David Anderson lives in Washington, DC, with his wife. Before retiring, he edited the main research dissemination vehicles for the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and wrote on public health and medicine for many national and international publications and organizations.

Marcher Arrant is an all-out walker who wanders in the margins, leaving marks of his poetry wherever passing. After studying art and philosophy in Colorado, USA, he began his life's work: walking the earth, searching, and never finding. Website: themarcherarrant.com / Instagram: @marcherarrant

Nini Berndt is a graduate of the MFA program in Fiction at the University of Florida and the author of the novel There Are Reasons for This. Her work has appeared in One Story, The Southampton Review, Subtropics, Split Lip, Adroit, Passages North, and elsewhere. She teaches at Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, where she lives with her wife and son. Website: niniberndt.com / Instagram: @neenjb

Finn Brown’s (they/ them) writing lives in publications including Queer Life, Queer Love 2 (Muswell Press), The Raven Review, Booth Journal, Annie Journal, Meniscus Journal, The Bombay Review, The Bittersweet Review, and Snowflake Magazine. They are editor at queer press t’ART. Instagram: @finnlbrown / Bluesky: @finnbrown.bsky.social

Marsha Burger studied Fine Arts at Rutgers University. She’s also taken classes at the Art Students League in NYC and McGuffey Art Center in Charlottesville. She resides in Charlottesville, Virginia with her husband, Jon, and cat, Po.

Peyton Burgess is the author of The Fry Pans Aren’t Sufficing. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, Tin House online, New Orleans Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, AUTRE, and Joyland Magazine, among others.

June Chua used to read stories out loud to her little sister when her family lived in Malaysia. Eventually, they moved to the Canadian prairies, first living in a trailer! This passion for the written word has translated into a career in journalism, filmmaking, and communications. She resides in Berlin and is currently working on a prose-poem collection supported by a literary grant. Website: junechua.com / Instagram: @re.juneration

Maureen Clark’s This Insatiable August was released by Signature Books and received Best Poetry Book of 2024 from AML. Her memoir Falling into Bountiful: Confessions of a Once Upon a Time Mormon is forthcoming by Hypatia Press. A Country Without You is forthcoming from BCC Press in 2028. Instagram: @Maureen.clark.7524

Marvin Cohen (1931–2025) was a prolific novelist, poet, playwright, and humorist. He was the author of numerous books, and his shorter work appeared in more than 80 publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Nation, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Fiction, and The Hudson Review. Cohen also taught creative writing at several New York City colleges.

Holly Coleman holds an M.A. in English from the University of North Florida and is a Ph.D. student at Old Dominion University. Her work has appeared in On The Rag, Petit Mort Magazine, The Raven Review, and elsewhere. Instagram: @hollycaroline