Patrick T. Reardon

Patrick T. Reardon, a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee for poetry, worked for 32 years as a Chicago Tribune reporter. He has published six poetry collections, including Darkness on the Face of the Deep, Salt of the Earth and Puddin’: The Autobiography of a Baby, A Memoir in Prose Poems. Reardon’s poetry has appeared in America, Rhino, Commonweal, Poetry East and other journals.

Liam Strong

Liam Strong (they/them) is a queer neurodivergent straight edge punk writer who has earned their BA in writing from University of Wisconsin-Superior. They are the author of the chapbook Everyone's Left the Hometown Show (Bottlecap Press, 2023). You can find their poetry and essays in Vagabond City and new words {press}, among several others. They are most likely gardening and listening to Bitter Truth somewhere in Northern Michigan. Find them on Instagram/Twitter: @beanbie666

Evan Sandifer

Evan Sandifer is a creative that can be found cutting new looks into their wardrobe and frantically rearranging the art on their walls. They have found a particular home in poetry, where their joy for words, their emotion, and their curious spirit can play in unbound territory. They have received several silver and gold keys from the Scholastic Writing Awards competitions, and their work has been featured in The Kenyon Review Literary Magazine. They recently published their debut anthology Body Mechanics (2024), and they are excited to continue pushing the boundaries of what they can achieve in their writing. Evan is a lover of good company and will take any chance they can to dive into a range of topics, from the ethics of Dark Souls to the intricacies of rap.

Emma Johnson-Rivard

Emma Johnson-Rivard lives in Maryland where she writes poetry and weird fiction. Her work has appeared in Fearsome Critters, Coffin Bell, Moon City Review, and others.

Sean Gallagher

Sean Gallagher learned to appreciate the ghoulish side of the everyday and find simplicity in lines and color from Edward Gorey's work, yet he couldn’t rely on the same ghastly wit that defined Gorey’s work. Gallagher credits his parents for building an environment that allowed his creative side to flourish. If it hadn’t been for them, he wouldn’t have started drawing or been introduced to Gorey or stumbled upon the core of his artwork, which he found in the dozens of coffee table books about photography his parents owned. Gallagher was drawn to the works of Diane Arbus and Saul Leiter and he studied how they composed a shot to reveal beauty in the mundane and the dignity of outsiders. Gallagher was especially inspired by the Arbus quote, “A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.” From that, he found that he loved the challenge of making in-between moments picturesque. Recently, Gallagher was selected for the Under the Radar series, which celebrates the top 10 undiscovered artist in the lowcountry by Charleston Magazine. His art has also been featured or is slated to appear in several publications: Allegory Ridge, Tint Journal, The Closed Eye Open, Passengers Journal, Vineyard Literary, Red Ogre Review, Liminal Spaces, Beaver Magazine, Fauxmoir Literary Magazine, Quarter Press, and High Shelf Press.

E. P. Tuazon

E. P. Tuazon is a Filipino-American writer from Los Angeles. They have work in several publications and their newest book is called A PROFESSIONAL LOLA (Red Hen Press, 2024). They were chosen by ZZ Packer as the winner of the 2022 AWP Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction. They are a member of Advintage Press and The Blank Page Writing Club. In their spare time, they like to go to Filipino Seafood Markets to gossip with the crabs.

Rex Wilder

Rex Wilder is a multi-media artist who identifies as a New Pictorialist. He believes, as Stieglitz did nearly a hundred years ago, mainly that the image should be an aesthetic symbolic record of a scene plus the artist's personal comment and interpretation, capable of transmitting an emotional response to the mind of a receptive spectator. It should show originality, imagination, unity of purpose, a quality of repose, and have an infinite quality about it. “Showing what I see is secondary to demonstrating what I feel,” he says. He is also an award-winning poet, with four books to his credit. A fifth book which combines his images and his verbal reflections is making the rounds now: A Quiet Place to Land, which deals with a remarkable recovery from serious mental illness. He is now Chair of the Board of Directors at The Maple Counseling Center in Los Angeles.

Jo Underwood is a writer from Greenville, South Carolina. Her work has been featured in Ambient Heights, The Library of Poetry Collection, and Sefer. She is the recipient of the 2024 Gilmore Award for Excellence in Creative Writing and serves as the Vice President of the Charleston Southern University Writer's Guild. When not writing, she spends most of her time teaching, sitting in her CSU professors' offices, or fighting dragons in her living room with her friends while playing Dungeons and Dragons.

Jo Underwood

Kathryn D. Temple

Kathryn D. Temple has taught at Georgetown University for almost thirty years but only began writing poetry during the pandemic. Her latest work has appeared in Streetlight, Metaworker, Delmarva Review, and 3elements, among others. She has published two academic books on law and emotions and many essays in academic journals. Find her on the Chesapeake Bay or at https://georgetown.academia.edu/KathrynTemple and https://medium.com/@templek

Ivan de Monbrison

Ivan de Monbrison is a person affected by strong psychic disorders that prevent him from having a "normal" life. He has found in writing an exit to this prison. Or maybe it is a simple window from which, like an inmate, he can see a small square of blue sky above his head. His writing often reflects the never ending chaos within him, but a contrario to this mental chaos, the paper and the pen give him the opportunity to materialize this in a concrete and visible form. Writing is probably a slow death, but it's probably also better than mere suicide in the end.

Jack Lindsay

Jack Lindsay is a student and writer from South Carolina. His fiction is a place where his experiences can rest, fit in the files of the story and make it real: a tie hanging from a street sign, the look of a conch shell after it cuts your foot, a blue heron taking flight. He is the author of the novel In the Old House. At any given time, he can be found writing in about eight different notebooks, talking to strangers, and perusing his grandfather’s old books on his remote barrier island home near the ocean.