Passionfruit Contributors

Katherine Parsons, Editor-in-Chief. Katherine founded The Passionfruit Review in 2022. She is an associate editor for Wildfire Words and a PhD candidate in contemporary literature. Her own poems have been published in various online and print journals (recently including Underwood Press, Evocations Review, The Oakland Review, and The High Window), and her pamphlet, Little Intimacy, won Frosted Fire’s ‘New Voices’ competition and was published in 2022.

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. Amlanjyoti’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.

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. Check out his website here: https://www.johnlstanizzi.com/