Mark Belair

Mark Belair's poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Harvard Review, Michigan Quarterly Review and Southern Poetry Review. Author of eight collections of poems—most recently Settling In (Kelsay Books, 2024)—he has also published two works of fiction: Stonehaven (Turning Point, 2020) and its sequel, Edgewood (Turning Point, 2022). He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize multiple times, as well as for a Best of the Net Award. Please visit www.markbelair.com.

Chris Bullard

Chris Bullard lives in Philadelphia, PA. In 2022, Main Street Rag published his poetry chapbook, Florida Man, and Moonstone Press published his poetry chapbook, The Rainclouds of y. Finishing Line Press published his chapbook, Lungs, in April and his work appeared in Keystone: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania, this May.

Michael Chin

Michael Chin was born and raised in Utica, New York and currently lives in Las Vegas with his wife and son. He’s the author of seven full-length books, including his novel, My Grandfather’s an Immigrant, and So is Yours (Cowboy Jamboree Press, 2021) and his latest short story collection This Year’s Ghost (JackLeg Press, 2025). His short work has previously appeared in journals including Bat City Review, Praire Schooner, The Pinch, Passages North, and The Normal School. Find him online at miketchin.com.

Michael Cocchiarale

Michael Cocchiarale is the author of the novel None of the Above (Unsolicited, 2019) and three short story collections—Swerving Sizes (Unsolicited, forthcoming in 2026), Here Is Ware (Fomite, 2018), Still Time (Fomite, 2012). His creative work appears online as well, in journals such as Fictive Dream, South Florida Poetry Review, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, The Wild Word, and Stickman Review.

Janis La Couvée

Janis La Couvée (she/her) is a writer and poet with a love of wild green spaces, dedicated to conservation efforts in Campbell River, Canada—home since time immemorial to the Liǧʷiɫdax̌ʷ people. She is an alumna of the inaugural Fahmidan Literary Journal mentorship. Her work has been featured in Splendor of Wings (League of Canadian Poets chapbook), New York Writers Coalition’s Common Unity, and the New Feathers Anthology. She has also appeared in Feral Poetry, Humana Obscura, Thema, Home Planet News, Isele, Raven Review, among others. You can find her online at janislacouvee.com.

Salvatore Difalco

Salvatore Difalco lives in Toronto Canada

Richard Dinges, Jr.

Richard Dinges, Jr. works on his homestead beside a drying pond, surrounded by trees and grassland, with his wife, two dogs, two cats, and fourteen chickens. Grey Sparrow, Oddball Magazine, Nine Mile Magazine, Courtship of Winds, and The Orchards most recently accepted his words for their publications.

Diane Funston

Diana Funston has been Yuba Sutter Arts Poet-in-Residence for two years and has been published in California Quarterly, Synkronicity, Penumbra , F(r)iction, Tule Review, and Lake Affect Magazine, among others. Diane has also published a chapbook, Over The Falls from Foothills Publishing.

Huina Zheng

Huina Zheng holds an M.A. with Distinction in English Studies and works as a college essay coach. Her stories have appeared in Baltimore Review, Variant Literature, Midway Journal, and other journals. She has received four Best of the Net nominations and three Pushcart Prize nominations. She resides in Guangzhou, China with her family.

Sam Moe

Sam Moe is the author of eight books. Her most recent poetry collection, Red Halcyon, is forthcoming from Querencia Press in 2026. Her debut short story collection, I Might Trust You, is out from Experiments in Fiction (2025). She has attended the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and received fellowships from the Longleaf Writer’s conference and the Key West Literary Seminar. Sam has also attended residencies at The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, VCCA, and Château d’Orquevau.

Kenneth Pobo

Kenneth Pobo (he/him) is the author of thirty-three chapbooks and fifteen full-length collections. Recent books include Bend of Quiet (Blue Light Press), At The Window, Silence (Fernwood Press) and  It Gets Dark So Soon Now (Broken Tribe Press). His work has appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Amsterdam Quarterly, Nimrod, Mudfish, Hawaii Review, and elsewhere.

Philip Reari

Philip Reari is an editor at an environmental organization in Washington, D.C., and a recovering journalist. His writing has appeared in Adelaide Literary Magazine, After Dinner Conversation (forthcoming), Dissent, Kyoto Journal, Literary Heist, n+1, The Rumpus and others. He’s published two novels,Eat Your Damn Vegetables (2022, shortlisted for Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Award) and Earth Jumped Back (2024). He’s also an associate editor at JackLeg Press and is online at www.philipreari.com.

Russell Rowland

Russell Rowland’s work appears in Except for Love: New England Poets Inspired by Donald Hall (Encircle Publications), and Covid Spring, Vol. 2 (Hobblebush Books). His own poetry books, Wooden Nutmegs and Magnificat, are available from Encircle Publications.  He is a trail maintainer for the Lakes Region (NH) Conservation Trust.

Rudrangshu Sengupta

Rudrangshu Sengupta is a poet in a physicist’s body, a lover with a scientist’s precision. But beyond the lab and lecture hall, Rudrangshu is a deeply feeling, sharply observant soul. His writing—cinematic, confessional, and lyrically obsessive—blurs the boundary between memory and invention.

Paul Smith

Paul Smith is a civil engineer who has worked in the construction racket for many years. He has travelled all over the place and met lots of people from all walks of life. Some have enriched his life. Others made him wish he or they were all dead. He likes writing poetry and fiction. He also likes Newcastle Brown Ale. If you see him, buy him one. He is a featured poet at Mad Swirl.

Richard Stimac

Richard Stimac lives in the St. Louis, Missouri (USA) area. He has published a poetry book, Bricolage (Spartan Press), two poetry chapbooks, and one flash fiction chapbook. In his work, Richard explores time and memory through the landscape and humanscape of the St. Louis region. He invites you to follow his poetry Facebook page: “Richard Stimac poet.”

Edward Michael Supranowicz

Edward Michael Supranowicz is the grandson of Irish and Lithuanian/Russian/Ukrainian immigrants. He grew up on a small farm in Appalachia. He has a grad background in painting and printmaking. Some of his artwork has recently or will soon appear in Fish Food, Streetlight, Another Chicago Magazine, Door Is A Jar, The Phoenix, and The Harvard Advocate. Edward is also a published poet who has had over 700 poems published and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize multiple times.

Kendra Whitfield

Kendra Whitfield lives and writes on the southern edge of the Canadian northern boreal forest. When not writing, she can be found basking in sunbeams on the deck or swimming laps at the local pool. Her poetry has been anthologized by Beyond the Veil Press and Community Building Art Works.

Yvette A. Schnoeker-Shorb

Yvette A. Schnoeker-Shorb is the author of Shapes That Stay (Kelsay Books, 2021). Her poetry has appeared in Slipstream Magazine, Stickman Review, New York Quarterly, Camas: The Nature of the West, The Midwest Quarterly, About Place Journal, AJN: The American Journal of Nursing, and other publications. She is co-founder of the late 501(c)(3) natural-history nonprofit Native West Press (2005-2025) and lives with her husband, some peccaries, and numerous scrub jays in the Central Highlands of Arizona.

mk zariel

mk zariel {it/its + masc terms} is a transmasculine neuroqueer poet, theater artist, movement journalist, and BashBack aligned anarchist. it is fueled by folk-punk, Emma Goldman, and existential dread. the author of Voidgazing (2026, Whittle Micropress) and Boy Apparition (2025, Vinegar Press), it can be found online at https://mkzariel.carrd.co/, creating conflictually queer-anarchic spaces, writing columns for Asymptote and the Anarchist Review of Books, and being mildly feral in the great lakes region. it is kinda gay ngl.