K Weber (she/her) is an Ohio writer with 11 online books of poetry. She obtained her Creative Writing BA in 1999 from Miami University. K writes independently and collaboratively, having created poems from words (& more!) donated by more than 300 people since 2018.

Katie Pippel is a resident of the Pacific Northwest and is an English Language Arts teacher, artist, and dancer. Her writing is shaped by her experience with chronic illness, specifically endometriosis. She endured 4 surgeries in her treatment, including a hysterectomy at age 31. She hopes her writing contributes to the rising tide for this debilitating disease.

Kayla Misa (they/she) is a queer Asian author, accountant in the entertainment industry by day, but an artist by evening.They can be found strumming on the guitar or bowing on the violin, when not crunching numbers. They have been previously published in The Palouse Review, Open Expression Journal, and the Alexandrian Review. They are also featured in Power Poetry’s 2020 annual anthology for upcoming writers. Kayla is also a current collaborator of the non-profit organization, Girls Write Now.

Jacque Margaux is a sad Franco-American poet who writes to cheer himself up. His poem, girl writer en café, was published on Words Faire.

Brandon W. Hawk is a Professor of English at Rhode Island College who writes about the Middle Ages, biblical apocrypha, and intersections with pop culture. He has published the books Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England (2018), The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew and the Nativity of Mary (2019), and Apocrypha for Beginners: A Guide to Understanding and Exploring Scriptures Beyond the Bible (2021).

Sophia Falco is an award-winning poet, and the author of four poetry books all published by UnCollected Press titles: If My Hands Were Birds: A Poem, Chronicles of Cosmic Chaos: In The Fourth Dimension, Farewell Clay Dove, & The Immortal Sunflower. She graduated magna cum laude along with the highest honors in the Literature Department at The University of California, Santa Cruz with her BA in intensive literature with a creative writing concentration in poetry. https://www.sophiafalco.com/

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 and Eunoia Review, along with a short story in Humans of the World. Mac also enjoys photography, with work published in Kelp Journal and WA Magazine.

Jonathan Goldman, teacher and master's candidate at Harvard Extension School, is from Los Angeles where he has worked in education for over a decade. Other than poetry, Jonathan also has a wide array of short stories that deal with local social causes in Southern California and hopes to be considered as part of a new movement of Modern fiction. Currently, he's working on a Cozy Fiction portal fantasy called The Little Brown Bird.