2018 Poetry Chapbook Winner
Angie Sijun Lou
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Angie Sijun Lou is from Seattle. Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Ninth Letter, The Adroit Journal, Hyphen, The Margins, and others. She is a Kundiman Fellow and a PhD student in Literature and Creative Writing at UC Santa Cruz.
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2018 Fiction Chapbook Winner
Dale Corvino
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Dale Corvino (dalecorvino.com) has published essays on Marilyn Monroe, Blondie, and kink. His short fiction has appeared in the anthology Hashtag Queer v.2, Ovunque Siamo, Jonathan, and Chelsea Station, and his creative nonfiction in Carte Blanche (CA) and the anthology Queers Around the World. He’s participated in live storytelling (RISK!), received the 2015 Christopher Hewitt Award for Fiction, and was a finalist in the 2017 Saints and Sinners Short Fiction contest. Upcoming publications include a contribution to Volume 2 of Sex Work and Society from Harrington Park Press and a reflection on one of New York City’s earliest AIDS diagnoses for A&U Magazine. He lives in Hell’s Kitchen with the sullen young man of his dreams.
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2018 Creative Non-Fiction Chapbook Winner
Jen Sammons
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Jen Sammons lives with her wife and son in Dayton, Ohio, where she explores the intersections of being a queer writer, mother, and teacher, and advocates for visibility in all three. Her recent work has appeared in Tahoma Literary Review, River Teeth, Slag Glass City, and Palaver. Jen taught in the field of Early Childhood Education for fifteen years, and is now an MFA candidate at Miami University where she studies Creative Writing and Pedagogy, teaches first-year writing, and is working on two book-length projects about adoption, trauma, and love.
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