About NELLE

Lauren Goodwin Slaughter is the author of the poetry collections, Spectacle (2022) and a lesson in smallness (2015). She is a NEA Fellow and also a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Her fiction, poetry, and essays appear or are forthcoming in Harvard Review, Image, 32 Poems, Tupelo Quarterly, and Texas Review among many other places. She is an associate professor of English at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. Find her online at www.laurenslaughter.com.

Meridith Beretta received her BA in Creative Writing and English Literature from Berry College and her MA from The University of Alabama at Birmingham in Creative Writing. She specializes in creative nonfiction and poetry. Meridith teaches at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, and when she is not teaching, you will find her hiking the forested trails of Birmingham with her two dogs or reading with her two cats.

Angela Mitchell is the author of the story collection, Unnatural Habitats & Other Stories (WTAW Press). Her fiction has appeared in Colorado Review, New South, Carve, Midwestern Gothic, storySouth, and other journals. Her story, “Animal Lovers,” was awarded Colorado Review’s Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction; more recently, her work has been featured in The Best Small Fictions 2018 (Braddock Avenue Books). An eighth generation native of the Ozarks of southern Missouri, she now lives in St. Louis with her family.

Bri Carnley received both her BA and MA in Creative Writing from UAB in 2022 and 2026, respectively. Her poetry has been published in the journals AURA, Vulcan Historical Review, and Sanctuary, but she has recently been working in creative nonfiction. Bri works full-time as the program manager at UAB’s Writing Center, which helps students improve their writing skills. Born and raised in Alabama, she spends her time cross-stitching, listening to comedy podcasts, and watching movies with her friends and family, particularly her niece.

Kristin Entler was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at six months old, and first came out as LGBT+ several years after her diabetes diagnosis at 12 years old. She currently serves as Poetry Editor for NELLE and lives with her service-dog-in-training, Azzie, whose name is short for the Greek god of medicine. Entler can be found in publications such as The Bitter Southerner, Hobart, Gulf Stream Literary Magazine, and Poet Lore among others, as well as on twitter @findmycure.

Tucker Carden received his BA in English from Birmingham-Southern College in 2022 and his MA in English from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2026. He is a die-hard New York Knicks fan. His favorite writers include Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Jennifer Egan, and Karly Hartzman. An Alabama native, he currently lives in Birmingham.