Zoe Mae Huot-Link was born and raised in Maplewood, Minnesota. She is a winner of the Manitou Creative Writing Fellowship. Her work has been published by For Women Who Roar, The Antonym, Awakenings, among others. Find her work at: https://zoemae.art and @zoemae.art on instagram.

Eliza Scudder (she/her) is a writer who creates comics, flash fiction, short stories, and poetry inspired by her life. You can find links to her work via instagram @elizascudderwriting.

Michael Ball scrambled from daily and weekly papers through business and technical pubs. Born in OK and raised in rural WV and SC, he became more citified in Manhattan and Boston. As one of the Hyde Park Poets, he has moderate success placing poems in numerous online and print journals and anthologies, and being a feature at several arts centers. HeartLink published his Leaving the Party chapbook in 2024.

Jen Schneider is a community college educator who lives, works, and writes in small spaces in and around Philadelphia.

Peter J Grieco is a poet, song writer, musician, former professor, and retired school bus driver from Buffalo. His collection of ekphrastic verse, "The Blind Man's Meal," is available from Finishing Line Press.

Kelly Lynn (she/her) is a queer author originally from northern Maryland but now lives in east central Indiana, where she lives with her two polar opposite rescue pooches and one rehab horse she calls Pony Boy. She holds a double BA in Creative Writing and Communications from Susquehanna University where she attended college six years late as An Old. Her first published poems are forthcoming or recently published with Gabby&Min, Moonstone Arts Center, and/or TPT Magazine. In her free time, Kelly pretends to write her debut novel but mostly just watches YouTube.

Cor de Wulf divides their life between the Pacific Northwest, Normandy, and the Netherlands. Their short fiction has appeared in Club Plum, Coffin Bell Journal, Flash Fiction Magazine, Bright Flash Lit, The Writing Disorder, Every Day Fiction, Ink in Thirds, and Blood Tree Literature. Their work has also recently been nominated by editors to the Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize 2025 Anthologies.

Lawrence Bridges' poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, and The Tampa Review. He has published three volumes of poetry: Horses on Drums (Red Hen Press, 2006), Flip Days (Red Hen Press, 2009), and Brownwood (Tupelo Press, 2016). You can find him on IG: @larrybridges

Joe Cappello lives and writes in the picturesque desert country of Galisteo, New Mexico, USA. His short story about the battle for the heart and soul of language, “The Codex of Lady Lucy Bugg,” appeared in the October 2024 issue of “The Write Launch.” Another story, “Running Errands” was a finalist in the 2024 Earnest Hemingway Short Story Competition and published in the 2024 issue of “Hemingway Shorts.” His short story, “They Only Showed Elvis from the Waist Up,” took first place, Short Story, General Category, in the Southwest Writers 2023 writing contest. He is thrilled to be part of the thriving Santa Fe artistic and creative community.

Sherri Bale is a retired medical geneticist and part-time personal trainer. She writes flash, short stories, creative non-fiction, and has completed the first draft of her YA/historical fiction novel set in Alaska in 1919. She lives in Maryland, USA with her husband and diabetic rescue pup, Petey.

Sean Newman is 31 years old and lives in San Francisco. He has combined his love of literature and the outdoors for a tale about adult friendships clashing in the mountains.

Cameron Wagg is a writer from Lichfield, United Kingdom. He studies English Literature and Creative Writing at University. When not writing for his degree Cameron can be found writing for pleasure, and enjoys fiction, non-fiction, and script-writing. @camwg7

Zach Gearey is an up-and-coming writer from Reno, NV. He was born and raised in the city and attended the University of Nevada where he studied English and creative writing. Still early in his career, he is looking for his first publication.

Marlene Wood’s iammarlenewoods@gmail.com poetry was published during the pandemic and one poem was recently accepted for the WILDsound Writing Festival. Additional work can be found at www.marlawoods.com and on social media @marlaswordplay.

Andrew Sarewitz has published several 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 2021 City Artists Corp Grant for Writing.

Alexander Antonio Cortez is a Chicano poet, mosh pit enthusiast, and tamale lover from Sacramento, California. He is a member of GTFO Poetry and host of the Profiles in Poetry Podcast. His work has appeared in Fleas On The Dog Magazine, and Tule Review. @corteiscortez2.0 on Instagram and gtfopoetry.com

Randi Schalet

Maura Aradia Furtado, a New Jersey native, became enamored with poetry at a very young age and hasn’t slowed down since. She is a new writer with no prior publication history, but her passion and dedication to the art is unwavering.