Meet the Contributors ’25

Nicholas Alti

From rural Michigan, Nicholas Alti is a bartender in Atlanta. He is interested in horror, arcana, silliness, and surrealism. More of Nicholas’s recent poetry is in or forthcoming in Vagabond City, TIMBER, Whiskey Tit, Uppagus, and Star*Line.  

Rebekah Barnes

Rebekah Barnes is from Whitefish, Montana. Her work has appeared in Akpata Magazine and collision literary magazine. She is currently trying to find God in Southern Oregon, but He hasn’t gotten back to her yet. If you’ve seen Him let her know @rebekahwrites_  

Evan Chapin

Evan is a writer and poet from Ashland, Oregon. His fiction and poetry have been published in Propagule and Sexy Grammatical Errors. 

Rhiannon Cielos Chavez

Rhiannon Cielos Chavez is a trans-masculine whitewashed Mexican from Los Angeles, California. He received a BFA in Creative Writing from Southern Oregon University, where he read his first chapbook, Beer Hunter (Armadillo Pussy Press), at the 2023 Oregon Fringe Festival. Their work has been published in the chapbook anthology, One Poem Festival: An Anthology Celebrating 20 Years of Letras Latinas 2004-2024, a collaborative publication between Letras Latinas and Alternative Field, as well as in Jefferson Journal, Drifter Zine, Angel Rust, Club Plum, zines & things, and more. 

Michael Chin

Michael Chin was born and raised in Utica, New York and currently lives in Las Vegas with his wife and son. He’s the author of seven full-length books, including his novel, My Grandfather’s an Immigrant, and So is Yours (Cowboy Jamboree Press, 2021) and his forthcoming short story collection This Year’s Ghost (JackLeg Press, 2025). Find him online at miketchin.com and follow him on Twitter @miketchin.

Rowan Detloff

Rowan Dettloff is an aspiring artist and writer, currently attending Southern Oregon University for, surprise, surprise, a double major in Art and English. He hopes to one day work as a teacher, publish a comic book, own his own cozy little home, and maybe (just maybe!) become something properly approaching a functional adult. In the meantime, he hopes people enjoy the sporadic, artistic byproducts created in his stumbling about life with all due confusion and awe.

Aydin Eliason

Aydin Eliason wants to read an entire library. He is a student at Southern Oregon University, currently serving as the editor of the Creative Writing Club’s literary magazine Sexy Grammatical Errors. He loves language a lot. 

Viviane Fae-Moss

Viviane Fae-Moss is an aspiring poet and wordsmith in the creative writing program at Southern Oregon University. She finds passion and love in all things language, and writes from the deepest parts of her heart.

Azalea Geist

Azalea Geist is a collector of words, an appreciator of bones, and the only member of her family to win a spelling bee with only one contestant. 

Ewen Glass

Ewen Glass (he/him) is a screenwriter and poet from Northern Ireland who lives with two dogs, a tortoise and lots of self-doubt; his poetry has appeared in the likes of Okay Donkey, Maudlin House, HAD, Poetry Scotland and Ex-Puritan. His debut chapbook ‘The Art of Washing What You Can’t Touch’ is published by Alien Buddha Press. Bluesky/X/IG: @ewenglass

Isabel Grey

Isabel Grey holds an MFA from Western Colorado University. She is an assistant editor at Terrain.org. Her fiction and poems have contributed to many magazines. Find her on Instagram: @greyauthor222.

Jade Harper

Jade Harper is an artist and writer. She spent most of her childhood in Reno, Nevada but is currently living in Ashland, Oregon. She focuses her art on the intersection between the harshly terrible and beautiful realities of the world we live in and the whimsy and wonder that can come from pure imagination, as well as stupid jokes about the song “Stacy’s Mom.”

Stuti Jain

Stuti is a teenage girl with a deep passion for art, writing, and all things creative. She spends her time, reading, writing, and coming up with new ideas. She is an accomplished poet with a national Silver Medal in scholastic and has been published previously in several magazines/literary journals. She hopes to one day publish a book or novel and is mostly focused on improving her work as a poetry writer. Her main inspirations include Olivia Gatwood, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Laurie Halse Anderson. She would be honored to have the chance to receive publication and would appreciate it. She is based in the US.

Sierra Jameson

Sierra Jameson (they/them) is a genderfluid writer based in Ashland, Oregon who likes to challenge the line between fiction, poetry, and reality. Hybrid poetry lives in a soft spot of their forest-heart. They have works in Bending Genres and Southern Exposure and featured with their chapbook Garden Skull in the 2024 season of the Oregon Fringe Festival.

Marceline Jenkins

Marceline Jenkins is a black lesbian poet and a Creative Writing major here at SOU. He is a military brat, born and majority raised in South Carolina. He plays bass guitar, organizes drag events in the rogue valley, and of course reads like there’s no tomorrow. 

Morgan Kaura

Morgan Kaura is a senior and a lover of grief and whimsy. He moved from SoCal to Oregon to pursue the finer things in life, like trees and more than two seasons. He draws inspiration from his Education/Sociology/Anthropology/Math Ed studies and tragic romcoms of life to make lovely little freaks on paper.

Mark W Kumming

Mark helps direct The St. Louis Poetry Center in St. Louis, MO, and facilitates The Babler Poetry Society there too. A former English and ESL instructor, he’s been writing poetry for two years. He is drawn to Main Squeeze because he too believes poems should “gut punch,” be accessible and honest and be filled with titillating imagery.  

Tom Kurstjens

 Tom Kurstjens is a senior creative writing major at Southern Oregon University. His accomplishments include an honorable mention in SOU’s film festival in the 2024 Spring Semester, inclusion on SOU’s Deans’ list, and an associate’s degree in liberal arts from Saddleback College. He has been accepted into Western Colorado University’s screenwriting program.

Jade Lanning

Jade Lanning is an artist, designer, and photographer born and raised in the Rogue Valley. As a Digital Design and Media major at Rogue Community College, she brings ideas to life through creative digital work and loves capturing moments in time and space. Outside of design, Jade has a deep appreciation for nature—especially bees! Along with the help of her grandfather, she began beekeeping in spring 2023, with their philosophy focusing on the success of their hives rather than collecting honey (though the occasional taste test during inspections is a given). Jade finds peace and inspiration in the natural world, which often influences her art and photography.

Abigail Lee

Abigail Lee is a poet from the San Francisco Bay Area. Based in Ashland, Oregon, she spends her time perfecting her craft as a student and soaking up as much nature as possible. You can read more of her work in Sexy Grammatical Errors and on her Instagram, Bee.Bax

Parker Logan

Parker Logan is from Orlando, Florida and lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His work has recently appeared in Voicemail Poems, Rougagrou, and Barely South Review. He works as a teen library tech at the East Baton Rouge Public Library. You can read more about him at parkerpoetry.org.

Merlin June Mack

Merlin June Mack (they/them) is a hemiplegic writer and poet from Southern California. Their work is a jackalope in a garden and other sapphic adjacent daydreams. Merlin has been published in magazines such as The Lavender Review, All Existing Magazine, Beestung, and Twin Bird Review. Their work has also been Best of Net nominated. Find Merlin on Instagram @merlin_june_is_a_lover or reading a book with at least one good literary motif in it. 

Emily Murray

Emily Murray is an elementary ed major and creative writing minor. She writes for the sake of getting a little human on the page. Her favorite color is somewhere between doug-fir and skyline, you may have seen it around here. She is previously unpublished aside from a short poem in the 2023 issue of Main Squeeze Magazine. 

Charles Myrddin

Charles Myrddin is a queer poet, writer, and artist studying anthropology at Southern Oregon University. They were raised in Northern Colorado and enjoys observing their freshwater snail eating algae. He primarily writes about religion, plants, and intergenerational trauma.  

Bruce Parker

Bruce Parker has published two chapbooks, Ramadan in Summer, (Finishing Line Press, 2022) and Tears for Things (Plan B Press, 2024). He holds a BA in History from the University of Maryland, Far East Division, Okinawa, Japan; and an MA in Secondary Education from the University of New Mexico. His work appears or is forthcoming in Triggerfish Critical Review, The Field Guide, Wild Roof, Cerasus (UK),  The Brussels Review (Belgium), and Prairie Schooner. A past president of the Oregon Poetry Association, he lives in Portland, Oregon amid hundreds of books of poetry and the craft.

Delaney Phelps

Delaney Phelps is a writer from North Carolina. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Fiction at UNC-Greensboro. 

Oliver Reimers

Oliver Reimers is a writer from Sacramento, California. His work has been featured in Prime Number Magazine, One Teen Story, and Gold Man Review. His portfolio of short stories received a national honorable mention from the 2024 Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards.

Brad Rose

Brad Rose was born and raised in Los Angeles and lives in Boston. He is the author of six collections of poetry and flash fiction: WordInEdgeWise, Lucky Animals, No. Wait. I Can Explain,  Pink X-Ray, de/tonations, and Momentary Turbulence. His poetry collection, I Wouldn’t Say That, Exactly, is forthcoming. Eight times nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and three times nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology, Brad’s poetry and fiction have appeared in: The American Journal of Poetry, The Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Review, New York Quarterly, Lunch Ticket, Puerto del Sol, Clockhouse, Folio, Best Microfiction (2019), Action Spectacle, Right Hand Pointing, and other journals and anthologies. His website is www.bradrosepoetry.com