Jon Doughboy is shucker-in-residence at the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota. Catch him @doughboywrites or on the Corn Cam.
Michael Fowler writes humor and horror in Ohio.
Joe Giordano was born in Brooklyn. He and his wife Jane now live in Texas. Joe’s stories have appeared in more than one hundred magazines including The Saturday Evening Post, and Shenandoah, and his short story collection, Stories and Places I Remember. His novels include, Birds of Passage, An Italian Immigrant Coming of Age Story, and the Anthony Provati thriller series: Appointment with ISIL, Drone Strike, and The Art of Revenge. Visit Joe’s website at https://joe-giordano.com/
Tim Goldstone has roamed widely. His short stories and poems are published in numerous print and online journals and anthologies – ranging from The Mechanics’ Institute Review Anthology to The Mambo Academy of Kitty Wang. His prose sequence was read on stage at The Hay Festival, and his poetry presented on Digging for Wales. Scriptwriting credits for TV, radio, theatre. Twitter @muddygold
Jude Higgins’ flashfiction chapbook The Chemist’s House was published by V.Press in 2017. She has been widely published in magazines and anthologies. Jude is the founder of Bath Flash Fiction Award, and directs Flash Fiction Festivals U.K. and the short short fiction press, Ad Hoc Fiction. @judehwriter. judehiggins.com.
Alice Kinerk recently sat through a ChatGPT info session for work, and is excited that AI might be able to draft her dry-as-dirt emails and boring reports. However, she has and will continue to write fiction the old fashioned way, forming ideas in her gray matter and expressing them through her fingertips. For Alice, writing is about the journey. Her short stories have been published in Oyster River Pages, South Dakota Review, Rock Salt Journal, and elsewhere.
Tim Love’s publications are a poetry pamphlet Moving Parts (HappenStance) and a story collection By All Means (Nine Arches Press). He lives in Cambridge, UK. His poetry and prose have appeared in Stand, Rialto, Magma, Unthology, etc. He blogs at http://litrefs.blogspot.com/
Frederico Voroniuk Manica (he/they) wants to become a famous writer one day. Their work has been published in the Oddball Magazine, the Big Windows Review, and in the Queer Toronto Literary Magazine. Frederico currently resides in Brazil. He will probably just keep trying to get published until the end of the world, which will probably happen soon enough.
Sarah Mills is a Pushcart-nominated writer whose poetry has been published or is forthcoming in HAD, Rust & Moth, The Shore, SoFloPoJo, Beaver Mag, Anti-Heroin Chic, Ballast, Miniskirt Mag, and elsewhere. You can visit her at sarahmillswrites.com, and on Bluesky @sarahmillswrites.
Kara Oakleaf’s work has appeared in Necessary Fiction, Booth, SmokeLong Quarterly, matchbook, and elsewhere. Her fiction has been selected for Best Small Fictions and the Wigleaf Top 50, and appears in the Bloomsbury anthology Short-Form Creative Writing. She received her M.F.A. at George Mason University, where she now teaches writing and literature, and directs the Fall for the Book literary festival. Find more of her work at karaoakleaf.com.
David Osgood’s work has previously appeared in X-RAY, NiftyLit, and Moot Point, among others. He received third place in the 2023 Flash Fiction Letter Review Prize for “Dislocation,” and an Honorable Mention in the 48th New Millennium Writing Awards in 2020 for his published work, “Downriver Guitar,” originally published in the tiny journal. Visit him at https://davidsosgood.com.
Writer, editor and journalist Judy Raymond lives in Trinidad, West Indies. She is the author of four nonfiction books, including biographical studies of Trinidadian artists. Her book The Colour of Shadows: Images of Caribbean Slavery (2016) was awarded a research grant from the Paul Mellon Centre for the Study of British Art and was a runner-up for the Hollick Arvon prize, non-fiction category for a work in progress at the Bocas Lit Fest. Raymond’s work has also been published in anthologies. She has recently begun writing fiction. Her short story “The Old Monsters” was shortlisted for the 2023 Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival Award for Writers in the Caribbean. She was also longlisted for the 2022 CRAFT Short Fiction Prize and the 2022 Retreat West First Chapter competition.
Carla Sarett is a poet and novelist based in San Francisco. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart, Best of Net and Best American Essays. She is the author of one full-length collection, She Has Visions (Main Street Rag, 2022); and 2023 sees two chapbooks Woman on the Run (Alien Buddha) and My Family Was Like a Russian Novel (Plan B Press). Carla has a PhD from University of Pennsylvania.
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