Kat Agudo (she/they) is a Filipinx playwright, screenwriter, poet, graphic artist, and wedding singer from Austin, TX. Four of their productions “How to be Super,” ”Til Death Do Us Part,” “Red Hot Collegiate Summer,” and “Dreams Come True” have all been produced by The University of Texas at Austin from 2014-2017. They graduated from The Actors Studio Drama School MFA Program in NYC. They seek to translate poetic narratives about mental health, Asian-American experiences, LGBTQ representation, and social media culture to the stage using trauma and comedy. Website: www.katagudo.com.

KB Ballentine’s seventh collection, Edge of the Echo, launched May of 2021 with Iris Press. Her earlier books can be found with Blue Light Press, Middle Creek Publishing, and Celtic Cat Publishing. Published in North Dakota Quarterly, Atlanta Review and Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, among others; her work also appears in anthologies including Pandemic Evolution (2021), In Plein Air (2017) and Carrying the Branch: Poets in Search of Peace (2017). Learn more at www.kbballentine.com.

Jerry Buchanan is a poet who lives in Johnson City, Tennessee who writes to establish a sense of his own creative voice. Having grown up in Western North Carolina, he drives back and forth across the Blue Ridge Mountains to care for his elderly mother and assist the family working on the farm. His published poems appear in Quill and Parchment and in the American Diversity Report. He hones his poetry writing skills with a small group of Appalachian poets called the Seasoned Writers’ Group and through creative writing classes at East Tennessee State University.

Larry Caveney graduated with an M.F.A from Vermont College, Montpelier, VT and has exhibited both nationally and internationally since 1983. In addition to working as a painter, sculptor, and performance artist, Caveney was also a professor at the Art Institute of San Diego.

Caveney has been collected by:
The Permanent collection in Asheville Museum of Art, Asheville, NC
The Permanent Collection in Casoria Contemporary Museum, Naples Italy

Caveney’s collection of work is based on principles using familiar imagery in order to reveal other truths within an analogue approach to color.

Caveney prefers his artwork “to have direct, immediacy with those who are interested in the work.” 

Instagram: larrycaveney 

Facebook: Larry Caveney,  Art by Caveney, and Front Yard Gallery 

Address: Tubac, Arizona 

deepseal2@aol.com 

Mary Christine Delea is a former university professor. She is the author of the full-length poetry collection, The Skeleton Holding Up the Sky, from Main Street Press, three chapbooks, and numerous journal publications. Her web site is mchristinedelea.com. 

Ivanka Fear is a former teacher now pursuing her passion for writing. She lives in midwestern Ontario, Canada, with her family and cats. Her poems and short stories appear in Spadina Literary Review, Montreal Writes, Adelaide Literary, October Hill, Scarlet Leaf Review, The Sirens Call, The Literary Hatchet, Understorey, Aphelion, Muddy River Poetry Review, and elsewhere. You can read more about her at https://ivankafear.wixsite.com/mysite

Robert Garnham has been performing comedy poetry around the UK for over 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 show Pointless. His website is www.professorofwhimsy.com and his Twitter is @RobertGarnham

Melanie Greenberg is a writer from Seattle, Washington with BA in poetry and art history from Sarah Lawrence College. She was awarded the Rex Warner Literary Prize during her year abroad at the University of Oxford. Melanie’s work has appeared in the 2019 summer issue of Nixes Mate Review, the Dog Door Cultural, the Eunoia Review, and the 2018 issue of the Sarah Lawrence Review.

C.E. Martin is a former English teacher who draws her inspiration from life experiences such as her childhood in the South and her travels throughout the country. Some of her non-fiction pieces have been published in  Emrys Journal and Crab Creek Review.

Dillon McCroskey is an undergraduate at East Tennessee State University, majoring in English with a minor in Creative Writing. After graduation, Dillon plans to continue his education at ETSU, working on his MA in English. Dillon then plans to go on to get his MFA in Poetry, hoping to eventually obtain a PhD, publish, and teach college courses.

Joan McNerney’s poetry is found in many literary magazines such as Seven Circle Press, Dinner with the Muse, Poet Warriors, Blueline, and Halcyon Days.  She has four Best of the Net nominations.  Her latest titles are The Muse in Miniature and Love Poems for Michael both available on Amazon.com and Cyberwit.net

Paul Negri is the editor of a dozen literary anthologies from Dover Publications, Inc. His stories have appeared in Liegia Magazine, Flash Fiction Review, The Penn Review, Into the Void, Jellyfish Review, and more than 50 other publications. He lives and writes in Clemmons, North Carolina.

Alistair Rey began his career in Romania writing political tracts for post-authoritarian governments. He has since advertised himself as a writer of para-fiction, an archivist, and collector of rare manuscripts. His work has been featured in the Berkeley Fiction Review, Weird Book, and Juked magazine among other publications. He currently resides in Cardiff, Wales. 

alistairrey.com

Martina Rimbaldo is a woman who lives and works in Croatia. She always carries a pen and a notebook in her purse in case of sudden inspiration in order to write it down. Her work is published in Nightingale & Sparrow, Oddball Magazine, the Sage Cigarette Magazine, Spillwords, Thruly you, the Street Light Press, Six Word Stories, Poems, and Poezija noći. Her artwork is published in weekly blog for Royal Rose Magazine; her photographs are published in Bleached Butterfly and Anti Heroin Chic. She loves to paint abstract paintings,  read religious books, watch horror as well as old movies with Audrey Hepburn, Sharon Tate, Brigitte Bardot (who happens to share her birth date), and (over)thinks especially about death. What some people find morbid but not her; it is a part of life too. Her goal is to be a good person.

Rosemary Royston, author of Second Sight (2021, Kelsay Press) and Splitting the Soil (Finishing Line Press, 2014), resides in the northeast Georgia mountains with her family. Her writing has been published in journals such as POEM, Split Rock Review, Southern Poetry Review, Poetry South, Appalachian Review, and *82 Review. Her photography has been published in A Rose in the World, Bloodroot, and New Southerner. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Young Harris College.

Roberta Schultz is a singer songwriter, teacher and poet originally from Grant’s Lick, KY.  Her poems and song lyrics have appeared in Black Moon Magazine, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, Sheila-Na-Gig, Panoplyzine, Still: the Journal, Motif, Kudzu, Riparian and other anthologies. Her three chapbooks, Outposts on the Border of Longing (2014), Songs from the Shaper’s Harp (2017), and Touchstones (2020) are published by Finishing Line Press.

Kerri Vasilakos is a writer from Long Island, New York who is currently living in Georgia. She earned her BA in English-Creative Writing at Southern New Hampshire University and has had her poems featured in their Creative Writing Club’s Newsletters. Kerri also owns a spiritual counseling business with her fiancé that focuses on holistic healing and energy work. She has a deep faith, and a passion for guiding others along their healing journey. Kerri is also a gifted artist and a cat lover. Her poems have been featured in the Penman Review.

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/

Tracy Whiteside is an award-winning Chicago-area photographer specializing in Conceptual Art. She is internationally published in art, literature, and fashion.  Captivated by anything weird or magical, she wants to tell the story.  She has a special fondness for dark art and things that go bump in the night.

In her past lives, Tracy has worked in fashion, the talent industry, and musical theatre. All these experiences have provided many of the skills she needs for developing the narrative and the visuals for her images.

A photographer since 2004, Tracy is self-taught.  Inspiration is everywhere, and she explores each element that stirs her passion. Tracy wants to open the viewers’ eyes and mind, as well as encourage them to examine their own soul and spirit.  Her art is meant to ignite the imagination as well as initiate conversation.

CONCEPTUAL ART:  https://www.tracywhiteside.com

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/TracyWhitesidePhotography

Instagram: @whitesidetracy