Lavina Blossom’s poems and fiction have appeared in various journals, including The Paris Review, Common Ground Review, Book of Matches, The MacGuffin, Poemeleon, 10 by 10 Flash, and Okay Donkey. Her art has appeared on the cover of several poetry books. Her book of poems and paintings was published by Bamboo Dart Press.
Peter Burr writes in South Florida, USA, and is a member of the Fishtown Writers’ Circle. Thirteen of his very short stories have been published to date.
Mark Crimmins’s first book, travel memoir Sydneyside Reflections, was published by Everytime Press in 2020. His flash fictions have been published in numerous literary magazines, including Flash Frontier, Pure Slush, Columbia Journal, Portland Review, Atticus Review, Cagibi, Queen’s Quarterly, Long Exposure, FlashFictionNet, Apalachee Review, Reed Magazine, Kyoto Journal, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Eastlit, and Flash: The International Short Short Story Magazine. He teaches Contemporary Literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen.
Elliott Fielding is a scientist in Colorado who lives with pets spanning four classes of the kingdom animalia, including four random cats and one very predictable snake. Plus a few important homo sapiens, too. Xyr nonfiction has appeared in ScribesMICRO, and xe is thrilled to have xyr first fiction publication with MoonPark Review.
Rachel M. Hollis lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, child, and a deeply unmotivated dog. Her work appears or is forthcoming in River Teeth’s Beautiful Things, Midway Journal, Lost Balloon, Gone Lawn, Necessary Fiction, and elsewhere.
Adam Kaz is a Chicago-based writer, editor, and marketing professional. He is the Editor in Chief of The Ground Is Uneven, a literary journal. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Flash Fiction Magazine, Fabula Argentea, literally stories, The Milwaukee Avenue Messenger, The Ground Is Uneven and Poetries in English Magazine. His reviews and articles have appeared in Third Coast Review, Chicago Review of Books, and Digital Huddle.
Amanda JY Lee lives in Singapore. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cosmic Daffodil Journal, Asterales and Yin Literary (amandajylee.carrd.co for more).
Abby Manzella, a 2025 Pushcart Prize winner, is the author of Migrating Fictions: Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements, winner of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers Book Award. Her collection Ripples into the Wild is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press. She has published with The Threepenny Review, Massachusetts Review, and Pleiades. Find her on Instagram @abby.manzella and @abbymanzella.bsky.social.
Nora Maynard’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Moon City Review, hex literary, HAD, Salon, The Millions, and others. She’s the co-editor of -ette review, a journal of very short prose. www.noramaynard.com
Per Olvmyr lives in Malmö, Sweden, and has been published by Poetry Wales, Bombay Literary Magazine, Gone Lawn, Glänta, Takahē, Baltimore Review and other magazines. His work was nominated for best small fiction and best of the net. He can often be found in grocery stores engaged in long conversations with jellied pigs feet.
Krista Raspor is a creative nonfiction writer living in Toronto. Her essays have been featured/are forthcoming in The Fiddlehead, The Globe and Mail and as part of the CBC First Person series. She writes about living with a disability, travel, and the moments that take on weight when examined closely.
Vivian Walman-Randall is a writer and scholar from Southern California. In her work, she’s interested in exploring themes of environment, feminism, climate change, and cyclicity. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College and a BA in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is currently a PhD candidate in English with a creative writing emphasis at Oklahoma State University in Fall 2025. She is a Co-Founder and the Prose Editor of Fork Apple Press. Her prose and poetry can be read in Santa Barbara Literary Journal, Yellow Arrow Journal, and Apricity Magazine. Vivian currently lives in Stillwater, Oklahoma with her partner and their standard poodle, Clover.
Kris Willcox’s work has appeared in Kenyon Review on-line, swamp pink, Beloit Fiction Journal, Cimarron Review, Tin House on-line, Portland Review, Cleaver, The Citron Review, and elsewhere. She lives in the Boston area with her family.
Featured Artist: Patience Bryant is a lifelong Mainer with deep family roots in the midcoast, continuously inspired by her surroundings. Bryant received a BFA in ceramics from the University of Southern Maine in 2014. Their current work leans more 2D, predominantly drawing from life, block printing, and protest art. Bryant enjoys gardening professionally with creativity and an eye for detail in her work. Bishop’s Garden & Studio is a project Bryant is deeply invested in with her friend and partner, Alexandra Bishop, in Island Falls, ME.
Artwork by Lesley C. Weston.
Web Wrangling, Art Direction, and Cover Photograph by Mary Lynn Reed.
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