Tracie Adams is a writer and teacher in rural Virginia. Pushcart Nominee 2025. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in BULL, Does It Have Pockets, Cleaver Magazine, Trash Cat Lit, Bright Flash Literary Review, and others.

JoyAnne O'Donnell author of "Winds of Time," and "Spring & Summers Veil. JoyAnne writes from Emmitsburg, Maryland.

Mary Janicke is a gardener and writer living in Texas. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, Green Ink, Honeyguide, Blue Lake Review, Pulse, and elsewhere.

Rick K. Reut was born in 1984 in the USSR. He studied philosophy at EHU in Minsk, Belarus, and literature at Saint Petersburg State University in Russia. After graduation, he spent much of his career working as a translator and teaching English as a foreign language.

Alexis Ashe is an artist and writer based in New York. Her current obsessions include W.A.S.P., Stagecoach, and Bettie Page. She attends New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where her work has been featured in various poetry readings and showcases.

Jeral Williams is a retired professor of psychology and late-in-life poet. In addition to individual poems in Pure Slush, Written Tales, Heron’s Nest and other sources he has published one collection, Sunset Without Dawn, (Negative Capability Press, 2022). The collection is centered in his grief over the loss of a daughter.

Thompson Emate spends his leisure time on creative writing, particularly poetry and prose. He has a deep love for nature and the arts. His work can be seen in Poetry Potion, Poetry Soup, Visual Verse, Writer Space African magazine, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Borderless Journal, ScribesMICRO and elsewhere. He lives in Lagos, Nigeria.