Jaz is an Award-winning Published Poet, Singer, Author, Performance Poet, Playwright, Theater Artist, Songwriter (ASCAP), Composer and more.

Sally Toner is a writer and high school English teacher who has lived in the DMV for over 25 years.

James Dickson teaches English and Creative Writing at Germantown High School, just outside of Jackson, MS.

Megan Munger is a Kansas poet and Pacific University MFA Candidate. She received her M.A. in English from Pittsburg State University.

Sofi Guven is a writer and poet from Cincinnati, Ohio. She has previously been published by Wilderness House Literary Review and more.

Jean Prokott's poetry collection The Second Longest Day of the Year won the Howling Bird Press Book Prize (Howling Bird Press).

Adeeba Rana

Jennifer Hyde Dracos-Tice (she/her) has poems published in SWWIM Every Day, Witness, Psaltery & Lyre, Crab Orchard Review, and more.

Kathleen Hellen is the author of three full-length poetry collections, including Meet Me at the Bottom, and more.

Ewen Glass (he/him) is a lecturer and poet from Northern Ireland who lives with two dogs, a tortoise and lots of self-doubt.

Frances Klein (she/her) is an Alaskan poet and teacher. She is the 2022 winner of the Robert Golden Poetry Prize.

Evan Morgan Willams retired in 2022 after 29 years of teaching in a public school.

Candice M. Kelsey [she/her] is a poet, essayist, and educator living in both Los Angeles and Georgia.

Tarn Wilson is the author of the memoir The Slow Farm, the memoir-in-essays In Praise of Inadequate Gifts, and more.

Elizabeth Burton lives, writes, and teaches writing in rural Western Kentucky.

Jack B. Bedell is Professor of English and Coordinator of Creative Writing at Southeastern Louisiana University.

Jessica Cuello has been awarded The 2022 Nina Riggs Poetry Prize, two CNY Book Awards, The 2016 Washington Prize, and more.

Born in Puerto Rico, John Yohe has worked as a wildland firefighter, wilderness ranger and fire lookout.

Boyd Bauman grew up on a small ranch south of Bern, Kansas, his dad the storyteller and mom the family scribe.

Dean Hel is a writer and educator based in Houston, Texas. Their work has appeared in Assignment Literary Magazine and Five on the Fifth.