THE EXHIBITION
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THE EXHIBITION •
‘Olfactory Reading’, ‘Response to Rosalind’ & ‘The Sunday Blues’
Kate Caraballo (née Weaver) is a poet and fiction writer living in Youngstown, Ohio. Her work has been published by Z Publishing House, Agora, The Carroll Review, Quaranzine, and Poetic Sun. Kate earned her B.A. in English at Belmont Abbey College and her M.A. in English at John Carroll University. In 2018, she received the Jean S. Moore Award for Fiction for “The Old Man’s Piano,” and an Honorable Mention from the NCC Media Association for “The Aftermath” in 2017.
‘An Audience of One’
Georgia Smith is a writer based in Atlanta, Georgia. Her short stories have recently appeared in Coolest American Stories and The Headlight Review. She was also awarded a New Voices Fellowship at the Alexandria Emerging Writers Festival, and accepted into the 2024 Juniper Writing Institute, where she learned from a lot of incredible writers.
‘Elegy For the Last Spring On Earth’ & Other Works
CS Crowe is three crows in a trench coat that gained sentience after eating a magic bean. He spends his days writing stories on a stolen laptop and trading human teeth for peanuts. A poet and storyteller from the Southeastern United States, he believes stories and poems are about the journey, not the destination, and he loves those stories that wander in the wilderness for forty years before finding their way to the promised land.
‘Liminal’ & ‘Liturgy for the Carrion and the Gyre’
Irving Gamboa is a bilingual poet and filmmaker from Mexico City, now based in Chicago. His work has appeared in Time & Space Magazine, Hearth & Coffin, and other journals. His short films have screened at international festivals including Cannes and the Arizona Underground Film Festival.
‘Sorry If You Get Published’
Alexis Rhodes is a queer, polyamorous poet, playwright, performer, and strategist based in North Carolina. Her poetry has been described as raw and confessional, with just enough humor to lighten the mood. Alexis lives with her husband, two kids, and a hedgehog named Hedge.
‘The Harvest’
Nick Wardean is the author of Dead, Calm, and Silent, a self-published collection of poetry.
‘We Do Not Tell of The Things We Do For Love’ & ‘God, I Am Angry At The Things I Cannot Change’
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.
‘The Man Who Has Everything (and Nothing)’
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.
‘Third Order Islands’
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.
‘DECOMP’
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.
‘Red Sauce, Green Sauce’
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.
‘Rapture’
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.
‘Concerning the Stranger Under the Tree’
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.
CONTEST WINNER ‘Rotten Fruit’
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.
‘THE LISTENER’
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.
‘A West Texas Walkabout’
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.