Contributors

After forty years in finance, Linda K. Allison is enjoying a second life as a writer, photographer, and explorer. Her work has appeared in Bright Flash Literary Review, 2023 Utah’s Best Poetry and Prose Anthology, Dark Winter Lit, and others.  Her photography has appeared or is forthcoming in Burningword Literary Journal, Persimmon Tree, and The Sunlight Press.  Linda lives in The Woodlands Texas with the love of her life.

KT Baughman is from Kansas City, Missouri. She currently studies English at Fordham University in New York City. She is the editor of Nine Muses Review and has a chapbook in Ghost City Press 2024 Summer Series. 

Alex Carrigan (he/him) is a Pushcart-nominated editor, poet, and critic from Alexandria, VA. He is the author of Now Let’s Get Brunch: A Collection of RuPaul’s Drag Race Twitter Poetry (Querencia Press, 2023) and May All Our Pain Be Champagne: A Collection of Real Housewives Twitter Poetry (Alien Buddha Press, 2022). He has appeared in The Broadkill Review, Sage Cigarettes, Barrelhouse, Fifth Wheel Press, Cutbow Quarterly, and more. Visit carriganak.wordpress.com or follow him on Twitter @carriganak for more info.

Chad Gayle is a writer and a photographer from New York. Before he started writing full time, Chad taught English at colleges in North Carolina and Texas, served as an assistant editor at Poetry Magazine in Chicago, and ran a photo studio a block from Times Square. His speculative short fiction has appeared in Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, StarShipSofa, and The Colored Lens. His website is https://chadgayle.com/.

Peter Gordon is a fiction writer living in Massachusetts. His work has appeared in a wide range of publications, with recent and forthcoming work in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Post Road, BULL and elsewhere.

Sofia Eun-Young Guerra is a Mexican-Korean writer from Tacoma, Washington. Her work has previously appeared and is forthcoming in JMWW, Neologism Poetry Journal, The Inflectionist Review, and fifth wheel press. Outside of writing, she spends her time folding origami butterflies and reading about sharks.

Matt Leibel lives in San Francisco. His short fiction has appeared in Electric Literature, Portland Review, Passages North, Quarterly West, Wigleaf, DIAGRAM, and Aquifer: The Florida Review Online. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and included in the anthology Best Small Fictions 2020. Find him on twitter at @matt_leibel.

Catherine McNamara grew up in Sydney, ran away to Paris to write and ended up running a bar in Ghana, working in Mogadishu and Milano along the way. She is the author of the short fiction collections The Carnal Fugues, The Cartography of Others, Love Stories for Hectic People and Pelt and Other Stories. She is Flash Fiction Editor and a Masterclass tutor for Litro Magazine, and Guest Editor for the Best Small Fictions Anthology 2023. Catherine lives in Italy.

Christopher Murphy teaches creative writing at Northeastern State University. He has a collection of flash fiction, Burning All the Time, from Mongrel Empire Press and a fiction chapbook, Rites, from USPOCO Books.

Goldie Peacock writes stories, essays, and poems. Their words appear in HuffPost, Sundog Lit, MIDLVLMAG, and more. Celebrations of Goldie’s creative work include: a Brooklyn Nightlife Award, a Go Magazine Readers’ Choice Award, and nominations for Best of the Net and Best Small Fictions. They live in Brooklyn and on goldiepeacock.com.

Wren Tuatha’s  poetry has appeared in Silk Road, The Lake, Lavender Review, Kaleidoscope, and others. She earned her MFA at Goddard College. Her first collection is Thistle and Brilliant (FLP). She’s founding editor at Califragile; formerly Artist-in-Residence at Heathcote Center. Wren herds rescue goats among the Finger Lakes of New York, where she’s director of Ithaca Poetry Center.

Alison Watson is a memoirist who writes about overcoming mental illness, addiction, and being an adoptee. She is currently shopping her full-length manuscript, “A Psychotic’s Journey Through Eastern Seaboard Psych Wards,” with publishers. Alison’s work has been published in The Sun Magazine and Please See Me. In addition to writing, Alison feeds her soul by working in an animal shelter. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and their shelter mutt, Cindy Loo Who! To read more of her writing, please visit her website, alisonmorriswatson.com.

Ann Yuan lives on Long Island, NY. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Flash Fiction Magazine, Gone Lawn, On the Run, Five on the Fifth, BULL, Pine Hills Review, and elsewhere. She has been included in the Overheard Anthology and the upcoming Iridescence Anthology.


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