DG Bracey is a teacher and a freelance writer from the Carolina coast. He’s picked up a journalism degree from the University of South Carolina, an MA in Writing from Coastal Carolina University, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina–Wilmington. He’s published short stories in various journals and been a feature writer for several newspapers.
Gordon Brown grew up in the deserts of Syria and now lives in the deserts of Nevada. Since arriving in the New World, his work has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Weird Horror Magazine, Hunger Mountain Review, and elsewhere. His horror haiku chapbook, Skin Crawls, is available from Cuttlefish Books. He spends his time writing feverishly and looking after his cats, of which he has none.
Michael Czyzniejewski is the author of four collections of stories, most recently The Amnesiac in the Maze (Braddock Avenue Books, 2023). He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Moon City Press and Moon City Review, as well as Interviews Editor of SmokeLong Quarterly. He has received a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts and two Pushcart Prizes.
Colleen M. Farrelly is a topologist and haibun poet based in Maimi, FL. She’s a 2025-2026 confluence fellow and a 2026 guest editor at Contemporary Haibun Online. Her first full collection, The Haibun Laboratory, is forthcoming with Cuttlefish Poetry Series.
Nicholas Grider’s story collections include Misadventure (A Strange Object/Deep Vellum) and Forest of Borders (Malarkey).
Richard Holinger’s work has recently appeared in Chautauqua, SIR, Whitefish Review, Cutleaf, and elsewhere. Nominations include the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfiction 2025. Books include North of Crivitz (poetry) and Kangaroo Rabbits and Galvanized Fences (essays). Finishing Line Press published his 2025 poetry chapbook, Down from the Sycamores, and a short fiction collection, Unimaginable Things, is forthcoming from Main Street Rag Publications. He holds a PhD from UIC, and has taught English and creative writing from the secondary school to university level for decades. He lives in rural northern Illinois.
daniel joseph writes in a fertile river valley. his most recent work can be found or is forthcoming in Bruiser, The Heavy Feather Review, Frigg, Trampoline, Passages North, Biscuit Hill, HAD, and X-R-A-Y.
Philip Daniel Louro writes fiction in between being a public school educator, husband, and father of two. His nonfiction works have appeared in Theory in Action, Science and Society, The Journal of Social Justice, and New Politics. Over the years, he has turned towards writing speculative fiction, painting, sketching, and turning thrown away packaging into sci-fi props.
Kapka Nilan (she, her) writes fiction in her second language. Her work has appeared in online literary journals and in print, including Thorn & Bloom Magazine, Fiction Attic Press, Six Sentences, Osmosis, Flash Fiction Magazine, and elsewhere, and most recently has been shortlisted for Bath Flash Fiction Award Anthology. Published fiction can be read at www.kapkanilan.wordpress.com.
Alper Sezener is a Turkish anthropologist, lecturer, and author. He has published several books in Turkish and lives in Ankara, Türkiye, with his spouse, daughter, and two female cats.
Judy Slitt lives in Virginia. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Bright Flash Literary Review, surely magazine, Cosmic Daffodil Journal, Moss Puppy Magazine, M E N A C E, Crow & Cross Keys, and BULL. Her website is judyslitt.com.
Jane Wageman holds an MFA from Bowling Green State University. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Passages North, Wigleaf, Monkeybicycle, trampset, and others. She writes about teaching, writing, and craft at the Substack Quick Bright Things.
Elena Zhang is a Chinese American writer and mother living in Chicago. Her work can be found in HAD, Wigleaf, and X-R-A-Y, among other publications. She is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, and was selected for Best Microfiction 2024, 2025, and 2026.
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