Rick Andrews is an improviser, instructor, and writer living in New York City. His writing has appeared in Ninth Letter, The Normal School, Terrain, and Emrys Journal, among others. His story “Couples Therapy” was selected as an “Other Distinguished Story” in the 2023 Best American Short Stories.
Donna Cameron is the author of the Nautilus award-winning book A Year of Living Kindly. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, Writer’s Digest, Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, Thanatos, Eclectica, and many other publications. She lives in the Pacific Northwest.
Elizabeth “Liz” Enochs is a queer writer from southeast Missouri. She’s also the author of the nonfiction prose chapbook, Leaving the House Unlocked. More often than not, you’ll find her in the woods. To read more of Liz’s writing, visit her website: elizabethenochs.com.
Jeff Harvey lives in San Diego. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming in Ghost Parachute, Five South, FlashFlood Journal, MoonPark Review, Bending Genres, Blink Ink, and other places.
Chris Haven has published a collection of short stories, Nesting Habits of Flightless Birds, and Bone Seeker, a collection of poems. He teaches writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan.
Sian M. Jones received an MFA in fiction from Mills College. Her work has appeared in MetaStellar and Quail Bell Magazine, among other publications. In her day job, she writes as clearly as she can about complex code. She occasionally updates jonessian.com.
Paul Juhasz is a Pushcart nominated author of five books: Fulfillment: Diary of a Warehouse Picker, a mock journal chronicling his seven-month term as a Picker at an Amazon Fulfillment Center; As If Place Matters, a collection of short fiction; and three collections of poetry: Ronin: Mostly Prose Poems, a finalist for the 2022 Oklahoma Book Award, The Inner Life of Comics, and The Fires of Heraclitus. He currently lives in Oklahoma City.
Ani King (they/them) is a queer, gender non-compliant writer, artist, and activist from Michigan. They can be found at aniking.net, or trying to find somewhere to quietly finish a book without any more interruptions.
Leslie Lisbona was featured in the Style section of The New York Times in March. She has been published in JMWW, Smoky Blue Literary & Arts Magazine, and Welter. Her work has been nominated for Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net 2024 contest. She is the child of immigrants from Beirut, Lebanon, and grew up in Queens, NY. She recently completed her memoir and is looking for an agent. https://leslielisbona.substack.com/
Joshua McKinney’s fifth book of poetry, Sad Animal, won the John Redland Poetry Prize from Gunpowder Press. His work has appeared in such journals as Boulevard, Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review, New American Writing, and many others. He is the recipient of The Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize, The Dickinson Prize, The Pavement Saw Chapbook Prize, and a Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Writing. He is co-editor of the online ecopoetics zine, Clade Song.
Andrew Roe is the author of the novel The Miracle Girl, a Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist, and Where You Live, a short story collection. His fiction has appeared in One Story, Tin House, Glimmer Train, and The Sun. He lives in Martinez, California.
Annabel Moir Smith is a student and writer from Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts. She currently studies English Literature at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.Her fiction has appeared in Sky Island Journal, Bending Genres, Bright Flash, Literally Stories, Eunoia Review, Apricity Magazine, and others.
Allison Wyss is the author of the short story collection, Splendid Anatomies (Veliz Books), which was a finalist for the 2022 Shirley Jackson Award. Her stories and essays have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Cincinnati Review, Water~Stone Review, Lit Hub and elsewhere. Some of her ideas about the craft of fiction can be found in a monthly column she writes for the Loft Literary Center, where she also teaches classes. Find her at www.allisonwyss.com.
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