Joanna
Acevedo is a writer living and working in New York City. She is
pursuing an MFA in Fiction from New York University. Her work has been seen in
Rigorous Magazine, Paragon Press, and Not Very Quiet. In her spare time, she
plays roller derby.
Demi
Anter is a multidisciplinary artist who came of age in
California’s Coachella Valley. Her writing has appeared in numerous journals
across the U.S., U.K. and Europe. As a spoken word performer, she has graced
the stage with artists including Beau Sia, Anis Mojgani and Sarah Kay. She has
been a featured poet on Belfast’s Poetry Jukebox, and will perform at
Glastonbury, Electric Picnic and Edinburgh Fringe in summer 2019. She lives in
Berlin. www.demianter.com
Laton
Carter’s Leaving (University of Chicago) received the Oregon Book Award.
Recent short fiction appears or is forthcoming in Atticus Review, Necessary
Fiction, New Flash
Fiction Review, and The Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions of 2018.
Shivaji Das is the author of three travel memoirs and
photography books: ‘Sacred Love: Erotic Arts in the temples of Nepal,’ Adarsh
Books/ Mandala Publications (2018), ‘Angels by the Murky River: Travels Off the
Beaten Track,’ Yoda Press (2017), and ‘Journeys with the caterpillar:
Travelling through the islands of Flores and Sumba, Indonesia (2013).
Shivaji’s writings have been published in TIME, Asian
Geographic, Outlook Traveller, Jakarta Post, Conscious Magazine, and
Freethinker. His interviews have been featured on BBC, CNBC, The
Economist, Travel Radio Australia, Around the World TV, etc.
His photographs in collaboration with his wife, Yolanda Yu, have
been exhibited in the Darkroom Gallery, Vermont (USA), Kuala Lumpur
International Photography Festival (Malaysia), the Arts House (Singapore), and
the National Library (Singapore).
Shivaji is the conceptualizer and organizer for the Migrant Poetry Contests in Singapore and Malaysia and the first ever Global Migrant Festival. http://www.shivajidas.com
Phillippa
Finkemeyer is one of those Australian writers who lives in Berlin.
Robin Gow’s poetry has recently been published in POETRY, Thin Air, and
45th Parallel. His first book is forthcoming from Tolsun Books. He is a
graduate student and adjunct professor at Adelphi University pursing an MFA in
Creative Writing. He is the Editor at Large for Village of Crickets and Social
Media Coordinator for Oyster River Pages. He is an out and proud bisexual
transgender man passionate about LGBT issues and has provided LGBT
inclusivity training sessions for universities across the country.
Theo Greenblatt’s prose, both fiction and nonfiction, appears in
The Normal School Online, Tikkun, Salt Hill Journal, Santa Fe Writers Project,
Harvard Review, and numerous other venues. Her awards include first place in
The London Magazine Short Story Competition. Theo holds a PhD from the
University of Rhode Island and teaches writing to aspiring officer candidates
at the Naval Academy Preparatory School in Newport, RI.
Alissa Hattman’s work has appeared
in The Rumpus, Gravel, Propeller, American
Writers Review, Big Other, Atticus Review, Shirley
Magazine, and SUSAN, among other publications. In 2009,
she received her MFA in Fiction at Pacific University and, in 2013, she
completed a MA in English Literature from Portland State
University. Originally from Fargo, North Dakota, Alissa now lives in
Portland, Oregon and teaches writing at Chemeketa Community College in
Salem.
Amy Lauren,
a graduate of Mississippi College, was a finalist for the
2019 Tennessee Williams Poetry Prize. She authored Prodigal (Bottlecap Press),
God With Us (Headmistress Press), and She/Her/Hers (Headmistress Press). Her
poems have appeared in publications such as The Gay & Lesbian Review with
four Pushcart Prize nominations. Currently, she lives in Florida with her wife.
Matt Mitchell is an intersex Northeast Ohio writer trying to make his work as beautiful as Ken Griffey Jr.’s swing. He’d love to meet up at your local coffee shop (not Starbucks, because the aforementioned poet’s partner’s family owns a coffee shop and the aforementioned poet refuses to cross enemy lines) and talk about how the Thompson Twins’ “Hold Me Now” is the quintessential pop banger. His work appears in, or is forthcoming to, journals like BARNHOUSE, Glass, The Indianapolis Review, Barren Magazine, and others.
Uma Menon is a fifteen-year-old writer from Winter Park, Florida. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in the Huffington Post, Ms. Magazine, The Rumpus, The Cincinnati Review, and National Poetry Quarterly, among others. Her first chapbook was published in 2019 (Zoetic Press). Uma received the 2019 Lee Bennett Hopkins Award in Poetry and was a 2019 Brain Mill Press Editor’s Pick Poet.
Konstantin Nicholas Rega, born in
Krasnoyarsk, Russia, studied at The University of Kent, and is now doing an MA
at East Anglia. He has been published by The Claremont Review, Four Ties Lit
Review, Minetta Review, White Wall Review, and has won the ZO Magazine Silver
Prize for Poetry, and is currently a Poetry Reader for GASHER, a contributor to
the Black Lion Journal and Treblezine. www.neomodernkonstantin.weebly.com
Kevin Sampsell is a bookseller, small press publisher, author, and collage artist living in Portland, Oregon. His work has appeared in the Best American Essays and Best Sex Writing series and has been a notable mention in Best American Nonrequired Reading. His writing has appeared recently in Longreads, Hobart, Radioactive Moat, Paper Darts, and on the Storytellers Telling Stories podcast. More info at kevinsampsell.com.
Kat
Setzer lives in Salem, MA with her wife and three cats. Her fiction
has appeared in MonkeyBicycle, The Cypress Dome, and a couple other publications. Find out more about
her writing at https://katsetzer.com.
