B. Fulton Jennes

The Poet Laureate of Ridgefield, Connecticut, B. Fulton Jennes serves as an educator and poet-in-residence for the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, where she develops poetry programming and special events. Her poems have or will appear in The Comstock Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Night Heron Barks, Connecticut River Journal, ArtAscent, Stone Canoe, Frost Meadow Review, and other publications, and her poem “Lessons of a Cruel Tide” was awarded first place in the Writer’s Digest Annual Competition. Jennes’s chapbook, Blinded Birds, will be published in the fall of 2021. You can find more on her work at bfultonjennes.com.

Zoe Grace Marquedant is a writer. She earned her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and her M.F.A. from Columbia University. Her work has been featured in the Analog Cookbook, the Schuylkill Valley Journal, and Talk Vomit. She also has a poem in the forthcoming Ghost City Press's My Loves anthology. Currently, she is a fellow with the Research Ecologies & Archival Development lab within the School of Commons in Zurich.

Zoe Marquedant

Ange Yang

Ange Yang is an Australian-based lawyer, moonlighting as a writer. She writes about food, identity and growing up Asian-Australian.

Holly Redshaw is a 23 year-old musician and bassoonist from London. Whilst music might be her every-day form of work and expression, poetry and writing of all kinds remain a deep-rooted first love for her, which she has recently begun to re-explore again. When not playing the bassoon, she enjoys long muddy runs, experimenting with making her own bread, obsessively knitting socks and reviewing creme brûlées on her blog, Can’t Be Beaten.

Holly Redshaw

Roger Patulny

Roger Patulny is a sociology academic from the University of Wollongong. He is the Chief Editor of the Sydney-based Authora Australis blind-review literary journal . He has published short stories in the The Suburban Review and the Stories of Hope and Imaginary Worlds collections, as well as poems in Cordite, Poets Corner-InDaily, the UK arts magazine Dwell Time, and The Rye Whisky Review.

Roi Alexis Martinez-Soto (they/them) is a queer person, writer of Tepehuán Indigenous and Mexican descent from Chicago, IL. They are trilingual and enjoy cooking, reading and hiking. Alexis lives in Colorado, where they’re working on a collection of poems and stories.

Roi Alexis Martinez-Soto

isabella fiore

isabella fiore (she/they) is a writer who chronicles her experiences through love, sadness, and figuring out what it means to be a queer "woman" in her world. Her publications include Cathartic Lit Magazine and TEEN-ZINE. When she is not writing, isabella can be found baking, napping, or wrapping herself in a blanket like a burrito.

Rachel Tanner is a queer, disabled writer from Alabama whose work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Saw Palm, Memoir Mixtapes, Bandit Fiction, and elsewhere.

Rachel Tanner

Mark Laliberte

Mark Laliberte is an artist-writer-designer with an MFA from University of Guelph. He has exhibited extensively in galleries across Canada and internationally, curates the online experimental comics site http://4panel.ca, and edits the hybrid art/lit mag CAROUSEL. Laliberte has had pageworks, poems and other print experiments appear in publications big and small, including Ink Brick, POETRY, prairie fire, subTerrain and Vallum. Publications include BRICKBRICKBRICK (Book*Hug, 2010) and asemanticasymmetry (Anstruther Press, 2016). Laliberte is a member of the collaborative writing entity, MA|DE. More info: marklaliberte.com + ma-de.ca.

Mimi Lam double majored in Mathematics and Communication Arts with a focus in Production. She searches for the universal truths in her poems and tells the story of her family and community. Currently, Mimi serves as the Library Manager for a newly-founded, Black-owned poetry library, the Sims Library of Poetry, in South Los Angeles, a predominantly Black and Brown, low-income community. Through her job, Mimi helps make poetry more accessible to the community and uplifts underrepresented voices in the literary world. She also pursues acting, practices aikido, and learns calligraphy.

Mimi Lam

Elizabeth Spencer Spragins

Elizabeth Spencer Spragins is a fiber artist, writer, and poet who taught in community colleges for more than a decade. Her work has been published extensively in Europe, Asia, and North America. She is the author of three original poetry collections: Waltzing With Water, With No Bridle for the Breeze, and The Language of Bones.

Kim Denning is a Latina poet from Texas who teaches at the University of Texas at Austin. She is an unapologetic advocate for equity in public schools and prefers her guitars loud with distortion. Her poetry has been featured in Last Stanza Poetry Journal, FERAL, OpenDoor Magazine, the Valley International Poetry Festival’s Boundless Anthology, and soon will appear in a special edition of Adanna Literary Journal. Recently, she murdered romance by winning Versification Zine’s Kill Cupid contest.

Kim Denning

Mark Ward

Mark Ward is the author of the chapbooks, Circumference (Finishing Line Press, 2018) and Carcass (Seven Kitchens Press, 2020) and a full-length collection, Nightlight (Salmon Poetry, 2022). His poems have been featured in The Irish Times, Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, Boyne Berries, Skylight47, Honest Ulsterman, Assaracus, Tincture, Cordite, Softblow and many more, as well as anthologies, the most recent of which is Hit Points: An Anthology of Video Game Poetry, forthcoming in 2021. He was Highly Commended in the 2019 Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award and in 2020 he was shortlisted for the Cúirt New Writing Prize and selected for Poetry Ireland’s Introductions series. He has recorded poems for RTÉ Radio 1’s Arena and The Poetry Programme, Lyric FM’s Poetry File and the podcast Words Lightly Spoken. He is the founding editor of Impossible Archetype, an international journal of LGBTQ+ poetry, now in its fifth year.

Shiksha Dheda is a South African of Indian descent. She uses poetry (mostly) to express her OCD and depression roller-coaster ventures. However, she writes in the hopes that someday someone will see her as she is: an incomplete poem. Sometimes, she dabbles in photography, painting, and baking lopsided layered cakes. Her work has been featured—or will soon be featured—in Off Menu Press, The Daily Drunk, The Kalahari Review, Brave Voices, Anti-heroin Chic, Versification, and elsewhere.

Shiksha Dheda

Nathaniel is a librarian by day and insomniac by night—hence the writing. His poetry won the Golden Point Award in 2019, and is published in Crazy Little Pyromaniacs (Math Paper Press, 2020) and Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, among others. He lives in Singapore. You can find him in the stacks, as in life, getting lost.

Nathaniel Chew

Samantha K Mosca

Samantha K Mosca is a jack of many trades: actress, writer, poet, academic, photographer, and editor. She is a bi-femme, immigrant, activist and a mum who spends her days chasing her wee toddler and her nights chasing her art.

Gabe Bogart is from Seattle, Washington and loves the color grey in the way only someone born and raised there can. He still thinks 2001: A Space Odyssey is one of the scariest movies he’s ever seen. As a teenager, he once blocked a guy trying to dunk on him while playing pickup basketball. His work has appeared in Corvus Review, a short-run, small press collection of his poems titled Will They Reminisce Over You?, forthcoming at Fahmidan Journal, and he writes periodic baseball trivia posts for Max's Sporting Studio. He thinks “prehensile” is a pretty cool word.

Gabe Bogart

Travis Tyler Madden

Travis Tyler Madden (they/their/theirs) is a graduate of Towson University’s Professional Writing graduate program. Their work has appeared in Writer’s Digest, Ligeia Magazine, Alternating Current, Paragon Press, Queerlings, and Castabout Literature. They've also read their work at Baltimore Book Festival, and have pieces forthcoming in Alternating Current, Querencia, and as episodes of The Long Hallway podcast.

Rue Baldry’s recent story publications include in Fairlight Shorts, Overground Underground, Ambit, MIR Online, Postbox, Crossways, The First Line, Incubator, Litro, Pif, Mslexia, and Honest Ulsterman. Her Creative Writing MA is from Leeds. She’s been a Bridge Awards Emerging Writer and a Jerwood/Arvon mentee. Her novels have come second in the 2019 Yeovil Prize, and placed in the Caledonian, Bridport, First Page and Flash 500 competitions. Learn more at her website, https://ruebaldry.wordpress.com/.

Rue Baldry

L. Ward Abel

L. Ward Abel’s work has appeared in Rattle, The Reader, The Istanbul Review, The Worcester Review, Honest Ulsterman, hundreds of others, and is the author of three full collections and ten chapbooks of poetry, including Jonesing For Byzantium (UK Authors Press, 2006), American Bruise (Parallel Press, 2012), Little Town Gods (Folded Word Press, 2016), A Jerusalem of Ponds (erbacce-Press, 2016), The Rainflock Sings Again (Unsolicited Press, 2019), Floodlit (Beakful, 2019), and The Width of Here (Silver Bow, 2021). You can find out more about him and his body of work on his website.

Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad is an Indian-Australian artist, poet, and pianist. She has been painting and exhibiting for over twenty years, and her art and poetry have been widely published in both print and online journals. Her recent artworks have been showcased in Otoliths, 3 AM Magazine, and The Amsterdam Quarterly, and on the covers of Ang(st) the body zine, Pithead Chapel, Uppagus, Periwinkle Literary, and The Rat’s Ass Review. New works are forthcoming in Kalopsia Lit, Fish Food, Sonic Boom, and elsewhere. She is a chief editor for Authora Australis.

Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad

Rick Hollon

Rick Hollon (they/them) is a nonbinary parent, writer, editor, and nature photographer who has been published in small-press magazines including Prismatica, perhappened, and Green Ink Poetry.

Leonie lives in Manchester and has an MA in Gothic literature. Her most recent work has been published by Ad Hoc Fiction, The Cabinet of Heed and Emerge Literary Journal, among others. Leonie’s debut chapbook, In Bed with Melon Bread, was published by Dreich in March 2021. She is editor-in-chief of The Hungry Ghost Project. You can find her on Twitter @leonie_rowland or visit her website at http://leonierowland.com.

Leonie Rowland

Michael Quattrone

Michael Quattrone is the author of Rhinoceroses, selected by Olena Kalytiak Davis for the New School Chapbook Award, 2006. Recent poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry blog, Poets Reading the News, and The Night Heron Barks. His work has been included in anthologies, such as The Best American Erotic Poems (Scribner, 2008), and The Incredible Sestina Anthology (Write Bloody, 2018). Michael curated the KGB Poetry series from 2007 to 2011, with comrades Laura Cronk and Megin Jimenez. He lives in New York’s Hudson Valley.

Zebulon Huset is a teacher, writer and photographer living in San Diego. He won the Gulf Stream 2020 Summer Poetry Contest and his writing has appeared in Meridian, The Southern Review, Fence, Atlanta Review & Texas Review among others. He publishes the writing blog Notebooking Daily, edits the journals Coastal Shelf and Sparked, and recommends literary journals at The Submission Wizard.

Zebulon Huset