Victor De Anda is a writer in Philadelphia who enjoys watching movies and searching for good Mexican food. His fiction has been published in Shotgun Honey, Pulp Modern Flash, and Punk Noir Magazine, with more forthcoming. He is on Twitter @victordeanda and you can find out more at https://linktr.ee/victordeanda

Dom Fonce is the former founding Editor-in-Chief of Volney Road Review. He is the author of the two poetry chapbooks Here, We Bury the Hearts (Finishing Line Press, 2019) and Dancing in the Cobwebs (Finishing Line Press, 2022). He is an MFA candidate at the NEOMFA (Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts). His poetry has been published in Gordon Square Review, Rappahannock Review, Delmarva Review, Jenny Magazine, Sweet Tree Review, and elsewhere. He lives and writes in Youngstown, Ohio.

KJ Hannah Greenberg tilts at social ills and encourages personal evolutions via poetry, prose, and visual art. Her images have appeared as interior art in many places, including Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Kissing Dynamite, Les Femmes Folles, Mused, Piker Press, The Academy of the Heart and Mind, The Front Porch Review, and Yellow Mama and as cover art in many places, including Angime, Black Petals, Door is A Jar Literary Magazine [sic], Impspired [sic], Pithead Chapel, Red Flag Poetry, Right Hand Pointing, Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, The Broken City, Torah Tidbits and Yellow Mama. Additionally, some of her digital paintings are featured alongside of her poetry in One-Handed Pianist (Hekate Publishing, 2021).

Cordelia Hanemann, writer and artist, currently co-hosts Summer Poets, a poetry critique group in Raleigh, NC. She has published in Atlanta Review, Southwestern Review, and California Review; in numerous anthologies including best-selling Poems for the Ukraine and her chapbook. Her poems have been performed by the Strand Project, featured in select journals, won awards and been nominated for Pushcarts. She is now working on a novel.

Born and raised as a proud Cleveland native, Isaiah Hunt focuses on near-future stories of his community, the entertainment industry, and transhumanist capitalism. When he’s not fiddling around with music, or studying Pan-African history, he’s daydreaming of worlds adjacent to our own. He has recently finished his M.F.A. in Creative Writing at Kent State University and is currently a Hopkins Fellow for John Carroll University where he teaches Fiction Writing. His work can be found at the Wick Poetry Center, Luna Negra, On The Run, and elsewhere. You can reach him at ihunt@jcu.edu or Instagram @casual_dream.

Nancy K. Jentsch’s chapbook Authorized Visitors and the collaborative ekphrastic chapbook Frame and Mount the Sky, in which her poetry appears, were published in 2017. Her collection Between the Rows debuted in 2022. Since beginning to write in 2008, her work has appeared in journals such as Amethyst Review, Panoply, Tiferet Journal, and Zingara Poetry Review. In 2020 she received an Arts Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women. She has retired after 37 years of teaching and finds a bounty of inspiration in her family and her rural home.

Michael Lee Johnson lived ten years in Canada during the Vietnam era. Today he is a poet in the greater Chicagoland area, IL.  He has 266 YouTube poetry videos. Michael is an internationally published poet in 44 countries, has several published poetry books, has been nominated for 5 Pushcart Prize awards, and 6 Best of the Net nominations. He is editor-in-chief of 3 poetry anthologies. Michael is the administrator of 6 Facebook Poetry groups. Member Illinois State Poetry Society:  http://www.illinoispoets.org/. 

Mark Keane has taught for many years in universities in North America and the UK. Recent short story fiction has appeared in Down in the Dirt, Granfalloon, Samjoko, upstreet, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Liquid Imagination, Superpresent, Into the Void (Pushcart Prize nomination), Night Picnic, Firewords, Dog and Vile Short Fiction, the Dark Lane and What Monsters Do for Love anthologies, and Best Indie Speculative Fiction 2021. He lives in Edinburgh (Scotland).

Bryan Kim is a 17-year-old senior, attending Seoul International School in South Korea, who loves to express himself and escape today’s heavily judgmental and restrictive society by creating artwork and solving math problems. Growing up under an interior designer in his mother, Bryan has been around art his whole life and finds extreme fascination and joy in experimenting with various art mediums.

Richard Levine, a retired NYC teacher, is the author of Selected Poems, Contiguous States, and five chapbooks. Now in Contest is forthcoming from Fernwood Press. An Advisory Editor of BigCityLit.com, he is the recipient of the 2021 Connecticut Poetry Society Award and was co-editor of Invasion of Ukraine 2022: Poems. His review “The Spoils of War” is forthcoming in January from American Book Review. website: richardlevine107.com.

Born in Bucharest, Romania, Ella Leynard is an award-writer, poet, and translator and has been teaching English at the National College Iulia Hasdeu in Bucharest since she graduated from the Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest in 1993. She is also a translator, having translated into English selected poems from the work of the Romania poet, G.Bacovia: Poezii/Poems, 1995, Flori de Plumb/Flowers of Lead, 2018. She published in Romanian language the volumes of poetry: Poems, 2013, Verses, 2016, We have time to love, 2018, Unveiling Time, 2018, Explosion of Words, 2022, Love at the root, 2022 ( a book published as a prize in the National Poetry Contest Radu Cârneci )

Amy Marques grew up between languages and cultures and learned, from an early age, the multiplicity of narratives. She penned three children’s books, barely read medical papers, and numerous letters before turning to short fiction and visual poetry. She is a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee and has work published most recently in Streetcake Magazine, MoonPark Review, Jellyfish Review, Gone Lawn, and Parenthesis Journal. You can find more of her work at https://amybookwhisperer.wordpress.com.

Paula Mikrut has been published in Clever Magazine and Pendemic, won the Manny Award for creative nonfiction from the Midwest Writers Workshop, and is currently working on a memoir titled Self-Medicating with Marriage.

Yusuf A. Olamilekan is an undergraduate of Biochemistry in the University of Ilorin. He recently exercise bliss by sharing his works with the world, some are upcoming in the inaugural issue of Hooghly Review and Culturecult Magazine.

Richard Patterson is a freelance writer living in east Texas. He writes poetry, short stories, and essays. His main motivation for writing is that he think there are multiple realities that we all can access happening all around us all the time. Writing helps him to open up some of those realities, especially with his short stories.

Greg Rapier‘s work has appeared or is forthcoming at places like Dream Pop, The Nervous Breakdown, Five on the Fifth, and Fathom. He has degrees in English and film and is working on his doctorate in creative writing and public theology (Yeah, that’s a thing).

Alissa Sammarco draws you into her world through her narrative poems and vividly drawn images. She is a writer and attorney, living in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her poems have appeared in Quiet Diamonds, Sheila Na Gig Online, Black Moon Magazine, Change Seven, But There was Fire in the Distance, and Hags on Fire. Future publications include Main Street Rag, Stone Canoe and The Yearling.  Alissa’s debut book, Beyond the Dawn, is scheduled to be released September 2023 by Turning Point.  A second chapbook, I See Them Now, will follow in January 2024 by Turning Point.   

Megan Wildhood is a writer who helps her readers feel seen in her monthly newsletter, poetry chapbook Long Division (Finishing Line Press, 2017), her forthcoming poetry collection Bowed As If Laden With Snow (Cornerstone Press, May 2023) and work in Gem of the Sound, Mad in America, The Sun and elsewhere. You can learn more about her writing and her newsletter at meganwildhood.com.

Diane Williams taught French language and literature at the college level for several years, then joined the creative team at UT Knoxville’s Office of Communications and Marketing as an editorial project manager. She began writing poetry seriously after attending Marilyn Kallet’s poetry workshop in Auvillar, France. Transitioning from an academic orientation of language to a freer, metaphoric approach has been, and continues to be, a delightful journey. Diane has poems in two online publications, One Trick Pony and Bluestem Magazine. Two of her poems will appear in the Spring 2023 Monterey Poetry Review. She self-published a poetry chapbook, Night in the Garden, in 2020 (LunaMoth Press). Diane and her husband Terry live in Knoxville, Tennessee, where they enjoy tennis, travel, gardening, and hiking in the Smoky Mountains.