Sam Hendrian is a lifelong storyteller striving to foster empathy and compassion through art. Originally from the Chicago suburbs, he now resides in Los Angeles, where he primarily works as an independent filmmaker and has just completed his first feature film TERRIFICMAN, a deeply personal ode to the power of human kindness.
An award-winning writer, Karen Pierce Gonzalez’s work has appeared in numerous traditional and digital platforms. Chapbooks include Coyote in the Basket of My Ribs (Kelsay Books), Down River with Li Po (Black Cat Poetry Press) and two hybrid poetic librettos (Mountains of Ocean: 10 Waves, RavenSong Four Feathers Press, and more.
Sarah Das Gupta is a retired English teacher from Cambridge, UK, who taught in India and Tanzania. She started writing last year after an accident which has limited her walking to using crutches. Her work has been published in over 150 magazines and anthologies from many different countries. She has Best of the Net and ... Read more
Brianna Dey is a Munich-based editor and psychology student whose editorial eye is shaped by a deep fascination with human emotions and the intricacies of the inner mind. With experience in poetry events and a grand prize nomination in short fiction, Dey brings empathy and insight to her editorial work, helping writers refine their narratives ... Read more
Aniiat Sovzikhanova is a writer and a performance artist based in Nuremberg, Germany. Her short stories, essays and poetry, written in Russian and English, explore modern women's life* and the rhythmic structure of language. Her work has appeared in Write Like a Grrrl Lab, The Discours Magazine, and Garage.
Sharon Scholl, a retired college teacher, leads a poetry critique group and manages a website that offers her original music compositions as resources for small, progressive churches. Her poetry chapbooks—Seasons, Remains, and Evensong—are available through online bookstores, and her poems appear in publications such as Changes Seven and The Taborian.
Katie Fitzgerald is a short story writer from Maryland. She writes mainly contemporary romance and mystery, but also occasionally dabbles in literary fiction, humor, and fantasy. Her work can be found online at Spark Flash Fiction, Little Free Lit Mag, Micromance Magazine, Syncopation Literary Journal, and in various print anthologies.
Thomas Harrison Humphreys, with a BS from the University of Lynchburg, is a history teacher in a small village who loves to talk to his students of literature. Thomas has been published in Westward Quarterly, Poetry Quarterly, Writers and Readers Magazine, Copperfield Review Quarterly, Written Tales and Mystic Publishers.
Haley Hodge is a poet from the Blue Ridge Mountain region who now calls the Seacoast of New Hampshire home. Haley is the art editor for Barnstorm Journal, a literary journal housed by the University of New Hampshire’s MFA program.
Writing under a different professional name, Tomas Zandir is a full-time ghostwriter of non-fiction books for private clients. Zandir’s short stories have appeared in literary magazines such as The Chicago Story Press (Sept. 2024), The Missouri Review, Armchair Aesthete, The Bitter Oleander, and The MacGuffin. A graduate of Tufts University, Tomas brings a unique narrative voice to ... Read more
Lucie de Gentile is a recent University of Oxford graduate and is the recent winner of the 2024 University of Oxford, University College Poetry Prize. Her poetry has been published in the Oxford Blue, Hypaethral Magazine, the minority magazine Roots and their branches, Original Sin and How2bBad.
Tom Misuraca studied Writing, Publishing and Literature at Emerson College in his home town of Boston before moving to Los Angeles. Over 130 of his short stories and two novels have been published. His story, Giving Up The Ghosts, was published in Constellations Journal, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2021.
