THE EXHIBITION
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THE EXHIBITION •
‘Junk Metal Dreams’
Aija Everett is an undergraduate studying English and Creative Writing at East Carolina University. Alongside being a mother and an artist, she writes, dabbling in the experimental and the speculative–with a dash of romance. Her short story “Belly Ache” (2025) was recently published in ECU’s Rebel magazine.
‘The Mangrove's Lights’
Padrick Moran is Puerto Rican writer living in Boston, MA. He majored in Creative Writing at Florida Sate University and is in his final year of his MFA program at Emerson College. His inspiration to write about Puerto Rico comes from all his experiences living on the island. He is proud to showcase the place he holds dear to anyone willing to learn more.
‘Drugstores’
Z. R. Jones is a father and business manager who has written poems between coffee breaks for the last decade. He believes in the power of quiet words, the hum of everyday life. This is one of his first submissions to a literary journal.
‘The Devil Is a Man With WiFi’
Rachel Koren is a writer from Michigan, currently living in Tennessee with her husband and dog. Her work traces survival, tenderness, and the strange humor of growing up in the wreckage. She writes about leaving home, learning softness after chaos, and finding beauty in what remains.
‘Arijah Wings’
Lori Zybala is a poet and writer based in Southern Ontario. She works in the world of academia, although thrives in the mystery of imagination. Her work has been published in Literary Revelations, Free Verse Revolution, Kelp Literary Adventure Journal, Wingless Dreamer, and others. You can find her at: @ecopoet77
‘The Things I See… and The Things I Hide’
William Watson is a published writer and believes that if you watch a place long enough, something profound will be revealed. He continues to wait patiently. Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, William attended Yale University and earned an MFA from Bard College.
‘Forgive Me For Forgetting You’
Gustavo Melo (he/him) is a Brazilian satirical writer with a successful track record of one failed marriage by the age of 25. Knowing little about smart financial decisions he got a highly practical master's degree in writing for screen and television at the University of Southern California. You can read his work on the Feminine Collective, Apricity Magazine, Boookends Review and other publications.
‘Skin to Skin’
Sonia Bhojani is an NYU film student who enjoys writing in all its forms. She has written one dramatic short and one feature length satirical horror script, as well as many poems and academic papers. She hopes to become a successful author someday and is currently working on her first novel, an LGBTQ horror romance told from an unreliable, obsessive narrator. She has a poem and a paper getting published in the next year and cannot wait for her first small successes!
‘In the sharpened shadows of stained glass’
Dora Rollins teaches creative writing in an Arizona prison. She serves as an Associate Editor for the 50+-year-old incarceration-focused Rain Shadow Review literary magazine.
‘Office as Body’
Allison Whittenberg of Philadelphia is an award winning poet, novelist, and playwright. They Were Horrible Cooks is her collection of poetry. Her novels include Sweet Thang, Hollywood and Maine, Life is Fine, Tutored, Sane Asylum, and Killing the Father of Our Country. Her plays have been performed at The Festival of Wrights (New York), Downtown Urban Arts Festival, The Secret, Hedgerow Theatre, Theatre in the Round, Interact Theatre, and Equity Library Theater of New York.
‘Face to Face’
Tirna Iqbal is a new poet from Connecticut, currently based in Boston, Massachusetts. Her work has not been published before.
‘a gilded view’
Chanchito Massoni lives in a garden on the moon with all Chancho's cat friends, and a couple of humans thrown in there to do Chancho's bidding. One of these days, Chancho may land on Earth. Instagram account at https://www.instagram.com/sunflower_chancho
‘Then a little accident, Those Bits of You Falling Out of Box’
J. Dylan Yates holds a BFA from the University of Colorado-Boulder. Her work includes the award-winning novel, THE BELIEF IN Angels. Dylan’s poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies, including Grief Like Yours: A Story Collection of Life After Loss, A Year in Ink, Volume 10, and Moonstone Arts’ 30th Edition of Poetry Ink. Her poetry has been published in national and regional anthologies and newspapers. Her newest poetry publication, Ghost Composer, will be published in May 2026.
‘Drawn’
Shane O'Callaghan is a writer and a student at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana, originally from Ireland. He’s primarily a horror fiction writer, who came to America in search of an education and an adventure about which he could write. But, better than either of those things, here in America is where he met his wife.
‘A Boy and His Leaf’
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.
‘Angel’s Landing’
Christin Karr graduated from Pepperdine with a BA in Creative Writing as Valedictorian. She received a fellowship for the University of San Francisco for her MFA in Writing. Her education has given her opportunities to work with established writers including Pulitzer Prize winners whose work she hopes to emulate.