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.

Rachel White (she/her) is an American-born poet and artist who lives and works on Kaurna land in South Australia.

Noah Renn has lived as a working writer and educator in Southeastern Virginia for over 15 years.

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.

Carla M. Cherry is a high school English teacher. Her work has appeared in Random Sample Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, 433, and Raising Mothers.

Ankit Raj Ojha is a poet, assistant professor of English, former software engineer and former rock band frontman from Chapra, Bihar, India.

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

Jared Beloff is a teacher and poet who lives in Queens, NY with his wife and two daughters.

Billy Howell's work has appeared in The Florida Review, Lumina, Blue Mesa Review, and elsewhere.

Joshua Wetjen is a high school English teacher living in Minneapolis and working in St. Paul.

Karis Lee is a middle-school-teacher. She lives and writes in Washington D.C.

Caitlin M.S. Buxbaum is a writer and teacher from Wasilla, Alaska. She currently serves as CEO of Red Sweater Press.

Kristin Van Tassel lives and teaches in rural Central Kansas. She writes essays and poetry about place, travel, and teaching.

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

Abby Manzella is the author of Migrating Fictions: Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements.

Charlotte Cosgrove is a Poet and English Lecturer from Liverpool, England. Her work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies.

Jon Davis is the author of six chapbooks and seven full-length poetry collections, including Above the Bejeweled City and more.

Cassandra Whitaker (they/them) is a trans writer from Virginia whose work has been published in Michigan Quarterly Review and more.