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.

Christine Law is a lady in her late sixties who enjoys writing prose and poetry, writing about events and how they may occur. A lover of nature and the seasons. She is a member of the Authors Licensing and Collecting Society.

Ana Stevenson is a writer and philosopher from Saint Paul, Minnesota. She recently graduated from the University of St. Thomas, where she studied Philosophy and English Literature. Ana is a previously unpublished poet and fiction writer.