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Sabrina Shabana Vellani is an Indo-Canadian actress and poet from Vancouver, BC, Canada. Her photography and poetry can be found at @sabrinavellanipoetry on Instagram. Her work has appeared in The New York Quarterly, The Literary Review of Canada, Dark Winter Literary and more. She has just finished her debut poetry manuscript with the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive. Her latest poem, Identity, was released recently in Blue Moon Publishers' Canada Is Our Poem Anthology as well as her three poems in Tidewater Press' Emerge 25 collection.
Jada Johnson is a recent graduate of Auburn University at Montgomery where she won the 2025 Outstanding Capstone Project for her poetry chapbook. She plans to publish this chapbook, cementing her unique abilities within their literary world. Her favorite hobbies include baking Trader Joe’s blueberry muffins and collecting Studio Ghibli journals.
David Anson Lee is a poet, philosopher, and former academic ophthalmologist whose work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Right Hand Pointing, Braided Way, Ink Sweat & Tears, Eunoia Review, Silver Birch Press, The Scarred Tree, The Orchards, Journal of Undiscovered Poets, and Mouthful of Salt. Born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, he often explores themes of memory, identity, landscape, medicine, environmental stewardship, and the enduring relationship between human beings and the natural world. His poetry combines lyrical imagery with philosophical reflection and is informed by a lifelong interest in literature, science, and Indigenous traditions. He lives in Texas and is currently assembling a collection of poems exploring ecological responsibility, cultural memory, and hope. Substack: https://davidalee.substack.com/
Lydia Pejovic is a writer and alum of the English MA/MFA program at Chapman University. She received her BA in English from the University of San Diego. She writes both fiction and poetry and has been published in Tab Journal, Bluepepper, the Maine Review, and more. Check her out at https://www.lydiapejovic.com/.
Cassell Presnell is a senior Creative Writing and Psychology double major with a minor in Rhetoric & Writing at Miami University, Ohio. She is the Co-Editor-In-Chief for part of Happy Captive Magazine, Secretary of the Honors Student Advisory Board, and an active Assistant Stage Manager in Stage Left. She also frequently volunteers as a judge and editor for non-profit, The Writer's Workout, and its various publications. Mostly, Cassell writes long-form fantasy and is a wannabe poet. Originally, she is from Charleston, South Carolina, and is returning for law school in the Fall.
Sahalie Angell Martin grew up on a sheep farm in Oregon. She has an MFA from the Ohio State University and teaches writing at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan. Her work has been featured in Hobart After Dark, The Superstition Review, and Writer's Digest.
Shaira Sultana is a Canadian writer from Scarborough who was born and raised in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Her writing typically explores topics of heartbreak, love, family, and belonging. She has one published poem within Tint Journal’s Fall ‘25 Issue, titled “I’m from Elsewhere.” Aside from writing, her hobbies include befriending cats, crocheting, and escaping into the vast and wonderful world of books whenever she can.
Riley Danvers is a bisexual, nonbinary, and disabled poet living in Portland, Oregon. Their poetry has been published in Z Publishing House, Silkworm, Clackamas Literary Review, Other Worldly Women Press, Chasing Shadows, Wingless Dreamer Publication, Poets Choice, Fox Paw Literary Blog, The Endeavor: Maiden Voyage, Wingless Dreamer Publications, and the anthology MOSAIC. Riley graduated with their M.F.A. in Poetry from Willamette University in 2021, and completed their M.A. in Literature from Mercy College in 2023. They are currently pursuing an M.S. in Professional Writing from NYU. Their debut book of poetry, Even the Air, Too Heavy, was published by First Matter Press in 2022.
Keith A. Dodson’s poems appeared in zines such as: Abbey, Asylum, Bogg, Catalyst, Chiron Review, Impetus, Lactuca, Pearl, Poetry Motel, Quick Brown Fox, Slipstream, and Wormwood Review. Recent poems have appeared in Beatnik Cowboy, Ink Nest, Jackdaw Review, Molecule, Myra’s Micros, Sheepshead Review, The Blotter, and The Argyle Lit Mag. Keith fondly remembers when typewriters ruled the world and "cut and paste" involved blue-lined graph paper, Xacto knives, and rubber cement. Like a submarine operating in The Small Press Sea for forty years, Keith spends much of his time submerged but does occasionally rise to periscope depth, search for a suitable target, fire a spread of torpedoes, and hope for a hit.
Ryan O'Toole is a writer living in Chicago. He earned an M.A. in Writing from the University of Galway. His work appears in HeartWood Literary Journal, storySouth, Two Thirds North, and elsewhere. He can be found online at realtowersrealbridges.substack.com
Jason Telese is a writer and MFA candidate in Creative Writing at The University of Alabama, where he is an assistant fiction editor at Black Warrior Review. His stories often explore varying portraits of masculinity, addiction, and existential discomfort. His work can be found under large rocks or sometimes—if you don’t floss daily—between your teeth, causing serious decay.
Alexa Levitt is a 14 year old writer based in New York hoping to one day become an author. Her poems have appeared in The Fib Review, "Beautiful Truth- Echoes of The Mind," and "A Celebration of Poets." She has not (at the time of writing) published a work of fiction.
Ruth Zwald When an astrologer told her she had no “earth” in her birth sign, Ruth set about finding ways to ground. On her farm in West Michigan, Ruth starts every day with good coffee, tends large gardens, and lives close to the earth through her lifestyle and spiritual practices. Upon retirement, she also started to unearth words. In 2024, Ruth was named winner of the Michigan Writers Cooperative Press Chapbook Contest for her collection entitled, “Bones And Breath.” She has also been published in several periodicals, most recently in Farmer-ish Journal, Poetry For Mental Health, The Guilded Weathervane, The Bluebird Word, and Tangled Locks.
Jenny McBride’s writing has appeared in Grub Street Literary Magazine, Common Ground Review, DASH Literary Journal, The California Quarterly, Streetwise, 300 Days of Sun, Rockford Review, Inscape, and elsewhere. She makes her home in the rainforest of southeast Alaska.
Edward Johnson is a civil rights attorney who has spent the past 30 years representing people living on and over the edge of homelessness. One of his cases involving the fundamental rights of people forced to live outside, Johnson v. Grants Pass went to the Supreme Court of the United States in 2024. He is currently living in a cabin in the North Cascades working on poems, old and new. He has work recently out or forthcoming from Eclectica Magazine, Down in the Dirt, Beatnik Cowboy, Indefinite Space, Main Street Rag, Ginosko Literary Journal, Packingtown Review, cc&d , The Dissident Voice, Evergreen Review, Double Dutch and Whisk(ey) Tit.
Delilah James has spent the first seventeen years of her life in western New York before shipping up to Vermont for school. Delilah is currently in her second year of a Champlain College filmmaking BFA at the moment, specializing in screenwriting.
Steven Downer Jr. is a guy from Tunbridge, Vermont, who wants to make a name for himself. More than just making a name, through his writing he wants to make an impact on the readers. He wants his poetry to be thought about years from now, something that makes the reader think
A. X. is an emerging mixed-race poet from Texas. Having simple roots from the homegrown suburbia of The Colony, they have been writing poetry since the age of 12. They enjoy playing guitar and lounging at home with their cat.
Jessica Reyes is a graduate of Kennesaw State University, holding a BA in English and a Professional Editing and Publishing Certificate. Her work focuses on editing and creative writing, with interests in gender and women’s studies and queer theory. When not writing, she explores visual storytelling through post-production filmmaking and engages in her other hobbies such as music, gaming, and other narrative-driven media.
Cassady O’Reilly-Hahn is a poet with an MA from Claremont Graduate University. He is an editor for Foothill: A Poetry Journal that highlights graduate student voices. He works for Deluxe, a company that localizes TV and Film for a global audience. In his free time, Cassady writes Haiku for his personal blog, orhawrites and his Instagram @cassady_orha. Cassady currently lives in Redlands, California, with his wife, Anabelle, and their two pugs, Wyatt and Jasper.
Lynn D. Gilbert's poems, twice nominated for Pushcart Prizes, have appeared in such journals as After Happy Hour Review, Blue Unicorn, carte blanche, The MacGuffin, Ponder Review, Sheepshead Review, and Southwestern American Literature. Her poetry volume has been a finalist in the Gerald Cable and Off the Grid Press book contests. A founding editor of Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, she lives in an Austin suburb and reviews poetry submissions for Third Wednesday journal.Lynn D. Gilbert
Cady Wu is a poet, writer, and artist of all sorts based in the Seattle area. She is a seventeen-time Scholastic Art & Writing Awards winner, and her work has similarly been recognized by Saints & Fleurs and the Chinese American Citizens Alliance, among others. She ultimately aspires to use her works to express the sentiment of being humanly beautiful. In her free time, she enjoys stargazing, baking, and hugging her tabby cat.
James Ducat’s poetry has appeared in Penn Review, Carve, Bellingham Review, CutBank, Apogee, and elsewhere, has been featured on Verse Daily, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His chapbook A Field of Nopes is from Bamboo Dart Press. His full-length collection Debris Orbits was a 2025 semi-finalist for both the Ashland Poetry Press Richard Snyder Memorial Prize and the 2025 Word Works Washington Prize. James holds an MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles and is professor of English and creative writing at Riverside City College, where he advises the literary journal MUSE. Find him at jamesducat.com.
Helena Wang (she/her) is a high school junior from Connecticut, USA. Though she's a previously unpublished writer, her work has been commended by Scholastic Writing and has made Finalist for DePaul's Blue Book: Best American High School Writing. Her hobbies include playing the viola, listening to indie-rock, and drinking overpriced lattes.
David Lavenda is a poet and physical therapist from Islandia, New York, with thirty years of experience working closely with patients through pain, recovery, and resilience. Drawing from both personal experience and a career spent witnessing the quiet courage of the human body and spirit, his poetry explores bullying, complicated love, legacy, and parenting. His work has been published in Academy of the Heart and Mind.
Tamara Pantović is the author of the poetry collection "Shadows of our Shadows". Her iconic essay "I am not my hair" was published on the Montenegrina.net portal.
James B. Nicola is the author of eight collections of poetry, the latest three being Fires of Heaven: Poems of Faith and Sense, Turns & Twists, and Natural Tendencies. His nonfiction book Playing the Audience: The Practical Actor’s Guide to Live Performance won a Choice magazine award.
Bella Melardi is a poet and author. She writes about the political and personal. She attends OCADU.
