Contributors
Isabella Aleksander is too often confused with pop culture’s most topical redheads. She used to make the claim that her hair is orange, not red. She isn’t creative, but sometimes her poems are. Her favorite word is circumlocution.
Shivani Bhatt is an educator, researcher, and writer from New Delhi, India. Her work explores memory, ecology, folklore, and women’s oral traditions. She holds a PhD in English, with research on the ecological knowledge embedded in Garhwali women’s folk expressions, and has presented her work internationally through the Fulbright Program. When not writing, she can usually be found swimming, photographing overlooked places, or listening for stories hidden in everyday landscapes.
Dianne Elizabeth Casey is a writer and cross-disciplinary artist based in the North of England. Her work has been exhibited at the British Library and Stockton Globe Theatre, and appears in journals and anthologies in the UK, USA, Canada, Greece, and Iraq. She is the author of Where the Light Folds In (2025).
Janine DeBaise’s creative nonfiction has been published in Orion Magazine, Southwest Review, The Hopper, and numerous other literary journals. Her full-length poetry book Body Language and her poetry chapbook Of a Feather were published by independent presses.
Gülay Doğan, born 1987 in Gaziantep, Türkiye, is a painter and graduate student in the painting department at Gaziantep University. She holds degrees in public administration and photography. Her artistic practice explores human resilience, memory, and existential experience through metaphorical imagery. Recent works focus on themes of confinement, limitation, and the tension between vulnerability and endurance. By transforming everyday forms into symbolic visual structures, she investigates the relationship between individual existence and the social, psychological, and spatial conditions that shape it.
S. C. Flynn was born in a small town in Australia of Irish origin and now lives in Dublin. His collections are The Colour of Extinction (Renard Press, October 2024; Observer Poetry Book of the Month) and An Ocean Called Hope (Downingfield Press, May 2025).
Veronika Hilská is an artist living and working alternately in Prague and in a secluded cottage in the northeast Bohemian mountains. As a small child, she had believed the cottage dated back to the medieval times. She takes inspiration from both the urban environment and the magical nature surroundings of the rural place. She has worked with different kinds of art forms, from drawing and painting to three-dimensional objects, sculpture and jewelry.
Bradley Earle Hoge’s poetry and photography appear in numerous anthologies and journals. He has published two books of poetry, The Drake Equation and Nebular Hypothesis. You can find more info about Brad at his website: bradleyearlehoge.me. He has been a teacher, a children’s museum curator, a college professor, and a vagabond. He currently teaches English at a middle school in San Mateo, California.
Katelynn Humbles is a writer whose work appears in Broken Antler Quarterly, Black Hare Press, Flash Fiction Magazine, Eunoia Review, Five on the Fifth, Welter, Literally Stories, Wingless Dreamer, and Tiny Molecules. In 2025, she was awarded the Kutztown University of Pennsylvania Raymond W. Ford Award in Poetry for “Emmaus Community Garden” and the Bennett Harris Humorous Writing Award for “Can Vending Machines be Nihilistic?” She is pursuing a bachelor of arts in writing studies at Millersville University.
Kate Kadleck is a writer and relationship therapist based in Dubuque, Iowa. She earned her MS in marriage and family therapy from Northwestern University and is the author of a chapbook, Corpse Pose (Bottlecap Press, 2025). Kate also has two books forthcoming: a collection of poems, Not Quite Medusa, from Kelsay Books and a second chapbook, Future Roadkill, from Fallen Tree Press. In addition, her work can be found in places such as electric pink, Permafrost, The Talon Review, Wild Roof Journal, phoebe, Beaver Magazine, Outskirts Literary Journal, and Rust & Moth. You can follow her on Instagram: @kathrynkadleckburks.
Abigail Michelini is a Pushcart-Prize nominee whose work can be found in SWWIM, The Main Street Rag, and Thimble Literary Magazine, among other publications. Her scholarly work has been published in The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics and Writing Center Journal. She is the author of the chapbook Brace (Thirty West Publishing House) and teaches writing at Northampton Community College. Find her at www.abigailmichelini.com.
David Morley is an artist specializing in drawing, although he has worked with painting, video and installation. His work is nearly a combination of reality and imagination, as can be seen most prominently in his illustrations. He also holds BA and master’s degrees in drawing. He was born in and lives in the UK.
Berna Özlem Özcan, born in 1969, graduated from the Bilkent University graphic design department in 1993. She completed her master’s degree in communication design at Long Island University School of Visual and Performing Arts, NY, USA, in 1998. She received a doctorate degree from Hacettepe University Faculty of Fine Arts, department of graphics, in 2005. She is currently working as an associate professor at Mustafa Kemal University, graphic design department. She has participated in many international and national exhibitions and opened five solo exhibitions. Her works are in art museums, galleries, and private collections in countries such as Germany, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Romania, China, Switzerland, Kyrgyzstan, Bulgaria, and South Korea.
Ayhan Özer, born 1977 in Gaziantep, Türkiye, is a professor of art and dean of the faculty of fine arts at Gaziantep University. His artistic practice focuses on portraiture, figuration, identity, and visual culture through symbolic and critical narratives. His recent works explore truth, memory, and the layered nature of contemporary images, examining how visual representations shape individual and collective perception.
Sreyash Sarkar, a Pushcart-nominated multidisciplinary artist and applied physicist from Calcutta, lives in Paris and Prague. His poetry, music, and visual art, featured in literary magazines and global galleries, delve into identity, justice, and human resilience. His current projects include refugee music collaborations and exhibitions exploring the complexities of hatred and survival.
Calla Smith (she/her) lives and writes in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is continuing to discover all the forgotten corners of the city she has come to call home. Her work can also be found in several literary journals.
Kristy Snedden is a therapist and poet whose work is widely published nationally and internationally. Her poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize. Kristy is the winner of the Small Orange Emerging Woman poet prize (2023). Her poetry has been short-listed for the Headlight Review Chapbook Prize and the Flume Poetry Prize and won an honorable mention in the Writer’s Digest Annual Poetry contest. She spends her free time hiking near her home in the foothills of Appalachia and listening to her husband and their dog tell tall tales.
Jaime Speed has been published in Rat’s Ass Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, New Feathers Anthology, Flora Fiction, Neologism Poetry Journal, and Literary Mama, among numerous other journals and collections. She is the honorable mention recipient of the 2024 Guild Prize. Jaime is passionate about the intersection of arts and community and has previously collaborated on the Poetry Downtown project (supported by City of Saskatoon, Downtown Saskatoon, and the Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada) as well as Voices from Inside the Blue House: Writers in Collaboration (supported by Remai Modern and Saskatoon Public Library). Jaime is a proud recipient of SK Arts funding.
C. L. Von Staden is an artist based in Central Texas. His work has been published in January House Literary Journal, Bat City Review, Rejection Letters, Last Leaves Magazine, Star 82 Review, Moon Day Magazine, Ranger Magazine, Icarus Writing Collective, Thimble Literary Magazine, and Exacting Clam.
Dan Tricarico is a retired English teacher who lives in San Diego, California, and he is returning to submitting poetry to journals after a long hiatus. His previous publications include Exquisite Corpse, Main Street Rag, Mudfish, Pearl, and The San Diego Writer’s Monthly. He is also the author of four teaching methods books, including The Zen Teacher: Creating Focus, Simplicity, and Tranquility in the Classroom.
Anna Ursyn, PhD, professor at the University of Northern Colorado, combines programming, software, and various media. She has published twelve books and several book chapters and has exhibited her work in more than fifty single art shows/two hundred fine art exhibitions, including over a dozen times at the ACM SIGGRAPH Art Galleries and at the Louvre, Paris, NTT Museum in Tokyo (five thousand texts and two thousand images representing XX Century), and Virtual Media Network. Since 1987, she has been chair of the Symposium and Digital Art Gallery D-ART: International IEEE Conference on Information Visualisation (iV) London. Her artwork was selected to be sent to the Moon by NASA as a part of the MoonArk Project by Carnegie Mellon University. Her work has also appeared in traveling shows, including for Centre Pompidou, Paris. Her work in the ABAD exhibition is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She also has work in the permanent collection of Museé de la Poste in Paris, France, and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. Book series: Knowledge through the Arts, published by Taylor and Francis in 2026.To learn more, see her website at ursyn.com.
Christopher Woods is a writer and photographer who lives in Texas. He has published a novel, The Dream Patch, and a prose collection, Under a Riverbed Sky. His novella, Hearts in the Dark, was published in an anthology by Running Wild Press in Los Angeles. His monologue show, Twelve from Texas, was performed recently in NYC by Equity Library Theater. He has received residencies from the Ucross Foundation and the Edward Albee Foundation, and a grant from the Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation. See his work at https://christopherwoods.zenfolio.com/f861509283
Aliza Wyman's work has been previously featured in The Stone Coast Review, Antae journal, and Military Experiences and the Arts.
Shivani Bhatt is an educator, researcher, and writer from New Delhi, India. Her work explores memory, ecology, folklore, and women’s oral traditions. She holds a PhD in English, with research on the ecological knowledge embedded in Garhwali women’s folk expressions, and has presented her work internationally through the Fulbright Program. When not writing, she can usually be found swimming, photographing overlooked places, or listening for stories hidden in everyday landscapes.
Dianne Elizabeth Casey is a writer and cross-disciplinary artist based in the North of England. Her work has been exhibited at the British Library and Stockton Globe Theatre, and appears in journals and anthologies in the UK, USA, Canada, Greece, and Iraq. She is the author of Where the Light Folds In (2025).
Janine DeBaise’s creative nonfiction has been published in Orion Magazine, Southwest Review, The Hopper, and numerous other literary journals. Her full-length poetry book Body Language and her poetry chapbook Of a Feather were published by independent presses.
Gülay Doğan, born 1987 in Gaziantep, Türkiye, is a painter and graduate student in the painting department at Gaziantep University. She holds degrees in public administration and photography. Her artistic practice explores human resilience, memory, and existential experience through metaphorical imagery. Recent works focus on themes of confinement, limitation, and the tension between vulnerability and endurance. By transforming everyday forms into symbolic visual structures, she investigates the relationship between individual existence and the social, psychological, and spatial conditions that shape it.
S. C. Flynn was born in a small town in Australia of Irish origin and now lives in Dublin. His collections are The Colour of Extinction (Renard Press, October 2024; Observer Poetry Book of the Month) and An Ocean Called Hope (Downingfield Press, May 2025).
Veronika Hilská is an artist living and working alternately in Prague and in a secluded cottage in the northeast Bohemian mountains. As a small child, she had believed the cottage dated back to the medieval times. She takes inspiration from both the urban environment and the magical nature surroundings of the rural place. She has worked with different kinds of art forms, from drawing and painting to three-dimensional objects, sculpture and jewelry.
Bradley Earle Hoge’s poetry and photography appear in numerous anthologies and journals. He has published two books of poetry, The Drake Equation and Nebular Hypothesis. You can find more info about Brad at his website: bradleyearlehoge.me. He has been a teacher, a children’s museum curator, a college professor, and a vagabond. He currently teaches English at a middle school in San Mateo, California.
Katelynn Humbles is a writer whose work appears in Broken Antler Quarterly, Black Hare Press, Flash Fiction Magazine, Eunoia Review, Five on the Fifth, Welter, Literally Stories, Wingless Dreamer, and Tiny Molecules. In 2025, she was awarded the Kutztown University of Pennsylvania Raymond W. Ford Award in Poetry for “Emmaus Community Garden” and the Bennett Harris Humorous Writing Award for “Can Vending Machines be Nihilistic?” She is pursuing a bachelor of arts in writing studies at Millersville University.
Kate Kadleck is a writer and relationship therapist based in Dubuque, Iowa. She earned her MS in marriage and family therapy from Northwestern University and is the author of a chapbook, Corpse Pose (Bottlecap Press, 2025). Kate also has two books forthcoming: a collection of poems, Not Quite Medusa, from Kelsay Books and a second chapbook, Future Roadkill, from Fallen Tree Press. In addition, her work can be found in places such as electric pink, Permafrost, The Talon Review, Wild Roof Journal, phoebe, Beaver Magazine, Outskirts Literary Journal, and Rust & Moth. You can follow her on Instagram: @kathrynkadleckburks.
Abigail Michelini is a Pushcart-Prize nominee whose work can be found in SWWIM, The Main Street Rag, and Thimble Literary Magazine, among other publications. Her scholarly work has been published in The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics and Writing Center Journal. She is the author of the chapbook Brace (Thirty West Publishing House) and teaches writing at Northampton Community College. Find her at www.abigailmichelini.com.
David Morley is an artist specializing in drawing, although he has worked with painting, video and installation. His work is nearly a combination of reality and imagination, as can be seen most prominently in his illustrations. He also holds BA and master’s degrees in drawing. He was born in and lives in the UK.
Berna Özlem Özcan, born in 1969, graduated from the Bilkent University graphic design department in 1993. She completed her master’s degree in communication design at Long Island University School of Visual and Performing Arts, NY, USA, in 1998. She received a doctorate degree from Hacettepe University Faculty of Fine Arts, department of graphics, in 2005. She is currently working as an associate professor at Mustafa Kemal University, graphic design department. She has participated in many international and national exhibitions and opened five solo exhibitions. Her works are in art museums, galleries, and private collections in countries such as Germany, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Romania, China, Switzerland, Kyrgyzstan, Bulgaria, and South Korea.
Ayhan Özer, born 1977 in Gaziantep, Türkiye, is a professor of art and dean of the faculty of fine arts at Gaziantep University. His artistic practice focuses on portraiture, figuration, identity, and visual culture through symbolic and critical narratives. His recent works explore truth, memory, and the layered nature of contemporary images, examining how visual representations shape individual and collective perception.
Sreyash Sarkar, a Pushcart-nominated multidisciplinary artist and applied physicist from Calcutta, lives in Paris and Prague. His poetry, music, and visual art, featured in literary magazines and global galleries, delve into identity, justice, and human resilience. His current projects include refugee music collaborations and exhibitions exploring the complexities of hatred and survival.
Calla Smith (she/her) lives and writes in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is continuing to discover all the forgotten corners of the city she has come to call home. Her work can also be found in several literary journals.
Kristy Snedden is a therapist and poet whose work is widely published nationally and internationally. Her poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize. Kristy is the winner of the Small Orange Emerging Woman poet prize (2023). Her poetry has been short-listed for the Headlight Review Chapbook Prize and the Flume Poetry Prize and won an honorable mention in the Writer’s Digest Annual Poetry contest. She spends her free time hiking near her home in the foothills of Appalachia and listening to her husband and their dog tell tall tales.
Jaime Speed has been published in Rat’s Ass Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, New Feathers Anthology, Flora Fiction, Neologism Poetry Journal, and Literary Mama, among numerous other journals and collections. She is the honorable mention recipient of the 2024 Guild Prize. Jaime is passionate about the intersection of arts and community and has previously collaborated on the Poetry Downtown project (supported by City of Saskatoon, Downtown Saskatoon, and the Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada) as well as Voices from Inside the Blue House: Writers in Collaboration (supported by Remai Modern and Saskatoon Public Library). Jaime is a proud recipient of SK Arts funding.
C. L. Von Staden is an artist based in Central Texas. His work has been published in January House Literary Journal, Bat City Review, Rejection Letters, Last Leaves Magazine, Star 82 Review, Moon Day Magazine, Ranger Magazine, Icarus Writing Collective, Thimble Literary Magazine, and Exacting Clam.
Dan Tricarico is a retired English teacher who lives in San Diego, California, and he is returning to submitting poetry to journals after a long hiatus. His previous publications include Exquisite Corpse, Main Street Rag, Mudfish, Pearl, and The San Diego Writer’s Monthly. He is also the author of four teaching methods books, including The Zen Teacher: Creating Focus, Simplicity, and Tranquility in the Classroom.
Anna Ursyn, PhD, professor at the University of Northern Colorado, combines programming, software, and various media. She has published twelve books and several book chapters and has exhibited her work in more than fifty single art shows/two hundred fine art exhibitions, including over a dozen times at the ACM SIGGRAPH Art Galleries and at the Louvre, Paris, NTT Museum in Tokyo (five thousand texts and two thousand images representing XX Century), and Virtual Media Network. Since 1987, she has been chair of the Symposium and Digital Art Gallery D-ART: International IEEE Conference on Information Visualisation (iV) London. Her artwork was selected to be sent to the Moon by NASA as a part of the MoonArk Project by Carnegie Mellon University. Her work has also appeared in traveling shows, including for Centre Pompidou, Paris. Her work in the ABAD exhibition is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She also has work in the permanent collection of Museé de la Poste in Paris, France, and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. Book series: Knowledge through the Arts, published by Taylor and Francis in 2026.To learn more, see her website at ursyn.com.
Christopher Woods is a writer and photographer who lives in Texas. He has published a novel, The Dream Patch, and a prose collection, Under a Riverbed Sky. His novella, Hearts in the Dark, was published in an anthology by Running Wild Press in Los Angeles. His monologue show, Twelve from Texas, was performed recently in NYC by Equity Library Theater. He has received residencies from the Ucross Foundation and the Edward Albee Foundation, and a grant from the Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation. See his work at https://christopherwoods.zenfolio.com/f861509283
Aliza Wyman's work has been previously featured in The Stone Coast Review, Antae journal, and Military Experiences and the Arts.