Joseph Randolph is a multidisciplinary artist and professor from the Midwest. He is the author of Vacua Vita and Sum: A Lyric Parody. His writing has appeared in Action, Spectacle, The Penn Review, Midcult*, and elsewhere, and he received second place in the 2025 Bath Flash Fiction Award. Music is streaming; paintings are on Instagram: @jtrndph

Otto Lara Resende (1922–1992) was a prolific journalist, fiction writer, and member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. His fiction, largely forgotten for decades in Brazil and little known abroad, is a secret treasure of Brazilian literature.

Christopher Rubio-Goldsmith was born in Merida, Yucatan, lives in Tucson AZ, and taught English at Tucson High School and coached soccer for 27 years. Now he drinks too much coffee and goes for bike rides through the Sonoran Desert. In 2025 he won the Eleventh-Hour Literary Review and Kay Snow poetry contests. He’s also a three-time Pushcart nominee. Facebook: chris.goldsmith.16

David Salner has worked as iron ore miner, steelworker, baseball usher, librarian and in many other trades. His latest poetry collections are The Green Vault Heist and Summer Words: New and Selected Poems. His prize-winning novel is A Place to Hide. More of his poetry appears in magazines such as Muleskinner Review, North American Review, Ploughshares, and Hamilton Stone Review. Website: dsalner.wixsite.com/salner

Yamuna Sauter is a student and writer based in Vienna, where her writing and art have been published in multiple magazines and anthologies. She is currently finalizing her first novel. Instagram: @elianayamuna

Erin Lee Shields is a poet living and writing in Manhattan. Instagram: @erinlshields

Neal Allen Shipley (he/him) is a poet in Colorado with an unhinged collection of plants. His writing can be found in The Talon Review, SCAB Magazine, South Broadway Ghost Society, and others. Instagram: @nealio9

Based in Tbilisi, Georgia, Polina Simonova explores the intersection of nature and the human form. Through painting and artifacts, she portrays the female body as a site of tension, vulnerability, and awakening. Her ritualistic practice weaves erotic energy and primordial elements into material form, envisioning the body as an evolving space where inner consciousness meets natural cycles. Instagram: @mria.onfire

Mark Simpson’s work has appeared in a number of magazines. He is the author of Fat Chance (Finishing Line) and The Quieting (Pine Row Press). He has a Ph.D. in rhetoric and writing and currently tends several acres of forest, fruit, and vegetables. Current residence: Whidbey Island, Washington.

Abhishek Kumar Singh is a multilingual poet and writer from India working in English, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Bhojpuri, and Magahi. His lyrical, abstract work explores identity, memory, and the human experience. His poetry has appeared in Friday Night Library, Poetry Nation, Life in a Limbo, Suburban Witchcraft, Maudlin House, and Epiphany Anthology. Instagram: @abhishek_singh_678

J. D. Smith’s seventh poetry collection, The Place That Is Coming to Us, will be published in September by Broadstone Books. Smith lives and works in Washington, DC. Website: jdsmithwriter.com / Bluesky: @smitroverse.bsky.social / X: @Smitroverse