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bre'anna bivens is a multidisciplinary artist and Houston, Texas native. She’s an MFA Creative Writing student at Stetson University and Volunteer Assistant Editor with Burrow Press. The hope Bre’Anna has for her art is to offer perspectives of (black) life that privileges other senses- ones that deter gaze, intoxicates the meaning and limitations of the flesh, offers no remedies and forces readers to reconcile with uncomfortable inner reflections. Her work can be found in Guernica and The Beacon.
kim farrar is a writer and collagist living in New York City. She is the author of two chapbooks published by Finishing Line Press: The Familiar and The Brief Clear. Her poetry has been widely published in literary journals. Her essays and fiction have been published in Illness & Grace, Voices of Autism, Reflections, and Flash Fiction Magazine. Orbits and Bonds, a chapbook of poems and collages, was a semi-finalist in the New Women's Voices contest by Finishing Line Press in 2022. In 2020 her poem “Powerful Forces” received an honorable mention in the Gemini Poetry Contest. She is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Her full-length manuscript, The Impossible Physics of the Hummingbird, is forthcoming from Unsolicited Press.
henri feola (he/him) is a writer and artist currently traveling around the country. His work has been published in Wilder Voice, Thimble Magazine, and Flash Fiction Magazine, among others. When he isn’t writing, he can be found spending time outdoors and obsessively picking up new hobbies.
david floyd is the author of The Sudden Architecture of the Dark (CustomWords/WordTech, 2006), which was a finalist for the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. His poems and essays have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Dos Passos Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and Washington Square, among other journals and anthologies. His second full-length manuscript of poems, What Light Cannot Repair, is currently shortlisted for the 2023 Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature— of these finalists it is the only poetry compilation in consideration for this prize between three novels and one short-story collection.
reece herberg is based in Philadelphia, PA. Her work has appeared in Hyphen Literary Magazine, Unpublished Magazine, and Chaotic Merge Magazine. You can find her on instagram (@rh.x.01) or twitter (@reeceherberg).
alice kinerk recently sat through a ChatGPT info session for work, and is excited that AI might be able to draft her dry-as-dirt emails and boring reports. However, she has and will continue to write fiction the old fashioned way, forming ideas in her gray matter and expressing them through her fingertips. For Alice, writing is about the journey. Her short stories have been published in Oyster River Pages, South Dakota Review, Rock Salt Journal, and elsewhere.
john martino is a writer, educator, and avid traveler currently residing in Hong Kong. Some of the wayward poems from his yet-to-be published manuscript, Enemy Lines, have found a home at North Dakota Quarterly, Another Chicago Magazine, Packingtown Review, and The Southern Quill, among others. He is the Associate Editor at Home Planet News (homeplanetnews.com).
goodman murphy-smith lives equally in Bloomington, IN, and Birmingham, AL. He can be found on Instagram (@goodman.e.murphysmith).
perry parsons (they/them) is an artist, writer, scholar, and ecosexual from San Francisco. They are currently based out of St. Louis where they are pursuing a masters in performance studies at WashU.
jennifer polson peterson is a poet living in South Mississippi. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Colorado Review, Radar, Beloit Poetry Journal, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere. She is a Phd candidate at the University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Writers and the author of a chapbook, Must Resemble Leisure, published by Seven Kitchens Press.
andrew plattner lives in Atlanta, Georgia. He has published four story collections. He has forthcoming work in Tampa Review and Swing.
paul rabinowitz is an author, poet, photographer and founder of ARTS By The People, a non-profit arts organization based in New Jersey. His work is often intertextual, and frequently thematically centered upon the process of art-making through varied forms and pathways. His novel Confluence, integrates dance, photography and prose, and limns the boundary separating exterior and interior artistic motivation, between the murky, transient process of finding truth in art, and the flux and flow of interpersonal relationships. His work is concerned with the connection between the dream world and the conscious one, between shadow and light. Confluence stems from Rabinowitz’s 2020 novella The Clay Urn. Rabinowitz is creator and co-writer with Brittney Bertier of the TV pilot called Bungalow, and author of the book of poems called truth, love and the lines in between (Finishing Line Press).
martina reisz-newberry
margaret saigh is a writer, dancer, and educator. She is the author of the chapbook CROSSED IN THE DARKER LIGHT OF TERROR (dancing girl press 2022), a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Pittsburgh, and the creator of circlet, a virtual poetry workshop. Her poems have been featured in Annulet Poetics Journal and Figure 1, and are forthcoming in Calyx Journal and A Velvet Giant, among others.
david snyder received his MFA from the University of Kansas and lives in Syracuse, NY, where he teaches high school math and spends his summer in the woods and lakes of the Adirondacks with his ecologist wife. You can find his work in The Sandy River Review, About Place Journal, and elsewhere.
ashley steineger is a poet and holistic psychologist who believes poetry is the language of healing. She is the author of the chapbook Ebb/Flow (Blanket Sea Press, 2021), and her poetry has appeared in The Lumiere Review, Palette Poetry, and The Shore, among others. Ashley received her MFA from Queen’s University of Charlotte. She currently lives and writes out of Raleigh, NC, where she enjoys forest bathing, collecting tattoos, and untranslatable words.
fiona scott stevenson is a writer and educator based in Somerville, MA, where she enjoys contra dancing, taking ballet classes, and haunting her local library. Her writing has previously been published in Microchondria III, a 2016 Harvard Book Store publication.
jordan stokes is a writer currently studying in San Diego. When she's not writing she’s googling synonyms for her next prose piece. Her work has been previously published in Thimble Literary Magazine.
amanda stopa goldstein is a poet and short fiction writer. Her work has been recently published or is forthcoming in Cherry Tree: A National Literary Journal, Epiphany Literary Journal, and Two Thirds North Magazine. You can learn more about her work at www.amandasg.com.
mirka walter is an emerging visual artist from Cologne, Germany. It was here where Mirka got first in touch with surrealism, as Max Ernst was born in Brühl, a small city close to Cologne. But what especially has been influencing Mirka’s work and worldview is the feminist surrealism by artists such as Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo. This fascination is connected to Mexico, an entirely surrealist country in so many aspects, where the artist lived for two years. What Mirka wants to capture is the beauty, banality and brutality of the everyday, the human body in motion as well as a surreal and fantastic representation of the world. The artist’s favorite materials are watercolor in all its expressions and ink. The artist also holds a great love for collage and papercut artwork. @mirku.malt
www.mirkuschka.com
morrie warshawski is a nonprofit arts consultant who works with nonprofits having trouble realizing their full potential. His works as an artist and poet have appeared in galleries and publications internationally. He makes his home in Napa, CA where he can be found painting, drawing, writing and growing heirloom tomatoes.
kim farrar is a writer and collagist living in New York City. She is the author of two chapbooks published by Finishing Line Press: The Familiar and The Brief Clear. Her poetry has been widely published in literary journals. Her essays and fiction have been published in Illness & Grace, Voices of Autism, Reflections, and Flash Fiction Magazine. Orbits and Bonds, a chapbook of poems and collages, was a semi-finalist in the New Women's Voices contest by Finishing Line Press in 2022. In 2020 her poem “Powerful Forces” received an honorable mention in the Gemini Poetry Contest. She is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Her full-length manuscript, The Impossible Physics of the Hummingbird, is forthcoming from Unsolicited Press.
henri feola (he/him) is a writer and artist currently traveling around the country. His work has been published in Wilder Voice, Thimble Magazine, and Flash Fiction Magazine, among others. When he isn’t writing, he can be found spending time outdoors and obsessively picking up new hobbies.
david floyd is the author of The Sudden Architecture of the Dark (CustomWords/WordTech, 2006), which was a finalist for the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. His poems and essays have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Dos Passos Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and Washington Square, among other journals and anthologies. His second full-length manuscript of poems, What Light Cannot Repair, is currently shortlisted for the 2023 Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature— of these finalists it is the only poetry compilation in consideration for this prize between three novels and one short-story collection.
reece herberg is based in Philadelphia, PA. Her work has appeared in Hyphen Literary Magazine, Unpublished Magazine, and Chaotic Merge Magazine. You can find her on instagram (@rh.x.01) or twitter (@reeceherberg).
alice kinerk recently sat through a ChatGPT info session for work, and is excited that AI might be able to draft her dry-as-dirt emails and boring reports. However, she has and will continue to write fiction the old fashioned way, forming ideas in her gray matter and expressing them through her fingertips. For Alice, writing is about the journey. Her short stories have been published in Oyster River Pages, South Dakota Review, Rock Salt Journal, and elsewhere.
john martino is a writer, educator, and avid traveler currently residing in Hong Kong. Some of the wayward poems from his yet-to-be published manuscript, Enemy Lines, have found a home at North Dakota Quarterly, Another Chicago Magazine, Packingtown Review, and The Southern Quill, among others. He is the Associate Editor at Home Planet News (homeplanetnews.com).
goodman murphy-smith lives equally in Bloomington, IN, and Birmingham, AL. He can be found on Instagram (@goodman.e.murphysmith).
perry parsons (they/them) is an artist, writer, scholar, and ecosexual from San Francisco. They are currently based out of St. Louis where they are pursuing a masters in performance studies at WashU.
jennifer polson peterson is a poet living in South Mississippi. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Colorado Review, Radar, Beloit Poetry Journal, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere. She is a Phd candidate at the University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Writers and the author of a chapbook, Must Resemble Leisure, published by Seven Kitchens Press.
andrew plattner lives in Atlanta, Georgia. He has published four story collections. He has forthcoming work in Tampa Review and Swing.
paul rabinowitz is an author, poet, photographer and founder of ARTS By The People, a non-profit arts organization based in New Jersey. His work is often intertextual, and frequently thematically centered upon the process of art-making through varied forms and pathways. His novel Confluence, integrates dance, photography and prose, and limns the boundary separating exterior and interior artistic motivation, between the murky, transient process of finding truth in art, and the flux and flow of interpersonal relationships. His work is concerned with the connection between the dream world and the conscious one, between shadow and light. Confluence stems from Rabinowitz’s 2020 novella The Clay Urn. Rabinowitz is creator and co-writer with Brittney Bertier of the TV pilot called Bungalow, and author of the book of poems called truth, love and the lines in between (Finishing Line Press).
martina reisz-newberry
margaret saigh is a writer, dancer, and educator. She is the author of the chapbook CROSSED IN THE DARKER LIGHT OF TERROR (dancing girl press 2022), a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Pittsburgh, and the creator of circlet, a virtual poetry workshop. Her poems have been featured in Annulet Poetics Journal and Figure 1, and are forthcoming in Calyx Journal and A Velvet Giant, among others.
david snyder received his MFA from the University of Kansas and lives in Syracuse, NY, where he teaches high school math and spends his summer in the woods and lakes of the Adirondacks with his ecologist wife. You can find his work in The Sandy River Review, About Place Journal, and elsewhere.
ashley steineger is a poet and holistic psychologist who believes poetry is the language of healing. She is the author of the chapbook Ebb/Flow (Blanket Sea Press, 2021), and her poetry has appeared in The Lumiere Review, Palette Poetry, and The Shore, among others. Ashley received her MFA from Queen’s University of Charlotte. She currently lives and writes out of Raleigh, NC, where she enjoys forest bathing, collecting tattoos, and untranslatable words.
fiona scott stevenson is a writer and educator based in Somerville, MA, where she enjoys contra dancing, taking ballet classes, and haunting her local library. Her writing has previously been published in Microchondria III, a 2016 Harvard Book Store publication.
jordan stokes is a writer currently studying in San Diego. When she's not writing she’s googling synonyms for her next prose piece. Her work has been previously published in Thimble Literary Magazine.
amanda stopa goldstein is a poet and short fiction writer. Her work has been recently published or is forthcoming in Cherry Tree: A National Literary Journal, Epiphany Literary Journal, and Two Thirds North Magazine. You can learn more about her work at www.amandasg.com.
mirka walter is an emerging visual artist from Cologne, Germany. It was here where Mirka got first in touch with surrealism, as Max Ernst was born in Brühl, a small city close to Cologne. But what especially has been influencing Mirka’s work and worldview is the feminist surrealism by artists such as Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo. This fascination is connected to Mexico, an entirely surrealist country in so many aspects, where the artist lived for two years. What Mirka wants to capture is the beauty, banality and brutality of the everyday, the human body in motion as well as a surreal and fantastic representation of the world. The artist’s favorite materials are watercolor in all its expressions and ink. The artist also holds a great love for collage and papercut artwork. @mirku.malt
www.mirkuschka.com
morrie warshawski is a nonprofit arts consultant who works with nonprofits having trouble realizing their full potential. His works as an artist and poet have appeared in galleries and publications internationally. He makes his home in Napa, CA where he can be found painting, drawing, writing and growing heirloom tomatoes.