Jason R. Chun is a Chinese American writer from the San Francisco Bay Area, currently based in New York City. He holds an MFA in fiction from The New School, and his fiction has appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Nashville Review, and The Offing. He can be found on Bluesky: @searchlightsoul.bsky.social.
Trevor Fuller currently teaches at Dallas College. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Story Magazine, Tahoma Literary Review, Wigleaf: (very) short fiction, SmokeLong Quarterly and The Saturday Evening Post, among others.
Jeffrey Hermann’s work has appeared in Okay Donkey, Electric Lit, Passages North, Hobart, and other publications. His first full-length collection of prose poetry and flash fiction will be published by ELJ Editions in 2026. Though less publicized, he finds his work as a father and husband to be rewarding beyond measure.
Kinjal Johri lives in Singapore. Read more at kinjaljohri.carrd.co.
Nathaniel Lachenmeyer is an award-winning disabled author of books for children and adults. His first book, The Outsider, which takes as its subject his late father’s struggles with schizophrenia and homelessness, was published by Broadway Books. Nathaniel has forthcoming/recently published poems, stories and essays with X-R-A-Y, Red Rock Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Potomac Review, Epiphany, Permafrost, About Place Journal, and DIAGRAM. Nathaniel lives outside Atlanta with his family. www.NathanielLachenmeyer.com.
Kim Magowan lives in San Francisco and teaches in the English Department of Mills College at Northeastern University. She is the author of the short story collection Don’t Take This the Wrong Way, co-authored with Michelle Ross, forthcoming from EastOver Press; the short story collection How Far I’ve Come (2022), published by Gold Wake Press; the novel The Light Source (2019), published by 7.13 Books; and the short story collection Undoing (2018), which won the 2017 Moon City Press Fiction Award. Her fiction has been published in Colorado Review, The Gettysburg Review, Smokelong Quarterly, Wigleaf, and many other journals. Her stories have been selected for Best Small Fictions and Wigleaf’s Top 50. She is the Editor-in-Chief and Fiction Editor of Pithead Chapel.
Will Musgrove is a writer and journalist from Northwest Iowa. He received an MFA from Minnesota State University, Mankato. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Florida Review, the Pinch, The Cincinnati Review, The Forge, Passages North, Tampa Review, and elsewhere. Connect on Twitter at @Will_Musgrove or at williammusgrove.com.
Evelyn Pae is an aspiring naturalist and writer currently based in Syracuse, New York. Her work has appeared in Halfway Down the Stairs and Bright Flash Literary Review.
Luke Rolfes is the author of the novel Sleep Lake (Braddock Avenue Books), and the short story collections Impossible Naked Life and Flyover Country. He teaches creative writing at Northwest Missouri State University and edits Laurel Review. He is the winner of the Ironhorse Discovered Voices Award, the Acacia Fiction Prize, and the Georgetown Review Press Short Story Collection Contest.
Samantha Sapp is a writer and former middle school teacher. Though she is originally from the Florida Panhandle, she now lives in the snowy Midwest. You can find on her on Bluesky or lost in the woods.
Chris Scott’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Observer, Maudlin House, Flash Fiction Magazine, Weird Lit Magazine, The Fantastic Other, Flash Frog, and elsewhere. He is a regular contributor for ClickHole, and an elementary school teacher in Washington, DC. You can read more of his writing at https://www.chrisscottwrites.com.
Diane Shipley is a journalist and writer based in the UK, where she is a PhD candidate in creative nonfiction at Lancaster University. Her previous work has been published by The Guardian, The Rumpus, and Longreads, among others. You can also find her on Instagram (@dianeshipley) and Substack: https://loweryourexpectations.substack.com.
T.L. Tomljanovic dabbles in drabbles, micro, and flash fiction writing from the greater Vancouver area in Canada. Her work has appeared in Flash Fiction Magazine, Sci-Fi Shorts, Roi Fainéant Press, Raw Lit, the Woolf, and others. She was nominated for Best Microfiction 2024. Find her on Blue Sky @tomljanovic.bsky.social and at tomljanovic.wordpress.com/.
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