Sara Baxter was born and raised in Richmond, Indiana. She teaches creative writing and freshman composition at Miami University. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Miami University and an MA in English from Indiana University.
A. J. Bermudez is an award-winning writer and director who divides her time between Los Angeles and New York. Her work has been featured at the Yale Center for British Art, the LGBT Toronto Film Festival, Sundance, and in a number of literary journals, including McSweeney’s, The Masters Review, Story, Chicago Review, Fiction International, Boulevard, and elsewhere. She is a former boxer and EMT, a recipient of the Diverse Voices Award, and winner of the 2021 Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize.
Despy Boutris has work published or forthcoming in Ploughshares, AGNI, Copper Nickel, The Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, American Poetry Review, The Gettysburg Review, Crazyhorse, and elsewhere. Currently, she lives in California and serves as Editor-in-Chief of The West Review.
Cassandra Caverhill is a Canadian-American poet and editor. She is the author of the chapbook Mayflies (Finishing Line Press) and a winner of the 2021 AWP Intro Journals Award. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Last Resort Literary Review, Atticus Review, Reed Magazine, Into the Void, and The Windsor Review. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. More at www.cassandracaverhill.com.
Heather Dobbins is a native of Memphis, Tennessee. She is the author of two poetry collections, In the Low Houses (2014) and River Mouth (2017), both from Kelsay Press. She graduated from the College Scholars program at the University of Tennessee and earned her M.F.A. from Bennington College. Her writing has been published in Beloit Poetry Journal, The Rumpus, TriQuarterly Review, and Women’s Studies Quarterly, among others. For twenty years, she has worked as an educator (Kindergarten through college) in Oakland, California; Memphis, Tennessee; and currently, Fort Smith, Arkansas. Please see heatherdobbins.net for more.
Harrison Gatlin is a recent graduate of the MFA program at the University of Alabama and a subsequent and thus more recent transplant to Brooklyn, NY, where he misses his Alabama friends very much. Hi y’all!
Dean Gessie is a poet and author who has won or placed in 100 international literary competitions. Dean was included in The 64 Best Poets of 2018 and 2019 by Black Mountain Press in North Carolina. Additionally, Dean was a medal winner for the Nosside Poetry Prize in Italy. He also won the Enizagam Poetry Contest in California, the Ageless Authors Poetry Contest in Texas, the Spoon River Editors’ Prize in Illinois and the Frank O’Hara Prize in Massachusetts. Dean’s short story collection – Anthropocene – won an Eyelands Book Award in Greece and the Uncollected Press Prize in Maryland.
Phyllis Gobbell writes a little bit of everything, but she has come to love creative
nonfiction, like “Grateful,” most of all. She has earned awards for her short stories and creative nonfiction and has received Tennessee’s Individual Artist Literary Award. Her recent books are mysteries. Pursuit in Provence has just been released as an audiobook. Other books in the mystery series are Treachery in Tuscany and Secrets and Shamrocks. She co-authored two true crimes and has had a few poems published. An associate professor at Nashville State Community College, she teaches writing and literature. twitter: @pgallaher2 website: www.phyllisgobbell.com blogspot: pgallaher.blogspot.com
Becki Lee has lived in seven states but currently resides in Maryland. She writes and edits prose and bakes a whole lot of banana bread.
Miriam Logan lives on the eastern end of Long Island, NY., between the Amityville Horror and the Montauk Experiment. Her novella, LILITH (Adult, Fantasy) was awarded an Honorable Mention from the International Writers of the Future. When not researching ways to knock off her characters without arousing suspicion, she raises Monarch butterflies.
Joshua McKinney’s most recent book of poetry is Small Sillion (Parlor Press, 2019). His work has appeared in such journals as Boulevard, Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review, New American Writing, and many others. He is the recipient of The Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize, The Dickinson Prize, The Pavement Saw Chapbook Prize, and a Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Writing. A member of Senkakukan Dojo of Sacramento, California, he has studied Japanese sword arts for over thirty years.
Traci McMickle is a bi/pan/queer poet from Montana, where she lives with a spouse and an insufferable Rottweiler. So far, she has duped New Feathers Anthology into publishing her work, and it is pending in Chaotic Merge. Traci also works with Hot Redhead Media, a small press. When she’s not swearing off Twitter, she can be found at @GingerPoet.
Zackary Medlin grew up in South Carolina, ran away to Alaska, and now lives in Utah. He is the winner of the Nancy D. Hargrove Editor’s Choice Prize, the Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry, and a recipient of an AWP Intro Journals Award. He holds an MFA from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Utah, where he was awarded a Clarence Snow Fellowship. His poetry has appeared in journals such as Colorado Review, The Cincinnati Review, Grist, and more recently in Tinderbox Poetry and The Boiler.
David Mohan is a poet and short story writer based in Dublin. His poetry has been published in The Cincinnati Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Lake Effect, Stirring, Measure, Superstition Review, New World Writing, PANK and Dialogist. His poetry has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize and won the Christopher Hewitt Award.
Christina Olson is the author of Terminal Human Velocity (Stillhouse Press, 2017). Her chapbook The Last Mastodon won the Rattle 2019 Chapbook Contest. Other work appears in The Atlantic, The Nation, Scientific American, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Best Creative Nonfiction. She is an associate professor at Georgia Southern University and tweets about coneys and mastodons as @olsonquest.
Bree A. Rolfe lives in Austin, TX, where she teaches writing and literature to mostly reluctant, but always lovable, teenagers. She’s originally from Boston, Massachusetts, where she worked as a music journalist for 10 years before dedicating her life to poetry and teaching. Her work has appeared in Saul Williams’s poetry anthology, Chorus: A Literary Mixtape, the Redpaint Hill Anthology, Mother is a Verb, and 5AM Magazine. She holds an MFA from the Writing Seminars at Bennington College. Her first chapbook, Who’s Going to Love the Dying Girl, is forthcoming from Unsolicited Press in September of 2021. http://breerolfe.com/
Michael Samra has lived most of his years in Brooklyn and his current home of New Orleans, with some deviations. His writings have received the Himan Brown Award and Hillary Gravendyk Prize; Among the Enemies is his first published full-length book, forthcoming this spring.
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Ellen Steinbaum is the author of four poetry collections and a one-person play. Her work has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and appears in several anthologies including Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems, American Places and The Widows’ Handbook. An award-winning journalist and former Boston Globe columnist, she writes a blog, “Reading and Writing and the Occasional Recipe” which can be found at her web site, ellensteinbaum.com.
Christina Tang-Bernas lives in Southern California with her husband, her human-daughter, and her cat-daughter. Her work has appeared in Soft Cartel, Dark Matter Journal, and Cyclamens and Swords, as well as placing first in the Whole Life Soaps annual haiku contest. Find out more at http://www.christinatangbernas.com.
Mydhili R Varma has co-written anthologies titled Urban Shots: Bright Lights, Otherwise Engaged Journal (Vol 5), Word Doodle Lit Mag, Flora Fiction, The Elixir Magazine, Tfaun and Disquiet Arts. Her short story included in She Speaks anthology is being adapted into film to be aired on Amazon Prime. Her illustrated non-fiction titled #YOU TOO (A MISOGYNIST)? will be out in 2022. She lives in Coimbatore, India with her husband and two children.
Jade Wallace’s poetry and fiction have appeared in This Magazine, Hermine, Canadian Literature, and elsewhere. Their debut book of poetry, Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There, is forthcoming from Guernica Editions in 2023. They are currently the reviews editor for CAROUSEL, and co-founder of the collaborative writing entity MA|DE, whose most recent chapbooks are A Trip to the ZZOO (Collusion Books 2020) and A Barely Concealed Design (Puddles of Sky Press, 2020). Stay in touch: jadewallace.ca.
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Scott Wiggerman is the author of three books of poetry, Leaf and Beak: Sonnets, Presence, and Vegetables and Other Relationships; and the editor of several volumes, including Wingbeats: Exercises & Practice in Poetry, Bearing the Mask, and 22 Poems & a Prayer for El Paso. Poems have appeared recently in El Palacio, Limp Wrist, Naugatuck River Review, San Pedro River Review, Kingfisher, and Modern Haiku. He lives in Albuquerque, where he leads the chapter of the New Mexico State Poetry Society.