Best 22-Word Poets of 2022

Diane Gottlieb’s writing has appeared in Atlas and Alice, Bending Genres, Barrelhouse, 100-Word Story, The VIDA Review, The Rumpus, and Hippocampus, among other literary journals, as well as in several anthologies. She is the winner of Tiferet’s 2021 Writing Contest in nonfiction and is Prose/CNF Editor of Emerge Literary Journal. You can find her at dianegottlieb.com and on Twitter @DianeGotAuthor. Angela Acosta is a bilingual Mexican American poet and scholar from Florida. Her work has appeared in Panochazine, Pluma, Toyon Literary Magazine, and The Acentos Review. She is author of Summoning Space Travelers (Hiraeth Publishing, 2023) and Fourth Generation Chicana Unicorn (Dancing Girl Press, 2023). She is currently completing her Ph.D. in Iberian Studies at The Ohio State University. Fatima van Hattum is a PhD candidate in the Department of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies at the University of New Mexico and works as Program Co-Director at New Mexico’s statewide women’s foundation. Her poetry has been featured in: CALYX Journal, apt, Chapter House Journal, and New Moons: Contemporary Writing by North American Muslims. She lives in Santa Fe, is Muslim, and has a large, wonderful family and confusing background. Julia Watson earned her MFA from North Carolina State University. Her works have been published in The Shore, Voicemail Poems, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, among other journals. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina with her grumpy dogs. You can read more of her work at juliawatsonwriter.com.