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Lexi Pelle lives in Randolph, New Jersey, with her two dogs. She was the winner of the 2022 Jack McCarthy Book prize. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Rattle, Ninth Letter, One Art, Sucarnochee Review, and Zenaida. Her debut book, Let Go With The Lights On, will be released in May.
Stephen Myer is a native New Yorker who emigrated to the gloomy moors of Southern California. He is a writer, musician and educator. His stories and poetry have been published in Tales from the Moonlit Path, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Roi Faineant Press, Grand Little Things, and JayHenge Publishing Back Forty Anthology, among others.
Shauna Shiff is an English teacher in Warrenton, Virginia, a mother, wife and textiles artist. Her poems and short stories can be found in Stoneboat Literary Journal, Atticus Review, Cold Mountain Review, Rock Salt Journal, Cola and upcoming in others. In 2022, she was nominated for Best of the Net.
Ryan Harbert graduated with a BA in English from Kent State University. The Saint Clairsville, Ohio, writer has made ends meet as a waiter, a fast-food cook, a veterinary receptionist, and a night janitor. His hobbies include running, obscure Asian films, video games, and petting every cat he sees.
Matthew Merson is a science teacher in the low country of South Carolina where he lives and plays with his wife, two kids, and several dogs. His recent work can be found in The James Dickey Review, Poetry South, and Complete Sentence among others.
Russ Doherty, originally from Chicago, has attended various writers’ conferences, learning from or playing guitar with Greg Iles, George Saunders, and Joshua Mohr. He has a double BA from the University of California Santa Barbara in Screenwriting and Music, loving the intersection of sound and scene. He walks for miles every day by his home in Santa Barbara, talking to the characters in his head. Russ did not like working at the Post Office.
Ennis James Sheehan is one of eleven children from the exurbs of New York City. A former newspaper reporter (Brooklyn and NYC), Los Angeles TV producer/writer over 25 years from news and entertainment to true crime and the paranormal. He is is living in Makati, Philippines, with his wife Susan and a little dog named Colette.
Tim Moder is a poet living in northern Wisconsin. His poems have appeared in Native Skin, River Mouth Review, Free State Review, Coachella Review, and others. He is the author of the chapbooks All true Heavens (Alien Buddha Press 2022) and American Parade Routes (Seven Kitchens 2023), and is a member of The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.
Frances Klein is an Alaskan poet and teacher writing at the intersection of disability and gender. She is the 2022 winner of the Robert Golden Poetry Prize, and the author of the chapbooks New and Permanent (Blanket Sea 2022) and The Best Secret (Bottlecap Press 2022). Klein currently serves as assistant editor of Southern Humanities Review.
Laurie Kuntz has written six books and been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes and two Best of the Net Prizes. Her work has been published in Gyroscope Review, Roanoke Review, Third Wednesday, One Art, Sheila Na Gig, and other journals. Happily retired and residing in Florida, she lives in an endless summer state of mind.
John Sweet sends greetings from the rural wastelands of upstate New York. He is a firm believer in writing as catharsis, and in compassionate nihilism which, as luck would have it, has all the best bands. His published collections include NO ONE STARVES IN A NATION OF CORPSES (2020 Analog Submission Press) and THERE’S ONLY ONE WAY THIS IS GOING TO END (Cyberwit, 2023).
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