Gordon Laws has recently published in Irreantum, The Wrath-Bearing Tree, and the Line of Advance. He oversees course development at Coursera.

Jack Douglas Riter

Alexander Forston (he/him) is an Indiana-based writer. His work often explores the fuzzy edges of the real and the unreal, yet never abandons the core of the human heart. He holds an MFA in fiction writing from Lindenwood University, and teaches composition at the University of Southern Indiana.

Linhly Harwell is a junior at a liberal arts high school specializing in creative writing. From a young age, Harwell displayed an interest in writing which led to her pursuing writing seriously. Over the years, she has been able to dabble in different fields of writing such as poetry, short stories, nonfiction, screenwriting, and more!

Aaron Beck is a poet and pianist living in Portland, Oregon with his dog, Jack.

Holly Jones (she/her) is a student studying Creative Writing at Missouri State University. She is a volunteer editor for University magazines Moon City Review and Logos. She is currently an unpublished author and the host of The Not Natural Podcast.

Derek Go

William Binzen's expressive medium of choice is words. The elements in this poetic process include: narrative invention, emergent theme, intentional structure and sound crafting. He tries to make every line a meaningful moment and one that corresponds to how both individual words and whole lines unfold across a page. His poetry and photography were featured in the anthology, Beside the Sleeping Maiden, and are forthcoming in the winter issue of the Banyan Review.

Levi Himes was born and raised in Indiana. He currently resides and writes in Colorado with his wife Heather and their dog Birdy. Levi has published his first full length travel memoir The Good Vibe which is available now. He is currently working on his first full length fiction project. He is also actively exploring his abilities in the world of short fiction. His greatest pursuit in writing is the unraveling of perspectives throughout his stories.

Pamela Cottam is a fiction writer with an MFA in Creative Writing from Cleveland State’s NEOMFA program. She has written a mystery novel, children’s stories and adult short fiction. Her writing has been published in Across the Margin, Better than Starbucks2, Active Muse, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Creepypasta (Audio) Constellate Literary Journal, the Pennsylvania Literary Journal and The Write Launch. She was a nominee for the Best of the Net, a runner up in the Gordon Square Review Fiction 2022 contest and Gival Literary Contest, 2023.

Andrew Sarewitz has published more than 75 short stories (website: www.andrewsarewitz.com. Substack access is @asarewitz) as well as having penned scripts for various media. Mr. Sarewitz is a recipient of the City Artists Corp Grant for Writing. His play, Alias Madame Andrèe (based on the life of WWII resistance fighter, Nancy Wake, the “White Mouse”) garnered First Prize from Stage to Screen New Playwrights in San Jose, CA; produced with a multicultural cast and crew. Member: Dramatists Guild of America.

Eric St. Pierre, a multifaceted New Orleans-based artist, weaves elements of story, color, and sound to create work that examines the play between the tangible and the transcendent. Eric’s writing and visual art have found homes in publications such as Grim and Gilded, The Raffish, The Emerald Coast Review, Running Wild Press, and the columns of The Independent News Weekly.

Richard McMullin graduated from The University of Massachusetts, where he studied creative writing. Originally, he is from Boston, where he worked as a social worker for five years. He moved to New York to work for McGraw-Hill. After three years living in New York, He moved to Chicago to work as a publishing rep. He now lives in Rutland, Massachusetts in Central Massachusetts, and is on LinkedIn and Facebook. My stories have appeared in Half and One and J New Books’ Literatus.

Eolas Pellor is a former journalist and editor, with 25 years experience teaching English literature to unwilling (mostly) adolescents. He has too many degrees, and has had short stories published in Grim & Gilded [Issue 18; February 2024], The Word’s Faire [May 2024], and adapted for Creepy Podcast [July 10, 2024]. He is autistic and the father of two grown sons.

Amelia Estelle Dellos (she/her) is a lifelong Chicagoan, an award-winning writer, and a filmmaker. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia College Chicago and teaches writing and rhetoric at Roosevelt University. Recently, she became the managing editor of Unwoven Literary Magazine. Her work has appeared in Spilledwords, Street Lit, Big Shoulders Press, Allium: A Journal of Poetry & Prose, PBS, Amazon Prime, and Highly Sensitive Refuge.

Taylor Jones is based in Houston, Texas. She is currently working to create art and computer programming interfaces, along with game design. She enjoys writing fiction, listening to music and swimming.

Melissa Ford Lucken is a professor of creative writing and composition at Lansing Community College. She hosts the podcast, Washington Square OnAir and serves as editor of the college’s literary journal, Washington Square Review.

Atara Karan has settled into the cozy, evergreen mountains of France where she teaches English to local communities. When she is not preparing her fantasy book series, she dives into reading about the healing powers of plants and Earth ancient mysteries.