Passionfruit Contributors

Katherine Parsons, Editor. Katherine founded The Passionfruit Review in 2022. She holds a PhD in contemporary literature, is an associate editor for Wildfire Words, and until recently served as a reader for Frontier Poetry. Her own poems have been published in online and print journals and her first pamphlet, Little Intimacy, won Frosted Fire’s ‘New Voices’ competition.

Michael Parsons, Associate Editor. Michael is a published poet, having come to writing poetry later in life. He enjoys the discipline. He is fascinated by words, imagery and the universal sense that personal writing may prompt. He worked in publishing for nearly ten years after an academic career.

Amlanjyoti Goswami, Guest Editor – Passionfruit Poetry 2023, Passionfruit Poetry 2025. Amlanjyoti Goswami’s new book of poetry, Vital Signs (Poetrywala) follows his widely reviewed collection, River Wedding (Poetrywala). Published in journals and anthologies across the world, including Poetry, The Poetry Review, Penguin Vintage, Rattle and Sahitya Akademi, he is also a Best of the Net and Pushcart nominee. His work has appeared on street walls of Christchurch, buses in Philadelphia, exhibitions in Johannesburg and an e-gallery in Brighton. He has reviewed poetry for Modern Poetry in Translation and Review 31. He also translates poetry from Assamese into English and has read at various places, including New York, Chandigarh, Bangalore, Boston and Delhi. He grew up in Guwahati, Assam and lives in Delhi.

Vanessa Lampert, Guest Editor – Here and Now 2025. Vanessa Lampert is an Acupuncturist, mentor, editor and teacher of poetry. Her work is widely published including in Magma, The Oxford Times, The Rialto, The London Magazine, Under the Radar, Oxford Poetry, and Poetry London. She was a co-founder of The Alchemy Spoon magazine and volunteers at Oxford Poetry Library and in schools across Oxfordshire. Since 2020 Vanessa has won the Café Writers prize, the Edward Thomas prize, the Sentinel prize and the Ver Poetry prize (twice). She has been placed in many other prizes including commendations in the Troubadour, Magma, Bridport, Verve, and National Poetry Competitions. Vanessa’s pamphlet ‘On Long Loan’ was published by Live Canon in 2020 and her full collection ‘Say It With Me’ was published by Seren in 2023. Poems from the collection have been published in the Daily Telegraph poem of the week and the Forward Prizes anthology 2024.

Sheila E. Murphy, Guest Editor – Love and Loss 2025. Sheila E. Murphy’s Escritoire will appear from Lavender Ink in 2025. Her most recent books are Permission to Relax (BlazeVOX, 2023), October Sequence: Sections 1-51 (mOnocle-Lash Anti-Press, 2023), Sostenuto (Luna Bisonte Prods (2023) and Golden Milk (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2020). She won the Gertrude Stein award for her book Letters to Unfinished J. Reporting Live From You Know Where won the Hay(na)ku Book Prize from Meritage Press. Murphy has authored 45 books of poetry.

Riley O’Connell, Guest Editor – In Conversation 2024. Riley O’Connell has been published in Plainsongs, Not Very Quiet, Pink Panther Magazine, Making Waves, Evocations Review, and The Santa Clara Review, the last of which she later served as Editor in Chief. She is currently an Editor for Colossus Press’s reproductive justice anthology, Colossus:Body. Twenty-five and living in the Bay Area, she writes primarily about womanhood, grief, love, and dogs.

Aaron Poochigian, Guest Editor – Passionfruit Poetry 2024. Aaron Poochigian earned a PhD in Classics from the University of Minnesota and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. His latest collection, American Divine, winner of the Richard Wilbur Award, came out in 2021. His work has appeared in Best American Poetry, The Paris Review and POETRY.

John L. Stanizzi, Guest Editor – Being in Bodies 2024. John L. Stanizzi is the author of fourteen books: Ecstasy Among Ghosts, Sleepwalking, Dance Against the Wall, After the Bell, Hallelujah Time, High Tide-Ebb Tide, Chants, Four Bits, Sundowning, The Tree that Lights the Way Home, POND, Feathers and Bones, Viper Brain and SEE. His nonfiction can be found in Literature and Belief, Stone Coast Review, Potato Soup Review,After the Pause, Adelaide, Metaworker, and many others. In 2021 he received a Creative Writing-Non-Fiction Fellowship from Connecticut’s Commission on the Arts, Culture, and Diversity, and also in 2021, Potato Soup named his storyPants best of 2021, and included it in their anthology of several years of outstanding short non-fiction.