Kevin Brown

Kevin Brown (he/him) teaches high school English in Nashville. He has published three books of poetry: Liturgical Calendar: Poems (Wipf and Stock); A Lexicon of Lost Words (winner of the Violet Reed Haas Prize for Poetry, Snake Nation Press); and Exit Lines (Plain View Press). He also has a memoir, Another Way: Finding Faith, Then Finding It Again, and a book of scholarship, They Love to Tell the Stories: Five Contemporary Novelists Take on the Gospels. You can find out more about him and his work at http://kevinbrownwrites.weebly.com/.

Carol Casey

Carol Casey lives in Blyth, Ontario, Canada. Her work has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Stickman Review, Gastropoda, Santa Fe Literary Review, Dust Poetry, antilang, Sublunary Review, Popshot Quarterly and others, including a number of anthologies, most recently, Stones Beneath the Surface (Black Mallard Press). She has recently published her first collection, What Can Happen: family and other raptures of imperfection.

Paul Dickey

Paul Dickey has appeared recently in Plume, The Midwest Quarterly, Laurel Review, I-70 Review, Plainsongs, failbetter.com, and Apple Valley Review. His recent book of poetry volume was released in September, 2022 in Anti-Realism in Shadows and Suppertime. He has also released in the past year a volume of flash fiction, What My Characters Should Have Said and a poetry chapbook, A Reading of Dali (Likely Misunderstood) Which is Twenty Meters Becomes This Poet's Self-portrait.

William Doreski

William Doreski lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He has taught at several colleges and universities. His most recent book of poetry is Cloud Mountain (2024). He has published three critical studies, including Robert Lowell’s Shifting Colors. His essays, poetry, fiction, and reviews have appeared in various journals.

John Grey

John Grey is an Australian poet, U.S. resident, recently published in New World Writing, City Brink and Tenth Muse. His latest books, Subject Matters, Between Two Fires and Covert are available through Amazon. He has work upcoming in Hawaii Pacific Review, Amazing Stories and Cantos.

Stephen Middleton

Stephen Middleton is a writer working in London, England. He has had five books published, including A Brave Light (Stride) and Worlds of Pain / Shades of Grace (Poetry Salzburg). He has been in several anthologies, including Paging Doctor Jazz (Shoestring), From Hepworth’s Garden Out (Shearsman, 2010), and Yesterday’s Music Today (Knives Forks and Spoons, 2015). For several years he was editor of Ostinato, a magazine of jazz and jazz related poetry, and The Tenormen Press. He has been in many magazines worldwide. He is currently working on projects (prose and poetry) relating to jazz, blues, politics, outsider (folk) art, mountain environments, and long-term illness.

Itto and Mekiya Outini

Itto and Mekiya Outini write about America, Morocco, and all those caught in between. They’ve published in The North American Review, Fourth Genre, Modern Literature, The Good River Review, The Stonecoast Review, Hidden Peak Review, The Brussels Review, Chautauqua, and elsewhere, and their work has received support from the MacDowell Foundation, the Steinbeck Fellowship Program, and the Fulbright Program. They’re collaborating on several books and running The DateKeepers, an author support platform.

Daniel Romo

Daniel Romo is the author of American Manscape (Moon Tide Press 2026), Bum Knees and Grieving Sunsets (FlowerSong Press 2023), Moonlighting as an Avalanche (Tebot Bach 2021), Apologies in Reverse (FutureCycle Press 2019) and other books. His work can be found in The Los Angeles Review, MAYDAY, Yemassee, Hotel Amerika, and elsewhere. He received an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte, and he lives, writes, and rides his bikes in Long Beach, California.

Leland Seese

Leland Seese lives in Seattle. His poems appear in Frontier Poetry, The Chestnut Review, RHINO, The Stonecoast Review, and many other journals. More of his poems can be found at www.lelandseesepoetry.com.

Susan Shea

Susan Shea is a retired school psychologist who grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and now lives in a forest in Pennsylvania. She returned to writing poetry three years ago, and since then her poems are in or are now forthcoming in Chiron Review, ONE ART, The RavensPerch, Cloudbank, Foreshadow, Green Silk Journal, The Loch Raven Review, Ekstasis and others. Within the last few months one of her poems was nominated for Best of the Net by Cosmic Daffodil, and three poems were nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Umbrella Factory Magazine.

David Sheskin

David Sheskin is a former university professor, writer and artist. He is the author of The Handbook of Parametric and Nonparametric Statistical Procedures, published by Chapman and Hall. His work has been published extensively over the years, including in The Los Angeles Review, Palooka, The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Cleaver Magazine, Tamarind: A Literary Magazine, Superstition Review, The Font and The Dalhousie Review. His most recent books are Art That Speaks, David Sheskin's Art, David Sheskin’s Cabinet of Curiosities and Outrageous Wedding Announcements.

Jim Tilley

Jim Tilley has published four full-length collections of poetry and a novel with Red Hen Press. His short memoir, The Elegant Solution, was published as a Ploughshares Solo. Five of his poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His most recent poetry collection, Ripples in the Fabric of the Universe: New & Selected Poems,was published in June 2024. His forthcoming collection, When Godot Arrived, will be published in the fall of 2026.

Diane Webster

Diane Webster's work has appeared in Old Red Kimono, North Dakota Quarterly, New English Review, Studio One and other literary magazines. She had micro-chaps published by Origami Poetry Press in 2022, 2023 and 2024. Diane has been nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart. She was a featured writer in Macrame Literary Journal and WestWard Quarterly. Her website is: www.dianewebster.com

Mike Wilson

Mike Wilson's work has appeared in many magazines including The Gravity of the Thing, Mud Season Review, The Petigru Review, Still: The Journal, and in Mike’s book, Arranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic (Rabbit House Press). Mike’s awards include the League of Minnesota Poets Award, the Maine Poets Society Award, and the Chaffin/Kash Prize of the Kentucky State Poetry Society. Mike lives in Lexington, Kentucky.