Poetry

Michael Brosnan

Michael Brosnan lives in Exeter, New Hampshire. His first book of poetry book is The Sovereignty of the Accidental (Harbor Mountain Press) was published in 2018. A second book, ADRIFT (Grayson Books), is due out in 2022. His poems have appeared in numerous journals in the U.S. and elsewhere. He’s also the author of Against the Current, a book on inner-city education, and serves as the senior editor for the website Teaching While White. More at www.michaelabrosnan.com.

Diane Butner

Diane Butner lives and works in Las Vegas, NV. Her poetry has been published in the Magnolia Quarterly, Speedpoets Zine, Ceremony Journal and Clark Anthology.

Dayna Christensen

Dayna Christensen is a queer writer and educator living in a renovated funeral home on the south side of Chicago. Her work has previously been published in Bird's Thumb and Dog Pond. She writes and produces for the Lumpen radio show Quiz-O and the debut episode of her horror movie podcast Afraidio premieres in August.

Nick Daoust

Nick Daoust grew up outside of Boston, Massachusetts and currently attends New York University, where he studies English and creative writing.

William Doreski

William Doreski lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He has taught at several colleges and universities. His most recent book of poetry is Mist in Their Eyes (2021). His essays, poetry, fiction, and reviews have appeared in various journals.

Betsy Guttmacher

Originally from Massachusetts, Betsy Guttmacher currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her work can be found in the Brooklyn Poets Anthology and online at the Bridge. She has been a member of the poetry collective Sweet Action since 2015 and a contributor to three of its chapbooks.

Jen Herron

Jen Herron is a teacher and writer from Larne, Northern Ireland. Her work has been featured in The Irish Times, The Belfast Telegraph, The Honest Ulsterman, Poetry Jukebox, Lumpen Magazine and BBC Radio Ulster. She won the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing, 2022.

Donna Kathryn Kelly

Donna Kathryn Kelly is an attorney who practiced law in the Illinois criminal justice system for many years: first, as an assistant public defender, and later, as a felony prosecutor. She is the author of a crime novel, Cop Eyes. Her poetry has appeared in Pasque Petals, Snapdragon, Oakwood, North Dakota Quarterly, and elsewhere. You can find her on Instagram @donnakathrynkelly.

Geoffrey O’Brien

Geoffrey O’Brien is the author of 20 books of poetry prose including most recently Where Did Poetry Come From: Some Early Encounters (Marsh Hawk Press, 2020) and Who Goes There (Dos Madres, 2020).

David Pemberton

David Pemberton is an academic art librarian and poet. He ran The Acidic Ghost Spectral Reading series from 2012 to 2018. His latest publications include A Gathering of the Tribes n. 15 and the Unbearable anthology From Somewhere to Nowhere: The End of the American Dream. He is a husband, father of two, and cat companion in Maplewood, New Jersey.

Robin Seiler

Robin Seiler lives in Washington, DC. Her poems have appeared in L'Éphémère Review and Silk + Smoke. Find her on twitter @rmswrites.

Prose

Shullamuth Ballinger

Shullamuth Ballinger writes and teaches in Colorado where she literally hugs trees and works on her novel giving the Greek and Celtic Gods the chance to hang out and play music in her hometown of Lafayette.

Andrea DeAngelis

Andrea DeAngelis is at times a poet, writer, shutterbug and musician (www.makarmusic.com) living in New York City. She tries not to disturb her neighbors by putting her guitar amp in her closet. Her writing has recently appeared in The Molotov Cocktail.

Cate Moyle

Cate Moyle writes mystery stories; she’s won numerous recognitions, including as a Silver Falchion Award finalist. She is also a poet, having been published in literary journals from The Southeast Review to Wicked Alice. Her latest story appears in Mystery Tribune. Find her on Twitter @CateMoyle.

Robert pope

Robert Pope's most recent collection of short stories, Not a Jot or a Tittle (Dark Lane Books, 2022), includes stories published in Fictional Cafe, Granfalloon, and Mystery Tribune, among others journals.