Alex Carrigan

Alex Carrigan (he/him) is a Pushcart-nominated editor, poet, and critic from Alexandria, VA. He is the author of Now Let’s Get Brunch (Querencia Press, 2023) and May All Our Pain Be Champagne (Alien Buddha Press, 2022). He has appeared in HAD, fifth wheel press, Sage Cigarettes, JAKE, Inlandia Journal, and more. Visit carriganak.wordpress.com or follow him on Twitter @carriganak for more info.

Terence Culleton

Terence Culleton has published poems in a variety of reviews and journals in both the U.S. and the U.K., including Amherst Review, Alabama Literary Review, Birmingham Review, Blue Unicorn, Cumberland Review, Edge City Review, Modern Poetry Quarterly, and Eunoia. His work has been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and several of his poems have been featured on NPR. Mr. Culleton’s fourth volume of poetry, Message From a Floating Dock, is recently out through White Violet Press, a formalist imprint of Kelsay Books. It is available at kelsaybooks.com or through his website terenceculletonpoetry.com

Darren C. Demaree

Darren C. Demaree's work has appeared, or is scheduled to appear in numerous magazines/journals, including Hotel Amerika, Diode, North American Review, New Letters, Diagram, and the Colorado Review. He is the author of twenty-four poetry collections, most recently Now Flourish Northern Cardinal (November 2025, Harbor Editions). He is the Co-Editor in Chief of the Best of the Net Anthology and is currently living and writing in Columbus, Ohio.

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 Misundersood) Which is Twenty Meters Becomes This Poet's Self-portrait.

Richard Downing

Richard Downing has won the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Contest, New Delta Review’s Matt Clark Prize, New Woman’s Grand Prize for Fiction, Writecorner Press Editors’ Award, Solstice Editors’ Award and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His work appears in 60+ journals, including Electric Literature, Malahat Review, and Consequence. He holds a Ph.D. in English and is a voting rights activist. More here about Richard Downing.

Collin Garrity

Collin Garrity (He/Him) studied poetry at Warren Wilson College. He spent his childhood in Belgium and Germany, and now lives in St Louis, Missouri, where he spends his weeks in a woodshop.

David M. Harris

David M. Harris' first career was in book publishing, as an editor, agent, and copyeditor. He also worked for a while in film production before getting his MFA and starting a career teaching college English. His poetry has appeared in various journals. His first collection of poetry, The Review Mirror, was published by Unsolicited Press in 2013. He is also the author of Democracy and Other Problems, an essay collection (SRM Publishers); Bill, the Galactic Hero: the Final Incoherent Adventure, a novel with Harry Harrison (Avon Books); numerous magazine articles; several published short stories; and two produced screenplays.

Mark J. Mitchell

Mark J. Mitchell has been a working poet for 50 years. His latest collection is Something To Be. A novel, A Book of Lost Songs was recently published by Histria Books. A new poetry chapbook, Ground This Morning, was recently published by Sabre Lake. He’s fond of baseball, Louis Aragon, Dante, and his wife, activist Joan Juster. He lives in San Francisco where he points out pretty things. He can be found on Bluesky @MJMitchellwriter

Brad Rose

Brad Rose is the author of eight collections of poetry and micro-fiction: Or Words to that Effect, I Wouldn’t Say That, Exactly, WordInEdgeWise, Lucky Animals, No. Wait. I Can Explain, Pink X-Ray, de/tonations, and Momentary Turbulence. His poetry and fiction have appeared in: 45th Parallel, Baltimore Review, New York Quarterly, Lunch Ticket, Puerto del Sol, Clockhouse, Folio, Best Microfiction (2019), Action Spectacle, American Journal of Poetry, The Los Angeles Times, Hunger Mountain, Right Hand Pointing, and other journals and anthologies. His website is www.bradrosepoetry.com Selected audio readings: https://soundcloud.com/bradrose1

Kumar Sen

Kumar Sen is a writer based in Kolkata, India. With a background in mathematics, he writes in both Bengali and English, focusing on sensory detail and the subtly absurd. His work has appeared in Amsterdam Quarterly, Little Fruits Magazine, Orangepeel Literary Magazine, and The Periwinkle Pelican Lit, among others. Outside of writing, he is a composer, musician, and dedicated bibliophile.

J.R. Solonche

J.R. Solonche is the author of more than 50 books of poetry and coauthor of another. He has been nominated for the Eric Hoffer Book Award, twice for the National Book Award and three times for the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in the Hudson Valley.

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.

Dennis Vannatta

Dennis Vannatta is a Pushcart and Porter Prize winner, with essays and stories published in many magazines and anthologies, including Stickman Review, River Styx, Chariton Review, Boulevard, and Antioch Review. His sixth collection of stories, The Only World You Get¸ was published by Et Alia Press.

Diane Webster

Diane Webster's poetry has appeared in North Dakota Quarterly, New English Review, Studio One and other literary magazines. Her haiku/senryu have appeared in failed haiku, Kokako, Enchanted Garden Haiku. Five micro-chaps have been published by Origami Poetry Press. Diane has been nominated for Best of the Net and three times for a Pushcart. Diane retired in 2022 after 40 years in the newspaper industry. She was a featured writer in Macrame Literary Journal and WestWard Quarterly. Her website is: www.dianewebster.com