Verena Raban is a Series-LXXXVII Replicant from the storm-swarmed planet Saturn09. She writes & draws poems & punks & flowers.
Her poetry and prose can be read in Full Stop, Action, Spectacle, and Thin Air Magazine. She is an Anaphora Arts Fellow, SVA Multimedia Arts Fellow, and former Art Editor for the Northwest Review.
Julia Norza
Julia Norza is fresh to America. Her work has been previously featured in magazines such as Blood Knife and Feminist Food Journal.
Daniel Nathan Terry
Daniel Nathan Terry is the author of 3 books of poetry: City of Starlings (Sibling Rivalry Press), Waxwings (Lethe Press), and Capturing the Dead (NFSPS Press) which also won The Stevens Prize. His poems and short stories have appeared in several journals, including Cimmaron Review, The Greensboro Review, and New South, and have appeared in the LGBTQ+ anthologies This Assignment Is So Gay and Collective Brightness.
Iain Grinbergs
Iain Grinbergs (he/they) is an English professor and the author of Vanity Twist, a chapbook (Bottlecap Press). He earned his Ph.D. in English from Florida State University. His work appears in or is forthcoming from Rogue Agent, South Florida Poetry Journal, Meridian, FlashFlood, Ghost Parachute, Jersey Devil Press, The Daily Drunk: Pop Culture That Pops, The Pegasus Review: A Medical Literary Journal, and other journals.
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Louis Balsamo
A lifelong Marylander, Louis Balsamo has a BA in English/Professional Writing and an MA in Publications Design, both from the University of Baltimore. He sometimes writes when not getting good and tired at work in the food service industry.
Angela Acosta
Angela Acosta is a bilingual Mexican American poet and educator. She is a 2022 Dream Foundry Contest for Emerging Writers Finalist, 2022 Somos en Escrito Extra-Fiction Contest Honorable Mention, and Utopia Award nominee. Her poetry has appeared in Copihue Poetry, The Acentos Review, Shoreline of Infinity, and Radon Journal. She is author of the poetry chapbooks A Belief in Cosmic Dailiness (Red Ogre Review, 2023) and Fourth Generation Chicana Unicorn (Dancing Girl Press, 2024).
Ty Dunn
Ty Dunn (she/they) is a Black Southern writer pursuing a Creative Writing MFA at the University of Alabama. She enjoys writing poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction about the body, race, and finding yourself in a world of chaos. When she is not writing, you can find her researching video games a year before actually playing them and spending time on the road with friends.
Colleen S. Harris
Colleen S. Harris serves as a university library dean, and holds an MFA in Writing from Spalding University. Author of four poetry books and four chapbooks, her most recent collections include The Light Becomes Us (Main Street Rag, 2025), Toothache in the Bone (boats against the current, 2025), The Girl and the Gifts (Bottlecap, 2025), and These Terrible Sacraments (Doubleback 2019; Bellowing Ark, 2010). Her poems appear in Berkeley Poetry Review, The Louisville Review, and more than 80 others. Follow her writing on Bluesky (@warmaiden) and at https://colleensharris.com
Graham Griffith
Graham Griffith is an LGBTQ+ author and visual artist, who studied English literature at Belmont University. He has worked as a freelance journalist, with bylines in Out & About Nashville, Metromix, and other publications. His short story, “The Red That Binds Us,” was featured in the Summer 2025 issue of RFD magazine, and he recently completed work on his first novel, Spinning Around. He currently resides in Nashville with his partner. Find him on Instagram: @charmlessgraham
Edwyn Morgans
Edwyn Morgans is a queer poet from Texas, and writes mostly about their struggles with sexuality, gender and mental health. They have a poem appearing in the upcoming issue of “The Shallot: Journal of Mental Health, Art, & Literature”.
Bethany White
Bethany White (she/her) is a sapphic Texan Pisces living in New England with her cat/son. She can be found on Instagram as @bethany.g.white, but would prefer to not be perceived all the same.
Shelby Edison
Shelby Edison is a Jewish, lesbian poet from Texas. She recently graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing. She is the 2025 recipient of Washington University’s American Academy of Poets Prize. In her free time, she enjoys line dancing, playing bar trivia, and teaching sex education.
- Bed is just a swamp to roll in
- in lisbon my friend gets a google alert of “how to prepare for the quantum apocalypse”
Cora Schipa
Cora Schipa is a poet and writer who spent most of her life in Charleston, South Carolina, before moving to Knoxville to pursue an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Tennessee. She is a poetry reader for Grist and the assistant managing editor of Crab Creek Review. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Shore, ONEART, Unbroken: Prose Poems, and elsewhere magazine, among others.