Celebrating Sihle Ntuli, whose chapbook The Nation joins our catalogue in July, 2023
Sihle Ntuli is a poet from Durban, South Africa, and a recipient of the 2023 Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies Writing Fellowship for his poetry. His work has been featured in leading journals such as Frontier Poetry, SAND Journal, Herri, and Mizna, amongst others. Ntuli’s The Nation, a chapbook of poems, will be published by River Glass Books in July of 2023.
Author’s photograph by Niamh Walsh-Vorster
Stephen Frech has earned degrees from Northwestern University, Washington University in St. Louis, and the University of Cincinnati. He has published three volumes of poetry: Toward Evening and the Day Far Spent (Kent State University Press), If Not For These Wrinkles of Darkness (White Pine Press), and The Dark Villages of Childhood (Midwest Writing Center). His fourth volume titled A Palace of Strangers is No City, a sustained narrative of prose poetry/flash fiction, has been published by Cervena Barva Press. He published a translation of poetry from the Dutch: Menno Wigman’s Zwart als kaviaar/Black as Caviar. He is founder and editor of Oneiros Press, publisher of limited edition, letterpress poetry broadsides. Stephen Frech is Professor of English at Millikin University. Frech’s Into Night’s Tent was published by River Glass Books in November of 2020.
Táíwò Hassan is a writer of Yorùbá descent, a poet and vocalist. His poems have appeared in Lucent Dreaming, Brittle Paper, Dust Poetry Magazine, Ice Floe Press, Shallow Tales Review, Second Skin Magazine, Warning Lines, Augment Review, Madrigal Press, Nigerian NewsDirect, Praxis Magazine, Wizards In Space and several other places. He emerged the first runner up for the MANI 10 year anniversary Poetry Competition. A poetry editor at Jupiter Review, he’s also an undergraduate student of Demography and Social Statistics at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ilé-Ifẹ̀, Osun State, Nigeria. His chapbook of poems, Birds Don’t Fly for Pleasure, was published by River Glass Books in November of 2022.
Brian Jerrold Koester is the author of What Keeps Me Awake (Silver Bow Publishing, 2018). A Pushcart Prize nominee and a Best of the Net Anthology nominee, his work has appeared in Agni, Streetlight Magazine, Cold Creek Review, The Delmarva Review, Right Hand Pointing, Louisiana Literature, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, and has been a freelance cellist. Koester’s Bossa Nova was published by River Glass Books in February of 2018.
Stella Lei’s work appears or is forthcoming in CRAFT, Frontier Poetry, Narrative Magazine, and elsewhere. She is an Editor in Chief for The Augment Review and a Prose Editor for Gasher Journal. Her chapbook of stories, Inheritances of Hunger, was published by River Glass Books in April of 2022.
Find more of her work at stellaleiwrites.weebly.com.
Eve F. W. Linn received her B.A. cum laude from Smith College in Fine Art and her M.F.A. in Poetry from the Low Residency Program at Lesley University. She has attended the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, the Frost Place Conference on Poetry, and the Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference. She is a published poet and book reviewer. Her favorite color is blue. She collects antique baby shoes, vintage textiles, and art pottery. She lives west of Boston with her family and one demanding feline. Linn’s Model Home was published by River Glass Books in July of 2019.
Author’s photograph by Bonnie Baker
Katie Manning is the founding editor-in-chief of Whale Road Review and an associate professor of writing at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego. She is the author of Tasty Other, which won the 2016 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award, and four chapbooks, including The Gospel of the Bleeding Woman. Her writing has appeared in The American Journal of Nursing, december, New Letters, Poet Lore, Stirring, THRUSH, Verse Daily, and many other journals and anthologies. Manning’s chapbook, 28,065 Nights, was published by River Glass Books in August of 2020.
Jennifer Grace Stewart is the author of Madonna, Complex (Cascade Books 2020), Latch (River Glass Books 2019) and Visitations (Finishing Line Press 2015). Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in AGNI, Western Humanities Review, Thrush, Beloit Poetry Journal and elsewhere. A native of Colorado, she has taught writing at the University of Colorado, Boulder, as well as internationally in Hungary, Turkey and Lithuania.