Domenic Suntrapak is an Fresno based poet whose writing has appeared in the University of the Pacific’s Calliope magazine. He is recently graduated from Pacific with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Japanese Literature, and was a recipient of the 2018 Seamus Heaney Writing Prize.
Chain Shields is a recent graduate whose poetry has been published in Cherry Bomb Zine as well as thrice in xyr university’s award-winning literary and arts magazine, Calliope; xe has also worked as a scriptwriter for a vlog fan series and a nonfiction writer for online article site Odyssey. On xyr own time, xe writes poems, serial transformative works, and long-form fiction, and xe hopes to publish more in the future.
Betsy Harper is a writer and artist living in Sacramento, California. She is excited to be included in the first issue of Levee Magazine.
Brad Buchanan’s writing has appeared in nearly 200 journals, and he has also published two book-length collections of poetry as well as two academic books. His third book of poetry, The Scars, Aligned (A Cancer Narrative), is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. He is currently in remission from lymphoma.
Marianne Harris thinks about writing more often than she acts on those thoughts, so she is ever-grateful for those forces and voices that brought her to this point and is thrilled to be a part of the Levee Magazine community.
Luis Gael Jimenez is a freelance writer and photojournalist living in Sacramento, California.
Isabel Geerer lives in North Highlands, California, She is an American River Review alumni, serving as Assistant Editor-in-Chief as well as Managing Poetry Editor. She has worked with the amazing non-profit 916 Ink as a creative writing teacher for children from fourth grade to twelfth. Her poetry has been featured in American River Review, Tule Review, WTF Magazine, The Gap-Toothed Madness,and various 916 Ink publications.