Members

Isabelle Correa is a poet from Washington state now living in Mexico City. She studied creative writing at Western Washington University, is the winner of the 2024 Jack McCarthy Book Prize with Write Bloody Publishing, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and the author of the chapbook Sex is From Mars But I Love You From Venus. Her work has appeared in Pank, Third Point Press, The Rebis, and more. Find her on Instagram:@isabellecorreawrites and on Substack:A Poem Is A Place

Alex Dawson is a poet, wildlife photographer and adult ESL teacher from Toronto. She writes poems on nature, conservation, motherhood, life and current issues (see: politics). In summer, 2024, she published her photo-poetry book, “All these Living Things”, which pairs wildlife photos with poetry, and is a whimsical and thoughtful love letter to this planet. Alex has been a member of Gather since its inception! You can find her poetry, photography and a link to purchase her book on Instagram @alexdawcreates.

Kassandra Vilchis is a poet, pathological people pleaser and award-winning filmmaker from Minnesota. She writes poems on grief, womanhood, life and generational curses. She recently published sister poetry books, titled Daydreams and Nightmares. When she isn’t writing you can find her in among the trees hiking, reading a good book, listening to Taylor Swift or enjoying time with her dog, Thor. You can find her books on Amazon.

Ashley is a self proclaimed Swiftie and history lover (in that order). She always dreamed she would write historical fiction, but found herself falling love with poetry during the pandemic. Ashley’s poetry explores the complexities of emotion and her journey leaving an extremist cult. When she isn’t writing or listening to Taylor Swift, she enjoys spending time with her partner and two children. You can find Ashley on Instragram @theoverflowingpoet or subscribe to her substack. https://theoverflowofwords.substack.com/

Christian (Chris) Meinke (he/him) is wanna be philosopher turned poet more interested in the ambiguity of questions than the certainty of answers. Based on the premise that one can achieve “expertise” in a subject by devoting 10,000 hours to its practice, he intends to write 10,000 poems in the hopes of creating one good one. You can track his progress on his Substack linked below.

You can also find him on Instagram here where he posts too many photos of the moon: https://www.instagram.com/cemeinke/

Angela is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and consultant known for her unique approach that integrates the arts into mental health. Recognizing the transformative power of poetry, Angela has established a consultation practice designed for clinicians. In this setting, she emphasizes the importance of using poetry as a therapeutic tool, helping therapists to soften their perspectives and broaden their analytical lens. By engaging with poetic texts, Angela encourages clinicians to delve deeper into their emotional responses and re-examine their patient interactions. Angela's work is grounded in the belief that poetry can profoundly enhance therapists' ability to perceive and listen to their patients

Kelly Green writes an average of twelve poems a day, most between the hours of one and five a.m. She has yet to have any poems published, because she is a coward. She has published essays with Shondaland, Eater, Today.com and more, and has written a miniature memoir-in-essays on food and class and how they're married, for which she is seeking representation. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin, but doesn't really want to. 

Stuti is a published and award-winning Indian writer, who lives in Dubai.  She writes immersive narratives about the human experience, nostalgia and emotions.  Being passionate about travel she loves to weave different cultures and her heritage into her writing.Stuti has been acclaimed by several international writing competitions, including the San Antonio Writers Guild Poetry Competition, Letter Review Poetry Competition, Westmoreland Festival Fiction Contest, the Allingham Festival Poetry contest and others.  In addition, she has been published by several international literature magazines and presses.She has two adorable cats named Yuki and Sushi.

Alexa Brockamp Hoggatt is a poet and programmer from Tacoma, Washington. Her poems have been published in Sky Island Journal, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, and Strait Up Magazine, as well as a collection called “Voices of Tacoma”, published in collaboration with the City of Tacoma Arts Commission. She was selected as a Garden Poet for Lakewold Gardens’ 2024 ‘Poetry in the Garden’ event.

Although there is endless machine to rage against, Alexa writes poetry as a sort of running list of reasons humans deserve to go on existing: The tenderness, the shared experience, the soft parts. Her dad woke up every morning after coughing through the night from breathing sand and dust at work and said “It’s another perfect day” and that is what she wants her poems to say: Even if you have sand in your lungs, it’s another perfect day.

Erin is an aspiring poet and mother of two from the UK. She is a bath bomb connoisseur and bookworm who can always be found under a blanket, whatever the weather. 

After the birth of her first child, Erin was diagnosed with complex trauma. She uses poetry as a means to explore the complicated emotions around childhood trauma. Her writing focuses include, trauma, grief, identity, loss and motherhood. 

Jess Robinson is an Atlanta-based writer whose work often portrays growing up in the Deep American South through conflicting lenses like hedonism and piousness, obedience and body acceptance, and family and cultural othering.Robinson has been previously published in Creation Magazine and Campfire Poets, and recently released her debut collection of essays and poetry titled Landmines: A Guide for Being Good, which you can find on Amazon. 

Huldah (or HPTWrites) is a writer based in the UK who loves watching films, painting pottery, and appreciates art and culture. Her poetry explores themes of love, nostalgia, and everyday life. Huldah seeks to expand her audience by blending poetry with mixed media, including photography and film, to create immersive experiences.

Gabriella Mayer is a South Florida writer with an MFA from NYU, where she was the Copy Editor for the Washington Square Review. Her poetry has been published in Touchstone Literary Magazine, Cathexis Northwest Press, and Aurora: the Allegory Ridge Poetry Anthology, while her articles have been published in multiple news outlets and she does research for a public radio show. She was also a finalist for Touchstone's 2020 Debut Prize in Poetry, judged by Luisa Muradyan. She currently lives in New York City and is cleaning up a chapbook about either loneliness, Florida, or the adventures of a spacegirl.

Stephanie would rather be anywhere but where she is supposed to be, and oftentimes, this is exactly where you will find her. Passionately non-compliant, her devotion to helping others discover what excites them in life may be the only thing that grounds her. An avid reader, she began her poetry writing journey very early on, developing a love for rhythm and rhyme that tends to sneak into everything she writes today. Her current work explores concepts in love, nature and politics. She spends her life trying to make the impossible feel possible, and feels lucky to still live in the Bay Area with her family, between the ocean and the redwoods.

Alina Kalontarov is a teacher of English literature and Humanities in New York City. Whether in the classroom or through her poetry and photography, she hopes to inspire people to find their unique voice and vision in the increasingly myopic noise machine of the world. Her poems have found homes in various literary journals and anthologies including Sky Island Journal, Thimble Literary Magazine, Sand Hills, Prosetrics, Last Leaves, Wild Roof, boats against the current, Querencia Press and others.You can check out more about her relationship to writing in this Scribeworth interview and find some of her work on her instagram @alinakay66.

Amanda Emilio is a musician and poet from Long Island, NY. She is fascinated with and often writes about the strong ties between everyday life and spirituality. Her poems have been published in Amethyst Review, Beyond Words Magazine, The Winged Moon Magazine, and elsewhere. She currently serves as a reader for Epiphany and is writing poems for her first chapbook which will hopefully see the light of day soon.

As a child, Melia (Stuppy) Stern tried to rig a career aptitude test so that it would tell her she was destined to be a writer one day.  Instead, she got "speech pathologist" and "librarian" as possible future jobs, neither of which she pursued. By day, she's a sales director specializing in content marketing services, but she has increasingly made time in her life for creative writing. She is a published playwright of a one-act show for high schools calledLove Is Awkwardand is working on her first novel, slowly. She writes about grief, anxiety, womanhood, and falling in love again with the world.