Thomas Elson’s short stories, poetry, and flash fiction have been published in numerous venues such as Calliope, The Cabinet of Heed, Ellipsis, Pinyon, Inlandia, Lunaris, New Ulster, Lampeter, Selkie, and Adelaide. He divides his time between Northern California and Western Kansas.   

Louis Faber’s work has previously appeared in The Poet (UK), Dreich (Scotland), The Alchemy Spoon (UK), Atlanta Review, Arena Magazine (Australia), Exquisite Corpse, Rattle, Eureka Literary Magazine, Borderlands: the Texas Poetry Review, Midnight Mind, Pearl, Midstream, European Judaism, Greens Magazine, The Amethyst Review, Afterthoughts, The South Carolina Review and Worcester Review, and in small journals in India, Pakistan, China and Japan, among many others, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He, his wife and cat reside in Port St. Lucie, Florida where he spends an inordinate amount of time photographing the birds that call the small wetland behind his home their home.

Robert Garnham has been performing comedy poetry around the UK for ten years at various fringes and festivals, and has had two collections published by Burning Eye. He has made a few short TV adverts for a certain bank, and a joke from one of his shows was listed as one of the funniest of the Edinburgh Fringe. He was recently an answer on the TV quiz show Pointless. Lately he has been writing short stories for magazines and a humorous column in the Herald Express newspaper. In 2020 he was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Melissa Helton lives, teaches, and writes in southeast Kentucky. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Shenandoah, Appalachian Review, Still: The Journal, and more. Her chapbooks include Inertia: A Study (Finishing Line Press, 2016) and Forward Through the Interval (Workhorse, 2021).

Caroline Jennings grew up in Fort Smith, Arkansas and is working towards obtaining a B.A. in Creative Writing and a B.S. in Applied Math at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Her works, “car ride” and “Poolside” have been featured in Diamond Line Literary Magazine. She writes to learn more about life and all the feelings that come with it in hopes that her writing will, at the least, bring someone a bit of comfort.

After a nomadic military childhood, Lisa Kamolnick planted herself in northwest Florida’s sugar-white sands. In 2007, she retraced an ancestral trail to Appalachia and settled in northeast Tennessee highlands. She holds a B.A. in English from University of Florida. Lisa explores human nature, the human condition, the natural world and what lies between and beyond. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Ink to Paper, Tennessee Voices and Mildred Haun Review.

Rose Klix was born and reared in Rapid City, SD in the Black Hills. She now is proud to call the Appalachian foothills of Elizabethton, TN her adoptive home. Rose was awarded the honorary title of Poetry Society of Tennessee Poet Laureate in 2010-11 for her efforts in organizing talented area poets and founding the Northeast chapter (PST-NE). She published two poetry books Pastiche of Poetry, Volumes I and II; two poetry chapbooks God, My Greatest Love; and Eat, Diet, Repeat; a short story collection My Short and Long-Stemmed Stories, an analysis of her reincarnations in Past Lives Before Now, which she learned through regressions, dreams, de ja vu; and she republished Folk Art Sampler Quilt one (of three) of the quilting how-to books she wrote for her mother’s quilt shop students. Two of skits and a two one-act plays have been stage-performed locally. Rose dedicated Pastiche of Poetry to all the people and organizations that mentored her writing. She paraphrases, “It has taken a village to raise this poet, author, and playwright” She welcomes visitors to her website https://www.RoseKlix.com

Marcella has been writing since 1988. Her work has appeared in Authorship, National Writers Association, Primary Treasure, The Guide Magazine and Our Little Friend, Smarty Pants for Kids, Funds for Writers, First Writer Newsletter and Adelaide Literary Magazine, to name a few, as well as several newspapers.

Robert E. Petras is a resident of Toronto, Ohio and a graduate of West Liberty University.  His poetry and fiction have been published in more than 200 journals across the globe.  

Joseph Redding graduated from UW-Platteville and Marquette University.  His fiction has appeared in The First Line and the Northwest Indiana Literary Journal. He and his wife Julie live in Hales Corners, Wisconsin with their three children.

Rikki Santer’s next full-length poetry collection, How to Board a Moving Ship, is forthcoming from Lily Poetry Review Books. Please contact her through her website:   www.rikkisanter.com

Michal Smith is a poet, novelist, and creative non-fiction writer living in Nashville under the guise of “Accountant”. When she’s not writing or filing taxes, she loves walking while reading; quiet evenings with her cats, rabbit, and husband; and finding unlikely inspiration in the world around her.

Weining Wang is a Senior student at Beloit College, WI, where he is majoring in interdisciplinary studies–East Asian Studies. He submitted his Beijing flavor fiction “The Old Snack Shop” for publication to journal The Sucarnochee Review, a famous undergraduate publication by the University of West Alabama. He was informed that it was been published and printed this year (2021). He translated eight poems from the Tang dynasty and published them in the Equinox, a journal of contemporary literature at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. His artworks, “Nose_Paper” and “Star_Canvas” have also been selected for publication in this year’s issue of the Equinox. His Chinese-style artworks, “Fire and Ocean,” “Black and White,” and “Great Wall” have also been accepted for publication in this year’s edition of Long River Review, an annual literary journal of art and literature staffed by undergraduates at the University of Connecticut. His artwork and fiction has also appeared in asppublishing small press, Wordgathering, Third Wednesday, and elsewhere. 

Ben Weakley lives and writes in the Appalachian Highlands of Northeast Tennessee with his wife, children, and a red-tick hound named Camo.

His work appears in the anthology, “Our Best War Stories” published by Middle West Press, LLC. Other poems appear in The Wrath-Bearing Tree, The Ekphrastic Review, and Vita Brevis, among other publications.

His Awards include first place in the 2019 Heroes’ Voices National Poetry Contest, and finalist in the 2020 Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Writing Awards.

You can find his work and reach out at his website.

Dana Wildsmith’s  environmental memoir , Back to Abnormal: Surviving With An Old Farm in the New South, was Finalist for Georgia Author of the Year. She is the author of six collections of poetry and a novel. She has been Artist-in-Residence for Grand Canyon National Park and Everglades National Park.

Skylar Wu is a first-year Columbia College student on-track to major in Philosophy and Economics.