Contributors
Noah Berlatsky (he/him) is a freelance writer in Chicago. His full-length collections are Not Akhmatova (Ben Yehuda Press, 2024), Gnarly Thumbs (Anxiety Press, 2025), Meaning Is Embarrassing (Ranger, 2025) and Brevity (Nun Prophet, 2025).
David Capps is a writer and philosopher living in Connecticut.
Nancy Cherry is a North Bay Area poet and editor living in Novato, California. Her poetry has appeared in Gyroscope, Nimrod, Calyx, Mid-American Review, and West Marin Review. She was recently recorded in Berkeley, CA at voetica.com/poets/1001/5 if you would like to hear her read.
Dawnia Darkstone (Letsglitchit) is an interdisciplinary artist and curator, pioneering glitch art. She explores digital decay and image manipulation, transforming chaos into visual poetry through experimental methods like sonification and hardware tampering. Since 2014, her influential online tutorials have empowered many. Darkstone has exhibited internationally, including at Sotheby’s and Christie’s. A community leader, she coadmins the Glitch Artists Collective and champions queer, trans, and neurodivergent perspectives in new media art.
Bart Edelman’s poetry collections include Crossing the Hackensack (Prometheus Press), Under Damaris’ Dress (Lightning Publications), The Alphabet of Love (Red Hen Press), The Gentle Man (Red Hen Press), The Last Mojito (Red Hen Press), The Geographer’s Wife (Red Hen Press), Whistling to Trick the Wind (Meadowlark Press), and This Body Is Never at Rest: New and Selected Poems 1993–2023 (Meadowlark Press). Most recently, he has taught in the MFA program at Antioch University, Los Angeles. His work has been anthologized in textbooks published by City Lights Books, McGraw-Hill, Prentice Hall, the University of Iowa Press, Wadsworth, and others.
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) and An Ocean Called Hope (Downingfield Press, May 2025).
Anna Gilmour is a queer psychologist revisiting nonacademic writing after a long hiatus. Her work has appeared in ONE ART and Nowhere Girl Collective. She lives, laughs, and loves in Colorado with her partner and their menagerie of pets. Almost all of her poems include birds.
Dara Goodale (they/she) is a Romanian-American lesbian, poet, and university student living in Lausanne, Switzerland. They write about mental health, grief, and identity. You can find their work in Underbelly Press and The B’K later this year.
Nathan D. Horowitz was conceived in Florence and raised in Ann Arbor. He worked in Ecuador for four years, Austria for fifteen, and Kansas for three before migrating to Baltimore with his wife and teen. He has three cats, a BA in English, and an MA in applied linguistics. When not writing or translating, he can often be found teaching ninth-grade English.
Jules Jacob’s recent collections include Rappaccini’s Garden (White Stag Publishing, August 2024), an illustrated collection of poisonous plant poems coauthored with Sonja Johanson, and Kingdom of Glass & Seed (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2023). Poems appear in Plume, Lily Poetry Review, Rust + Moth, and elsewhere. Interviews and reviews of the author’s work appear or are forthcoming in Tinderbox Poetry Journal, CALYX, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. Jules is a recipient of a fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in France and former court appointed special advocate for abused and neglected children.
Emma Johnson-Rivard is a doctoral candidate in fiction at the University of Cincinnati. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Coffin Bell, Red Flag Poetry, and others. She can be found at Bluesky at @blackcattales and at emmajohnson-rivard.com.
Stephanie Jones is a New York writer and poet with bylines in The New York Times, DownBeat, NPR: Music, JazzTimes and The Detroit Free Press. Her poems appear in New Reader Magazine, Poetic Sun, 50-Word Stories, Stone Poetry Quarterly and Four Tulips (forthcoming), and as a commission for Blue Note Records.
Beth Kanell lives in northeastern Vermont among rivers, rocks, and a lot of writers. Her poems seek comfortable seats in small well-lit places, including Lilith Magazine, The Comstock Review, Gyroscope Review, The Post-Grad Journal, Does It Have Pockets?, Anti-Heroin Chic, Ritualwell, Persimmon Tree, Northwind Treasury, and Rise Up Review. RockPaperPoem nominated one of her recent poems for a Pushcart Prize. She also writes feature articles, short stories, reviews, and novels, most recently The Bitter and the Sweet.
Carella Keil is a writer and digital artist who splits her time between the ethereal world of dreams, and Toronto, Canada, depending on the weather. Recent publications include Filling Station, Berkeley Fiction Review and Ponder Review. She is a Pushcart Prize nominated writer, Best of the Net nominee and the 2023 Door Is a Jar Writing Award winner in nonfiction. She is the featured artist for the fall 2024 issue of Blue Earth Review. Find her work on Instagram at instagram.com/catalogue.of.dreams and on X at catalogofdream.
James King’s poetry has appeared in The Dillyduon Review, The Thieving Magpie, OpenDoor Poetry Magazine, Oddville Press, Big City Lit, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Crowstep Poetry Journal, BarBar Magazine, The Lake Poetry Journal, Journal of Expressive Writing, Months to Years, The Ekphrastic Review, and Dipity Literary Review. He is also the author of the award-winning novel Bill Warrington’s Last Chance and Extenuating Circumstances (forthcoming). James is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and has an MA in writing from Manhattanville University. He lives in Wilton, Connecticut.
Bunny Lang is a surrealist working in the mediums of mixed media, painting, and photography, as well as graphic art. She is a writer of fiction and poetry, having published Fashion Zombies and Their Victims on Amazon, as well as creating zines. Find her art and writing on Facebook at Bunny Lang Surrealist Mixedmediaand at Bunny Lang Just Stories.
Alexander Limarev is a multidisciplinary artist, mail art artist, poet, visual poet, curator, and coordinator from Russia.
Malia McCarrick teaches college writing to US military members, veterans, and their families on bases in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Her work has been published in the Bright Flash Literary Review, Spank the Carp, plus music and martial arts publications in the United States. She holds a Ph.D. in creative writing.
Linda Nunes, who is originally from California’s Bay Area, has spent the last few decades working from her art studio in Rancho Cordova, California. She is grateful to have the chance to use her art education received at California State University, Sacramento many years ago.
She works with bee’s wax in either a hot mixture with resin called encaustic or in a cold wax and oil combination. No matter which, the work is always completed on cradled wood panels. Over the years she has had the wonderful opportunity to study under some very fine art instructors, including Sara Post, Sue Stover and Lisa Pressman. And for the past dozen years she’s enjoyed teaching encaustic in private sessions and group workshops at galleries like Sacramento Fine Arts (Carmichael), Blue Line Gallery (Roseville), and Elk Grove Fine Arts Center. She’s also been scheduled annually to teach beginner encaustic at the Crocker Art Museum.
Her hope is that her artwork will be viewed as joyful and joy-filled. The art is generally abstract or nonobjective, often with unusual shapes, lively texture and a playful mix of other media. There is a strong overall childlike quality that makes her work recognizable, with inspiration coming from recent topics, artistic influences, and sometimes from completely mundane experiences. She feels that her faith and art have rescued her in certain ways and motivates her to continue moving forward.
To view more of her art or workshop and event information, visit her website at www.LindaNunesArt.com. She can be reached at [email protected].
Risa Nyman is the author of two middle grade mysteries and one young adult contemporary, published by Immortal Works Press. Her poem “A Father’s Advice” appeared in the anthology In a Dark Time, and her poem “Hymn to the Elixir Extraordinaire” has been accepted for publication in a 2025 anthology.
Risa worked for a nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization whose mission is to encourage the active participation of citizens in government through voting. She organized voter registration drives, get-out-the-vote campaigns, and candidates’ debates.
A few years ago, Risa left Massachusetts and moved to the Ocean State, but still has her authentic Boston accent.
Joel Page is a public defender in Dallas, Texas, USA, where he writes appeals for prisoners. He lives with his wife, children, cats, and dog. His short fiction has been featured in The Fabulist, Thimble Magazine, Sci Phi Journal, Speculative City, and Fleas on the Dog.
Sean Bw Parker (MA) is a writer, artist, and musician based in Worthing, West Sussex. He lived in Istanbul for ten years, has written or contributed to a number of books and albums, and given a TED talk. He was born in Exeter in 1975.
Robert L. Penick’s poetry and prose have appeared in over one hundred different literary journals, including The Hudson Review, North American Review, and Plainsongs. More of his work can be found at theartofmercy.net.
Andrea Poniers began writing fiction more than twenty years ago in a class at a community college. Her short stories have been published in print journals, online, and in three print anthologies. She lives with her wife in Boulder, Colorado, where she writes, reads, tends flowers, hikes, and tries to win at mah-jongg.
Rod Raglin is a journalist, photographer, editor of an online community newspaper, and author of fourteenself-published novels, a collection of short stories and two plays. He lives in Vancouver, Canada. To read excerpts of his work visit his Amazon author page at https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B003DS6LEU.
For links to short stories and poems accepted and published individually or in an anthology visit https://revuecommunitynews.com/rod-raglin-author.
To view his photo portfolio visit https://rodraglin.smugmug.com/.
Nadiia Rom was born in Poltava, Ukraine in 1977. She went to art school in Poltava and was a member of the architecture faculty at Poltava National University from 1998 to 2004, with a specialty in design of architectural environment. She began painting in 2007 and began the DADAdesign architectural office. In 2022, she moved to the UK to escape the war in Ukraine. Her art is centered around emphasizing the beauty of simple things that people usually don’t notice and, hence, underestimate. By looking through a prism of herown pain and anxiety caused by war in her homeland, she explores the ways of processing trauma through art, including the trauma of irreversible losses. She aims to uncover how simple and easily reached things bring balance and stability to our lives. By capturing the colors of nature around or quick everyday emotions of people surrounding her with oil on canvas and with pastels or watercolors on paper, she notices the cycles of processes of genesis, existing, and living through the change of colors. This is the way she gains an inner balance and harmony that she wants to share with her audience.
Shana Ross is a recent transplant to Edmonton, Alberta and Treaty Six Territory. Qui transtulit sustinet. Her work can be found in Grain, Whale Road Review, Ninth Letter, Augur, The Deadlands and more. She prefers walking in the woods to social media, and budgets her time accordingly.
Layla Al-Sadoon (she/her) is from Antioch, Tennessee, just thirty minutes outside the heart of Nashville. Always just a little bit too far, Layla craves for the city. So, she has claimed Nashville as her hometown. She lives there with her two cats and an overflowing bookshelf. As an aspiring poet, Layla draws inspiration from her family’s Middle Eastern roots and her journey as a first-generation American. Through poetry, she has fallen in love with intercultural identities and how exploration creates humanity.
Suzanne Scarfone's writing, influenced by English Romanticism and French surrealism, paints the visionary musical moments found in the smallest details of everyday life. Her work has appeared in such journals as Cider Press Review, Frigg, Phoebe: A Journal of Feminist Scholarship, Coe Review, Corridors, Cirque: A Literary Journal for the North Pacific Rim, and in the anthology To Light a Fire: 20 Years with the InsideOut Literary Arts Project (Wayne State University Press). She has also coauthored Lessons from Afghanistan: A Curriculum for Exploring Themes of Love and Forgiveness, funded by the Fetzer Foundation.
Beth Sherman’s writing has been published in more than one hundred literary magazines, including Flash Frog, Gone Lawn, Tiny Molecules, 100 Word Story, Fictive Dream, and Bending Genres. She’s a submissions editor at Smokelong Quarterly and the winner of Smokelong’s 2024 workshop prize. Her work is featured in Best Microfiction 2024 and the upcoming Best Small Fictions 2025. A multiple Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, she can be reached on X, Bluesky or Instagram @bsherm36.
Rachel Turney is an educator and artist located in Denver. Her poems, research articles, drawings, and photography can be found in a few publications.
Website: turneytalks.com Instagram: @turneytalks Bluesky: @rachelturney
Anna Ursyn, PhD, professor, University of Northern Colorado, has published twelve books and several book chapters. She has exhibited her work in over 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. To learn more, see her website at ursyn.com.
Miles Whitney is a queer, trans, Jewish attorney and writer living in Sacramento, California.
Christopher Woods is a writer and photographer who lives in Texas. He has published a novel, The Dream Patch, 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 Theatre. He has received residencies from the Ucross Foundation and the Edward Albee Foundation, and a grant from the Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation. See more of his work at https://christopherwoods.zenfolio.com/f861509283.
Alicia Wright is a writer from Appalachia. She holds an MFA from Bowling Green State University and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Antiphony Journal, The Inflectionist Review, River and South Review, Thimble, and elsewhere. She currently resides in West Virginia. You can find her online at www.aliciawright.inkor on Instagram @ajwright304.
Xingyu Zhao is reading literature on the sunny island of Singapore. His work has appeared in Cordite Poetry Review, Portside Review, and ONE ART, among others.
Huina Zheng, a distinction M.A. in English studies holder, works as a college essay coach. Her stories have been published in Baltimore Review, Variant Literature, Midway Journal, and others. Her work has received nominations three times for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She resides in Guangzhou, China with her family.
David Capps is a writer and philosopher living in Connecticut.
Nancy Cherry is a North Bay Area poet and editor living in Novato, California. Her poetry has appeared in Gyroscope, Nimrod, Calyx, Mid-American Review, and West Marin Review. She was recently recorded in Berkeley, CA at voetica.com/poets/1001/5 if you would like to hear her read.
Dawnia Darkstone (Letsglitchit) is an interdisciplinary artist and curator, pioneering glitch art. She explores digital decay and image manipulation, transforming chaos into visual poetry through experimental methods like sonification and hardware tampering. Since 2014, her influential online tutorials have empowered many. Darkstone has exhibited internationally, including at Sotheby’s and Christie’s. A community leader, she coadmins the Glitch Artists Collective and champions queer, trans, and neurodivergent perspectives in new media art.
Bart Edelman’s poetry collections include Crossing the Hackensack (Prometheus Press), Under Damaris’ Dress (Lightning Publications), The Alphabet of Love (Red Hen Press), The Gentle Man (Red Hen Press), The Last Mojito (Red Hen Press), The Geographer’s Wife (Red Hen Press), Whistling to Trick the Wind (Meadowlark Press), and This Body Is Never at Rest: New and Selected Poems 1993–2023 (Meadowlark Press). Most recently, he has taught in the MFA program at Antioch University, Los Angeles. His work has been anthologized in textbooks published by City Lights Books, McGraw-Hill, Prentice Hall, the University of Iowa Press, Wadsworth, and others.
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) and An Ocean Called Hope (Downingfield Press, May 2025).
Anna Gilmour is a queer psychologist revisiting nonacademic writing after a long hiatus. Her work has appeared in ONE ART and Nowhere Girl Collective. She lives, laughs, and loves in Colorado with her partner and their menagerie of pets. Almost all of her poems include birds.
Dara Goodale (they/she) is a Romanian-American lesbian, poet, and university student living in Lausanne, Switzerland. They write about mental health, grief, and identity. You can find their work in Underbelly Press and The B’K later this year.
Nathan D. Horowitz was conceived in Florence and raised in Ann Arbor. He worked in Ecuador for four years, Austria for fifteen, and Kansas for three before migrating to Baltimore with his wife and teen. He has three cats, a BA in English, and an MA in applied linguistics. When not writing or translating, he can often be found teaching ninth-grade English.
Jules Jacob’s recent collections include Rappaccini’s Garden (White Stag Publishing, August 2024), an illustrated collection of poisonous plant poems coauthored with Sonja Johanson, and Kingdom of Glass & Seed (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2023). Poems appear in Plume, Lily Poetry Review, Rust + Moth, and elsewhere. Interviews and reviews of the author’s work appear or are forthcoming in Tinderbox Poetry Journal, CALYX, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. Jules is a recipient of a fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in France and former court appointed special advocate for abused and neglected children.
Emma Johnson-Rivard is a doctoral candidate in fiction at the University of Cincinnati. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Coffin Bell, Red Flag Poetry, and others. She can be found at Bluesky at @blackcattales and at emmajohnson-rivard.com.
Stephanie Jones is a New York writer and poet with bylines in The New York Times, DownBeat, NPR: Music, JazzTimes and The Detroit Free Press. Her poems appear in New Reader Magazine, Poetic Sun, 50-Word Stories, Stone Poetry Quarterly and Four Tulips (forthcoming), and as a commission for Blue Note Records.
Beth Kanell lives in northeastern Vermont among rivers, rocks, and a lot of writers. Her poems seek comfortable seats in small well-lit places, including Lilith Magazine, The Comstock Review, Gyroscope Review, The Post-Grad Journal, Does It Have Pockets?, Anti-Heroin Chic, Ritualwell, Persimmon Tree, Northwind Treasury, and Rise Up Review. RockPaperPoem nominated one of her recent poems for a Pushcart Prize. She also writes feature articles, short stories, reviews, and novels, most recently The Bitter and the Sweet.
Carella Keil is a writer and digital artist who splits her time between the ethereal world of dreams, and Toronto, Canada, depending on the weather. Recent publications include Filling Station, Berkeley Fiction Review and Ponder Review. She is a Pushcart Prize nominated writer, Best of the Net nominee and the 2023 Door Is a Jar Writing Award winner in nonfiction. She is the featured artist for the fall 2024 issue of Blue Earth Review. Find her work on Instagram at instagram.com/catalogue.of.dreams and on X at catalogofdream.
James King’s poetry has appeared in The Dillyduon Review, The Thieving Magpie, OpenDoor Poetry Magazine, Oddville Press, Big City Lit, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Crowstep Poetry Journal, BarBar Magazine, The Lake Poetry Journal, Journal of Expressive Writing, Months to Years, The Ekphrastic Review, and Dipity Literary Review. He is also the author of the award-winning novel Bill Warrington’s Last Chance and Extenuating Circumstances (forthcoming). James is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and has an MA in writing from Manhattanville University. He lives in Wilton, Connecticut.
Bunny Lang is a surrealist working in the mediums of mixed media, painting, and photography, as well as graphic art. She is a writer of fiction and poetry, having published Fashion Zombies and Their Victims on Amazon, as well as creating zines. Find her art and writing on Facebook at Bunny Lang Surrealist Mixedmediaand at Bunny Lang Just Stories.
Alexander Limarev is a multidisciplinary artist, mail art artist, poet, visual poet, curator, and coordinator from Russia.
Malia McCarrick teaches college writing to US military members, veterans, and their families on bases in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Her work has been published in the Bright Flash Literary Review, Spank the Carp, plus music and martial arts publications in the United States. She holds a Ph.D. in creative writing.
Linda Nunes, who is originally from California’s Bay Area, has spent the last few decades working from her art studio in Rancho Cordova, California. She is grateful to have the chance to use her art education received at California State University, Sacramento many years ago.
She works with bee’s wax in either a hot mixture with resin called encaustic or in a cold wax and oil combination. No matter which, the work is always completed on cradled wood panels. Over the years she has had the wonderful opportunity to study under some very fine art instructors, including Sara Post, Sue Stover and Lisa Pressman. And for the past dozen years she’s enjoyed teaching encaustic in private sessions and group workshops at galleries like Sacramento Fine Arts (Carmichael), Blue Line Gallery (Roseville), and Elk Grove Fine Arts Center. She’s also been scheduled annually to teach beginner encaustic at the Crocker Art Museum.
Her hope is that her artwork will be viewed as joyful and joy-filled. The art is generally abstract or nonobjective, often with unusual shapes, lively texture and a playful mix of other media. There is a strong overall childlike quality that makes her work recognizable, with inspiration coming from recent topics, artistic influences, and sometimes from completely mundane experiences. She feels that her faith and art have rescued her in certain ways and motivates her to continue moving forward.
To view more of her art or workshop and event information, visit her website at www.LindaNunesArt.com. She can be reached at [email protected].
Risa Nyman is the author of two middle grade mysteries and one young adult contemporary, published by Immortal Works Press. Her poem “A Father’s Advice” appeared in the anthology In a Dark Time, and her poem “Hymn to the Elixir Extraordinaire” has been accepted for publication in a 2025 anthology.
Risa worked for a nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization whose mission is to encourage the active participation of citizens in government through voting. She organized voter registration drives, get-out-the-vote campaigns, and candidates’ debates.
A few years ago, Risa left Massachusetts and moved to the Ocean State, but still has her authentic Boston accent.
Joel Page is a public defender in Dallas, Texas, USA, where he writes appeals for prisoners. He lives with his wife, children, cats, and dog. His short fiction has been featured in The Fabulist, Thimble Magazine, Sci Phi Journal, Speculative City, and Fleas on the Dog.
Sean Bw Parker (MA) is a writer, artist, and musician based in Worthing, West Sussex. He lived in Istanbul for ten years, has written or contributed to a number of books and albums, and given a TED talk. He was born in Exeter in 1975.
Robert L. Penick’s poetry and prose have appeared in over one hundred different literary journals, including The Hudson Review, North American Review, and Plainsongs. More of his work can be found at theartofmercy.net.
Andrea Poniers began writing fiction more than twenty years ago in a class at a community college. Her short stories have been published in print journals, online, and in three print anthologies. She lives with her wife in Boulder, Colorado, where she writes, reads, tends flowers, hikes, and tries to win at mah-jongg.
Rod Raglin is a journalist, photographer, editor of an online community newspaper, and author of fourteenself-published novels, a collection of short stories and two plays. He lives in Vancouver, Canada. To read excerpts of his work visit his Amazon author page at https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B003DS6LEU.
For links to short stories and poems accepted and published individually or in an anthology visit https://revuecommunitynews.com/rod-raglin-author.
To view his photo portfolio visit https://rodraglin.smugmug.com/.
Nadiia Rom was born in Poltava, Ukraine in 1977. She went to art school in Poltava and was a member of the architecture faculty at Poltava National University from 1998 to 2004, with a specialty in design of architectural environment. She began painting in 2007 and began the DADAdesign architectural office. In 2022, she moved to the UK to escape the war in Ukraine. Her art is centered around emphasizing the beauty of simple things that people usually don’t notice and, hence, underestimate. By looking through a prism of herown pain and anxiety caused by war in her homeland, she explores the ways of processing trauma through art, including the trauma of irreversible losses. She aims to uncover how simple and easily reached things bring balance and stability to our lives. By capturing the colors of nature around or quick everyday emotions of people surrounding her with oil on canvas and with pastels or watercolors on paper, she notices the cycles of processes of genesis, existing, and living through the change of colors. This is the way she gains an inner balance and harmony that she wants to share with her audience.
Shana Ross is a recent transplant to Edmonton, Alberta and Treaty Six Territory. Qui transtulit sustinet. Her work can be found in Grain, Whale Road Review, Ninth Letter, Augur, The Deadlands and more. She prefers walking in the woods to social media, and budgets her time accordingly.
Layla Al-Sadoon (she/her) is from Antioch, Tennessee, just thirty minutes outside the heart of Nashville. Always just a little bit too far, Layla craves for the city. So, she has claimed Nashville as her hometown. She lives there with her two cats and an overflowing bookshelf. As an aspiring poet, Layla draws inspiration from her family’s Middle Eastern roots and her journey as a first-generation American. Through poetry, she has fallen in love with intercultural identities and how exploration creates humanity.
Suzanne Scarfone's writing, influenced by English Romanticism and French surrealism, paints the visionary musical moments found in the smallest details of everyday life. Her work has appeared in such journals as Cider Press Review, Frigg, Phoebe: A Journal of Feminist Scholarship, Coe Review, Corridors, Cirque: A Literary Journal for the North Pacific Rim, and in the anthology To Light a Fire: 20 Years with the InsideOut Literary Arts Project (Wayne State University Press). She has also coauthored Lessons from Afghanistan: A Curriculum for Exploring Themes of Love and Forgiveness, funded by the Fetzer Foundation.
Beth Sherman’s writing has been published in more than one hundred literary magazines, including Flash Frog, Gone Lawn, Tiny Molecules, 100 Word Story, Fictive Dream, and Bending Genres. She’s a submissions editor at Smokelong Quarterly and the winner of Smokelong’s 2024 workshop prize. Her work is featured in Best Microfiction 2024 and the upcoming Best Small Fictions 2025. A multiple Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, she can be reached on X, Bluesky or Instagram @bsherm36.
Rachel Turney is an educator and artist located in Denver. Her poems, research articles, drawings, and photography can be found in a few publications.
Website: turneytalks.com Instagram: @turneytalks Bluesky: @rachelturney
Anna Ursyn, PhD, professor, University of Northern Colorado, has published twelve books and several book chapters. She has exhibited her work in over 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. To learn more, see her website at ursyn.com.
Miles Whitney is a queer, trans, Jewish attorney and writer living in Sacramento, California.
Christopher Woods is a writer and photographer who lives in Texas. He has published a novel, The Dream Patch, 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 Theatre. He has received residencies from the Ucross Foundation and the Edward Albee Foundation, and a grant from the Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation. See more of his work at https://christopherwoods.zenfolio.com/f861509283.
Alicia Wright is a writer from Appalachia. She holds an MFA from Bowling Green State University and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Antiphony Journal, The Inflectionist Review, River and South Review, Thimble, and elsewhere. She currently resides in West Virginia. You can find her online at www.aliciawright.inkor on Instagram @ajwright304.
Xingyu Zhao is reading literature on the sunny island of Singapore. His work has appeared in Cordite Poetry Review, Portside Review, and ONE ART, among others.
Huina Zheng, a distinction M.A. in English studies holder, works as a college essay coach. Her stories have been published in Baltimore Review, Variant Literature, Midway Journal, and others. Her work has received nominations three times for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She resides in Guangzhou, China with her family.