Contributors

Anna Leonard

Anna Leonard is a poet, musician, and artist pursuing her M.F.A. in Creative Writing at VCU in Richmond, VA. Writing serves as a vulnerable exercise in her dedication to sincerity and peace-seeking. Her poems can be read in Emerge Literary Journal, Anti-Heroin Chic, Ghost City Press, Eunoia Review, and The Rising Phoenix Review. She has songs available to stream on all streaming platforms.

Anna Sones

Anna Sones received a B.A. in Written Arts from Bard College. She was born and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and is working on her first novel. Anna’s writing is preoccupied with living and loving in a world that is at once full of wonders and catastrophically threatened.

Anne Marie Wells

Anne Marie Wells is the author of two poetry collections: Survived By (Curious Corvid Publishing, 2023) and Mother, (v) (Cinnamon Press, 2024). She is a freelance copy editor and writing coach. Find her at annemariewellswriter.com.

Caitlin Gillmett

Caitlin Gillmett is a poet, educator, and server with a degree in Secondary Education and English from Boston College. She currently resides between Hoboken, NJ, and Block Island, RI, and is working on editing her first chapbook. In addition to Sixfold, her work will be featured in the upcoming fall issue of the Southeast Review.

Christina Hauck

Christina Hauck grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and moved to Manhattan, Kansas in 1994, where she taught literature at Kansas State University for several decades. Her poems have appeared or will soon appear in in Beloit Poetry Journal, California Quarterly, Collateral, Mockingheart Review, Monterey Review, and Street Light, among other small literary journals. She currently lives in Lawrence, KS, a small blue dot in a big red sea.

Conor Hogan

Conor Hogan is a first-year M.F.A. candidate at the University of Houston. His work can be found in Dreamers Magazine, The Hamilton Stone Review, and Overtime: A Literary Journal, among other places. He works as a smokejumper in Washington state.

Daniel Brown

I like to do stuff with words and dabble in creative writing. This is my first published poem.

Danielle Knaeble

Danielle Knaeble is an emerging writer and Minnesota native. Her passion for writing is fueled by the belief that art is the most direct and authentic way to reconnect with the human experience. Her work reflects her deep love for the natural world and the beauty in life’s messiness. This is her first appearance in Sixfold and she feels grateful to have her work published next to such seasoned and inspiring writers. She is currently working on publishing a collection of her poetry.

Daphne Tsai

Daphne Tsai lives and writes in Manhattan, NYC. She reveres the mango above all other fruit. She is working on her chapbook titled, unsurprisingly, Mango.

Debbra Palmer

Debbra Palmer is a poet and comic artist living in Portland, Oregon. Her poems have appeared in journals and literary anthologies including Calyx, Portland Review, Pretty Owl Poetry, Passengers Journal, Cream City Review, and His Hands, His Tools, His Sex, His Dress: Lesbian Writers on their Fathers, (Alice Street Editions). She earned an M.F.A. in poetry at Pacific University.

Eshawn Rawlley

“I hesitate which word to take, as I can take but few and each must be the chiefest⁠ ⁠…” Eshawn is the Canadian-born American son of Indian immigrants. He’s written music and poetry for years but only recently got halfway decent at either. He’d dreamed of becoming a brassy rockstar but is now content with being a taciturn poet instead. He’s a lawyer, a veteran, and an avid composter. He currently resides in Maryland with his lovely wife and their cat. He thinks a lot about his next tattoo and befriending a horse.

Gwen Mullins

Gwen Mullins’ work has been selected for the Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2022, and her stories and essays have been featured in New Ohio Review, African American Review, The Bitter Southerner, The New Guard, PANK, and Green Mountains Review, among others. She is currently working on her second novel as well as a short story collection. In the winter of 2020⁠–⁠21, she served as the Writer in Residence for the Kerouac Project in Orlando. She teaches at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and she holds an M.F.A. from Vermont College of Fine Arts. gwenmullins.com/

Jamie Ross

Jamie Ross writes, paints, hauls water and chops wood on a mesa near Taos, NM, He also lives in Mexico. His work has appeared in many journals, including Poetry East, Nimrod, the Northwest, Texas and Paris Reviews, as well as Best New Poets 2007. His 2010 collection, Vinland, received the Intro Poetry Prize from Four Way Books. His new book, Postcards From Mexico, a collection of poems and the photographs that inspired them, has just been published by Sunstone Press, Santa Fe.

Jeff Lombardo

Jeff Lombardo teaches English at the high school and college levels and lives in Connecticut.

Jeff Markowski

Jeff Markowski grew up in Chicago. His short stories have been published at Narrative Magazine and StoryQuarterly. He has expanded his Sixfold story, “The Secret World” into a novel, which he recently completed.

Jenny Morelli

I’m a high school English teacher from NJ for over twenty years, where I live with my husband and cat. I’m greatly inspired by my students, who help me remember every day what it was like to be their age with all the stress and pressure that comes with it, as well as figuring out ways to cope with the roller coaster of emotions.

Julia Schneider

Julia holds a Master’s in Literature from UT Austin and is a graduate of Columbia University’s graduate CPA program in Narrative Medicine. She is the co-founder and director of NarrativeRx, a creative learning company. She writes poetry and essays on motherhood, postmodern spirituality, literary theory, and pain care, but she’s really just a reader at heart. On her nightstand right now: ecopoetry, dystopian fiction, and autotheory. She has three dogs, a precocious toddler, and a firecracker husband with a heart as big as Texas. Reach her at info@narrativerx.com.

Kendra Brooks

Born and raised in Boston, Kendra Brooks is a lifelong New Englander. Changes in the season offer poetic inspiration. She attended Boston University and earned her M.A. in creative writing from Rhode Island College. She is a retired educator and athletic coach currently residing in Providence, Rhode Island with her four cats. This is her first poetry publication, and she is working on a chapbook of poetry.

Mark Yakich

Mark Yakich lives in New Orleans.

Mike Rizzo

I am a retired physician who grew up in the Midwest, and I now live in California. I’m curious about people and their lives and hope that by writing about them possibly, just possibly, to nudge the world in a positive direction.

Nancy K. Martin

Nancy K. Martin is a 10th generation Texan whose family has been involved in agriculture for more than 100 years. Although she grew up in rural southwest Texas, she currently lives in the EU with her husband, Peter Thomas, and her adopted dog, Zuzu. A Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology from The University of Texas at San Antonio, she has published a bunch of boring research articles but has now shifted her focus to fun stuff. Nancy enjoys a nice glass of wine, traveling, reading good books, and writing. “Escondido” is her first published work of fiction.

Nikki Miller-Rose

Miller-Rose (nikkimillerrose.com) is a memoirist, culture writer, and quietly, a dilettante of poetry. She earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing - Nonfiction from Hamline University. In no particular order, here are three weird things she’s done:

1. Cut off a guy’s ear after he spit beer in her own, all while drunk on Coors at a beer joint in Houston.
2. Drank Coors with the Silver Bullet Band below a stadium in Saint Paul.
3. Drank Coors with the winners of The World’s Largest Outdoor Rodeo in Cheyenne, while attending as personal guest of Ronnie Dunn of country-western duo Brooks & Dunn. Who else can say they’ve peed Coors in earshot of a country star? How about two?

One of those things truthfully only happened in a Johnny Paycheck song, but Nikki did once make friends with two rodeo winners at a hot dog stand in Fort Worth, making an inappropriate joke upon hearing his buddy ask “for the biggest one I can fit in my mouth.” See, if you go easy on that Coors, it’s possible none of this could ever happen to you. Hey barmaid, bring another glass of that Colorado Kool-Aid⁠ ⁠…

Noreen Graf

Noreen Graf was a 2022 finalist in Solstice Literary Fiction contest, a 2021 finalist in the James Jones First Book Contest, and the runner up in the Chester B Himes Short Fiction Prize. Her poetry, flash, short fiction, and graphic literature have appeared in Ocotillo Review, Dirty Chai, MERliterary Oyedrum, Sixfold and Political Irony. In 2024, she received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley where she is also a professor of Rehabilitation Counseling. She was recently nominated for a Pushcart award and also dabbles in making weird art.

Philip Lisi

Philip Lisi is a teacher, poet, and sometime actor. He holds degrees from Davidson College and North Carolina State University and recently completed an M.F.A. program in poetry at Arcadia University. While living in Raleigh, NC, he taught composition and literature courses for many years before returning to his hometown of Lancaster, PA, where he currently resides with his family and their cantankerous Wichien Maat cat, Hazel, who has a knack for commandeering his laptop and yowling her way into his work. His poetry has appeared in Wild Roof, Carolina Muse, Sky Island, Third Wednesday, Last Leaves, October Hill, and elsewhere.

R.S. Devereaux

R.S. lives in Cleveland, Ohio. This is the first time their poetry has been published.

Richard Baldo

Richard Baldo is a recently retired clinical psychologist. This experience informs much of his poetry. He has been writing poetry off and on since college and began a more serious study about twelve years ago. He won the UNR English Department’s Award for Best Poem in Spring 2020 and Spring 2024. His poems are published in The Meadow 2021, 2022, and Sixfold Poetry 2021, 2022, 2023. He is currently a third-year M.F.A. student at the University of Nevada, Reno. His debut poetry collection will be published by Zeitgeist Press this year.

Sahil Mehta

Sahil Mehta was born and raised in India. He currently lives in Boston, MA, where he works in the hospitality industry. He has over two decades of experience in educational publishing, but his foray into fiction is much more recent. His short fiction has appeared in Foglifter Journal (nominated for PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers), Roadrunner Review, and South 85 Journal (2023 Julia Peterkin Flash Fiction Award, second runner-up).

Santiago Levon Simonian

Santiago Levon Simonian is a high school student from New York City. Asides from his strong affinity for the arts, specifically in classical guitar and photography, he has recently entered the world of poetry thanks to the support and guidance of his 12th grade English teacher. As he enters his first year of college, he intends to continue experimenting with poetry and all it has to offer.

Sean Marciniak

Sean Marciniak is a former police reporter, and currently works as an environmental attorney. Don’t try to make sense of this. His fiction has appeared in literary journals in the United States and the United Kingdom, and has been anthologized in the Best Mystery Stories of the Year. His stories can be found at seanmarciniak.com.

Steve Meldrom

Steve (please, not Steven!) recently returned to the United States with his wife and daughter (and their Boston Terrier) after living abroad in Costa Rica for 20 years. He has written one short story collection and one novella.