Brittany Ackerman is a writer from Riverdale, New York. She earned her BA in English from Indiana University and graduated from Florida Atlantic University’s MFA program in Creative Writing. She teaches General Education at AMDA College and Conservatory of the Performing Arts in Hollywood, CA. Her work has been featured in Electric Literature, Jewish Book Council, Lit Hub, Entropy, The Los Angeles Review, No Tokens, Hobart, Cosmonauts Ave, and more. Her first collection of essays entitled The Perpetual Motion Machine was published with Red Hen Press in 2018, and her debut novel The Brittanys is out now with Vintage.

Gale Acuff has had hundreds of poems published in eleven countries and is the author of three books of poetry. He has taught university English in the US, China, and Palestine.

Akhim Alexis is a writer born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago. He is currently pursuing an MA in Literatures in English at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The McNeese Review, Juked, Finished Creatures, Moth Magazine, Pine Hills Review, trampset, Lucky Jefferson, Capsule Stories, The Caribbean Writer, and others.

J.R. Allen recently moved to southwestern Ohio to pursue an MFA at Miami University, where he serves as a teaching assistant. He wishes it was always autumn, mostly because of his love of sweaters. He is a fiction editor for Great Lakes Review, and his work is featured or forthcoming in Dunes Review, Gyroscope Review, and Flashglass.

Laila Amado is currently marooned on a small island halfway between Africa and Europe. She writes stories in her second language, lives in her fourth country, and cooks decent paella. Her stories have appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Rejection Letters, Porcupine Literary, and other publications. You can find her on Twitter at @onbonbon7.

Tanner Armatis will finish his bachelor's degree in English and English Education at Colorado State University. His nonfiction work has been published by Howling Mad Review. Tanner Armatis also held an internship as a reader at the North American Review.

Michael Aurelio is an actor and writer living in Brooklyn. He was born in Rome, Italy to American expats and moved to a small lumber town in Northern California when he was 10. His writing ruminates on grief & millennial migration patterns. His chapbooks include “The Smokers” designed by Paradise Motorcycle Club & “Written with Bourbon”. He has performed off-broadway & off-off-broadway. He received his BFA in Acting from California Institute of the Arts.  

Elias Baez is a poet and journalist from New York and living in Baltimore. He is the Poetry Editor of GAYLETTER, and his work is indexed online at www.baez.us. Follow him on Twitter @baez_us, and Instagram @baez.us.

Jack Barker-Clark is a writer from the North of England. He tweets occasionally: @jackbarkerclark.

Adrienne Marie Barrios is the editor-in-chief of Reservoir Road Literary Review and CLOVES Literary and author of the collaborative poetry collection Too Much Tongue (Autofocus, 2022), co-written with Leigh Chadwick. Her work has appeared in trampset, Passages North, Sledgehammer Lit, and X-R-A-Y Lit Mag, among others. She edits award-winning novels and short stories. Find her online at adriennemariebarrios.com.

Amy Barnes has words at a variety of sites including The New Southern Fugitives, FlashBack Fiction, Popshot Quarterly, Flash Fiction Magazine, X-R-A-Y, Anti-Heroin Chic, Museum of Americana, Penny Fiction, Elephants Never, Re-side, The Molotov Cocktail, Lucent Dreaming, Lunate Fiction, Rejection Lit, Perhappened, Cabinet of Heed, Spartan Lit, National Flash Flood Day and others. Her work has been long-listed at Reflex Press, Bath Flash Fiction, Retreat West and TSS Publishing. She volunteers at Fractured Lit, CRAFT, Taco Bell Quarterly, Retreat West, NFFD and Narratively. Her flash collection will be published in May, 2021 by ELJ Editions, Ltd.

Tyler Barton is a literary advocate and a co-founder of Fear No Lit. His debut story collection, Eternal Light at the Nature Museum, is forthcoming from Sarabande Books. He's also the author of the flash chapbook, The Quiet Part Loud (Split Lip, 2019). In non-pandemic times, he leads free writing workshops for residents of assisted living facilities. Find his work soon in Juked, Copper Nickel, and Best Small Fictions 2020. Find him @goftyler or at tsbarton.com or in Lancaster, PA.

Janelle Bassett's writing appears in The Offing, American Literary Review, The Rumpus, Smokelong Quarterly, VIDA Review, and Slice Magazine. She lives in St. Louis and is an Assistant Fiction Editor at Split Lip Magazine.

Sarah Ruth Bates is a writer based in Tucson, AZ. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Boston Globe Magazine, Hobart, Essay Daily, Aeon, Appalachia Journal, Off Assignment, and WBUR. She’s a second-year in the nonfiction MFA program at the University of Arizona, where she teaches freshman composition and edits the Sonora Review. Catch her at sarahruthbates.com and @sarahrbates.

Brianne Battye is a writer, poet, and narrative designer. She's the author of the chapbook wholehearted (845 Press) and contributed to the short story anthology, Dragon Age: Tevinter Nights (Tor). Her work has appeared in Lida, deathcap, antilang, and elsewhere. A video game writer by day, she has worked on multiple titles for BioWare. Brianne likes to write in a cozy corner nook. Her cat likes to look for ghosts in the walls.

Jack B. Bedell is Professor of English at Southeastern Louisiana University where he also edits Louisiana Literature and directs the Louisiana Literature Press. Jack’s work has appeared in HAD, trampset, Pidgeonholes, The Shore, No Contact, Okay Donkey, EcoTheo, and other journals. His most recent collection is Color All Maps New (Mercer University Press, 2021). He served as Louisiana Poet Laureate 2017-2019.

Adam Berlin has published four novels, including Belmondo Style (St. Martin’s Press/winner of The Publishing Triangle’s Ferro-Grumley Award) and Both Members of the Club (Texas A&M University Consortium Press/winner of the Clay Reynolds Novella Prize). He teaches writing at John Jay College/CUNY in NYC and co-edits the litmag J Journal.

Shawn Berman runs The Daily Drunk. Some of his recent work appears or is forthcoming in Hobart, Rejection Letters, and Stone of Madness Press. He can be followed on Twitter @sbb_writer.

Andrew Bertaina's short story collection One Person Away From You (2021) won the Moon City Press Fiction Award (2020). His work has appeared in The Threepenny Review, Witness Magazine, Redivider, Orion, The Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. He has an MFA from American University in Washington, DC, and currently serves as an assistant fiction editor at Pithead Chapel.

Patricia Q. Bidar is a native of San Pedro, California with family roots in New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona. Her stories have appeared in Wigleaf, The Pinch, SmokeLong Quarterly, Sou’wester, Little Patuxent Review, and Pithead Chapel, among other places. Apart from fiction, Patricia ghostwrites for progressive nonprofit organizations. She lives with her DJ husband and unusual dog in the San Francisco Bay Area and tweets at @patriciabidar. Visit Patricia at www.patriciaqbidar.com.  

Coleman Bomar (he/him) is a writer who currently resides in Middle Tennessee. His written works have been featured by and/or are forthcoming in Blink-ink, SOFTBLOW, Eunoia Review, X-R-A-Y, Maudlin House, and many more. He enjoys cuffed jeans, Rupaul's Drag Race, and 90's grunge music.

Christopher Boucher is the author of the novels Big Giant Floating Head, Golden Delicious and How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive, all out from Melville House. He lives in western Massachusetts and teaches writing and literature at Boston College.

Despy Boutris's writing has been published or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, American Literary Review, Southern Indiana Review, Copper Nickel, Colorado Review, The Adroit Journal, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. Currently, she teaches at the University of Houston, works as Assistant Poetry Editor for Gulf Coast, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of The West Review.

KB Brookins is a writer, cultural worker, and artist from Texas. They are the author of How To Identify Yourself with a Wound (Kallisto Gaia Press 2022), Freedom House (Deep Vellum 2023), and Pretty (Alfred A. Knopf 2024). Follow them online at @earthtokb.

Nate Brown is a writer and editor who lives in Baltimore, Maryland. He teaches writing at Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, and the George Washington University.

Exodus Oktavia Brownlow is a Blackhawk, Mississippi native. She is a graduate of Mississippi Valley State University with a B.A. in English, and Mississippi University for Women with an MFA in Creative Writing. Exodus has been published or has upcoming work with Electric Literature, Cosmonauts Avenue, Barren Magazine, Jellyfish Review, Parentheses Journal, Booth and more. She has a healthy adoration for the color green.

frankie bruno currently lives in Rochester, NY. When he's not gardening, daydreaming, or practicing headstands, he works at a local farm market. Someday he hopes to have longer hair and a pet cat.  

Seth Bockley thrives in the greater Midwest. His story “Repertorio" recently won a debut fiction prize for Boulevard magazine. He also makes plays and films, teaches at the University of Chicago, and is at work on a novel about Outsider Art. Follow him online at @sboke and sethbockley.com.

Sionnain Buckley is a writer, editor, and visual artist based in Columbus, Ohio. Her work has appeared in Hobart, Wigleaf, CutBank Online, Winter Tangerine, Foglifter, and others. She is currently pursuing an MFA in fiction at Ohio State, where she also serves as associate fiction editor for The Journal. More of her work can be found at sionnainbuckley.com.

Ron-Tyler Budhram (he/him/they) is a Guyanese-American writer living in New York City with his husband and mini-goldendoodle. Currently, he is an MFA candidate in fiction at Columbia University, where he is also a creative writing teaching fellow for the current school year. He writes between Manhattan, Kansas City, and Santo Domingo, and has short fiction forthcoming in The Bitchin’ Kitsch, among others.

Aaron Burch is the author of the memoir/literary analysis Stephen King’s The Body; the short story collection, Backswing; and the novella, How to Predict the Weather. He is the Founding Editor of Hobart and HAD. His first novel, YEAR OF THE BUFFALO, will be out Spring 2022.

Matthew Burnside is a writer.

Dominic Calderon is a writer and film critic based in Arizona. He is currently working on a prose collection titled “Devil Worship” slated for release in 2021. He often thinks about riding a motorcycle with Takeshi Kaneshiro and getting back into birdwatching. He can be reached on Twitter via @ciroc_jon.

Danny Caine is the author of the poetry collections Continental Breakfast, El Dorado Freddy's, and Flavortown, as well as the book How to Resist Amazon and Why. Part-owner of the Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kansas, he's the recipient of the 2019 Midwest Bookseller of the Year Award. More at dannycaine.com.

Originally from the UK, Jonathan Cardew now calls the American Midwest his home. He is contributing editor for Best Microfiction and blog editor for Bending Genres. His short fiction can be found at wigleaf, Passages North, cream city review, SmokeLong Quarterly, and other venues. He tweets @cardewjcardew.

Avitus B. Carle lives and writes outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is the Associate Editor at Fractured Lit. and Editor at FlashBack Fiction. Her stories have appeared in Passages North, Porcupine Literary, Apiary Magazine, Jellyfish Review, The Offing, and have been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and the Pushcart Prize. She can be found online at http://kbcarle.com or on Twitter @kbcarle.

Kate Carmody is a recipient of a CINTAS Foundations grant supporting artists born in Cuba or of Cuban descent. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Los Angeles Review, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Lady/Liberty/Lit, Lunch Ticket, among others. She received her MFA from Antioch University in Los Angeles. She teaches writing courses at Antioch and Austin Bat Cave. She lives in Denver, Colorado with her husband and dog. The three of them are in a band called Dadafacer. Find her on Twitter at @KateCarmody8, and Instagram @carmo8.

Rachel R. Carroll (Ray if you’re nasty) is a non-binary poet who is also hard at work on their first novel. Their work has appeared in Polaris Magazine, The Gravity of the Thing, SUGAR Magazine, and is forthcoming in the inaugural issue of the magazine Lesbians Are Miracles. After studying Creative Writing and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California, Ray moved to Brooklyn, where they have worked as a bookseller and special educator. When not busy pursuing their masters in middle school education, Ray can be found reading compulsively, maintaining their snail mail correspondences, or desperately trying to establish trust with the colony of cats living outside their bedroom window.

Doug Paul Case is a photographer and writer based in Bloomington, where he teaches at Indiana University. His debut collection of poems, Americanitis, is due out in late 2022 from Black Spring Press Group.

Leigh Chadwick is the author of the poetry collection Your Favorite Poet (Malarkey Books, 2022) and the collaborative poetry collection Too Much Tongue (Autofocus, 2022), co-written with Adrienne Marie Barrios. Her poetry has appeared in Salamander, Passages North, The Indianapolis Review, and Hobart, among others. She is a regular contributor at Olney Magazine, where she conducts the "Mediocre Conversations" interview series. Find her on Twitter at @LeighChadwick5.

K-Ming Chang / 張欣明 is a Kundiman fellow, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the debut novel Bestiary (One World/Random House, 2020). Her short story collection, Resident Aliens, is forthcoming from One World. More of her work can be found at kmingchang.com.

Michael Chang (they/them) is the author of SYNTHETIC JUNGLE (Northwestern University Press, 2023), TOY SOLDIERS (Action, Spectacle, 2024) & THE HEARTBREAK ALBUM (Coach House Books, 2025). They edit poetry at Fence.

Danielle Chelosky is a New York-based writer who's an editorial assistant at Hobart Pulp and a music journalist at Stereogum. She loves Chris Kraus.

Jinwoo Chong is a writer and graphic designer living in New York and an MFA candidate for fiction at Columbia University. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming at sohohouse.com, Hemingway Shorts, and others. He serves as Fiction Editor for Columbia Journal Issue 59.

Leah Francesca Christianson’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Watershed Review, TriQuarterly, River Teeth, Split Lip Magazine, Bending Genres, and other publications. She lives in Oakland, California and teaches at The Loft Literary Center. You can find her online @lfchristianson, or at home playing fetch with her cat.

Renee S. Christopher (she/her) grew up in Riverside, CA and is currently adventuring in Reno, Nevada. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing and Environment and edits fiction at Newfound Journal. Her work has appeared in Fireside Fiction Quarterly, Anathema: Spec From the Margins, and Noble Gas Quarterly, who nominated her poetry for a Pushcart Prize. You can find her @writingrenee on Twitter or at https://www.reneeschristopher.com.

John Chrostek is a Pushcart-nominated poet and writer who has popped up in great lit mags like X-R-A-Y, HAD, Daily Drunk Magazine, River Heron Review and more. He wants to go home soon, to sit by a fire pit and hug a friend or two.

Chloe N. Clark is the author of Collective Gravities, Your Strange Fortune, the forthcoming Escaping the Body, and more. She is co-EIC of Cotton Xenomorph and she has baked more bread than any one person should. Find her on Twitter @PintsNCupcakes.

Marisa P. Clark is a queer writer from the South whose work appears or will appear in Shenandoah, Cream City Review, Nimrod, Epiphany, Crab Creek Review, Foglifter, Potomac Review, Rust + Moth, Jabberwock Review, Indianapolis Review, and elsewhere. Best American Essays 2011 recognized her creative nonfiction among its Notable Essays. A fiction reader for New England Review, she makes her home in New Mexico with three parrots and two dogs. Her first name is pronounced Ma-REE-sa.

An avid introvert, full-time carbon-based life-form & aspiring himbo, Ashley Cline crash-landed in south Jersey some time ago & still calls that strange land home. A Best of the Net 2020 finalist, her poetry has appeared in 404 Ink, Okay Donkey, & HAD—among others. Her debut chapbook, "& watch how easily the jaw sings of god," is available now (Glass Poetry Press, 2021). Once, in the summer of 2019, she crowd-surfed an inflatable sword to Carly Rae Jepsen, and her best at all-you-can-eat sushi is 5 rolls in 11 minutes. Twitter: @the_Cline. Instagram: @clineclinecline.

Michael Colbert loves horror films (his favorites are Candyman and Silence of the Lambs) and coffee (his favorites are Ethiopian and Costa Rican). He’s currently pursuing an MFA in fiction at UNC Wilmington, and his writing appears or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Atlas Obscura, and Barrelhouse, among others.

Madeleine Corley (she/her) is a writer by internal monologue and will work for puns. Her work has appeared in Stoneboat, Olney Magazine, Hooligan, Levee Magazine, and more. Currently, she serves as Managing Editor at Barren Magazine. Find her and her hot takes at @madelinksi on Twitter or on her website wrotemadeleine.com. Pineapple belongs on pizza.

Emily Costa teaches freshmen at Southern Connecticut State University, where she received her MFA. Her work can be found in Hobart, Barrelhouse, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Atticus Review, and elsewhere. You can follow her on twitter @emilylauracosta.

Dale Cottingham is of mixed race, part Choctaw, part White. He is a Breadloafer and won the 2019 New Millennium Award for Poem of the Year. He lives in Edmond, Oklahoma.

Zoa Coudret (she/they) is a writer, artist, and musician who currently lives in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Her work has appeared in Best Microfiction 2024, Moon City Review, Peach Mag, Longleaf Review, Landlocked, and other journals.

Chella Courington (she/her) is a writer and teacher whose poetry and fiction appear in numerous anthologies and journals including SmokeLong Quarterly, New World Writing, and X-R-A-Y Magazine. A Pushcart and Best Small Fictions Nominee, Courington lives in California.

Lena Crown is a writer from Oakland, California, though she spent many years in St. Louis and still thinks of it as home. Her work is published or forthcoming in Sonora Review, The Offing, the North American Review, and Porter House Review, among others. She is currently stationed outside Washington, D.C., pursuing an MFA in Creative Nonfiction. Find her on Twitter at @which_is_to_say.

Travis Dahlke lives in Middletown, Connecticut. His fiction has appeared in Joyland Magazine, Outlook Springs, Sporklet, and The Longleaf Review, among other literary journals and collections. His novella, Milkshake, is forthcoming from Long Day Press.

Adam Dalva’s writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Tin House, and The Guardian. His graphic novel, OLIVIA TWIST, was published by Dark Horse in 2019. Adam serves on the board of the National Book Critics Circle and is a book critic for Guernica Magazine. He teaches Creative Writing at Rutgers University and Marymount Manhattan College. Adam is a graduate of NYU's Fiction MFA Program, where he was a Veterans Writing Workshop Fellow.

Alton Melvar M. Dapanas (them/they) is assistant creative nonfiction editor of Panorama: The Journal of Place & Travel and Atlas & Alice Literary Magazine, as well as an editorial reader for Creative Nonfiction magazine. Their recent works, delineating poetry and the essay, have appeared in or forthcoming from Elsewhere: A Journal of Place, Sine Theta, The Babel Tower Notice Board, Voice & Verse Poetry, Epoch Press, Stellium Literary, Reliquiae Journal of Nature, Landscape, and Mythology, among others. They identify as pansexual, nonbinary, and polyamorous. A native of Metro Cagayan de Oro in the southern Philippines, they are currently living off-the-grid between the ocean and a mountain range.

Subhravanu Das is an Indian writer living in Bhubaneswar. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Muse India, The Bombay Review, 365tomorrows, Kitaab, and Gone Lawn.

Satya Dash's poems have been published or are forthcoming in Waxwing, Wildness, Redivider, Passages North, The Journal, The Florida Review, Hobart, The Cortland Review and Poetry@Sangam among others. Apart from having a degree in electronics from BITS Pilani-Goa, he has been a cricket commentator too. He is a two-time Orison Anthology, Best of the Net and Best New Poets nominee. He grew up in Cuttack and now lives in Bangalore. He tweets at: @satya043 

Brooke Davis is from Southern California. She is an MFA candidate in Fiction at Columbia University, and is working on short stories and a novel. 

Lauren Cassani Davis is a writer and teacher based in New York. Her work has appeared in Monkeybicycle and The Atlantic. 

Jessica Dawn lives on an island in the San Francisco Bay with her very old and very charming dog. Her work has appeared in HAD, and she is currently writing her first novel. You can find her on Twitter at @JuskaJames.

Adam Day is the author of Left-Handed Wolf (LSU Press, 2020), and of Model of a City in Civil War (Sarabande Books), and the recipient of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship for Badger, Apocrypha, and of a PEN Award. He is editor of the forthcoming anthology, Divine Orphans of the Poetic Project, from 1913 Press, and his work has appeared in the APR, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Volt, Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, and elsewhere. He is the publisher of Action, Spectacle.

Tommy Dean lives in Indiana with his wife and two children. He is the author of a flash fiction chapbook entitled Special Like the People on TV from Redbird Chapbooks. He is the Editor at Fractured Lit. He has been previously published in the BULL Magazine, The MacGuffin, The Lascaux Review, New World Writing, Pithead Chapel, and New Flash Fiction Review. His story “You’ve Stopped” was included in Best Microfiction 2019 and 2020 and Best Small Fictions 2019. He won the 2019 Lascaux Prize in Short Fiction. His interviews have been previously published in New Flash Fiction Review, The Rumpus, CRAFT Literary, and The Town Crier (The Puritan). He has led writing workshops for the Barrelhouse Conversations and Connections conference, The Lafayette Writer’s Workshop, Bending Genres, and for Kathy Fish’s Fast Flash. Find him @TommyDeanWriter.

Claire Denson is a staff Poetry Reader for The Adroit Journal and holds a BA from the University of Michigan and an MFA from UNC Greensboro, where she served as Editorial Intern for The Greensboro Review. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Massachusetts Review, Sporklet, and Hobart, among others. You can find her at clairedenson.com and on Twitter @shmaireshmen.

Leonora Desar's writing has appeared in places such as River Styx, Passages North, The Cincinnati Review, Black Warrior Review, and Columbia Journal, where she was chosen as a finalist by Ottessa Moshfegh. Her work has been selected for The Best Small Fictions 2019, the Wigleaf Top 50 (2019 and 2020), and Best Microfiction 2019 and 2020. She won third place in River Styx's 2018 microfiction contest, and was a runner-up/finalist in Quarter After Eight's Robert J. DeMott Short Prose Contest, judged by Stuart Dybek, and Crazyhorse’s Crazyshorts! contest. She is fiction editor of Pidgeonholes.

Jose Hernandez Diaz is a 2017 NEA Poetry Fellow. He is the author of a collection of prose poems: The Fire Eater (Texas Review Press, 2020). His work appears in The American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, Cincinnati Review, Georgia Review, Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, The Nation, Northwest Review, Poetry, Southeast Review, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, and in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011. He teaches creative writing online and edits for Frontier Poetry.

Adin Dobkin is a writer and journalist in New York City. His book about the 1919 Tour de France is forthcoming from Little A. His Cities: Skylines quarantine save file has reached the size of a colossal city.

Thom Donovan is the author of numerous books, including Withdrawn (Compline, 2017), The Hole (Displaced Press, 2012) and Withdrawn: a Discourse (Shifter, 2016). He co-edits and publishes ON Contemporary Practice. He is also the editor of Occupy Poetics (Essay Press, 2015); To Look At The Sea Is To Become What One Is: an Etel Adnan Reader (with Brandon Shimoda; Nightboat Books, 2014), Supple Science: a Robert Kocik Primer (with Michael Cross; ON Contemporary Practice, 2013), and Wild Horses Of Fire. His current projects include a book of poems and other writings based upon the compositions of Julius Eastman, a book of critical essays regarding poetics, political practice, and the occult, and an ongoing "ante-memoir" entitled Left Melancholy.

William Doreski has published three critical studies and several collections of poetry. His work has appeared in many print and online journals. He has taught at Emerson College, Goddard College, Boston University, and Keene State College. His most recent books are Water Music and Train to Providence. Learn more at williamdoreski.blogspot.com.

Cai Draper is a poet from South London. His work appears in various magazines, anthologies & journals, with recent poems in Tenebrae, Lammergeier & Tentacular. He organises free workshops at the Book Hive and an online reading series with Arts at the Assembly House. He can be found online as @DraperCai.

Marilyn Duarte holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Tampa’s low-residency program and is currently a Staff Writer at Longleaf Review, a Creative Nonfiction Contributing Editor at Barren Magazine, and an Assistant Creative Nonfiction Editor at Pithead Chapel. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Barren Magazine, (mac)ro(mic), Emerge Literary Journal, and elsewhere. Originally from Toronto, she now divides her time between Canada and Portugal. You can find her at marilynduartewriter.com and on Twitter @MareDuarte28.

Merridawn Duckler is a writer from Oregon, author of Interstate (dancing girl press) and Idiom (Washburn Prize, Harbor Review) She won the Jewish in Seattle fiction contest and the Elizabeth Sloan Tyler Memorial Award from Woven Tale Press. Recent work in FRiGG, New Flash Fiction, Penn Review, and as a finalist at the Mid-American Fineline contest. Residencies/fellowships/awards: Yaddo, Vermont Post Graduate Conference, Horned Dorset. She’s an editor at Narrative and the international philosophy journal Evental Aesthetics.

Raised in the Canadian prairies, Glennys Egan writes from her home in Ottawa, where she works for the government like everyone else. Her poetry has appeared in Taco Bell Quarterly, The Aurora Journal, Funicular Magazine and several other lovely places. You can find her and her dog, Boris, online at @gleegz.

Stacy Austin Egan was born and raised in Austin, TX. Her fiction chapbook, You Could Stop It Here, was published by PANK Books in 2018 and was an honorable mention for the Eric Hoffer Book Award, and her short stories have appeared in The New Plains Review, Philadelphia Stories, december magazine, and others. In 2021, her work was nominated for best of net, and she was selected as a writer in residence for Tin House. She teaches writing and literature at Midland College. Find her online at www.stacyegan.com.

Jace Einfeldt is a native of Southern Utah and currently lives in Central New York with his wife. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in CutBank, SLAB, and elsewhere.

Charlene Elsby, Ph.D., specializes in Aristotle's metaphysics and realist phenomenology. She is the Vice President of the North American Society for Early Phenomenology and the general editor of Phenomenological Investigations. Her fictional works include Hexis, Affect, Psychros, Agyny and Musos.

Sean Ennis is the author of CHASE US: Stories (Little A) and his flash fiction has recently appeared in Passages North, (mac)ro(mic), Tiny Molecules, F(r)iction and Bull. More of his work can be found at seanennis.net.

Brian Evenson is the author of a dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collection Song for the Unraveling of the World (Coffee House Press, 2019), which won the Shirley Jackson Award and was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. Other recent books include A Collapse of Horses (Coffee House Press 2016) and The Warren (Tordotcom, 2016). His novel Last Days won the American Library Association's RUSA award for Best Horror Novel of 2009. His novel The Open Curtain was a finalist for an Edgar Award and an International Horror Guild Award. His 2003 collection The Wavering Knife won the IHG Award for best story collection. His new book of stories, The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell will be published by Coffee House Press in 2021. He is the recipient of three O. Henry Prizes, an NEA fellowship, and a Guggenheim Award. His work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the Critical Studies Program at CalArts.

Corey Farrenkopf lives on Cape Cod with his wife, Gabrielle, and works as a librarian. His short stories have been published in Tiny Nightmares, The Southwest Review, Wigleaf, Catapult, Flash Fiction Online, and elsewhere. He is the Fiction Editor for The Cape Cod Poetry Review. To learn more, follow him on twitter @CoreyFarrenkopf or on the web at CoreyFarrenkopf.com. 

Nada Faris received an Arab Woman Award from Harper’s Bazaar Arabia in 2018 for her impact on Kuwait’s creative landscape. Author of three international books, Faris is an Honorary Fellow in Writing at Iowa University’s International Writing Program (IWP) Fall 2013, and alumna of the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) April 2018: Empowering Youth Through the Performing Arts. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University, and her poems, essays, and short stories have appeared in: The Norton Anthology for Hint Fiction, Nimrod, Sukoon, One Jacar, Amethyst Review, The Operating System, Indianapolis Review, and more.

Chico Felitti is also the author of The House: The History of the Cult of John of God, published in April 2020, and of Ricardo & Vania, shortlisted for this year's Jabuti, Brazil's most prestigious literary award. 

Daniel Felsenthal is a regular critic for the Village Voice and Pitchfork and the Assistant Editor of NOON. His short stories, essays and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in a variety of publications, including the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Baffler, The Believer, Frieze, Hyperallergic, Kenyon Review, X-R-A-Y and BOMB, among others, and in 2019, his novella, Sex With Andre, came out in The Puritan. Read more of his stuff at Danielfelsenthal.com and find him on Twitter @D_felsenthal.

Loisa Fenichell is a graduate of SUNY Purchase College, where she double majored in Creative Writing and Literature. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in various magazines, such as Winter Tangerine Review, Porridge Magazine, and The Nervous Breakdown. Her debut collection, 'all these urban fields,' was released July of 2019 by nothing to say press. She is an MFA candidate at Saint Mary's College of California. 

Ruey Fern is an undergraduate student who loves learning language, living language and listening to language. They mostly publish on a personal blog, carboniferouschronicles.wordpress.com. They hope readers can get something enriching out of their writing.

Ori Fienberg’s poetry will appear this year in Cimarron Review, The Dallas Review, Ploughshares, Smartish Pace, and Superstition Review, among other places. Ori is the author of the chapbooks Old Habits, New Markets, available from elsewhere press, and Interim Assistant Dean of Having a Rich Inner Life from Ghost City Press. Where Babies Come From is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press. Ori teaches poetry for Northeastern University. More writing can be found at orifienberg.com.

Gary Fincke's latest collection is Nothing Falls from Nowhere (Stephen F. Austin, 2021). His flash fiction has been published lately in Wigleaf, Craft, Atticus Review, Pithead Chapel, Ghost Parachute, and Best Small Fictions 2020. He is co-editor of the annual anthology series Best Microfiction.

Pat Foran believes in Dolly Parton. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Tiny Molecules, jmww, Truffle and elsewhere. Find him on Twitter at @pdforan.

Sophia Frank is a Brooklyn based writer and performer. After graduating from NYU’s Experimental Theatre Wing in 2014, she wrote, produced and performed in two strange plays with her producing partner Bailey Nasetta One Upon A Roach, and -but some of us. Frank also performed off-Broadway in a production of Medea/Britney at HERE Arts Center last fall in a partnership with What Will The Neighbors Say and Cloudbusters. She is a retired bartender and MFA candidate in Fiction at Columbia University.

Stephanie Frazee's work has appeared in Passages North, The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review, and elsewhere. She is an Assistant Editor at American Short Fiction and lives in Seattle, Washington.

Cassidy Gabriel is a writer and researcher from New Jersey. Her poetry has previously appeared in Quarto Magazine. She recently completed her B.A. at Columbia University, and currently lives, writes, and runs in New York City.

Erin Gallagher is a writer in New York City. Her work has been published in Maryland Bards Poetry Review, and X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine. You can find her on Instagram as @erinagall.

Tania Ganitsky is a poet, translator, essayist and editor from Bogotá, Colombia. The author of four poetry collections, she was awarded Colombia’s National Poetry Prize (Obra Inédita) in 2018 for Dos cuerpos menos (Two Bodies Fewer). Her book Desastre lento (Slow Disaster) was selected as a finalist for the National Poetry Prize in 2019. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Warwick (England) and co-editor of the literary magazine La Trenza. Her most recent collection, La suspensión de los objetos flotantes (The Suspension of Floating Objects), was released in 2020.

Madeline Garfinkle is a writer from Miami, Florida. She received her MFA from Columbia University, where she was nominated for the Henfield Prize in Fiction. Her work is forthcoming in the Washington Square Review.

Rachel Genn works across Manchester Writing School and the School of Digital Arts.  Formerly a Neuroscientist, she has written two novels: THE CURE, (2011) and WHAT YOU COULD HAVE WON published by & OtherStories (2020) and has contributed to Granta, 3AM, Aeon/Psyche and has forthcoming work The New Statesman and LA Review of Books. She is currently working on three short volumes on the subject of longing. Find her on Twitter @RachelGenn.

Steve Gergley is a writer and runner from Warwick, New York. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Cleaver Magazine, Hobart, Pithead Chapel, Maudlin House, Barren Magazine, and others. In addition to writing fiction, he has composed and recorded five albums of original music. His fiction can be found here.

Adrija Ghosh (she/they) is an Indian queer multilingual poet working with translingualism, memory, and the polycultural body. They are currently enrolled in the MA Creative Writing (Poetry) course at the University of East Anglia. They are passionate about decolonization, diversity, and inclusivity in the literary canon, research, and scholarship.

Ishani Shambhobi Ghosh lives in Kolkata, India. She has degrees in Literature and Ecology, which she hopes to put into good use some day. She also aspires to be a full-time creative writer.

Adam Gianforcaro is a writer living in Wilmington, Delaware. His poems can be found in Palette Poetry, No Contact, RHINO, Okay Donkey, Poet Lore, The Cincinnati Review miCRo series, and elsewhere. He was an Honorable Mention in The Maine Review’s 2021 Embody Awards and a winner of Button Poetry’s 2018 Short Form Contest.

grace (ge) gilbert is the author of Holly (YesYes Books 2025).

Rachel A.G. Gilman's work has been published in journals throughout the US, UK, and Australia. She is the Creator/EIC of The Rational Creature and was EIC for Columbia Journal, Issue 58. She holds an MFA in Writing from Columbia University and is currently reading for an MSt in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford.

Sylvia Gindick is a poet based in NYC. Her words have appeared in BOMB, Bookforum, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and other publications.

Melissa Ginsburg is the author of the poetry collections Doll Apollo, forthcoming from LSU Press, and Dear Weather Ghost, published by Four Way Books, and 3 poetry chapbooks, as well as the novels The House Uptown and Sunset City. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, West Branch, Fence, Southwest Review, and other magazines. She is an associate professor of creative writing and literature at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, and serves as associate editor of Tupelo Quarterly.

Cameron Gorman (they/them) is a nonbinary poet pursuing their MFA at Ohio State University. They are an associate editor for The Journal and have been published in Hobart and The Rumpus.

Kevin Grauke has published work in such places as The Southern Review, Cimarron Review, Sycamore Review, Blue Mesa Review, Sou'wester, and Quarterly West. His collection, Shadows of Men (Queen's Ferry Press), won the Steven Turner Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. Originally from Texas, he teaches at La Salle University in Philadelphia.

Hannah Grieco is a writer in Arlington, VA. She is the CNF editor at JMWW, the fiction editor at Porcupine Literary, and the founder and organizer of the monthly reading series 'Readings on the Pike' in the DC area. Find her online at www.hgrieco.com and on Twitter @writesloud.

Gabrielle Griffis is a multimedia artist, writer, and musician. Her fiction has been published in or is forthcoming from Wigleaf, Split Lip Magazine, Monkeybicycle, XRAY, Matchbook, Okay Donkey, and elsewhere. She works as a librarian on Cape Cod. You can visit her website at gabriellegriffis.com.

Linnie Greene is a writer in Jersey City, NJ. She’s Clement’s mom. You can find her work in Hobart, Fast Company, The New York Times, and elsewhere, and she contributes regularly at Pitchfork. She’s a Capricorn sun/moon, Gemini rising.

Suzanne Grove is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and received the J. Stanton Carson Grant for Excellence in Writing. Her fiction and poetry appear or are forthcoming in The Adirondack Review, Barren Magazine, The Carolina Quarterly, No Tokens, Okay Donkey, The Penn Review, Porter House Review, Raleigh Review, Rust + Moth, XRAY, and elsewhere. She has been a flash fiction finalist with SmokeLong Quarterly and received honorable mention for her fiction appearing on Farrar, Straus, & Giroux's Work in Progress website. She currently serves as the associate editor for CRAFT and resides in Pittsburgh, PA.

Rhienna Renèe Guedry is a Louisiana-born writer and artist who found her way to the Pacific Northwest, perhaps solely to get use of her vintage outerwear collection. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in Empty Mirror, Bitch Magazine, Screen Door, Scalawag Magazine, Taking the Lane, and elsewhere on the internet. Find more about her projects at rhienna.com or @chouchoot on Twitter.

Gulzar is an award-festooned, multi-lingual Indian poet and lyricist. He has previously won an Academy Award for his songwriting (“Jai Ho”, his collaboration with AR Rahman on 2007’s Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack); the song later went on to win a Grammy. Gulzar’s Bollywood smash hits have been praised for their spiritual complexity; for one of his best-known works, “Chaiya Chaiya”, he sought inspiration from a 17th-Century Sufi folk poem. He has also received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2002 and the Padma Bhushan in 2004. In 2016, BBC listed him amongst “12 more songwriters worthy of the Nobel Prize in Literature.” Gulzar lives and works in Mumbai.

Joy Guo currently lives in Manhattan with her husband. She is a white collar and regulatory defense attorney. Her work is published or forthcoming in failbetter, Passages North, Okay Donkey, and Pithead Chapel. 

John Haggerty’s work has appeared in dozens of magazines such as Carolina Quarterly, CRAFT Literary, Indiana Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review. He is the founding editor of the Forge Literary Magazine.

Ashley Hajimirsadeghi’s work has appeared in Into the Void Magazine, Mud Season Review, Rust + Moth, and The Shore, among others. She currently reads for Mud Season Review and EX/POST Magazine, is the Playwriting Director’s Apprentice at New Perspectives Theatre Company, and was a Brooklyn Poets Fellow. Her debut chapbook cartography of trauma is forthcoming from dancing girl press. Learn more here. 

Mary Catherine Harper, a 2018 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award winner, was the Ohio Arts Council poetry resident at the Fine Arts Work Center of Provincetown, MA, for June-August 2019. She organizes the yearly SwampFire Retreat (swampfire.org) for artists and writers at 4 Corners Gallery in Angola, Indiana, and manages the group’s Facebook page. She won the 2018 Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, has a published chapbook, Some Gods Don’t Need Saints, and her poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including The Comstock Review, Cold Mountain Review, Pudding Magazine, MidAmerica, Print-Oriented Bastards, and The Offbeat. See marycatherineharper.org for more information.

L Mari Harris’s most recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in matchbook, Ponder Review, Milk Candy Review, CRAFT, Okay Donkey, among others. She works in the tech industry and lives in the Ozarks. Follow her on Twitter @LMariHarris and read more of her work at lmariharris.wordpress.com.

Jordan Harrison-Twist is a writer and editor based in Manchester, UK. His essays have appeared in 3:AM Magazine, The Double Negative, iiii Magazine, and Corridor8. He is the one-time winner of the Retreat West micro fiction competition, in which he has been variously shortlisted and long-listed; he has also been long-listed in the Reflex Press flash fiction competition. His story 'Plethora' appears in ‘Between the Lines’, an anthology published by Comma Press.

Candace Hartsuyker has an MFA in Creative Writing from McNeese State University and reads for PANK. She has been published in Trampset, Okay Donkey, Heavy Feather Review, The Hunger and elsewhere.

Bryan Harvey's writing has appeared recently in Hobart, Rejection Letters, and The Daily Drunk, and it has appeared less recently in The Florida Review's Aquifer, Gravel, and Cold Mountain Review. He lives and teaches in Virginia and tweets @Bryan_S_Harvey. He dreams about basketball on long runs.

Chris Haven’s prose appears in Electric Literature, Jellyfish Review, Denver Quarterly, Cincinnati Review miCRo, and Kenyon Review. One of his stories is listed in Best American Short Stories 2020, and his debut collection of short stories, Nesting Habits of Flightless Birds, was published by Tailwinds Press in October 2020. He teaches writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan.

W.A. Hawkins is a writer from South Louisiana. He's the creator and host of Micro, a podcast that features short fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and the unclassifiable read by the writers who wrote them. You can find his work in Scalawag Magazine, Bayou Brief, Rejection Letters, and elsewhere.

Joshua Hebburn edits fiction for Hobart. His own has appeared in New World Writing, Forever Mag and X-R-A-Y. He recommends "Bloop" by Kevin Maloney from the No Contact archives.

Laura Hemmington is a writer and freelance copywriter from London, and the author of some off-kilter tales. A walker of landscapes real and imagined, she lives at the forest's edge with her husband and their senior cat.

Anna Farro Henderson (AKA E.A. Farro) is a scientist and artist who spent several years working in politics. She founded The Nature Library art installation. Her publications have appeared in The Rumpus, The Kenyon Review, and The Normal School, among others. She is a recipient of a Minnesota State Art Board grant, an Excellence in Teaching Fellowship at the Madeline Island School of the Arts, and a Loft Literary Center Mentor Award. She teaches at the Loft Literary Center.

Bill Hollands is a teacher and poet in Seattle, where he lives with his husband and their son. His poems have appeared in Rattle, DIAGRAM, The American Journal of Poetry, The Account, Wildness, and elsewhere. He was recently named a finalist for New Ohio Review's NORward Prize, North American Review’s James Hearst Poetry Prize, Sycamore Review’s Wabash Prize in Poetry, and Smartish Pace’s Erskine J. Poetry Prize. Find him at https://billhollandspoetry.com/ and on Twitter @bill_hollands

Claire Hopple is the author of four books. Her fiction has appeared in Hobart, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Rupture, New World Writing, and others. More at clairehopple.com.

Juleigh Howard-Hobson’s dark works can be found in in Dreams and Nightmares, The Audient Void, Coffin Bell, The Literary Hatchet, The Haunted Dollhouse, Eye to the Telescope, Polu Texni, Abridged Magazine, Illumen, Eternal Haunted Summer, Mandragora (Scarlett Imprint), Five Minutes At Hotel StormCove (Atthis Publishing), and other places. A post-modern ex-pat drop-out, she currently lives besides a dark forest in the USA, with her husband and a dog. The dog may or may not be mortal.

Tiffany Hsieh was born in Taiwan and moved to Canada at the age of fourteen. Her fiction and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in Juked, The Malahat Review, Passages North, Poet Lore, Room, Salamander, The Shanghai Literary Review, Sonora Review, and others. She lives in southern Ontario.

Bryan Hurt is the author of Everyone Wants to Be Ambassador to France, which won the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction, and editor of Watchlist: 32 Stories by Persons of Interest (Catapult). His writing has appeared in Lit Hub, Electric Literature, and TriQuarterly, among many others, and has been translated into several languages. He is Editor in Chief of the Arkansas International and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Arkansas.

Saba Imtiaz is a writer who lives in Karachi, Pakistan. She is the author of the novel Karachi, You’re Killing Me! Web: sabaimtiaz.com.

Joe Imwalle is an MFA candidate at St Mary's College of CA. He lives in Oakland with his wife and daughter where he teaches Spanish & ESL online. He's currently working on a poetry translation project and his first poetry manuscript. His poems can be found in Beyond Words Literary Magazine, Indolent Books: What Rough Beast, and The Courtship of Winds.

Rebecca Irene's poems are published or forthcoming in RHINO, Carve, Juked, Parentheses Journal, Pidgeonholes, and elsewhere. She was named the 2020 Monson Arts: MWPA Poetry Fellow, and has received residencies from Norton Island, SAFTA, and Hewnoaks. Poetry Editor for The Maine Review, Rebecca holds an MFA from VCFA, and lives in Portland, Maine. Find her tweeting @cicadacomplex. 

Al Jacobs is a writer and designer from Toledo, Ohio.

Christopher James lives, works, and writes in Jakarta, Indonesia. He has been published online by Tin House, Booth, Wigleaf, SmokeLong and others. He edits Jellyfish Review.

Mason James has wasted a great many hours lamenting his genealogical proximity to Frank and Jesse James, and his seemingly infinite distance, in all respects, from William and Henry.

Robiny Jamerson is a recent MFA graduate from Columbia University. She lives in Buena Vista, Colorado, where she is a high school English teacher.

Hansika Jethnani is a poet and visual artist based between London and Mumbai. Her work has appeared in Lihaaf Journal, Young Ignorantes and Whip Zine. She is also a contributor to two anthologies, Love As We Know It (Delhi Poetry Slam) and Fearless Love (Mohini Books). 

Ruth Joffre is the author of the story collection Night Beast. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Kenyon Review, Lightspeed, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, The Masters Review, Pleiades, and The Florida Review Online and will be anthologized in Best Microfiction 2021 and Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness. She lives in Seattle, where she serves as Prose Writer-in-Residence at Hugo House.

Michele Finn Johnson’s work has appeared in Colorado Review, Mid-American Review, Booth, The Adroit Journal, DIAGRAM, Barrelhouse, SmokeLong Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her work was selected for Best Small Fictions 2019, won an AWP Intro Journals Award in nonfiction, and has been nominated several times for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Microfiction. Michele lives in Tucson and serves as fiction editor at Split Lip Magazine. Find her online at michelefinnjohnson.com and on Twitter at @m_finn_johnson.

Rhiannon Jones has work published in Hobart, Maudlin House, Reflex Press and others.

Flourish Joshua is a Nigerian poet, a NaiWA poetry scholar and second runner-up of the 7th Ngozi Agbo Prize for Essay. He has been published/forthcoming in London Grip Poetry, East French Press, Brittle Paper, Olongo, and elsewhere. He is poetry reader at Frontier Poetry Journal and Bluebird Review. He is on Instagram & Twitter @fjspeaks.

Amy Kalbun is an MFA candidate in Fiction at Columbia University. She is currently working on a novel, and divides her time between Toronto and New York.

Alice Kaltman is the author of the story collection STAGGERWING, and the novels WAVEHOUSE and THE TANTALIZING TALE OF GRACE MINNAUGH. Her new novel, DAWG TOWNE is forthcoming in June 2021 from word west. Her stories appear in numerous journals, most recently; Lost Balloon, The Pinch, Joyland, and BULL, and in the anthologies THE PLEASURE YOU SUFFER, ON MONTAUK, and FECKLESS CUNT. Alice lives, writes, and surfs in Brooklyn and Montauk, NY.

Angie Kang is a Chinese-American illustrator and writer living in San Francisco, CA. Her writing has been published or is forthcoming in The Believer, Narrative, The Offing, The Rumpus, Porter House Review, Hobart, and others. Find more of her work at www.angiekang.net, or on instagram @anqiekanq.

Joe Kapitan's recent short fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in DIAGRAM, Spry, Pithead Chapel, New World Writing, and X-R-A-Y. He is author of a short story collection, CAVES OF THE RUST BELT (Tortoise Books), and is a staff CNF reader for Atticus Review.

Hannah Kauders is a writer-translator based in Brooklyn. She holds an MFA from Columbia University, where she has taught undergraduate writing. Her work has been featured by Lit Hub, Fiction International, Words Without Borders, PEN America, and Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation, and she is the translator of Iván Monalisa Ojeda’s Las Biuty Queens. She was a finalist for the 2020 Iowa Review Award in fiction. 

Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey is a 20 year old writer from California. They are currently a sophomore at Reed College. They are a 2020 Youngarts Finalist in Short Story and a Scholastic Gold Medalist, with work appearing in Ephimiliar Journal, Blue Marble Review, Amaryllis and others. When not writing, Esmé enjoys nature walks and spending inordinate amounts of time making playlists.

Aimée Keeble has her Master of Letters in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow and is represented by Ayla Zuraw-Friedland at the David Black Agency. Aimée lives in North Carolina with her dog Cowboy and is working on her first novel. She is the grand-niece of Beat writer and poet Alexander Trocchi. 

Rin Kelly’s stories have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Kenyon Review, The Fabulist, Green Hills Literary Lantern, and Penumbric. She read at SF LitQuake, Bang! Bang! Gun Amok in Manhattan, Writers with Drinks, and other venues. Her novel The Bright and Holo Sky is currently being edited for publication. Rin studied fiction writing with Heddie Jones at the New School in New York City and took classes at the Writers Grotto in San Francisco, The Writers Salon, and at Berkeley Extension. She was a Stabile Center fellow at Columbia and film/culture editor of LA RECORD. Her journalism has appeared in Salon.com and publications nationwide.

Genevieve Kersten is a poet, romance writer, and professional semi-finalist. She is co-founder and poetry editor at Okay Donkey. Her poetry has appeared in Pithead Chapel, Hypertrophic Literary, 8 Poems Journal, The Feckless Cunt Anthology, and Helen: A Literary Magazine among others. She lives in Los Angeles with her partner, and tweets at @joieduhvieve.

Kathy Key-Tello is a graduate of the University of Houston undergraduate creative writing program where she received the Provost's Prize for Creative Writing in Prose. She is the former Editor-in-Chief of Glass Mountain, and her work can be found online and in print with Crack the Spine, the tiny journal, and elsewhere. Currently, Kathy lives in Arkansas and she has a beautiful bunny.

Ben Kline lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, drinking all the coffee and gin. His chapbook SAGITTARIUS A* will be published in October 2020 by Sibling Rivalry Press. A poetry reader for The Adroit Journal and Flypaper Lit, he is the 2020 recipient of the Christopher Hewitt Award for poetry and a finalist for The Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. His work appears in The Cortland Review, Impossible Archetype, No Contact, DIAGRAM, Hobart, Juked, A&U Magazine, and many more. You can read more here. 

Stephanie King is a past winner of the Quarterly West Novella Prize and the Lilith Short Fiction Prize, with stories also appearing in CutBank, Entropy, and Hobart. She received her MFA from Bennington and serves on the board of the Philadelphia Writers’ Conference. You can find her online at stephanieking.net or Twitter @stephstephking.

Olivia Kingery grows plants and words in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. She is an MFA candidate at Northern Michigan University, where she reads for Passages North. When not writing, she is in the woods with her Chihuahua and Great Pyrenees.

Wilson Koewing is a writer from South Carolina. His work has recently appeared in Ellipsis Zine, Ghost Parachute, Dreams Walking and The Fiction Pool. 

Diana Kole is a writer based in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Maisonneuve, and elsewhere. She holds an MS in narrative medicine from Columbia and is the recipient of a Tory Dent Fellowship in Creative Writing from NYU. She is at work on a novel.

Kyra Kondis is an MFA candidate in fiction at GMU, where she's working on a short story collection. Her work can be found in Wigleaf's Top 50, Best Microfiction 2020, and more. She's the Editor in Chief of So to Speak Journal and Social Media Editor of Pithead Chapel.

Al Kratz lives in Indianola, Iowa with his wife Kristy and their cat Tom Petty. He is an Editor at New Flash Fiction Review and co-founder of the Flash Monsters!!! blog. He's on twitter @silverbackedG.

Jennifer Lynn Krohn (she/her) was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She earned her MFA from the University of New Mexico, and she currently teaches English at Central New Mexico Community College. She has published work in The Pinch, Storm Cellar, Pleiades, and The Normal School among others.

Jill Krupnik is a writer in Brooklyn, NY and misses being able to write at bars.

Kathryn Kulpa is a New England-based writer with stories in Flash Frog, Monkeybicycle, New World Writing, and Wigleaf. Her work was selected for Best Microfiction 2020 and 2021. Find her at kathrynkulpa.com or @KathrynKulpa.

KKUURRTT is glad you read his thing. He can be found on twitter at @wwwkurtcom. His book GOOD AT DRUGS is forthcoming from Alien Buddha Press.

Justin Lacour lives in New Orleans and edits Trampoline: A Journal of Poetry. His poetry has appeared in New Orleans Review (Web Features), Feral, Parhelion, B O D Y, and other journals.

Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes was born in Harrisburg, PA and has a BA in Creative Writing from Susquehanna University and an MFA from George Mason University. She has appeared in The Rumpus, Cartridge Lit, Gulf Stream Lit, Crab Fat Magazine, and SmokeLong Quarterly. Her first book, Ashley Sugarnotch & the Wolf, is out from Mason Jar Press.

Luke Larkin is an MFA candidate at the University of Montana. His work has appeared in HAD, Popshot, Firewords, Barren Magazine, and others. He also lends a hand to the publications CutBank, Unstamatic, and Visual Verse.

Brenna Lee is a Detroit based writer. She received her MFA at Naropa University where she was the recipient of the Leslie Scalapino Award. Her work has recently appeared in Bone Bouquet, BathHouse, and Everything In Aspic, and is forthcoming in Reality Beach.

Rachel Kuanneng Lee is a poet. Her work appears in or is forthcoming at Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, The Tiger Moth Review, wildness, the Live Canon 2020 Anthology, Entropy and elsewhere. She is a Brooklyn Poets Fellow. She is also co-founder of a data science startup and hopes that someday, she might be able to make a coherent narrative out of her career choices, even if today is not quite that day. You can find her online at rachel-lee.me.

Hilary Leichter is the author of the novel TEMPORARY, which was shortlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and is longlisted for the Pen/Hemingway Award. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, n+1, Harper's, Conjunctions, and The New Yorker. She teaches at Columbia University.

Jon Lemay is an MFA candidate at Syracuse University, where he is an Editor-in-Chief for Salt Hill Journal. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Juked, Salamander, Bodega, Prelude, Hobart After Dark (HAD), Words & Sports Quarterly, DIALOGIST and elsewhere—and his reviews have appeared in Barrelhouse and Poetry Northwest. Jon also co-hosts Pat & Jon on Their Best Behavior, a podcast about film and music. You can find him on Twitter @yawnlemay and on Instagram @jonlemay, and you can find more of his work at linktr.ee/jonlemay.

Oz Leshem is from Taos, New Mexico. Oz is the 2021 Santa Fe Youth Poet Laureate and was a semi-finalist for the National Student Poets program in 2021. Their work has received a New York Life Award, and a Gold Key for Poetry Portfolio in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, among others. In Oz’s senior year of high school they read at the American Literature Association and the New Mexico State Governor’s Mansion for the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Oz’s work has been published in magazines such as Ice Lolly Review, Clear Skies Zine, Teen Ink, Cathartic Youth Literary Magazine and others. Their work has also been included in anthologies such as The New Mexico Poetry Anthology, Dreams of Montezuma Series, Everything Feels Recent When You’re Far Away, and Convergences. 

blake levario writes and likes to chill. he's getting his MFA in Poetry at NYU. find him on twitter @b_levario and more of his work on his website blakelevario.com.

Ben Lewellyn-Taylor is a writer and teacher in Dallas, where he lives with his spouse Meg. He is an MFA student in Antioch University's low-residency program, where he also works on the Lunch Ticket staff. Ben co-hosts Book Cult with Cristina Rodriguez at Deep Vellum Books. His work has previously appeared on The Adroit Journal, New South, and FreezeRay Poetry, among others.

Marina Li is a freelance illustrator and designer born in Canada, currently based in Massachusetts. She earned her BFA in Illustration from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2017. She uses a dip-pen combined with digital to create simple but thoughtful illustrations that reflect on everyday life. When she's not working, she likes to go out and sketch the fascinating world around her. 

Marne Litfin (they/them) is a writer, comedian, and MFA student in fiction at the University of Michigan. Their essays and short stories are published and forthcoming in Passages North, SmokeLong Quarterly, Phoebe, Foglifter, and elsewhere. Marne tweets @JetpackMarne.

Zachary Lipez is a writer and musician in New York City. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, VICE, The Fader, Hazlitt, and Penthouse. His most recent book with regular co-authors Stacy Wakefield and Nick Zinner is 131 Different Things (Akashic Books). His most recent album with Publicist UK is Forgive Yourself (Relapse Records). His newsletter can be found at https://zacharylipez.substack.com/ and all other strongly held opinions can be found at @zacharylipez on twitter dot com. 

Gary Lippman received a law degree from Northwestern University and has worked with New York's Innocence Project.  Lippman's play Paradox Lust ran off-Broadway in 2001 and his journalism has been published in the New York Times, The Paris Review, VICE, Fodors, and other fine spots.  His novel Set the Controls for the Heart of Sharon Tate was published by Rare Bird Books in 2019, and his story collection is slated to appear next year. You can read his work at garylippmanofficial.com.

Davon Loeb is the author of the memoir The In-Betweens (West Virginia University Press, 2022). He earned an MFA in creative writing from Rutgers-Camden University. Davon is an assistant features editor at The Rumpus. His work is featured at The Rumpus, Catapult, Ploughshares Blog, PANK Magazine, No Contact, Wigleaf Top 50, and elsewhere. Besides writing, Davon is a high school English teacher, husband, and father living in New Jersey. He can be reached at davonloeb.com and on Twitter at @LoebDavon. 

Melissa Lore received an MFA in fiction from Columbia University, where she was awarded the Lini Mazumdar Fellowship and graduated with disctinction. Her work has appeared in Zyzzyva, The Normal School, Split Lip, and other publications, and she was a finalist for Mid-American Review's 2020 Sherwood Anderson Fiction Prize. She is at work on a short story collection about motherhood. When not writing, Melissa performs as GosHawk in Rock Street, a kid-friendly hip-hop band. She lives in Portsmouth, NH, with her husband, their two children, and two giant sheepadoodles.

Emily Lowe is a Brooklyn-based writer, editor and educator. She holds an MFA from UNCW where she was the 2019-2020 Philip Gerard writing fellow. She is an editor for The Rejoinder, a magazine of serialized fiction, and her writing can be found in The Chicago Review, The Normal School, and River Teeth Journal among others. She is currently at work on a collection of stories centered around queer fairytales and the ocean. More on Emily at emilylowewriter.com

Colin Lubner writes from Harlem. You can check in on him on Twitter: @no1canimagine0. He'd love it if you checked in.

Jillian Luft is a Florida native currently residing in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in Hobart, X-R-A-Y, Booth, The Forge Literary Magazine, and other publications. You can find her on Twitter @JillianLuft or read more of her work at jillianluft.com.

Amy Lyons has had recent work in Lunch Ticket, Literary Mama, and The Independent. Her work has been supported and recognized by a residency at Millay Colony for the Arts, a fellowship from The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, and an Honorable Mention from Miami Book Fair's 2020 Emerging Writer Fellowship in Fiction.

Nandini Maharaj is a writer, dog mom, and human-animal bond researcher. She has a PhD in public health and counselling psychology. Her work has been featured in HuffPost Canada, the Super Awesome Science Show, and The River. She can be found on Twitter @NandiniMaharaj_

Ameer Malik is a Muslim Pakistani-American writer. He received an undergraduate degree in Literary Arts from Brown University, where he wrote short fiction and essays for Post- Magazine and opinion columns for The Brown Daily Herald. He is currently pursuing an MFA in fiction writing at Columbia University.

Kevin Maloney is the author of Cult of Loretta (Lazy Fascist Press, 2015). His writing has appeared in Hobart, Barrelhouse, The Nervous Breakdown, and a number of other journals and anthologies. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife Aubrey.

S.S. Mandani is a writer, runner, and coffee person from New York City. His work is featured or forthcoming in New World Writing, XRAY, Lost Balloon, and others. Equal parts Murakami and Calvino, his novel in progress explores Sufi mysticism to tell the story of how a climate world war brings together a dysfunctional family of jinns spanning a hundred years. It envisions a murky, yet hopeful future. He radios @SuhailMandani.

Divya Maniar is a writer from Singapore. She studied Comparative Literature and Philosophy at Brown. Her work can be found in Joyland, Heavy Feather Review, Hobart, and elsewhere. She can be found on Twitter @divyalymaniar.

Abby Manzella is the author of Migrating Fictions: Gender, Race, and Citizen in U.S. Internal Displacements, which was awarded the honorable mention for the MLA Book Prize for Independent Scholars. Her work has been selected for the Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist, and she has published with sites including Literary Hub, Catapult, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Colorado Review, Bending Genres, and the Boston Globe. Follow her on Twitter @AbbyManzella.

Sahalie Angell Martin is an Oregon-born writer currently residing in Columbus, OH. She received her BFA in Writing from Emerson College and is a current MFA in Fiction candidate at Ohio State University. She has published or upcoming work in Stork Magazine, the underground, Cleaver Magazine, and the Archipelago Fiction Anthology. She blogs about living with chronic illness at sahalieangellmartin.com.

Sam Martone lives and writes in New York City.

Matthew Mastricova is the fiction editor for Third Point Press. Their work has appeared in Catapult, Joyland, Redivider, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere.

Victoria Mbabazi is an MFA candidate with a concentration in poetry at NYU. Her work can be found in The Puritan, CV2, Feels Zine, Bywords, Untethered Magazine, Grain, and Release Any Words Stuck Inside You Volume 2. Her poetry placed second in The Hart House Review contest and her work has been shortlisted in Plenitude’s Flash Fiction contest and long-listed in Room’s Poetry contest. Her first chapbook “chapbook” came out with Anstruther Press this January.

Sonny McLean is a reluctantly modern sap living alone in Denver with his aging cat, Holic Guilt, who hogs most of their queen-size bed.

K.C. Mead-Brewer lives in Baltimore, MD. She is a graduate of Tin House's 2018 Winter Workshop for Short Fiction and of the 2018 Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers' Workshop. For more information, visit kcmeadbrewer.com and follow her @meadwriter.

Lincoln Michel is the author of the story collection Upright Beasts and the forthcoming novel The Body Scout. His short stories appear in The Paris Review, Granta, NOON, the Pushcart Prize anthology, and elsewhere. He teaches in the MFA programs at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University. You can find him online at @thelincoln and lincolnmichel.com.

Corey Miller was a finalist for the F(r)iction Flash Fiction Contest (Spring ’20) and shortlisted for The Forge Flash Competition (’20). His writing has appeared in Booth, Third Point Press, Pithead Chapel, Lost Balloon, Hobart, and elsewhere. When not working or writing in Cleveland, Corey likes to take the dogs for adventures. Follow him on Twitter @IronBrewer or at coreymillerwrites.com.

Matt Mitchell is a gluten-free, heartbroken, intersex writer from Columbus, Ohio. He is the author of The Neon Hollywood Cowboy (Big Lucks, 2021). Find him on Twitter @matt_mitchell48.

Olga Montenegro lives in Massachusetts. She is currently a grad student working on a collection of essays for her thesis that speak of family, loyalty, and understanding what womanhood means while growing up in Mexico City and Guatemala. She writes in both Spanish and English to amplify the nuance of culture and personal context.

Bailey Gaylin Moore is an Ozarks-based writer and Ph.D. student in Creative Writing at the University of Missouri - Columbia. She serves as the Online Editor and Art Director of Past Ten, and she has work in or forthcoming in AGNI, Willow Springs, Hayden's Ferry Review, and Hobart. Learn more about Bailey here.

Jack Balderrama Morley (they/he) is a New York–based design writer and the managing editor of The Architect’s Newspaper. They are also a queer, Güerx, Xicanx-Anglo fiction writer. Jack is represented by Danielle Bukowski at Sterling Lord Literistic for fiction.

Bee Morris is a poet living in South Florida. A finalist for the 2020 Kingdoms in the Wild Poetry Prize and runner-up for Miracle Monocle’s Award for Young Black Writers, their recent work appears or is forthcoming in OxMag, Anti-Heroin Chic, Olney Magazine, and DEAR Poetry Journal. They also run the newsletter Blackout Fascinations.

Canaan Morse is a poet, literary translator, and doctoral scholar of ancient Chinese literature and oral storytelling. His poetry is forthcoming at The Curator; his translations of Chinese literature have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Baffler, Asymptote, and elsewhere; he has also translated two novels for the NYRB Classics series.

Shareen K. Murayama is a Japanese American, Okinawan American poet and educator. Her debut poetry collection, Housebreak, is forthcoming by Bad Betty Press (July 2022). She’s a 2021 Best Microfiction winner, a poetry reader for The Adroit Journal, and Asst. CNF Editor for JMWW. Her works have been published or forthcoming in The McNeese Review, The Willowherb Review, National Flash Fiction, The Margins, Bamboo Ridge Press, and elsewhere. She lives in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. You can find her on IG and Twitter @ambusypoeming.

Zain Murdock is an undergrad at Columbia University from Silver Spring, Maryland. When she dies, she hopes to grab a drink with James Baldwin and ask him if, or when, he thinks the world is going to be okay. Some more of her work can be found at Quarto Magazine and her Instagram, @zaineyre. 

Mike Nagel is the author of Duplex and Culdesac, both from Autofocus Books. Find selected nonsense at michaelscottnagel.com

Maggie Nipps is a poet and playwright from Wisconsin, currently studying at the University of Iowa. Her work appears in Dream Pop Journal and she co-edits the lit mag Afternoon Visitor.

Mitchell Nobis is a writer and K-12 teacher in Metro Detroit where he lives with his family and hosts KickstART Farmington’s reading series. His poetry has appeared in Exposition Review, Hobart, Dunes Review, and others. His manuscript was a finalist for the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize. Find him at @MitchNobis or mitchnobis.com.

Alexa Norsby is an MFA graduate from McNeese State University. She currently teaches college and high school English in Nashville, TN.

Sophia Noulas is an Editorial Coordinator who also moonlights as a reader for Electric Literature. She is the winner of Causeway Lit's Fall 2020 Poetry Contest, and has been published in Passengers Journal, Cathexis Northwest, High Shelf Press, Allegory Ridge, and others. Follow her on Instagram @sophia_noulas.

Wendy Oleson is the author of two award-winning prose chapbooks (Gertrude Press and Map Literary). Her writing appears in Passages North, The Adroit Journal, Fourteen Hills, and elsewhere. She serves as managing editor for Split Lip Magazine, associate prose editor for Fairy Tale Review, and lives with her wife and dogs in Walla Walla, Washington.

Carolyn Oliver’s very short prose and prose poetry has appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, Indiana Review, Jellyfish Review, jmww, Unbroken, Tin House Online, FlashBack Fiction, Midway Journal, and New Flash Fiction Review, among other journals. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net in both fiction and poetry. Carolyn lives with her family in Massachusetts, where she serves as a poetry editor for The Worcester Review. Online: carolynoliver.net.

Uzodinma Okehi. Lonely loner, adrift, in a sub-literary world of criminals who operate above the law: okehi@hotmail.com. Or check out the book, Over for Rockwell, out now from Short Flight/Long Drive.

Nick Olson is an author and editor from Chicagoland now living in North Carolina. He was a finalist for Glimmer Train’s Very Short Fiction Award, and he’s been published in SmokeLong Quarterly, Hobart, decomP, and other fine places. When he’s not writing his own work, he’s sharing the wonderful work of others over at (mac)ro(mic). His debut novel, Here’s Waldo, is available now. Find him online at nickolsonbooks.com or on Twitter @nickolsonbooks.

Cheryl Pappas is a writer from Boston. Her work has appeared or forthcoming in Hayden's Ferry Review, Juked, The Chattahoochee Review, HAD, and more. Her flash fiction chapbook The Clarity of Hunger will be published by Word West Press in September 2021. Her website is cherylpappas.net and you can find her on Twitter at @fabulistpappas.

Jihoon Park is currently a MFA student at George Mason University. His fiction is forthcoming or published in Spry Literary Journal, The Fiction Pool, MARY: A Journal of New Writing, and elsewhere. He is from San Jose, California.  

Kathryn Paul lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is a survivor of many things, including cancer and downsizing. Her poems have appeared in Ekphrasis; Hospital Drive; The Ekphrastic Review; Lunch Ticket; Stirring: A Literary Collection; Words Dance; The Fem; and Poets Unite! The LiTFUSE @10 Anthology. 

Ross Peterson lives in Montana, where he has bartended, waited tables, washed dishes, operated heavy duty floor scrubbing machines, played in garage bands, and spent ample amounts of time wandering in the woods. He is a graduate of Oklahoma City University's Red Earth MFA Program, and his stories have appeared such places as The Whitefish Review, Jokes Review, The Flash Fiction Offensive, and others.   

Benjamin Pfeiffer is a writer with work in The Paris Review Daily, Electric Literature, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Kansas City Star, and The Rumpus, where he is an editor emeritus. He lives with his wife and daughter in Kansas City. You can find him online at benpaulpfeiffer.com.

Paulette Pierce is a queer Pittsburgh-based writer currently working on their first novel and trying to preserve their local film community in their off hours. Their work has appeared in Maudlin House, SFWP, and Anti-Heroin Chic.

Megan Pillow is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop in fiction and holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Kentucky. She is co-editor of The Audacity, a new newsletter by Roxane Gay, and founder of Submerged: An Archive of Caregivers Underwater. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in, among other places, in Electric Literature, SmokeLong Quarterly, Guernica, The Believer, TriQuarterly, and Gay Magazine and has been featured in Longreads. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky with her two children.

Sara Potocsny is a writer in Brooklyn, NY. She has her MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. She has a chapbook forthcoming from Bull City Press! She has work in or forthcoming in the Los Angeles Review, Maudlin House, The Offing, Juked, Hobart, Radar, HAD, The Racket, Rejection Letters, and others. You can find her on twitter at @sarapotocsny and IG at @spotocsny.

David Byron Queen grew up in Ohio. His work has appeared in Vol. 1 Brooklyn, VICE, Hobart, Split Lip Magazine, and elsewhere. He has an MFA from the University of Montana, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow. Currently he lives in New York and runs the indie publishing company 'word west.' Find him on Twitter @byron_queen.

Abigail Raley is a queer poet from Kentucky. They have both published and forthcoming work from Not Your Mother's Breast Milk, The Lickety Split, and Zephyrus. She is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Montana.

Jessica Nirvana Ram is an Indo-Guyanese MFA candidate at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. She is equal parts poet and essayist, while occasionally moonlighting as a fiction writer. Her work appears in Barrelhouse, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and Memoir Mixtapes, with work forthcoming in The Hellebore Press. Jessica also recently attended the 2021 Tin House Summer Workshop. You can find her tweets about teaching, writing, and all other life things @jessnirvanapoet.

Prasanthi Ram is a Creative Writing PhD candidate at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her short stories have been published in The Tiger Moth Review, The Willowherb Review, and anthologised in Food Republic: A Singapore Literary Banquet by Landmark Books. While working on her debut collection of short stories, she is also a regular reviewer for Singapore Unbound's SP Blog. Most recently, she co-founded and is the fiction editor of Mahogany Journal, an online literary journal dedicated to South Asian anglophone writers born or based in Singapore.

Tori Rego is from South Carolina. She is a compulsive museum-goer and avid daydreamer. Her work can be found in Apt: A Literary Magazine, Jellyfish Review, Fugue, and elsewhere.

Kirsten Reneau is a writer living in New Orleans. Her work has previously appeared in Hobart, Trampset, The Threepenny Review, and others.

Becky Robison is a karaoke enthusiast, trivia nerd, and fiction writer from Chicago. A graduate of UNLV's Creative Writing MFA program, her stories have appeared in [PANK], Paper Darts, Midwestern Gothic, and elsewhere. When she's not working her corporate job or walking her dog, she serves as Social Media and Marketing Coordinator for Split Lip Magazine.

Rebecca Rubenstein is a writer and editor based in San Francisco. She received an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars, is an alum of the Tin House Writers Workshop, and has work published or forthcoming in Hobart After Dark, X-R-A-Y, Past Ten, and elsewhere. When not writing, she is a Fiction Editor at The Rumpus and Editor-in-Chief of Midnight Breakfast, and can often be found thinking aloud on Twitter @rrrubenstein.

Meghan Phillips is the author of the flash fiction chapbook Abstinence Only (Barrelhouse). She was a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. You can find her writing at meghan-phillips.com and her tweets at @mcarphil.

Sara Potocsny writes things in Syracuse, NY, where she lives with her son, Sol. She is currently an MFA Candidate in Creative Writing at Syracuse University, where she also teaches writing and sociology courses. She has one chapbook out called The Circle Room, published by Lover Books. Online she has work in or forthcoming in Hobart, Radar, The Racket, Rejection Letters, and others. 

Darby Price earned her MFA from George Mason University, where she was a Heritage Fellow and the Poetry Editor for Phoebe. Her work has previously appeared in Zócalo Public Square, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cimarron Review, and PANK, among others. Darby lives, works, and writes in Southern California, but you can also find her online at www.darbyprice.com.

Suzanne Richardson earned her M.F.A. in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the University of New Mexico. She currently lives in Utica, New York where she's an Assistant Professor of English at Utica College. More about Suzanne and her writing can be found here. Catch her on Twitter as @oozannesay.

D.T. Robbins has work in Hobart, Bending Genres, X-R-A-Y, Ghost City Review, Trampset, Versification, Ellipsis, and others. Find out more at dtrobbins.com. 

Gretchen Rockwell is a queer poet currently living in Scotland. Xe is the author of the chapbooks body in motion (perhappened press) and Lexicon of Future Selves (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press) and two microchapbooks. Xer work has also appeared in AGNI, Cotton Xenomorph, Whale Road Review, and elsewhere. Gretchen enjoys writing about gender, science, space, and unusual connections. Find xer at gretchenrockwell.com or on Twitter at @daft_rockwell.

Rashi Rohatgi is the author of Where the Sun Will Rise Tomorrow. Her poems have appeared in Lunar Poetry, Anima, and elsewhere, and her reviews of poetry have appeared in Wasafiri and Africa in Words. Formerly a reader for The Rumpus, she has served as intern for Ayesha Pande Literary, Reviews Editor for Africa in Words, and Fiction Editor for Boston Accent Lit, where she convened the Accent Prize. She is a former AWP and Binders mentee and a Bread Loaf, VONA, and Tin House alumna.

Robert Rubsam is a writer and critic whose work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, The Baffler, Commonweal, and America Magazine. He is currently an M.F.A. student at Columbia University.  

Christopher Rubio-Goldsmith was born in Merida, Yucatan and taught English at Tucson High Magnet School for 28 years. Many years ago he earned a degree in creative writing from the University of Arizona. Some of his works have appeared in Amuse-Bouche (Lunch Ticket), Gigantic Sequins, the anthology America, We Call Your Name, and other publications too. His wife Kelly often helps edit his work, and he appreciates her support every day.

Damian Rucci is the unofficial poet laureate of every 711 in New Jersey. His work has recently appeared on gas station bathroom stalls throughout the Midwest. He is probably banned from your local bar but you can find him on Twitter @damianrucci or at damian.rucci@gmail.com.

Libby Rule is an animator/illustrator from the Midwest. She recently graduated from Missouri State University with a BFA in animation, and has since done work for Cartoon Network and the NFL. She is currently developing a serial webcomic, and weathering COVID-19 at home with her little dog. 

C.C. Russell has published his poetry and prose in such journals as The Meadow, The Colorado Review, and Whiskey Island. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and for Best of the Net and is included in Best Microfiction 2020. He lives in Wyoming with a couple of humans and several cats. You can find more of his work at ccrussell.net.

Nicholas Russell is a writer from Las Vegas. His work has appeared in The Believer, The Guardian, Defector, Columbia Journal, Reverse Shot, and NPR, among other publications. He's a columnist at Gawker, a contributing prose editor at Burrow Press Review, and a bookseller at the Writer's Block in Las Vegas.

Jason Sebastian Russo is a writer, composer, and artist based in Brooklyn and central New York state. His work appears in The Nervous Breakdown, Hobart, Ghost City Press, No Contact, and beyond. He has recorded and toured in Mercury Rev, Pete International Airport, and Hopewell, among others. jasonsebastianrusso.com

Paul Ruta writes about music, travel, advertising, and some fiction. Written under the pen name Andy Spearman, his children’s book Barry, Boyhound, was published by Knopf. He's from Niagara Falls and has lived in Toronto, London, Singapore, San Francisco — and now Hong Kong, with his wife and three guitars. paulthomasruta.com.

Aaron Sandberg is always in Savasana. His writing has appeared in West Trade Review, Asimov’s, The Offing, Sporklet, perhappened mag, Lowestoft Chronicle, Abridged, Giallo, Right Hand Pointing, Monday Night, Unstamatic, and elsewhere. A Pushcart-nominated teacher, you can see him—if he doesn’t see you first—on Instagram @aarondsandberg.

Jaric Sarmiento is an immigrant from the Philippines currently residing in Southern California. Jaric mainly focuses on writing experimental explorations of depression, the absurd, and LGBTQ issues. He also likes card games.

Ariel Schleicher is a painter exploring the ubiquity of classical posture and styling tropes in the beauty of today’s human form. She has trained at institutions all over the world, including the Academy of Arts, Architecture & Design in Prague, the New York School of the Arts, and more. Her work has been showcased in exhibitions from the Luna Grande Gallery in Istanbul to the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Massachusetts. Her work has also been published in online publications such as 3 Elements Review, Quaranzine, and Visceral8. She is featured in the Women Who Draw’s online artist directory.

E.B. Schnepp is a poet currently residing in Indiana. Their work can also be found in Ninth Letter, Up the Staircase, and Roanoke Review, among others.

Bob Schofield is the author and illustrator of The Burning Person, Moon Facts, and The Inevitable June. Originally from New Orleans, he currently lives in the Netherlands. He likes what words and pictures do. In his next life he hopes to come back as a whale or beautiful tree.

Bryan Schutmaat is a photographer based in Austin, TX. His art in print is displayed in many galleries, including the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of  Modern Art; as well as in his books: Grays the Mountain Sends (2013) and Good Goddamn (2017). He is the recipient of numerous awards; the 2013 Aperture Portfolio Prize, an Aaron Siskind fellowship and, recently, a 2020 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. Vessels, his ongoing project on the American West, can be viewed on his website here.

Celeste Sea lives in Washington, DC. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in A Velvet Giant, perhappened, trampset, Tiny Molecules, Shenandoah Literary, SmokeLong Quarterly, and elsewhere. Find her on Twitter @celestish_ and online at https://celesteceleste.carrd.co/.

Salomón de la Selva (1883 - 1959) was a Nicaraguan poet and honorary member of the Mexican Academy of Language. He wrote in English and Spanish. His first book, Tropical Town and Other Poems, was published in New York in 1918.

Pete Segall lives in Chicago. His work has appeared recently in The Drift, The Bennington Review, and failed states.

Kyle Seibel is a writer in Santa Barbara, CA. His stories have appeared in Pithead Chapel, X-R-A-Y, and trampset. His tweets, which mostly suck can be found @kylerseibel. His debut collection HEY YOU ASSHOLES will be published on Bear Creek Press in 2023.

Osama Shehzad is a writer from Karachi living in New York City. Learn more at oshehzad.com.

Sunjoy Shekhar has written more than ten thousand hours of television programming for a host of channels across India and Indonesia. He used to head a publishing house in Delhi. He has translated Gulzar's songs and short-stories, which were published by Penguin, India. He divides his time between Jakarta, Mumbai and New Delhi.

Evan James Sheldon's work has appeared recently in the American Literary Review, the Cincinnati Review, and the Maine Review, among other journals. He is a senior editor for F(r)iction and the Editorial Director for Brink Literacy Project. You can find him online at www.evanjamessheldon.com.

Becky Shirley is a writer from Oceanside, California. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and lives in Manhattan. Her work has appeared in Vanishing Point Magazine, The Metaworker, and Columbia Journal. When she is not abandoning half-finished cups of coffee, she is editing a collection of short stories and writing her first novel.

Veronica Shore lives in coastal Maine with her family. She is a student of creative writing and English literature; a dedicated thespian, having performed throughout New England; and the winner of Regional Fine Arts awards for fiction. Her most recent works can be found in Malasaña.

Evan Shornstein is a musician, producer and DJ based in New York. He works under the solo musical moniker Photay, a balancing act of analog and digital, of natural and synthetic. Evan has spent the last 5 years performing around the world in cities such as Tokyo, Moscow, Mumbai and beyond. His latest record, Waking Hours, was released June 12th, 2020 on Mexican Summer. 

Ross Showalter's work has appeared in Electric Literature, Strange Horizons, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. He lives and works in Seattle, Washington.

Murzban F. Shroff is the author of Breathless in Bombay (stories), Waiting for Jonathan Koshy (novel) and Fasttrack Fiction (digital shorts). A six-time Pushcart Prize nominee, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best debut from Europe and South Asia, a finalist Horatio Nelson Fiction Award, and the recipient of the John Gilgun Fiction Award, Shroff’s fourth book, Third Eye Rising (stories) will publish in January 2021 in the U.S.

Megan Peck Shub is a producer at Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Her work has appeared/is forthcoming in the Missouri Review, Salamander, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Maudlin House, Peach Mag, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and X-R-A-Y. She is a contributing editor at Story magazine.

Aleksia Mira Silverman (@AleksiaMira) is a content strategist and freelance writer based in Florida. She graduated from Bowdoin College in 2019 where she co-founded and served as co-editor-in-chief for The Foundationalist. You can read her fiction in Tart Magazine’s newsletter, The Winnow Magazine, Rejection Letters, and The Daily Drunk.

Arushi Sinha is a fiction writer with an MFA from Columbia University. She is a 2020 New York State Writer’s Workshop scholar. Her writing can be found in the Columbia Journal and Harper’s Bazaar India, where she was a Staff Writer. Arushi is currently working on a short story collection, and lives between New York and New Delhi.

Eric Slick is a multi-instrumentalist and composer from Philadelphia. He currently drums with Dr. Dog and Natalie Prass. He also makes solo records. His new album is called Wiseacre. You can find him on Instagram as @strangeamerica if you like gratuitous photos of vanity license plates. 

Nora Smith is a copy editor living in Pittsburgh. They are writing poems, making zines and feeling cautiously optimistic. Their work is upcoming in Door Is A Jar. 

Adrian Sobol is an immigrant / musician / poet. He is the author of The Life of the Party is Harder to Find Until You're the Last One Around (Malarkey Books). He lives in Chicago.

Sara Son is a writer from Queens. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Smokelong Quarterly, Cream City Review, and elsewhere. She was a POC Fellowship Finalist from The Forge in 2018. She tweets, sometimes, at @saramjson.

Sarp Sozdinler (he/they) is a Turkish writer currently based between New York and Amsterdam. His work has been featured or is forthcoming in X-R-A-Y, It’s Nice That Magazine, Solstice, Passages North, The Racket, among other publications. Some of his longer pieces have been selected as a finalist at literary contests, including Waasnode Short Fiction Prize judged by Jonathan Escoffery. He is working on his first novel.

Archana Sridhar is an Indian-American poet and university administrator living in Toronto, Canada. Archana focuses on themes of meditation, race, motherhood, and diaspora in her poetry and flash writing. Her work has been featured in The Puritan, The Hellebore, Barren Magazine, and elsewhere. Her chapbook “Renderings” is available through 845 Press, and her work can be found at www.archanasridhar.com.

Tara Srinivasan has lived in Chennai, Singapore and New Delhi. She has a BA in English Literature and a constant, unrequited love for stray cats. You can find her on Twitter @taralikestea.

Chandra Steele is a writer and journalist from New York. Her work has appeared in Capsule Stories, superfroot, No Contact, Wigleaf, Storm Cellar, Ample Remains, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and other places. Rick Moody once said she wrote the best description of a racetrack he has ever read. She has never been to a racetrack.

George L. Stein is a photographer located in New Jersey shooting in a number of genres including street, nature, architecture, urban and rural decay as well as working with models on surrealism.

Kevin Sterne is a writer from Chicago living in New York. He wrote All Must Go (House of Vlad) and won the Phoebe Journal Prize for Fiction in 2020. He loves trees.

Liza Stewart is an MFA candidate at Columbia University, where she teaches freshman composition. Her work has appeared in Winning Writers and was a 2019 finalist for The Pinch Literary Award. She is currently at work on her first novel.

Jan Stinchcomb is the author of The Kelping (Unnerving), The Blood Trail (Red Bird Chapbooks) and Find the Girl (Main Street Rag). Her stories have recently appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, Atticus Review, and Ligeia Magazine. A Pushcart nominee, she is featured in Best Microfiction 2020 and The Best Small Fictions 2018 & 2021. She lives in Southern California with her family. Find her at janstinchcomb.com or on Twitter @janstinchcomb.

Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan(he/him/his) is a keen writer of Izzi, Abakaliki ancestry; a Medical Laboratory Science student whose works have been nominated for Forward Prize, Pushcart Prize, and Best of The Net Award. He was the winner of 2021, WAN–Cookout Journal Poetry Prize. He has works published or forthcoming at IS&T, The Shore Poetry, B’K Mag, The Deadlands, The West Trade Review, The Fourth River, and elsewhere. He is fond of his poorly lit room from where he tweets @wordpottersull1.

Lauren Swift’s fiction and nonfiction can be found in Cimarron Review, North American Review, The 2River View, The Rumpus, Birdcoat Quarterly, and Utterance Journal. You can find her online at www.laurenswift.com or on social media @lrnswft.

Marcus Tan’s work has appeared in Ethos Books anthologies Kepulauan and Unhomed, and is forthcoming in Prime Number Magazine (Issue 181). He grew up in Singapore and currently resides in Hong Kong. Tweet him @marcustan or visit him at marcus-tan.com.

Hannah Lee Thompson is a Baltimore-based musician and live sound engineer originally from Brooklyn, NY. She is frequently backed by Joey Beerman of Sipper on bass and the alt-country band Crisco Dreams. Her debut EP, Birthday Girl, came out in 2018 and is featured in the documentary Pretty Strong by Never Not Collective. Her single "Danny" was released on June 8th, and featured on Spotify's Fresh Finds: Indie playlist. "Handsome Ugly", the second single off of her upcoming EP, was released via Newlywed Records on August 21st. Follow Hannah on Instagram here.

Patrick Thornton is a writer and editor living in Chicago. Patrick earned an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia College Chicago, and completed a writing residency at the Vermont Studio Center. Patrick is currently the managing editor of the online literary journal and small press Ghost Proposal. Patrick's work has previously appeared in Redivider, Figure 1, Entropy, The Collapsar, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn among others.

Alyssandra Tobin is the author of Put Eyes On Me Not Like a Curse, published by Quarterly West. Her poetry appears in  Poetry Northwest, Puerto del Sol, New Ohio Review, and elsewhere.

Nicole Tsuno is a chronically-ill writer and graduate of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Bed Zine, Bending Genres, Cotton Xenomorph, The Offing, and perhappened mag, and she is a fiction reader for Split Lip Magazine. Some of her favorite things are as follows: dogs that look like their humans, anything peach, and toilets that play music. 

Meg Tuite is the author of four story collections and five chapbooks. She won the Twin Antlers Poetry award for her poetry collection, Bare Bulbs Swinging. She teaches writing retreats and online classes hosted by Bending Genres. She is also the fiction editor of Bending Genres and associate editor at Narrative Magazine. Learn more here.

Mike Tyler is a poet who has said he is only going to write poetry because he doesn’t know anything. Like this; Duchamp, The Champ/Russia’s greatest/Napoleonic reenactor/Was found drunk/In a river/With the severed arms/Of his lover/In his backpack

 Jocelyn M. Ulevicus has a background in Social Work, Psychology, and Public Health. Both her written and visual artwork is either forthcoming or published in magazines such as The Santa Fe Literary Review, The Hole in the Head Review; The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts and Oscilloscope Magazine. Ms. Ulevicus currently resides in Amsterdam and is finalizing her first book, a memoir, titled The Birth of A Tree, which was recently shortlisted for the Santa Fe Writer's Program 2019 Literary Award, judged by Carmen Maria Machado. In her spare time, she hunts for truth and beauty. You can see what she is up to on IG @beautystills.  

Deb Olin Unferth is the author of six books, including the novel Barn 8. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, the New York Times, The Paris Review, Granta, NOON, and McSweeney’s. A professor at the University of Texas in Austin, she also directs the Pen City Writers, a creative-writing program at a south Texas penitentiary.

Cathy Ulrich usually leaves the potato peels on when she cooks, probably because she is lazy. Her work has been published in various journals, including Ligeia, Schuykill Valley Journal and trampset.

 Zach VandeZande is a lapsed academic living in Washington, DC. He is the author of three books of fiction: Apathy and Paying Rent (Loose Teeth Press), Liminal Domestic: Stories (Gold Wake), and the forthcoming Lesser American Boys (Mason Jar Press). He knows all the dogs in the neighborhood.

Chris Vanjonack is an MFA candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an editorial assistant at Ninth Letter, and a former language arts teacher from Fort Collins, Colorado. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in One Story, Hobart, The Rumpus, CRAFT Literary, Carve Magazine, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. Find him on Twitter @chrisvanjonack and read more stories at chrisvanjonack.com.

Anthony Varallo is the author of a novel, The Lines (University of Iowa Press), as well as four short story collections. New work is out or forthcoming in The New Yorker "Daily Shouts," STORY, One Story, Vol.1 Brooklyn, DIAGRAM, and The Best Small Fictions 2020. Follow him at @TheLines1979 or anthonyvarallo.com.

Originally from England, Jo Varnish now lives outside New York City.  She is the creative nonfiction editor at X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine and creative nonfiction contributing editor at Barren Magazine.  Her short stories and creative nonfiction have recently appeared in PANK, Hobart, Jellyfish Review, Pithead Chapel, JMWW Journal, and others.  Jo has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and Best Small Fiction, and is working on her PhD.  She can be found on twitter @jovarnish1.

Robert Vaughan teaches workshops in hybrid writing, poetry, fiction at locations like Synergia Ranch, Mabel Dodge Luhan House. He leads roundtables in Milwaukee, WI. His flash fiction, ‘A Box’ was selected for Best Small Fictions 2016 and his flash, “Six Glimpses of the Uncouth” was chosen for Best Small Fictions 2019 (Queen’s Ferry Press). His work as appeared in Hobart, Big Other, SmokeLong Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is Editor-in-Chief at Bending Genres. Vaughan is the author of five books, the latest is FUNHOUSE.

Kara Vernor’s fiction and essays have appeared in Ninth Letter, Gulf Coast, The Normal School, The Los Angeles Review, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and elsewhere. She has received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation and the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference, and her writing has been selected for Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, and Wigleaf’s Top 50. Her fiction chapbook, Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song, is available from Split Lip Press.

Erika Veurink is a writer living in Brooklyn by way of Iowa. She is receiving her MFA from Bennington College. Her work has appeared in Entropy, Ghost City Press, Hobart, Midwest Review, X-R-A-Y, and elsewhere. 

Adam Voith is a writer and music agent in Nashville.

Chelsea Voulgares lives just outside Chicago, where she is the Editor in Chief of Lost Balloon. Her work has appeared in journals such as Passages North, Electric Literature, Cheap Pop, and X-R-A-Y. You can find her online at www.chelseavoulgares.com or on Twitter @chelsvoulgares.

Sophie van Waardenberg is a poet from Aotearoa New Zealand and a current MFA candidate at Syracuse University, where she is an Editor-in-Chief of Salt Hill Journal. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in RHINO, Hobart After Dark, Starling, and Sweet Mammalian.

Ashley Wang lives in Lawrenceville, NJ. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Gigantic Sequins, Sine Theta Magazine, Up The Staircase Quarterly, Polyphony Lit, Plum Recruit Mag, Freezeray Poetry, CHEAP POP, and elsewhere. A Best New Poets nominee, she edits for Polyphony Lit and reads for Palette Poetry.

Born in China's mountainous interior, Michael X. Wang immigrated to the United States when he was six. He is the author of the story collection Further News of Defeat, which won the PEN/Bingham Prize. His stories can be found in The New England Review, Greensboro Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Cha, Witness, and elsewhere. His novel about the Chinese Communist Revolution is forthcoming from The Overlook Press. Find him @MichaelXWang3 and michaelxwang.com.

Shy Watson is the author of Horror Vacui, published by House of Vlad. Recent work appears in: Forever Mag, Joyland, and Southwest Review. She is a current MFA candidate at University of Montana. Follow her on twitter @formermissNJ for updates.  

Jemimah Wei is a writer and host based in Singapore and New York. She’s a 2019 National Arts Council Scholarship recipient, a Columbia Writing Scholarship recipient, and was recently named a 2020 De Alba Fellow. Her work has appeared in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore and Math Paper Press anthology ‘From the Belly of the Cat’. She has several stories forthcoming, and is also presently at work on television projects.

Joel Whitney is the author of Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers and a winner of the 2003 Discovery Prize from the 92nd Street Y and The Nation Magazine.

Evan Williams is a poet and essayist from the cornfields of the Midwest. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in DIAGRAM, Pleiades, and Joyland, among others. He is the author of the chapbook CLAUSTROPHOBIA, SURPRISE! (HAD Chaps, 2022), and can be found on Twitter @evansquilliams.

Molly Williams (they/them) is a second-year fellow in fiction and poetry at the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, TX. They are mixed-race and queer, and previously lived in Brooklyn, NY.

Laura Winberry was born/raised in NJ, but currently resides in the PNW. Along with two other poets, she runs Frank Mouth, The Stay Project, and Gold Snow. When not quarantined, she volunteers at a local men's prison teaching/talking about poetry. She fucking loves it. You can holler at her on Insta @winbraker.

Jo Withers writes short fiction from her home in South Australia. Recent work is featured or forthcoming in Molotov Cocktail, Milk Candy Review, XRAY, Versification and Fractured Lit.

Francine Witte is a poet, flash fiction writer, and playwright. Her latest books are Dressed All Wrong for This, The Theory of Flesh, and The Way of the Wind. She lives in NYC. 

Shannon Wolf is a British-American writer, living in New York, where she teaches for Bard College’s Prison Initiative. Her debut full-length poetry collection Green Card Girl was released in 2023. She received a joint MA-MFA in Poetry at McNeese State University and also has degrees from Lancaster University and the University of Chichester in the UK. Shannon is the Acquisitions Editor for ELJ Editions. Her work has been nominated for Best Microfiction, and her poetry, short fiction, and non-fiction have appeared in Bending Genres, Heavy Feather Review, and The Forge, among others. You can find her on social media @helloshanwolf.

Liz Wolfe is a writer, cartoonist, and creator of the blog series Elizabeth is Dead. She lives in Charleston, South Carolina with her partner and their boxer Maebelle. Her work can be found in long-winded Yelp reviews, inappropriate birthday cards, bounced checks, and The Washingtonian.

Sidney Wollmuth is currently attending the University of North Carolina Wilmington where she is double-majoring in English Literature and Creative Writing. Her writing has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing competition, Huffington Post, Rookie Mag, Pittsburgh Poetry Houses, and Sad Girl Review. She was selected for the International Writing Program's 2020 Summer Institute and works as the Managing Editor for Atlantis Creative Magazine (atlantismagazine.org). She loses way too many things.

Brenna Womer is an experimental prose writer and poet in flux. She's a Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Louisiana State University and the author of honeypot (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019) and two chapbooks, Atypical Cells of Undetermined Significance (C&R Press, 2018) and cost of living (Finishing Line Press, forthcoming). Her work has appeared in North American Review, Indiana Review, DIAGRAM, The Pinch, and elsewhere. She is a Contributing Editor at Story Magazine and Faculty Advisor for New Delta Review.

Emily Woodworth's writing has appeared in Under the Sun, Broad Street, Crannóg Magazine, Inkwell Journal, and others. She received an Honorable Mention in the 2020 Anton Chekov Prize for Very Short Fiction (New Flash Fiction Review), a Notable Mention in Best American Essays 2018 (ed. Hilton Als), and has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She holds an MFA in Writing from CalArts.

Jennifer Wortman is the author of the story collection This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love. Her work appears in TriQuarterly, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Electric Literature, Brevity, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfictions, and elsewhere, and has been cited as distinguished in Best American Short Stories. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and MacDowell, she lives with her family in Colorado, where she teaches at Lighthouse Writers Workshop and serves as associate fiction editor for Colorado Review. Find more at jenniferwortman.com.

Ren O. Yama (蓮山) takes to writing as a creative space to re-imagine and re-locate self-hood, community, and radical modes of collective care. She currently writes myths—passed down from her mother(s)—as a way of speaking from and for her intergenerational, matriarchal lineage. As of now, she considers herself an [emerging] writer; one that’s slowly coming to be. 

Becca Yenser is a writer living in Wichita, Kansas. They are the author of the poetry chapbook, “Too High and Too Blue In New Mexico” (Dancing Girl Press, 2018). Their work appears in Hobart, Madcap Review, The Nervous Breakdown, Dostoyevsky Wannabe, Fanzine, and other journals. They like paying attention.

Leslie Ylinen is a humor and satire writer who is known to occasionally dabble in darkness. She has been published in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Bold Italic, among many others. She lives in Pacifica, CA.

Parker Young's work has appeared in, or is forthcoming in, Juked, Hobart, X-R-A-Y, and elsewhere. His debut short story collection will be published by Future Tense Books in 2022.

Danae Younge is a nineteen-year-old writer whose work has appeared in over twenty publications internationally, including Salamander Magazine, Palette Point, Nonconformist Magazine, Pulp Poets Press, & The Curator. She proudly identifies as biracial & bisexual. She was a national winner selected by the Live Poets Society of New Jersey in 2020 & placed in the international It’s All Write competition. Danae is currently pursuing her BA in creative writing at Occidental College. Find her online at www.danaeyounge.com and @danae_celeste_.

Tara Isabel Zambrano is the author of Death, Desire And Other Destinations, a full-length flash collection by OKAY Donkey Press. Her work has won the first prize in The Southampton Review Short Short Fiction Contest 2019, a second prize in Bath Flash Award 2020, been a Finalist in Bat City Review 2018 Short Prose Contest and Mid-American Review Fineline 2018 Contest. Her flash fiction has been published in The Best Small Fictions 2019, The Best Micro Fiction 2019, 2020 Anthology. She lives in Texas and is the Fiction Editor for Waxwing Literary Journal.

Lucy Zhang writes, codes, and watches anime. Her work has appeared in Split Lip Magazine, CRAFT, The Spectacle, and elsewhere. She is the author of the chapbooks HOLLOWED (Thirty West Publishing) and ABSORPTION (Harbor Review). Find her at https://lucyzhang.tech or on Twitter @Dango_Ramen.

Molly Zhu is a Chinese American poet and attorney. She likes to write about alter egos, chasms, dreams, tears, rage, translation and the women in her life. She was twice nominated for Pushcart prizes and has been published in both print and online journals including Hobart Pulp, the Ghost City Press, and Tupelo Quarterly, among others. She is the poetry editor of Passengers Journal, and she is the winner of the 2021 Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize awarded by the Cordella Press. Her debut chapbook, Asian American Translations, is now available for purchase.

Isaac Zisman is a writer and editor based in New York. He's been a reader Zoetrope: All-Story, an artist in residence at the Kala Art Institute, and a teacher of the literature of the American West at UC Berkeley. His writing has appeared in the American Alpine Journal and online at The Millions. Find Isaac on social: @octopus_grigori.