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Dimitry Partsi is a writer of absurdist fiction, surreal comedy, and speculative work. His humor appears in Defenestration Magazine and Little Old Lady Comedy; his darker fiction in Tales from the Moonlit Path and Horrific-Scribblings; his speculative pieces in 365tomorrows and Blood+Honey
Joshua Walker is a poet known for raw, mythic, and emotionally intense work. He has been published in Potomac Review, Southern Florida Poetry Journal, and Solarpunk Magazine. His poetry blends personal experience with universal resonance.
Jennifer Weigel lives in Kansas, USA. Weigel has been a regular contributor to Haunted MTL and is involved with Nat1 Publishing. Author of Witch Hayzelle’s Recipes for Disaster trilogy and a myriad of short stories, poems, art discourse, and more drifting around the Interwebs. https://jenniferweigelart.com/
G.R. Kramer, a Virginian nearing old age, has been writing poetry for publication for the past decade. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Oberon, Palette Poetry, Red Wheelbarrow and Winter Anthology, among other places. His chapbook, Locomotive of Mangled Parts, is available from Finish Line Press.
Debra Tracy is a Puerto Rican–American writer based on Florida’s Space Coast, where rockets, rain trees, and family lore constantly sneak into her work. She shares bits of her writing life and lots of food pics on Instagram @debinthemoon
Dr. Jenny Butler’s first published book was the short story collection, Limerence for Lost Souls (House of Pomegranates Press, 2021). She has short stories published in numerous publications, including Corvus Review, The Raven’s Perch Literary Magazine, Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Other Terrain: Swinburne University Literary Journal, and Thorn Literary Magazine. You can find out more about her on her website www.drjennybutler.com
Edward Baranosky crosses the channels and pathways between the visual and the textual as a poet-artist. He has published several chapbooks of poetry, as well as recent Journal and Anthology inclusions, but no full collection. At 78, he is still an emerging poet.
Fiona Hartmann is a writer living in Toronto, Canada. She is interested in creating thought-provoking fiction that creates emotional connections that transcend through the digital landscape of modernity. Find her published and forthcoming work in Kelp Journal, Shot Glass Journal, Neologism Poetry Journal and elsewhere.
S.E. Street’s fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have been published in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. She is a recipient of the Dymocks Short Story Prize for fiction, the Hunter Writers Award, and the SCWC HARP winner for poetry.
Jennifer Handy is the author of the poetry chapbooks California Burning (Bottlecap Press, 2024) and Dirt (Finishing Line Press, 2025).
Lise Mayne (aka LG Pomerleau) is a retired educator writing poetry and prose from her home in Alberta. An associate of the League of Canadian Poets, the Canadian Authors’ Association and the Writers’ Union of Canada, her poetry is published in ten international literary publications, honoured by five award nominations. Lise’s life-long passion for Canadian history and immigration stories inspired two novels, Becoming Sand (2012) and Time Enough (Oprelle Publications, 2024)
James Henry Hils is a pseudonymous fiction writer and technology attorney based in Atlanta, GA. He is currently at work on his debut manuscript of literary fiction.
Sully Proctor is a writer from North Carolina. He enjoys long walks on the beach. When not enjoying long walks on the beach, he advocates for the dismantlement of suburban lawns.
Evan Truth does live sound for rock bands in his city. By day, when he isn't reading the work of literary greats, he is trying to write his own. Follow him on Instagram @evan.truth.
Keith W. Norris is an insurance claims professional by day, and a poet and author by night. He is a graduate of Western Kentucky University, and attended the Naslund-Mann School of Writing at Spalding University. He is on the autism spectrum, and frequently writes about that issue. He lives in Moraine, Ohio.
Edward Baranosky has painted seascapes since he was seven years old. His focus on marine- scapes, draws him back to visit his native home in the American east coast, for inspiration from the North Atlantic. His work emphasizes the present - in the ever-changing moments of water. As a poet-artist he crosses the channels and pathways between the visual and the textual. He continues to exhibit in the United States and Canada.
Rachel Seidel is a poet and visual artist based in Pennsylvania. Her work explores themes of love, identity, and nature. She has been published in Wingless Dreamer. When not writing, she teaches kindergarten and practices archery—though not at the same time.
Brianna Genoble is a writer and recent MFA graduate from Spartanburg, South Carolina. Her work ranges from literary to speculative fiction. She loves the taboo, the surreal, and the human condition.
CD Mangal is a student who loves to write poetry and is inspired by nature. When not writing, CD can usually be found dancing.
Crispin Anderlini is a professional storyteller using images, text, and video who now lives and writes and photographs in Penang, Malaysia. Previous work has appeared in various places, including Litro USA, Fresh Ink Anthologies, and Between These Shores Literary & Arts Annual.
Paul Potts is an 18 year old Oklahoman poet. He began writing poetry in late 2024 after a recommendation from his teachers and peers. You can find his works in the JUST POETRY! 2024-2025 anthologies and the OKCTE YWC 2025 Anthology.
Richard McMullin graduated from The University of Massachusetts, where he studied creative writing. Originally from Boston, he worked as a social worker for five years and then moved to New York to work for McGraw-Hill. After three years living in New York, he moved to Chicago to work as a publishing rep. His stories have appeared in Half and One, Literatus, Write Launch, and Words Faire.
Sophia Bourne is a somatic practitioner and facilitator whose work explores the thresholds between body and imagination. She is interested in the depth, creativity, and complexity of our inner worlds, and how the body holds stories often left untold. Her writing, spanning poetry and creative nonfiction, is rooted in somatic studies and contemplative practice, guided by the belief that the body is both a keeper of memory and meaning. She writes to bridge inner and outer worlds, uncover hidden narratives and transform them into new forms of expression, beauty, and understanding.
Mark Smeltzer is an aspiring rural poet. He has a master's degree in English from Utah State University. He lives against the mountains of northern Utah with his wife, Chelsea, and rescue pup, Hashbrown.
Solomon Fraga is an aspiring author and poet. He has recently had his first poetry publications in the June 2024 issue at The Write Launch and in the book ‘Seven Jumbled Words’ at Poets Choice.
Erik Peters is a father and avid mediaevalist from Vancouver, Canada. His writing is influenced by late antiquity, his family, and his students. Erik has been featured in Coffin Bell, Zoetic, Takahe, Beyond Literary Words, and Thirty West. You can check out all Erik's work at erikpeters.ca.
Ryan Rahman is a writer based in Orlando, Florida. His works have appeared in Beyond Words Magazine, The Stardust Review, Half and One, BarBar, Humans of The World, WILDsound Writing Festival (Festival for Poetry), Wingless Dreamer Publisher, Moonstone Arts Center, Poets Choice, and The Word's Faire. When he’s not writing, Ryan enjoys reading, listening to music, watching movies, and traveling.
Olivia Kral is a New England-based artist, poet, and token ‘lesbian with a Subaru’. When not in an existential crisis, you'll find her researching the history of a niche topic or replaying a CD for the 12th time in a row. Connect with her @oliviagkral
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Sarah Crane is a lifelong reader and writer, unpublished unless you count college papers or medical journals. She is a youngish old person who has spent 35 years as a physician and parent living in Boston. She reads two novels at any given time, The New Yorker, and two papers delivered daily although she knows that is archaic but can't stop as it links her to her childhood at the table with her parents.
John C. Krieg is a retired landscape architect and land planner who formerly practiced in Arizona, California, and Nevada. He is also retired as an International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) certified arborist and currently holds seven active categories of California state contracting licenses, including the highest category of Class A General Engineering. He has written a college textbook entitled Desert Landscape Architecture (1999, CRC Press). In conjunction with filmmaker/photographer Charles Sappington, Mr. Krieg has completed a two-part documentary film entitled Landscape Architecture: The Next Generation (2010).
Jane Dill is an emerging writer from Mississippi. She has an MFA in Creative Writing, an MA in French, and a BA in Fine Arts. She travels often to Paris.
Charlotte Burnett is dyslexic and a high-functioning autistic. She lives in Scotland, and has had short stories published in literary journals such as The Write Launch and Coffin Bell. She also has a Bachelor’s in Science from the Open University, focusing on Psychology and Sociology.
Anna Oberg is a professional photographer based in Estes Park, Colorado. When she's not arranging family portraits with the perfect view of Long's Peak as backdrop, she focuses on writing tiny memories and small stories. She has been published in Hunger Mountain Review, The South Dakota Review, Mud Season Review, Pidgeonholes, Causeway Lit, The Maine Review, decomp Journal, The Festival Review, and Split Rock Review, among others.
Esabeau Harrington is a senior creative writing student at Rocky Mountain College in Billings Montana. Her work often involves the relationships in her life and also includes themes surrounding mental and physical health.
Rodney Crisp is an Australian author and freethinker who lives and writes in Paris near Montmartre, the favorite haunt of the 19th-century impressionist painters, between the modest lodgings in which Suzanne Valadon gave birth to her son, Maurice Utrillo, and the elegant bourgeois apartment of Paul Cézanne.
Andrew Sarewitz has published more than 60 short stories (website: www.andrewsarewitz.com) along with several scripts. Mr. Sarewitz is a recipient of the 2021 City Artists Corp Grant. His play, Alias Madame Andrèe, garnered First Prize from Stage to Screen New Playwrights in San Jose, CA.
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