Soraya Shalforoosh Corporate Job with Headphones From Mom Egg Review 18 – HOME Soraya Shalforoosh’s first collection of poetry, This Version of Earth, was published by Barrow Street in November 2014. Soraya has been a featured poet in the Journal of Academy of American Poets Emerging Poet Series, and has poems and reviews in Black Earth Institute, Court Green, Apogee Journal, WSQ, Taos Journal, Tribes.org etc.
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Quinn Rennerfeldt Garlic From Mom Egg Review 18 – HOME Quinn Rennerfeldt studied creative writing at the University of Colorado at Boulder and currently lives in San Francisco with her daughters, husband, and menagerie. Her heart is equally wed to the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. Her work can be found in Slipstream, Bird’s Thumb, Mothers Always Write, Punch Drunk Press, and elsewhere, among others. She is the co-founder of Q/A Poetry, a journal promoting womxn and nonbinary poets.
Soraya Qahwaji Did Your Family Own Slaves? From Mom Egg Review 18 – HOME https://soundcloud.com/soraya-qahwaji/did-your-family-own-slaves-soraya-qahwaji Soraya Qahwaji is a poet of whom nothing is known. Now, let’s look at her writing.
Kimberly Ann Priest Wanting You Back Again From Mom Egg Review 18 – HOME Kimberly Ann Priest is the author of Still Life (finalist for the PANK Little Books contest, forthcoming 2020), Parrot Flower (Glass Poetry Press, forthcoming 2020) and White Goat Black Sheep (FLP, 2018). She is a winner of a 2019 Heartland Poetry Prize from New American Press, an Assistant at Michigan State University, and a poetry editor for the Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry. You can find her work at kimberlyannpriest.com.
Kyle Potvin Ghosts of Weston Street From Mom Egg Review 18 – HOME Kyle Potvin’s chapbook, Sound Travels on Water, won the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award. She is a two-time finalist for the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award. Her poems have appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Crab Creek Review, Tar River Poetry, The New York Times, and others. Kyle lives in New Hampshire with her husband and two sons.
Puma Perl Evicted From Mom Egg Review 18 – HOME Puma Perl is an award-winning poet, writer, and journalist, and has five solo collections in print. The most recent is Birthdays Before and After (Beyond Baroque Books, 2019.) She is the producer and creator of Puma’s Pandemonium, which brings spoken word together with rock and roll, and she performs regularly with her band, Puma Perl and Friends. She lives and works on the Lower East Side.
Tali Perch Pieces of Home From Mom Egg Review 18 – HOME Tali Perch is pursuing an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She enjoys writing about parenting, feminism, cultural anthropology, and her childhood as a Soviet-Jewish refugee. Her work has appeared in Sweet, Under The Gum Tree, The Colorado Review, Longreads, and elsewhere. Tali’s essay “Records on Bone” (2019) has been nominated by The Colorado Review for a Pushcart Prize. Currently, Tali is working on a memoir about the challenges she faced as a child of Soviet émigrés in the Eighties.
Tina Parker Tending the Baby From Mom Egg Review 18 – HOME Tina Parker is the author of the poetry collection Mother May I and the poetry chapbook Another Offering. Her current work springs from historical research into the lives of women labeled as “other”—whether that be witch, insane, or hysterical. She grew up in Bristol, Virginia, and now lives in Berea, Kentucky.
Rebecca Olander Cape Ann From Mom Egg Review 18 – HOME Rebecca Hart Olander’s poetry has appeared recently in Crab Creek Review, Lily Poetry Review, Massachusetts Review, Nightjar, Radar Poetry, Solstice, and Yemassee Journal, among others. Her first chapbook, Dressing the Wounds, was published in 2019 by dancing girl press, and her debut full-length collection, Uncertain Acrobats, is forthcoming from CavanKerry Press in 2021. Rebecca teaches writing at Westfield State University and is editor/director of Perugia Press. You can find her at rebeccahartolander.com and @rholanderpoet.
Noriko Nakada At Home in America From Mom Egg Review 18 – HOME How I wrote “At Home in America” Last summer wasn’t an easy one, so after packing up my parents’ house and settling my dad in assisted living, my family and I made our way to Central Oregon for a quick vacation. I also started writing with Jami Attenberg’s 1000 Words of summer project. This got me to the page each day, and as our vacation unfolded, this essay began to emerge. Noriko Nakada writes, blogs, tweets, parents, and teaches middle school in Los Angeles.…