With the Dragon and the Devil When Mamă Pădurii knocks, we hide the recycling bin full of numbers six and seven, plaqued with the last slosh from beer cans. She smells them, or us, our shame sharper than the brânză de capră soured in the fridge. When she mutters wasteful, we’re unsure if she means us or our…
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Shanley Poole
Shanley Poole is an MFA candidate at UNC- Greensboro. Their work can be found in 14 Poems, The Quarter(ly) Journal, Pigeon Pages, and The Common. She was a 2017 fellow at the Beargrass Writing Retreat and a 2024 writer-in-residence at Azule Residency. More of their writing can be found at ShanleySub.substack.com.
Hailey Renee Brown
Hailey Renee Brown (Ren) is a professional illustrator born and raised in Mid-Michigan. A former field biologist, they moved across the country from Michigan to Pennsylvania, also moving from science to commercial art. A professionally trained artist, they attended the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art in Dover, NJ, where they were selected as the recipient of the 2017 Norman Maurer Memorial Award as well as the 2019 Joe Kubert Jumpstart Project. They have since worked for a variety of clients, from Dark Horse Comics and Dynamite Entertainment to Brink.
