Lorelei Bacht (they) is a person, a poet, queer, multi-, living in Asia with a disgruntled fishkeeper, two little persons, and far too many trees. Their work has appeared / is forthcoming in The Night Heron Barks, Queerlings, SoFloPoJo, Barrelhouse, Sinking City, Stoneboat, One Art, SWWIM, and elsewhere. They can be found on Twitter @bachtlorelei and on Instagram @lorelei.bacht.writer. They are currently watching the rain instead of working on a chapbook.

David Banach teaches philosophy in New Hampshire, where he tends chickens, keeps bees, and looks for lessons in the sky. He has published poems most recently in Last Leaves, Flora Fiction, Right Hand Pointing, the Liminal Review, and October Hill. He also does the Poetrycast podcast for Passengers Journal.

Aurora Bones is eternally curious about the relationship between the internal and external worlds. These days she spends much of her time teaching English at University, writing poetry, and reading fantasy novels. She also enjoys planting sunflowers, and spends her evenings catching fireflies and then letting them go again.

Jae Eason is a poet based in Seoul, South Korea. They work as an English teacher, as well as the Office Manager at Brooklyn Poets. Their work can be found in Lolwe, Defunkt Magazine, Santa Clara Review, mutiny! magazine, decomp journal, and SoFloPoJo. If they are not up to all the normal things people usually do, they’re most likely having an existential crisis.

Cathy Fiorello is a freelance writer based in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Still Point Arts Quarterly, and Vistas & Byways Literary Review. She is the author of Standing at the Edge of the Pool: Life, Love, Loss and Never Learning to Swim.

Chloe Hogan is interested in identity and the way the self warps and changes- through time. Her artwork is ultimately concerned with performance of self, and her paintings serve as sacred records of her constant wondering.

Yano Ism is studying biochemistry at a university in Sweden. She’s been writing online since 2012 and has found her voice through exploring her own intersecting identities as a queer, black, Muslim woman in the world.

Erin Jamieson holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Miami University of Ohio. Her published work includes two poetry chapbooks, over 90 pieces of short fiction and poetry, and a Pushcart Prize nomination. She teaches English at the Ohio State University, as well as works as a freelance writer and YouTube content creator. Her research has been published in The Journal of African American Studies.

Edward Lee’s paintings speak of emotions and memories, how one informs the other, and of what they give birth to when combined. Their paintings insist that the viewer inserts themselves into the story being told.

Ellery D. Margay is a freelance fiction writer, poet, and artist, originally from the California Wine Country. His work has previously appeared in The Sonoma County Gazette, The Paragon Journal, Wicked Works, Underwood Press, Untimely Frost, and in several FunDead Publications anthologies. When not dreaming up tales and occasional poetry, he can be found sampling and reviewing the newest restaurants and wandering the world in search of weirdness, wonder, and misadventure.

Armin Mell, born in 1994 in Munich/Germany, lives and works as an interdisciplinary artist in Berlin. He graduated in Painting and Design from Akademie U5 München in 2017. His work is featured in private collections and was exhibited i.a. in Liuba Gallery in 2022. In order to continue to be open to new modes of expression, Mell does not abide by any one technique and instead explores many different painting and sculpting methods. This diversity in technique is visible in different series within his body of projects. Armin worked from 2014 to 2017 as studio assistent for german sculptor Klaus Vrieslander in Munich. www.armin-mell.de IG: armin.mell

Rachel Mulder (she/her/hers) experiments with creating murky portraits using the cyanotype process embracing the residual effects from her BFA in Printmaking. She enjoys the balance of rigidity in this process (one must obey the sun, time, opacity and translucence) versus playfulness (using torn bits of vellum, guessing-games while turning physical objects into a photo negative, mental gymnastics with few consequences). Immediacy and trust are required for this happy-accident-laden process.

Lucy Murrell is a full-time student studying philosophy and creative writing. Currently, their favorite poets are Sylvia Plath, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Yousef Komunyakaa, and Mina Loy. Their poems have been published in several online publications including multiple issues of Align Magazine and the most recent issue of Unbound Journal at the University of Oregon.

Andi Myles is a Washington DC area science writer by day, poet in the in between times. Her favorite space is the fine line between essay and poetry. Her work has appeared in Tahoma Literary Review, Alligator Juniper, and Beyond Words, among others.

Riley O’Connell has been published in Plainsongs, Not Very Quiet, Pink Panther Magazine, Making Waves, and The Santa Clara Review, the latter of which she later served as Editor in Chief. She has also been awarded UC Berkeley’s Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize, featured at Poetry Center San José events throughout the South Bay, and served a fellowship teaching creative writing therapy at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital School. Twenty-five and living in the Bay Area, she writes primarily about womanhood, grief, love, and dogs.

Katherine Page (she/her) is a writer and elementary school teacher living in Leadville, Colorado. Her works have been published in Open Minds Quarterly, Awakened Voices Magazine, Beyond Words Literary Magazine and Bluestem Magazine. She is currently a member of the Lighthouse Writers Workshop Poetry Collective. Katherine is working on a manuscript about queerness, overcoming trauma, and learning how to live in this challenging world through her lens as a public school teacher.

Katherine Parsons is a PhD student at the University of Birmingham, where she specialises in conceptions of memory in contemporary literature. Her debut pamphlet, ‘Little Intimacy,’ won Frosted Fire’s ‘New Voices’ Award and was published in Autumn 2022.

Sara Pirkle is a Southern poet, an identical twin, a breast cancer survivor, and a board game enthusiast. Her first book, The Disappearing Act (Mercer University Press, 2018), won the Adrienne Bond Award for Poetry. In 2019, she was nominated for Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry. She is the Assistant Director of Creative Writing at The University of Alabama.

Jen Ross is a Chilean-Canadian journalist with hundreds of nonfiction articles published in newspapers and magazines around the world. Their creative nonfiction has appeared in Guernica Magazine; poetry in The Poet Magazine and in Better than Starbucks, and is forthcoming in Descant and The Other Side of Hope; flash fiction has appeared in The Pine Cone Review; short stories in The Global Youth Review, and another is forthcoming in the Arlington Literary Journal; and they have a novelette published in the Everlast anthology by Dragon Soul Press.

Elizabeth Schoonmaker’s paintings evoke the formal vocabulary of her surroundings. In them, the physical process of mark making and the intertextual play of gesture, shape, line and tone solicit a charged emotive content.

Sydney Sheltz-Kempf (she/her/hers) began writing poetry to cope with the stress of her PhD program. Previous work can be found in Intima: Journal of Narrative Medicine, Sonder Midwest, Hilltop Review, Dying Dahlia Review, Atlas + Alice, and elsewhere. Her chapbooks include "Adding Up Forever: A Memoir" (Poet's Haven, 2018), "Kissing the Face of the Grandfather Clock" (Bottlecap Press, 2022), and "An Experiment Gone Wrong" (Audience Askew, forthcoming).

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t.m. thomson’s work has been featured in several journals, most recently in Soundings East. Three of her poems have been nominated for Pushcart Awards. She has co-authored Frame and Mount the Sky (2017) and is the author of Strum and Lull (2019) and The Profusion (2019). Her full-length collection, Plunge, will be published in 2022.

Lacey Tomlinson is an average 30-something mom, wife, and feminist from the mid-west. By day, she works a regular 9-5 job in learning and development, and by night (technically early morning), Lacey has found herself as a writer. She is exploring the concept of the middle - whether that is the middle of life, stages, problems, or rankings. You can join her on this journey at themddl.com and on various social media platforms.

Shu Tu is an artist in multiple disciplines. In the past 25 years, Shu worked as a creative director, where she has built global creative teams to support international brands. She has recently returned to her roots in creating personal art. Shu is currently living in Upper Manhattan with her husband and two children. See more of her work: Instagram: @beingshu2

Cass Waters (she/her) seeks an exchange between her conscious mind and the workings of her body unknown to her. She stamps vegetables to construct a composition instinctively before painting figures into the scene. Contrasted to elements of realism, these organic textures invite the unexpected. The balancing between engagement and invention reflects her search for both autonomy and connectedness in the natural world. The figures in her paintings are fractured by spatial distortion in addition to organic patterns made by vegetable printing. She uses techniques developed by cubists and draws from contemporary figurative artists like Jenny Saville to describe movement and time. Through this process, she engages with her associations and instinct.

Dr. Stacy Wentworth is a board-certified radiation oncologist. Caring for thousands of patients over her decade-long career has given her the opportunity to tell the amazing story of science every day.  In 2019, she opened a multi-disciplinary cancer survivorship clinic, and she continues to oversee this program. She is an active member of the cancer patient support community. Her research has been selected for presentation at national conferences and publication in many peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Wentworth lives with her husband on a farm in North Carolina with a menagerie of animals including 3 fat horses, 2 fainting goats, 7 loud chickens, four rescue dogs and one opinionated cat. When not seeing patients or mucking stalls, she is working on her first book.

Rachel Whitfield is a first-year MFA student studying Poetry at the University of California, Riverside. They hold degrees in English and Marketing from the University of Oklahoma. After graduating from OU, they worked for an Oklahoma City nonprofit. They are fascinated by the intersection of visual art and poetry, and they enjoy using magazines and newspapers to create. Rachel moved to Riverside from Norman, Oklahoma where they lived with their girlfriend and their three cats.

Cynthia Yatchman primarily uses acrylic paint, latex paints, inks, papers and charcoal. Her images contain many diverse layers of meaning, from the universal to the specific and personal. Many of her works are abstract. She is frequently interested in pattern and/or creating a rich sensual surface by making layer upon layer of marks. There is often an unseen history within these layers as images are obscured and revealed. During our Covid times she worked on a series of floral prints in both black and white and vibrant colors. At times her work speaks to issues of social justice, revelation and connection. Her work frequently gives reference to her experience with nature. Her images can provide occasions for contemplating the unity that underlies things which at first may seem disparate.