THE EXHIBITION
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‘The Last Flight of Three’
Jack Cortez is a queer Spanish Canadian writer, history buff, and father of the dearest little kitten. He has graduated with a Bachelors of Arts degree in history and psychology from the University of Ottawa in 2024. He currently lives in the Ottawa Valley, just a heartbeat away from the Canadian capital city. He has recently published a poem in the Waymark Literary Magazine.
‘Where Should I let Go?’
Rumaisa Reza is a high school student from Bangladesh who loves to explore emotions through writing and reading.
‘The Hunted Body’ & ‘Fireworks’
Tanya Moldovan is an emerging writer who lives in her home country Moldova. She started writing after losing both her parents to cancer. Her poetry has been published in The Word’s Faire, Festival for Poetry, and the Beyond Words international magazine. Her work focuses on the subjects of death, grief and the experience after death.
‘NIGHTMARE WITHOUT A HORSE’ & ‘KICKING THE SHIT OUT OF MYSELF STEEL-TOED THREE A.M.’
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. Visit him at: zolothstephenswriters.com
‘Joe Kennedy’
Kris Green lives in Florida with his beautiful wife and two savage children. He’s been published over 80 times in the last few years by the wonderful people at Nifty Lit, The Haberdasher: Peddlers of Literary Art, In Parentheses Magazine, Route 7 Review, BarBar Magazine, and many more. He won the 2023 Barbe Best Short Story and Reader’s Choice Award for his short story, “Redemption”. He has regular nonfiction articles being published by Solid Food Press on fatherhood entitled “On Raising Savages”.
‘Clara Straight Turns 100’ & ‘Zoey Chen’s ceramic lilies on my wall’
Monica Barron is a poet and nonfiction writer. She published Prairie Architecture, a book of poems, with Golden Antelope Press in 2020. She produces literary programs for Lesbians WriteOn and is nonfiction editor at wordpeace, a social justice writing project. Her most recent magazine publications are Sinister Wisdom and Screendoor Review. She also works as a hospice volunteer in a variety of ways.
‘The Second Mother’
James Goddard
‘Night Terror’
Russell Chamberlain was born in Nashville, Tennessee, but currently lives in the Pacific Northwest with his family. He recently published an article in the Salt Weekly (issue 35) about the independent music scene in Nashville, Tennessee. He writes short stories, fiction, and poetry. He had two nonfiction pieces published this past winter, one with Waxing and Waning and one with Beyond Words Anthology.
‘Reverberation’, ‘Leo Season in the City’ & ‘Bright Angel’
Amanda Conover is a recent MFA alum based in Peoria, IL who often explores themes such as existentialism, spirituality, and social issues. She is the Poetry Editor for Carolina Muse Literary & Arts Magazine and works in scholarly publishing. Her poetry has been published in Atlanta Review, the lickety~split, Sad Girl Diaries, the Chaffin Journal, and elsewhere.
‘unknown’, ‘sunflowers’ & ‘reminisce’
Virginia Elizabeth Samuel writes poetry as a complement to her work as a professional violist and classical composer. She has been published in the Harvard publication, ‘The Advocate’, the British publication, ‘Tears in the Fence’, Denver Quarterly and The Mid-Atlantic Review, among others. She was born in the US, but currently resides in Britain.
‘Two Hands’, ‘Consistent Love’ & ‘Lust’
Ashley Groves is a Cincinnati-based writer. They have previously acted as the Coordinating Nonfiction Editor for the Short Vine Literary Journal.
‘The Woman I Was Before the Waiting’
Melba writes from the quiet places where grief and identity meet. Her work explores infertility, longing, and selfhood through raw, nature-infused poetry. She is the author of Unplanted Yet Flourishing and the creator of Poetic Nectar Collective.
‘Ice Storm’
Misty Van Staaveren is a California native now living in Texas. Misty received her undergraduate degree in Liberal Studies at California State University Fresno. She holds a teaching credential in California and Texas, where she teaches English Language Arts to fourth graders. When not writing, she is always up for a road trip. She recently had the opportunity to be a credited reader for Bluestem Magazine.
‘Orange’
Steven Daniel lives and works in St. Louis, MO. He has degrees in English and Classic from St. Olaf College, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Arcadia University. His work has been published in Esoterica Magazine and Half and One.
‘Care Instructions’, ‘Some Climbed, Some Vanished’ & ‘Earwigs and Earworms’
Shay Wills graduated from the University of Arizona with a BA in English and Creative Writing. He, with his spouse and son, live in Tucson, Arizona, near his two older children. He earned his MS from Grand Canyon University, and now works as a mental health counselor. His poetry appears in The Abstract Elephant, Hive Journal, Wingless Dreamer, and Bookends Review among others.
‘Hymn for the Unmapped Woman’ & Other Works
Meg Taylor writes poems that teeter between collapse and clarity, often exploring the beautiful strangeness of becoming someone new. Their work examines burnout, gendered performance, and late self-awakening through a surreal, emotionally raw lens. Recent work appears in Beyond Words Magazine and Neon Origami and is forthcoming in Wingless Dreamer and Fjords Review.