atmospheric 1.2 contributors (summer 2024)
Helena C. Aeberli is a writer and researcher from London, with a research focus on internet culture, feminism, and the history of the body. She writes the Substack Twenty-First Century Demoniac, which aims to take a closer look at what we’re missing when we get stuck in a doomscroll. Helena is about to embark on a PhD in History, investigating diet and disordered eating in early modern England. She procrastinates at @helenarambles on Twitter.
Emily Alexander is from Idaho. Her poetry has been published in journals such as Narrative Magazine, Penn Review, and Conduit, and she has written prose for The Inlander and Barrelhouse. She works in restaurants and lives in Brooklyn.
Kate Beall (she/her) lives and writes in Colorado, nestled between the mountains and the plains. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in FERAL: A Journal of Poetry & Art, HAD, Gone Lawn, and elsewhere.
Terri Linn Davis and Aubri Kaufman are friends and writers from the Northeast. Together, they make one half of the editing team behind Icebreakers Lit: a chaotic yet loving home for collaborative writing. You can find some of Terri’s work in Taco Bell Quarterly, Pithead Chapel, The Penn Review, and elsewhere. You can find some of Aubri’s work in trampset, Pithead Chapel, Rejection Letters, HAD, and elsewhere. Find them on Twitter at @TerriLinnDavis and @aubrirose.
Ryan Downum is the author of the chapbook I Wear My Face in the Field (Dream Pop Press, 2022). He holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Idaho, and his poems have appeared in jubilat, Northwest Review, Crab Creek Review, Reality Beach, and elsewhere. He currently lives in Illinois and you can find him on Instagram @rj_downum.
Noah Falck is the author of Exclusions (finalist for the 2020 Believer Book Award) and the co-authored collection Prerecorded Weather (winner of the 2022 James Tate Poetry Prize). He lives a few football fields away from Lake Erie in Buffalo, New York.
Ernestine Hayes belongs to the Wolf House of the Kaagwaantaan clan of the Lingít nation. She has gratefully received recognition from Rasmuson Foundation, United States Artists, First Nations Development Institute and Henry Luce Foundation, Alaska State Council on the Arts, and Before Columbus Foundation. Author of Blonde Indian, an Alaska Native Memoir and The Tao of Raven, an Alaska Native Memoir, Hayes makes her home in Juneau.
Participants in the Hayes interview: Ella Allan-Rahill, Lindsay Damon, Kira Elliott, Sarah Fernandez, Selby Hearth, Maya Hicks, Isabelle Stid, Aashna Dolwani, Nisha Marino, Miya Matsumune, Clio Morbello, Bryn Osborne, Emma Rideout-Mann, Joel Schlosser, Carin Silkaitis, José Vergara, Aidan York.
Selby Hearth is Associate Professor of Geology at Bryn Mawr College.
Angela Janda (she/her) is an accountant living in New Mexico. Her work has appeared in HAD, Rattle, MAYDAY, and elsewhere. Find her on Instagram @angelajanda. More information at angelajanda.com.
Raised in Minneapolis, the 4th generation on Positively 4th St., Deborah Kelly lived many years in Chicago, and is home in Colorado. Her poems are found, four with award recognition, in several journals based in the US, Canada, and Europe. A graduate of Northwestern University, she has led and written widely on behalf of non-profit organizations at work in the US and Mexico and serves as Secretary of a distinctive, 26-year-old independent literary press. More publication history may be found here: https://www.deborahkaykelly.com
Christine Lai is a novelist and essayist based in Vancouver, Canada. Her debut novel, Landscapes, was published by Two Dollar Radio in September 2023. Landscapes was a finalist for the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the CLMP Firecracker Awards, and was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR. Christine is currently at work on a second novel, which engages with photography and the urban culture of Tokyo. Twitter: @christinelai44 Instagram: @chryseis44
Emily Lu is a poet, translator, psychiatrist. She is the author of the chapbooks there is no wifi in the afterlife (San Press 2022) and Night Leaves Nothing New (Baseline Press 2019). She lives in Toronto.
Maniniwei is a Malay-Taiwanese writer and illustrator. She was writer-in-residence at Hong Kong Baptist University in 2021. Her works have been recognized by OPENBOOK, the Bologna Ragazzi Award, the Taoyuan Chung Chao-Cheng Award for Literature, and the National Culture and Arts Foundation. Restarting her creative practice after age 30, she is the author of more than ten books. She lives in Taipei with one child and two cats.
Kate Millar is a poet, essayist, and rudimentary filmmaker from Edinburgh, Scotland, currently based in Brooklyn. Her work appears in Ekstasis, Gutter, Inflectionist Review, Last Stanza Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. When not writing you can find her at an indie music gig in Brooklyn, psychoanalysing her dreams, or doing arts and crafts with her friends.
Originally from Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, Nicholas Molbert lives and writes in Los Angeles. He is the author of Altars of Spine and Fraction: Poems (Northwestern University Press/Curbstone Books).
Emmy Newman’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, CALYX, New Ohio Review, Yemassee, and elsewhere. She has been nominated for Best New Poets, several Pushcart Prizes, and was a finalist for Best of the Net 2022. Find her on Instagram @she_wins_an_emmy.
Celine Nguyen is a designer and writer in San Francisco. She studied history of design at the V&A Museum/Royal College of Art, and her writing has appeared in ArtReview, Asymptote, The Atlantic, and the Cleveland Review of Books. Her newsletter personal canon is about literature, design, and technology.
Sam Rasnake is the author of Fallen Leaves (Rare Swan Press, forthcoming), Cinéma Vérité (A-Minor Press) and Like a Thread to Follow (Cyberwit). His works, nominated multiple times for the Pushcart and Best of the Net, have appeared in Wigleaf, Anti-Heroin Chic, UCity Review, FRiGG, Thrush, Boudin (McNeese Review), Moist Poetry Journal, Southern Poetry Anthology, Best of the Web, and Bending Genres Anthology.
Joel Schlosser is Professor and Chair of Political Science at Bryn Mawr College.
Adam Strauss lives in San Diego, CA. Most recently, poems of his appear in the Brooklyn Rail. Poems are forthcoming in New American Writing and Word For/Word. As well, he has a micro-chap titled Postcard Of/Itself out with Tilted House. Visual-arts wise—he permanently adores Marc Chagall's "I and the Village."
Christina Tudor-Sideri is a writer and translator. She is the author of Under the Sign of the Labyrinth (2020), Disembodied (2022), If I Had Not Seen Their Sleeping Faces (2023), and Schism Blue (2024). Her translations include works by Max Blecher, Magda Isanos, Anna de Noailles, Mihail Sebastian, and Ilarie Voronca. Currently, she is writing about time and memory.
José Vergara is Associate Professor of Russian Studies on the Myra T. Cooley Lectureship at Bryn Mawr College. He is the author of All Future Plunges to the Past: James Joyce in Russian Literature and co-editor of Reimagining Nabokov: Pedagogies for the 21st Century. His writing and interviews have appeared in Literary Hub, Asymptote, Words Without Borders, Music & Literature, and World Literature Today. Twitter: @thejosevergara Website: josevergara.net
Sara Wainscott is the author of Insecurity System (Persea, 2020) and a couple of chapbooks. She lives at the edge of Chicago. www.sarawainscott.com
Jacob Wren makes literature, collaborative performances and exhibitions. His books include Polyamorous Love Song, Rich and Poor and Authenticity is a Feeling.
Addison Zeller’s fiction appears in 3:AM,Cincinnati Review, minor literature[s],Ligeia, hex, ergot., and many other publications. He lives in Wooster, Ohio, and edits fiction for The Dodge.