Eden Lozano (they/them) is a full-time student at Cameron University. Aside from creative writing, they are a staunch cinephile with an affinity for all things sci-fi.

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 Words Faire. When he’s not writing, Ryan enjoys reading, listening to music, watching movies, and traveling.

Noah Goldsher is a Professor of English, currently teaching at Quinnipiac University, and a graduate of Emerson College's MFA program in fiction and creative writing. His work has been published in the Raw Art Review (2020) and Noctua Review (2021), Southern Connecticut State University's Graduate Literary Journal. In 2019 he won first place at Emerson's Graduate Student Awards for short fiction. He likes cats, hiking, political debate, kosher dill pickles, and Dungeons and Dragons.

Stacey Lounsberry’s work has appeared in Heavy Feather Review, Liminal Spaces, Appalachian Places, SBLAAM, Book of Matches, Clepsydra and others. Her flash fiction, “The Bet,” (first published by The Mersey Review) is a 2025 Best of the Net nominee (Sundress Publications). She is a full-time mother and writer, and holds a BFA in Creative Writing and an MAT in Special Education. Find her in Eastern Kentucky, online at www.sglounsberry.com, or on twitter @sglounsberry.

Ross Hargreaves has an MFA from the University of Idaho. His work has appeared in Mikrokosmos, Quibble Lit, God's Cruel Joke, Fatal Flaw, Drunk Monkeys and the Boiler. He lives and writes in Idaho.

Kote Lien is a recent college graduate, having obtained his BA in English at the University of Utah. He loves Star Wars, his cat named Phish, and the Oxford comma.

Yanis Iqbal is currently studying at Aligarh Muslim University, India. His poems have been published in outlets such as Radical Art Review, Culture Matters, etc. Two of his poems were also selected for inclusion in the Anthology of Contemporary Poetry: Meet the Poets of Today.

Amanda Draznin (she/her) is studying English and Creative Writing at Elon University. Her work has been previously published in The Weight Journal, Beyond Words Magazine and Youth Be Heard. When she isn’t writing you could find her playing the tenor saxophone or reading through her collection of books.

Georgia Prints is a fiction writer whose work explores the quiet dread beneath memory, myth, and the everyday. Her stories often blur the line between the natural and the uncanny, drawing on themes of history, grief, and transformation. She lives in California.

David Larsen is a writer who lives in El Paso, Texas. His stories have been published in numerous literary journals and magazines including Cholla Needles, The Heartland Review, Floyd County Moonshine, The Mantelpiece, Oakwood, The Words Faire, Canyon Voices, Change Seven, Literary Heist, Aethlon, Coneflower Café, The Raven Review, Voices, Dark Winter Literary Magazine, Mobius, The Griffel Literary Magazine, Bright Flash Literary Review, El Portal and October Hill Magazine.

Daniel Ruefman is a widely published poet and emerging author of speculative fiction. His poetry and prose has appeared in more than 100 periodicals to date, including THE BARELY SOUTH REVIEW, BURNINGWORD, CHAPTER HOUSE JOURNAL, HAMILTON STONE REVIEW, SHEEPSHEAD REVEIW, and THIN AIR MAGAZINE, just to name a few. When not writing, he teaches the craft at the University of Wisconsin--Stout.

Travis Stephens is a tugboat captain who lives and works with his family in California. His book of poetry, “skeeter bit & still drunk” was published by Finishing Line Press.

Patricia Sas, a young Romanian artist based in Spain, is a psychology student who tries to put together long-lost pieces of her culture. She is interested in feminine intergenerational trauma and the effects of emigration on family dynamics. In her free time, she gives voice to her community through uncensored and raw poetry.

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Kenna DeValor (they/them/theirs) is a glittering mythical creature that lives right outside your peripherals. (Just kidding!) Kenna is a queer and nonbinary writer that hails from pothole-adorned paradise: Bethlehem, PA and has been published over 50+ times in 2024 alone (Including Word's Faire with "Mother Mirror"!) They recently came out with their third poetry collection entitled DISCOFRUIT. Kenna proudly holds a B.A in English/Creative Writing from Bloomsburg University. Kenna currently attends Wilkes University for their MFA program in Creative Writing (Poetry/Fiction/Publishing). When not writing, reading, or making fun DIY zines, Kenna is a professional tattoo artist and the EIC/Founder of the lit-arts magazine FlowerMouth Press.

Betsy Robertson was a finalist for the Rash Award in Poetry. She is a lecturer at San Diego State University and the mom of five children. Her focus is on women's health and menopause.

Laura Lambie has published in The Ginosko Literary Journal, The Writing Disorder Literary Journal, The Galway Review, EgoPHobia, The Bookends Review, The New English Review and The Why Vandalism? Literary & Arts Journal. She will be featured in The Meadow: Literary and Arts Journal.

Kimberly Oyola Ferreira is a student writer that explores themes of fear and isolation through poetry.

Egale Tolbler is a college student studying journalism and a writer for his college’s newspaper.

Bhupin Butaney is a poet and writer drawn to the quiet forces that shape human experience—emotion, memory, and elemental change. His work blends lyrical restraint with metaphysical inquiry, often turning to the natural world as a mirror for interior transformation. His poems have been featured in Lone Mountain Literary Society (Duality & Pradox), Antonym, Ariel’s Dream Literary Journal, In Parentheses, Black Works, ParABnormal Magazine, Tales of the Strange, and other literary publications.

Dakota William Szaniszlo is a poet and prosist from Tucson, AZ. They are a committed practitioner of shower-singing, a volunteer life-coach for the dead, an unlicensed self-surgeon, and an avid collector of tossed-out ideologies. They enjoy contemplating ineffable abstraction, dreams constantly, and spends most of their free time on long drives through various mental landscapes. They have been previously featured in various journals including: The Antonym - A Bridge to Global Literature, Canyon Voices, Punt Volat, LatineLit, and The Ana.

Jake Wright is a published poet (on the Word’s Faire no less) who is pursuing a minor in creative writing at UBCO. When Jake isn’t writing, he’s usually crying over university, skiing, or gaming. He wrote this story for his girlfriend, who seemed to enjoy it, thank goodness! Jake can be found on his youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/@WritingwithWright

Matthew Wood is a cum laude graduate of CSULB’s creative writing program. He has had fiction published in Heartwood Literary magazine, Chapter House, carte blanche, Washington Square Review LCC, and El Camino College’s Myriad, where he was awarded the Tom Lew Prize for Fiction

Abby Pullan is a 21-year-old creative writing graduate and working-class woman from Huddersfield. Her debut collection Bread & Blood is available on Amazon.

Ezra James Fiddimore is a writer, artist, musician and Tourette's Syndrome advocate based in Brighton, the bustling queer capital of England. By day, he is calling in sick to work. Ezra grew up between Germany and England, and holds a BA in English and Drama from Royal Holloway. He been published in Bar Bar, Oscurita and The Orbital. He enjoys a subversive approach to spelling, punctuation and grammar, and is not (where possible) prone to briefishness.

A. J. Frantz is from Detroit and currently studies urban planning at Oberlin College. Her work has appeared in Folio, Meniscus, Prime Number Magazine, ellipsis, and elsewhere.

O.P. Jha’s works appeared in more than one hundred journals including Rigorous, Mantis, In Parentheses, Shot Glass, Odessa Collective, Backchannels, Poetry Pacific, Five Fleas, miniMag, Iceblink, Infinite Scroll, The Rome Review, Kelp, pulplit, etc. His poems are in anthologies "We were Seeds" and "We are Resilient".

Harry Bauld was twice first-team All-Ivy shortstop at Columbia and broke Lou Gehrig’s records. (Unfortunately his academic records.) A writer, painter, translator and teacher in the Bronx, he has won awards for work that has appeared in numerous journals in the U.S. and the U.K. He was included by Matthew Dickman in the anthology Best New Poets 2012 (UVa Press) and has performed in New York and elsewhere as a magician and jazz pianist.

Jones Irwin teaches Philosophy and Education in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. He has published poetry most recently in Espacio Fronterizo (Borderland/ Espace Frontière), and with Moonstone Press and Tofu Ink Press. He is resident Poetry Critic and Columnist with Red Ogre Review. His first Chapbook of poems, entitled 'GHOST TOWN' was published by Moonstone Press, Philadelphia, US, in Summer 2022. His second Chapbook of poems, entitled 'American Haikus', was published in Autumn 2024, also with Moonstone Press. His third Chapbook, entitled ‘Deep Image’, will be published by Tofu Ink Press in early 2025.

Joshua Sabatini was born in Hartford, Connecticut. In October 2002, he moved to San Francisco, California. He's currently on retreat in Katama, Massachusetts. His 2023 published writings include “Jack and the Trumpet” in Rock Salt Journal. In 2024, he published "Cosmic Harmonies," a collection of 49 haiku. The author can be reached at JoshuaSabatini@gmail.com.