THE EXHIBITION
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THE EXHIBITION •
‘Command Me’
Ryan Bolding is a queer poet based in Seattle. His work explores intimacy, autonomy, and the contradictions of modern life. Recent poems appear or are forthcoming in Cathexis Northwest Press, Neon Origami, Fjords Review, and Wingless Dreamer.
‘Cutting Holes in the Blanket’
Will Carter is a Lecturer of English at Kennesaw State University. His memoir, Getting Better, which covers the first seven months of his recovery after suffering a brain injury and a stroke during his senior year of high school, is published by Running Wild Press. Will had been published in His View from Home, Brain Injury Hope Magazine, The South Florida Poetry Journal, and more.
‘Instrumental Interlude’
Emma Townsend is a two time children's book author and poet. Her most recent work can be found in Parley Lit and Vast Chasm Magazine.
‘The Age of Acquisition’
Rebeka Goodman writes about fragile bodies, errant planets, and words that misbehave. She's a linguist by training, a poet by compulsion, and often mistaken for a constellation.
‘This Is Traumatic (Or Am I Just Dramatic?)’
Anna Oh is an aspiring writer from Singapore who enjoys exploring themes of existentialism. Her other hobbies include avoiding human interaction and finding her place in the universe. She also runs the Critical Thinking Café on Substack.
‘The Rat In English Class’
Richard Weems is the author of three short story collections, one of which was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Prize. His work has appeared in North American Review, The Gettysburg Review, Beloit Fiction Journal and elsewhere. He just recently retired from teaching.
‘Like a Dog’
J.C. Dooley currently lives in Beijing, where he teaches literature at a private bilingual high school. When he's not working or thinking about work, he's reading, playing chess, or visiting the local gym.
‘THE DINNER PARTY’
Meg Tenuta was born on Valentine's Day in San Antonio, TX, and has been chasing stories, stages, and spotlights ever since. A singer, dancer, and actress by trade, she moved to Los Angeles at 19. She spent her early career performing across the country, eventually appearing on reality TV shows like I Survived a Japanese Game Show, American Idol, and Summer Camp, along with landing over 100 commercials credits. Now based in the suburbs of Chicago with her husband and two daughters, she's focused on completing her debut novel; a mythological, emotionally layered story she's been shaping for years.
‘THE MOURNFUL MAN & THE SEA’
Peter J. Grieco is a musician, songwriter, and retired school bus driver from Buffalo, NY. His poems have been widely published in small magazines on-line and in print.
‘The Several Sins of Heidi Spencer’
Summer Hammond grew up in rural Iowa and Missouri, one of Jehovah’s Witnesses. She earned her MFA from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. Her writing appears in New Letters, Moon City Review, and Tahoma Review, among others. She won the 2023 New Letters Conger Beasley Jr. Award for Nonfiction and her essay was selected for Best American Essays 2025. Her debut novel, The Impossible Why, is forthcoming from Apprentice House Press in 2026.
‘Typical’, ‘Monsieur’ & ‘Duplex (Dead Weight)’
Val Margolius is a researcher and a fan of black licorice. Their work can be found in Last Leaves Magazine and Willows Wept Review.
‘Joy’ & ‘Spin Faster, Earth’
F. S. Blake is a Bronze Star decorated U.S. Army Veteran and Pushcart Prize nominated poet. He is a published photographer, traveler, advanced SCUBA diver, philanthropist, entrepreneur, and proud husband and father. He has poems published or forthcoming in O-Dark-Thirty, As you Were: The Military Review, The Wrath-Bearing Tree, and Line of Advance. His first chapbook, Terminal Leave, is available from Finishing Line Press. His poetry career began during his sister’s wedding.
‘Loved Ones’, ‘Bookshop’ & ‘Your Sweater’
Mackenzie (Mac) Gellner completed her Bachelor of Communication in journalism at Mount Royal University. Her poetry has been published in literary magazines, such as You Might Need To Hear This, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, WA Magazine, Eunoia Review and The Word's Faire, along with a short story in Humans of the World. Mac also enjoys photography, with work published in Kelp Journal and WA Magazine.
‘The Harvest is Bare’ & ‘In Kashmir the Snow Is White’
Agneya Singh is a writer and filmmaker from the Global South whose work explores themes of resistance, memory, ecological collapse, and political grief. His debut feature film M Cream received multiple international awards, and his recent poetry engages with lived experiences of war, occupation, and environmental devastation. Based between India and Malta, he is currently completing a novel set in Kashmir.
‘Were We Ever’, ‘I’ve Shrugged On An Exoskeleton’ & ‘I Dreamed a Knife’
Michele M Miller holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Arizona. Honors for her poetry include an Arizona Commission on the Arts fellowship, and designation as runner-up for the National Poetry Series and the Kore Press First Book Prize. Her chapbook "The Pocket Museum of Natural History" is forthcoming as a finalist in the New Women’s Voices Series from Finishing Line Press. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and been shortlisted for several national competitions. Michele writes and photographs in her heartland, the Sonoran Desert of Tucson, Arizona.
‘Stings’
James Goddard lives in England in the year 2025, so spends much of his time thinking of other places and other times. He studied classics and philosophy, and tells the stories of people history forgot, or never knew, to give voices back to those erased. Most of the time, he tells these stories to his daughter. He writes at: https://meditationsonpermafrost.substack.com/