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Gabriel Antonio Reed to Judge ProForma 20
Grist’s annual ProForma contest is open for submissions. If you want advice on what judge Gabriel Antonio Reed is looking for, look no further.
Poems by Melanie Manuel
Melanie H. Manuel is a Filipina American poet. She attends SDSU for her MFA in poetry. She teaches for the Rhetoric and Writing Studies and English and Comparative Literature departments. Her work has been published by Third Iris Zine, North American Review, Grist: A Literary Journal of Arts, boats against the current, Los Angeles Review, Quillkeepers Press, and The Shore. She also has forthcoming work with minnesota review, Porkbelly Press, and Zone 3 Press. Her debut chapbook, in storyboard, is now out with Bottlecap Press.
Poems by Laura Villareal
Laura Villareal is a poet and book critic. Her debut poetry collection, Girl’s Guide to Leaving, (University of Wisconsin Press 2022) was awarded Texas Institute of Letters’ John A. Robert Johnson Award for a First Book of Poetry and the Writers’ League of Texas Book Award for Poetry. Her writing has appeared in Shenandoah, Guernica, AGNI, among others.
Crystal Boys in Taipei
Li Zhuang is a PhD candidate of Creative Writing at Florida State University. In 2019, Li graduated with an MFA in Fiction Writing from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Pleiades, The Common, Denver Quarterly, The Madison Review, and The Collapsar, etc. She is the winner of 2025 SAMLA Graduate Student Creative Writing Award, a finalist for the 2025 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize and a runner up for Grist’s ProForma contest. Her poetry chapbook But Octopi Don’t Sing, published in March 2026, was selected as the runner-up for the Purple Ink Press’s Chapbook Contest by Chen Chen. Li is working on her debut novel about Chinese lesbian romantic relationships in a futuristic New York City, where memories can be altered through mnemonic navigation machines.