Brian Engles is a writer and musician from Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He was a reporter for Cape & Islands NPR before moving to Chicago. His novel Wildball earned coverage in the Boston Globe. He releases original music as Racing Days. Instagram: @brian.engles

Corwin Ericson is the author of the novel Swell, and the collection Checked Out OK. His work has been published in Harper’s, Jubilat, Volt, Sortes, Galaxy Brain, and elsewhere. Instagram: @corwin.ericson

John Eustis is a retired librarian living in Virginia with his wife, after a long, quiet federal career. His poetry has appeared in Atlanta Review, Gargoyle, North Dakota Quarterly, One Art, Pirene’s Fountain, Sheila-Na-Gig, Slipstream, Tar River Poetry, and other places.

Justin Evans is the author of a dozen books. He lives with his wife and sons in rural Nevada, where he teaches at a local high school. He is a two-time recipient of the Nevada Arts Council Literary Fellowship. Instagram: @rightpoetright

Rachel Desiree Felix is a Malaysian writer based in South Korea. Her work explores cultural dissonance, memory, and quiet resistance, often shaped by the tension between visibility and erasure in cross-cultural spaces. Instagram: @racheldesiree

Nicholas Fillmore is the author of Smuggler, an IndieReader Discovery Award-winning memoir; The Gospel of Satan, a novella; and Sins of Our Fathers, a novel. Allocution, poems, will be published by Tough Poets Press in 2026. Website: nicholasfillmore.com

Jonathan Fletcher holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Columbia University. A Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Microfiction nominee, he won Northwestern University Press’s Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize in 2023. His debut chapbook This is My Body was published in 2025. He serves as a Zoeglossia Fellow and lives in San Antonio, Texas. Instagram: @jonathan.fletcher9

Jefferson Fortner is a community college English Professor living in North Carolina. He has recently had work published by Neologism Poetry Journal and by The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. He has lived in North Carolina all his life, but is thinking about running away from home.

Barry Foy is the author of Field Guide to the Irish Music Session and The Devil’s Food Dictionary: A Pioneering Culinary Reference Work Consisting Entirely of Lies. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Adria Frizza is a critic and a translator of Brazilian, Italian, and Spanish-American literature. Her translations include works by Elena Ferrante, Osman Lins, Caio Fernando Abreu, Regina Rheda, Marina Colasanti, Dacia Maraini, and Rossana Campo.

Lin Furio is a musician and writer working in and around New York. Their writing has appeared in Bullshit Lit's Horns, Alone Together, Echoes of LBI, and the International Human Rights Arts Festival. In 2026 they will release their first EP, which is built around sampled sounds from the Mohawk Valley, NY. Website: linfurio.com / Instagram: @lindependent_radio

Justin Gradin is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, sound, animation, video, performance and writing. He has released a volume of poetry, Brainwashing the Dirty Mind, and has two graphic novels, Mystic Debris and Pageant, published with Fantagraphics books. Instagram: @justingradin