Jeral Williams is a retired psychology professor and late-in-life poet. His first book of poetry, Sunset Without Dawn (Negative Capability Press,2022), was centered on his grief over the tragic loss of his daughter.

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.

Joseph C Ogbonna is a prolific poet from Nigeria. He is widely published in anthologies, magazines, journals, and online blogs. He was a former high school teacher and an amateur historian. He lives in Enugu, Nigeria.

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.

Constanza Baeza Valdenegro was born in 1985. She lives in the Chilean countryside. She likes languages, flavoured tea and learning new things every day.

Sophia Martinez is a high school junior from New York with a passion for writing that she’s still exploring. Though uncertain about her professional path, she knows she has a fire for expression. Her poems are deeply diaristic, and she hopes that readers will feel the warmth of their own inner fire through her words.

Jonathan Chibuike Ukah is a Pushcart-nominated poet living in the United Kingdom. His poems have been featured in Unleash Lit, The Pierian, Propel Magazine, Atticus Review, The Journal of Undiscovered Poets and elsewhere. He won the third Prize in the Voices of Lincoln Poetry Contest in 2024 and the Alexander Pope Poetry Award in 2023.

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.

W Roger Carlisle is a 79-year-old, semi-retired physician. He currently volunteers and works in a free medical clinic for patients living in poverty. He is on a journey of returning home to better understand himself through poetry. He hopes he is becoming more humble in the process.

Jonathan Chibuike Ukah is a Pushcart-nominated poet living in the United Kingdom. His poems have been featured in Unleash Lit, The Pierian, Propel Magazine, Atticus Review, The Journal of Undiscovered Poets and elsewhere. He won the third Prize in the Voices of Lincoln Poetry Contest in 2024 and the Alexander Pope Poetry Award in 2023.

W Roger Carlisle is a 79-year-old, semi-retired physician. He currently volunteers and works in a free medical clinic for impoverished patients. He is on a journey of returning home to better understand himself through poetry. He hopes he is becoming more humble in the process.

Aishat is a lover of books and poetry who finds comfort in words as a form of escape. She writes with the hope that others might relate to her poems or find solace in them.