Emily Benson lives in Western New York with her husband and two sons. Her work has been featured in The CryptoNaturalist podcast, Deep Wild Journal, Gastropoda, Literary Mama, Moist Poetry Journal, Paddler Press, and others. Read more at www.emilybensonpoet.com.
John Christenson lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife and a cat who is fond of penguins. His publications include short stories in the New Mexico Review, Flash Fiction Magazine, The Whisky Blot, and several anthologies. A piece entitled “A Tree Grows in the Mancave” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
Shanda Connolly is an attorney in Los Angeles, and her writing has appeared in Narrative, New York Times, Prairie Schooner, Ruminate, Mosaic, West Trade Review, and others. In addition, her flash fiction was selected as a finalist in 2021 in the Hummingbird contest by PULP Literature, and she attended a residence last year at Millay Arts.
Terri Linn Davis is the co-editor of Icebreakers Lit, a chaotic, loving home featuring collaborative writing. You can read some of her work in Taco Bell Quarterly, Rejection Letters, Bending Genres, Cultural Daily, The Daily Drunk Mag, Five South, and elsewhere. You can find her on Twitter @TerriLinnDavis and on her website www.terrilinndavis.com.
Daniel DeRock is a writer from the U.S. living in the Netherlands. His work has appeared, among other outlets, in Pithead Chapel, Gone Lawn, Rejection Letters, and Ligeia Magazine. He is co-founder and fiction editor of Icebreakers Lit.
Zary Fekete grew up in Hungary, has a novelette (In the Beginning) out from ELJ Publications and a debut novella being published in early 2024 with DarkWinter Lit Press. He enjoys books, podcasts, and many many many films. Twitter and Instagram: @ZaryFekete
Isaac Fox writes crazy things, plays the clarinet and guitar, and spends as much time as possible outside. His work has previously appeared in Bending Genres, Tiny Molecules, and A Velvet Giant, among other publications. You can find him on Twitter at @isaac_k_fox.
Ryan Kristopher Jory is a multi-genre writer, originally from Flint, Michigan. His flash prose has previously appeared in MoonPark Review, Necessary Fiction, and some other online journals. His short fiction will appear in Volume 39 of Chicago Quarterly Review. He resides with his husband in San Diego, California.
Pooja Joshi is an Indian-American writer from North Carolina. She is currently based in Boston, where she is pursuing an MBA/MPP at Harvard University. Previously, she has worked in health tech strategy and management consulting. Her work has been published in The Bombay Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Hive Avenue, The William & Mary Review, The Ilanot Review, Five Minutes, and a short story collection by Atomic Carnival Books. You can find her at www.pdjoshi.com or on X/Twitter @poojajoshitalks.
Marcelo Medone (1961, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a Pushcart Prize nominee fiction writer, poet, essayist, playwright and screenwriter. He received numerous awards and was published in multiple languages in more than 50 countries around the world, including the US. He currently lives in Montevideo, Uruguay. Facebook: Marcelo Medone / Instagram: @marcelomedone
David Riessen has been writing plays, screenplays, novels, and TV scripts on and off since he was a teenager. In the wake of his son’s sudden death, he has found a home in creative nonfiction, which seems to suit his new reality. Some of these stories are featured in Defenestration, Bright Flash Literary Review, Cool Beans Lit, and bioStories Magazine. David lives in Larchmont, New York with his wife Debi and dog Raven. DavidRiessen71@gmail.com
J.D. Strunk was born in Boston, Massachusetts, grew up in northern Ohio, and is currently a copy editor in Denver, Colorado. He has a degree in English Literature from the University of Toledo. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Louisville Review, The Bookends Review, Allium: A Journal of Poetry & Prose, Jimson Weed, New Plains Review, and elsewhere. He was a finalist for The Bellingham Review Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction.
Philip Wexler has over 200 magazine poem credits. His full-length poetry collections include The Sad Parade (prose poems), and The Burning Moustache, both published by Adelaide Books, The Lesser Light (Finishing Line Press), With Something Like Hope (Silver Bow Publishing) and I Would be the Purple (Kelsay Books). He also hosts Words out Loud, a hybrid in-person and remote monthly spoken word series in the Washington, DC area.
Jennifer Wortman is the author of the story collection This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love. A recipient of fellowships from the NEA and MacDowell, she lives with her family in Colorado, where she teaches at Lighthouse Writers Workshop and serves as associate fiction editor for Colorado Review. Find more at jenniferwortman.com.
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