About Our Contributors - 2021

Jeannie E. Roberts writes, draws and paints, and often photographs her natural surroundings. She’s authored seven books, five poetry collections and two illustrated children's books. Her most recent collection, As If Labyrinth - Pandemic Inspired Poems, was released by Kelsay Books in 2021. Her poems appear in Anti-Heroin Chic, Blue Heron Review, Sky Island Journal, The Ekphrastic Review, Verse-Virtual, Visual Verse, and elsewhere. She’s a nature enthusiast, a Best of the Net award nominee, and a poetry editor of the online literary magazine Halfway Down the Stairs.

H. E. Casson lives in a very small house in Toronto with one human, one half-sized stuffed Chewbacca, and about a dozen plants. Their words have recently been shared by Angst, Ghost Heart Literary Journal, Tealight Press, and poetically magazine. They can be found at hecasson.com and @hecasson on Twitter.

Kalyn Livernois is an MFA candidate at New England College. She is a prose editor at Cobra Milk and the managing editor of Variant Literature's journal. Her work has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in Dust Poetry Magazine, Stone of Madness Press, CP Quarterly, and The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. You can find her on Twitter @kalynroseanne.

Tyler Elizabeth Hurula (she/her) is a poet based out of Denver, CO. She is queer and polyamorous, and is cat mom to two fur babies and a plethora of plants. She has not been previously published and her poems feature love, polyamory, family, growing up, and being queer. Her top three values are connection, authenticity, and vulnerability and she tries to encompass these values in her writing as well as everyday life.

Tessah Melamed is a writer from New Jersey. She enjoys bad and beautiful things. Tessah has been previously published in Crooked Arrow Press, Trampset, As It Ought to Be Magazine and Soup Can Magazine. She is anticipating beginning her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago this fall. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram @_wherestessah.

Vanessa Chica Ferreira is an NYC educator, poet, playwright, fat activist, poetry editor for The Ice Colony, and founder of theWORDbox. A featured poet at various events throughout New York City. She co-wrote and performed in a 3 woman play titled “Live Big Girl” which debuted at The National Black Theatre. Her work has been published in The BX Files, The Abuela Stories Project, The Acentos Review, and Great Weather For Media. For more info visit www.vanessachica.com

Erich von Hungen currently lives in San Francisco, California. His writing has appeared in The Colorado Quarterly, Cathexis Northwest Press, The Write Launch, The RavensPerch, From Whispers To Roars, The Closed Eye Open, Bombfire, and others. He has recently launched three collections of poems "In Spite Of Contagion: 65 COVID-19 Poems", "Kisses: 87 Love Poems", and "Witness: 100 Poems For Change". Find him at https://twitter.com/PoetryForce

Guillermo Rebollo Gil (San Juan, 1979) is a poet, sociologist and attorney. His poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Fence, Feed, Mandorla, The Acentos Review , Pittsburgh Poetry Journal, Trampset, FreezeRay and Caribbean Writer. He belongs to/with Lucas Imar and Ariadna Michelle. Happily so.

Steve Jensen is an Iowan living in Seattle with his wife, kids, and dog. There were brief stops in Kansas City, St. Louis, and London along the way. He will always want to know the size of your town.

Jason Melvin received a gimmicky T-shirt from his teenage daughter on Christmas with a picture of one large fist fist-bumping a much smaller fist. The caption read, “Behind every smart-ass daughter is a truly asshole Dad”. It fit. His work has recently appeared in The Beatnik Cowboy, Olney, Rat’s Ass Review, The Spring City, Spillover, The Electric Rail, Front Porch Review and Shambles, among others.

Lauren Thomas’ most recent writing is in The Crank Literary Magazine, Briefly Zine, Re-side Magazine, Abridged and Green Ink Poetry. She has poetry forthcoming or in several anthologies including; Dreich’s Summer Anywhere anthology, Songs of Love and Strength by TheMumPoemPress, The Nine Pens Hair-Raising anthology and The Faces of Womanhood by Blood Moon Journal.
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Katie Kemple (she/her) grew up in the Shawangunks of New York and currently lives in San Diego. Her poems have appeared in The Collidescope, The Racket, Lucky Jefferson, Olney, Dwelling, and Right Hand Pointing, among others.

Daniel Niv is a 23 years old writer and a student of Tel Aviv University. Currently, she is double-majoring in Literature and Creative Writing in both Hebrew and English. She writes for Matok & Mar Magazine, got published in Caesura Literary Journal and in Bloom Magazine, and recently won the Bar Sagi Award 2021.

Alex C. Eisenberg (she/her) is a child of the western high desert and the pacific northwest rainforest. Her soul is rooted in these wonderful landscapes and she finds new tendrils of connection everywhere she goes. Currently, Alex lives by candlelight with her partner, their 5 cats, and an ever-changing number of chickens in the foothills of the Olympic Mountains. To see more of her work go to alexandriaceisenberg.wordpress.com and follow her on twitter @alexceisenberg.

Conner Craig is an undergrad at Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts. He came out as transgender in 2019 and started seriously writing poetry and prose the same year. He currently lives in southern New Hampshire with his cat Charlie.

Liz DeGregorio's writing has appeared in Ruminate Magazine, BUST Magazine, Ghouls Magazine, Gravitas, The Tulane Review, Scorpion Magazine, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, Decomp Journal, Drunk Monkeys, *82 Review, The Ocotillo Review, From Whispers to Roars, Ponder Review, Crack the Spine's anthology "Neighbors," Riva Collective's Chunk Lit, Dark Moon Lilith Press, Two Sisters, Indie Blu(e) Publishing's anthologies "SMITTEN" and "As the World Burns," In Parentheses and "The Heartbreak Project" anthology. She's also performed at Providence's Dorry Award-winning storytelling series Stranger Stories.

Richard Long is Professor Emeritus of English at St. Louis Community College, now retired in Santa Rosa, California. For the last twenty-five years, he has edited and published 2River (www.2River.org), quarterly publishing The 2River View and occasionally publishing individual authors in the 2River Chapbook Series. Poems of his have appeared recently in Black Coffee Review, Red Wheelbarrow, TravelArtist Hub, and UCity Review.

Stephen Scott Whitaker (@SScottWhitaker) is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the co-editor of The Broadkill Review. A teaching artist with the Virginia Commission for the Arts, an educator, and a grant writer, Whitaker’s work is forthcoming or has appeared in The Rumpus, The Maine Review, Great River Review, Oxford Poetry, The Best of Helios Quarterly & The Southern Poetry Review Series: Virginia. Mulch, a novel of weird fiction is forthcoming from Montag Press in 2021.

Kristen Reid lives in East Tennessee and is a graduate student at Tennessee Tech University. When she isn’t studying, she spends most of her time writing folk horror and weird western short stories and working on her fantasy novel. She has fiction stories published with Broadswords and Blasters, Scare Street Publishing, The Horror Tree, The Sirens Call, and upcoming with Springer Mountain Press. Follow her on Instagram @writerkristenreid and on Twitter @Kris10BelleReid.

M.T. Coombe is a queer multidisciplinary artist living in the UK. He is fascinated by the idea of modern fairy-tales. His writings are based on youth / obsession / loss / addiction / dreams / mental health / folklore and apocalyptic landscapes. He has been published in XRAY Lit, Misery Tourism, Expat Press, Bear Creek Gazette, SCAB Magazine and more. He is currently writing his debut novel. Find him at; www.trashprincemusic.com/writing and https://twitter.com/trashprincemuse

Leanne Beattie is a writer and artist who lives in the beach town of Port Stanley, Ontario. For Leanne, poetry is life distilled down to its deepest emotions. Her career began as a freelance journalist and she later became a marketing specialist for several high-tech companies. She is the author of the YA novel Cage of Bone (2011) and is currently working on a mystery novel. You can find her on Twitter @JoyMagnet and on Instagram @leannebeattie_creative.

Tate’s writing reflects the voices of the unheard. She uses her privileges, experiences, and witnessing to write for only the oppressed communities that she can ethically call her own. Tate’s work includes topics such as heroin addiction, self-harm, eating disorders, sex work, queer love/life, womanhood, etc. Her aim is to bring a more true reflection of these lives that are often stereotyped, generalized, misconceived, misunderstood, and even hurt. The hope is that this art will promote connection, education, understanding, and social change. You can find excerpts of Tate’s work, music, and modeling on her instagram/twitter (@rosewetcave).

Jenn Koiter’s poems and essays have appeared in Smartish Pace, Bateau, Barrelhouse, Ruminate, Rock & Sling, and other journals. She lives in Washington, DC with three gerbils named Sputnik, Cosmo, and Unit.

Christine Naprava is a writer from South Jersey. Her work has appeared in Soundings East and Studio One.

Kika Man 文詠玲 (26 May, 1997; she/they) is a writer and a student from Belgium, and also from Hong Kong. She has always been writing and playing and learning and reading. To them, all of these are one and the same. Kika writes about mental health, traveling and dreaming, about her mixed identity, about music and blueness. Alongside writing poetry, she is part of Slam-T (a spoken word & slam poetry platform). They have majored in Eastern Languages and Cultures: China at Ghent University and are currently chasing after a degree and PhD in Gender and Diversity and Cultural studies. Kika’s first poetry book will be published soon in 2021-2022.

Ally Chua is a Singaporean poet. She works for a botanical attraction, and writes when she's not replying to emails within seven working days. She is the 2019 Singapore Unbound Fellow for New York City, and a member of local writing collective /s@ber. Ally has been published in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Cordite Poetry Review, and Lammergeier Magazine.

An avid solo traveler and reader, Ally finds inspiration from a wide variety of sources, including her travels, Richard Siken's words, the lyrics of Brian Fallon, and zombie video games.

Aoife Mannix has published four collections of poetry, four librettos, and a novel. Her work has featured in Abridged, the Honest Ulsterman, Gargoyle, Crannog, Citizen 32 and Magma amongst others. She has a PhD in creative writing from Goldsmiths, University of London. See www.aoifemannix.co.uk for more information.

Laura Jayne's poetry navigates relationships between nature and the queer body. Her poems have most recently appeared in Cypress and Jaden (Small Leaf Press), and her photography has been featured by Floresta Mag and Bind Collective. In 2020, Laura was a guest on The Poetry Exchange podcast, discussing personal connections to the poetry of Anne Sexton. She is currently reading an MA in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck, University of London.

Jeffrey Hermann's poetry and prose has appeared in Feral, Palette Poetry, Pank Magazine, trampset, The Shore, and other publications. Though less publicized, he finds his work as a father and husband to be rewarding beyond measure.

Anne Walters is a queer non-binary writer who lives in New Jersey. They have been published in East Coast Literary Review, The Avenue, Three Moon Magazine, among others. They enjoy drinking too much coffee and hanging out with their cats.

The darkly raw insides of a woman standing naked with a kind of sincerity that hurts and heals.
Ebony writes what she feels.
Her poems are selfies.
Unprocessed. No makeup. No filter. @_ebonygilbert_

Barlow Adams is a part-time poet, full-time dad, and constant nerd. His work is informed and influenced by late night television and catchy elevator music. His work has appeared in many fine journals and magazines, but he prefers the scuzzy ones because he despises wearing pants. Follow him on Twitter @BarlowAdams or in the grocery store where he will be the one in the Swamp Thing shirt humming Shakira.

Although she claims Memphis as home, Janet Dale lives in Georgia where she teaches first year writing at Georgia Southern University. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize (poetry), her work has appeared in The Boiler, Hobart, Zone 3, Really System, and others.

Deborah Rosch Eifert (@EifertPoetry) is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and the author of the newly released chapbook Sewn from Water, from Uncollected Press. Her work has appeared in Whiskey Island Quarterly, Constellations, Cathexis Northwest, Persephone’s Daughters, as well as other literary presses, and is forthcoming in Feral: A Journal of Poetry and Art. Her work also has been published in several anthologies. She has received an Editor's Choice award from Formidable Woman Sanctuary Press, was named Poet of the Month by Flying Ketchup Press, was a semifinalist in the 2018 Split Rock Review Chapbook Competition, and was First Runner-up in the 2018 Esthetic Apostle Chapbook Contest.

Norman Abjorensen is a retired Australian academic and writer who has been writing poetry on and off for more than fifty years.

Sarah Fisher is a writer, web designer, emotional abuse survivor, and undergraduate student at San Diego State University. When Sarah isn't dealing with all of that, she enjoys bike riding, quilt making, and a good game of chess. Visit sarahrfisher.com to learn more.

K. Maeby is a Florida born creative living and working in the depths and hills of Tennessee. She spends her time glimpsing into other universes and finding the beauty in this one. She hopes you look upon her work and find your piece- a connection, a joke, joy, even disgust. You can follow her journey at @KMaeby on instagram.

Claire Connolly (they/them) is a genderfluid lesbian poet from the western United States. A former touring slam poet, they've found their way to the page in Pile Press and Forseti Publishing tackling topics like invisible illness, queerness, and love. Their spiritual home is along the Wild Atlantic Way. You can find them on Instagram @itshiptobeclaire

sterling-elizabeth arcadia (she/they) is a trans poet and diy tattooer in washington dc, where she watches birds and cares for her cats. she is currently working on a chapbook of queer ekphrastic love poems based on her friends’ instagram posts. her work has been published in Stone of Madness Press, Fuck Your Dreams Zine, and Rejection Letters, and is forthcoming elsewhere.

Phrieda has written poetry for years before making the decision to share her work with a wider audience. Her work has been featured in Brave Voices Magazine The Beautiful Space, and Writing In A Woman's Voice. When she isn't writing, she loves exercising and getting lost in a good book.

Magin LaSov Gregg’s writing has appeared in The Washington Post, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News, The Rumpus, Full Grown People, Solstice Literary Magazine, Bellingham Review, Hippocampus Magazine, Under the Gum Tree, River Teeth’s Beautiful Things, and elsewhere. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she lives in Frederick, Maryland, with her husband, Carl, and four fabulous rescue pets.

Marie lives with her husband, sons and a very silly cat. She walks in fields and writes in the shed. She holds a Creative Writing MA from Northumbria University. Marie has work featured or forthcoming in Ink Sweat and Tears, Sledgehammer Lit, Five Minutes and The Birdseed Magazine. She/Her. Twitter @jamsaucer

Jack is a writer and visual artist living in Brooklyn, NY. Some of his poems can be found in IN PARENTHESES, GHOST CITY REVIEW, and YES POETRY.

Caroline K. Martell is a writer from Massachusetts who teaches high school English. She holds a B.A. in English, as well as minors in Sociology and Gender & Sexuality Studies, and an M.Ed. in Education focused in Moderate Disabilities. She reads, writes, and adores poetry for its simultaneous ability to uncover and heal the intimately personal, as well as comment on the larger world and inspire social change.

Zebulon Huset is a teacher, writer and photographer living in San Diego. He won the Gulf Stream 2020 Summer Poetry Contest and his writing has appeared in Meridian, The Southern Review, Fence, Atlanta Review & Texas Review among others. He publishes the writing blog Notebooking Daily, edits the journals Coastal Shelf and Sparked, and recommends literary journals at TheSubmissionWizard.com.

Jack studies psychology and lives in Wales. He has published academic research and literature on mental health, focussing on the power of shared lived experience. Jack loves libraries and the smell of old books, and you can find him reading poetry in the woods or at his desk surrounded by coffee cups and hastily scribbled notes. He thinks out loud on twitter at @ex_solipsist

Jo Angela Edwins has published poems in various venues, recently including Breakwater Review, Thimble Literary Magazine, Tether's End, West Trestle Review, and Funicular. Her chapbook Play was published in 2016. She has received awards from Winning Writers, Poetry Super Highway, and the SC Academy of Authors and is a Pushcart Prize, Forward Prize, and Bettering American Poetry nominee. She lives in Florence, SC, where she serves as poet laureate of the Pee Dee region of the state.

Jamie Nazario Black is a curly-haired, queer millennial living in some city of some region of the United States. She is studying to be a therapist, and is using this pen name so that her patients (really, her supervisors) don't find out that she has issues, too.

Rachel Mallalieu is an emergency physician and mother of five. She writes poetry in her spare time. Her work is most recently featured in Blood and Thunder, Haunted Waters Press, Pulse, Nelle, Global Poemic, Rattle and Construction.

Nicole Brooks is a writer and editor in Indiana. She’s had a long career in communications and is an MFA student at Butler University in Indianapolis, concentrating on poetry. She served as poetry editor of Booth. Her poems have appeared in Barren Magazine, Minola Review, The Indianapolis Review, and in the New Rivers Press book “Visiting Bob: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Bob Dylan.”

Liz G. Fisher (she/they) has loved writing since the 3rd grade when they wrote their first book titled “The Day Candy Fell From the Sky” about a candy-loving duck on the best day ever. She’s still exploring the world and imagining a better one through her words. They live in Michigan with their two cats, Ace and Marcie. You can find her on Twitter @Liz_G_Fisher.

Sam Toggas [she/her] is a welder by trade and poet by training. Her street art and poetry has been published in Toho Journal. She lives in Philadelphia with her partner Hannah.

Al Murray [he/they] has spent the majority of his life creating community through food.
Murray currently writes in Minnesota, Midwest where he lives with his partner and dogs.

H. Lee Coakley (they/she) is a Queer poet & nutritional healer currently based in Brooklyn, NY. They hold a BA from New York University & an MSPH from Johns Hopkins University. Their work has been featured in Lavender Review, Red Eft Review, Utterance Journal, The Voices Project, Blueshift Anthology & The Mad Farmer Reading Series.

Finnley “Finn” Wilde (they/them/theirs) is working on becoming the “most relatable new voice in poetry,” whose first publications include Oral Hygiene Sweetheart in the Preposition Anthology. They are communications professional in their 9-5 job, but fully emerge as themselves outside of work hours as an LGBTQ+ centering, body positive, and trauma informed yoga teacher, the host of Make My Gay podcast, and one half of the creative design business Make My Gay they’ve recently started with their partner, with whom they reside and parent two cats with in Central NC. As a triple water sign, Finn has absolutely no chill and all the feelings, making poetry their ideal love language second only to food.

Madeira Alba (they/them) is an exquisitely sensitive queer poet and sober alcoholic living in Santa Cruz CA. These are their first published poems and they are delighted to be contributing them to AHC.

Melissa M. Forbis is a queer femme cultural anthropologist, organizer/activist, and poet. Her publications on social movements and state violence have appeared in academic and popular media in the U.S., Mexico, and Chile.She is also a competitive powerlifter and coach who uses strength as a tool for personal and community resistance.

T Brannigan (she/her) is a queer poet and junior at New York University.

Mary Senier (she/her) is a poet from the Black Country. She has poems in Abergavenny Small Press, The Alchemy Spoon, Ample Remains, Re-Side, Fahmidan Journal, The Madrigal, Journal of Erato, Postscript, and Tealight Press.

Lyric Rudy is a poet, life coach with Conscious Strides, and community organizer in central Canada. Some of their passions include blues as well as fusion dancing, singing, and having kitchen parties. They run Conscious Strides Coaching, where they work with groups and individuals incorporating mindfulness and social consciousness to move towards their dreams, or simply the next step. You can catch them regularly on the podcast Brains and Banter.

Joey Fagundes is a queer, non-binary Buddhist. Joey is deeply in love with her wife and adores spending time at home with her adult daughter and their cats. She has a tendency to fall in love with the humanity of strangers and beauty makes her cry. Joey has dedicated her life to tending to the suffering of all living things and to experiencing as much as she can of this beautiful world. She loves hot yoga and learning new languages and she is terrified of dying. Joey has wanted to become a writer since kindergarten. Her poetry is an attempt to break a silence she has kept for more than 30 years.

Natalie Valentine (she/they) is a poet, playwright, and maker. She has worked as a writer in theatres across the United States and with the zine Indoorsy. If you're looking for hopeful queer stories with a touch of melancholy, you're in the right place.

Zainab Iliyasu Bobi, from Bobi village in Niger State, is a Nigerian photographer and writer. She was a finalist of the Voice of Peace anthology. She is the treasurer of Hilltop Creative Arts Foundation, Abuja branch. Her works are published and forthcoming in The Kalahari Review, Blue Marble Review, Sledgehammer Lit, Praxis, Words Rhymes & Rhythm, and The Shallow Tales Review, among others.
Twitter: @ZainabBobi

Neall Calvert has 25 years' experience as a journalist, book editor, writer and photo artist. His images hang in homes and offices in Vancouver, Canada, and appear in books. He now lives in Campbell River, British Columbia, near the quiet and wildness of northern Vancouver Island, where he's building an image collection called "Raining Glory: Campbell River by Night" and writing a prose/poetry memoir of his long healing journey out of the calamity that is childhood religious violence.

Stefan Doru Moscu is a visual artist, born in 1982, living and working in Brasov, Romania. He received a B.A. in Art and Restoration from the State University of Sibiu, Romania, and works with both painting and sculpture. Stefan’s surreal paintings explore society’s transformation from the past to the present. He culls inspiration from decaying objects, old photographs, pop culture and art history to present a critical view of various social, political, and cultural issues. His works are characterized by a darker color palette and obscured figures, giving his compositions a somber mood. Stefan had an artist’s residency at Glo’Art in Belgium in spring 2015 and 2017 and has exhibited his works in the US and across Europe in countries including the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium and Poland. Most recently, his works were part of “The Other Art Fair” in London and “The Sea/Das Meer” international group exhibition at Group Global 3000’s Projectspace in Berlin. Insta: @stefandorumoscu Twitter: @MoscuStefan

Jan Schmidt, recently appointed Consulting Prose Editor for online literary magazine Witty Partition, has had fiction published in The Wall, Tupelo Quarterly, The Long Story. IKON, and New York Stories. With J.D. Rage, she co-edited Venom Press and its quarterly poetry and fiction magazine, Curare, for eight years. Her manuscript for Sunlight Underground was a finalist in the 2021 Novel Slices Award. Her short story collection Collateral Regeneration was a finalist for the Eludia Award from Hidden River Arts, 2019. Till 2015, she held the position of Curator of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. You can find her at janschmidt-writer.com

Alina G’s writing spans across the disciplines of screenwriting, nonfiction and fiction. She is an alumna of the 2019 Dum Pukht Writing Workshop. Her work has appeared in Out Of Print Magazine, Himal Southasian, The Bombay Review, The Bangalore Review, Helter Skelter, The Swaddle, Livewire, Livemint, Sisterhood Magazine, amongst others. She’s currently working on a novel in short stories, an excerpt of which is forthcoming in Jamhoor Magazine.

Carl Fuerst teaches writing and literature at Kishwaukee College. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin. His stories have appeared in Entropy, Necessary Fiction, F(r)iction, and elsewhere.

Peter Farrar is an Australian writer. He has failed at accountancy, carpentry, car maintenance, cleaning out roof gutters and most sports. Writing is his last chance, really.

Will McMillan is a queer writer born and raised just outside of Portland, Oregon. His essays have been featured in the Sun, Hippocampus, Atticus Review, and Redivder literary journals, among many others. His experience being outed and subsequently disfellowshipped as a devout Jehovah's Witness lead to him being featured on the September 1st, 2017 episode of This American Life.

The author of two poetry chapbooks, Karen J. Weyant’s poems and essays have been published in the Briar Cliff Review, Chautauqua, Crab Creek Review, Crab Orchard Review, Coal Hill Review, Fourth River, Lake Effect, Spillway, Stoneboat, Rattle, and River Styx. She is an Associate Professor of English at Jamestown Community College in Jamestown, New York.

Maxwell Suzuki is a Japanese American writer who recently graduated from USC and lives in Los Angeles. Maxwell's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Kissing Dynamite Poetry, The Woven Tale Press, Giving Room Mag, The Racket Journal, and his personal website www.lindenandbuckskin.com. He is currently writing a novel on the generational disconnect of Japanese American immigrants and their children.

Susan Triemert holds an MA in Education and an MFA from Hamline University in St. Paul, MN. She is assistant non-fiction editor at Pithead Chapel and at Red Fez. Her essays, stories and poems have been published in various print and online journals, including Pithead Chapel, Colorado Review, and Gone Lawn. You can find her at susantriemert.com

Victoria Ruiz is a Minneapolis writer who loves time in the kitchen with music on full-tilt while the dog bathes in the sun.

Krys Walls is a queer poet whose work focuses on identity, the climate crisis, addiction, healing, and community. She grew up in San Diego and now lives in Brooklyn.

Tahlia McKinnon is a wild writer, myth-maker and the Founding Editor-In-Chief of Hecate Magazine. Her work has/will be placed in The Daily Drunk Mag, Wrongdoing Magazine, Nymphs, Radical Arts Review and others. Tahlia’s prose often centres on haunted love, the colour and chaos of nature, exultant spirituality and her experience as a trauma survivor. You can find her online @tahliamckinnon and read more of her work via tahliamariamckinnon.co.uk

Lisa Michelle Moore is a health care provider and writer living at the longitudinal centre of Canada. Her poetry and prose have appeared in The Cold Mountain Review, The Cabinet of Heed, The Daily Drunk and The Quarantine Review.

Katherine J. Zumpano is a pisces, poet, and college grad. She is a staff contributor for The Aurora Journal, as well as social media manager and poetry editor for Dollar Store Mag. Her work is forthcoming in Jeopardy Magazine and The Journal of Erato. She lives in Bellingham, WA, with her boyfriend and plants.

Edward L. Canavan is an American poet whose work has most recently been published in Cholla Needles, Necro, and the City Limits anthology "Poems of Political Protest". His second poetry collection entitled "Protest and Isolation" was recently released by Cyberwit Press. Born and raised in the Bronx, NY, he currently resides in North Hollywood, California, where he practices Buddhism and listens to Thin Lizzy.

Carrie Elizabeth Penrod is a current graduate student at Mississippi University for Women. She currently lives in Indiana with her hoard of cats. Her work can be found on Prometheus Dreaming, Button Poetry's Instagram, Sad Girls Club, and corn stalks.

Lia Nizen is a spoken word poet out of Wilmington, North Carolina. As a disabled woman, Lia has always found a sense of safety and peace in writing, and she is a passionate activist for the disability and chronic illness communities. She teaches an online writing workshop called Metanoia, which has curated a community of writers from all walks of life. Lia’s work appears in several literary journals, including For Women Who Roar, The Monarch, and Storm of Blue Press. She also has work published in the 2018 anthology Upon Arrival: Interlude and the forthcoming anthology Best Poets of 2020: Quarantine Edition by Eber and Wein Publishing, and the Spring 2021 Edition of Capsule Stories.

Cameron Chiovitti is a twenty two year old nonbinary Canadian. They grew up in Montreal, Quebec, but moved to Toronto, Ontario, almost three years ago. They have been writing since the age of eight, but found their true passion, poetry, at the age of sixteen. They attend OCAD University for Creative Writing. Since moving to Toronto, Cameron started slamming with the Toronto Poetry Slam, Hamilton Youth Slam, and ranked sixth at the 2020 Voices Of Today Festival. In April 2018 they self-published a poetry book called “Your Mountain’s Crown,” and in January 2020 published a chapbook called “When People Ask About The Breakup” on She’s Got Wonder. Their poem “Drunken Ramblings of a Broken Heart” has been exhibited in mcsway poetry collective’s third edition of the Heartbreak Museum as of February 12th, 2021, and their poem “LaSalle Boulevard” has been published in LSTW’s fifth issue.

Raised in the Canadian prairies, Glennys Egan writes poetry in Ottawa, Canada, where she works for the government like everyone else. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Taco Bell Quarterly, Funicular Magazine, The Aurora Journal and several other lovely places. You can find her and her dog, Boris, online at @gleegz.

Stephanie Saywell (she/her/hers) is a queer, NYC-based choreographer, performer, and published poet. She holds two BAs (Dance & Written Arts) from Bard College, plus a Certificate of Completion from the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre's Professional Training Program. She has studied poetry under the tutelage of Megan Falley, Ann Lauterbach, and Michael Ives, and short fiction under Paul LaFarge. Her work has been published in Ink & Letters and Muzzle Magazine. www.stephaniesaywell.com

Kate McNicholas is a Jersey-based slam poet with a love for trees and metaphors. Kate previously served as an editor for Clark University’s creative forum and has had short works published and performed throughout the U.S and Italy. Her poetry has made an appearance in multiple stage productions and she loves the opportunity to combine multiple mediums of art to create new experiences for all.

Sydni Trameri is a poet from Decatur, Georgia.

Hilary Otto is an English poet based in Barcelona. Her work has appeared in Popshot, Black Bough, AIOTB, Ink, Sweat and Tears, and The Blue Nib among other publications. Last year she received her first Pushcart Prize Nomination, and she recently read at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival in the U

Beth Cheng is a licensed massage therapist and self-taught poet who has lived in Los Angeles since 2004. She has enjoyed the privilege of having had her poetry published in various online & print publications and being invited to feature & perform in the past, but it's been a while.

Sharon Suzuki-Martinez’s first book, The Way of All Flux (New Rivers Press, 2012) won the New Rivers Press MVP Poetry Prize. She was a finalist for the Best of the Net and a Pushcart nominee, among other honors. Her work recently appeared in Gargoyle, South Dakota Review, and Midway. Originally from Hawaii, she now lives in Arizona. https://sharonsuzukimartinez.tumblr.com/

Neve Doyle is a 21-year-old college student in Child and Youth Care who has a passion for spreading awareness around mental health, which often comes out through her writing. Poetry for Neve is not only a hobby, but an outlet as well, and one of her dreams is to share her vulnerability in her poetry in hopes that it will help someone else. On top of writing, she enjoys spending time with her three dogs and cat, doing yoga and spending far too much time on social media avoiding doing school work.

Sherre Vernon (she/her/hers) is the author two award-winning chapbooks: Green Ink Wings (fiction) and The Name is Perilous (poetry). Her work has nominated for Best of the Net and anthologized in several collections, including Bending Genres and Best Small Fictions. In 2019, Sherre was a Parent-Writer Fellow at MVICW. Readers describe her work as heartbreaking, richly layered, lyrical and intelligent. To read more of her work visit www.sherrevernon.com/publications and tag her into conversation @sherrevernon.

Kathryne David Gargano (she/her) hails from the Pacific Northwest, but isn't very good at climbing trees. She received her MFA from the University of Nevada - Las Vegas, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Gigantic Sequins, The Arkansas International, Pithead Chapel, Salt Hill, the minnesota review, Tahoma Literary Review, and others. She can be found on Twitter @doubtfulljoy

Michele Sharpe, a poet and essayist, is also a high school dropout, hepatitis C survivor, adoptee, and former trial attorney. Her essays appear in venues including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Poets & Writers. Poems are recently published or forthcoming in Sweet, The Mom Egg Review, Rogue Agent, and Salamander. She lives in North Florida.

K.T. Slattery was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and grew up just across the state line in Mississippi. A graduate of Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama, she now lives in the West of Ireland with her husband and an ever-increasing amount of rescue pets. Her poetry and prose have been published in Ropes Literary Journal, Nightingale and Sparrow, The Siren’s Call, Three Drops from a Cauldron, Planet in Peril Anthology, The Blue Nib, Impspired, The Wellington Street Review, Analogies and Allegories, and Streetcake. She was shortlisted for the 2019 Nightingale and Sparrow Chapbook Competition and has was longlisted for the 2018 and 2019 Over the Edge New Writer of the Year. Most recently she received a special mention in the 2020 Desmond O’Grady Poetry Competition.

Nadine Klassen is a German poet, living in her hometown with a small family of her boyfriend and dog. Her work has appeared in Wild Roof Journal, High Shelf Press and others. When not writing, she likes to crochet sweaters with puffy sleeves. Author photo by Sofie Kohaupt ( @1aeugig )

Cheryl Aguirre is a queer biracial poet based in Austin, Texas. You can find their previously published work in Ghost City Press, decomp journal, and The Whorticulturalist. You can follow them at @drowsy_orchid on Instagram and @Wheat_Mistress on Twitter.

Bobbie Lee Lovell won the 2020 Janet Dee Wullner-Faiss Memorial Prize for Poetry, is the author of Proposition at the Walk-In Infinity Chamber (Finishing Line Press, 2017), and has been a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. She lives in Wisconsin with her two teen children and has a career in graphic design and print production. bobbieleelovell.com

Bunkong Tuon is a Cambodian-American writer and critic. He is the author of Gruel, And So I Was Blessed (both published by NYQ Books), The Doctor Will Fix It (Shabda Press), and Dead Tongue (a chapbook with Joanna C. Valente, Yes Poetry). He teaches at Union College, in Schenectady, NY. He tweets @BunkongTuon

David R. DiSarro is currently an Associate Professor of English at Endicott College in Beverly, MA. His work has previously appeared in Conclave: A Journal of Character, The Wilderness House Literary Review, The Hawaii Pacific Review, Shot Glass Poetry Journal, among others. David's first chapbook, I Used to Play in Bands, was published by Finishing Line Press. He currently lives on the North Shore of Massachusetts with his wife, Beth, five children, and three rambunctious dogs.

Danielle Low-Waters is a Queer Poet, expired film enthusiast, obsessive playlist maker and professional development coach with a commitment to social justice. Her work appears in the forthcoming Constellation Anthology edited by Yrsa Daley-Ward. She currently lives in Vallejo, California with her wife and two dogs in a 110 year-old home filled with art that makes their mothers uncomfortable. Follow her on Instgram@wanderngstar.

Fae is a Dance Artist based in Manchester, U.K. Her work blends poetry and movement to confess the multi-layered narrative of the othered body. She centres her writing around queer identity and experiences of otherness from a mixed heritage perspective. IG: versing_the_body

K. Y. Sia is a freelance writer and editor. She does minor translations. Some of her poems can be seen in Gangan Internationales Literaturmagazin, 3 a.m. Magazine, Locust Magazine, and so on. Ever since her disease has made her immobile and hands uncooperative, she continues to write using dictation tools, which invention she is immensely grateful for.

Opal is a new, young poet out of Raleigh, North Carolina. Drawing inspiration from her older sister, Opal found her voice through poetry and wants to share messages of resilience and beauty. She enjoys performing and competing in local open mic or slam events and spending her free time with her friends. She loves to visit and write at the beach and makes a trip any time she can!

Aleathia Drehmer was the one time editor of Durable Goods and In Between Altered States, co-editor of Full of Crow and Zygote in My Coffee. Her work has been published in print and online for poetry, fiction, and photography. Her most recent work can be seen in Heroin Love Songs and Fragmented Lines. She has upcoming work in South Shore Review, Ambrosial Literary Garland, and The Red Penguin Collective. She is currently writing novels and poetry. You can visit her author page at www.aleathiadrehmer.com

jim bourey is an old poet from the northern edge of the Adirondack Mountains in New York. His new collection The Distance Between Us was published by Cold River Press in August 2020. A chapbook, Silence, Interrupted, was published in 2015 by The Broadkill River Press. His work has also appeared in Gargoyle, Broadkill Review, Mojave River Review, Rye Whiskey Review and many other journals and anthologies in print and online. In 2012 and 2014 he was Runner-up for First Place in the Faulkner-Wisdom Poetry Competition. He can often be found reading aloud in dimly lit rooms.

Rie Sheridan Rose multitasks. A lot. Her poetry appears in numerous venues, including Speculative Poets of Texas, Vol. 1; Texas Poetry Calendar; and Illumen to name a few. She has authored six poetry chapbooks, twelve novels, and lyrics for dozens of songs. She tweets as @RieSheridanRose.

Julie Allyn Johnson, a sawyer's daughter from north central Iowa, began writing poetry after her retirement from IT work in 2017. She loves hiking, gravel-travel photography, riding bikes, altered books and collage, reading and writing poetry and exploring trails in the Rocky Mountains. Her work has been (or soon will be) published in Lyrical Iowa, Persephone's Daughters, Typishly, The Esthetic Apostle, Chestnut Review, SPLASH!, The Loch Raven Review, Better Than Starbucks, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Into the Void, Poetry and Covid, Phantom Kangaroo, Coffin Bell and The Briar Cliff Review.

Caitlin is a Canadian poet, traveller, and recent graduate of mathematics. In the summers you can find her planting trees in the north, and dreaming up new adventures to have. Check out her instagram @caitlin.mundy.

Andreas Fleps is a 29-year-old poet based near Chicago. He studied theology and philosophy at Dominican University, and his debut collection of poems entitled, Well into the Night (via Energion Publications) was released at the end of 2020. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as High Shelf Press, Snapdragon, Allegory Ridge, Passengers Journal, and Waxing & Waning, among others. Battling Major Depressive Disorder and Generalized Anxiety Disorder since the age of five, he translates teardrops.

Carl Kaucher is a poet, photographer, and urban explorer who lives in Temple, Pa. He is the author of two chapbooks, "Sideways Blues ( Irish mountain and beyond )"and most recently "Postpoemed" His work has appeared in numerous publications and online. The writing explores his experiences wandering urban spaces near his home and throughout Pennsylvania. Using his photography and writing, Carl has been exploring the overlooked places and documenting the chance occurrences that happen to him and by doing so gives us the opportunity to reflect upon those similar events happening in our lives also. More info can be found at https://www.facebook.com/CarlKaucher/ and on instagram @Carlkaucher.

Laura Stamps is the author of several poetry chapbooks and books, including THE YEAR OF THE CAT, IN THE GARDEN, and CAT DAZE. Her work has appeared in The Penwood Review, Boston Poetry Magazine, American Writing, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, and others. She is the recipient of seven Pushcart Prize nominations. Currently, Laura is working on a new chapbook of poems about depression, PTSD, trauma, and healing. You can find her on Twitter at @LauraStamps16.

Lisa McCabe lives and writes in Lahave, Nova Scotia. She has published poetry in The Sewanee Review, HCE Review, The Orchards Poetry Journal, and Ekphrastic Review among other print and online journals.

Sezalpreet Kaur is an emerging writer, artist and feminist from India. Her works have been featured in eskimopie.net and 'Down In The Dirt' magazine. Her Instagram is @sezalpreet_kaur_

Lindsay (she/her) is a research project manager by day and a queer writer, cat mom, and curious human the rest of the time. You can usually find her talking passionately about her latest project or reading about how not to procrastinate as a form of procrastination. You can find her in multiple places on the web, starting here: LindsayCortright.com.

Damian Rucci is the unofficial poet laureate of every 711 in New Jersey. Founding member of the Nu Profits of Poetic Dischord and author of five chapbooks of poetry. His work has recently appeared on gas station bathroom stalls.

Brian Beatty is the author of the poetry collections Magpies and Crows; Borrowed Trouble; Dust and Stars: Miniatures; Brazil, Indiana: A Folk Poem; and Coyotes I Couldn’t See. Hobo Radio, a spoken-word album of Beatty’s poems featuring original music by Charlie Parr, was released by Corrector Records in January 2021. Beatty lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Michael Thomas Ellis was born in Portland, ME, grew up in Silicon Valley before it was, spent most of his adult life in incomparable Santa Barbara and Ojai, CA, endured 10 years of northern MN, and is now retired to the west coast of FL. He has been published in The Talking Stick, Open Arts Forum, New Verse News, Waymark, Tuck Magazine, Dark Sire, the anthology Moving Pictures and his favorite daily breakfast treat, The Drabble.

Jaime Jacques has been through various incarnations, the most recent of which involves delivering mail and making art in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Previously Jaime worked in communications for international aid organizations before going rogue in the Northern Triangle. Her Creative Non Fiction has appeared in Salon, Narratively, Roads and Kingdoms, and NPR, among others. She is fluent in Spanish, the author of Moon El Salvador and lives for tropical storms, strong coffee and spontaneous dance parties.

Nancy Machlis Rechtman has had poetry published in Literary Yard, in Paper Dragon, and in Page & Spine, a short story published in Academy of the Heart and Mind, short stories published in Highlights Magazine for Children, along with stories published in several other children's magazines. Nancy has also had several children's plays and a musical both produced and published. Nancy wrote freelance Lifestyle stories for a local newspaper, and she was the copy editor for another local paper. Nancy writes a humorous blog called Inanities at https://nancywriteon.wordpress.com/

Louisa Muniz lives in Sayreville, N.J. She holds a Master’s in Curriculum and Instruction from Kean University. Her work has appeared in Tinderbox Journal, Palette Poetry, Menacing Hedge, Poetry Quarterly, PANK Magazine, Jabberwock Review and elsewhere. She won the Sheila-Na-Gig 2019 Spring Contest for her poem Stone Turned Sand. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize. Her debut chapbook, After Heavy Rains by Finishing Line Press was released in December, 2020.

Larry Schug is retired after a life of various kinds of physical labor. He has published eight books of poems, the latest being " A Blanket of Raven Feathers" with North Star Press. He hopes to return to tutoring at the College of St. Benedict writing center and as a volunteer naturalist at Outdoor U., an environmental education center at St. John's (Minnesota) University next fall if the pandemic allows.

Tara Paterson (she/her) is probably walking right now and most likely had a hard time sleeping last night. She is a queer femme Spice Girls fan from Ottawa, Canada (Algonquin Anishinaabe territories). By day she works in Canada’s labour movement. At all other times she is a poet and writer. Her writing has appeared in the National Post, the Globe and Mail, CBC News and rabble.ca. She holds the most unpoetic of masters degrees from the University of Oxford and a BA from the University of Victoria.

Jo Matsaeff is a neurodiverse queer teacher based in France. Their work focuses on mental health, trauma and queerness. They can be found at their local open mic or virtually hanging out with their international poet friends wishing for a day when a magical tunnel will bring them all together.

Clem Flowers is a nonbinary, queer southern transplant, living out amongst southwest mountains with my wife & adorable kitty. Fond of flamingos, orchids, coffee with too much sugar, and ancient TV shows & movies. Can be found @hand_springs777 on Twitter.

Rachel McCarren is an Appalachian/Rust Belt poet from Butler, Pennsylvania. She earned her BSc in creative writing at Slippery Rock University, and her MFA in poetry from Carlow University in Pittsburgh, PA. During her time at Carlow University, she studied summers at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland.

Oakley Ayden (she/her) is an autistic, bisexual writer from North Carolina. Her poems appear in Ghost City Review, The Cabinet of Heed, Maw: Poetry Journal, Not Very Quiet, Neologism Poetry Journal, The Minison Project, Sledgehammer Literary Journal and elsewhere. She lives in California’s San Bernardino National Forest with her two daughters. Find her on Twitter (@Oakley_Ayden) or Instagram (@Oakley.Ayden).

Michael Hammerle holds an MFA from the University of Arkansas, Monticello, and a BA in English from the University of Florida. He is the founder of Middle House Review. His work has been published in The Best Small Fictions, Split Lip Magazine, New World Writing, Louisiana Literature, Hobart After Dark, Maudlin House, and elsewhere. His writing has been a finalist for awards from American Short Fiction, Hayden's Ferry Review, and Prime Number Magazine. He lives and writes in Gainesville, Florida. www.middlehousereviews.com/michael-hammerle

Chelsea Jones is a multimedia artist from California’s Central Valley. She has an MFA in Digital Arts and New Media from UC Santa Cruz as well as a BA in French Horn Performance with a Minor in Electronic Music. Her work has previously been published in The Borfski Press, Wicked Banshee Press, Black Napkin Press, Abridged Magazine, Noctua Review, and others. More of her work can be found at chelseaejones.tumblr.com.

Justin Groppuso-Cook is a Writer-in-Residence for InsideOut Literary Arts Project as well as a Teaching Artist for Living Arts Detroit. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Luna Luna Magazine, Rust + Moth, and Glass: A Journal of Poetry among others. He received a 2015 Pushcart Prize nomination for his work featured in Duende. In 2022, he will be a resident at Carve Magazine’s Writing Workshops Paris. More information can be found on his website, www.sunnimani.com.

Emily Patterson is a curriculum designer, poet, and mother in Columbus, Ohio. She holds a B.A. in English from Ohio Wesleyan University, where she was awarded the Marie Drennan Prize for Poetry. She received her MA in Education from Ohio State University. Emily's work has been published or is forthcoming in Mothers Always Write; Thimble Literary Magazine; Quillkeepers Press; Better Than Starbucks; and elsewhere.

Lisa Reynolds is a Canadian writer of poetry and short stories. Her works are internationally published in anthologies, literary journals, and magazines. She lives in a waterfront community east of Toronto, Ontario.

Kyrsta Morehouse is a bisexual poet living in the city of Angels. Though her main profession is as a celebrity makeup artist/film photographer, she is currently working hard on her first full poetry manuscript.

Kristine Ma is a high school junior hailing from Michigan. She received three national gold medals, one national silver, and several other recognitions from the National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Her work is forthcoming from Bridge: The Bluffton University Literary Journal and the Eunoia Review. Kristine is an editor for her school's award-winning literary magazine, Spectrum, and is also on the creative writing team at the Incandescent Review. When she isn't writing, she can be found playing piano and oboe, watching anime, and dreaming.

Michael Farfel lives and writes out of Salt Lake City, Utah. His work has been published in a number of wonderful literary journals, all of which can be found on his website, MichaelFarfel.com. He also has a novel coming out this year (2021) with Montag Press. Find him on twitter @onebillionmikes.

w v sutra is an emerging poet. His work has appeared in Former People and on his website, wvsutra.com . He lives and works on a horse farm in East Tennessee.

Jen Gupta is a middle school English teacher, writer, avid hiker, and horse lover. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts with her husband and their seven houseplants.

Eli Dunham is a queer, neurodivergent poet living in Sacramento, CA. You can find their poetry in DreamPop, Gramma and GASHER. They have work forthcoming in Indefinite Space, Redactions and Poetry Pacific. Eli will be returning to school in the fall to earn an MS in Counseling with a focus on supporting LGBTQ+ youth and individuals with disabilities.

Stephanie Powell is a poet based in London, she grew up in Melbourne, Australia. Her work has appeared in various print and online publications. A new collection of poems, Bone will be published in Summer 2021. When not writing she works in documentary television.

Ranney Campbell is a former journalist and freelance writer. She earned an MFA in fiction from the University of Missouri at St. Louis after suffering a brain injury in a random hammer attack on the street. Her poetry has been published by Misfit Magazine, Shark Reef, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal and others. Her chapbook, "Pimp," is published by Arroyo Seco Press.

Sophia is a writer by morning and teacher by day. She lives and works as a middle school teacher in the mountains. Her writing has appeared in Entropy Magazine and Phoebe Journal. When she is not writing or teaching, she can be found watching queer cartoons or making mint tea.

Dane Lyn (they/them) is a queer, educator, poet, and glitter enthusiast with an MFA from Lindenwood University. Find them in Southern California with their partner, advocating for disabled rights, constructing blanket forts, caring for their menagerie of teens, snakes, lizards, dogs, rabbits, and cats, and ridding their shoes of beach sand. Dane’s work has been or will be featured in Gnashing Teeth, Silver Rose Magazine and Nymph Publication. @punkhippypoet is where you will find them on Instagram and Twitter.

Over the past few decades, Tina Lear’s work has been published in several fields: as a singer/songwriter, three CDs that received nationwide airplay (hear her at reverbnation.com/tinalear); as a composer lyricist for musicals (Cathy’s Creek, Dramatic Publishing, 2005), as a writer, several articles in Tricycle Magazine (a Buddhist review) and elephantjournal.com; and as a poet, work that has twice appeared in germmagazine.com. Her writing is regularly curated by medium.com. For more, check https://www.tinalear.com/home

Seth Leeper is a queer poet. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Broadkill Review, The Summerset Review, White Wall Review, Coastal Shelf, otoliths, decomp journal, SCAB, Gertrude Press, and others. He holds an M.A. in Special Education from Pace University and B.A. in Creative Writing and Fashion Journalism from San Francisco State University. He lives and teaches in Brooklyn, NY.

During lockdown, Carson adopted a cat to live like an eccentric writer, but now spends most of their time salvaging the poems her keyboard paws delete - rather than actually writing them. Surviving work can be found in Stone of Madness Press, Kissing Dynamite, and Brag Magazine amongst others.

Sarah Marquez (she/her) is an MFA student at Lindenwood University. She is based in Los Angeles and has work published and forthcoming in various magazines and journals, including Human/Kind Press, Kissing Dynamite, Salamander, The Hellebore, The New Southern Fugitives and Twist in Time Magazine. When not writing, she can be found reading for Random Sample Review, sipping coffee, or tweeting @Sarahmarissa338.

Bethan Jones is an academic, a flash fiction writer and a poet from south Wales. Her academic work, which primarily focuses on anti-fandom and digital dislike, has been published in Sexualities, New Media & Society and the Journal of Fandom Studies and she is co-editor of Crowdfunding the Future: Media Industries, Ethics, and Digital Society. Bethan is a former Beacons Project and Cinemagic participant and received her MA in the Teaching and Practice of Creative Writing from Cardiff University. Her creative work has been featured in The Binnacle and The Pygymy Giant.

James Roach is a poet in Olympia, Washington who does his best work between the hours of up-too-late and is-it-even-worth-trying-to-sleep? His poetry focuses on anxiety, recovery from alcoholism, nature, family, and being trans. His early work can be found in The Poet's Billow.

Stephanie Williams (she/they) is a poet and musician based in Denver, CO. Her work has not been previously published. Her poetry explores the joy, grief, and trauma of queer and trans lives.

Said Shaiye is a Somali writer who calls Minneapolis home. He is an MFA Candidate & Graduate Instructor at the University of Minnesota. He has had work published or is forthcoming in Diagram, Rigorous, Dreginald, New South and Muslim American Writers at Home Anthology. His debut book, Are You Borg Now?, is forthcoming from Really Serious Literature.

M. Price keeps trying in spite of it all. Or for it all? She lives in Richmond, Virginia with her cat, Babycat and can be found on Twitter at @notmywurst. Her writing can be found in Schuylkill Valley Journal, Rejection Letters, and Contrary Magazine.

Kelly Gill is the co-founder of a non-profit organization supporting families dealing with substance use disorder and working to eradicate the stigma of shame associated with that issue. In her free time, she enoys furthering her love of creative writing through the Odyssey Program at Johns Hopkins University. This is her debut submissio

Jay Parr drove a quarter-million miles hauling other people's stuff around the US and Canada, but that was a long time ago. Now he lives with his partner and daughter (and their bird feeder) in Greensboro, NC, where he teaches in UNCG's nontraditional Humanities program.

Caitlin Upshall holds a B.A. in English from Western Washington University. Her work has been published by the tiny journal, OyeDrum, The Sweet Tree Review, Entropy Magazine, and others. In her spare time, she enjoys most things dinosaur-related and trivia nights. You can find her on Instagram at @CaitlinUpshall.

Anne Penniston Grunsted lives in San Diego with her wife, son, two dogs and two cats. When not needed for mama duty she writes about childhood trauma, raising a disabled son, and other topics as they come. Find more of her work at annepennistongrunsted.Wordpress.com.

Leif Gregersen is a self-published author of eleven books and is currently promoting his third short story collection "Voted Off the Crew" on Goodreads. His books can be found at amazon and include memoirs of his lived experience with mental illness, four poetry collections, and two YA novels. Leif's passion in public speaking and teaching, and he currently teaches creative writing at a psychiatric hospital he was once a patient in.

Jonathan Taylor is an author, editor, lecturer and critic. His books include the novels Melissa (Salt, 2015) and Entertaining Strangers (Salt, 2012), and the memoir Take Me Home (Granta, 2007). He is director of the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Leicester, UK. His website is www.jonathanptaylor.co.uk, Twitter @crystalclearjt.

Ranjit Kulkarni spent 23 years telling stories in technology and management consulting after IIM Lucknow before writing real stories. His work, which includes stories, articles and novellas so far, have made people smile and think, though his wife and son don't believe it. He lives in Bangalore India and loves ice-cream and chocolate, as everyone with a sound mind should. More details on him and his work can be accessed at https://www.ranjitkulkarni.com

Elsie Platzer is a writer-ecologist originally from Jacksonville, Florida. Her work appears or is forthcoming in EcoTheo Collective, Crack the Spine, and Glass Kite Anthology. She kvetches at @jewonlyliveonce on Twitter.

Mary Sexson is author of the award-winning book, 103 in the Light, Selected Poems 1996-2000 (Restoration Press), co-author of Company of Women, New and Selected Poems (Chatter House Press). Her poetry has appeared in Tipton Poetry Journal, Hoosier Lit, New Verse News, and several anthologies. Sexson has recent work in Last Stanza Poetry Journal: Altered States (Stackfreed Press 2021). Her work is archived in INverse Poetry Archives, for Hoosier Poets. Her poetry on the pandemic was published through Indianapolis Writers Center’s publication, What Was and Will Be. Sexson’s poem, “Close”, was choreographed by Dance Kaleidoscope. Her latest work can be found in Laureate: Literary Journal of the Arts for Lawrence (2021).

Alexa Doran is currently working on her PhD in Poetry at Florida State University. Her full-length collection DM Me, Mother Darling won the 2020 May Sarton Poetry Prize and will be published by Bauhan Publishing in Spring 2021. She is also the author of the chapbook Nightsink, Faucet Me a Lullaby (Bottlecap Press 2019). You can look for work from Doran in recent or upcoming issues of Passages North, Literary Mama, Pithead Chapel, THE BOILER, and Harvard Review, among others. For a full list of her publications, awards, and interviews please visit her website at alexadoran.com.

Pepper (she/her) is a writer and teacher who hails from Texas but now calls home the mountains of Vilcabamba, Ecuador. She spends her free time writing by the river, making collages, and marveling at the sheer amount of unrecognizable beetles and butterflies that live in her garden. Pepper is currently the Translation Editor at MAYDAY Magazine. She can be found on Instagram @jonibitchell_ and Twitter @pepwriteswords.

Bunny Morris is a queer poet from Louisville, Kentucky. They are currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in English with minors in Creative Writing and LGBTQ+ studies at the University of Louisville. Their work revolves around their experiences as a trans sex worker, with a focus on sexuality, gender, and the interaction between trauma and pleasure.

Kara Knickerbocker is the author of the chapbooks The Shedding Before the Swell (dancing girl press, 2018) and Next to Everything that is Breakable (Finishing Line Press, 2017). Her poetry and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming from: Poet Lore, Hobart, Levee Magazine, and more. She currently lives in Pennsylvania and writes with the Madwomen in the Attic at Carlow University. Find her online: www.karaknickerbocker.com.

August Bennet is a college student attending the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, enrolled in the BFA program for Writing & Applied Arts. Currently, they are the editor-in-chief of UW-Green Bay’s undergraduate staffed Journal of Art and Literature, Sheepshead Review. Their work appears in past issues of Sheepshead Review and Northern Lights

Olivia “Livvy” Williams is, at the time of publication, a sophomore at the University of Vermont. She is double-majoring in English, with a concentration in Creative Writing, and French. She has been writing since she can remember and is the recipient of multiple awards, including Regional Winner of the Patriot’s Pen Essay Contest, Audience Favorite at a poetry contest and Poetry Out Loud class champion. Olivia has attended writing conferences at BreadLoaf and Smith College. Writing is one of the only times the world makes sense.

Katharine Blair is a poet, writer, and aspiring hermit currently based in California. Grateful to have entered her invisible years, Katharine is most interested in the intersections of childhood trauma, personal understandings of identity, and mental health.

Nicks Walker is Scottish poet and queer trans man, currently locked down on the Southern English coast. A small witch of his appears in The Speculative Book 2021 ("Her Over There"), and you can find his work on grief and furbies in Qmunicate Magazine ("This is the whole story of The Furbies"). He has four rats and autism and tweets @nickserobus

Nico Lorraine is a queer latinx living in beautiful British Columbia with their cat. They find inspiration in the mountains and the forests, and writes poetry to remember and to relive.

Lady Red Ego is a Chinese/British lesbian concerned with intimacies. Her second pamphlet, Natural Sugars, is available from Broken Sleep Books.

Jax Bulstrode is an Australian queer poet. Her work covers the quotidian, the feeling of coming home after a long day and what it means to discover oneself. She has been published both in print and online in Twilight press, Marmalade journal, Soultalk magazine and Stuck in notes magazine. She loves mandarins and is currently studying a BA in creative writing, gender studies and digital media in university, and how to make the best tofu scramble in life.

Ashley Sapp (she/her) resides in Columbia, South Carolina, with her dog, Barkley. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of South Carolina in 2010, and her work has previously appeared in Indie Chick, Variant Lit, Emerge Literary Journal, Common Ground Review, and elsewhere. Ashley has written two poetry collections: Wild Becomes You and Silence Is A Ballad. She can be found on Twitter @ashthesapp and Instagram @ashsappley.

Arielle McManus is a writer, learning as she goes and crafting one liners from a tiny, sunlit room in Brooklyn. She is an assistant editor at Atlas & Alice, and her writing has been published by a variety of literary publications including Passages North and Entropy Magazine.

Ashley Bunton is an award winning writer and journalist currently based in Moab, Utah, where she frequently retreats into the desert to work on her projects. Her work has been featured in numerous publications, including Lucky Jefferson, Mock Turtle Zine, Salt Magazine, The Antioch Record, The Salt Lake Tribune, Moab Sun News.

MJ L'Espérance is a bilingual writer and teacher who lives in Montreal, QC. She writes about mental health, chronic illness and disability, loss and lust. In her spare time, she likes to run after cats in back alleys and wander barefoot on the grass.

Vanessa Escobar is a 31-year-old queer Latinx poet living the corporate America life but always dreaming of something more. She’s in love with the city of Houston despite no desire to live in the South. She has a nefarious, escape artist dog named Stella and is currently at work on her first book of poems. You can find her at escobarvanessa.com.

Andrea Lynn Koohi is a writer and editor from Toronto, Canada. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Maine Review, Pithead Chapel, Streetlight Magazine, the winnow magazine, Emerge Literary Journal and others.

Janna Grace's work has been published in The Bacopa Literary Review, Otoliths, and Eunoia Review, among others. Between teaching writing at Rutgers University, editing Lamplit Underground, and reading for Longleaf Review, she works as a freelance and travel writer. Her debut novel will be published through Quill Press in 2021.

Tucker Lieberman is the author of Ten Past Noon (2020), a biography of an early 20th-century New York writer. His bilingual poetry book inspired by the Epic of Gilgamesh was a finalist in the Grayson Books 2020 contest. His poems have appeared in many journals including Animal Heart, Dream Noir, Esthetic Apostle, Gingerbread House, Prometheus Dreaming, Raven Review, Sisyphus, and Snakeskin. www.tuckerlieberman.com

The Poet Laureate of Ridgefield, Connecticut, B. Fulton Jennes serves as poet-in-residence for the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. Her poems have or will appear in Anti-Heroin Chic, The Comstock Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Night Heron Barks, Connecticut River Journal, ArtAscent, Tar River Poetry, Stone Canoe, Naugatuck River Journal, Frost Meadow Review, and other publications, and her poem “Lessons of a Cruel Tide” was awarded first place in the Writer’s Digest Annual Competition in the rhyming poetry category. Jennes’s chapbook, Blinded Birds, will be published by Finishing Line Press in the fall of 2021. She is in her (blessed) 13th year of recovery; her daughter, now grateful for six years in recovery, recently completed graduate coursework in Addiction Counseling. There is hope.

Mary Ann Honaker is the author of It Will Happen Like This (YesNo Press, 2015) and Becoming Persephone (Third Lung Press, 2019). Her poems have appeared in Bear Review, Drunk Monkeys, Euphony, Juked, Little Patuxent Review, Rattle.com, Sweet Tree Review, Van Gogh’s Ear, and elsewhere. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart prize. Mary Ann holds an MFA in creative writing from Lesley University. She currently lives in Beaver, West Virginia.

Beck Anson (he/they) is a queer and trans emerging writer whose work is featured in Humana Obscura and Rattle and is forthcoming in RHINO. His poem “I Admit Myself to the Psych Ward in a Pandemic” was a finalist for the 2020 Rattle Poetry Prize. Beck writes to start a conversation — with others and with themselves — and to explore aspects of the human condition they cannot otherwise express through other forms. He has two degrees in botany but don’t ask him how to keep a houseplant alive. Follow him on Instagram @beckansonpoet and read more of their work at www.beckanson.com.

Alicia Elkort has been nominated thrice for the Pushcart, twice for Best of the Net and once for the Orisons Anthology. She was the finalist in the 2020 Two Sylvias Book Prize and has been published in numerous journals and anthologies. She lives in Santa Fe, NM and goes to great lengths for a mountain breeze. For more info or to watch her two video poems: http://aliciaelkort.mystrikingly.com/

Bailey Merlin holds an MFA in fiction from Butler University. Her work has been published by Into the Void, Dime Show Review, Crack the Spine, The Indianapolis Review, among others. She recently released the spoken word/jazz hybrid album Bug Eyes with Shore Side Records. She lives and writes in Boston, MA.

Kimberly Wolf is a bipolar mom living in Texas who wants to know the name of every bird. She enjoys driving halfway across the country to see a mountain. You can find her poems in Nymphs and Trampset.

Raquel Luciano is a future educator and a student at the University of Central Florida. She lives in Orlando with her girlfriend and their five crazy cats. She loves singing bad karaoke. Find her on Instagram @raq.poet.

T. Clear is one of the founders of Floating Bridge Press and Easy Speak Seattle. She has been writing and publishing since the late 1970’s, and her work has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including Poetry Northwest, Sheila-na-Gig Online, The Rise-Up Review, Red Earth Review, Terrain.org, The Moth and Common Ground Review. She is an Associate Editor at Bracken Magazine, and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Independent Best American Poetry Award.

Cara Losier Chanoine is the author of 'How a Bullet Behaves' and 'Bowetry: Found Poems from David Bowie Lyrics' (Scars Publications). She is a four-time competitor at the National Poetry Slam and her work has appeared in DASH, Red Fez, The Threepenny Review, and other publications.

Lynne Jensen Lampe has poems in or forthcoming from One, The American Journal of Poetry, Rock & Sling, Small Orange, LIT Magazine, and elsewhere. She was a finalist for the 2020 Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize. Her current project relates to conformity, sanity, and family. She edits academic journals and books in Columbia, Missouri. Find her on Twitter: @LJensenLampe.

Ben Montague is an MFA candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They work mainly in the realm of video and installation, with a preference for using dark comedy to handle trauma and mental illness (both personal and intergenerational).

Dorie LaRue is the author of two novels, Resurrecting Virgil, and The Trouble With Student Affairs; and two collections of poetry, Mad Rains, and An Enemy in Their Mouths. She obtained her Ph.D. in English at the University of Louisiana. She lives in Shreveport, Louisiana, and teaches writing at LSUS.

Eileen Farrelly lives in Scotland. Her poems have appeared most recently in The Gladrag, Marble and the Writers’ Café Magazine as well as in various anthologies. Her microchapbook, Tryst, was be published in January 2021 by Nightingale & Sparrow Press and her first chapbook Some things I ought to throw away will be published in 2021 by Dreich. She is also an artist and printmaker. You can find out more about her work at www.ellyfarrelly.co.uk

Kelly Mullins is an American writer, workplace organizer, and climate activist living in Amsterdam. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Allegory Ridge Poetry Anthology, Hash Journal, Maudlin House and In Parentheses.

Holly is a new writer and mature student, currently studying at the University of Leeds. She has recently featured on Ink, Sweat & Tears, and has a number of other poems published, and awaiting publication, this year.

Sarah Sarai's poems have been published in Barrow Street, The Southampton Review, Sinister Wisdom, Mom Egg, DMQ Review, and many other journals. She is author of the poetry collections That Strapless Bra in Heaven, Geographies of Soul and Taffeta, and The Future Is Happy. She lives in New York City.

Justin Lacour lives in New Orleans and edits Trampoline: A Journal of Poetry.

Lisa Mary Armstrong lives in Scotland with her children. She tutors law and researches women and children's experiences of the criminal justice system. In what's left of her spare time she likes to read and write poetry and fiction and play the piano. You can find her on twitter @earlgrey79_lisa.

Merril D. Smith writes from southern New Jersey, where she takes long walks and watches the birds along the Delaware River. Her poetry and short fiction have been published most recently in Black Bough Poetry, Nightingale and Sparrow, Fevers of the Mind, The Tide Rises, and Anti-Heroin Chic. Twitter @merril_mds

Darci Schummer is the author of the story collection Six Months in the Midwest (Unsolicited Press), the co-author of the poetry/prose collaboration Hinge (broadcraft press), and her work has appeared in journals and magazines such as Ninth Letter (web edition), Necessary Fiction, Jet Fuel Review, Pithead Chapel, and Midwestern Gothic, among other places. She teaches writing at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College.

Anastasia is a twenty-seven year old woman living in San Diego with her two cats, Klaus and Lucy. She has been trying to write for as long as she can remember, but only recently began finding her voice in Megan Falley’s five week poetry course, Poems That Don’t Suck. Her passions include cats, coffee, candles, and words.

Jeni Bell is an award-winning fiction and non-fiction writer with credits in Guideposts for Kids, Guideposts for Teens, Sweet 16, Highlights for Children, Boy's Life, Pockets, and more. Most of her fiction is middle-grade fiction. She also works as a healthcare writer full-time. She lives with her husband, children, two dogs, two cats, two guinea pigs and several fish in Munster, Ind.

Bree Bailey (she/her) is a new mom who lives near NYC with her husband and her beautiful baby poet. Bree has written since childhood and tends to reflect on growing up, falling in/out of love, and family. Bree loves tacos, cheese, laughter, and friendship, but gets anxious and delirious if they happen at the same time. Follow her on Instagram @breebaileypoetry.

Alexa Theofanidis is a writer based in Houston, Texas. Her work either appears or is forthcoming in Birdcoat Quarterly, perhappened mag, Lunch Ticket, Rising Phoenix Review, and elsewhere. Currently, she reads poetry for COUNTERCLOCK Journal and serves as the co-Editor-in-Chief of her school's literary journal, Imagination.

Neha Rayamajhi is a storyteller and a socio-economic justice worker from Nepal who is currently based in Boston, Massachusetts. She is the recipient of the 2018 Dastaan Award for short story hosted by the Desi Writers’ Lounge. Neha's work has been published in the South Asian Journal and other smaller online blogs.

Kyla Houbolt (@luaz_poet) has no academic credentials but grew up in a household saturated with poetry and music. This nourished her creativity. She wrote poems early and often, rarely seeking publication until 2019 when she joined Twitter. She was nominated for both Pushcart and Best of the Net, and published in a large number of online journals. She has also shared poetry as the Greenway Poet, in her local walking park, posting poems up on trees. Her chapbook Dawn’s Fool was published in March 2020, and her second chapbook Tuned in November 2020. Her website is kylahoubolt.com.

Rita Mookerjee is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Iowa State University. Her poetry is featured in Juked, Hobart Pulp, New Orleans Review, The Offing, and the Baltimore Review. Rita is both the Sex and Poetry Editor at Honey Literary as well as the Assistant Poetry Editor of Split Lip Magazine, and a poetry staff reader for [PANK].

Joanna Grant holds a Ph.D. in British and American literature, specializing in fictional as well as nonfiction travel narratives of the Middle East. She spent eight years in that region, notably two years in Afghanistan, teaching writing, mythology, and public speaking classes to American soldiers and gathering materials for her own memoir, which she is currently completing as part of an MFA in Creative Nonfiction at Southern New Hampshire University under the direction of Mark Sundeen. Her poetry and prose have appeared widely in journals including Guernica and Prairie Schooner.

Joe Cottonwood has built or repaired hundreds of houses to support his writing habit in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California. His latest book is Random Saints.

Frances Boyle (she/her) is the author of two poetry books, most recently This White Nest (Quattro Books 2019), as well as Seeking Shade, a short story collection (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2020) and Tower, a Rapunzel-infused novella (Fish Gotta Swim Editions, 2018). A Canadian writer who lives in Ottawa. she has published poetry and short fiction throughout North America and in Europe and India. Recent and forthcoming publications include work in Best Canadian Poetry 2020, Blackbird, Literary Mama, Prairie Fire, Sheila-Na-Gig and Minola Review. Please visit www.francesboyle.com and follow @francesboyle 19 on Twitter and Instagram.

From associate professor of English to management trainer to retiree, Carolyn Martin has published poems in more than 130 journals throughout North America, Australia, and the UK. She is currently the poetry editor of Kosmos Quarterly: journal for global transformation. Find out more about Carolyn at www.carolynmartinpoet.com.

Roy Christopher is an aging BMX and skateboarding zine kid. That’s where he learned to turn events and interviews into pages with staples. He has since written about music, media, and culture for everything from books and blogs to national magazines and academic journals. He holds a Ph.D. in Communication Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. As a child, he solved the Rubik’s Cube competitively.

Kindra McDonald is the author of the books Fossils and In the Meat Years, (both in 2019) and the chapbooks Elements and Briars (2016) and Concealed Weapons, (2015). She received her MFA from Queens University of Charlotte. She is an Adjunct Professor of Writing and teaches poetry at The Muse Writers Center in Norfolk, VA. She serves as Regional VP of the Virginia Poetry Society and was the recipient of the 2020 Haunted Waters Press Poetry Award. She lives in the city of mermaids with her husband and cats where she bakes, hikes, and changes hobbies monthly.

Camille Lewis is an avid reader and aspiring writer. She can be found taking long walks with her dog, indulging heavily in the Plath fantasia and crossing off days on a calendar until the next instalment of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series is released. Camille resides in South West England.

Therese is a poet and writer from Chicago, Illinois. Her works have been published in Wingless Dreamer and the biannual women's magazine Not Very Quiet. She recently graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with her bachelor's in journalism and psychology.

Talya Jankovits’ work has appeared in a number of literary journals. Her micro piece, 'Bus Stop in Morning' was a winner of Beyond Words Magazine's 250-word Cold themed writing challenge. Her short story “Undone” in Lunch Ticket was nominated for a Pushcart prize. Her poem, A Woman of Valor, was featured in the 2019/2020 Eshet Hayil exhibit at Hebrew Union College Los Angeles. She holds her MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University and resides in Chicago with her husband and four daughters

Marguerite L. Harrold’s work is a revolutionary act of kindness, gratitude, agitation and community mobilization.

Her poems thread the ecology of being human through urban and rural landscapes, in order to explore the ways in which we connect to place, dislocation and to one another.

She earned a Master’s of Fine Art in Creative Writing/Poetry (with Honors) from Columbia College Chicago. Marguerite was nominated for the 2020 Pushcart Prize (Matador Review). She was also nominated for a 2020 Illinois Arts Council grant and was a 2020 finalist for and Allied Arts Council grant. She is a member of the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley and attended the Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writer’s Conference. Recently she retired from Chicago Department of Public Health, after 20 years of service in HIV Prevention and Environmental Health. She is currently pursuing Poetry and Naturalist work, while she travels the world. She recently returned from a trip around the world. She has poems published or forthcoming in the following journals: The Blue Nib, Jubilat, pulpmouth, “Growing Up in Chicago House Music ”-Essay The Chicago Review: The Black Arts Movement in Chicago Special Issue: Spring 2019, VINYL , The Matador Review, Anthology House: a visionary ecology project and Rigorous.

Valerie Nies (she/her/hers) is a comedian, writer, and gluten enthusiast whose writing has been featured in McSweeney's, Reductress, and Oddball Magazine. Find her in Austin, Texas, scanning WebMD. She’s also on Twitter/IG @valerieknees and at valerienies.com.

Nwenna Kai is a writer and college instructor who lives in Philadelphia with her family. She has been published in Obsidian, Heart and Soul Magazine, and Def Jam Poetry Anthology. She loves hot yoga, ginger tea, naps, metaphysics, and plants, not in that order.

Remi Seamon is a student who spends her time split between Cambridge, England and Seattle, Washington. She was commended in the Foyle Young Poet of the Year Award and has been published in a scattering of small publications, most recently the Dillydoun Review and Unlost. She considers her primary inspiration to be her dog.

Peach Delphine is a queer poet from Tampa, Florida. Obsessed with what remains of the undeveloped Gulf coast. Former cook dedicated to food of the Gulf coast.

George Perreault has published widely in journals and anthologies in the US and elsewhere.

Mark Jaynes has no formal education, but has been into it on his own, alone, for about 30 years. He lives off grid in Alaska. Worked in the oil industry. Always been a reader. A taoist. Knows all about the I-Ching. Goes to Burning Man. Pretty much a Perimeter Man.

Bel is a songwriter from the deep South of Scotland and far East of Africa.

Gareth lives in Wales. He has two collections by FutureCycle called The Miner & A Bard's View. He is a current student at Manchester Met. Twitter culshawpoetry1

Ujjvala Bagal Rahn’s Red Silk Sari (Red Silk Press, 2013) is her first collection of poems. Her work is forthcoming in The Threepenny Review and Illuminations Literary Magazine, and has recently appeared in Frogpond, Bangalore Review and Third Wednesday. She was the featured poet in the inaugural broadcast of Poetry in the Air (Savannah State University). A semifinalist in the 2013 and 2018 Wisdom-Faulkner Competition, she was a Hambidge Center fellow in May 2020. She is the owner of Red Silk Press, a micropress of science fiction, science, poetry, and memoir. She lives with her husband and daughter in Savannah, GA.

Joanne Yi is a Los Angeles-based writer and editor with an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University. She is a former fiction editor of Lunch Ticket Literary Journal and current assistant director of NYC Midnight’s creative writing competitions. Presently, she is working on a YA novel and a series of short stories.

Jasmine Ledesma lives in New York. Her work has appeared in places such as Epiphany, The Southampton Review, Crab Fat Magazine and [PANK], among others. She was recently named a finalist for Gasher's first-book scholarship, as well as a finalist for the Texas Disability Coalition's PEN2PAPER Prize. Her work was nominated for both Best of The Net and the Pushcart Prize in 2020.

Niles Reddick is author of a novel Drifting too far from the Shore, two collections, Reading the Coffee Grounds and Road Kill Art and Other Oddities, and a novella, Lead Me Home. His work has been featured in nineteen anthologies, twenty-one countries, and in over three hundred publications including The Saturday Evening Post, PIF, New Reader Magazine, Forth Magazine, Citron Review, and The Boston Literary Magazine.

Tim Frank’s short stories have been published over sixty times in journals including Able Muse, Bourbon Penn, Intrinsick, Menacing Hedge, Literally Stories, Eunoia Review, Maudlin House and The Fiction Pool. His work was nominated for The Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2020, and he's the associate fiction editor for Able Muse Literary Journal.

Raised on a farm in rural Tennessee by evangelicals, Micah is a far way from home in Mexico where she lives with her husband and two sons. Micah works as an integrative support therapist with trauma survivors and is in the final stages of revision on a memoir chronicling the path to heal intergenerational sexual trauma with psilocybin and guided psychotherapy.

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Meredith Johnson is a writer living and working in Austin, Texas from Lafayette, Louisiana. She's been writing since childhood. She recently completed her first book of poetry, “Becoming,” which catalogs battle, surrender, sex, and what it means to be human. She is currently seeking representation for her memoir. Meredith is the subject of the Artist Feature for five poems on the Hatchlings Publishings website. She has two poems forthcoming with Poets’ Choice. Meredith created and hosts the podcast, "Remarkable Voices," conversations on creativity, culture and big ideas, available on all major platforms.

Melissa writes about finding things in places she thought were empty. Her essays and poems can be found at Prometheus Dreaming, Kalopsia Literary Journal, and The Feminine Collective as well as other literary journals. Her poems are anthologized with Poet's Haven Digest and she's a frequent contributor at The Blue Nib. Her essay, Tick, is forthcoming with HerStry and her essay, When the East Wind Comes, is forthcoming in Months to Years Literary Magazine. She graduated from Kenyon College in 1990 with a B.A. in psychology and from John Carroll University in 1995 with an M.A. in counseling.

Kaitlin Kan is a student at Yale University studying literature and psychology. Hailing from the suburbs of Philadelphia with Chinese ancestry, her writing draws from rich cultural ties, as well as from my extensive experiences with mental illness. She is currently working on a poetry chapbook exploring the intersections between storytelling and corporeality

Annabel Hynes is a recent graduate of the National University of Ireland, Galway, where she earned a BA with Journalism, and she is currently studying for an MA in Literature and Publishing at the same institution. She has had short stories published by the independent company Mirador and the online journal Periwinkle Literary Magazine. She currently resides in Ireland.

Rebecca Cuthbert lives, writes, and reads in Western New York. Her work has appeared in Brevity, Slipstream, Neworld Review, and elsewhere. It is forthcoming in Blueline Magazine and Memoryhouse Magazine. She serves as managing editor for Leapfrog Press, and also as a content writer and editor for LiveWriters (livewriters.com).

Shiksha Dheda is a South African of Indian descent. She uses poetry(mostly) to express her internal and external struggles and journeys, inclusive of her OCD and depression roller-coaster ventures. Mostly, however, she writes in the hopes that someday, someone will see her as she is; an incomplete poem.

Her work has been featured (on/forthcoming) in Mixed Mag, The Daily Drunk, Visual Verse, The Kalahari Review, Brave Voices, Glitchwords, Versification, and elsewhere. Twitter: @ShikshaWrites

Mike Keller-Wilson lives, writes, and teaches in Iowa City, Iowa. He received his MFA in creative writing from the University of Nebraska-Omaha and has been published in Arcturus Magazine and The Wondrous Real. In his day job, he teaches writing and dad jokes to a captive audience of 7th graders. You can find him on Twitter @Mike3Stars.

Ludwig Camarillo is a multidisciplinary creator focusing on audiovisual content and art direction. He won Best Short Film in the Professional Category at Stop Motion Mx (Mexico city) in 2017 and the Most innovative Award at IndieFilmTO (Toronto, Canada) 2016. He is specialized in art and design as well as stop motion and illustration and has published projects in various creative fields, from printing techniques to digital retouching. A restless mind that is constantly exploring new techniques and pushing himself to the next level.

Claudia Lundahl is a writer and artist from New York City. She attended the City University of New York. She now lives in London, England. Find her on twitter: @claudrosewrites.

Kim Nuzzo is a writer, actor and visual artist in a small town in western Colorado near the Utah border. He and his wife have a small theater company, Zephyr Stage, which specializes in original work. Their original play, Multitudes, about the great gay father of American poetry, Walt Whitman, has traveled around the country and even to Scotland for the Fringe Festival. Kim is also a semi-retired addiction counselor in Carbondale, Colorado, where he regularly opens his groups with a selection of poetry from AHC.

allison anne (they/them) is a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based collagist, mail artist, zinemaker and graphic designer. Their creative work – a result of years of self-directed experimentation with many traditional and digital mediums – is influenced by an education in American Studies at the University of Minnesota, where they received a Bachelor of Arts degree that also focused on Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies. allison’s myriad interests and background create a personal perspective often expressed through recycled, found, and reclaimed materials. They are an active member of the International Union of Mail-Artists and a founding member of Twin Cities Collage Collective, a group which endeavors to expand access to and interest in collage in Minneapolis-Saint Paul and beyond. allison’s focus on analog paper collage is a constantly evolving exploration of personal experiences through the reconstitution and rearranging of various printed media and ephemera. By recontextualizing images and materials, the artist creates complex textural, intuitive abstractions and configurations that consciously engage with themes of identity, physical self, gender as they relate to the personal, the political and the sociocultural. Prioritizing sustainability and that which is left behind, allison frequently works with rescued, found or recycled materials, using collage and correspondence art as ways to explore the intersections and interactions between context, materiality and creativity.

Francesca Taboga was born and raised in Venice, Italy. The island. The real Venice. (Many people think no-one actually lives there anymore, but no, there are still a few Venetians clinging to existence). Francesca has lived in the Netherlands and in China, has a Masters in Chinese language and culture, and has traveled as far as Cambodia on the hunt for a good sunset, but in the end always found the best colors in her hometown. She curates Il cielo su venezia (The Sky Over Venice) on Instagram (@ilcielo_suvenezia).

Arun Kapur is a mental health advocate and lover of life who uses the mediums of photography, poetry and film to further his vision of uniting the world through the truths that bind us. Everything he puts together is done with the intention to support someone, wherever in the world they are.

Audrey Gidman is a queer poet living in central Maine. Her poems can be found or are forthcoming in The West Review, époque press, FEED, Anti-Heroin Chic, and elsewhere. She received her BFA from the University of Maine Farmington. Her chapbook, body psalms, winner of the Elyse Wolf Prize, is forthcoming from Slate Roof Press.

Megan Finkel (she/her) is a queer writer studying Comparative Literature and Russian language at NYU with a passion for mindfulness, mental health awareness, and authentic expression. You can find her on Twitter @megfinkel and her Instagram which follows her journey of self-love and full eating disorder recovery @meganeatingfood.

Shannon Cuthbert is a writer and artist living in Brooklyn. Her poems have been nominated for three Pushcarts, and have appeared in journals including Dodging the Rain, Hamilton Stone Review, and The Oddville Press. Her work is forthcoming in Sparks of Calliope, Ghost City Review, and Thimble Literary Magazine, among others.

Jessica Hudson is a graduate teaching assistant working on her Creative Writing MFA at Northern Michigan University. She is an associate editor for Passages North. Her work has been published in The Pinch, Pithead Chapel, and perhappened mag, among others.

Bee Morris is a poet living in South Florida. A finalist for the 2020 Kingdoms in the Wild Poetry Prize and runner-up for the Miracle Monocle Award for Young Black Writers, their work can be found in The Rising Phoenix Review, The Sigma Tau Delta Rectangle, and elsewhere.

Melissa Sussens (she/her) is a queer South African veterinarian and poet. Her work has appeared in Germ Magazine, Ja. Magazine, Odd Magazine and The Sock Drawer, among others. She is a small animal vet by day and by night a poet and editor assisting Megan Falley with her Poem's That Don't Suck online writing courses. She lives in Cape Town with her girlfriend and their two dogs.

Astrid Bridgwood is an eighteen year old poet from North Carolina with a love for printmaking and playing guitar. Astrid's work tends to focus on her girlhood struggles with love, mental health, and body image. You can find her featured in Peregrine Mag, Ember Chasm Review, and All Guts No Glory Mag; upcoming in Storm of Blue Press. Follow her on Twitter @astridsbridg.

Rachel Small is based outside of Ottawa, and is exactly one half of Splintered Disorder Press. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in magazines including Thorn Literary Magazine, blood orange, The Hellebore, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Shore, bywords, and other places. She was the recipient of honourable mention for the John Newlove Poetry Award for her poem “garbage moon and feminist day”. You can find her on twitter @rahel_taller.

Shareen K. Murayama is a poet, writer, and educator. She's never written a true love poem, even though she's experienced true love many times. She lives in Honolulu, Hawai`i. She has degrees in English from the University of Hawai`i at Manoa and Creative Writing from Oregon State University-Cascades. You can reach her at IG and Twitter @AmBusyPoeming.

Jory Mickelson’s first book, WILDERNESS//KINGDOM, was the inaugural winner of the Evergreen Award Tour from Floating Bridge Press and winner of the 2020 High Plains Book Award in Poetry. Their publications include Court Green, Painted Bride Quarterly, Jubilat, Sixth Finch, Diode Poetry Journal, The Rumpus, Ninth Letter, Vinyl Poetry and other journals. They are the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize and were awarded fellowships from the Lambda Literary Foundation and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico.

Denton Loving is the author of the poetry collection Crimes Against Birds (Main Street Rag, 2015) and editor of Seeking Its Own Level, an anthology of writings about water (MotesBooks, 2014). Follow him on twitter @DentonLoving.

Cat Dixon is the author of Eva and Too Heavy to Carry (Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2016, 2014) and The Book of Levinson and Our End Has Brought the Spring (Finishing Line Press, 2017, 2015), and the chapbook, Table for Two (Poet's Haven, 2019). Recent poems have appeared in Parentheses Journal, Lowecroft Chronicle, and SWWIM.

Alyssa May Trifone is a 31 year old queer poet living in CT with her fiancee and family of primarily rescued animals.

Constance Brewer’s poetry has appeared in Crafty Poet II: A Portable Workshop, Harpur Palate, Rappahannock Review, The Nassau Review, among other places. She is the editor for Gyroscope Review poetry magazine and the recipient of a Wyoming Arts Council Fellowship Grant in poetry. Constance is the author of Piccola Poesie: A Nibble of Short Form Poetry. She lives in Wyoming, under star-studded skies, and is a fan of Welsh Corgis, weekends, and whiteline woodcuts. www.constancebrewer.com

Melody Wang currently resides in sunny Southern California with her dear husband and hopes to someday live in the Pacific Northwest (or somewhere with equally gloomy weather). She dabbles in piano composition and enjoys hiking, baking, and playing with her dogs.

Arwyn Sherman lives in rural Maine with two cats and a toad.

Gloria Monaghan is a Professor of Humanities at Wentworth Institute in Boston. She has published two chapbooks and three books of poetry. Her chapbooks include; Flawed (Finishing Line Press) and Torero (Nixes Mate). Her books of poetry are The Garden (Flutter Press), False Spring (Adelaide), and Hydrangea (Kelsay Books). Her poems have appeared in Alexandria Quarterly, 2River, Adelaide, Aurorean, Chiron, Nixes-Mate, First Literary Review East, among others. In 2018 her poem, “Into Grace” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her book False Spring was nominated for the Griffin Prize.

Renwick Berchild is half literary critic, half poet. She writes at Nothing in Particular Book Review, and her poems have appeared in Headline Press, Whimperbang, ISACOUSTICS, Spillwords, Vita Brevis, The Stray Branch, Machinery India, Lunaris Review, Streetcake Mag, and other e-zines, anthologies, and journals. She was born and raised on the angry shores of Lake Superior, and now lives in a micro-apartment in Seattle, WA.

Izabella Santana (She/Her) is a 23 year-old college grad with a Bachelor's in English- Creative Writing and working on her last semester as an MFA candidate at SFSU. Currently residing in San Francisco, but originally from Santa Ana, California. While working on her MFA, She’s interned for Omnidawn Publishing as a Marketing Assistant and Fiction Editor. Previously won awards for The Scholastic Arts and Writing awards- second place in poetry, and memoir with honorable mentions in poetry and journalism. Izabella also received First Place in Columns (2-year college division) as a staff writer for Santa Ana College's el Don from the California Newspaper Publishers Association (2015). In her spare time, she enjoys reading, perfecting her coffee-making skills, and collaborating with friends on other art projects.

Lydia Tai is a twenty-seven year old Taiwanese-American female. She is published in Big City Lit and the Creative Drive Podcast. She is an advocate for those with mental health issues and has written all her life. She lives in Framingham, Massachusetts.

Audrey L. Reyes (she/her) is a digital content specialist and former early childhood educator whose favorite workplace activity is raising hell. Her work appears or is forthcoming in QUINCE Magazine, NECTAR POETRY, Marías at Sampaguitas, and DEAR. She resides in Manila, Philippines.

Bianca Grace is a poet from Australia. She writes from her living room which is overloaded with photos of memories which she draws inspiration from.

Erica Abbott (she/her) is a Philadelphia-based poet and writer. She has been writing for over 15 years and her work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Toho, perhappened, Bandit Fiction, and other journals. She is the author of Self-Portrait as a Sinking Ship (Toho 2020), her debut poetry chapbook. She volunteers for Button Poetry and Mad Poets Society. Follow her on Instagram @poetry_erica and on Twitter @erica_abbott.

Kathleen Daley is a lifelong New Englander, enchanted by the muse of the seasons. She views her writing as a God gift that allows her to coax out what is hiding in the obvious. She delights in the full freedom of fiction and embraces the ‘What if?’ of a writers mind as the most stirring part of her existence. Some of her writings have recently been accepted by Gnashing Teeth publications and Short Story Avenue.

At 63 years old the former addictions counselor is a lupus survivor, a staunch recovery and mental health advocate and the married mother of two grown sons.

Leia John is a writer, seminarian and human rights activist based in New York, USA. She studies Social Ethics and theology at Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan and is currently an intern at the General Board of Global Ministries at the United Nations.

Her passion for writing began at a young age and blossomed in to a full-on compulsion in her late teens. When she is not busy attempting to survive on coffee in an effort to finish her school work, she is either furiously scribbling in her notebook or writing for www.poemsthatsuck.com

Kaisa Saarinen is a research analyst and writer trying and usually failing to make sense of the world. She grew up in the Finnish countryside and escaped as quickly as possibly, ending up in London via Glasgow, Tokyo and Oxford.

Perla Kantarjian is a Lebanese-Armenian writer, journalist, instructor, and hulahooper. Her writings have appeared in various publications including Bookstr, Elephant Journal, Indelible, Panoply, Stripes, The Hellebore, The Armenian Weekly, Walqalam, Rebelle Society, and Annahar Newspaper. Kantarjian also teaches English literature and journalism at the International College, and writes for Bookstr.

Haolun Xu was born in Nanning, China. He immigrated to the United States in 1999 as a child. His writing has appeared in New Ohio Review, Meridian, Bellevue Literary Review and more. He currently reads for Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review.

edie roberts is a gender mess blessed with excess anxiety and midwestern disposition. they currently live in Detroit, MI and dream of fully-automated leisure utopias and the end of scarcity. their books include Ain’t Life Grand (pitymilk, 2020) and Everywhere You Go (bathmatics, 2019) among others. follow along at https://edieroberts.wordpress.com/ - twitter @squabtasticcc

Hayley Mitchell Haugen holds a Ph.D. in 20th Century American Literature from Ohio University and an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington. She is currently Professor of English at Ohio University Southern, where she teaches courses in composition, American literature, and creative writing. Her chapbook What the Grimm Girl Looks Forward To appears from Finishing Line Press (2016), and poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Rattle, Slant, Spillway, Chiron Review, Verse Virtual and many other journals. Light & Shadow, Shadow & Light from Main Street Rag Publishing Company (2018) is her first full-length collection. She edits Sheila-Na-Gig online: https://sheilanagigblog.com/ and Sheila-Na-Gig Editions.

Jordan Trethewey is a writer and editor living in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. He is also a husband, father (to two kids, a black cat, and a Sheltie) and beer-league softball player. Some of his poetry, fiction and non-fiction inhabits on-line publications such as Visual Verse, Fishbowl Press, Red Fez, The Blue Nib, Califragile, Jerry Jazz Musician and Spillwords. Jordan is an editor at redfez.net, and openartsforum.com. His latest book, Spirits for Sale, is available on Amazon. His poetry has also been translated in Vietnamese and Farsi. To see more of his work go to: https://jordantretheweywriter.wordpress.com.

Susan Barry-Schulz is a licensed Physical Therapist. Her poetry has appeared in The Wild Word, SWWIM, Shooter Literary Magazine, Barrelhouse online, South Florida Poetry Journal, The New Verse News, Panoply, Bending Genres and elsewhere. She grew up outside of Buffalo and now lives in a lake neighborhood in Putnam County, NY with her husband and one or more of her 3 adult children. It all depends.

Angela Gabrielle Fabunan was born in the Philippines but grew up in New York City. Her first book, The Sea That Beckoned, was published by Platypus Press in 2019, and her second book, Young Enough to Play, is forthcoming from UP Press in 2021. Her poems have been published extensively in Asia, the UK, and the US. She lives back and forth Manila, Olongapo City and New York. One day, she might settle somewhere once she ends the search for a home. Her website is agfabunan.journoportfolio.com.

Alex N. is currently an undergraduate student in New York City. Their work tends to take the form of poetry, song, and/or horoscope. They can be reached through twitter or instagram, @mukbangbby.

Alec Hershman is the queer author of Permanent and Wonderful Storage (Seven Kitchens Press, 2019), winner of the Robin Becker Chapbook Prize and The Egg Goes Under (Seven Kitchens Press, 2017). He has received awards from the KHN Center for the Arts, The Jentel Foundation, Playa, The Virginia Creative Center for the Arts, and The Institute for Sustainable Living, Art, and Natural Design. He lives in Michigan where he teaches writing and literature to college students. You can learn more at alechershmanpoetry.com.

Angela van Son lives in Utrecht, the Netherlands. She writes poems and very short stories about being human. She likes to put a twist on things, whether it’s dark, humorous, philosophic or playful. As a coach she helps people change their life stories by getting things done, facing the rabbit holes of their choice and creating wonderful ever afters. In 2020 she published More than meets the I, a collaboration with her mother who is a prize winning photographer.
Find her on https://www.facebook.com/AngelavanSonAuthor or https://twitter.com/AngelavanSon, or read more at https://unassortedstories.wordpress.com/.

Giovanni Mangiante is a poet from Lima, Peru. He has work published in Heroin Love Songs, Rat's Ass Review, Three Rooms Press, Fearsome Critters, The Raven Review, Cajun Mutt Press, Crêpe & Penn, Open Minds Quarterly, and more. He has upcoming work in Newington Blue Press. In writing, he found a way to cope with BPD.

Charlotte Hamrick’s creative work has been published in numerous online and print journals, most recently including The Citron Review and Emerge Journal. She’s been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Microfiction 2021, and was a Finalist for Micro Madness 2020. She reads for Fractured Lit and was the former CNF Editor for Barren Magazine. She lives in New Orleans with her husband and a menagerie of rescued pets where she sometimes does things other than read and write.

Tom Pescatore can sometimes be seen wandering along the Walt Whitman bridge or down the sidewalks of Philadelphia's old Skid Row. He might have left a poem or two behind to mark his trail. He claims authorship of a novel the Boxcar Bop (RunAmok Books, 2018) and the poetry travel journal Go On, Breathe Freely! (Chatter House Press, 2016).

John Dorsey lived for several years in Toledo, Ohio. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Teaching the Dead to Sing: The Outlaw's Prayer (Rose of Sharon Press, 2006), Sodomy is a City in New Jersey (American Mettle Books, 2010), Tombstone Factory, (Epic Rites Press, 2013), Appalachian Frankenstein (GTK Press, 2015) Being the Fire (Tangerine Press, 2016) and Shoot the Messenger (Red Flag Press, 2017),Your Daughter's Country (Blue Horse Press, 2019), and Which Way to the River: Selected Poems 2016-2020 (OAC Books, 2020). His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and the Stanley Hanks Memorial Poetry Prize. He was the winner of the 2019 Terri Award given out at the Poetry Rendezvous. He may be reached at [email protected].

David L O'Nan is a poet/writer/editor living in Western Kentucky, He is the editor along with his wife Hillesha for the Poetry & Art Anthologies "Fevers of the Mind Poetry Digest" and has also edited & curated "the Avalanches in Poetry: Writings & Art Inspired by Leonard Cohen". He has self-published works under the Fevers of the Mind Press "The Famous Poetry Outlaws are Painting Walls and Whispers"(soon to be revised) "The Cartoon Diaries"(2019) & "New Disease Streets" (2020). He is a Best of the Net Nominee for his poem "I honored You in Pennyrile Forest" in Icefloe Press. David has had work published in Icefloe Press, Rhythm N Bones Press off-shoot Dark Marrow, Truly U, 3 Moon Magazine, Elephants Never, Royal Rose Magazine, Spillwords & more. His website can be found at www.feversofthemind.wordpress.com. His Twitter is @davidLONan1 and @feversof for Fevers of the Mind. Facebook Author Page: DavidLONan1

Austin Davis is a poet and student currently studying creative writing at ASU and leading Arizona Jews For Justice's unsheltered outreach program. Austin is the author of "The World Isn’t the Size of Our Neighborhood Anymore" (Weasel Press, 2020) and "Celestial Night Light" (Ghost City Press, 2020). You can find Austin on Twitter @Austin_Davis17 and on Instagram @austinwdavis1.

Beth Copeland is the author of three full-length poetry books: Blue Honey, recipient of the 2017 Dogfish Head Poetry Prize; Transcendental Telemarketer; and Traveling through Glass, recipient of the 1999 Bright Hill Press Poetry Book Award. She owns and operates Tiny Cabin, Big Ideas™, a residency for writers.

Shira Dentz is the author of five books including SISYPHUSINA (PANK, 2020), and two chapbooks. Her writing appears widely in venues such as Poetry, American Poetry Review, Cincinnati Review, Iowa Review, New American Writing, Love’s Executive Order, Lana Turner, Apartment, Denver Quarterly, Diagram, Black Warrior Review, Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series (Poets.org), and NPR. She’s a recipient of awards including an Academy of American Poets’ Prize, Poetry Society of America’s Lyric Poem Award, and Poetry Society of America's Cecil Hemley Memorial Award. Shira is currently Special Features Editor at Tarpaulin Sky and lives in New York. More about her writing can be found at www.shiradentz.com

Roderick Bates is the editor of Rat's Ass Review. He has published poems in The Dark Horse, Stillwater Review, Naugatuck River Review, Cultural Weekly, Hobo Camp Review, Three Line Poetry, Red Eft Review, and Ekphrastic Review. He also writes prose, and won an award from the International Regional Magazines Association for an essay published in Vermont Life. He is a Dartmouth graduate with a degree in Religion. Mr. Bates lives and writes in southern Vermont.

Marc Olmsted has appeared in City Lights Journal, New Directions in Prose & Poetry, New York Quarterly, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and a variety of small presses. He is the author of five collections of poetry, including What Use Am I a Hungry Ghost?, which has an introduction by Allen Ginsberg. Olmsted's 25 year relationship with Ginsberg is chronicled in his Beatdom Books memoir Don't Hesitate: Knowing Allen Ginsberg 1972-1997 - Letters and Recollections, available on Amazon. For more of his work, http://www.marcolmsted.com

Tanvi Nagar is a student of class 11 at Delhi Public School, Gurgaon. She has been writing for the past eight years and is passionate about public speaking, travelling, playing sports and reading. She has contributed to national newspapers like ‘The Times of India’ and ‘Hindustan Times’; magazines like the ‘Neev Magazine’ ‘Cathartic Youth Literary Magazine’ ‘Ice Lolly Review’ ‘Life in 10 minutes Magazine’ and ‘Children’s World’ and anthologies like ‘The Last Flower of Spring’ and ‘Riding on a Summer Train’ by Delhi Poetry Slam; ‘The Great Indian Anthology’ by Half Baked Beans and ‘She the Shakti’ by Authors Press. She is the Editor in her school and has authored three books titled, ‘A Treasure Trove of Poetic Wonderland’ ‘A Bountiful of Rhythmic Stories’ and ‘My Book of Short Stories and Poems’ and two research papers which were published in the International Journal of Multidisciplinary Educational Research.

Originally from Southern California, Cheryl Latif emigrated to the Pacific Northwest in 2001 to live under a sky that speaks several languages. Her poetry was first published in Between Sheets, a Cal State Stanislaus literary magazine (1978). She didn’t submit again for some time. Now her work has appeared in a variety of local, regional and national publications such as New Millennium Writings, The Comstock Review, Spillway, How Luminous the Wildflowers, Magee Park Poets and more. While in San Diego, she curated/hosted a weekly poetry series in San Diego that featured poets from across the nation and across the pond. A copywriter by trade, she relishes fooling with words.

Dennis Villelmi is the co-editor and interviewer for the dystopian and horror webzine The Bees Are Dead. He is also a poet of some note, having been published in such corners as Peeking Cat Poetry, DEAD SNAKES, Duane’s Poe Tree, Horror Sleaze Trash, and In Between Hangovers. He is also the author of the chapbook, “Fretensis: In the Image of a Blind God” (currently out of print and in search of a new publishing home.) As writing doesn’t pay the bills, Dennis works in private contract security. He resides in the state of Virginia.

Watched by crows and friend to salamanders, Lisa Creech Bledsoe is a hiker, beekeeper, and writer living in the mountains of Western North Carolina. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and the author of two full-length books of poetry, Appalachian Ground (2019), and Wolf Laundry (2020). She has new poems out or forthcoming in The Blue Mountain Review, American Writers Review, The Main Street Rag, Sky Island Journal, Star*Line, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, and River Heron Review, among others.

Unity is a writer and troubadour from upstate New York. His alter ego, Miss Unity, is the world's greatest permanently institutionalized Lana Del Rey impersonator. The two Unitys can be found on Twitter and Instagram: @doyoumissunity

Susan Vespoli writes from Arizona. She's had work published in spots such as Rattle, Mom Egg Review, Nailed Magazine, Anti-Heroin Chic, and Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse.

Beth Gilstrap is the winner of the 2019 Women's Prose Prize for her second story collection Deadheading & Other Stories due out in 2021. Her stories, essays, and hybrids have appeared in Denver Quarterly, The Minnesota Review, Wigleaf, Ninth Letter, and Menacing Hedge, among others. She currently lives and works in a drafty 120-year-old shotgun house in Louisville.

Robert Fromberg has prose in Hobart, Indiana Review, Colorado Review, and other journals. His memoir is forthcoming from Latah Books. He taught writing at Northwestern University for a long time a long time ago.

Lisa Cochran is a third-year undergraduate at New York University studying politics with minors in creative writing and French. Though she grew up in Ames, Iowa to an American father and Russian mother — making her sympathetic to both sides of the Cold War — she currently resides in the East Village in Manhattan. She likes borzois, walking around aimlessly, and art in any form. This is her debut fiction publication.

Florence Phelps is a U.K. writer and poet. Her work is published in magazines and newspapers, and performed at theatres and festivals. Her family does not know she was raped, so she's publishing under a pseudonym.

Amy Lyons writes fiction and non-fiction. Her writing has appeared in The Independent, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Lunch Ticket, 100 Word Story, Literary Mama, LA Weekly, Lenny Letter, Backstage, Pulp, and others. Her work has been recognized and supported by an honorable mention from Miami Book Fair's 2020 Emerging Writer Fellowship in Fiction, a 2020 Best of the Net nomination, a 2020 Best Small Fictions nomination, a 2019 residency at Millay Colony for the Arts, and a 2019 Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellowship.

Cynthia Yatchman is a Seattle based artist. As a former ceramicist and art teacher, she went back to school in 1991 to receive a B.F.A. in painting from the University of Washington. Since 1995 she has painted nearly full-time from her studio in Seattle. Her works are housed in numerous public and private collections and have been shown nationally in California, Connecticut, New York, Indiana, Michigan, Oregon and Wyoming. She has exhibited extensively in the northwest, including shows at Seattle University, Seattle Pacific University, Shoreline Community College, the Tacoma Convention Center, and the Seattle Pacific Science Center.

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