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A. Anupama’s writing has appeared in Waxwing, Numéro Cinq, and elsewhere. She leads writers at Ramapo College, Writopia Lab, and in the literary community she co-founded, River River Writers Circle (RiverRiver.org). Her chapbook, Saffron Threaded, is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press. Anupama lives with her family in Nyack, New York.

Matthew is a graphic designer and sound artist. He holds an M.A. in Experimental Digital Media from the University of Waterloo. His writing has appeared in The Georgia Review, Bright Lights Film Journal, First Person Scholar, and Blunderbuss Magazine. His instagram is @studio.msss and his website is www.msss.studio.

Alzenira Quezada ( Lady Zen) has an MFA in Creative Writing and is an internationally known lyric fusion poet, who is performing, composing, teaching, and producing around the world. Their work appears in About Place Journal, Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters, and Feckless Cunt: A New Feminist Anthology.

Anne received a Best American Essays 2020 Notable Essay citation and is a recipient of fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work has appeared in River Teeth, Ruminate, Entropy, Columbia Journal, Lunch Ticket, and elsewhere.

David, a retired Coastguard Warrant Officer, has creatively written since childhood, yet career/family always came first. He’s changing that aspect of life and loving every minute. His work appears in Touchstone, Toasted Cheese, 1:1000, Sixfold.org, The Elevation Review, Every Day Fiction, The Abstract Elephant, & The Bookends Review. www.agrubbylife.com.

Erica lives in Portland, Maine. She is a high school English teacher who, on some days, lacks a sense of humor but works hard to regain it. Her work has been featured in StoryQuarterly, The Brooklyn Rail, past-ten, Apple in the Dark, and The Maine Review.

Zack is the author of the chapbook UPHEAVALS (Pond Bench Press). He was awarded the 2017 Alice James Books Director’s Chair Fellowship and now lives with his dog in Waterville, Maine. His published work can be found at zackarylavoie.com.

Linda, a journalist, teacher, and essayist, earned her MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is currently writing her first humor book while snickering at her own jokes. Linda teaches English at her community college and began a reading series for local writers.

A poetry fanatic and longtime poet, John is a graduate of the University of Illinois and Vermont College of Fine Arts. He lives in Flemington, NJ with his wife Patty and their two dogs and two birds. John is the author of four books of poetry.

Terri is the author of the paranormal / contemporary fantasy Afterlife series and numerous short stories in various anthologies and magazines. She produces hard-to-classify fantasy and science fiction stories that explore the supernatural side of everyday things from beautiful Downeast ME. Visit her on the web at www.terribruce.net.

Ethan is a professor and PA at Wake Forest University. He lives in a small, century-old bungalow with his wife and four children. His poetry can be found in The Intima and Snapdragon, as well as creative nonfiction in several academic journals. Reach him at EStonero@wakehealth.edu.

Siarra lives and creates on Treaty 6 land in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan with her wife and two cats. A transdisciplinary writer, performer, and teacher, Siarra holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her fiction received an honorable mention in AWP’s 2020 Intro Journals Project.

Andrea lives on the coast of Maine. She holds an MFA from Stonecoast, serves on the board of Amherst Writers & Artists, and was nonfiction co-editor of The Stonecoast Review. Andrea has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, named a Maine Literary Awards finalist and included in Best American Essays notables.

Wilson  is a writer from South Carolina. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from The University of New Orleans. His work has recently appeared in Trampset, Maudlin House, Ghost Parachute, Menacing Hedge, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Pembroke Magazine, and others. He also reads flash fiction for Craft Literary.

Kathleen is a writer and editor. She loves stories with complicated characters who dance on the line of right and wrong. You can read her nonfiction essays in places like The Washington Post, Al Jazeera English, and Motherwell Magazine. She hopes you can read more of her fiction soon.

Kimberly is the author of Slaughter the One Bird (Sundress 2021), Still Life (PANK 2020), Parrot Flower (Glass 2020) and White Goat Black Sheep (FLP 2018). She is an assistant professor at Michigan State University and associate poetry editor for the Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry.

BellaBianca holds a BA in English from Curry College with a double concentration in Creative Writing and Professional Writing. She is a belly dancing-yogini writer who studies bodyfulness and mindfulness. Check out her recent pieces or say “hiya” at https://bellabiancalynn.com/

Aaron writes poetry and nonfiction and is currently an MFA in Poetry candidate at Texas State University. He has previously been published in Faultline Journal, GASHER Journal, and Meniscus. Arron teaches creative writing in the Texas correctional system through the non-profit Down South Word of Mouth.

Jocelyn is a freelance writer and founder of The Eleventh Letter editorial services. She studied at the National University of Ireland Galway after earning her BS in Speech from Emerson College. Currently an MFA in Writing candidate at Vermont College of Fine Arts, Jocelyn lives gratefully ever after in New Hampshire. www.theeleventhletter.com

Breanna resides in Point Pleasant, West Virginia with her husband and three children. She graduated from Marshall University but started writing after electing to stay home with her kids. Her writing can be found at The Raven Review, Written Tales, Harness Magazine, Motherscope, and a number of parenting websites

Doug is a writer living in Boston. He graduated with an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. He was a journalist and newspaper editor, as well as commentator. Doug is working on a science fiction novel, and he writes literary and speculative novels and short fiction.

Tyler is a queer, trans writer and photographer living in rural northern Vermont. Orion’s cross-genre work – centering around embodiment, solitude, and the infinite joy of being surrounded by nature – can be found in various journals. Orion also works at a small, independent bookstore.

Michelle is the recipient of the 2018 Marystina Santiestevan First Book Prize and the author of Animul/Flame (Conduit Books & Ephemera). Her poetry has appeared in Bennington Review, Indiana Review, WSQ, The Feminist Wire, and Denver Quarterly, among others. You can find out more about her at whitechicken.com.

Katherine’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Café Review, Enough!: Poems of Resistance and Protest, A Dangerous New World, Balancing Act II, Glass: Poet’s Resist and Strange Fire: Jewish Voices on the Pandemic. Mast Year, her first full collection of poetry, is available from Littoral Books.

MK’s writing appears or is forthcoming in Orion, Newfound, X-R-A-Y Lit Mag, Tiny Molecules, The Lily Poetry Review, The Westchester Review, and elsewhere. She has been a finalist for the Montana Prize in Fiction and was recently nominated for a Pushcart. She lives in the Midwest.

Carolyn lives and writes in the mountains of North Carolina . Her story, “Ordinary Time,” was awarded the Peden Prize from the Missouri Review and her poems have been published in About Place Journal, Potomac Review, and others. She reviews poetry for Broadsides to Books, and other journals.

Jenny is originally British but has lived in Maine since 2002. Her poems have appeared in, among others, The Aurorean, Sin Fronteras, Naugatuck River Review, Four Way Review, and various anthologies. Her first poetry collection, Sending Bette Davis to the Plumber, was published by Moon Pie Press in 2017.

Sarah’s essays have appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Salon, Crazyhorse, River Teeth, The American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her work has been noted in 2018 Best American Essays and anthologized in River Teeth: Twenty Years of Creative Nonfiction. She holds an MFA in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives in Michigan.

Alex earned his Bachelor of Arts in English from California State University—Los Angeles in 2015.  He was a former Statement Magazine editor who currently writes passionately.  He has written film reviews for MovieBoozer, and has contributed to Mindfray.  He writes hoping to inspire the ones who dream.

Rhonda teaches writing at the American University in Washington DC. She has published in several journals, including Brevity, past-ten, American Writer’s Review, and was awarded the 2020 Literary Award in Nonfiction from Dogwood: A Literary Journal of Poetry and Prose. She is hard at work marketing her first novel.