About Harbor Review
Harbor Review is an online space for poetry and art. We publish two issues a year in the winter and summer. We are interested in work that shocks and inspires. We are interested in strange and beautiful language, image, and metaphor. We are committed to giving diverse voices a home. New or experienced, we want to hear from you.
Please visit Small Harbor Publishing for more information about our publisher and our imprint, Harbor Editions.
publisher
Allison Blevins (she/her) is a queer disabled writer and the author of Where Will We Live if the House Burns Down (Persea Books, forthcoming), winner of the 2023 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award; Cataloguing Pain (YesYes Books, 2023); Handbook for the Newly Disabled, A Lyric Memoir (BlazeVox, 2022); and Slowly/Suddenly (VA Press, 2021). She is also the author of the chapbooks fiery poppies bruising their own throats (Glass Lyre Press, forthcoming), Chorus for the Kill (Seven Kitchens Press, 2022), Susurration (Blue Lyra Press, 2019), Letters to Joan (Lithic Press, 2019), and A Season for Speaking (Seven Kitchens Press, 2019). Allison is the Founder and Director of Small Harbor Publishing and the Executive Editor at the museum of americana. She lives in Minnesota with her spouse and three children. For more information, visit allisonblevins.com.
Executive editor
Kristiane Weeks-Rogers (she/her) is a Poet-Writer living in western Colorado. Her debut poetry collection, Self-Anointment with Lemons released in September 2021 by Finishing Line Press. She is the 2nd place winner of Casa Cultural de las Americas and University of Houston’s inaugural Poetic Bridges contest and author of the chap collection Become Skeletons published by the University of Houston in 2018. She grew up around Lake Michigan and earned her higher education degrees in Florida (Flagler College) and Indiana (Indiana University). She earned her MFA at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado. She manages Small Harbor Publishing, as well.
Senior Poetry Editor
Amy M. Alvarez is the author of the poetry collection Makeshift Altar and the co-editor of Essential Voices: A COVID-19 Anthology. Selected as one of 2022’s Best New Poets, her poetry has appeared in nationally and internationally recognized literary journals including Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Malahat Review, and elsewhere. She has been awarded fellowships from CantoMundo, VONA, Macondo, VCCA, and the Furious Flower Poetry Center. Amy was born in New York City to Jamaican and Puerto Rican parents. She currently lives and teaches in West Virginia.
Senior Poetry Editor
A former John and Renee Grisham fellow, Joshua Davis (he/him) holds an MFA from the University of Mississippi, an MFA from Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine, and an M.A. from Pittsburg State University. Recent poems have appeared in The Poetry Distillery, The Museum of Americana, and The Midwest Quarterly. He is a doctoral candidate in American Literature at Ohio University, and he lives near Tampa.
senior Poetry editor
Jennifer Shikes Haines (she/her) is a retired educator who enjoys mentoring emerging poets and volunteering in a variety of poetry spaces. She often writes about the intersection of chronic illness, aging and social justice. She is published in coalitionworks, Tension Literary, HNDL Mag: Highlighted Neurodivergent & Disabled Life, JAKE magazine, Mindful Poetry Moments and elsewhere, and has been nominated for Best of the Net. Jennifer was born and raised in New York City and currently lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
senior Poetry editor
A.R. Arthur is a Black Mixed-race poet & writer who has spent most of his life in Kuwait jostling between the UK & America. Anthony's work has been published over 260 times internationally. Anthony's Reviews have been published, or are forthcoming over 80 times internationally. Anthony's Flash Fiction was shortlisted and received an honourable mention in the 2022 The Dillydoun Flash Fiction Prize Competition. Anthony has 3 published chapbooks titled 'The Great Northern Journey' 2020 (Lazy Adventurer Publishing) & 'Vultures' 2021 (Roaring Junior Press) as well as a novel 'The Sands of Change' 2021 (Alien Buddha Press). Anthony's Chapbook 'Half Bred' was the Winner of the 2021 'The Poetry Question' Chapbook contest. Anthony writes for Psychopomp and Reviews at The Poetry Question. Anthony is the EIC of Fahmidan Journal/Publishing & Co and Reviews Editor at Full House Literary. Twitter/Instagram: @ararthurwriter https://ararthurwriter.wordpress.com/
Senior Competitions Editor
S.M. Badawi is an Arab American writer and teacher whose words appear or are forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Diode, Orange Blossom Review, Cream City Review, and elsewhere. Her work has been nominated multiple times for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. Find her on twitter @smbadawi
Competitions Editor
Victoria Buitron is an award-winning writer who hails from Ecuador and resides in Connecticut. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Fairfield University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Normal School, SmokeLong en Español, Southwest Review, The Acentos Review, and other literary magazines. Her debut memoir-in-essays, A Body Across Two Hemispheres, was the 2021 Fairfield Book Prize winner and is available wherever books are sold. A VONA fellow, her work was selected for 2022’s Best Small Fictions and Wigleaf’s Top 50. In 2023, she received the Artistic Excellence Award from the Connecticut Office of the Arts.
Art director
Diana Baltag is a visual artist based in Romania. She graduated at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, studying Graphic Arts MA. Applying different media, including aquarelle, pressed plants and paper, her work centers around the objects she is collecting. She loves to pay attention to the small things and this gives a deep feeling of sensitivity to her work.
Reviews Senior Editor
Susan Kay Anderson lives in southwestern Oregon’s Umpqua River Basin. Her long poem "Man’s West Once” was selected for Barrow Street Journal’s “4 X 2 Project” and is included in Mezzanine (2019). Anderson also published Virginia Brautigan Aste’s memoir, Please Plant This Book Coast To Coast (2021). https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/susan_kay_anderson
Poetry editor
Shelia Cooper received her MFA from Queens University of Charlotte. She also holds an MA in English and African American literature. A born educator, Shelia taught literature, writing and creative writing at Bennett College and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, North Carolina for the past eleven years combined. She recently moved to Dacula, Georgia with her husband and daughter, where she is currently working on her first collection of poetry. In her poetry, she examines themes of marriage, domestic violence, parenthood and mental illness. She is a firm believer that writing poetry can be used as a mechanism to heal trauma and build community.
Poetry editor
MT Vallarta (they/them) is a poet and researcher at Dartmouth College. A Kundiman Fellow and Roots. Wounds. Words. Inc. Fellow, their first poetry collection, What You Refuse to Remember (forthcoming October 2023) won the 2022 Harbor Editions Laureate Prize. They received their Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Riverside.
poetry reader
Hera Hong is a biracial Korean and American poet and filmmaker who is passionate about exploring trauma, gender, and the nuances of human connection. She graduated from Emerson College with a BFA in Media Arts and a minor in Creative Writing. Reach out @hongherahong.
poetry reader
Lisa Marie Brodsky (she/her) is the author of two poetry collections, We Nod Our Dark Heads and Motherlung and holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her poetry has been published in “The North American Review,” “Diode,” “Painted Bride Quarterly,” among others. She is a Poetry Therapy Practitioner offering numerous types of creativity + wellness groups through her website, Hiraethlon at www.hiraethlon.com. She lives and practices in Madison, Wisconsin.
poetry reader
Michelle Hendrixson-Miller (she/her) received her MFA from Queens University of Charlotte, where she served as poetry editor of Qu Literary Magazine. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Thrush, One, Chiron Review, Main Street Rag, One Art, Rust & Moth, Summerset Review, Twelve Mile Review, Ligeia, Laurel Review, Whale Road Review, and many others. She lives in Columbia, Tennessee.
poetry reader
Leila Farjami is an Iranian-American poet, translator, and licensed psychotherapist in Los Angeles, CA. Her work has appeared in Cathexis Northwest, Diode, Epiphany, Grey Sparrow, Nimrod, Silk Road Review, Subnivean, and more. Her poems are forthcoming inthe Guernica Editions anthology, 2025. You can find her at @Leila_Poetry.
Editor-in-Chief emeritus and Critique editor
Gregory Stapp (he/him) received his BA in Creative Writing from the University of Oklahoma where he worked for the Carl Albert Center Congressional Archives, earned a Puterbaugh Fellowship in World Literature, and won the Tomas Rivera Student Writing prize in Poetry. He received his MFA from Queens University of Charlotte and his poems have appeared or are pending publication in Lime Hawk Journal, The Ekphrastic Review, Forage, The Cortland Review, The Sierra Nevada Review, and The Southern Review, among others.
IN LOVING MEMORY
Cameron Morse (he/him) holds an MFA from the University of Kansas City-Missouri and lived with his wife and three children. He authored ten collections of poetry and his first collection, Fall Risk, won Glass Lyre Press’s 2018 Best Book Award. In memoriam, please consider donating to his family. https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-morse-family-in-their-time-of-need?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook