THE EXHIBITION
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THE EXHIBITION •
‘Laundry Manifesto, Unspoken’
Costello Keene is an undergraduate student at Slippery Rock University, where she majors in secondary education English and minors in writing. She has been previously published in multiple young writers' anthologies and acts as the assistant editor for The Slab magazine. Costello has been writing ever since she can remember and could not imagine a world without it.
‘Golden Torus’, ‘The Ceramic Tiger’, & ‘I, Sequoias’
Matt Gulley is a poet, playwright and fiction writer. He attended Wayne State University in Detroit and currently resides in Brooklyn with his partner Jenna. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Moon City Review, The Madrigal, The Minnesota Review and Consequence Forum. Find him @selfawareroomba on Twitter or @mattgulley.bsky.social on Bluesky.
‘Celestial Rendezvous’
Liss McNeilis is a current undergraduate studying English (Creative Writing). She is a first-generation college student with a passion for all things literature.
Rock Opera
William Mullin’s poetry, short stories, and guest blog articles have appeared in Half Tones to Jubilee, Riverwind, REAL: The Journal of Liberal Arts, Limestone, Cyclamens and Swords Magazine, Scrittura Magazine, California Quarterly, Off the Coast, On the Veranda, Orange Coast Review, Rune Bear, Rye Whiskey Review, Salmon Creek Journal, Ripples in Space, State of Matter, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Theme Park Magazine, Local Wolves Magazine, Startup Nation, Submittable's Guest Blog, and the Institute of Internal Communication's Guest Blog. His novella Miller's Ridge is available from World Castle Publishing. His novella Darius Dimension and the Seventh Pillar of Elpis is available from Alien Buddha Press.
‘Past the Wall’
Cheney Luttich enjoys write poems and historical fiction. During the day, she's Professor Luttich at Southeast Community College in Nebraska. Off campus, she's having fun being mom and wife, and she's always up for a road trip to a museum, making a new friend, a chat on the front porch, or a giving a lecture about which of the three 19th century bustle periods is the coolest.
‘Fishing’
Derek Kalback is a music teacher in Cincinnati, OH. In his spare time he reads, writes, and spends time with his three daughters and fiancee.
‘Tambourine Man’
Daniel Ungs is a twenty-three year old writer from Danville, Kentucky. He recently earned his bachelor's degree from Western Kentucky University where he studied English and Film. While attending WKU, Daniel published several works in undergraduate literary and academic journals, such as Zephyrus and The Ashen Egg. He was also the recipient of several creative writing awards at the university, including the Wanda Gatlin Essay Award in 2022, the Dale Rigby Essay Award in 2023, and he took home first place in the Mary Ellen and Jim Wayne Miller Celebration of Writing Fiction Writing Contest in 2023.
‘Montauk’
Thomas Tobin is a 19 year old poet from the New York metropolitan area. In the last year, he has become heavily involved in the Columbus poetry scene.
‘I Am the Undertow’, ‘My Memories Live in Ashtrays’, ‘The Sand That I Am’, ‘Serene Storms’
Alyssa Troy is an English teacher in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She received her B.A. from Rider University and has an M. Ed. from both Cabrini and Eastern University. Her poems are published or forthcoming in Blue Unicorn, Cool Beans Lit, In Parentheses, 300 Days of Sun, The Road Not Taken as well as other journals and magazines. She is the author of Transfiguration (2020).
‘On the Gobi’
Erin Jamieson’s writing has been published in over eighty literary magazines, including two Pushcart Prize nominations. Her poetry chapbook, Fairytales, was published by Bottlecap Press and her most recent chapbook, Remnants, came out in 2024. Her debut novel (Sky of Ashes, Land of Dreams) came out November 2023.
‘Call for Navigation’
Chris Taylor is a young writer of poetry and prose, hoping to connect with others through their own experiences as a queer person and as someone with mental illness. Their free time is filled with family, their dogs, and electronic and alternative music.
‘On the Verge’, ‘Heredity’ & ‘Galveston Bay’
Mikayla Silkman is a writer and editor from southwest Connecticut. She predominantly writes speculative fiction and poetry, with the occasional foray into the creative essay. She is also an independent copyeditor. Her work has been featured in Western Connecticut State University's The Echo, Catholicism Coffee, The Hallowzine, and the 2023 CT State Literary Anthology. Mikayla is a devout Roman Catholic, an SVT survivor, and a proponent of literature and the arts. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, playing video games, and cooking. She is currently a student of Western Connecticut State University's MFA in Professional & Creative Writing program. She and her husband, Gordon, currently live in Bethel, Connecticut, and have a rescue dog named Oobi.
‘Fallen Gods’ & ‘Ophidian's Tongue’
Colin Donnelly is an unpublished writer, looking to start expanding his roots, and gain more experience in the world of publication, with the hopes to someday become a full-fledged author.
‘Chai’ & ‘A Wish of Desire’
Sehaj Dhingra is a fifteen-year-old high school junior who enjoys writing poetry and wishes to share her work with the world. She writes about her connection with nature and her heritage. Her inspirations include authors and poets including Jhumpa Lahiri, Rupi Kaur, and Maya Angelou. She wishes to showcase her poetry and art in different forms so that everyone may be able to relate to it in one way or another.
‘Half-Life of a Birthday Gift’, ‘Geography’ & ‘Math’
Will Neuenfeldt studied English at Gustavus Adolphus College and his poems are published in Capsule Stories, Months to Years, and Red Flag Poetry. He lives in Cottage Grove, MN, home of the dude who played Steven Stifler in those American Pie movies and a house Teddy Roosevelt slept in. Instagram.com/wjnpoems.
‘Biking the Big River Trail on the First Warm Sunday in March’, ‘Wrought’ & ‘Opossum’
Julie Martin lives near the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers. Her work has recently appeared in the following journals: The Talking Stick, Pasque Petals, Plants and Poetry, Agates, and The Coop: A Poetry Cooperative. With poet and artist River Urke, she co-hosts Up Close: Meet the Poet Behind the Verse, a quarterly program that showcases the work of local poets in the Twin Cities and beyond.