Cathy Adams' latest novel, A Body's Just as Dead, was published by SFK Press. She is a short story writer with publications in The Saturday Evening Post, Utne, AE: The Canadian Science
Fiction Review, Barely South, Five on the Fifth, Southern Pacific Review, and seventy-two other journals from around the world. She earned her M.F.A. at Rainier Writing Workshop, Pacific Lutheran University, Washington, and currently teaches at the American
University in Bulgaria. adams.cathy47@yahoo.com
L. Annette Binder's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Hunger Mountain, Kestrel, Hamilton Stone Review, and elsewhere. One of her poems was the runner-up for the Ruth Stone Poetry Prize. Her memoir, Child of Earth and Starry Heaven
(Wandering Aengus Press), is coming out in 2025. info@lannettebinder.com
Sarah Brockhaus is an MFA student at Louisiana State University and has a bachelor's degree in English from Salisbury University. She is a co-editor of The Shore Poetry. Her poems can be found in Sugar House Review, North American Review,
Roanoke Review, Cider Press Review, and elsewhere. scbrockhaus@gmail.com
Gail Braune Comorat is a founding member of Rehoboth Beach Writers' Guild and is a co-author of Walking the Sunken Boards. She served as an editor for Quartet, an online poetry journal by women fifty and over.
Her work has appeared in Gargoyle, Grist, and The Widows' Handbook. She lives in Lewes, Delaware. gailcomorat@comcast.net
Tom Gartner has had fiction and poetry published in numerous journals, including The Madison Review, California Quarterly, Valparaiso Fiction Review, and Headlight Review. Other work is forthcoming in Third Coast. He lives just north of the Golden Gate and works as a buyer for an independent bookstore in San Francisco. bookfiend@verizon.net
Beverly Jean Harris is an editor by day and a writer by night. Her fiction has appeared in Short Story America and Philadelphia Stories. Beverly studied poetry with Charles Simic at the University of New Hampshire, fiction with Marvin Cohen
at the New School in New York, comedy with Blayr Austin of Second City, and nonfiction with NYU's Estelle Erasmus. Beverly is writing a novel when her cat isn't pestering her for food. beverlyjeanharris.com
Karen Paul Holmes won the 2023 Lascaux Poetry Prize and received a Special Mention in The Pushcart Prize. Her books are: No Such Thing as Distance (Terrapin) and Untying the Knot (Aldrich). Poetry credits include The Writer's Almanac,
The Slowdown, Verse Daily, Diode, Glass, and Plume. Since 2010, Holmes has hosted the Side Door poets in Atlanta. She's also a freelance writer who teaches writing at various venues and conferences. www.karenpaulholmes.com
Danielle Lemay is a poet and a scientist in central California. She is the winner of Boulevard's Emerging Poets Contest and is a Patricia Cleary Miller Award finalist at New Letters. Her poetry has recently appeared in On the Seawall,
SWWIM Every Day, ONE ART: a journal of poetry, Typehouse Literary Magazine, and elsewhere. www.DanielleLemay.com
Moriah McStay holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Memphis, where she also served as Fiction Editor and Managing Editor of The Pinch. Currently, she's pursuing a PhD in Literature and teaching fiction writing and literature.
She's the author of Everything That Makes You (HarperCollins, 2015), which has been translated into Italian, German, and Turkish. Her nonfiction has received an Honorable Mention in AWP's Intro Journals Project, and her poetry and fiction have been published
in Anti-Heroin Chic, Hyacinth Review, and elsewhere. moriahmcstaywrites@gmail.com
samodH Porawagamage writes about the Sri Lankan Civil War, 2004 tsunami, poverty & underdevelopment, and colonial & imperial atrocities. becoming sam, selected by Jaswinder Bolina and published by Burnside Review Press, is his debut collection of poetry.
samodhishere@gmail.com
Lisa Lopez Snyder writes poetry and prose from her home in Columbus, Ohio, where she is at work on a novel and a collection of essays. Her work has been featured in The Raleigh Review, The Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, The Scrambler, Gravel, The 34th
Parallel, and other publications. Her essay, "In Transit," won The Chattahoochee Review's 2011 Lamar York Prize for Nonfiction. She was named the 2015 Carl Sandburg Writer-in-Residence. LisaLopezSnyder@gmail.com