Writing from the Philippines, Jade Mark Capiñanes is the author of How to Grieve, a flash fiction collection published by the local indie press Everything’s Fine in 2022. Born and raised in the southern part of the country, he’s currently taking an MFA in Creative Writing at De La Salle University in Manila.
C. Cavanaugh lives and writes in the southern California desert area. She has work published and forthcoming online at Flash Fiction Magazine and Witcraft.org among other publications.
Conor Gearin is a writer from St. Louis living in Omaha. His work has appeared in The New Territory, Chariton Review, ONE ART, Frozen Sea, Mochila Review, The Oxonian Review, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, and elsewhere.
Karin Hedetniemi photographs and writes from Vancouver Island, Canada. Her creative work recently appears in Grain, Welter, Lunch Ticket, EVENT, and other literary journals. In 2020, Karin won the nonfiction contest from the Royal City Literary Arts Society. Her pockets are full of sea glass and buttons. Find her at AGoldenHour.com or on socials @karinhedet.
Matt Kendrick is a writer, editor and teacher based in the East Midlands, UK. His work has been featured in various journals and anthologies including Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions, Cheap Pop, Craft Literary, Fractured Lit, Ghost Parachute, and the Wigleaf Top 50. Website: www.mattkendrick.co.uk | BlueSky: @mattkendrick.bsky.social | Twitter: @MkenWrites
Robin Lanehurst is a queer, non-binary and neurodivergent writer, educator, dreamer, and mom. Their fiction and creative non-fiction has appeared in Beautiful Things, Motherwell, PDX Parent, and Gertrude Press, among other outlets. A former public school teacher and counselor, she now collaborates on curricular projects with non-profit clients and is a teaching artist with Portland’s Writers in the Schools. Robin was a finalist for the 2023 Summer Fishtrap Fellowship and long-listed for the 2021 Pen Parentis Writing Fellowship for New Parents, and she is a proud alumna of The Attic Institute’s Creative Nonfiction Studio.
Patience Mackarness (she/her) lives and writes in Brittany, France. Her work has appeared in JMWW, Lost Balloon, Lunch Ticket, Citron Review, and elsewhere.
Kimberly O’Connor is a North Carolina native who lives in Golden, Colorado, where she teaches for Colorado School of Mines and Community College of Denver. Her book White Lung was a finalist for the 2022 Colorado Book Award.
Brett Randell is a writer and musician from Denver, CO. He has released 3 CDs, is a graduate of the Lighthouse Writer’s Workshop Book Project (2019-2021 Fellowship), and is working on his debut fiction novel. Brett’s poetry and short fiction has appeared in The Florida Review: Aquifer, Stain’d Magazine, South Broadway Ghost Society, Interkors, and the Blue Lake Review. See more at www.brettrandell.com/writing
Cathy Ulrich’s favorite song from Annie is actually “It’s the Hard-Knock Life.” Her work has been published in various journals, including Clock House, trampset and Centaur Lit.
Emily Voigt is a writer from Germany who, despite it not being her first language, writes in English. Her poetry has been published with Bitter Melon Review and Midsummer Magazine. This is her debut fiction work.
Laura Waldrop is a recovering engineer, yoga therapist, writer, and creator. She is currently editing her first book, Something Extra: A Memoir of Neurodivergence, Loss and Identity Found, about parenting her autistic daughter and awakening to her own neurodivergent identity. In her free time, Laura enjoys lazy days with her husband and two daughters, moving her body in nature, playing the piano/cello, and – true to her roots – building spreadsheets. You can find her at www.waldroplaura.com or on Instagram at @laurawaldro.
Rachel Weinhaus is a screenwriter and memoirist. She earned an MFA in screenwriting from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television and a BA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her personal essays have been published in The Huffington Post, The Today Show, Newsweek, Insider, Kveller, and Brevity Blog. She’s published in Necessary Fiction and Micro Fiction Monday Magazine. Rachel is the author of “The Claimant: A Memoir of an Historic Sexual Abuse Lawsuit and a Woman’s Life Made Whole.” Visit her at www.rachelweinhaus.com.
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