Adeeba Rana

Jennifer is a veteran English teacher (29 years) who found her writing voice somewhat later in life.

Helen Raica-Klotz teaches literature and composition courses at a regional university in Michigan.

Carolyn Alessio teaches high school on Chicago’s Southwest Side. Her work appears in The Pushcart Prize anthology, Chicago Tribune, & more.

Carolyn R. Russell’s latest novel is "Q & A," a humorous YA mystery which will be published by Vine Leaves Press in June of 2023.

Matthew E. Henry (MEH) is the author of the Colored page, Teaching While Black and Dust & Ashes (Californios Press, 2020).

Mike Keller-Wilson lives, writes, and teaches in Iowa City, Iowa. He is a founder & co-editor-in-chief of Vast Chasm Magazine.

Lisa K. Buchanan is a San Francisco prose writer, an adoptee, a melanoma survivor, and a lover of Lindy Hop.

Addie Tsai (any/all) is a queer nonbinary artist and writer of color who teaches creative writing at William & Mary.

In her youth, Ashley Mezzano would scrawl poems in her notebook and secretly wish her teacher would read them.

Nikki Schulak is a 1st grade teacher in Portland, OR. Her students sometimes call her "the real Ms Frizzle" because her bearded dragon.

Sara Behnke teaches high school English in North Carolina. Prior to teaching, she authored two books on Motherhood.

Kelsey Francis is a teacher living and writing in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York.

Retired from the Quebec public school system, Karen Zey now devotes her time to writing and leading memoir workshops in her community.

Diane Augustine has been teaching for 25 years in both private and public schools.

For the last two decades, Anna B. Moore has been publishing creative nonfiction, essays, and short fiction in a variety of literary journals

Holly Pelesky writes essays, fiction and poetry. She holds an MFA from the University of Nebraska.

Christopher D. DiCicco is the author of So My Mother, She Lives in the Clouds and other stories (Hypertrophic Press).

Amy Watkins is the author of the poetry chapbooks Milk & Water, Lucky and Wolf Daughter.