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Amy Jean Bailey is a poet and writer, anthropologist, and educator. Her published work includes poems in The Poetry Distillery, The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide, and Spiral Orb. She holds two Master’s degrees from the University of Arizona and a Doctorate from UCLA. Born and raised in Chicago, and then living as an adult in ten different U.S. states, she now resides with her dog in Seattle, on the ancestral land of the Coast Salish nations, where she works in public schools.
Brasswax is the composer of The Mirror of Simple Souls, an opera collaboration with the poet Anne Carson, and the author of almost 100 poems published in various anthologies and journals. Originally from the Detroit area, he received his MFA in Poetry from the University of Michigan and now lives in Seattle, where he writes, publishes, and records, as well as performs regularly and exhibits haiku pyrography around the Pacific Northwest. brasswax.com and social: @brasswax Leah Browning is the author of Souvenirs from Another Life, a collection of stories published by Quiet Ocean Studio & Press. She is also the author of Two Good Ears and Loud Snow, fiction mini-books; When the Sun Comes Out After Three Days of Rain, a poetry collection; three short nonfiction books; and six chapbooks. Browning’s fiction and poetry have appeared in Harpur Palate, Four Way Review, Flock, Necessary Fiction, The Threepenny Review, Valparaiso Fiction Review, Contrary Magazine, Superstition Review, Santa Ana River Review, Newfound, and elsewhere. In addition to writing, Browning has edited the Apple Valley Review since 2005. Sarah Butkovic is actively looking to put her name out into the creative writing world. She received her MA in English from Loyola University Chicago in 2023 and has been published across various zines, literary magazines, and local Chicago papers. Ray Bradbury is her most frequent literary muse as well as her favorite author. Kayla Cagan is the author of the YA novels Piper Perish and Art Boss, and the creator of The Comma, a poetry newsletter. In 2025, Kayla’s play, Scratch My Back, was selected by DePaul University for their Climate Action Collective, with an honorarium from the Vincentian Endowment Fund grant. Her plays are featured in several anthologies for high school and college students. Michael Cannistraci began his creative journey as an actor; he worked for thirty years acting in theatre and television. In mid-life he answered a new calling and completed a Master’s degree at Hunter College School of Social Work. He currently works as a clinical social worker and psychotherapist. His essays have been published in The Missouri Review, The Southern Indiana Review, The Triquarterly Review, Entropy Magazine, Briar Cliff Review, Ravensperch, CLOCKHOUSE, Little Patuxent Review, Chicago Story Press, The Bryant Literary Review and Glacial Hills Review. He was finalist in the Anne Barnhill Nonfiction Contest and the Pen2Paper Literary Contest. Lindsey Clark’s writing has previously been published in magazines such as Thin Air, The Elevation Review, Barely South Review, and The Shanghai Literary Review, as well as the Africa anthology Memories of Sun. She is also the author of a travel memoir, Land of Dark and Sun, and has a piece forthcoming in Kind Writers Magazine. Bruce Cohen has published five volumes of poetry. A new book, Botrytis, will appear in 2026 from Cornerstone Press. His poems and essays have appeared in literary journals such as AGNI, The Alaska Quarterly, The Columbia Journal, The Gettysburg Review, The Harvard Review, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Plume, Poetry, and The Southern Review as well as being featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily and included in the Pushcart Prize. He recently was awarded the James Olney Award from The Southern Review. Timothy Collyer is a Wiltshire-based award-winning writer of literary and speculative fiction. A Pushcart Prize nominee, he won the Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition, the EYELANDS 2025 International Short Story Contest, and the inaugural New2theScene Flash Fiction Prize. Brittney Corrigan is the author of the poetry collections Daughters; Breaking; Navigation; 40 Weeks; and Solastalgia, a collection of poems about climate change, extinction, and the Anthropocene Age. Brittney is the recipient of a 2025 Oregon Literary Fellowship and a former editor with Airlie Press. She was raised in Colorado and has lived in Portland, OR, for over three decades, where she is an event planner at her alma mater, Reed College. Brittney’s recent debut short story collection, The Ghost Town Collectives, won the 2023 Osprey Award for Fiction from Middle Creek Publishing. brittneycorrigan.com Dinah Cox has written and published three books of short stories, The Paper Anniversary (Elixir, 2024), The Canary Keeper (PANK Books, 2019), and Remarkable (BOA Editions, 2016). New work appears or is forthcoming in Redivider, Cincinnati Review online, Another Chicago Magazine, Midwest Review, Talking River Review, and Novel Slices. She lives and works in her hometown of Stillwater, OK. Memory Derthick lives in Pittsburgh and is a participant in Carlow University's Madwomen in the Attic program. Her work has appeared in the Broad River Review (v. 56, Gardner-Webb University, Rash Award finalist), Once in a Lifetime anthology (Beyond Words Press), and volumes of Voices from the Attic (Carlow University). Megan Duffy is a legal research librarian and poet. Recent poems have appeared in Bath House and FrozenSea. Her poems have been set to music by composer Randall Woolf and performed by Kathleen Supové, Duo Étrange, and Oren Fader and Jessica Bowers. She was a finalist for the 2024 Plenitudes Poetry Prize. She lives in New York City. Patricia Flaherty Pagan lives in a brown house near the sea with her family. She is the award-winning author of Trail Ways Pilgrims, Enduring Spirit: Stories, and Specters and Spells. Her flash fiction and short stories have been published in anthologies and journals such as Cleaver Magazine, The Fabulist Words and Art, and The Disappointed Housewife. patriciaflahertypagan.com. A.L. Gordon is an emerging writer and high school teacher in Central Wisconsin. Gordon is the winner of Cleaver Magazine’s 2024 Emerging Artist Award. In addition to Cleaver Magazine, his creative nonfiction has appeared in literary magazines including The Rappahannock Review, Waccamaw, a journal of contemporary literature, and Ellipsis Zine, among others. Bluesky @a-l-gordon.bsky.social and al-gordon.com. Matt Herman has a BA in Theatre and a BSN in Nursing. His play, The Lost Faculty, had an amateur production in 1993 at The Unlikely Theatre Company. His one-act play, The Woman at the Gate, received a staged reading at the 2024 TUBU Fest in Austin, TX. Brian Johnson is the author of Self-Portrait, a chapbook; Torch Lake and Other Poems, a finalist for the Norma Farber First Book Award; and Site Visits, a collaborative work with the German painter Burghard Müller-Dannhausen. His work has appeared in several anthologies and many literary journals, including Massachusetts Review, Bennington Review, West Branch, American Letters and Commentary, Apple Valley Review, Interim, and The Prose Poem: An International Journal. The recipient of two Connecticut Commission on the Arts Fellowships, he teaches poetry, composition, and classical rhetoric at Southern Connecticut State University. Stacey C. Johnson writes and teaches in San Diego County. She is the author of Flight Songs (Finishing Line Press, February 2024), and her poetry, fiction, and essays appear in a variety of journals and publications. staceycjohnson.com. Abbie Langmead (she/they) is the neglected herb garden on your windowsill. First planted in Boston, MA, they'd try to set roots in Dublin, Ireland, but there's not enough light. Recent cuttings have been planted in Dyke Affair, FERAL: A Journal of Poetry and Art, Trace Fossil Review, and many others. She wants your leftover pasta water and for their leaves to be included in your future works. Synnika Alek-Chizoba Lofton is an award-winning poet, educator, Pushcart Prize nominee, and publisher. Lofton is the author of more than thirty-five collections of poetry and more than one-hundred and seventy spoken word albums. His poems have appeared in CLOCKHOUSE, Revenge, UpStreet, Experience Reality Magazine, Quay, Dissident Voice, The Skinny Poetry Journal, Mid-Atlantic Review, and Blue-Collar Review. He earned both a BA and MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. He has held teaching positions at Chesapeake Bay Academy, Norfolk State University, Virginia Wesleyan University, and Elizabeth City State University. Maren Logan is an emerging writer and multimedia artist from Indiana. Her collection of poems, Midwest Boredom, won the Tom Andrews Clapping award in 2025 and she was listed as a Commended Writer for the 2025 Adroit Prize in poetry. Art publications can be found in Penn Review and Michigan Quarterly Review among others; poetry can be found in or forth coming in Frontier, Kitchen Table Quarterly, and Pleiades. Jane McCauley is a re-emerging writer after a lengthy hiatus to work, raise a family, and travel. She has been a featured writer in the Walker Art Center Poetry series (Minneapolis) and published in a collection of broadsides to commemorate the event. Jane has been known to switch dining partners in a restaurant if the conversation seems juicier at a nearby table. Aleks Merilo is an award-winning playwright from Palo Alto, CA. His script, The Snowmaker, was winner of the Playwrights First Award, The Chameleon Theatre Circle New Play Contest, and Playhouse on The Square’s New Works @ The Works Festival. His play, The Widow of Tom’s Hill, played off-broadway at 59E59, where BroadwayWorld called it “A truly distinctive piece of theater.” His play, Exit 27, was called “The best original play to be produced this season” by The Houston Chronicle, and played at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. He has an MFA in Playwriting from UCLA. Richard Newman is an Associate Professor at Al Akhwayn University in Morocco, where he teaches Creative Writing, World Literature, and Composition. His plays have been performed in the Mouth of Babes Scotopia Festival in Wilmington, North Park Playwright Festival in San Diego, and the Spectrum First Run Theater in St. Louis. His plays have appeared in Poems & Plays, The Hooghly Review, and The Louisville Review. His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Boulevard, Rattle, Tar River Poetry Review, and many other periodicals and anthologies. Marlene Olin was born in Brooklyn, raised in Miami, and educated at the University of Michigan. Her short stories and essays have been published in journals such as The Massachusetts Review, Catapult, PANK, and World Literature Today. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of The Net, and Best Small Fictions, and for inclusion in Best American Short Stories. Ashley Parker Owens is an Appalachian writer, poet, artist, and spiritualist living in Richmond, KY, where the bluegrass meets the foothills and the past clings to the present. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Eastern Kentucky University. She also holds an MFA in Visual Arts from Rutgers University. Her previous published poetry collections include Euphoric Drift (2018), Retrospecter (2019), Unruly Spirits (Dancing Girl Press, 2018), Puppet (Rinky Dink Press, 2018), and Territorial Misfortune (2017). ashleyparkerowens.com Marge Piercy has published 20 poetry collections and 17 novels, including Sex Wars. PM Press reissued Vida and Dance the Eagle to Sleep; they brought out the short story collection, The Cost of Lunch, Etc., and My Body, My Life [essays, poems]. She has read at over 575 venues here and abroad. Her most recent book, The Hour of My Death, will be published by Sibylline Press in 2026. Madeline Schaeffer is a poet who lives by the Pacific Ocean in Washington state. She writes about her golden retriever and the sea, climate grief, and biology classes. She is a college student studying Integrative Biology and Visual Studies. Her work has appeared in the Tiger Moth Review, About Place Journal, The West Trade Review, and SWWIM Every Day. Sali Andiamo Siyaya is a Malawian writer and engineer with a deep passion for storytelling. Though trained in engineering, she spends most of her time writing poems and stories that reflect real emotions and life experiences. Sali was included in an anthology, The Poetess by Blair Smith, and has touched many readers. She has also published novels on different platforms and continues to write with the goal of inspiring others. In her free time, she enjoys reading, singing, and playing chess. Sali believes that words have the power to heal, connect, and bring light to the world. Tanner Stening is a writer living in Boston. His work has appeared in Chicago Review, Fence, The Drift, Annulet, Adroit, Rattle, Cagibi, Poetry Northwest, New York Quarterly, and elsewhere. He writes regulation copy for a higher educational institution. Lucy Turner is a teacher and writer living in Maryland. She earned her MFA from Goddard College in 2000, and she is a former Lead Steward of the Clockhouse Writers' Conference and former publisher of CLOCKHOUSE. LisaMary Wichowski-Hill writes at the seam of image and elegy. An editor and educator in Portland, OR, she earned a PhD in Humanities & Technology from Salve Regina University (2025) and an MA from the Goddard Graduate Institute (2015). Her work traces how photographs school the living in attention, presence, and grief. A collector of vernacular portraits of grief and Brownie cameras, she is writing Material Shadows: Mourning and the Photographic Trace, a book that bridges visual culture and public-facing humanities. Zahra Zoghi (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist with over three decades of experience. She holds a Master’s degree in Art Research, and her work has appeared on covers and in literary journals worldwide. Her richly textured, symbol-driven paintings explore themes of identity, memory, and transformation, often featuring symbolic bird imagery. |