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.

Annalise Parady is a poet and a social worker.  She was born and rooted in Wyoming, but currently lives, writes, and grieves in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. Her work has been published in Sonora Review and Corporeal Lit Mag. Annalise is available to tell you about the creatures and plants of the desert on Instagram @annalisewrites and on Substack: Third Place Poetry. She also runs a poetry community for people processing grief and loss called Grief House.

Sukriti Patny is a writer and poet based in India who’s turned to the words in a flailing attempt to stay sane. She spends her time overthinking everything, writing confessional poems on the gorgeous mess we find in our insides, and exploring the many ways in which nature, unresolved feelings and everyday ordinary things leave her awestruck.

You can find her poetry and personal essays on Instagram @wordsbysu and on Substack: Soul Gazing

Mary Geschwindt (she/her) loves bicycles, sheep, clouds, and the color purple, in that order. With a background in architecture and urban planning, she can’t escape the metaphor of construction in poetry and poetry in construction. A transportation planner by day, poet by night, Mary is always looking for poetry in the movement of the city. She currently writes and bikes around NYC. Her poems have been published in the Harvard Urban Review and Rookie Mag.

Lauren Richkus is a poet from the suburbs of Chicago. She is a social worker in Geriatrics by day. She has always loved writing but has come back home to it in the last few years after a long hiatus. Lauren has found that poetry provides her a safe place to process the world and her emotions as well as a sacred place for her to rest from the never-ending demands of capitalism. She hopes that her art can make others feel seen, loved, or maybe even make you laugh. Lauren aspires to be a life-long unlearner, frequent mistake-maker, and silly goose until the very end. She has dreams of publishing a collection of her poems in the future. You can find her on Instagram @laurenrichwrites.

Sarah Frost is a poet and wanderer who is constantly searching the world for bits of everyday magic. Her poems are often time capsules containing what she’s discovered. Her previous work has been published by Corporeal and Lenticular literary magazines, with upcoming pieces slated for publishing in Palindrome Journal, Beyond Words and Last Leaves magazines.

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.