Author Biography:
Christine Tierney is a poet, artist, disco lover, and closeted comedian. Her first chapbook, make me unsick was selected as a finalist for the 2016 Gambling The Aisle Chapbook Contest, and as a semi-finalist for the 2017 Elyse Wolf Chapbook Contest. She holds an MFA from The University of Maine's Stonecoast Writing Program and a BA in film from Emerson College. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net, a Pushcart Prize, and the Best New Poets anthology, and has appeared or is forthcoming in Fourteen Hills, Poet Lore, Permafrost, PMS, The Tusculum Review, descant, The Yalobusha Review, The Broome Review, Sanskrit, Skidrow Penthouse, Shadowbox, Tattoo Highway, Soundzine, Cider Press Review, Sugar House Review, Gemini Magazine, theNewerYork, Lungfull!, AEROGRAM, This Literary Magazine, Monkeybicycle, Pismire, scissors & spackle, Weave Magazine, Meat For Tea, Star 82 Review, Tell Us A Story, Lingerpost, inter/rupture, Sleet Magazine, Toad Suck Review, Shuf Poetry, great weather for MEDIA, Threadcount, If and Only If, The Boiler Journal, Folia Literary Magazine, LEVELER, Thrice Fiction, Weirderary, Fog Machine, Otis Nebula, The Offbeat, DASH Literary Journal, and The Nervous Breakdown. Eileen Cleary is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Lily Poetry Review and Lily Poetry Review Books. She holds MFA's in poetry from Solstice and Lesley University. She published recent work in The Sugar House Review, JAMA, West Texas Literary Review and Solstice: A Magazine for Diverse Voices, among others. Cleary's full-length poetry collections include Child Ward of the Commonwealth, (MSR, 2019) and 2 a.m. with Keats (Nixes Mate, 2020.) Martha McCollough lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. She has an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute. Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in Tampa Review, The Baffler, Tammy, Crab Creek Review, Barrelhouse, and Salamander, among others. Her chapbook, Grandmother Mountain, was published by Blue Lyra Press in October 2019. Her videopoems have appeared in Triquarterly, Datableed, and Atticus Review. You can see some of her visual work at etsy.com/shop/FloatingCastleArts