Mark Smeltzer is an aspiring rural poet. He has a master's degree in English from Utah State University. He lives against the mountains of northern Utah with his wife, Chelsea, and rescue pup, Hashbrown.

Solomon Fraga is an aspiring author and poet. He has recently had his first poetry publications in the June 2024 issue at The Write Launch and in the book ‘Seven Jumbled Words’ at Poets Choice.

Erik Peters is a father and avid mediaevalist from Vancouver, Canada. His writing is influenced by late antiquity, his family, and his students. Erik has been featured in Coffin Bell, Zoetic, Takahe, Beyond Literary Words, and Thirty West. You can check out all Erik's work at erikpeters.ca.

Ryan Rahman is a writer based in Orlando, Florida. His works have appeared in Beyond Words Magazine, The Stardust Review, Half and One, BarBar, Humans of The World, WILDsound Writing Festival (Festival for Poetry), Wingless Dreamer Publisher, Moonstone Arts Center, Poets Choice, and The Word's Faire. When he’s not writing, Ryan enjoys reading, listening to music, watching movies, and traveling.

Olivia Kral is a New England-based artist, poet, and token ‘lesbian with a Subaru’. When not in an existential crisis, you'll find her researching the history of a niche topic or replaying a CD for the 12th time in a row. Connect with her @oliviagkral

Peggy Heitmann received honorable mention in the 2025 Ron Rash Awards. She is an award-winning poet who received a 2024 pushcart nomination from Gyroscope Review. She has published poems in Wild Word Poetry, Atlanta Review and Pine Song. She considers herself both word and visual artist. Peggy lives in Raleigh, NC with her husband and two cats.

Aubrey Lynch is a disabled Pennsylvanian-born writer living in Florida. She graduated from Cedar Crest College in May, 2023. Her poem, "First Kiss," was recently published in the 2025 edition of "The Central Dissent".

Greg Walklin’s work has appeared in Arts and Letters, Hawai’i Pacific Review, Emrys Journal, Palooka, and Pulp Literature, among other publications.

Noah Redondo is an aspiring creative writer one year removed from graduating college who has a passion for writing

Ryan Bolding is a queer poet based in Seattle. His work explores intimacy, autonomy, and the contradictions of modern life. Recent poems appear or are forthcoming in Cathexis Northwest Press, Neon Origami, Fjords Review, and Wingless Dreamer.

Will Carter is a Lecturer of English at Kennesaw State University. His memoir, Getting Better, which covers the first seven months of his recovery after suffering a brain injury and a stroke during his senior year of high school, is published by Running Wild Press. Will had been published in His View from Home, Brain Injury Hope Magazine, The South Florida Poetry Journal, and more.

Emma Townsend is a two time children's book author and poet. Her most recent work can be found in Parley Lit and Vast Chasm Magazine.

Rebeka Goodman writes about fragile bodies, errant planets, and words that misbehave. She's a linguist by training, a poet by compulsion, and often mistaken for a constellation.

Anna Oh is an aspiring writer from Singapore who enjoys exploring themes of existentialism. Her other hobbies include avoiding human interaction and finding her place in the universe. She also runs the Critical Thinking Café on Substack.

Richard Weems is the author of three short story collections, one of which was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Prize. His work has appeared in North American Review, The Gettysburg Review, Beloit Fiction Journal and elsewhere. He just recently retired from teaching.

J.C. Dooley currently lives in Beijing, where he teaches literature at a private bilingual high school. When he's not working or thinking about work, he's reading, playing chess, or visiting the local gym.

Meg Tenuta was born on Valentine's Day in San Antonio, TX, and has been chasing stories, stages, and spotlights ever since. A singer, dancer, and actress by trade, she moved to Los Angeles at 19. She spent her early career performing across the country, eventually appearing on reality TV shows like I Survived a Japanese Game Show, American Idol, and Summer Camp, along with landing over 100 commercials credits. Now based in the suburbs of Chicago with her husband and two daughters, she's focused on completing her debut novel; a mythological, emotionally layered story she's been shaping for years.

Peter J. Grieco is a musician, songwriter, and retired school bus driver from Buffalo, NY. His poems have been widely published in small magazines on-line and in print.

Summer Hammond grew up in rural Iowa and Missouri, one of Jehovah’s Witnesses. She earned her MFA from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. Her writing appears in New Letters, Moon City Review, and Tahoma Review, among others. She won the 2023 New Letters Conger Beasley Jr. Award for Nonfiction and her essay was selected for Best American Essays 2025. Her debut novel, The Impossible Why, is forthcoming from Apprentice House Press in 2026.

Val Margolius is a researcher and a fan of black licorice. Their work can be found in Last Leaves Magazine and Willows Wept Review.

F. S. Blake is a Bronze Star decorated U.S. Army Veteran and Pushcart Prize nominated poet. He is a published photographer, traveler, advanced SCUBA diver, philanthropist, entrepreneur, and proud husband and father. He has poems published or forthcoming in O-Dark-Thirty, As you Were: The Military Review, The Wrath-Bearing Tree, and Line of Advance. His first chapbook, Terminal Leave, is available from Finishing Line Press. His poetry career began during his sister’s wedding.

Mackenzie (Mac) Gellner completed her Bachelor of Communication in journalism at Mount Royal University. Her poetry has been published in literary magazines, such as You Might Need To Hear This, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, WA Magazine, Eunoia Review and The Word's Faire, along with a short story in Humans of the World. Mac also enjoys photography, with work published in Kelp Journal and WA Magazine.

Agneya Singh is a writer and filmmaker from the Global South whose work explores themes of resistance, memory, ecological collapse, and political grief. His debut feature film M Cream received multiple international awards, and his recent poetry engages with lived experiences of war, occupation, and environmental devastation. Based between India and Malta, he is currently completing a novel set in Kashmir.

Michele M Miller holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Arizona. Honors for her poetry include an Arizona Commission on the Arts fellowship, and designation as runner-up for the National Poetry Series and the Kore Press First Book Prize. Her chapbook "The Pocket Museum of Natural History" is forthcoming as a finalist in the New Women’s Voices Series from Finishing Line Press. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and been shortlisted for several national competitions. Michele writes and photographs in her heartland, the Sonoran Desert of Tucson, Arizona. 

James Goddard lives in England in the year 2025, so spends much of his time thinking of other places and other times. He studied classics and philosophy, and tells the stories of people history forgot, or never knew, to give voices back to those erased. Most of the time, he tells these stories to his daughter. He writes at: https://meditationsonpermafrost.substack.com/

Jade Mash is a British writer, educator, and care leaver whose work blurs the line between memoir, poetry, and archival testimony. Autistic and multiply neurodivergent, her voice reclaims what institutions erased: the right to feel, to speak, and to survive out loud. Jade’s writing has been recognized for its lyric intensity, experimental form, and unflinching honesty. She is the founder of The Aftercare Project, supporting care-experienced youth through creative workshops, lived-experience mentoring, and artistic reclamation. She holds an MA in Creative Writing with Distinction and is currently preparing a PhD proposal exploring narrative disruption, voice, and postcolonial neurodivergence. She is a mother, a foster panel member, and a believer in storytelling as resistance and repair.

Fiona Hartmann is a writer living in Toronto, Canada. She is interested in creating thought-provoking fiction that creates emotional connections that transcend through the digital landscape of modernity. Find her published and forthcoming work in Kelp Journal, Shot Glass Journal, Neologism Poetry Journal and elsewhere.

Claire Warner is a Connecticut poet and writer. She is a past editor of Connecticut River Review, a poetry journal, and FltBrief, an aviation newsletter with a national readership. her poems have been included in venues such as Blue Unicorn, Connecticut River Review, and Orphic Lute.

Elliot Smith is a British journalist and writer based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Much of his fiction is set in and around his hometown of Skegness, on the east coast of England, and explores themes of class, socio-economic inequality, masculinity and community.

Vincent Casaregola teaches American literature and film, creative writing, and rhetorical studies at Saint Louis University. He has published poetry in a number of journals, as well as creative nonfiction, short fiction, and flash fiction. His poetry collection, Vital Signs (dealing with illness, loss, trauma, and grieving), is now available from Finishing Line Press.