Soft Star Magazine

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Amy Marques is proud to be a recurring contributor to Soft Star Magazine! She penned children’s books, barely read medical papers, and numerous letters before turning to fiction, poetry, and visual art. She is a Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Net nominee and has work published in journals and anthologies including Streetcake Magazine, MoonPark Review, Bending Genres, Gone Lawn, Jellyfish Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Reservoir Road Literary Review.

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Jacquelyn "Jacsun" Shah of Houston, TX, holds: A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude), Rutgers U; M.A. English, Drew U; M.F.A. and Ph.D. English literature/creative writing–poetry, U of Houston. Her publications include a poetry chapbook, small fry; a full-length poetry book, What to Do with Red; and poems in various journals. She was Literal Latté’s 2018 Food Verse Contest winner and is the Choeofpleirn Press 2023 Kenneth Johnston non-fiction book contest winner — publication forthcoming.

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Catheryne Gagnon lives in Tiohtià ke/Montreal and works in communications in the humanitarian field. Her poetry has been published in Black Fox, Rust+Moth, Roi Fainéant Press, Quail Bell, Moon Cola and The Deadlands. When not writing, she can be found tending to her plants, searching for the best window seat at a café or looking for fireflies in dark woods. Support Soft Star on Ko-fi The beach has emptied, the tide scraping the light away.

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E. Martinez is an undergraduate student at Vassar College. They are fascinated with myth, divinity, and connection. They can be found on Twitter @marrowsweet. Support Soft Star on Ko-fi You are wax lipped and donkey tongued. Amalgam, though not named as such. Gifted girl hammered from forgegod, kissed by olive-wise and seafoam-rage. Inlaid with storm-house spirit and sun-gold charm. You are pristine, carved from stone for trapped-boy, Though he lacks a name too. He awaits a wedding, Storm-House watches.

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