ANN FISHER lives and writes at the base of the Green Mountains in Vermont. She is Fiction Co-Editor of Mud Season Review. Her most recent work appears in Samjoko Magazine; you can find her poetry and prose in About Place Journal, Heartwood Literary Magazine, and The Sonder Review, among others.

ANTHONY D’ARIES is the author of The Language of Men: A Memoir (Hudson Whitman Press, 2012), which received the PEN/New England Discovery Prize and an INDIES Gold Medal. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in McSweeney's, Boston Magazine, Solstice, Shelf Awareness, The Literary Review, Memoir Magazine, Silk Road Review, The Laurel Review, Flash Fiction Magazine, and elsewhere. He was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and his essay, "No Man's Land," was listed as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2021. An Associate Professor of writing and literature, Anthony directs the low-residency MFA in Creative and Professional Writing at Western Connecticut State University.

BRIAN RAFAEL KIRCHNER is a poet, ESL Teacher, and musician from Brooklyn, NY. Several of Brian's poems have been published and featured in magazines, including Troublemaker's Firestarter Magazine, Fresh Words: an International Literary Magazine, and New Voices. In addition to his writing work, Brian is an award-winning pianist and composer. His latest solo piano album, May, was released earlier in 2022.

BRITTON BUTTRILL is a writer from the American South. He was a finalist for the Nick Darke Award and a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers Conference. His work has been published in SamFiftyFour Literary, Opium Magazine, The New York Public Library ‘Zine, and The New York Times' "Tiny Love Stories", among others. His stage plays have been produced off-off Broadway and regionally. He holds an MFA from The New School and an MA from Brooklyn College. Britton lives in Manhattan with his wife and son.

Website: BrittonButtrill

DAISY BASSEN is a poet and community child psychiatrist who graduated from Princeton University’s Creative Writing Program and completed her medical training at The University of Rochester and Brown. Her work has been published in Salamander, McSweeney’s, Smartish Pace, Crab Creek Review, Little Patuxent Review, New York Quarterly, and [PANK] among other journals. She was the winner of the So to Speak 2019 Poetry Contest, the 2019 ILDS White Mice Contest, the 2020 Beullah Rose Poetry Prize, and the 2022 Erskine J Poetry Prize. She was nominated for the 2019, 2021, and 2022 Best of the Net Anthology and for a 2019 and 2020 Pushcart Prize. Born and raised in New York, she lives in Rhode Island with her family. Her fiction is represented by Jennifer Lyons of Jennifer Lyons Agency.

Website: daisybassen.com

Twitter: @dgbassen (for now, anyway!)

FB: @Dgbassenauthor

FRANK WILLIAM FINNEY is a retired university lecturer from Massachusetts who taught literature at Thammasat University in Thailand for 25 years. His work has appeared in numerous journals, magazines, and anthologies including The Bluebird Word, Drawn to the Light Press, Pocket Fiction, and Portrait of New England. His chapbook The Folding of the Wings was published by Finishing Line Press in 2022.

JAMES SEATON is a poet, spoken word artist, and author based in Brooklyn, NY. He has performed pieces about topics ranging from race to faith and identity at venues like the 2015 NAACP ACT-SO national poetry competition, The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and BRIC Brooklyn. He published his debut poetry book, “Light Pollution: a collection of poems,” in February 2022.

JANUÁRIO ESTEVES born in Coruche and was raised near Costa da Caparica, Portugal. He graduated in electromechanical installations, uses the pseudonym Januanto and writes poetry since very young. In 1987 he published poems in the Jornal de Letras, and participated over the years in some collective publications.

JESSIE RAYMUNDO teaches high school literature and composition at PAREF Southridge School. He is a graduate student in the Department of Literature at De La Salle University-Manila. His poetry has appeared in various publications in print and online. He lives in a small city in the Philippines with his cats.

JL MAIKAHO is an emerging Nigerian poet, storyteller and essayist. Her works explore diverse themes from women's rights, ethno-religious conflict and climate change; to romance, mysticism and surrealism. Her poems and short stories have appeared in Brittle Paper, Nnoko Stories, Kalahari Review and elsewhere. A SprinNG fellow (2022 cohort), she's also a scholarship recipient of the SprinNG Advancement Fellowship, has been longlisted for the Bill Ward Prize for emerging authors and shortlisted for the MAFEELDA Essay contest. JL writes from Gombe, Nigeria and tweets @JLMaikaho.

KAT L’ESPERANCE STOKES was born in Santa Monica during a lightning storm. After, she fell in love with folklore, horror, and the concept of home. Now you could find her in Vermont for school or on Instagram (@katlstokes) and twitter (@katsurless).

L. WARD ABEL’s work has appeared in hundreds of journals (Rattle, Versal, The Reader, Worcester Review, Main Street Rag, others), including a recent nomination for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and he is the author of three full collections and ten chapbooks of poetry. His latest collection, Green Shoulders: New and Selected Poems 2003–2023 (Silver Bow) will be released this year. Abel resides in rural Georgia.

L.E. PINTO is a Canadian Governor General’s Gold Medal recipient and  critical researcher whose work was shortlisted for the Ontario Speakers’ Book Award. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Thought, Critical Policy Studies, Antistasis, and Encounters. Her creative work has appeared in Decomp, HAD and The Sociological Review Magazine, among others.

SUKHVIR KAUR is a J.D. turned stay at home mum to a vivacious toddler by day and an aspiring writer, scribbling away under fluorescent lighting by night. She weaves elements of her Punjabi heritage, faith, childhood, and love stories into her poems. You can find some of her pieces published in the Santa Clara Review, Poets Choice, Treehouse Literary Review, Anti-Langorous Project, and Prevention at the Intersections.

TASHA PARTEE is a theatre teacher, playwright, and performer that has delighted in working with thespians of all ages in New York City and throughout Virginia since 2001. She holds an M.A. in Educational Theatre and English from NYU and a B.F.A. in Theatre Education from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her plays have been produced by the New York International Fringe Festival, The Hudson Guild Theatre Company under the artistic direction of Jim Furlong, Manhattan Repertory Theatre, and The New York New Works Theatre Festival. Awards include the 2019 Inspiring Teacher Award, presented by the Broadway League, Wells Fargo, and The National High School Musical Theatre Awards (also known as The Jimmy Awards). Tasha is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and currently serves as an Upper School Theatre teacher at Léman Manhattan Preparatory School.

AFFILIATIONS: DGA; ICWP; EDTA

THOMAS MIXON has fiction and poetry in MAYDAY, Pinhole Poetry, Paragraph Planet, and elsewhere.

VALLEY C. SHAIA is a graduate of JMU, VCU, and Lesley U with an MFA in Creative Writing for Young People. Additionally, she is a member of Tin House YA '22 and a scholarship recipient of the Highlights Foundation. When she's not writing her Lebanese-American fantasy novel, she chugs coffee at indie RI bookstores.