His interests include Filipino American identity, history, film, music, food, and anything else that catches his senses. Born and raised in New Jersey, he is an MFA candidate in Poetry at Queens College. WILLIAM PAGDATOON, MANAGING EDITOR is the son of Filipino immigrants. She loves encompassing in her writing the various cultures in Queens as well as her own as a Yemeni American. She graduated from Queens College with a degree in Comparative Literature and is currently enrolled there as a MFA candidate in short story fiction. She lives in Brooklyn with her wife and son and is at work on her first novel.ĪMANI MUTHANA, HYBRID EDITOR/SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR is a writer born and raised in Queens, New York. She’s a new mother whose work explores queer motherhood, witches and loneliness. MEG O’MALLEY, FICTION EDITOR is an MFA candidate in fiction and an adjunct English lecturer at Queens College, CUNY. JJ LOONAM, FICTION EDITOR is a writer and reader from Brooklyn. Her ultimate goal is to continue writing for as long as she breathes, and perhaps publish some thoughts along the way, but for now you can find her (if you can find her) flitting about trying to cram inspirations from muses onto whatever paper, wrapper, or mobile device she can find while speed walking around campus. HANNAH LEE, HYBRID EDITOR is a writer of drabbles, babbles, but mostly poetry. A poet and translator, her work has been published in Kenyon Review, Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, Jewish Currents, Gulf Coast, Boston Review, New England Review, and elsewhere. Carlie’s honors include a 92Y/Discovery Prize from the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center and a Poets & Writers Amy Award. He has work forthcoming in Barricade: A Journal of Antifascism & Translation.ĬARLIE HOFFMAN, TRANSLATION EDITOR is the author of When There Was Light, (Four Way Books, 2023) and This Alaska (Four Way Books, 2021), winner of the NCPA Gold Award in Poetry and a finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award. He enjoys genmaicha, gankogui, and is an MFA candidate in Literary Translation at CUNY Queens College. Leo previously worked for the New Sanctuary Coalition as a translator in their asylum clinic. LEO GROSSMAN, TRANSLATION EDITOR is a musician, translator, and educator based in Ridgewood, Queens. She is currently a clinical microbiologist and plans to write about issues involving health/science, race and history. KATHY FAUNTLEROY, NONFICTION EDITOR is a returning Queens College graduate student in the MFA program in Creative Nonfiction. She lives with her son, husband and cat in a town by the bay. Last year, she received a grant from the New York Council on the Arts to work on a collection of poems entitled Rewilding: Native and Invasive Species. In her free time, she fights fascism and makes pumpkin roti. Sonia has been published in Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Lunch Ticket, bioStories, Sonic Boom and more. When it’s too cold she does Bhangra at home. She channels her angst by writing poems and insists on walking every day. SONIA ARORA, POETRY EDITOR is still trying to find the right balm to cure her diasporic funk. If you would like to learn more or submit to Tinderbox, please visit their website at. They do not accept previously published work, and they do not accept multiple submissions. They accept simultaneous submissions, but ask that authors immediately withdraw work published elsewhere. Tinderbox accepts submissions online, not via post or email. They view the cover letter not as a formality, but an important introduction to the poet, a context within which to read the work. The editors at Tinderbox encourage poets to include a cover letter with their submission. Submissions should be six pages or fewer. Poets may submit three to four pieces of any kind of poetry. Submitting poets can expect a response within about three months. They accept a wide range of submissions-free verse and formal poetry, lyric essays, flash forms, sequences of fragments, lyric dramas, and more. While they only publish poetry, Tinderbox seeks to expand our idea of what a poem can be. Tinderbox is published monthly, and each issue features work by around fifteen poets. To get a sense of their style, you can read past issues online. They prefer profundity that arises out of nitty-gritty life itself, poetry that is lived and living. Tinderbox publishes poetry in all forms and styles, and they showcase a broad range of voices and experiences. To promote the writers they publish, they nominate poets for the Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets, and Best of the Net Anthology. Tinderbox Poetry Journal, an online journal that’s fee-free in the months the seasons change-March, June, September, and December-is seeking poetry from both emerging and established writers.
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