at Pennsylvania College of Technology, where she teaches courses in English composition, technical communication, and creative writing.

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Cecilia Woloch has published seven collections of poems and a novel. Her honors include fellowships from the NEA and the Fulbright Foundation, a Pushcart Prize, and inclusion in The Best American Poetry series. Born in Pittsburgh and raised in rural Kentucky, she’s traveled the world as a teacher and writer.