TJ Butler writes fiction and essays that are not all fun and games. Her writing has been featured in a variety of media and literary outlets. She lives with her husband and dog, dividing their time between a tiny house and a sailboat on the Chesapeake Bay. She has a...
Shawna Mayer started writing short stories in high school for her history classes. Her teachers’ enthusiasm for her work encouraged her to write more. Once she was in college, she was drawn to enroll in English and writing classes until she figured she’d...
Ashley Elizabeth (she/her) is a Pushcart-nominated writer and educator from Baltimore, MD. Her poetry has appeared in SWWIM, Rigorous, Voicemail Poems, and Daily Drunk Mag, among others. Ashley's sophomore chapbook collection, black has every right to be angry, is...
Anton Yakovlev is the author of four poetry chapbooks: Chronos Dines Alone (SurVision Books, 2018), winner of the James Tate Poetry Prize, Ordinary Impalers (Kelsay Books, 2017), The Ghost of Grant Wood (Finishing Line Press, 2015), and Neptune Court (The Operating...
Maureen Seaton (she/her) has authored two dozen poetry collections, both solo and collaborative—most recently, Undersea (JackLeg, 2021) and a chapbook, How to Get into Trouble, with Carolina Hospital, Nicole Hospital-Medina, and Holly Iglesias (Tres Abuelas y Una...
Jeremy Jusek is the poet laureate of Parma, Ohio (’22-’23). He earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Arcadia University and chemistry/theatre degrees from Marietta College. He has authored more than a half-dozen plays and three poetry collections: We Grow Tomatoes...
Exodus Oktavia Brownlow is a writer, budding beekeeper, and a rising seamstress currently residing in the enchanting pine tree forest of Blackhawk, Ms. She is a graduate of Mississippi Valley State University with a BA in English, and Mississippi University for Women...
Travis Grant is a writer from northern Alberta, Canada. He does most of his writing in a cabin in the woods, inspired by the silent beauty of the north and the folklore, humour and heart of its people. His other work appears at Cowboy Jamboree Magazine & Press,...
Kathryn Silver-Hajo is an internationally published author and Pushcart Prize nominee whose fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry appears in Atticus Review, Bending Genres, Citron Review, Cleaver Magazine, Craft Literary, Emerge Literary Journal, Fictive Dream,...
Laurie Marshall is a writer and artist working in Northwest Arkansas. Her words and art have been published in print and online literary journals and included in recent anthologies from Bath Flash Fiction and Belle Point Press and the upcoming Best Small Fictions...