Jonathan Chibuike Ukah is a Pushcart-nominated poet living in the United Kingdom with his family. His poems have been featured in Atticus Review, Unleash Lit, Written Tales, Propel Magazine, Clockhouse and elsewhere. He won the Alexander Pope Poetry Award in 2023 and the Editor's Choice Poetry Award in 2024.

Dania Ayah Alkhouli (a.k.a. Lady Narrator) is a Syrian Pushcart Prize-nominated writer, poet, editor, and author. Her work centers on survivorship, feminism, domestic violence/sexual assault, death & grief, religion & culture, and her homeland, Syria. Alkhouli serves as Creative Director & co-founder of the traveling museum A Country Called Syria.

Paul Perilli's recent fiction has been featured in Fairlight Books, The Write Launch, The Fictional Café, The Writing Disorder, Unlikely Stories, and more. His recent nonfiction work appears in Otoliths, The Blotter, and O&L, with a forthcoming piece in Bridge Eight Press. Additionally, his novelette “The Luckier I Get” will soon be published in Aethlon. 

Laura Turzo is a writer of poetry, fiction and narrative non-fiction. She currently lives in the Berkshires in Lenox, Massachusetts.

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 about literature. Thomas has been published in Westward Quarterly, Poetry Quarterly, Writers and Readers Magazine, Copperfield Review Quarterly, Written Tales and Mystic Publishers.

Tom Squitieri is a three-time winner of the Overseas Press Club and White House Correspondents' Association awards for work as a war correspondent. He is blessed to have his poetry appear in multiple venues, including publications, books and anthologies, podcasts, spoken word concerts, an art exhibition and two films.