Lindsay Bernal is the author of What It Doesn’t Have to Do With (University of Georgia Press, 2018), winner of the National Poetry Series. Poems from her second manuscript appear in Chicago Review, the Georgia Review, the Hopkins Review, New England Review, Oversound, and other journals. She coordinates the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Maryland, where she also co-directs the Writers Here & Now reading series and teaches undergraduate poetry workshops and courses on poetics.
Gabriella Brand’s fiction, poetry, and CNF have appeared in such publications as The First Line, Gyroscope Review, Hamilton Literary, The Blue Line, Citron Review and elsewhere. A Pushcart Prize nominee in both fiction and poetry, Gabriella teaches in the OLLI program at the University of Connecticut. She has read her work in such venues as Le Poisson Rouge, New York City, and on the Open Mic of the Air. More at: gabriellabrand.net
Tom Busillo’s writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, trampset, The Baltimore Review, The Disappointed Housewife, Heavy Feather Review, and elsewhere. He is a Best Short Fictions nominee and the author of the unpublishable 2,646-page conceptual poem “Lists Poem,” composed of 11,111 nested 10-item lists. He lives in Philadelphia, PA.
Peter Cashorali is a neurodivergent queer psychotherapist, formerly working in HIV/AIDS and community mental health, currently in private practice in Portland and Los Angeles. Recent work appers or will in Synkroniciti, Soul Forte Journal, Empyrean, Abandoned Mine and Brief Wilderness. Early work is Gay Fairy Tales(HarperSanFrancisco: 1995) and Gay Fairy and Folk Tales (Faber and Faber: 1997).
Luanne Castle’s poetry and prose have appeared in Copper Nickel, River Teeth, Your Impossible Voice, JMWW, Grist, Fourteen Hills, Verse Daily, Disappointed Housewife, Lunch Ticket, Saranac Review, Pleiades, Cleaver, Anti-Heroin Chic, Bending Genres, BULL, The Mackinaw, The Ekphrastic Review, Phoebe, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Gone Lawn, Burningword, Superstition Review, One Art, Roi Fainéant, Dribble Drabble, Flash Boulevard, O:JA&L, Sheila-Na-Gig, Thimble, Antigonish Review, Longridge, Paragraph Planet, Six Sentences, Gooseberry Pie, Switch, and Ginosko. She has published four award-winning poetry collections.
Cassandra Caverhill is a Canadian-American poet, editor, and creative writing instructor. She’s the author of Mayflies (Finishing Line Press, 2020) and her prose and poetry have appeared internationally in journals across the US, Canada, and UK. A karaoke and cycling enthusiast, Cassandra lives in the borderlands of Windsor, Ontario. More at casssandracaverhill.com.
Chris Cottom lives near Macclesfield, UK. His work has been published by 100 Word Story, Fictive Dream, Flash Frontier, NFFD NZ, NFFD UK, Oyster River Pages, Roi Fainéant, The Phare, The Lascaux Review, and other fine places. In the early 1970s he lived next door to JRR Tolkien. chriscottom.wixsite.com/chriscottom
Gary Finnegan is a writer based in County Kildare, Ireland. He won the Frazzled Lit Short Story Award 2025 and received an Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award in 2025. He is the recipient of a Tyrone Guthrie Residency Bursary Award and was selected for the PEN/Ireland Freedom to Write Project 2024. His fiction has appeared in The London Magazine, Litro, Flash Fiction Magazine & The Irish Independent. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice (2025). Gary has degrees in physiology and science communication, as well as an MA in creative writing. He is working on a novel and is represented by Ciara McEllin @ Watson Little Ltd., London.
Yimi Lu (@yimiwriting) writes about people who don’t say what they mean in her own Chinese accent. Born in Shanghai, she now pretends to settle in Northern California. She builds code blocks by day and disassembles herself by night.
Frankie McMillan is an award winning poet and writer of short short forms from Aotearoa New Zealand. Her work has appeared in Best Small Fictions and Best Microfictions. In 2019 her book, The Father of Octopus Wrestling, and other small stories (Canterbury University Press) was shortlisted for the NZSA Heritage Award and listed by Spinoff as one of the ten best fiction books of 2019. Her forthcoming collection, Eddie Sparkle’s Bridal Taxi (CUP) is due out in October, 2025.
Michael Pershan is a writer and math teacher whose stories have recently appeared in HAD, hex literary, and BULL. His website is michaelpershan.com.
Pat Raia is a journalist who covers international business, crime, politics and legislation, litigation and welfare in the equine industry. She is also a lifelong poet.
Rich Youmans is the editor in chief of contemporary haibun online and co-author, with Roberta Beary and Lew Watts, of Haibun: A Writer’s Guide (Ad Hoc Fiction). He’s been writing and publishing haibun for nearly 30 years and still wonders where the time went.
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