by Danuta E. Kosk-Kosicka
Understory
Jennifer Shikes Haines (she/her) is a disabled poet and retired educator based in Southeast Michigan. She enjoys exploring questions of what does, and doesn’t, connect our world. She is a member of the Brooklyn Poets Mentorship Program cohort for 2025. She has poems published or forthcoming in Corporeal, The Patterson Literary Review, coalitionworks, Tension Literary, JAKE and HNDL Mag: Highlighted Neurodivergent & Disabled Life, among others. IG @jenshaines77.
Danuta E. Kosk-Kosicka’s photographs have been exhibited in shows, art journals, and used for book covers. She is the author of two award-winning collections, Oblige the Light (CityLit Press, 2015), and Face Half-Illuminated (Apprentice House, 2014). Co-editor of Loch Raven Review, she grew up in Poland and now resides in Maryland. Website: danutakk.wordpress.com.