Shoshana Edwards is a retired teacher living in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and several feral cats they care for. In between writing, she quilts and tends her large polinator garden.

L. Keith lives in Ohio with her husband and three children. She has short stories featured in Apple in the Dark, Written Tales, Written Tales Chapbook, and Wicked Press Halloweenthology: Trick-or-Treat.

Karen Pierce Gonzalez is an award-winning writer whose non-fiction, prose, and poetry have been widely published. Her chapbooks include Coyote in the Basket of My Ribs (Kelsay Books), Sightings from a Star Wheel (Origami Poems Project), and the forthcoming Down River with Li Po (Black Cat Poetry Press). In addition to her literary pursuits, Karen is ... Read more

Dee Allen is an African-Italian performance poet based in Oakland, California. Active in creative writing & Spoken Word since the early 1990s. Author of 9 books--Boneyard, Unwritten Law, Stormwater, Skeletal Black, Elohi Unitsi, Rusty Gallows: Passages Against Hate, Plans, Crimson Stain and his newest, Discovery--and 72 anthology appearances.

Sarah Selim is a young Egyptian American artist and writer. She is currently a student and has been published in Coneflower Cafe, TeenInk, and CelebratingArt, and her favorite part about creating is sharing her vision with the world.

Andre F. Peltier (he/him) is a Pushcart and two-time Best of the Net nominated poet and a Lecturer III at Eastern Michigan University. His poetry has recently appeared in various publications both online and in print. His poetry collections Poplandia and Ambassador Bridge are available from Alien Buddha Press.

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.

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.

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.