The Lurker

hunter is an MFA candidate in fiction at Brown University. They currently write, paint, and live in Providence RI with their partner and two cats.

Jenny Greenteeth

Rachel is a queer, disabled writer who haunts the Pacific Northwest with her sister and their cat Boo. Look for more of her work in her upcoming short story collection All the Dark and Pretty Things.

The Anthropologists

Devon walks in all weather and never passes up a botanical garden or a natural history museum. When not writing, she draws and cartoons. She edits for Asimov Press and Asterisk Magazine.

The Other Brother

Trudy’s work has been published in Beyond Words, Big Wing Review and Kioku Magazine. She was selected for a 2023 Artist Residency at Foundation House in CT and was awarded a 2024 Mid-Atlantic States and NJ Council for the Arts Individual Artist Award.  

Masks

Tony’s work has appeared in Missippi Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cerise Press, Drunken Boat, Four Centuries, Hinchas De Poesie, Hungarian Review, Mayday, New Review of Literature, Puckerbrush Press, Poetry Salzburg Review, Otoliths, Shofar, and Metamorphosis.

Reprieve

John’s works have appeared in Audubon, Brevity, Georgia Review, and Orion. His published books include The Exact Weight of the Soul, and three nonfiction books. He’s won a Colorado Arts Council Fellowship, a Traveler’s Tales Solas award, the Carolina Quarterly Young Fiction Writers’ Prize.

Win Friends One by One Indefinitely, cover image

Mike’s work has been exhibited at Griffin Museum of Photography, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art and Soho Photo Gallery. His photographs were published in ZYZZYVA, Barzakh, Rhino Poetry, Streetcake Magazine and The Shanghai Literary Review. 

Lizard Brain

Chris’s  stories and essays have appeared in 34 Orchard Magazine, The Globe and Mail, Crow & Cross Keys, and others. Their debut novella, Resisters, takes place in rural Ontario during the Ice Storm of 1998—a wintery version of Psycho meets The Fog. You can find him at chriscampeau.com.

Beavers and Otters

Trevor is the poetry editor of KayTell Ink. Their work has appeared in Open Arts Forum, Poetry Super Highway, Last Leaves, Cerasus, and various anthologies. Additionally, they have work forthcoming in Inlandia, Radon, Word For/Word, The Orchards Poetry Review, and The Rivanna Review.

Resequenced

A J has published the Empire of the Saviours trilogy with Gollancz Orion, The Satanic in Science Fiction and Fantasy with Luna Press, the Darks Woods Rising and Digital Desires poetry collections, and other bits and bobs. He lives with his monstrously oppressive cat named Cleopatra.

Swimming in Doubt

Sylvain worked as an art director, graphic designer, and illustrator at agencies in both France and Belgium. Sylvain’s influences span literature and cinema, with artists like Lovecraft, Poe, Burns, Verne, and Lynch shaping his work.

The Cost of Living

Connor was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and grew up in South Carolina. He has published 9 novels.

Baby

Ephiny is the author of more than fifty published short stories and novelettes that have appeared in publications including PseudoPod, Constellary Tales, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Her fiction has been awarded the Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net award and has been a finalist for multiple Aurealis Awards.

All I Want

Madison received her Bachelor’s degree in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing at the Mississippi University for Women, and is currently pursuing her Master’s degree in English Creative Writing at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Melanie in the Middle

Liam is an award-winning short story writer, with stories in Best of British Science Fiction and in Best of British Fantasy (NewCon Press). He volunteers at the creative writing charities Ministry of Stories, and Spark Young Writers. More details at http://happyendingnotguaranteed.blogspot.co.uk

I Know I Have Loved Patricia

Trish’s poetry has been published in Sugar House Review, TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics, and The Penn Review; and her most recent book A Godless Ascends was published by Lithic Press in March 2024. 

“I Know I Have Loved Patricia” was originally published in Volume 11, Issue 3 of TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics in July 2023.

Confessional Poem

Paul’s poems have won a Pushcart Prize, two Best of the Net Awards, and have been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, The Writer’s Almanac, and the Best American Poetry blog. He makes his living in Boston as a sign language interpreter. Website: paulhostovsky.com

How It All Works

Alison has had poems published in Burningword, Cathexis Northwest Press, Meat for Tea, Mslexia, Poetic Sun, Red Door, Sonic Boom, and The Raw Art Review. She has also won 3rd Place/Honorable Mention or been a semi-finalist in several contests. 

Haunting My House

Aubrey graduated with a BA in Criminal Justice and Sociology at the University of Wyoming. She’d be a lousy cop, so she spends her days writing about her distaste for them, instead. Her poetry is upcoming in the Human Rights Day Anthology curated by the Moonstone Arts Center.

X-Ray Tetra

Esmé’s work appears in publications such as Adroit Journal, SmokeLong Quarterly, and the Cincinnati Review. They can be found on X/Instagram @esmepromise.

Sunflowers

Elly’s work has appeared in the Stardust Review, the Sacramento Literary Review, and the Amsterdam Review. Her collection of creative nonfiction, From Scientist to Stroke Survivor: Life Redacted is forthcoming in 2025. Her poetry collection, Instructions for Selling-Off Grief, is forthcoming  in 2025.

Alice and the Big Bad Wolf

Carella has been published in Columbia Journal, Chestnut Review and Crannóg. She is a Pushcart Prize Nominated writer, Best of the Net Nominee and the 2023 Door is a Jar Writing Award Winner in Nonfiction. 

"Alice and the Big Bad Wolf” was originally published in Querencia Press in Fall 2022, and was featured as graphic art poetry in Querencia Press Not Ghosts But Spirits Vol. 1.

Hi, My Name Is: Kidney Infection

Taylor has work forthcoming in The Globe Review, The Mid-Atlantic Review, Lavender Review, Oddball Magazine, Literary Heist, etc. Self-taught in the medium of the poetic arts that spans more than a decade, this artist keeps their work far from close to the chest.

Doppelgängering on South Hattusa

Raymond’s work has appeared in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. His next two books will appear in 2025: The Language of Home: Stories, and Ironhood: Poems. An inaugural Zoeglossia Poetry Fellow, he lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Maddie 3

Jeff lives in Canada across the river from Buffalo. After 28 years in Maine as a production potter and sculptor, Jeff has been moving West, first to upstate New York then Kingston, Ontario and now to the Niagara River. Along the way, he discovered car parts and it’s been all downhill from there.

Cycles

Amuri is an artist based in Richmond, Va. which is where she acquired several artistic accolades such as a VMFA Fellowship. She aims to promote diversity in art canon, specifically focusing on the black experience.

Falsely Accused

Geoff is the writer and artist of the graphic novel In the Valley of Death. It is the true story of the first horrific day of the Battle of the Somme, one of the bloodiest days in all of World War One. 

Entwined

Moses is a young Nigerian art and photography enthusiastic who uses his mind as a channel for making captivating works and impressions to his desired audience.

Shadow Shifter

Suzanne is the author of Passion Seeds and Death of an Unvirtuous Woman. She was the 2013 Reed Magazine Markham Poetry Prize winner, a 2017 featured UNESCO World Book Capital poet in Guinea, Conakry, and a 2018-2020 Fulbright Scholar to Burkina Faso. 

Capgras Correspondence

Colm teaches writing at New York University. His books include the sci-fi novel Claiming De Wakye (Crossroad Press), and James Joyce’s Mandala (Routledge). He once wrote a play involving the Ophiocordyceps unilateralis infecting the minds of ants.

charme forhelen | ch[?]rm to [hid[?], ke[?]p secr[?]t, conc[?]al].

Iliria’s work has been published in Welter, Glint, and OFIC, while dramatic and interactive work have been produced in San Diego, CA; on Payaya land in San Antonio, TX; on Lenape land in New York City, NY; and London, UK (Ugly Duck). 

Ira Beck

Erik is a father and avid mediaevalist from Canada. Erik’s writing has been published in numerous magazines including Coffin Bell, Superlative Lit, Prospectus, Takahe Magazine, and The Dead Mule School. Read all Erik’s publications at www.erikpeters.ca or @erikpeterswrites.

Living Twice

J B’s first story was short-listed for the Irish Independent/Hennessy Awards, Ireland, 1996. More than 100 of her stories, flash fiction and non-fiction, have been accepted for publication. She has recently won 1st prize in the International Human Rights Arts Movement literary contest.

My Son in Disguise Huffs WD40

Jessica is the author of STARLAND, Sleep in a Strange House, The Adorable Knife, and You’re Never the Same. Her flash fiction appears in Gargoyle, Litro, and The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts.

The Substance

Marie is an artist, writer, translator and California native living abroad for the last eleven years. Her work has been featured internationally in multiple galleries and has most recently been published in The Art of Life, The Hong Kong Review and Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine.

Mistakes That Give Me Gender Euphoria

B. T. is a Hoosier actor and writer. Poetry: Anodyne Magazine, Beyond the Veil Press, NonBinary Review, Querencia Press, and more.

Treasures and Ghosts

Camden is a queer author who loves magic. She can be found at the ocean’s edge. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her spouse, black cat, and collection of books and board games. You can find her online at www.camdenscorner.com. 

The Night of Our Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary

Sherry’s art lives in Zoetic Press, Plentitudes, Progenitor, Critical Read, F(r)iction, Hippocampus, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize in Poetry and Best of the Net. 

checking the expiration date

Anne has previously published with the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law and Justice and has a forthcoming poem with Sinister Wisdom. They can be found on Instagram @queerlyloving.

The Nowhere Girl

Molly’s poetry has appeared in October Hill Magazine, Wilderness House Literary Review, Pioneertown and Maudlin House, The Bangalore Review, Gone Lawn and The Portland Review. You can find more of her work at mollywphoto.com.

A Mosaic of Tiles

Sharon has published poems in various literary magazines, and also a full collection and four chapbooks. Her last chapbook, This Sad and Tender Time came out in December 2023); Putting the Pieces Together is forthcoming from Fernwood Press in 2025.

The Girl in the Black Silk Dress

Ren’s work appears in The Outrider Review, Cactus Heart, Trans Love, Braving the Body, Palette Poetry, Pine Hills Review, The Comstock Review, Stories that Need to be Told, and Lone Mountain Literary Society. 

Every Time I See a Dancer

Maya is a religious Black multiracial nonbinary suicide survivor who was selected as Portland, ME’s seventh poet laureate for a July 2021 to July 2024 term. Maya received a MFA in Creative Writing with a Focus in Poetry from Randolph College in June 2022. 

false harvest

Louise is a Pushcart Prize Nominee whose work can be found in Reflex Fiction, Storgy, HWA Showcase, and Boston Literary Magazine. Her publications include Life Lines, Stained Glass Lives, and the novel Distorted Days.

Unfinished Exit

Claudia authored All Up in Smoke, published by Anxiety Press. Her work has been featured in local newspapers, magazines, and even literary journals like WordCityLit and Lothlorien Poetry Journal. 

"Unfinished Exit” was originally published by Rowayat in January 2025.