Chrissie Anderson Peters grew up in Tazewell, VA, and moved to Bristol, TN in 2000. She has a BA in English/Education from Emory & Henry College, and a Masters of Science in Information Sciences from the University of Tennessee, having served in several libraries in Virginia and Tennessee for twenty years. She has been selected to attend the Appalachian Writers Workshop in Hindman, KY, several times, and has attended other workshops and writing seminars, working with some of the best talents in the Appalachian region. Her writing appears in various regional reviews and journals, and she has placed in regional contests such as Tennessee Mountain Writers, Inc., and Mountain Heritage Literature Festival. Her passions are traveling and 80’s music. She lives with her husband and their four feline children. You can check out her website at www.CAPWrites.com

Glen Armstrong holds an MFA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and teaches writing at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. He edits a poetry journal called Cruel Garters and has three current books of poems: Invisible Histories, The New Vaudeville, and Midsummer. His work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Conduit, and Cream City Review.

Michael Brockley is a retired school psychologist who lives in Muncie, Indiana. Recent poems have appeared in The Thieving Magpie, Last Stanza, and the Spirit and Place: Anthology What Was and What Will Be. Poems are forthcoming in Flying Island and theIndianapolis Anthology. 

Darlene Cah used to improvise on stage in New York. Now she improvises with words on a screen in North Carolina. Her stories have appeared in various journals including Smokelong Quarterly, Referential Magazine, Staccato Fiction, Wilderness House Literary Review, Red Earth Review, and South 85. She was the 2015 winner of the Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition in the Flash Fiction category, winner of the 2018 Hub City/Emrys Writing Prize, and Honorable Mention in the 2018 Tiferet Writing Contest. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte.

Erzsi Csonka is a neurodivergent author and poet. She has recently started sending her work to magazines but has already published her first and second novels under the same name. Earlier poetry appears in the inaugural issue of Last Leaves Magazine. She has her eye on a larger poetry portfolio and intends to keep publishing for many years to come.

Wendy Dinwiddie is a queer Appalachian writer, editor, and educator currently living in Tuscaloosa, AL. Her work has appeared in Mississippi Review, Ploughshares, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. Find her online at wendydinwiddie.com or on Twitter @wendy_dinwiddie.

Fred Gerhard’s poetry has recently appeared in Entropy Magazine, The Heavy Feather Review, The Wild Musette Journal, and other magazines and anthologies. He was the editor for TheChelmsford Poetry Review in 2005. He lives in a small town in rural New England with his wife and son and their ducks.

Jeff Hardin is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently A Clearing Space in the Middle of Being, No Other Kind of World, and Small Revolution. His work appears in recent issues of The Southern Review, The Los Angeles Review, Grist, Sugar House Review, Louisiana Literature, Inflectionist Review, and many others. His seventh book, Watermark, is forthcoming in 2022. He lives and teaches in Tennessee. Visit his website: 
www.jeffhardin.weebly.com.
Twitter: @JeffHar78324799
Instagram: @jeffhardinpoet

Nancy K. Jentsch’s poetry has appeared recently in EcoTheo Review, Thimble Literary Magazine, Tiferet, Zingara Poetry Review, and appears in numerous anthologies. In 2020, she received an Arts Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Her chapbook, Authorized Visitors, was published in 2017, and her writer’s page on Facebook is https://www.facebook.com/NancyJentschPoet/ 

Denton Loving is the author of the poetry collection Crimes Against Birds (Main Street Rag, 2015) and editor of Seeking Its Own Level, an anthology of writings about water (MotesBooks, 2014).  Follow him on twitter @DentonLoving.

Hannah Mead grew up in the beautiful but rainy country of England, where she grew to love tea and the Oxford comma. After spending 18 years of her life there, she moved to the equally beautiful and rainy state of Oregon to pursue a degree in English. She has a passion for words in all their various and delightful forms. She spends her spare time staying up far too late inhaling books and making midnight doughnut runs with friends. Poetry has grown to become her favourite art form.

Anahit Petrosyan is a writer residing in Los Angeles and a graduate of CSU Northridge with a bachelor’s degree in English. She is the author of the young adult novel, Chasing After, and the short stories, “Mother Wolf” (Northridge Review), “When Hemingway Went to Coffee Bean (Moria Literary Magazine), and “Wanted Man” (Adelaide Magazine).

Instagram: anahit__petrosyan_

Maxwell Stevenson is a Cherokee author who studied Psychology and Writing at NSU. Inspired by the works of Franz Kafka and Charles Bukowski, Maxwell has applied similar writing into his works. Maxwell is seeking to further his writing and explore through the art of Psychology and the human experience. 

Barbara Westwood Diehl is founding editor of the Baltimore Review. Her fiction and poetry have been published in a variety of journals, including Quiddity, Potomac Review (Best of the 50), Measure, Little Patuxent Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Gargoyle, Superstition Review, NANO Fiction, Per Contra, Thrush Poetry Journal, Tishman Review, The MacGuffin, The Shore, and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.

Emily Williams-McElroy is an Appalachian native who gets to spend all day talking about books with middle schoolers. Emily is passionate about atmospheric prose with a pulse and greatly enjoys learning from the pens of others. Her work has appeared in the MoonPark Review, The Penultimate Peanut, and ETSU’s Mockingbird.

Lynn White lives in north Wales. Her work is influenced by issues of social justice and events, places and people she has known or imagined. She is especially interested in exploring the boundaries of dream, fantasy and reality. She was shortlisted in the Theatre Cloud ‘War Poetry for Today’ competition and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a Rhysling Award. Her poetry has appeared in many publications including: Apogee, Firewords, Capsule Stories, Gyroscope Review and So It Goes. Find Lynn at:
https://lynnwhitepoetry.blogspot.com and https://www.facebook.com/Lynn-White-Poetry-1603675983213077/

Allison Whittenberg is a Philadelphia native who has a global perspective. If she wasn’t an author she’d be a private detective or a jazz singer. She loves reading about history and true crime. Her other novels include Sweet Thang, Hollywood and Maine, Life is Fine, Tutored and The Sane Asylum.

Sylvia Woods is an award winning poet whose work has  appeared in Still: the Journal, Appalachian Heritage (now called Appalachian Review), and other literary journals.  She has also published in several anthologies, including Southern Poetry Anthology III: Appalachiaand Southern Poetry Anthology VI: Tennessee. She is a board member of Tennessee Mountain Writers. Sylvia  occasionally teaches poetry classes at her local extended learning campus.