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A. Anupama’s writing has appeared in Waxwing, Numéro Cinq, and elsewhere. She leads writers at Ramapo College, Writopia Lab, and in the literary community she co-founded, River River Writers Circle (RiverRiver.org). Her chapbook, Saffron Threaded, is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press. Anupama lives with her family in Nyack, New York.

Alzenira Quezada ( Lady Zen) has an MFA in Creative Writing and is an internationally known lyric fusion poet, who is performing, composing, teaching, and producing around the world. Their work appears in About Place Journal, Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters, and Feckless Cunt: A New Feminist Anthology.

David Grubb, a retired Coastguard Warrant Officer, has creatively written since childhood, yet career/family always came first. He’s changing that aspect of life and loving every minute. His work appears in Touchstone, Toasted Cheese, 1:1000, Sixfold.org, The Elevation Review, Every Day Fiction, The Abstract Elephant, & The Bookends Review. www.agrubbylife.com.

A poetry fanatic and longtime poet, John Browning is a graduate of the University of Illinois and Vermont College of Fine Arts. He lives in Flemington, NJ with his wife Patty and their two dogs and two birds. John is the author of four books of poetry.

Terri is the author of the paranormal / contemporary fantasy Afterlife series and numerous short stories in various anthologies and magazines. She produces hard-to-classify fantasy and science fiction stories that explore the supernatural side of everyday things from beautiful Downeast ME. Visit her on the web at www.terribruce.net.

Siarra Riehl (she/her) lives and creates on Treaty Six land with her wife and two cats. Her fiction received an honorable mention in AWP’s 2020 Intro Journals Project and has appeared in Zone 3, Fatal Flaw, and elsewhere. Siarra holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. 

Andrea Vassallo lives on the coast of Maine. She holds an MFA from Stonecoast, serves on the board of Amherst Writers & Artists, and was nonfiction co-editor of The Stonecoast Review. Andrea has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, named a Maine Literary Awards finalist and included in Best American Essays notables.

Kathleen Siddell is a writer and editor. She loves stories with complicated characters who dance on the line of right and wrong. You can read her nonfiction essays in places like The Washington Post, Al Jazeera English, and Motherwell Magazine. She hopes you can read more of her fiction soon.

Jocelyn Winn is a freelance writer and founder of The Eleventh Letter editorial services. She studied at the National University of Ireland Galway after earning her BS in Speech from Emerson College. Jocelyn holds an MFA in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lives gratefully ever after in New Hampshire. www.theeleventhletter.com

Doug Scibeck holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Doug writes short stories and is working on a novel. His focus is science fiction and stories that also capture fantasy and literary elements.

Michelle Lewis is the recipient of the 2018 Marystina Santiestevan First Book Prize and the author of Animul/Flame (Conduit Books & Ephemera). Her poetry has appeared in Bennington Review, Indiana Review, WSQ, The Feminist Wire, and Denver Quarterly, among others. You can find out more about her at whitechicken.com.

Katherine Hagopian Berry’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Café Review, Enough!: Poems of Resistance and Protest, A Dangerous New World, Balancing Act II, Glass: Poet’s Resist and Strange Fire: Jewish Voices on the Pandemic. Mast Year, her first full collection of poetry, is available from Littoral Books.

MK Sturdevant‘s writing appears or is forthcoming in Orion, Newfound, X-R-A-Y Lit Mag, Tiny Molecules, The Lily Poetry Review, The Westchester Review, and elsewhere. She has been a finalist for the Montana Prize in Fiction and was recently nominated for a Pushcart. She lives in the Midwest.

Jenny Doughty is originally British but has lived in Maine since 2002. Her poems have appeared in, among others, The Aurorean, Sin Fronteras, Naugatuck River Review, Four Way Review, and various anthologies. Her first poetry collection, Sending Bette Davis to the Plumber, was published by Moon Pie Press in 2017.

A former world wanderer, Sara Backer has returned to her native New England. Her poetry books are Such Luck (Flowstone Press) and two chapbooks: Scavenger Hunt (dancing girl press) and Bicycle Lotus (Turtle Island chapbook prize). Her publications include Tar River Poetry, Slant, CutBank, Poetry Northwest, and Kenyon Review. 

Kate Morgan is a poet living and writing in Los Angeles. She is currently enrolled in the Vermont College of Fine Arts Low Residency Program. When not reading or writing, Kate can be found exploring a beach somewhere, taking and editing photographs or wearing big headphones, listening to Bonnie Raitt.

Lauren Myers-Hinkle is currently completing her MFA in Poetry and Translation at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has a background in Cinema and Media Studies from the University of Chicago and her work has appeared in such publications as RHINO and Carve.

Bill Frayer has published four volumes of poetry and his work has appeared in a number of anthologies and journals. Having earned his BA in English from Brown and an MS in Adult Education from USM, he taught in the Humanities Department at Central Maine Community College for 31 years.

Eric Morris-Pusey writes poems. Some of his poems have appeared in The Missouri Review, Noble/Gas Qtrly, and a few others. He reads submissions for journals, including The Maine Review, as well as writing for Nimrod International Journal: Blog and Artists’ Book Reviews. He lives in Columbia, Missouri with his partner Grae Gardiner and their dog.

Jonathan Calloway has lived in Finland and China. Currently enrolled in the MFA in Writing program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, he is working on a novel which follows three estranged archaeologists, each on wildly divergent paths through space and memory, as they clash with the meaning of living in the present.

Frank DiPalermo got his MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. In 2020 two of his poems were finalists in the Steve Kowit Poetry Prize, a hybrid piece appeared in Ruminate, a short story appeared in Beyond Words, and two of his essays appeared in The Whole Alphabet.

Japman Kaur Aneja is a sophomore with a zeal and passion for literature. She has served as an editor for  BreakBread Magazine and Inlandia: A Literary Journal. An avid reader by nature, she loves to spend her day with a book and a cup of coffee.

Jonah Meyer is a poet, writer, and editor living in North Carolina. His poetry and creative nonfiction has been published widely. Jonah plays guitar and piano, shoots photography, and studies neuroscience and Buddhist philosophy. He serves as Poetry Editor of Mud Season Review and Assistant Poetry Editor with Random Sample Review.

Nan Byrne lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. A former television writer, and author of two books, her stories have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Fiction Southeast, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere. You can currently read her work on the Short Editions Story Machine at Michigan State University and on the MSU Filmetery Festival website.

Sara Marzana is a writer, English teacher, and trapeze artist living in Turin, Italy. She has a thing for stories that highlight the absurdity of everything. Her work has appeared in Fauxmoir, In Parentheses, Scribble, Storgy Magazine, the Durham University Postgraduate English Journal, and elsewhere. https://absurdlymeaningful.squarespace.com/.

Jeanette Quick lives in San Francisco and is working on a novel about fertility, aging, and technology. She has been awarded residencies at Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, SAFTA, and Art Farm, among others. Jeanette received her Certificate in Creative Writing from City College of San Francisco.

Preeti Parikh is an Indian American poet and essayist. With a past educational background in medicine and a recent MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop, she is currently working on a book-length poetry collection. Learn more about her at preetiparikh.com.

Darren A. Deth is a graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing program and his work has appeared in Literally Stories, Adelaide Magazine, and elsewhere. Darren is currently working on a short story collection. His day gig is serving the homeless youth in his community. He resides in Lewiston, Maine with Christine, his wife.

Tamzin Mitchell holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of New Hampshire. She works as a proofreader and editor, and her writing has appeared in Waxwing, cahoodaloodaling, Crannóg, and elsewhere. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. She lives in Berlin.

EJ Bowman is a teacher and writer from California. She was a finalist for the DeBiase Poetry Prize and The Florida Review Editor’s Choice Award; she was also longlisted for the Exeter Short Story Award. Her other publications have included Literatus, The Comstock Review, Anthrow Circus, and Humans of the World. EJ is pursuing her MFA in Nonfiction at Columbia University.

Laci Mosier is a poet and fiction writer living in Brooklyn, NY with her one-eyed dog. Her writing has been nominated for the Best Small Fictions anthology and has appeared in the American Journal of Poetry, Hobart, Tupelo Quarterly, The Maine Review, and others. She holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts.