2023-2024 Nine Muses Review Poetry Contest Winners!
Claire Beeli, “In Plot 47, Long Beach Community Garden”
Claire Beeli is an emerging writer from southern California. Her work is published or is forthcoming in Block Party Lit, Rill and Grove, and The Apprentice Writer, among others. She is her city’s 2023-2024 Youth Poet Laureate and a 2024 YoungArts winner in Poetry and Creative Nonfiction.
Shahryar Eskandari Zanjani, “Mo(u)rning of Youth”
Shahryar Eskandari Zanjani is a writer, teacher, and editor. His debut book, the culmination of over half a decade of research in linguistics, was published by Booka (2020). He has edited several books at ATU Press and is the translator of “Zahhak’s Inferno” (forthcoming in Markosia). His poetry has appeared in Sky Island Journal and Rill and Grove Poetry Journal and is forthcoming in Willow Review.
Shahryar lives in Tehran, Iran. Life in the capital of a country that is on the cusp of a major political and cultural revolution is his main creative muse.
Marina Kraiskaya, “Tyrrhenian Sea”
Marina Kraiskaya (Brown) is a Ukrainian-American poet and editor of the journal Bicoastal Review. She has been nominated for the Pushcart and Best New Poets. Find her writing in Southeast Review, Poetry International, The Los Angeles Review, Zone 3, The Shore, EcoTheo, Leavings, and Pollux, among others. Please visit mkraiskaya.com for more.