Linda Boroff graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in English. She won first prize in The Writers Place Competition and was anthologized in Best New Writing and Fiction Attic Press. Her fiction, satire, and creative nonfiction have appeared in Epoch, McSweeney's, Eclectica, The Chiron Review, Linnet's Wings, The Conium Review, Cimarron Review, Literary Heist, and many others. Her dystopian novel, Twisted Fate, was published in 2022. Her Young Adult novel, The Dressmaker's Daughter, was also published in 2022. Her supernatural suspense novella, The Remnant, was released in 2024. Linda wrote the thriller film Murder in Fashion, about the assassination of designer Gianni Versace. lindaboroff2927@gmail.com

Darren C. Demaree is the author of twenty-three poetry collections, most recently So Much More (Harbor Editions, 2024). He has received a Greater Columbus Arts Council Grant, an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Louise Bogan Award from Trio House Press, and the Nancy Dew Taylor Award from Emrys Journal. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Best of the Net Anthology and Managing Editor of Ovenbird Poetry. He works in the Columbus Metropolitan Library system. darrencdemaree@yahoo.com

Sean Thomas Dougherty is the author or editor of twenty books, including Death Prefers the Minor Keys (BOA editions, 2023) and The Dead are Everywhere Telling Us Things, winner of the 2021 Jacar Press Full Length Poetry Prize. His book The Second O of Sorrow (BOA Editions, 2018) received the Paterson Poetry Prize and the Housatonic Book Award. He works as a Med Tech and caregiver and teaches part-time for the MFA Program at Western Connecticut State University. seanthomasdoughertypoet.com

Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow is the author of two poetry collections published by Salmon Poetry. Her recent collection, Horn Section All Day Every Day, is the 2020 Phillip H. McMath Post Publication Book Award Finalist. Her poetry has won the Red Hen Press, Beullah Rose/Smartish Pace, Tusculum Review, and Willow Review Poetry Awards. Recent poems appear in Glass Poetry Press, Jet Fuel Review, The Journal, Plume, and The Westchester Review. cschwartzbergedlow.blogspot.com

Eoin Flannery is a writer and critic based in Limerick, Ireland, where he is Associate Professor of English Literature at Mary Immaculate College. His poetry has appeared in The Honest Ulsterman, Rust & Moth; Rochford Street Review; Red Ogre Review; Juniper; Inkfish Magazine; Libre; The Galway Review and other international publications. He is working on a collection of poems entitled Unshadow. eoin.flannery@mic.ul.ie

Jason Fraley is a native West Virginian who lives, works, and periodically writes in Columbus, Ohio. His current and prior publications include Salamander, Barrow Street, Jet Fuel Review, Quarter After Eight, West Trade Review, and Pine Hills Review. sjfraley@gmail.com

Sherri Moshman-Paganos is a writer and former educator based in Athens Greece, where she writes a monthly travel blog, olivesandislands.home.blog. Her poetry and prose have appeared in the GW Review, The Remington Review, Hemlock Literary Journal, and others. She is the author of two memoirs: Step Lively: New York City Tales of Love and Change, and Miss I wish you a bed of roses: Teaching Secondary School English in Greece.

Franz Jørgen Neumann's stories have appeared in The Southern Review, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. storiesandnovels.com

Thi Nguyen is a California native, born in San Jose from Vietnamese refugees, and currently lives in Los Angeles. She received her MFA in Creative Writing, focusing on poetry, from the University of New Orleans. Her work has appeared in Broken Lens Journal, diaCritics, Ghost City Review, The Indianapolis Review, and elsewhere. Her poems have been recognized with Honorable Mention for the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize and the Academy of American Poets Award in 2024. thinguyenpoetry.wordpress.com/

Louisa Schnaithmann is the author of Plague Love (Moonstone Press, 2021) and the consulting editor of ONE ART: a journal of poetry. Her work has appeared in Anti-Heroin Chic, tiny wren lit, and elsewhere. She lives in southeastern Pennsylvania. louisajaneschnaithmann@gmail.com

David M. Sheridan teaches writing and design in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University. He holds an MFA (fiction) from Western Michigan University and a PhD (English) from Michigan State University. His work has appeared in Story, The Missouri Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and other places. He is working on a collection of poetry entitled 52 Missing Poems, in which every poem is cut out of a black 3" x 5" card. sherid16@msu.edu

Born in Scotland and raised across the United States, Alexander Spivey studied Film and Computer Science in Oregon and received a Master's Degree in Computational Linguistics from the University of Washington. He is currently based in Seattle and working on a book of fairy tales. This is his first published story. spivey.alexander@gmail.com

Cindy Veach is the author of Monster Galaxy (MoonPath Press); Her Kind (CavanKerry Press), a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal; and Gloved Against Blood (CavanKerry Press), a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and a Massachusetts Center for the Book "Must Read." Her poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, AGNI, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. Recipient of the Philip Booth Poetry Prize and the Samuel Allen Washington Prize, she is poetry co-editor of MER. www.cindyveach.com