Margaret D. Stetz is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Delaware, as well as a widely published poet. She has taught The Bell Jar many times to undergraduates in a course called "Fashioning the New York Woman."

Courtenay Schembri Gray is a writer from the North of England. Her plays include: The Change and The Moonchild. Courtenay's work has been staged by The Short List MCR. Her poems have appeared in journals like CAROUSEL.

Angel Rosen (she/her) is a lesbian poet and neurodiverget weirdo who believes in friendship and radical empathy. She can be found writing, reading, sharing ice cream with her favorite humans, or seeing a musical.

Candice M. Kelsey [she/her] is a writer and educator living in both Los Angeles and Georgia. A finalist for a Best Microfiction 2023 and longlisted by Wigleaf's Top 50 Short Fiction in 2024, she is the author of seven books; her work has been featured in SWWIM, The Laurel Review, Poet Lore, Passengers Journal, and About Place, among others. She mentors an incarcerated writer through PEN America and reads for The Los Angeles Review.

Michael Conley is a poet and prose writer from Manchester, UK. His work has been Highly Commended in the Forward Prize and he was the 2022 winner of the Peggy Poole Poetry Prize. His latest collection is a pamphlet published by Nine Pens, "These Are Not My Dreams".

Jennie Meyer, M.Div., is a poet and Certified Dreamwork Professional. Her poetry has appeared in The Weight of Motherhood: A Moonstone Arts Center Anthology, Tidelines: An Anthology of Cape Ann Poets, Albatross, Anchor Magazine, Artis Natura, Canary, Molecule, Mothers Always Write, Mutha Magazine, The Fourth River, The Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy, among others. She is a 2024 finalist for Cathexis Northwest Press: Unpublished Author Chapbook contest, a 2023 winner of Beyond Words: The End of the World Creative Writing Challenge and a 2022 grant recipient from Discover Gloucester for poems and an essay.

Hugh Findlay’s writing and photography have been published worldwide. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2020 for poetry, and the Best Microfiction Anthology 2024, he is in the third trimester of life and hopes y’all like his stuff.

J.C. Chen Henderson is an artist and a writer. She publishes visual art, fiction, and poetry in literary reviews and poetry magazines. Her work appears, or forthcoming, in journals such as Ellipsis, Suspended Magazine, Fourteen Hills, Poetry East, Sunspot Literary Journal, Freshwater Review, The Pointed Circle, The Clackamas Review, and SLANT. Henderson strives to express psychological and healing in her work. She has sold hundreds of her original paintings.

Allyson Wuerth is a writer, a high school English teacher, and the owner/curator of All My Unicorns, her kitschy vintage shop. She has published poetry in The Maine Review, Pine Row Press, Quarterly West, Cimarron Review, and several other journals. She has work forthcoming in Here: a poetry journal. She received an MFA in Poetry from the University of Pittsburgh. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, children, and five adorable cats.

Devon Balwit walks in all weather and never passes up a botanical garden or a natural history museum.

Michelle Chen takes inspiration for her writing from the events that occur in and around her home, New York City, though her birthplace is Singapore and she hopes to return and visit someday. Her work appears in Prairie Schooner, Bat City Review, The Evergreen Review, The Statesman, and elsewhere. Her work has been recognized by Ploughshares Emerging Writers, the City College of New York, Brooklyn Public Library, and Penguin Random House, among others. She has attended the Juniper Institute for Young Writers, the Iowa Young Writers' Studio with the support of the National Society of Arts and Letters, Girls in Icy Fjords, the Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship, and Girls Write Now. She is currently a Masters in Teaching Candidate at Stony Brook University, where she recently received the Best Masters Essay Prize, Distinguished Travel Award, and AAPI Mentorship Travel Grant.

Lumina has a BA in English from the University of Iowa. She enjoys the blue light of the early morning and the prospect of possibility. Her work has been published by literary magazines Black Mountain Press, The Banyan Review, The Write Launch, and Drunk Monkeys.

William Miller is the author of twelve books for children, a mystery novel and eight collections of poetry.  His most recent poetry collection is The Crow Flew Between Us, published by Kelsay Books in 2020.  His poems have appeared in The Penn Review, The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner and West Branch.  He lives and writes in the French Quarter of New Orleans.

Mandira Pattnaik's work has appeared in Best Small Fictions 2021 and 2024, Best Microfiction 2024, Penn Review online, The McNeese Review 2023 print, IHLR 2024 print and Emerson Review 2024 print, among others.

Gauri Awasthi, born and raised in Kanpur, India, received her MFA in creative writing from McNeese State University. She has won fellowships from Yaddo, Hambidge Center, Hedgebrook, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and Sundress Academy for The Arts. Her writing has been published in Best New Poets 2023, Quarterly West, Notre Dame Review, The Rumpus, Buzzfeed, and others. She is an editor at The Offing and Elle Magazine.

Sheree Shatsky is the author of the novella-in-flash Summer 1969 (Ad Hoc Fiction 2023). She is a collage contributor to MAINTENANT 18: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art ‘PLUTOCRAZY’ (Three Rooms Press 2024). Her work has been nominated for Best of The Net 2024 (Gone Lawn), Best Microfiction 2022 (Splonk Flash) and Best Microfiction 2020 (Fictive Dream and MoonPark Review). She writes "Shared Madness" on her Substack. Sheree calls Florida home and is a Tom Petty fan.

Grace Frye is a graphic designer based in Atlanta, Georgia. In her free time, she creates cut-paper collages that fragment and recombine elements from fine art, popular media, and various ephemera. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Millsaps College and attended design portfolio school at the Creative Circus.

Rosemary Downing-Espinal is a Brooklyn-based, queer outsider artist who mainly focuses on whimsical portraits and bright pop abstracts. She does non-profit consulting as a trade is a mental health and human rights advocate.

She teaches illustration at Parsons the New School for Design and the School of Visual Arts. Client include: Penguin Random House (Tundra, Knopf, Wendy Lamb, Viking), HarperCollins Children’s, Hachette Books (Orbit, Little, Brown, Worthy Kids), Sleeping Bear Press, Flux Books, Scholastic/Marvel, Boom! Studios/Adventure Time, Nosy Crow, Union Square & Co, Walker Books, Orca Book Publishers, Bonnier Books, Barbour Books, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, NYU Alumni Magazine, Wired/Backchannel, Town & Country, The Stranger, Lucky Peach, The Baffler, Clean Eating Magazine, Spectre Journal, Northwell Health, Crunchyroll, Lighthouse Creative, IDEO, Viacom, Jersey Post, and Evar Records.