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Chloe N. Clark
is the author of Collective Gravities, an NPR and Brooklyn Rail Best Books of 2020, as well as the Elgin Award-nominated Your Strange Fortune, Escaping the Body, Under My Tongue, Every Song a Vengeance, and The Science of Unvanishing Objects. Her forthcoming books include My Prayer is a Dagger, Yours is the Moon. She can be found on Twitter @PintsNCupcakes or on her website at www.chloenclark.com
Pronouns: She/Her
Teo Shannon
is a queer, chronically ill, latinx poet. He holds an MFA from Pacific University of Oregon and is pursuing his doctorate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is a co-founder and co-EIC of Cotton Xenomorph. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in River Styx, The Cincinnati Review, Gulf Coast, The Shade Journal, and Waxwing. He has a cat named Lysistrata. You can find him on twitter @TeoShannonPoet.
Pronouns: He/Him
Hannah Cohen
lives in Virginia with her two cats. She's a graduate of the Queens University of Charlotte MFA program. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks from Glass Poetry Press: YEAR OF THE SCAPEGOAT (2022) and BAD ANATOMY (2018). Publications include Alma, Pigeonholes, The Offing, The Rumpus, Cherry Tree, Drunk Monkeys, Glass: A Journal of Poetry and others. She was a Best of the Net 2018 finalist and a Pushcart Prize nominee. Follow her on Twitter @hcohenwriter
Pronouns: She/Her
Current Readers
Poetry: E. Kristin Anderson
is a poet and glitter enthusiast living mostly at a Starbucks somewhere in Austin, Texas. She is the editor of Come as You Are, an anthology of writing on 90s pop culture (Anomalous Press), and her work has been published worldwide in many magazines. She is the author of nine chapbooks of poetry including Pray, Pray, Pray: Poems I wrote to Prince in the middle of the night (Porkbelly Press), Fire in the Sky (Grey Book Press), 17 seventeen XVII (Grey Book Press), and Behind, All You’ve Got (Semiperfect Press, forthcoming). Kristin is a poetry reader at Cotton Xenomorph and an editorial assistant at Sugared Water. Once upon a time she worked nights at The New Yorker. Find her online at EKristinAnderson.com and on twitter at @ek_anderson.
Pronouns: She/Her
Disclaimer: poetry in Cotton Xenomorph by E Kristin Anderson was published before she was added to our readers.
Poetry: Kanika Lawton
is a Toronto-based writer, editor, and film scholar. They hold a BA in Psychology with a Minor in Film Studies from the University of British Columbia and a MA from the University of Toronto's Cinema Studies Institute. They have received fellowships from Pink Door and BOAAT Writer's Retreat and has been published in Ricepaper Magazine, Vagabond City Literary Journal, Longleaf Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, and Parentheses Journal, among others. A four-time Pushcart Prize and two-time Best of the Net nominee, they are the author of four micro-chapbooks, most recently Theories on Wreckage (Ghost City Press, 2020). Find them on Twitter @petalledheart and Instagram @honeyveined.
Pronouns: They/Them
Fiction: Erin Schmiel
has her MFA in Creative Writing and Environment from Iowa State University where she wrote a non-fiction thesis on geography, travel, place, her VW bus, and family. Erin teaches English at Iowa State and lives with her pet rabbit a black, mini lop named Sir Lops a Lot.
She is published in Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment, Halfway Down the Stairs and Ellipses.
Pronouns: She/Her
Fiction: Chris Corlew
Chris Corlew is a writer and musician living in Chicago. He has been a contributor at Cracked.com and Mental Floss and has been published in Vagabond City, Whiskey Tit Journal, and Cotton Xenomorph. With Bob Sykora, he co-hosts The Line Break, a podcast about poetry and basketball. With Brendan Johnson, he is one-half of Lazy & Entitled, a musical project and writing collaboration. He can be found on blogging at shipwreckedsailor.substack.com or on Twitter @thecorlew
Pronouns: He/Him
Readers Emeriti:
Jennifer Fliss, K.C. Mead-Brewer, Chantzler Brooks, Steven T. S. Follmer, Haidyn Hank
