Alejandro Aguirre earned his MFA from Boston University where he was awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize. He was a finalist for Nimrod's Pablo Neruda Prize in 2025, and his poems are published in Rattle, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Pirene's Fountain, and elsewhere. He teaches literature in Miami, Florida. www.alejandromaguirre.com

Daisy Bassen is a poet and community child psychiatrist who graduated from Princeton University's Creative Writing Program and completed her medical training at The University of Rochester and Brown. Her work has been published in Salamander, McSweeney's, Smartish Pace, Plume, New York Quarterly, and [PANK], with pending publications in the Beloit Poetry Journal and Post Road Review. Born and raised in New York, she lives in Rhode Island with her family. dgbassen@gmail.com

Rachel Becker is a Boston-based poet and educator. Her work recently appears or is forthcoming in North American Review, Post Road, West Trade Review, Bracken, Rust & Moth, HAD, MER, Crab Orchard Review, and RHINO. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University and is a poetry editor for Porcupine Literary: a journal for and by teachers. www.rachel-becker.com

Ella Flores is a creative writing PhD student at Binghamton University. Flores is Editor-in-Chief of Harpur Palate, serves as interview editor of The Shore Poetry, and has recent work appearing or forthcoming in Kestrel Journal, Cider Press Review, So to Speak, FOLIO, among others. eflores235@gmail.com

Steven Knepper grew up on a small dairy farm in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. He currently teaches at Virginia Military Institute and edits New Verse Review: A Journal of Lyric and Narrative Poetry. His poems have appeared in journals such as 32 Poems, THINK, Pulsebeat, Pembroke Magazine, Rappahannock Review, Alabama Literary Review, and Pennsylvania English. www.stevenknepper.com

Curtis C. Morgan is a retired IT contractor and former high school teacher living in Falls Church, Virginia. His personal essays have appeared in Mother Earth News, Responsible Statecraft, Prime Number Magazine, Across the Margin, The Good Men Project, and The Avalon Literary Review, among others. He is at work on a memoir-in-essays collection titled Who Am I. nzfilmprof@gmail.com

Tony W. Njoroge is a writer and teacher in Kenya. He studied English and Literature at Laikipia University, Kenya. He has been published in various journals such as Pen and Possibility, Fiction on the Web and Merion West. tonynjoroge.tn@gmail.com

Julia Nusbaum is a writer, mother, and college English professor living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her work has previously appeared in Eaten Magazine, Mutha Magazine, Oranges Journal, and elsewhere. She is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of HerStry Literary Magazine. She holds a Master of Theological Studies from Vanderbilt University and an MFA in creative writing from Columbia College Chicago. julianusbaumwrites@gmail.com

Per Olvmyr lives in Malmö, Sweden, and has been published in Evergreen Review, Bombay Literary Magazine, Glänta, Takahē, Baltimore Review and other magazines. per.olvmyr@gmail.com

M. Palmer writes from an unassuming place in Ohio. His work has appeared in such places as Fantasy Magazine, Crossed Genres, the anthology Tattered Souls, and most recently in the journals God's Cruel Joke, Rock and a Hard Place, Thieving Magpie and Blood Tree Literature. He can be found on Facebook as MPalmer.

Frank Rubino is the author of Frank's Lunch Service (Lithic Press, 2025). His poems have appeared in The Platform Review, Disquieting Muses Quarterly, Thimble, Aesthetic Apostle, The World, and Vending Machine. He was the featured poet in The Red Wheelbarrow 14 and co-hosts the Red Wheelbarrow Poets workshop in New Jersey. Instagram: @frankrubinopoet

Mary Sprague is a California-based writer who grew up in Kentucky. She previously taught political science and public policy at Stanford University. Her academic work has appeared in research journals, including The American Review of Public Administration and Higher Education Research & Development. This is her first publication in a national literary magazine. maryspraguewrites@gmail.com

Erin Wilson has published poems in On the Seawall, Presence, Manhattan Review, Southword, Poetry Ireland Review, BODY, The Fiddlehead, Arc Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere. She has won a Pushcart and a Silver Medal with the National Magazine Awards in Canada and has appeared in Best Canadian Poetry. She lives in a small town on Robinson-Huron Treaty Territory, in Northern Ontario, Canada, the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe. She refuses to carry a cell phone. erinwilsonmiscellanyandpoems.blogspot.com