Elizabeth Kate Switaj works at the College of the Marshall Islands. She is the author of one book of literary criticism (James Joyce's Teaching Life and Methods, Palgrave, 2016) and two poetry collections (Magdalene & the Mermaids, Paper Kite Press, 2009; The Bringers of Fruit: An Oratorio, 11:11 Press, 2022).

Ching Ching Tan, originally from Southern China, began her American journey with ESL at community colleges. Now a Communication Studies professor at SJSU, she's working on her memoir. Her writings, featured in New England Review, CNN, HuffPost, and others, with "How Do I Explain Myself" nominated 2023 Pushcart Prize from New England Review.

Linda McMullen is a wife, mother, daughter, diplomat, and homesick Wisconsinite. Over 200 of her short stories and the occasional poem have appeared in literary magazines.

Hayley Shucker is pursuing her MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence. She’s had a short story published in StoryLine Coastline’s “arts and letters” online magazine, a creative non-fiction essay published in Adanna Literary Journal, and sold a poem to Tree-Free Greeting. She’s a lover of musical theater, cats, and baking.

Michele Ruby lives and writes in Louisville, Kentucky. Her fiction appeared in Arts&Letters (Fiction Prize winner), Literal Latte (Short Shorts contest winner), The Adirondack Review (Fulton Prize finalist), Ellery Queen, Shenandoah, Inkwell, Nimrod, Louisville Review, Los Angeles Review, and others, and in Frankly Feminist, Lilith’s first print anthology. Story collections were finalists for the Flannery O’Connor, St. Lawrence, Hudson, Press 53 and Autumn House Awards. With an MFA from Spalding University. she taught fiction writing at Bellarmine University and was a fiction editor for Best New Writing.

Michael Chang (they/them) is the author of many collections of poetry, including SYNTHETIC JUNGLE (Northwestern University Press, 2023) & EMPLOYEES MUST WASH HANDS (GreenTower Press, 2024). They edit poetry at Fence.

Jasmine Marshall Armstrong is a writing instructor, poet, and nonfiction writer from Bozeman, Montana. She holds an MFA from Fresno State University. Her work is found in Typishly, America Magazine, Sojourners Magazine, Poets Reading the News, In Parentheses, Cathexis Northwest Press, The Dewdrop, The Ulu Review and Anacapa.

Anne Cheilek is a writer and editor living in the heart of Silicon Valley. Her work has appeared in RHINO Poetry, Catamaran Literary Reader, Reed Magazine, Gone Lawn, Juked, and other literary journals. She is a poetry editor for DMQ Review and a founding editor of Midnight Chem.

Brennan Barney is a Creative Director residing in Michigan. Recently his fiction "Maureen" was published in Whiskey Island Magazine.

Kylan Rice is the author of An Image Not a Book (Free Verse Editions 2024), a collection of poems, and Incryptions (Spuyten Duyvil 2021), a collection of essays. His work has appeared in Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Image, Kenyon Review Online, Seneca Review, West Branch, and elsewhere. He is the associate editor at The Missouri Review.

Mark Crimmins (he/him) published his first book, travel memoir Sydneyside Reflections, in 2020. His place-based writings have been published in many magaziunes, including Chicago Quarterly Review, Columbia Journal, Tampa Review, Kyoto Journal, Queen's Quarterly, Apalachee Review, Fiction Southeast, Del Sol Review, Confrontation, and Flash.