Ha Kiet Chau is the author of two poetry collections: Eleven Miles to June (Green Writers Press, 2021) and Woman Come Undone (Mouthfeel Press, 2014). Her writings have appeared in Ploughshares, Asia Literary Review, New Madrid, Tule Review, and Columbia College Literary Review. Her YA novel in verse, Darling Winter, is forthcoming in 2024. www.instagram.com/sweetpoeticsoo/

Ryan Clark is an Old Greer County native and documentary poet who writes his poems using a unique method of homophonic translation. He is the author of Arizona SB 1070: An Act (Downstate Legacies) and How I Pitched the First Curve (Lit Fest Press), and his poetry has appeared in such journals as DIAGRAM, SRPR, Painted Bride Quarterly, and Interim. He now lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. ryanlandryclark@gmail.com

Austen Farrell's fiction has appeared in Wisconsin Review, Pif, Cleaver, and others. He is a writer and editor in the nonprofit world. He volunteers with literary nonprofits in Rhode Island and has been associate editor of the Bryant Literary Review. He has an MA in classics. bsky.app/profile/austen.bsky.social

Kathleen Fillingham's career has been a story in two acts. Before her children, she was a television producer at a national network. After their arrival, she managed communications for a Member of Provincial Parliament in Ontario, Canada. In 2022, she completed the Humber School for Writers Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing, and is currently working on her first novel. This is her first published short story. kate.fillingham@gmail.com

Kathryn V. Jacopi, a neurodivergent kayaker who is beached in Connecticut for six months out of the year, has an MS in Special Education and an MFA in Creative Writing. Her mailed degrees are stashed somewhere in a desk drawer. When she is not kayaking, Kathryn loses herself in writing and reading. Her writings have appeared in Pudding Magazine, Statorec, Fjord, Cleaver, Drunk Monkeys, Flash Fiction Magazine and other publications. kvjacopi@gmail.com

Susan Lago teaches writing and literature at CUNY / Queensborough Community College in New York. Her work has appeared in such publications as Sage Magazine, Adelaide, Per Contra, and Prime Number. susan.lago@gmail.com

Michael Malan is editor of Cloudbank (cloudbankbooks.com), a literary journal in Corvallis, Oregon. He is the author of three books from Blue Light Press: Overland Park (2017, poetry and flash fiction), Tarzan's Jungle Plane (2019, flash fiction), and Deep Territory (2021, poetry). His work has appeared recently in Lake Effect, Sugar House Review, Meridian, Chicago Quarterly Review, Cincinnati Review, and Washington Square Review. michael@cloudbankbooks.com

Alexandra Malouf is a disabled poet and multimedia artist. Her work has been featured in Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, Poets.org, and Ireland Poetry Review, among others. alexandramalouf@gmail.com

Erik Moyer is a creative writing PhD student and teaching fellow at the University of North Texas. He holds a BS from the University of Virginia and an MFA from the University of California, Irvine. His work has been featured in Constellations, Euphony, Hawaii Pacific Review, Little Patuxent Review, and Tipton Poetry Journal, among others. Outside of school, he works as a data engineer. erikjosephmoyer@gmail.com

Tara Westmor is an anthropologist poet who was raised in Dayton, Ohio. She received her MFA in poetry from New Mexico State University and is currently a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of California-Riverside. She has work published and forthcoming in Water~Stone Review, Muzzle, Cincinnati Review, Greensboro Review, Hunger Mountain, Prairie Schooner, Arts & Letters, and elsewhere. tara.westmor@email.ucr.edu