
Sam Heaps is an emerging writer with work published in a few small journals including Entropy, & Of Other Things and Collected. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she was the recipient of a New Artist's Society Full Scholarship and a nominee for the James Raymond Nelson Fellowship. Heaps currently works as a Master Lecturer at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

Lindsay A. Chudzik is Editor in Chief of Feels Blind Literary and an Associate Professor of Writing at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Chiron Review, Defenestration, Dogwood, FLAR, Ghost Town, Haunted Waters Press, Map Literary, and Pembroke Magazine, among others. She is a Pushcart nominee and her creative nonfiction has been anthologized. Lindsay also is the Assistant Director of RVA Lit Walk and a recent recipient of a Gulf-South Summit Award for excellence in community-engaged teaching. She is obsessed with pizza, punk rock, and politics.

Chris Cocca has been published at venues like Hobart, perhappened, elimae, mineral lit, Schuylkill Valley Journal, 8 Poems, Brevity, Rejection Letters, The Huffington Post, and others. He studied Creative Writing at The New School (MFA, 2011). He lives and works in Pennsylvania.

Kristin Gallagher is a writer from Massachusetts who currently resides in Miami Beach. She previously practiced law in New York City and is a former Forest Beach Fellow with the South Chatham Writers Workshop.

Marina Carreira is a queer Luso-American writer and multimedia artist from Newark, NJ. She is the author of “Save the Bathwater” (Get Fresh Books, 2018) and “I Sing to That Bird Knowing It Won’t Sing Back” (Finishing Line Press, 2017). She has work featured in Queen Mob’s Teahouse, Paterson Literary Review, The Acentos Review, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Green Mountain Review, Hinchas de Poesia, wildness journal, and Harpoon Review. Marina is a recipient of the Sundress Academy for the Arts Summer 2020 Residency fellowship. As a visual artist, she has exhibited her work at Morris Museum, ArtFront Galleries, West Orange Arts Council, Monmouth University Center for the Arts, and Living Incubator Performance Space {LIPS} in the Gateway Project Spaces in Newark, NJ. She is founding member of “Brick City Collective”, a Newark-based multicultural, multimedia group working for social change through the arts.

Caitlin Scarano is a writer based in Anacortes, Washington. She holds a PhD in English an MFA in Poetry. Her hybrid chapbook The Hatchet and the Hammer was recently released by Ricochet Editions. Her debut collection of poems is Do Not Bring Him Water. Her work has appeared in Granta, Entropy, Carve, and Colorado Review. You can find her at caitlinscarano.com

Aimée Keeble has her Master of Letters in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow and is represented by Ayla Zuraw-Friedland at the David Black Agency. Aimée lives in North Carolina with her dog Cowboy and is working on her first novel. She is the grand-niece of Beat writer and poet Alexander Trocchi.
Previously published work is here: https://neutralspaces.co/aimeekeeble/
Previously published work is here: https://neutralspaces.co/aimeekeeble/

Hailey Knisley has been published in Luna Negra Magazin and Seafoam Mag. She lives in Akron, Ohio and is a graduate of Kent State University. In her free time, she enjoys sitting next to her dog and reading tarot.

Ilse Griffin received her BA in English literature and creative writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her MA in TESOL/linguistics from Hamline University. She teaches English at home and abroad, and has been published in Where is the River, Funny Looking Dog Quarterly, Pif Magazine, Talking Stick (forthcoming), and Bending Genres Journal (forthcoming). She loves in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Website: https://ilsehogangriffin.wixsite.com/mysite
Website: https://ilsehogangriffin.wixsite.com/mysite

Daliah Angelique is a Pisces moon homo and steady birth companion. She currently resides in San Diego with her wife and chihuahua, studying sociology.

Born in Cleveland Ohio, Songwriter and writer Jeff Finlin was born the grandson of Irish railroad workers (who seemed to be in the habit of leaping from trains.) Having released 12 records to critical acclaim around the world. His Song “Sugar Blue” was featured in The Cameron Crowe classic film-----“Elizabethtown.” The Chicago Sun Times writes of Jeff Finlin--- “Finlin writes with the minimalist grit of Sam Shepard and Raymond Carver. Tune in for an elusive magic.” Jeff has written two books of poetry and prose and a book on yoga and recovery. He is putting the finishing touches on a second recovery book. He has written extensively for the East Nashville Magazine and been published nationally in American Songwriter, Elephant Journal, Huffington Post as well as the other online rags.

Betsy Andrews is the author of The Bottom (42 Miles Press, 2014), recipient of the 42 Miles Press Prize in Poetry; and New Jersey (UWisc Press, 2007), winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry. Her chapbooks include She-Devil (Sardines Press, 2004), In Trouble (Boog City Press, 2004), and Supercollider, with artist Peter Fox. Betsy's poetry and essays have been published widely, most recently in Fierce: Essays by and About Dauntless Women (Nauset Press, 2018), Love's Executive Order, and Matter. She is also the co-curator, along with Kerala-based poet VK Sreelesh, of Global Poemic, a website of poems from around the world witnessing to these times of Covid-19.

Rachel Grace Mussenden is a poet living and working in Philadelphia, PA. No longer spending her waking hours arguing with strangers in bars, she is a firm believer in long showers and grapefruit seltzer. Other work can be found in The American Journal of Poetry, and is upcoming in Glass: A Journal of Poetry.

Sean Cho A. is an MFA candidate at the University of California Irvine. His work can be ignored or future-found in Salt Hill, The Portland Review, Hobart, and elsewhere. He is a staff reader for Ploughshares. In the summer of 2019 he was a Mary K. Davis scholarship recipient for the Bear River Writing Conference. Sean’s manuscript Not Bilingual was a finalist for the Write Bloody Publishing Poetry Prize.

Paulie Lipman is a former bartender/bouncer/record store employee/Renaissance Fair worker/two time National Poetry Slam finalist and a current loud Jewish/Queer/ poet/writer/performer. His work has appeared in Button Poetry, Write About Now, The Emerson Review, Drunk In A Midnight Choir, Voicemail Poems, pressure gauge, Protimluv (Czech Republic) and Prisma: Zeitblatt Fur Text & Sprache (Germany). Their poetry collections from below/denied the light and sad bastard soundtrack are available from Swimming With Elephants Publications

Olga Dugan is a Cave Canem poet. Nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart Prizes, her award-winning poems appear in The Southern Quarterly, Virga Poetry, Kweli, E-Verse Radio, The Sunlight Press, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Peacock Journal, Origins, Cave Canem: XIII, The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku, Tipton Poetry, and other publications.

Hafsa Zulfiqar (she/her) is an international student from Pakistan at Bennington College, studying literature, psychology and teaching a master class on perpetual procrastination. She's a polyglot and speaks five languages fluently and is working on the next four. You would think that would make her a master in expressing emotions via words but she still remains an amateur sassafras. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram @vibingwithabook

Despy Boutris is a writer. Her work is published or forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Southern Indiana Review, Copper Nickel, Colorado Review, The Adroit Journal, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. Currently, she teaches at the University of Houston, works as Assistant Poetry Editor for Gulf Coast, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of The West Review.

Joan Glass lives near New Haven, Connecticut. She lost her 37-year old sister and her 11-year old nephew to suicide in 2017, and is working on a collection of poems about those losses. Her poems have been published or are upcoming in The Fem, Rise Up Review, Black Napkin Press, Dying Dahlia Review, The Missing Slate, Vagabond City Lit, TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism, Literary Mama, Easy Street, and Right Hand Pointing, among others. Her poem “Bathing Scene” was featured on the Saturday Poetry Series: Poetry as it Ought to Be, and her poem “Cartouche,” was nominated for a Pushcart.

Michael Benson is one of today's most popular true-crime writers. His books--including Betrayal In Blood, Murder In Connecticut, Killer Twins, The Burn Farm, Mommy Deadliest, A Killer's Touch, Evil Season, and The Devil at Genesee Junction--tell vividly of today's most heinous criminals, and the clever and stalwart lawmen who bring them to justice. He is currently a regular commentator for two true-crime series, Evil Twins and Evil Kin, on the Investigation Discovery (I.D.) channel, and had also made guest appearances on that channel's Evil Stepmoms, Deadly Sins, Southern Fried Homicide, and On the Case with Paula Zahn. Benson's most recent crime book, The Devil at Genesee Junction, tells the story of his return to the scene of a childhood trauma. Two of his friends were murdered and mutilated near his rural home south of Rochester, N.Y. when he was nine. Those murders were never solved. As an adult and veteran true-crime writer, Benson teamed up with the mother of one of the victims and a local private investigator to heat up that cold case and propel it in a startling new direction. Benson has a B.A. with honors in Communication Arts from Hofstra University, and currently lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. He is the winner of an Academy of American Poets award.

Ed Granger’s chapbook “Voices from the First Gilded Age” was published in 2019 by Finishing Line Press. His poems have also appeared or are forthcoming in THINK Journal, Potomac Review, Little Patuxent Review, Naugatuck River Review, Rappahannock Review, and other journals.

Don Thompson has been writing about the San Joaquin Valley for over fifty years, including a dozen or so books and chapbooks. Retired from teaching in a prison, he lives with his wife, Chris, on her family’s fourth generation farm near Buttonwillow. For more info and links to publishers, visit his website at www.don-e-thompson.com.

Christian Garduno edited the writing compilation (Evolver) and a solo collection (Face). His work can be read in over 30 Literary Magazines, including Riza Press, where his poem, “The Return”, was a Finalist in their 2019 Multimedia Journal Contest. He lives and writes in South Texas with his wonderful wife Nahemie, young son Dylan, and pet bear-cub Theodore Bexar.

Ella Payne is a 2020 graduating senior at Whetstone High school, and a graduate of The Jonathan R Reynolds Young Writers Workshop. She is from Ohio.

Steve Deutsch lives in State College, PA. His recent publications have or will appear in MacQueen’s, 8 Poems, Louisiana Lit, Burningword Literary Journal, The Write Launch, Biscuit Root Drive, Evening Street, Better Than Starbucks, Flashes of Brilliance, SanAntonio Review, Softblow, Mojave River Review, The Broadkill Review, Linden Avenue Literary Journal, Panoply, Algebra of Owls, The Blue Nib, Thimble Magazine, The Muddy River Poetry Review, Ghost City Review, Borfski Press, Streetlight Press, Gravel, Literary Heist, Nixes Mate Review, Third Wednesday, Misfit Magazine, Word Fountain, Eclectica Magazine, The Drabble, New Verse News and The Ekphrastic Review. He was nominated for Pushcart Prizes in 2017 and 2018. His Chapbook, “Perhaps You Can,” was published in 2019 by Kelsay Press. His full length book, Persistence of Memory will be published by Kelsay in September 2020.

Susan Darlington is a poet and arts journalist based in West Yorkshire, UK. Her work regularly explores the female experience through nature-based symbolism and stories of transformation. It has been published in the UK and US (Fragmented Voices, Algebra Of Owls, Runcible Spoon, and Gypsy Art Show among others). Her debut collection, ‘Under The Devil’s Moon’, was published by Penniless Press Publications in 2015.

Adura Ojo is a British-Nigerian Poet & Storyteller resident in the UK. Her work has appeared in Acumen, Paris Lit Up, The Rialto, The Stockholm Review of Literature & a host of other publications. She is author of a full length poetry collection: Life is a woman Breaking Eggs. Her chapbook, Mania is due to be published later this year by WRR publishers. She is currently working on a couple of essays & a memoir.

Kyle Laws is based out of the Arts Alliance Studios Community in Pueblo, CO where she directs Line/Circle: Women Poets in Performance. Her collections include Ride the Pink Horse (Stubborn Mule Press, 2019), Faces of Fishing Creek (Middle Creek Publishing, 2018), This Town: Poems of Correspondence with Jared Smith (Liquid Light Press, 2017), So Bright to Blind (Five Oaks Press, 2015), and Wildwood (Lummox Press, 2014). With eight nominations for a Pushcart Prize, her poems and essays have appeared in magazines and anthologies in the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Germany. She is the editor and publisher of Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press.

Ashley Hajimirsadeghi’s work has appeared in Into the Void Magazine, Corvid Queen, among others. She is a poetry reader at Mud Season Review, attended the International Writing Program’s Summer Institute, and was a Brooklyn Poets Fellow. She can be found at ashleyhajimirsadeghi.weebly.com

Kenneth Pobo has a new book forthcoming from Assure Press called Uneven Steven. You can often find him in the garden or by his record player choosing what songs to listen to.

Shontay Luna is the author of two chapbooks, Reflections of a Project Girl and Recollections & Dreams. In addition her work has appeared in Rigorous, The Literary Nest, The Daily Drunk, and Silver Birch Press, among others.

Richard Vargas earned his B.A. at Cal State University, Long Beach, where he studied under Gerald Locklin and Richard Lee. He edited/published five issues of The Tequila Review, 1978-1980, and twelve issues of The Mas Tequila Review from 2010-2015. Vargas received his Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of New Mexico, 2010. He was recipient of the 2011 Taos Summer Writers’ Conference Hispanic Writer Award. He was on the faculties of the 2012 10th National Latino Writers Conference and the 2015 Taos Summer Writers’ Conference. Published collections: McLife, 2005; American Jesus, 2009; Guernica, revisited, 2014. He currently resides in Madison, WI.

The "Melisscious" Moose (Sou-rth America) or Me-saw (Ex), is a member of the 3rd World Brave subfamily and is the nicest viper in the Bahadur pit. Distinguished by the broad landscapes with words and an hourglass figure. Typically inhabits forests, inground pools, and cities. Driving and other human activities cause an expansion in range size. Reintroduced to the coast, salty air & big trees. Found in Canada, H*ll and the Pacific ocean. Diet consists of fruits, vegetables, w**d, sour candy, wild forage, healthy meat and anything that gets close enough to her mouth; 'Opportunivore'.

Poet and theater instructor Oak Morse was born and raised in Georgia. He was the winner of the 2017 Magpie Award for Poetry in Pulp Literature as well as a Semi-Finalist for the 2020 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. Awarded the 2017 Hambidge Residency, Oak’s work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Indianapolis Review, Star 82 Review, Menacing Hedge, Nonconformist Mag, Gone Lawn, and elsewhere. Oak has a B.A. in Journalism from Georgia State University and he currently lives in Houston, Texas where he teaches creative writing and performance and leads a youth poetry troop, The Phoenix Fire-Spitters. (@oak.morse)

Zak Mucha, LCSW, is a psychotherapist in private practice and an analytic candidate at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. He spent seven years working as the supervisor of an Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) program, providing 24/7 services to persons suffering from severe psychosis, substance abuse issues, and homelessness. He is the author of Emotional Abuse: A manual for self-defense and the recent poetry collection, Shadow Box.

Robert Cooperman's latest collection is THE GHOSTS AND BONES OF TROY (Kelsay Books). Forthcoming from Finishing Line Press is the chapbook, ALL OUR FARE-THEE-WELLS, Cooperman's latest love letter to the Grateful Dead.

Edwina Joe-Kamara is a first-generation Sierra-Leonean American. She is currently earning her B.A. for English at The College of New Jersey. She has a forthcoming publication of her poetry in her university’s literary magazine, Lion’s Eye. She resides in South Brunswick, NJ with her mother, Justina.

Ian C Smith’s work has appeared in, Amsterdam Quarterly, Antipodes, cordite, Poetry New Zealand, Poetry Salzburg Review, Southerly, & Two-Thirds North. His seventh book is wonder sadness madness joy, Ginninderra (Port Adelaide). He writes in the Gippsland Lakes area of Victoria, and on Flinders Island, Tasmania.

Aimee McCague is a writer from Monaghan, Ireland. She received an MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway, London and a BA in English and Spanish from NUI Galway. Aimee has had short stories published in NUIG’s Ropes publication, as well as having a story shortlisted for the James Plunkett Short Story Award. She enjoys writing short stories and attending poetry nights in Dublin.

Tanner Muller is a queer writer and spoken word performer based in Adelaide, South Australia. His work aims to raise voices that often go unnoticed in mainstream society, and explores themes of sexuality, identity and vulnerability. His self-published interrelated collection of stories ‘under/Limelight’ (2020) is available through Amazon Kindle and Apple iBooks. He holds a BA (Honours) degree from the University of South Australia in English and Creative Writing. He can be reached through his site www.tannermuller.com and Instagram: @tannermuller_.

Julie Weiss found her way back to poetry in 2018 after slipping into a nearly two-decade creative void. In 2020, she was a finalist in Alexandria Quarterly´s first line poetry contest series, as well as a finalist for The Magnolia Review´s Ink Award. Recent work appears in ArLiJo, Random Sample Review (Best of the Net Nomination, 2019), Sheila-Na-Gig online, The Blue Nib, and Kissing Dynamite Poetry, and she has poems in a handful of anthologies, as well. Originally from California, she works as a telephone English teacher in Spain, where she lives with her wife, 5-year-old daughter, and 2-year-old son. You can find her on Twitter @colourofpoetry or on her website at https://julieweiss2001.wordpress.com/

Claire Sexton is a poet and writer who focuses on issues of mental health. She suffers with depression and anxiety and was recently diagnosed with autism at the age of 51. She has been published in magazines such as Ink, Sweat and Tears, Amethyst Review, Foxglove Journal, and Reach Magazine.

Susann Cokal is the author of Mermaid Moon (Candlewick 2020), The Kingdom of Little Wounds (winner of several national awards, including a 2014 silver Printz medal from the American Library Association), Mirabilis (Penguin Putnam), and Breath and Bones (Unbridled). Her short stories have appeared in journals such as Electric Lit, Cincinnati Review, Prairie Schooner, Hayden's Ferry Review, Quarterly West, The Journal, and many others. She is also author of articles on Jeanette Winterson, Georges Bataille, The Sopranos, supermodels, zoos, and other aspects of high and pop culture. She has also published dozens of reviews in The New York Times Book Review and is editorial director of Broad Street Magazine (broadstreetonline.org). Her home on the web is susanncokal.net.

Michelle Houghton lives with her two children on a small horse farm in Ferrisburgh, Vermont. She is a 2018 graduate of Vermont College of Fine Art with an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults, where she won the Norma Fox Mazer award for stories that, like Norma Fox Mazer, asks young readers and even adults to confront tough issues.When she is not teaching children to read, you can find her conjuring stories in the woods of Northern New England. If you would like to learn more about Michelle please visit her website www.michellerhoughton.com

Camara Fairweather (b. 1998) is a biracial writer, illustrator, and poet from the United Kingdom. He has worked for BBC Three and flagship programs such as Newsnight. He is currently studying at the University of East Anglia.

Suzanne Craig-Whytock is a Canadian novelist. Her shorter pieces of writing have been featured in Slippage Lit, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Women Writers Women('s) Books, The Sirens Call, Elephants Never, The Ekphrastic Review, Mineral Lit, and Moria Literary Magazine. She was a nominee for Spillwords 2019 Publication of the Year (non-poetic). Twitter: @scraigwhytock

Kathleen McKitty Harris is a fifth-generation native New Yorker whose work has appeared in Longreads, Sonora Review, Creative Nonfiction, McSweeney's, and The Rumpus, among others. Her essay, “A Timeline of Human Female Development,” appears in the anthology MY BODY, MY WORDS (Big Table Publishing 2018). She has also performed as a storyteller at The Moth in New York City, and is the co-host of the “What's Your Story?” live-reading series in northern New Jersey, where she lives with her husband, two children, and irredeemable dog.

Alice Lowe reads and writes about life and literature, food and family. Recent essays have appeared in Ascent, Bloom, Concho River Review, Hobart, Superstition Review, and Waccamaw Review. Her work has been cited in the Best American Essays and nominated for Pushcart Prizes and Best of the Net. Alice is the author of numerous essays and reviews on Virginia Woolf’s life and work, including two monographs published by Cecil Woolf Publishers in London. Alice lives in San Diego, California; read her work at www.aliceloweblogs.wordpress.com.

Phuong Nguyen is an artist that currently practices in Toronto, Canada. She is primarily a painter and has completed her Bachelor of Fine Art at OCAD U in 2014. Nguyen is interested in people and the complexities and simplicities that come with being human. Working with mostly representational subject matter, she aims to evoke emotion, nostalgia, connection, and empathy. She has shown work in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K.

Lily Arnell is a writer, artist and musician living in New York. She is the founder and editor of Silent Auctions Magazine.

Donald Gjoka is a landscape photographer and drone pilot whose interests lie in the stories the environment expresses. Donald uses photography to capture memories of his life and the places he's traveled to. To see more of Donald's work, visit @dongjoka on Instagram.

Kelly DuMar is a poet, playwright and workshop facilitator from Boston. She’s author of three poetry chapbooks, 'girl in tree bark' (Nixes Mate, 2019), 'Tree of the Apple,' (Two of Cups Press), and 'All These Cures,' (Lit House Press). Her poems, prose and photos are published in many literary journals including Bellevue Literary Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Crab Fat, Storm Cellar, Corium & Tiferet. Kelly serves on the Board of the International Women’s Writing Guild (IWWG). She blogs her daily nature photos & creative writing at kellydumar.com/blog

Nikki Caffier Smith is a writer based in Brooklyn. Her writing has appeared in Typishly, Awakened Voices Magazine, and is forthcoming on Kaleidocast Podcast. She lives with her partner and their two ill-behaved cats.

Jabulile Mickle-Molefe is a diviner based in Chicago writing essays and poems which handle heavy themes carefully, and which are often rooted in myth or philosophy. This is her second poetry publication. Her work is forthcoming in Petrichor Journal and Triangle House Review.

Melanie Han is an avid traveler and a poet who was born in Korea, grew up in East Africa, and is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing in Boston. She has won awards from Boston in 100 Words and Lyric, and her poetry has appeared in several magazines and online publications, such as Fathom Mag, Ruminate, and Among Worlds. During her free time, she can be found eating different ethnic foods, studying languages, or visiting new countries.

Alyssa Jordan is a writer living in the United States. She pens literary horoscopes for F(r)iction Series. Her stories can be found or are forthcoming in The Sunlight Press, X–R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Fiction Kitchen Berlin, and more. When she's not writing, she's hanging out with her partner or watching too many movies. You can find her on Twitter @ajordan901 and Instagram @ajordanwriter.

Kristin Kowalski Ferragut has been a featured poet at local readings including Words Out Loud at Glen Echo, Evil Grin in Annapolis, DiVerse Gaithersburg Poetry, and Third Thursday Poetry Reading in Takoma Park. Kristin participates in local poetry and prose writing workshops and open mics, in addition to reading, hiking, teaching, playing guitar, and enjoying time with her children. Her work has appeared in Beltway Quarterly, Nightingale and Sparrow, Bourgeon, and Mojave He[Art] Review among others.

H.E. Fisher is pursuing her MFA (multi-genre) at City College of New York. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Okay Donkey, Pithead Chapel, Tiny Flames Press, and Animal Heart Press's anthology From the Ashes. She is the 2019 recipient of The Stark Poetry Prize in Memory of Raymond Patterson, and was shortlisted for the 2019 Barren Press Poetry Contest. Her lyrical essay, "Ocean: An Autobiography" (Hopper Magazine), was nominated for the Best of the Net (2019). Fisher is a writing tutor, and back-deck gardener with a wicked interest in medicinal herbs. She lives in Rockland County, New York.

ryki zuckerman is a co-editor of Earth's Daughters magazine, a feminist literary periodical (now in its 49th year of publication), and author of the gone artists (Nixes Mate Press, 2019), the skirt at the center of the universe (The Writer's Den, 2018), Three Poems (University of Buffalo Poetry Collection, 2017), a bright nowhere (Foothills Publishing, 2015), the nothing that is (Benevolent Bird Press, 2015), and her full length collection, Looking for Bora Bora (Saddle Road Press, 2013). Her poems have been published in Paterson Poetry Review, Lips, Dispatches from the Poetry Wars, and elsewhere, as well as in artvoice, Buffalo News, and in the anthologies Water (Beatlick Press) and A Celebration of Western New York Poets (Buffalo Legacy Press).

Jennifer Maloney is the current president of Just Poets, Inc., a 15-year-old poetry organization based in Rochester, NY. Please find her work in Aaduna.org, Memoryhouse Magazine, Ghost City Review, Celebratingchange.blog, and several other places. Jennifer's sober birthday is March 21, often the first day of Spring, which she finds very appropriate. She has 22 years, one day at a time, and she remains grateful.

Esther Sun is a Chinese-American writer from the Silicon Valley in Northern California and 2020 American Voices Nominee. Her poems have been recognized by the National YoungArts Foundation and the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, and they have appeared in Vagabond City, Euphony Journal, Élan, and Blue Marble Review.

Samantha Savello is a Puerto Rican-American writer and poet living in New York.

Kristen Mitchell is a queer, disabled poet living in Ypsilanti, Michigan. She's studied literature, art history, and philosophy. Her poems are published or forthcoming in Abandoned Library, i am afraid always (Wanting to Die Poetry Club), and Bhakti Blossoms (Golden Dragonfly).

Alison’s poetry has been published in various literary magazines including Hobart Pulp, Lynx Eye, and Illya’s Honey. The owner of sex positive adult boutiques in Richmond, Virginia, she currently resides in San Diego. She offers sex writing workshops in Richmond and online. Find her work and info about upcoming events at ThroatsToTheSky.com.

Lynne Schmidt is a mental health professional and an award winning poet and memoir author who also writes young adult fiction. She is the author of the chapbooks, Gravity (Nightingale and Sparrow Press), and On Becoming a Role Model (Thirty West). Her work has received the Maine Nonfiction Award, Editor's Choice Award, and was a 2018 and 2019 PNWA finalist for memoir and poetry respectively. Lynne is a five time 2019 Best of the Net Nominee, and an honorable mention for the Charles Bukowski Poetry Award. In 2012 she started the project, AbortionChat, which aims to lessen the stigma around abortion. When given the choice, Lynne prefers the company of her three dogs and one cat to humans.

Grace Gardiner is a British-American non-binary poet and burgeoning intermedia installation artist. Find them online at pearlsthatwere.tumblr.com.

Currently trudging through a first draft, Katherine DeGilio has three unpublished manuscripts, drawer full of poetry, and an intense Starbucks addiction. You can find her previous work in Third Wednesday, Maudlin House, and Monsters Out of the Closet, among others. She loves connecting with her readers and encourages them to reach out to her through her website or Twitter.

Chariklia Martalas is a Philosophy, Politics, English and History graduate from the University of the Witswatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her work has been featured in Rigwelter Press, Isacoustic, The Raw Art Review, Loch Raven Review, Bending Genres and the undergraduate literary journal The Foundationalist.

Catherine Zickgraf’s main jobs are to write poetry and fold laundry. Her work has appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Pank, Victorian Violet Press, and The Grief Diaries. Her recent chapbook, Soul Full of Eye, is published through Aldrich Press.
Read and watch her at caththegreat.blogspot.com
Read and watch her at caththegreat.blogspot.com

Steven Croft lives on a barrier island off the coast of Georgia. An Army veteran, he left Iraq and the Army to find a job in a public library where he has worked for the last thirteen years. His work has appeared in Sky Island Journal, Poets Reading the News, San Pedro River Review, Mobius: The Journal of Social
Change, Willawaw Journal, Gyroscope Review, and many other places.
Change, Willawaw Journal, Gyroscope Review, and many other places.

Carla Sameth’s debut memoir, One Day on the Gold Line, was published July 2019. Her work on blended/unblended, queer, biracial and single parenting appears in a variety of literary journals and anthologies including: Collateral Journal, Anti-heroin Chic, The Nervous Breakdown, Brevity Blog, Brain, Child & Brain Teen Magazine, Narratively, Longreads, Mutha Magazine, Full Grown People, Angels Flight Literary West, Tikkun, Entropy, Pasadena Weekly, Unlikely Stories Mark V, and La Bloga. Carla’s essay, “If This Is So, Why Am I?” was selected as a notable for the 2019 Best American Essays.
She writes about addiction, trauma and resilience with a sense of humor and connection to her readers.
Carla is a member of the Pasadena Rose Poets, a 2019 Pride Poet with the City of West Hollywood, and was a PEN in The Community Teaching Artist, She teaches creative writing at the Los Angeles Writing Project, with Southern New Hampshire University, and to incarcerated youth. Carla has an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte (Latin America). She lives in Pasadena with her wife
She writes about addiction, trauma and resilience with a sense of humor and connection to her readers.
Carla is a member of the Pasadena Rose Poets, a 2019 Pride Poet with the City of West Hollywood, and was a PEN in The Community Teaching Artist, She teaches creative writing at the Los Angeles Writing Project, with Southern New Hampshire University, and to incarcerated youth. Carla has an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte (Latin America). She lives in Pasadena with her wife

Lindsay Launt is originally from upstate New York and now seeks refuge in Annapolis, Maryland. She teaches biology, but in her free time, finds inspiration in horrendous Tinder dates. Most of her writing comes to her in her dreams, and most of her editing involves drinking and pacing in her modest two-bedroom apartment.

Johnny Longfellow is the editor of Midnight Lane Boutique. A Pushcart Prize nominee, his poetry has been published at The Five-Two, The Literary Hatchet, The Rotary Dial, The Sonnetarium, and elsewhere. You can read more of Johnny's published verse by visiting "Heeeeere's Johnny . . . Longfellow, That Is."

Trevor Eichenberger is a queer Midwestern writer. He is currently enrolled at Nebraska Wesleyan University where he is pursuing a BA in English. His work has been featured on the Allegory Ridge website and in Impossible Archetype and other journals. He enjoys Cranberry Vodkas and listening to Lana Del Rey.

Richard-Yves Sitoski is a songwriter, spoken word artist and the 2019-2021 Poet Laureate of Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada. He has released two books of verse, brownfields (Ginger Press, 2014) and Downmarket Oldies FM Station Blues (Ginger Press, 2018), and a CD of spoken word poetry, Word Salad (2017). He came within 8 years of obtaining a Ph.D. in Classics. His house is drafty, his wife is patient, and his cat is impossible.

Bruce McRae, a Canadian musician currently residing on Salt Spring Island BC, is a multiple Pushcart nominee with over 1,600 poems published internationally in magazines such as Poetry, Rattle and the North American Review. His books are ‘The So-Called Sonnets’ (Silenced Press); ‘An Unbecoming Fit Of Frenzy’; (Cawing Crow Press); ‘Like As If’ (Pski’s Porch); ‘Hearsay’ (The Poet’s Haven).

Joseph Mills has published six collections of poetry, most recently "Exit, pursued by a bear." Last year, he published his debut collection of fiction, "Bleachers: 54 linked fictions." More information about his work can be found at www.josephrobertmills.com

Carla M. Cherry is an English teacher and poet who loves to go to Chicago-style stepping sets in her spare time. Her work has appeared in various publications, including Anderbo, Eunoia Review, Dissident Voice, Random Sample Review, MemoryHouse Magazine, Bop Dead City, Picaroon Poetry, Streetlight Press, and Ariel Chart. She has published four books of poetry through Wasteland Press: Gnat Feathers and Butterfly Wings, Thirty Dollars and a Bowl of Soup, Honeysuckle Me, and These Pearls Are Real.

Sam J Grudgings is a poet perpetually on the edge of collapse, he grew up in the punk scene and found Poetry entirely by accident but finds it's much more comfortable here. He can be found in his home City of Bristol or meandering up and down the UK shouting things at audiences and trying to disprove gravity amongst other things

Tom Montag's books of poetry include: Making Hay & Other Poems; Middle Ground; The Big Book of Ben Zen; In This Place: Selected Poems 1982-2013; This Wrecked World; The Miles No One Wants; Imagination's Place; Love Poems; and Seventy at Seventy. His poem 'Lecturing My Daughter in Her First Fall Rain' has been permanently incorporated into the design of the Milwaukee Convention Center. He blogs at The Middlewesterner. With David Graham he recently co-edited Local News: Poetry About Small Towns.

Nathan Dennis is a Manhattan based playwright and poet of Floridian extraction. He holds a BFA from Tisch, NYU. He has been published in Punchdrunk Press, The Cabinet of Heed, Neologism Review, Crepe & Penn, and The Magnolia Review. His most recent play, Circle of Shit, was produced at Dixon Place in March, 2019.

Addison Miller is a poet and physics student at City College of San Francisco, researching nano-materials at San Francisco State University. His writing focuses on experiences with addiction.

Laurie is currently working on her Bachelor’s degree in Professional and Creative Writing. She enjoys writing Poetry and Creative Nonfiction, and is in the process of curating a collection of classic novels. Her favorite authors are Roxane Gay and Jane Austen, and her favorite poets are W.B. Yeats and Pádraig Ó Tuama. Her favorite pastimes are traveling, drinking coffee & tea, and reading poetry.

Ellen Chang-Richardson (she/her) is a Canadian poet, writer and editor of Taiwanese and Cambodian-Chinese descent. Winner of the 2019 Vallum Award for Poetry, Ellen's work has appeared in Ricepaper, Bywords.ca, Cypress Press, and more. Her debut chapbook Unlucky Fours is now available with Anstruther Press (2020). In addition to her writing, Ellen is the founder of Little Birds Poetry and the cofounder of Riverbed Reading Series. She splits her time between Ottawa & Toronto. www.ehjchang.com.

John Amen is the author of several collections of poetry, including Illusion of an Overwhelm, a finalist for the 2018 Brockman-Campbell Award. His poetry and prose have appeared recently or are forthcoming in American Literary Review, Colorado Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Brooklyn Rail, and Prairie Schooner, among other publications. He founded and is the managing editor of Pedestal Magazine.

Meg Tuite is author of four story collections and five chapbooks. She won the Twin Antlers Poetry award for her poetry collection, Bare Bulbs Swinging. She teaches writing retreats and online classes hosted by Bending Genres. She is also the fiction editor of Bending Genres and associate editor at Narrative Magazine. http://megtuite.com

Max Heinegg's poems have been nominated for Best of the Net, and The Pushcart Prize. He has been a finalist for the poetry prizes of Crab Creek Review, December Magazine, Cultural Weekly, Cutthroat, Rougarou, Asheville Poetry Review, the Nazim Hikmet prize, and the Joe Bolton award from Twyckenham Notes. Recent work appears in Thrush, Nimrod, and Love's Executive Order. Additionally, He is a singer-songwriter and recording artist whose records can be heard at www.maxheinegg.com

A.A. Jones is the operations manager for an independent journalism nonprofit called NonDoc anda break-up coach living in the Midwest. Her non-fiction work appears in The Momentum of Hope and her poetry appears on sticky notes all over her own walls. She is both uplifting and irreverent, and if you like that you can find her at www.indiangelajones.com.

Salam: Sayagha: Nelson Mandela once stated, “Education is the most powerful weapon for changing the world”. Being born in Lebanon where ensuring safety is an everyday target, I believe that education is our only savior. I am a fearless feminist, and with that being said, existing as a female equals being a second degree citizen, with limited rights to negotiate. So as I grew up, I decided to leave my print on this world and work towards a society of equality. A little seed was planted in my soul to bud later as a deep desire for a blossoming education. Time helped me excel, and later I realized that reaching a step away from my PhD degree meant that I was fulfilling my purpose here.
I am proudly a full-time High School teacher at a school my roots belonged to, a part-time university instructor, and blessed to be a mother of two. This makes me the caregiver of my little family of four, which is easy to put into words, yet hectic to live! To my luck, reading is my escape from reality. There, I transfer to a vivid world with all its calmness and crowdedness, happiness and sadness that only real life urges’ could disconnect me from.
Successful stories create hope; reading others’ hardships reduces our struggles; thinking outside the box downsizes mountains of frustration. So, alongside my formal education, I aim to create a sense of unity through the power of words: a world where stories represent a temporary paradise.
I am proudly a full-time High School teacher at a school my roots belonged to, a part-time university instructor, and blessed to be a mother of two. This makes me the caregiver of my little family of four, which is easy to put into words, yet hectic to live! To my luck, reading is my escape from reality. There, I transfer to a vivid world with all its calmness and crowdedness, happiness and sadness that only real life urges’ could disconnect me from.
Successful stories create hope; reading others’ hardships reduces our struggles; thinking outside the box downsizes mountains of frustration. So, alongside my formal education, I aim to create a sense of unity through the power of words: a world where stories represent a temporary paradise.

Nicole Goodwin is the author of Warcries, as well as the 2018-2019 Franklin Furnace Fund Recipient, the 2018 Ragdale Alice Judson Hayes Fellowship Recipient, 2017 EMERGENYC Hemispheric Institute Fellow as well as the 2013- 2014 Queer Art Mentorship Queer Art Literary Fellow. She published the articles “Talking with My Daughter…” and “Why is this Happening in Your Life…” in the New York Times’ parent blog Motherlode. Additionally, her work '"Desert Flowers" was shortlisted and selected for performance by the Women's Playwriting International Conference in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Evan James Sheldon's work has appeared recently in the Cincinnati Review, Ghost Parachute, and Litro. He is a Senior Editor for F(r)iction and the Editorial Director for Brink Literacy Project. You can find him online at evanjamessheldon.com.

Gene Lynn is a writer who loves dirty realism and also Crocs.

Alisa Severina is a writer, teacher, and cat fosterer currently living in West Kirby, England. Originally from Toronto, she worked as a reader for The Rights Factory and sat on the editorial board of The Goose before moving abroad to teach English in Spain and England. Her work has been published in The Goose and The Leviathan. She hopes to return home one day with bohemian hair.

Eros Salvatore is a writer and filmmaker living in Bellingham, Washington. This half male/half female human has made two short films that have appeared in film festivals and won awards, and is currently working on a magical realism novel entitled "Psyche's Dream." S/he holds a BA from Humboldt State University and is the foster mother/father of a beautiful young Afghani woman from Swat, Pakistan. Eros delights in discovering what it means to be both male and female, and in giving young men and women the parental love they missed out on. www.erossalvatore.com

Tetman Callis is a writer living in Chicago. His short fictions have appeared in such magazines as NOON, New York Tyrant, Atticus Review, Queen Mob’s Tea House, Cloudbank, and COVER Literary Magazine. He is the author of the memoir, High Street: Lawyers, Guns & Money in a Stoner’s New Mexico (Outpost 19, 2012), and the children’s book, Franny & Toby (Silky Oak Press, 2015). His website is https://www.tetmancallis.com, and his Facebook page is at https://www.facebook.com/tetman.callis.

Caroline Piermattei lives in the Chicago area with her family. When she is not writing she is calmly explaining how necessary auto insurance is. Although her life in pictures is cute; sweet Pug, delicious meals and wacky friends, she has a deep side that comes out in her writing. Life can be dark and hard and this is what she thinks about while waiting for the pizza dough to ris

Shawn is the co-founder of Love In The Trenches (LITT), a non-profit foundation that supports parents of those afflicted with addiction through support groups, education and resources. Loveinthetrenches.org Her work has appeared in Pithead Chapel, Smokelong Quarterly, Five-on-the Fifth, Literary Mama, and she has a debut novel releasing from Blackstone Publishing in 2021. Currently she is finishing her MA in Writing at Johns Hopkins this semester. Follow her on Twitter @shawn_nocher

Elli Perry is a musician, visual artist, herbalist, and activist. Her career as a singer-songwriter has spanned twenty years, while her work in the visual arts has indiscriminately spanned mediums. Whether painting and drawing, tinkering with old film cameras, or compulsively knitting and embroidering, she is most content while making- the what is often not particularly relevant. As an herbalist, she works passionately in the field of health justice activism, seeking to support medically underserved communities and individuals. She lives sheltered in place with her husband in the northern Chihuahuan Desert, on the border of Mexico and Far West Texas.

Cory Marshall Spangler is an American author and photographer. His work has been published in AGITATE: Film Photo Broadsheet. He publishes his own handmade periodicals of experimental documentary photography and narrative: Native Stranger Periodical. He and his wife live sheltered in place in the West Texas desert.

Kiki Dy is a recent MLitt graduate from The University of Aberdeen which she decided to attend in an emotional fugue. She is allowing herself a victory lap in the Scottish bar scene and inboxes of literary magazines before she likely decides to attend law school or perfect her quiche as a welcome lark.

Joe Cottonwood has worked as a carpenter, plumber, and electrician for most of his life. He lives in La Honda, California, where he built a house and raised a family under (and at the mercy of) giant redwood trees. His most recent book is 99 Jobs: Blood, Sweat, and Houses. More at: joecottonwood.com.

Ankita Chatterjee is a student at UC Berkeley whose work has appeared most recently in Barren Magazine. In her free time, she daydreams.

Shannon is a writer from Baltimore, MD, with an MFA in poetry at UNLV. Her work has appeared in Colorado Review, Rust + Moth, After the Pause, American Chordata, and elsewhere.

Jasmine Ledesma can be found eating diamonds in New York. Her work has been published over twenty times in places such as Vagabond City and Gravitas.

Renee Firer is the Founding Editor of Twist in Time Literary Magazine and co-host of The Dear World, Love History Podcast. When she’s not working on her novel, she can be found reading, napping, and trying to tame curls Medusa would envy. Her work has appeared in Drabblez Magazine, Brave Voices Magazine, and Moonchild Magazine. Follow her on twitter @ReneeFirer or check out her writing on reneefirer.com.

Courtney Brooks is an MFA candidate at Northern Arizona University, as well as the web editor for Thin Air Magazine’s online journal. She reads and writes fabulism and horror, and is a sucker for an all-black outfit. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Tunnels, Thin Air Online, and Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review. When not buried in her work, you can probably find her in the woods somewhere, thinking about monsters.

John Tustin began writing poetry again a little over a decade ago after a hiatus just as long. fritzware.com/johntustinpoetry contains links to his published poetry online.

Darcy Smith works as a sign language interpreter. Recent poems have appeared and are forthcoming in New Reader Magazine, Sequestrum, Coe Review, Two Thirds North, January Review and River Heron Review. A Buddhist and a kickboxer, her current obsession is executing a six punch three kick combination with perfect form.

Stephen House: has had many plays commissioned and produced. He has won two Awgie Awards (Australian Writer’s Guild), an Adelaide Fringe Award, First Prize Rhonda Jancovich Poetry Award for Social Justice, The 2018 Goolwa Poetry Cup, and First Prize 2018 SA Writers / Feast Short Story Prize. He has been shortlisted for: 2019 Lane Cove Literary Award, 2018 Overland’s Fair Australia Fiction Prize, Patrick White Playwright and Queensland Premier Drama Awards, the Tom Collins, Robyn Mathison, Eyre writers, Mindshare Poetry Prizes (and more), The Di Cranston Script Award, and a Greenroom best actor Award. He has received Australia Council Canada and Ireland literature residencies, and an Asia-link India literature residency. He has seen his work published, including by Currency Press, Australian Script Centre, Australian Poetry Journal, Third Street Writers USA, Page and Spine, The Blue Nib Ireland (and more), and many literary websites internationally. His poetry collection “real and unreal” was published by ICOE Press Australia in 2018. He continues to perform his acclaimed monologues, “Appalling Behaviour” and “Almost Face To Face” widely.

Vancouver author, poet, songwriter Bill Arnott is the author of Gone Viking: A Travel Saga, and Allan’s Wishes. His work is published in Canada, the US, UK, Europe and Asia with numerous features in literary journals, magazines and anthologies. Bill has a 2019 poetry prize and honorable mention from Pandora’s Collective and is a finalist for the Whistler Independent Book Awards with Gone Viking: A Travel Saga.

Maeve McKenna lives in Sligo, Ireland. Her poetry was shortlisted, highly commended and longlisted in 2018/19 in several international poetry competitions. She has been published in The Cormorant and Sonder Magazine and widely online. Maeve is working towards her first collection of poetry.

Paul Kohn is a writer of poetry and short stories, performer of spoken word, and creator of music and lyrics. Residing in South Australia, Paul writes as a way of processing, understanding, healing and growing, and shares his work in the hope that it helps others too. Words at https://paulrkohn.wordpress.com/ Twitter: @mikanopy

Gina is a poor (wo)man’s poet. She is educated in heart break, loss and grief; with achievements in degradation, shame and contempt. She has the highest accolades in mental illness diagnoses, and she is her therapist’s favourite patient (uncredited). You might recognize her from notable presentations of bathroom graffiti, intrusive thoughts, and shadows in the corner of your eye. Small-town bred, big city livin’ fat girl who has been torn apart and reassembled again a thousand times over.

Matthew MacDermant is an editor and contributor for The Philadelphia Partisan. When he isn’t musing with pen and notebook in hand, he is working with the Student Conservation Association building trails, organizing political education and environmental justice events, or hiking in Philly and New Jersey area parks. He is currently researching and writing about the links between colonialism and climate disaster, and exploring identity, gender, ecology, and the embodied experience through short fiction and poetry. You can reach him at [email protected] or follow him on Twitter @QuillandNote.

Dáire Shaw is a queer Irish multimedia woman artist from Wicklow, Ireland. She works primarily across art, photography and poetry, and is currently pursuing an honours degree as a mature student in art photography at the Institute of Art, Design & Technology, (IADT) Dunlaoghaire, Ireland. Dáire is deeply interested in exploration of the human condition at its intersection with meaning through art and symbolism. On a personal level Dáire uses her art in an attempt to understand herself and the interstices she shares with the world she finds around her. Dáire lives in Wicklow with her daughter, Ruby Rose, two small dogs, Sadie and Penelope Tuppence, and a calico cat named Clementine Clover Murderpaws.

Bill Abbott is the author of "Let Them Eat MoonPie," the history of poetry slam in the Southeast, and the poetry collection, "(My Life and Other) Train Wrecks of Ohio." He has been published in Ray's Road Review, Radius, The November 3rd Club, Flypaper Magazine, and The Sow's Ear. Mr. Abbott lives in Ohio and teaches creative writing at Central State University.

Blanka Pesja is a poet and a painter. As a senior educator she designs creative art education for pop musicians at the Amsterdam University of the Arts in the Netherlands. She produces experimental albums with her DarkEnsemble. As a feminist she promotes a support group of young talented female musicians. She considers herself to be a neuro-divergent and gender-fluid individual who likes to be on her own. She lives close to the sea with a teenage son and a grumpy old cat.

Iva Delic writes music fuelled by emotional awareness and intelligent storytelling. Her catalogue spans genres. Most notably, her work has screened internationally (TiFF’s Canada Top 10, Raindance, DOC LA, etc.). She is a resident of the Canadian Film Centre and an active member of the Screen Composers Guild of Canada.

Alston Cobourn was raised in Raleigh, North Carolina. She earned both a B.A. in English with minors in Creative Writing and Journalism and a Masters in Library Science from UNC-Chapel Hill. After several years in Virginia and Texas, she has returned home to North Carolina, where she resides with her husband, two dogs, and two cats. Alston writes as a means of exploring her relationship to the external world and the collective human experience.

Monica Rowley teaches high school in Brooklyn, New York. Her poetry has appeared in the Irish literary journal, The Ogham Stone as well as in Yes, Poetry, and The Bread Loaf Journal. She has won numerous grants and awards, among them a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant and the Roxanne McCormick Leighton Fellowship for study at Bread Loaf.

jojo Lazar is a Boston based multi-genre vaudevillian artist. She is a multi-instrumentalist in qweirdo art rock band 'Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys,' and has a crypt folk duo, 'Death and the Poetess.' She teaches ukulele, creative writing, and zine-making and holds a BA from Brandeis and an MFA in poetry from Lesley University. Her paintings and poetry have been published in A Bad Penny Review, Connotation Press, Zen Monster, For Sale, Delirious Hem, Faggot Dinosaur, her own zines and others'. (jojoLazar.com)
You can find paintings, blackout poetry, and collages at @poetessS on social media. And free-to-stream music via ArmyofToys.com, Spotify, and http://deathandthepoetess.bandcamp.com
You can find paintings, blackout poetry, and collages at @poetessS on social media. And free-to-stream music via ArmyofToys.com, Spotify, and http://deathandthepoetess.bandcamp.com

Alice Aster AKA Lilumnia is a installation artist, writer, musician, costume designer and theater/ puppeteer/ performance artist based out of NYC and New Orleans, LA. She is a founding member of the international artists collective CELF- (Catabasis Exaltation Liberation Front)- an anti-institution, anti-capitalist spiritual/religious collective that consists of lower class shadow feminine mystics creating outdoor installations and poetic-situationist theory that confronts the confines of capitalist society upon magical mad women and femmes thru ritual theater, political actions and creating situations in which we can thrive in our intensity and entirety of enchantment. She Has Organized and Directed performances with other radical, DIY collaborators around the world and made installations through Lubov Gallery in Chinatown, NY, At the French Embassy in NY, At Art Basel in Miami, At the Anarchist Theater Festival in Montreal, at The Mudlark Public Theater in New Orleans and throughout the hidden and visible public spaces of our streets, hearts and minds. She is the Author of the Madness and Witchcraft- A Mad Witch Manifesto, Exorcism of the Domesticated Wildflowers, and Powers of Whorer. She is chronically ill and in school getting a masters herbalist degree in trauma informed clinical herbalism with a focus on the intersections of complex developmental trauma and mad witches (also known as crazy people). She never went to college, is a highschool drop out and is a white trash freak queer.

Andrew Hahn has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. His poetry and essays can be found at Lunch, Pithead Chapel, Crab Creek Review, Crab Orchard Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Rappahannock Review among others. He is a Best of the Net nominee and was listed in Yes, Poetry's Best and Faves of 2019. His chapbook God's Boy is available from Sibling Rivalry Press.

Sarah Loverock is a writer and MA Creative Writing student from England. She writes across a wide range of fiction, creative non-fiction, and experimental works. She won first prize for her debut story, Consider an Apartment in Washington, in the Streetcake Prize for Experimental Writing, 2019. Her work is often informed by her own life experiences and causes that matter to her—ranging from abuse recovery to sexuality to British politics. She is available on Twitter @asoftblueending.

Katie Schmid is a writer living in Nebraska. She has published prose at The Rumpus and The Establishment, and poetry at Redivider and Hayden's Ferry Review, most recently.

Emily is a former scientist turned writer and independent editor, and is now contracted primarily by research institutes, including the Cleveland Clinic and Medical College of Wisconsin. Her writing has been published in numerous scientific and literary journals, and she regularly contributes narrative nonfiction and photography to Chickpea magazine. Her short story titled ‘I Killed Your Wife’ was recently nominated for The Pushcart Prize.

Haley Moore is a screenwriting and film MFA student from Baton Rouge, LA. She's won awards for her plays, screenplays, and photography, but she would like to learn how to write fiction that's not cringey (as a teenager, she used to write chapters and chapters of 'Lord of the Rings' fanfic, but hopefully it will never see the light of day). Haley loves rock climbing and peanut butter and olives and cartoons.

Sheree Shatsky writes short fiction believing much can be conveyed with a few wild words. Recent work has appeared at trampset, Fiction Kitchen Berlin, Bending Genres, Virtual Zine and New Flash Fiction Review with work forthcoming at The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Fictive Dream and Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art. She is twice-nominated for Best Microfiction 2020 by Fictive Dream and MoonPark Review. Read more of her work at shereeshatsky.com . She tweets @talktomememe.

Arya F. Jenkins is a Colombian-American poet and writer whose fiction has been published in journals and zines such as About Place Journal, Across the Margins, Anti-Heroin Chic, Cleaver Magazine, Eunoia Review, Five on the Fifth, Fictional Café, Flash Fiction Magazine, The Matador Review, Metafore Literary Magazine, Mojave Literary Review, Vol. 1 Sunday Stories Series, and Provincetown Arts Magazine. Her fiction has received several nominations for the Pushcart Prize. She is the author of three poetry chapbooks. Her short story collection BLUE SONGS IN AN OPEN KEY (Fomite, 2018) is here: www.aryafjenkins.com.

Kristin Tenor finds inspiration in life's quiet details and believes in their power to illuminate the extraordinary. Her work has appeared in both print and online literary journals, including The Midwest Review, Spelk Fiction, Bending Genres, Milk Candy Review, Spry Literary Journal, River Teeth-Beautiful Things, among others. She also volunteers her time as a reader at CRAFT Literary. Learn more at www.kristintenor.com or follow her on Twitter @KristinTenor.
Christopher Miguel Flakus is a poet and writer living in Houston, Texas. He has published work in The Huffington Post, Akashic Books: Mondays are Murder Noir Series, Outlaw Poetry, Glass Mountain Magazine, In Recovery Magazine, Glass Poetry, Black Heart Magazine, and elsewhere. In 2017 he was awarded the Fabian Worsham Prize for fiction. He was one of the editors responsible for The University of Houston-Downtown’s literary magazine, The Bayou Review, during their special prison issue which focused on the writings of authors serving sentences in Texas prisons. He is the author of the chapbooks Bear Down Into Hell With Me (As Only a True Friend Would), and Thirst, and Other Poems through Iron Lung Press, as well as the chapbooks Christiana, and Dialogos: Mexico City Poems from Analog Submission Press. Christopher was the recipient of an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellowship in August 2019. He is the co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of Defunkt Magazine, a literary magazine focused on outsider writing and art. Christopher is currently an MFA candidate in fiction at the University of Houston. He grew up in Mexico City and writes in both English and Spanish.

Monica Dickson is a short fiction writer from Leeds, UK. Her work has appeared in Ellipsis, Spelk, Dear Damsels, jmww and other places. She has been longlisted for the Reflex Flash Fiction competition and the Bath Flash Fiction award, shortlisted for the TSS Flash 400, and won the 2019 Northern Short Story Festival Flash Fiction Slam. Her story 'Receipts' was selected for the inaugural Best of British and Irish Flash Fiction list (BIFFY50).

Margo LaPierre (www.margolapierreeditor.com) is a queer, neurodivergent Canadian poet and editor. Her debut collection of poetry, Washing Off the Raccoon Eyes, was published by Guernica Editions in 2017. She is a poetry selector for Bywords.ca, board member of Arc Poetry Magazine, and Membership Chair of the Editors Canada Ottawa-Gatineau branch. Her work has been published in filling Station, CAROUSEL, Train Journal, and others. She/her.

Chella Courington is a writer and teacher whose poems and stories appear in numerous anthologies and journals including Spillway, The Collagist, and The Los Angeles Review. Her novella, Adele and Tom: The Portrait of a Marriage, is forthcoming from Breaking Rules Publishing. Originally from the Appalachian South, Courington lives in Santa Barbara, CA, with another writer. <chellacourington.net>.

gina marie bernard is a heavily tattooed transgender woman, retired roller derby vixen, and full-time English teacher. She lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. She has recent work appearing in Not Very Quiet, Penultimate Peanut, Meow Meow Pow Pow, and Monkeybicycle. Her daughters, Maddie and Parker, share her heart. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and the Pushcart. She is pursuing an MFA at the University of Arkansas, Monticello.

G. Allen Wilbanks is a member of the HWA, and has published over 100 short stories in Deep Magic, Daily Science Fiction, The Talisman, The Colored Lens, as well as several other magazines and anthologies. He is the author of two short story collections, and the novel, When Darkness Comes. For more information about the author, please visit his website at www.gallenwilbanks.com.

J.L Moultrie is a native Detroiter, poet and fiction writer who communicates his art through the written word. He fell in love with literature after encountering Fyodor Dostoyevsky, James Baldwin, Rainer Maria Rilke and many others. He considers himself a literary abstract artist of modernity.

Richard Coombes is a writer and translator (Russian to English) who lives and works in the United Kingdom. Richard’s output includes original songs and stories, and English translations of Russian songs, poems and stories.
In 2015 Richard decided to take early retirement in order to build his own language business. This included re-formatting himself into a translator, along with seeking ways to enjoy all the artistic activities which had given him pleasure over the years. His translation of Akim Tarazi’s novella ‘Retribution’ was included in an anthology entitled ‘Contemporary Kazakh Literature’, published in September 2019 by Cambridge University Press. Within the next month, B O D Y magazine will be publishing Richard’s translation of Elena Dolgopyat’s short story ‘Science’.
Richard’s own creative writing has, to date, resulted in suites of short stories for both adults and children, and a novella.
In 2015 Richard decided to take early retirement in order to build his own language business. This included re-formatting himself into a translator, along with seeking ways to enjoy all the artistic activities which had given him pleasure over the years. His translation of Akim Tarazi’s novella ‘Retribution’ was included in an anthology entitled ‘Contemporary Kazakh Literature’, published in September 2019 by Cambridge University Press. Within the next month, B O D Y magazine will be publishing Richard’s translation of Elena Dolgopyat’s short story ‘Science’.
Richard’s own creative writing has, to date, resulted in suites of short stories for both adults and children, and a novella.

Mehreen Ahmed is an award-winning, internationally published and critically acclaimed author. She has written Novels, Novella, Short Stories, Creative Nonfiction, Flash Fiction, Academic, Prose Poetry, Memoirs, Essays and Journalistic Write-Ups. Her works have been anthologised and translated in German, Greek and Bengali. She was born and raised in Bangladesh. At the moment, she lives in Australia.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5267169.Mehreen_Ahmed
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5267169.Mehreen_Ahmed

Fran-Claire Kenney is a Queer writer, filmmaker, and student based near Philadelphia. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Coffin Bell Journal, New Pop Lit, Wards Lit Mag, and X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, and she has been awarded by The Short Story Project. Kenney is on Twitter, YouTube, and probably the couch as well.

Leonie Charlton is a writer of poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction. She lives in Argyll in Scotland. Her first book, ‘Marram’, a travel memoir, will be published by Sandstone Press in March 2020.

Abby Cothran (she/her) is an Austin based writer from the Carolinas. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in journals such as Mookychick, Pink Plastic House, and Common Ground Review. She is currently an MFA candidate at Texas State University. You can find her on twitter and instagram @abbzsz.

Stephen Jackson lives and writes in the Pacific Northwest. He is the originator of the Seattle small press So Many Birds publishing (SMBp), which produced the literary magazine Harness, and the biannual youth-focused chapbook Future+Present. His poems have most recently appeared or are forthcoming in The American Journal of Poetry, Chronotope, Dream Noir, The Fictional Café, Grey Sparrow Journal, IHRAF Publishes, Impossible Archetype, and Nightingale & Sparrow. Please follow him at https://twitter.com/fortyoddcrows

Ruby McCann is a flâneuse and creative practitioner experimenting across genres and disciplines active on the Glasgow literary scene. A former Chair of the Scottish Writers’ Centre (2014-2017), she is a founding member of Cheeky Besom Productions, an Artist Collective hosting the Glasgow Literary Lounge in the east end.

Joshua holds an MFA from Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine, an MFA from the University of Mississippi, and an M.A. from Pittsburg State University. Recent poems are forthcoming or have appeared in Apalachee Review, Muse/A, and The Museum of Americana. He is a doctoral candidate in Literature at Ohio University, and he now lives near Tampa, Florida

Ellen Austin-Li is an award-winning poet published in Artemis, Writers Tribe Review, The Maine Review, Mothers Always Write, Memoir Mixtapes, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, Masque & Spectacle, Green Briar Review, Panoply, the Riparian anthology (Dos Madres Press, 2019), and other places. Her first poetry chapbook, Firefly, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2019. Ellen is active at Women Writing for a Change in Cincinnati and has studied poetry in many workshops. A recipient of the Martin B. Bernstein Fellowship in Poetry, she begins the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program in Winter 2020. Ellen lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, with her husband.

Lanika Yule is a tender hearted scribe in possession of a Bachelor’s Degree in Women’s Studies and Political Science from Simon Fraser University. She lives in the Fraser Valley on land traditionally stewarded by the Stó:lō Nation. Her writing churns through themes of environmental degradation and embodiment, and applies a feminist lens to pick apart the spaces where these motifs intersect.

Tom C. Hunley is a professor in the MFA/BA programs at Western Kentucky University. His most recent poems appeared in Rattle, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, and Michigan Quarterly Review. What Feels Like Love: New and Selected Poems is forthcoming from C&R Press.

Jon Riccio is a PhD candidate at the University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Writers. A 2018 Lambda Poetry Fellow, recent work appears in decomP, SUSAN, Wordgathering, and Word For/ Word, among others. He received his MFA from the University of Arizona.

Allison Blevins received her MFA at Queens University of Charlotte. She is the author of the chapbooks Susurration (Blue Lyra Press, 2019), Letters to Joan (Lithic Press, 2019), and A Season for Speaking (Seven Kitchens Press, 2019), winner of the Robin Becker Prize. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Harbor Review and the Poetry Editorial Assistant at Literary Mama. Her work has appeared in such journals as Mid-American Review, the minnesota review, Raleigh Review, Sinister Wisdom, and Josephine Quarterly. She lives in Missouri with her wife and three children where she co-organizes the Downtown Poetry reading series. For more information visit http://www.allisonblevins.com.

Juleigh Howard-Hobson’s poetry has appeared in Mooky Chick, Ghost City Review, The Ginger Collect, Coffin Bell, Dreams and Nightmares, Mandragora (Scarlett Imprint), Lift Every Voice (Kissing Dynamite), and many other places. She homesteads off grid with ghosts for neighbors in the forests of the Pacific Northwest. Noms: The Pushcart, The Best of the Net and the Rhysling. Pronouns: She/Her Twitter: ForestPoet@PoetForest

Brian Rihlmann was born in New Jersey and currently resides in Reno, Nevada. He writes free verse poetry, and has been published in The Blue Nib, The American Journal of Poetry, Cajun Mutt Press, The Rye Whiskey Review, and others. His first poetry collection, “Ordinary Trauma,” (2019) was published by Alien Buddha Press.

Jackie Costilla is currently a broadcasting student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with an interest in creative writing. Recently, she's begun writing fiction solely for personal enjoyment and for her fiction class assignments for which she's written several short stories. She is a Mexican-American and her culture often inspires her writing.

Linda Imbler believes poetry has the potential to add to the beauty of the world. Her poetry collections include “Big Questions, Little Sleep,” “Lost and Found,” “The Sea’s Secret Song,” “Red Is The Sunrise,” and “Pairings,” a hybrid ebook of short fiction and poetry. Examples of Linda’s poetry and a listing of publications can be found at lindaspoetryblog.blogspot.com.

Helen McClory's first story collection On the Edges of Vision, won the Saltire First Book of the Year 2015. Her second story collection, Mayhem & Death, was written for the lonely and published in 2018. The Goldblum Variations was published by Penguin in October 2019. Her stories have been listed as part of the Best of British and Irish Flash Fiction 2018 and placed in the Anthology The Best of British Fantasy 2018. There is a moor and a cold sea in her heart

Nancy Jasko currently works in a basement waterproofing sales department, daydreaming about retirement. Some of Nancy’s poems have been published in print or on-line journals such as Bacopa, Califragile, Sunflower Collective, and Scarlet Leaf Review. What Nancy doesn’t capture in words will often be photographed, sketched, or painted. Recently, she has participated in the August Postcard Poetry Fest (2019), creating 30+ watercolor postcards and poems to send to the participants in her group.

Robert Libbey lives in East Northport, NY. He has writing in or soon at: Cabinet of Heed, Ligeia, Spelk, Drunk Monkeys, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine and other places. He is a reader with Literary Orphans.

Mike Neis lives in Orange County with his family, and works as a technical writer for a commercial laboratory. His fiction has appeared in Stonecrop Review. Besides writing, his outside activities include church music, walking for health, and teaching English as a second language.

Susanna Connelly Holstein’s work has appeared in the poetry anthology Fed From the Blade (Woodland Press), Voices on Unity: Coming Together, Falling Apart and Diner Stories (Mountain State Press) and other short story anthologies and poetry journals. A traditional Appalachian storyteller and ballad singer and mother of five sons, Holstein blogs and writes from her home in rural Jackson County, West Virginia.

darlene anita scott is a poet and visual artist based in Richmond Virginia. Recent poetry appears or is forthcoming in Rock! Paper! Scissors!, Kestrel, Stonecoast Review, and Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era (Routledge 2019), a volume of poetry and scholarship she co-edited with Drs. Emily Ruth Rutter, Sequoia Maner, and the late Dr. Tiffany Austin. scott's photography has recently been featured in Auburn Avenue, Barren Magazine, and Hot Metal Bridge.

Lillian Sickler is a poet, writer, and birth doula living in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her work can be found in Cosmonauts Avenue, Ghost City Press, Vagabond City, Noble / Gas Quarterly, and upcoming issues of Hobart and Crab Fat Magazine. She has two cats named Laika and Junebug.

Hallie Nowak is a poet and artist writing and residing in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where she is in pursuit of her undergraduate degree in English at Purdue University Fort Wayne. She is the author of Girlblooded, a poetry chapbook (Dandelion Review, 2018). Her work can also be read in Okay Donkey and Noble/Gas Qrtrly where her poem, “A Dissected Body Speaks,” was awarded runner-up for the 2018 Birdwhistle Prize. Twitter: @heyguysimhallie Instagram: @hallie_nowak

R. K. Wolford writes poetry and tiny stories in the San Francisco Bay area.

Arianna Miller is a second-year MFA student at the University of South Carolina. She is from Long Island, New York. Her poetry often intermingles nature, sexuality, and femininity. Her work has been featured in multiple issues of Gandy Dancer, a SUNY-wide literary magazine, and Anti-Heroin Chic's first print anthology, What Keeps Us Here: Songs from the Other Side of Trauma. After completing her degree, she hopes to move to the Carolina coast and return to teaching middle/high school students English Language Arts.

Chloè McMurray is a graduate from Union College with her BA in English and Sociology. She won the Rushton Writing Competition for Poetry in 2017, 2018, and 2019 at Union. Her poetry has been featured in the online magazine Across the Margin, Georgia State’s publication The Underground, national publication The Albion Review, and more. For nearly five years, she has led a creative writing and social justice group in her hometown of Middlesboro, Kentucky which caters to minority group youth, primarily those in the LGBTQ+ community.

Sammi LaBue is a fiction writer and sometimes poet based out of Brooklyn, NY. Some of her other creative work has been published in [PANK] Magazine, Hobart, Permafrost Magazine, So to Speak, and elsewhere. She received an MFA in fiction writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and is the founder and leader of Fledgling Writing Workshops.

Anne Graue is the author of a chapbook, Fig Tree in Winter, and has poetry appearing in SWWIM Every Day, The Plath Poetry Project, Rivet Journal, Mom Egg Review, and Into the Void and in numerous print anthologies. Her reviews have been published in Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Whale Road Review, The Rumpus, New Pages, and Asitoughttobemagazine.com.

Kaitlyn Perrin is a Canadian poet, and flight attendant with Air Canada, Jazz. She flies the skies; living her life like a choose your own adventure book, and documenting her experiences through poetry. Kaitlyn studied English Literature, and Creative Writing, at Concordia University, where her passion for poetry flourished before taking off in the aviation world.
Since starting with Jazz, Kaitlyn has put together a three hundred poem anthology on the adventures of flight. She also has a chapbook published with, The Blasted Tree, entitled Chewing Around the Rind, and a poem published online with, Shot Glass Journal.
Kaitlyn is a passionate hiker, drawing inspiration from the natural world, and an avid reader of fantasy fiction, and horror. She strives to write with creativity, wisdom, and wit; paying it forward by sharing her life.
Since starting with Jazz, Kaitlyn has put together a three hundred poem anthology on the adventures of flight. She also has a chapbook published with, The Blasted Tree, entitled Chewing Around the Rind, and a poem published online with, Shot Glass Journal.
Kaitlyn is a passionate hiker, drawing inspiration from the natural world, and an avid reader of fantasy fiction, and horror. She strives to write with creativity, wisdom, and wit; paying it forward by sharing her life.

Alec Solomita is a critic, fiction writer, and poet. He’s published fiction in the The Mississippi Review, Southwest Review, The Adirondack Review, and The Drum Literary Magazine (audio), among other publications. He was shortlisted by the Bridport Prize and Southword Journal, and named a finalist by the Noctua Review. His poetry has appeared in Algebra of Owls, The Galway Review, The Blue Nib, Oddball Magazine, Poetica, and elsewhere. His poetry chapbook, “Do Not Forsake Me,” was published by Finishing Line Press in 2017. He lives in Massachusetts.

A. Martine is a trilingual writer, musician and artist who goes where the waves take her. She might have been a kraken in a past life. She's an Assistant Editor at Reckoning Press and a Managing Editor of The Nasiona. Her collection of poems, "AT SEA" was shortlisted for the 2019 Kingdoms in the Wild Poetry Prize. Some of her fiction, nonfiction and poetry can be found or is forthcoming in: Berfrois, The Rumpus, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Metaphorosis, South Broadway Ghost Society, RIC Journal, Lamplight, TERSE. Journal, Gone Lawn, Truancy Mag, Crack the Spine, Confessionalist Zine, Ghost City Review, Rogue Agent, Boston Accent Lit, Déraciné, Porridge Magazine. Follow her @Maelllstrom/www.maelllstrom.com.

Kara Synhorst lives in Sacramento with her wife and two kids as head weirdo in a house full of weirdos. She is a procrastinating poet and musician, as well as a high school teacher of English and Theory of Knowledge. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Now, Sacramento News and Review, Found Poetry Review, Ophidian, Convergence-journal, and others.

Christina Thatcher is a Creative Writing Lecturer at Cardiff Metropolitan University. She keeps busy off campus too as the Poetry Editor for The Cardiff Review, a tutor for The Poetry School, a member of the Literature Wales Management Board and as a freelance workshop facilitator across the UK. Her poetry and short stories have featured in over 40 publications including The London Magazine, Planet Magazine, The Interpreter’s House and more. Her first collection, More than you were, was shortlisted in Bare Fiction's Debut Poetry Collection Competition in 2015 and published by Parthian Books in 2017. Her second collection, How To Carry Fire, is forthcoming with Parthian Books in 2020. To learn more about Christina’s work please visit her website: christinathatcher.com or follow her on Twitter @writetoempower.

Linda Neal Reising is a native of Oklahoma and a member of the Western Cherokee Nation. Her work has been published in numerous journals, including The Southern Indiana Review, Nimrod, and The Comstock Review. Linda’s poems and fiction have also been included in a number of anthologies, including And Know This Place: Poetry of Indiana and Lost on Route 66: Tales of the Mother Road. She was named the winner of the 2012 Writer’s Digest Poetry Award. Her chapbook, Re-Writing Family History, was a finalist for the 2015 Oklahoma Book Award and was named the winner of the 2015 Oklahoma Writers’ Federation Poetry Book Prize. Most recently, her work was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Jacqueline Lapidus, co-editor of The Widows’ Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival (Kent State University Press), has lived in New York, Crete, Paris, Provincetown, and Boston. She has three published collections: Ready to Survive, Starting Over, and Ultimate Conspiracy (poetry), as well as poems and articles in many periodicals and anthologies.

Ankh Spice is a poet from New Zealand, obsessed with the sea. He is a survivor of various asylums, including mental health facilities and a University where an English degree once happened despite him. He has tried unsuccessfully to hide the mess of his flayed-open heart, so feels like there’s little choice but to write about it. His poetry keeps breathing, even when it hurts, and is inspired by natural themes and images, and how difficult and beautiful it is for humans to keep putting one foot in front of the other (yet we do).

Niki Falkner is an English and Creative Writing teacher in picturesque Upstate New York, where she resides with her husband, son, daughter, dog, and perpetually hungry goldfish—actually, they are all hungry, all the time, for snacks, cuddles, and really good stories.

Ellen LaFleche's poetry collection Walking into Lightning (Saddle Road Press, 2019) was written in the aftermath of her husband's death from ALS. She has published three chapbooks. Her awards include the Philbrick Poetry Prize, the Tor House Poetry Prize, the Ruth Stone Poetry Prize, the New Millennium Poetry Prize, and the Joe Gouviea Outermost Poetry Prize, among others. She is an assistant judge of the North Street Book Prize.

Carol Parris Krauss is a poet from the Tidewater region of Virginia. She enjoys teaching, gardening, and college football. Her work can be found in online and print magazines such as Story South , New Verse News, Plainsongs, and the Amsterdam Quarterly. In 2018, she was recognized by the University of Virginia Press as a Best New Poet. More of her work can be found at https://www.carolparriskrausspoet.com/.

Juliet Lauren is an eighteen year old emerging writer. Her work can be found in Gold Wake Live, SkyIsland Journal, and Ghost City Review. Her manuscript and poetry have also been recognized numerous times by the Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards. She currently resides in Florida and you can follow her on instagram at jadore.mon.amour

Heather Pease is a Poet focusing on work centering on feminism, sexuality, identity, culture, mental health, politics and domestic violence. Heather writes from her own experiences, aiming to give voice to vulnerability, making people think about subjects often stigmatized through society. She writes to empower others whose voices remain unheard. She lives in Orange County, CA.

Megan E. Freeman writes poetry and fiction, and her debut poetry collection is Lessons on Sleeping Alone, published by Liquid Light Press. Her poetry has appeared in multiple anthologies and literary journals, and as commissions by the Los Angeles Master Chorale and Ars Nova Singers. Megan lives and writes near Boulder, Colorado. www.meganefreeman.com

Frank Mundo is the author of a poetry chapbook, Touched by an Anglo (Kattywompus Press) and The Brubury Tales, a novel in verse.

Hailing from Eugene Walter's Kingdom of Monkeys, John Miller was sent so frequently to look up words during supper, he toted a dictionary to the table. Paper Nautilus Press published his chapbook, _Heat Lightning_ in 2017. A Pushcart nominee, Miller’s poetry has appeared in Rockvale Review, Kindred, Lahar Berlin, and elsewhere.

Kat Heatherington is a queer ecofeminist poet, sometime artist, pagan, and organic gardener. She lives south of Albuquerque, NM in Sunflower River intentional community, sunflowerriver.org. Kat’s work primarily addresses the interstices of human relationships and the natural world. She has one chapbook, The Bones of This Land, printed by Swimming with Elephants Publications in fall 2017, available on amazon.com. Her work can be read at https://sometimesaparticle.org, or on instagram at @sometimesaparticle.

Originally from the west of Ireland, Anne Casey is a Sydney-based writer/editor and author of two poetry collections--where the lost things go (Salmon Poetry 2017) and out of emptied cups (Salmon Poetry 2019). Anne has worked for 30 years as a journalist, magazine editor, media communications director and legal author. Her writing and poetry rank in The Irish Times newpaper’s ‘Most-Read’ and are widely published internationally--The Irish Times, Entropy, apt, Murmur House, Quiddity, Barzakh, FourXFour (Poetry Northern Ireland), Cordite, The Canberra Times, Verity La and Plumwood Mountain among others. Anne’s poetry has won/shortlisted for awards in Ireland, Northern Ireland, the USA, the UK, Hong Kong, Canada and Australia. She is Senior Poetry Editor of Other Terrain Journal and Backstory Journal (Swinburne University, Melbourne) and a member of several literary editorial boards.

Joan Leotta is a writer and story performer who loves playing with words on page and stage. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Silver Birch, Hobart, Fourth River, Pinesong, When Women Write, The Ekphrastic Review. Her essays, articles, and short stories are also widely published. She has been a featured performer in many festivals , libraries, museums, and fairs telling tales of food, family, and strong women form her own life and in folklore. Her first chapbook of poems, Languid Lusciousness with Lemon, is out from Finishing Line Press. When she is not writing or performing you can find her walking the beach hunting for seashells.

Kersten Christianson is a raven-watching, moon-gazing Alaskan. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing (University of Alaska Anchorage), has authored two books of poetry - What Caught Raven’s Eye (Petroglyph Press, 2018) and Something Yet to Be Named (Aldrich Press, 2017) – and is the poetry editor of Alaska Women Speak.

Kathryn O’Driscoll is a spoken word poet, writer and activist from Bath. Her poetry discusses, among other things, mental illness, disability, feminism, isolation and loss.
PHOTO by Tyrone Lewis
at Process Productions.
PHOTO by Tyrone Lewis
at Process Productions.

Megan Burns is the publisher at Trembling Pillow Press (tremblingpillowpress.com). She is the co-director of the New Orleans Poetry Festival (nolapoetry.com) and runs The Dragonfly: A Poetry and Performance Healing Space in New Orleans (noladragonfly.com). She has been hosting the Blood Jet Poetry Reading Series in New Orleans for the last six years. She has been most recently published in Jacket Magazine, Callaloo, New Laurel Review, Dream Pop, and Diagram. She has three books Memorial + Sight Lines (2008), Sound and Basin (2013) and Commitment (2015) published by Lavender Ink. She has four recent chapbooks: Dollbaby (Horseless Press, 2013), i always wanted to start over (Nous-Zot Press, 2014), her Twin Peaks chap, Sleepwalk With Me (Horse Less Press, 2016) and Beneath the Drift (Red Mare, 2019). Her fourth collection, BASIC PROGRAMMING, was published by Lavender Ink in 2018.

Karla Linn Merrifield, a nine-time Pushcart-Prize nominee and National Park Artist-in-Residence, has had 700+ poems appear in dozens of journals and anthologies. She has 14 books to her credit. Following her 2018 Psyche’s Scroll (Poetry Box Select) is the newly released full-length book Athabaskan Fractal: Poems of the Far North from Cirque Press. Her Godwit: Poems of Canada (FootHills Publishing) received the Eiseman Award for Poetry. She is a frequent contributor to The Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, and assistant editor and poetry book reviewer emerita for The Centrifugal Eye.

Brittany Franclemont is originally from New York. She graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas with a BFA in creative writing. She has previously been published in Gravel and r.kv.r.y.

Lauren Davis is the author of Each Wild Thing’s Consent (Poetry Wolf Press). She holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars, and her poetry, essays, stories, and fairy tales can be found in publications such as Prairie Schooner, Automata Review, Hobart, and Ninth Letter. Davis teaches at The Writers’ Workshoppe in Port Townsend, Washington.

Sarah CR Clark is a writer in St. Paul, MN. She is a winner of the St. Paul Sidewalk Poetry Contest and has published poetry in the St. Paul Almanac; newspaper articles in the Park Bugle; scripts with Arches & Bells; and theological writings with Augsburg Fortress Press. Currently, she is working on numerous books for children. Sarah lives with her husband, two young children, an orange cat named Homer, and four backyard hens. She is often adventuring outside, usually in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota.

Darrell Petska's poetry has appeared in Muddy River Poetry Review, Chiron Review, Star 82 Review, Verse-Virtual and widely elsewhere (see conservancies.wordpress.com). Darrell has tallied a third of a century as communications editor for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 40 years as a father (seven years as a grandfather), and almost a half century as a husband.

Tara Campbell (www.taracampbell.com) is a writer, teacher, Kimbilio Fellow, and fiction editor at Barrelhouse. Prior publication credits include SmokeLong Quarterly, Masters Review, Monkeybicycle, Jellyfish Review, Booth, Strange Horizons, and Escape Pod/Artemis Rising. She's the author of a novel, TreeVolution, a hybrid fiction/poetry collection, Circe's Bicycle, and a short story collection, Midnight at the Organporium. She received her MFA from American University in 2019.

Helen Moore is an award-winning British ecopoet and socially engaged artist based in Sydney. She has published three poetry collections, Hedge Fund, And Other Living Margins (Shearsman Books, 2012), ECOZOA (Permanent Publications, 2015), acclaimed as “a milestone in the journey of ecopoetics” and her recently released third, The Mother Country (Awen Publications 2019), exploring British colonial history in Scotland and Australia and themes of personal, social and ecological dispossession. www.helenmoorepoet.com

Matthew M.C. Smith is a Welsh poet. He writes a lot of poems about his late father, Michael. Matthew's poetry is published in Fevers of the Mind, Seventh Quarry and Re-side. He is at Twitter @MatthewMCSmith facebook: @MattMCSmith and is the editor of micropoetry press @BlackBoughpoems

Michelle Tinklepaugh's (aka Watters) poetry has been published in various literary magazines in the past four years. A 2020 pushcart nominee and Best New Poet nominee. Her latest poems have appeared in Misfit Magazine, The Inflectionist Review, and Rat's Ass Review. She lives in South Burlington, VT with her daughter Annabelle.

Donald Zirilli is a Healthcare IT manager with an English Literature BA from Drew University. He was the editor of Now Culture, the art editor of The Shit Creek Review, and remains a Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow Gang Member. His poetry was published in The 2River View, Anti- poetry magazine, ART TIMES, Nerve Lantern, River Styx, and other periodicals and anthologies. He and his wife live in an idyllic corner of New Jersey with two dogs and two cats. His chapbook, Heaven’s Not For You, was published in September, 2018, by Kelsay Books.

Lannie Stabile has work published in Entropy, Pidgeonholes, Glass Poetry, 8 Poems, Okay Donkey, and many others. In addition, she was named a finalist for the 2019/2020 Glass Chapbook Series, a semifinalist for the Button Poetry 2018 Chapbook Contest, and a three-time nominee for Best of the Net 2019.

Jenny Mitchell is joint winner of the Geoff Stevens’ Memorial Poetry Prize; a prize winner in the Ware and Segora poetry competitions; and has been highly commended/commended in several competitions. Her work has been broadcast on Radio 4 and BBC 2, and published in various magazines, including The Rialto, The New European, The Interpreter’s House and with Italian translations in Versodove. She has work forthcoming in Under the Radar.
A debut collection, Her Lost Language, is published by Indigo Dreams. https://www.indigodreams.co.uk/jenny-mitchell/4594685475
A debut collection, Her Lost Language, is published by Indigo Dreams. https://www.indigodreams.co.uk/jenny-mitchell/4594685475

Jennifer Bradpiece was born and raised in the multifaceted muse, Los Angeles, California, where she still resides. Despite chronic pain and illness, she tries to collaborate as often as possible with multi-media artists on projects. Her poetry has been published in various anthologies, journals, and online zines, including Redactions, Mush Mum, and The Common Ground Review. She has poetry forthcoming in The Bacopa Literary Review and Moria, among others. Jennifer's manuscript, Lullabies for End Times will be released in early 2020 by Moon Tide Press.

Mairi Murphy graduated last autumn from Glasgow University with a Masters in Creative Writing. Whilst there she was awarded the 2016 Alistair Buchan Prize for poetry for which two of her poems were also shortlisted. Recently her poems have been published in ‘Shetland Create’, ‘From Glasgow to Saturn’ and ‘Crooked Holster (an anthology of crime). She is the editor of ‘Glasgow Women Poets’ published by Four-em Press in 2016, of which she is the co-founder.

Laura Winkelspecht is a poet and writer from Wisconsin who writes with the hope of finding some lightning among the lightning bugs. She has been published in One Sentence Poems, Rat’s Ass Review, The Lake, Poets Reading the News, and others. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee.

Marianne Hales Harding is a poet, essayist, and playwright living in a small town in the western United States. She has been published in Dialogue, Segullah, Helicon West, and Rocky Mountain Runners. Her work has been produced across the U.S. and her award-winning play Hold Me was adapted for film. She is honored to influence young writers at three universities and co-founded Provo Poetry, a non-profit dedicated to bringing poetry into the community at large.

Jessica Sabo is a lesbian writer born in Southern California and currently living in Orlando with her wife and two rescue pups. Jessica’s work centers on topics of gender identity, mental health, and trauma, specifically delving into her own experiences relating to a 20-year battle with an eating disorder. Her work can be found in Adelaide Literary Magazine and ChannelMarker Magazine. Her first collection of poetry is forthcoming.

Mantz Yorke is a former science teacher and researcher living in Manchester, England. His poems have appeared in a number of print magazines, anthologies and e-magazines in the UK, Ireland, Israel, Canada, the US, Australia and Hong Kong. His collection ‘Voyager’ will be published in February 2020.

Marcelle Newbold loves poetry as a way of exploring inner ramblings. She addresses the immediate emotions of the day to day: the unexceptional as precious moments. A member of The Dipping Pool writing group, she lives in Cardiff, Wales where she trained as an architect.

In the summer Winston’s a hare chasing bicycles and winning by miles, in the winter he talks to moths about art, categorises lost jigsaw pieces and tunes the family silver. Each night his word art returns to roost guided by starlight from the pages of journals published worldwide, back to his floating home in Calderdale UK where he lives with his seventeen-year-old cat, Sausage. www.winstonplowes.co.uk

Elvis Alves is the author of Bitter Melon (2013), Ota Benga (2017), and I Am No Battlefield But A Forest Of Trees Growing (2018). He lives in New York City with his family.

Mala Rupnarain is a Psychology student at the University of Athabasca. Her most recent poems have been published in 2019 issues of Eclectica magazine and High Shelf Press. She’s also received a Critic’s Choice award from the Ontario-based Big Pond Rumours ezine.

Rene Simon is a 48-year-old artist and writer of African, Native, and European-American descent. She has battled mental health, addiction, and trauma issues throughout her life, and now works as a Certified Peer Specialist, supporting others on the same journey. She has been writing poetry since teenage angst first hit at age eleven, but sincerely hopes it has improved with age. She loves the expansive capacity of words, from the hunt for specificity of language, to the opportunity to evoke visceral responses in an audience and aspires to transport the reader into a crystallized moment in time or state of emotion that can be felt beyond the words. She has been published in journals such as Terra Preta Review and The Green Light Literary Journal. She is currently living in Madison, WI with her partner, teenage daughter, and four unruly little dogs. You can see more of her work at https://rene-simon.squarespace.com.

Erica Plouffe Lazure is the author of a flash fiction chapbook, Heard Around Town, and a fiction chapbook, Dry Dock. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Carve, Greensboro Review, Meridian, American Short Fiction, The Journal of Micro Literature, The Southeast Review, Fiction Southeast, Flash: the International Short-Short Story Magazine (UK), Vestal Review, National Flash Fiction Day Anthology (UK), Litro (UK), and elsewhere. She lives and teaches in Exeter, NH and can be found online at ericaplouffelazure.com.

Rasmenia Massoud is from Colorado, but after a few weird turns, ended up spending several years in France. Once she learned all she could about fromage and cassoulet, she moved on to England, where she writes about what she struggles most to understand: human beings. She is the author of the short story collections Human Detritus, Broken Abroad, and You Don't See Any of This. Some of her stories have been published at places like The Foundling Review, The Lowestoft Chronicle, Literary Orphans, The Sunlight Press, Molotov Cocktail, Flash Fiction Offensive, Black Heart Magazine, Every Day Fiction, Big Pulp, and Underground Voices. You can visit her at: http://www.rasmenia.com/

Jen Ippensen lives and writes in Norfolk, Nebraska. Her work can be found in Every Day Fiction, Midwestern Gothic, Collective Unrest, and Spelk among other places. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Nebraska-Omaha. You can find her at www.jenippensen.com or on Twitter @jippensen.

Bonnie E. Carlson writes amidst the saguaros and chollas in the Sonoran Desert. She has published stories in magazines such as The Broadkill Review, Flash Fiction Magazine, Across the Margin, Fewer Than 500, and The Normal School. Her novel Radical Acceptance has just been released and a short story collection, No Strangers to Pain is forthcoming in late 2020.
I look forward to hearing from you
I look forward to hearing from you

Amy Barnes has words at a variety of sites including McSweeney’s, Parabola, The New Southern Fugitives, FlashBack Fiction, Flash Fiction Magazine, Elephants Never, Detritus, Marias at Sampaguitas, Lucent Dreaming, Burning House Press, Lunate Fiction and others. She’s a reader for CRAFT and Narratively and Associate CNF Editor for Barren Magazine.

Christian Gilman Whitney is a former high school English teacher. He was born and raised in Western Massachusetts, and earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College. He has been published in Gulf Stream Literary Magazine.

Caroljean Gavin’s work has appeared in places such as Barrelhouse, Bending Genres, Queen Mob’s Teahouse and is forthcoming from The Conium Review. Currently she is raising two rambunctious sons, writing one rambunctious novel, and looking for a home for her restless story collection.

Norbert Kovacs lives and writes in Hartford, Connecticut. He has published stories in Westview, Thin Air, STORGY, Corvus Review, and The Write Launch. His website is www.norbertkovacs.net.

Bobbi Lurie is the author of "The Book I Never Read,""Letter from the Lawn,""Grief Suite," and "the morphine poems." She is currently working on a book about / with Marcel Duchamp.

Originally from America's heartland, Missouri, Sherry has never had a dog that could retrieve. She writes short stories, flash fiction and monologues which have won prizes, placed on shortlists and been performed in London and Scotland. She lives on a farm in the Scottish Highlands where she watches clouds, pets cows, goes for long walks and scribbles stories. Her published work can be found on www.uksherka.com or follow her @Uksherka.

Maggie Rawling Smith is a mother, a writer, a filmmaker and an activist who hopes to leave this world just a bit better off than she found it. She and husband Brian co-adapted his collection of short stories into the Amazon Prime series Spent Saints, as well as co-adapting the festival-winning documentary Tucson Salvage, which she also directed. She is the author of Delilah M Pennymaker, a forthcoming young adult novel and is an advocate for the LGTBQ + community.

Originally from England, Jo now lives outside New York City. Her short stories, creative nonfiction, and poetry have recently appeared, or are forthcoming, in Okay Donkey, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Brevity Blog, Nine Muses Poetry and others. Jo has been a writer in residence at L'Atelier Writers for two years, and is currently studying for her MFA and working on a collection of short fiction. She can be found on twitter @jovarnish1.

Jenny Robbins loves to drive aimlessly over country roads, bang on the drums, and practice comedy routines on unsuspecting strangers at dinner parties. She was accepted into the 2019 Yale Writing Workshop for her first manuscript, the fictional thriller ‘Her Madness’ about a serial killer therapist. From 2017-2019 she worked in New York City as a producer on HBO documentaries like Bleed Out and Say Her Name. In 2018, Her romantic comedy screenplay ‘Shiksa to Mikvah’ was selected as a top 10 finalist for both ‘Studio Fest’ and ‘Hollywood Casting & Film’ competition. Her dark comedy pilot ‘The Port’ was selected as a finalist in the 2017 Filmmatic Screenplay Awards. She has travelled to a fisherman village in Guatemala to direct the short documentary ‘Chajil Ch’upup,’ and self-published a children’s book ‘Josephina Just Won’t Jive.’ While studying Film and Television in Toronto she collaborated with Humber College and the Toronto Police Department to create ‘3rd Degree,’ an educational crime game that took 2nd place at the national Polytechnics Canada awards. Jenny currently resides in Weston Missouri and in the company of cats, is writing her memoir.

Born in New York City and primarily raised in Appalachia, Eleanor Willis Haddad currently lives in Nashville, TN. She studied writing at Belmont University. Eleanor is a member of The Porch Writers Collective. She has told stories on-stage for Tenx9 Nashville. Her stories can be heard on their podcast. Eleanor is currently working on a memoir, Unpacking, chronicling her journey of self-discovery following a near-nervous breakdown, the result of a carefully constructed busy life designed to distract from the pain of a chaotic childhood and the suicide of her brother.

Connie Timpson is an award winning journalist who traveled the world, bringing home a little something to make her heart fuller from all those who shared their fears, dreams, and demands. She is a free-lance writer, speaker, author, and an ardent believer that we learn the most when we listen. Connie believes that every human being has something extraordinary about them, a gift, a talent, or way of looking at the world that is unique. She believes only land mass, and beliefs, separate us. Understanding can bridge that gap. She lives in Jacksonville, Florida with her husband, three much loved cats, song birds, and tiny tree frogs providing an amusing chorus of wonder. Connie Timpson is the author of: “You Are EXTRAordinary – Three E’s to an EXTRAordinary Life” (Amazon) “Kissed by Blue Moon”- Night Magic Falls to Earth – a children’s story of believing in wonder (Amazon) “Quest for the Dark Crystal” – To Heal a Rupture in the Universe – a tale of loss and gaining all the wonder of the Universe (Amazon) Connie’s personal story of caring for her mother who died of cancer “With Dignity and Grace” is nestled among the pages of a Canadian anthology, “You Are Not Alone – 52 stories of Hope. (All proceeds to benefit hospice care.) http://www.connietimpson.com/Connie Timpson.com
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Michelle Chikaonda has won the Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker Scholarship for writers of color from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and The Seventh Wave’s Rhinebeck Residency. She is a VONA fellow, a Tin House Summer Workshop alumna, and a Pushcart prize nominee. She is currently published in The Globe and Mail, Catapult, Hobart, and the Kalahari Review, among others. You can read more of her work at www.michellechikaonda.work

Melissa is an aspiring writer, living in the greater Nashville area. Her love of plants is what inspired her to seek a part-time job as seasonal help at Bates Nursery in Nashville, TN. Five years later, she is now the greenhouse manager. Melissa and her husband are high school sweethearts, and they have two children. Melissa and Tim grew up in upstate SC, but have lived in the Nashville area for about 23 years. Their eighteen-year-old daughter is a freshman at Middle Tennessee State University. Their twenty-one-year-old son is in a life skills program at a local high school. The topic of this essay pertains to the challenges of parenting an adult son with autism. Melissa has blogged off and on for about 10 years as a form of therapy. With encouragement from friends and family, she recently began writing a series of autobiographical essays. She hopes to see some of her work published in the near future.

Rasma Haidri grew up in Tennessee and makes her home on the Norwegian seacoast. She is the author of As If Anything Can Happen (Kelsay, 2017) and three textbooks. She holds a M.Sc. in reading from the University of Wisconsin and is a current MFA candidate at the University of British Columbia. Her writing has been widely anthologized and published in literary journals including Nimrod, Prairie Schooner, Sycamore Review, and Muzzle. Awards for her writing include the Southern Women Writers Association award in creative non-fiction, a Wisconsin Academy of Arts, Letters & Science poetry award, a Best of the Net poetry nomination, the Riddled with Arrows Ars Poetica Prize. Her latest poetry collection placed second in Brickhouse Books' Charlene Kushner Wicked Woman Prize. She is a reader for the Baltic Residency program and the recipient of a Vermont Studio scholarship.

Diane’s most recent publications include:Barn House, Notre Dame Review, Obra/Artiface, Reservoir, Southern Fugitives, Spry Literary Review, Watershed Review, Superstition Review, Windmill Review, Tishman Review, Whiskey Island, Quarterly, Fourth River, Lunch Ticket, Split Lip Review,The Offing, Elke: A little Journal, Punctuate, Outpost 19, McNeese Review, The Meadow, Burnt Pine, Story South,and Five to One.

Bill Merklee is a writer, graphic designer, and musician with an affinity for short stories, short films, and very short songs. His writing has appeared in Ghost Parachute, Gravel, Columbia Journal, StoryBytes, The Record, New Jersey Monthly, and the HIV Here & Now project. He lives in northern New Jersey. Occasional outbursts on Twitter @bmerklee.

Genevieve has been an internationally acclaimed supermodel for 15 years. She is now a certified Grief Recovery Specialist, with a focus on one-on-one workshops teaching the Grief Recovery Method as developed by John James and Russell Friedman.

O F Cieri is a novelist and amateur historian in New York City. Lord of Thundertown, her first novel, will be published by Nine Star Press in 2019.
Her work examines the lifelong effects of trauma, grief and poverty through the exaggerated lens of the supernatural. She draws from the Romantic literary movement and contemporary horror in order to magnify her plots’ conflict with surreal elements.
Her historical research is largely focused on the cultural impact of science and art, where the phrasing of new scientific advancements are influenced by culture writing, and vice versa.
O F Cieri is a contributor to Expat Press and the Antiques Freaks podcast. She has appeared on the Write podcast to promote her debut novel, Lord of Thundertown. She collects art, insects and antiques and can usually be found in close proximity
For further information about her writing, visit her on twitter @obfvscate
Her work examines the lifelong effects of trauma, grief and poverty through the exaggerated lens of the supernatural. She draws from the Romantic literary movement and contemporary horror in order to magnify her plots’ conflict with surreal elements.
Her historical research is largely focused on the cultural impact of science and art, where the phrasing of new scientific advancements are influenced by culture writing, and vice versa.
O F Cieri is a contributor to Expat Press and the Antiques Freaks podcast. She has appeared on the Write podcast to promote her debut novel, Lord of Thundertown. She collects art, insects and antiques and can usually be found in close proximity
For further information about her writing, visit her on twitter @obfvscate

Linda Chavers is from Washington, DC and obtained the PhD in African American Literature from Harvard University in 2013. A hybrid academic she writes on pain and memory and she teaches on Black Womens Voices in the #MeToo movement. She lives in Cambridge, MA with her beloved 4 year old Westie, Biggie Smalls and when she's not working she is in bed.
www.lindachaverswrites.com Books: Violent Disruptions: American Imaginations of Racial Anxiety in William Faulkner and Richard Wright (Peter Lang USA: 2018) This Body Is Never Yours (Gazing Grain Press: 2017)
www.lindachaverswrites.com Books: Violent Disruptions: American Imaginations of Racial Anxiety in William Faulkner and Richard Wright (Peter Lang USA: 2018) This Body Is Never Yours (Gazing Grain Press: 2017)

clare e. potter is a writer and performer from a South Wales mining village. She lived for ten years in the Deep South where she studied an MA in Afro-Caribbean literature and taught in a progressive school in New Orleans. She won the John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry, and the Jim Criddle prize for celebrating the Welsh language in Literature. Her first poetry collection spilling histories (2006) will shortly be followed by a subsequent collection, A Certain Darkness, for which she was awarded a Literature Wales writing bursary. clare conceived of and directed the BBC It's My Shout documentary The Wall and the Mirror.
In 2016 she received Arts Council Wales funding for a poetry and jazz collaboration to respond to the trauma of Hurricane Katrina. She has written for the Welsh National Opera in community theatre and singing projects, and has received various commissions to write poetry in collaboration with artists: a poem for the new Keir Hardie Health Park, street poetry in the pavements of Pontypridd, and washing lines in Tredegar. for example. clare was poet-in-residence for the Landmark Trust during the two year restoration of medieval house, Llwyn Celyn; was poet-in-residence at Moravian Academy in Pennsylvania, and for the Wales Arts Review for a month.
clare has translated the work of the National Poet of Wales, was a Hay Festival Writer at Work for two years, and has performed at the Smithsonian Folk-Life Festival in the USA. She is currently working on a new poetry collection about craftspeople thanks to another Literature Wales bursary. clare has been widely published in magazines, anthologies and literary journals in the UK and USA and has acted in two films. Her biggest passion is working in schools and on community projects with other artists
Twitter: @clare_potter
In 2016 she received Arts Council Wales funding for a poetry and jazz collaboration to respond to the trauma of Hurricane Katrina. She has written for the Welsh National Opera in community theatre and singing projects, and has received various commissions to write poetry in collaboration with artists: a poem for the new Keir Hardie Health Park, street poetry in the pavements of Pontypridd, and washing lines in Tredegar. for example. clare was poet-in-residence for the Landmark Trust during the two year restoration of medieval house, Llwyn Celyn; was poet-in-residence at Moravian Academy in Pennsylvania, and for the Wales Arts Review for a month.
clare has translated the work of the National Poet of Wales, was a Hay Festival Writer at Work for two years, and has performed at the Smithsonian Folk-Life Festival in the USA. She is currently working on a new poetry collection about craftspeople thanks to another Literature Wales bursary. clare has been widely published in magazines, anthologies and literary journals in the UK and USA and has acted in two films. Her biggest passion is working in schools and on community projects with other artists
Twitter: @clare_potter

Martina Rimbaldo is a 28 year old women lives and works in Croatia. She always wears a pen and a notebook in her purse in the case of a sudden inspiration in order to write it down .Loves to paint abstract paintings , read religious books, watch horror as well as old movies with Audrey Hepburn, Sharon Tate, Brigitte Bardot who happens to share her birth date and (over)thinks specially about death, what some people find morbid but not her, it is a part of life too. Tina also takes care of household and 5 cats. Her goal is to be a good person .

Simona Zaretsky is a a recent graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, and a new New Yorker, perpetually late and lost. She attended Sarah Lawrence College where she studied English and History. Her work was recently featured on the podcast The Literary Whip and the online journal Digging Through The Fat. She’s always looking for another book to add to her stack and she has a passion for seashells and historical fiction.