Dianne Elizabeth Casey is a poet and author of Where the Light Folds In (2025). Her work appears in The Gentian, Crackle Dust, and Disability Arts Online, with further publications forthcoming in 2026. Her poetry has been exhibited at the British Library and Stockton Globe Theatre. She is an Arvon-funded writer based in the North East of England.

KT Wagner writes speculative fiction, poetry, and the occasional op/ed piece in the garden of her Maple Ridge home. She’s a collector of strange plants, weird trivia, and obscure tomes. KT graduated from Simon Fraser University’s Writers Studio in 2015 (Southbank 2013). She organizes writer events and works to create literary community. 

Jeanie Ngo is a Vietnamese American writer whose plays have been produced at Bindlestiff Studio, SFSU, Stage Werx, Exit Theatre, PianoFight, B8 Theatre, and Brava Theater. Her short stories and poetry have been published in Transfer 109 and barbara. She’s also appeared as a featured poet for the Abrams Claghorn Gallery, Black Bird Bookstore, and Lit Crawl.

Joseph A Farina is a retired lawyer in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. An award winning (Sicily) poet. A PUSH CART nominee. He draws inspiration from his Sicilian and Canadian roots. Internationally published in the USA, Europe and Middle East. first prize in PREMIO CITTA' DI ARONA 2025. He has had two books of poetry published—The Cancer Chronicles and The Ghosts of Water Street, and an E-book Sunsets in Black and White, and his latest book The Beach, The Street and Everything In Between.

CJ The Tall Poet is a writer and artist based out of Chula Vista, California. He is currently attending college at Cal State, San Marcos where he is majoring in Literature and Writing. CJ has released three experimental titles, with his most recent being The Paper Snake Cigarette, a collection of strikethrough poetry.

Miranda Ray trades time between the San Juan Islands and the San Juan Mountains pursuing writing and stagecraft.

Visit her online at www.mirandaray.com.

Steve Denehan lives in Kildare, Ireland with his wife Eimear and daughter Robin. He is the award-winning author of two chapbooks and eight poetry collections.

Elisabeh Vokes is based in Perth, Western Australia, and currently working towards a degree in English Literature. In the wild you can find her eradicating typos, reading books, and drinking copious amounts of tea. Right now, she is working on writing her first novella.

J. Weintraub has published fiction, essays, translations, and poetry in all sorts of literary reviews and periodicals, from The Massachusetts Review to New Criterion, from Prairie Schooner to Modern Philology. A member of the Dramatists Guild, he has had short plays produced throughout the United States and internationally. As a translator he has introduced the Italian and Swiss horror writers, Nicola Lombardi and Davide Staffiero, to the English-speaking world. His collection of speculative fiction, A Visit to the Catacombs: Tales of the Dark and the Unknown, was published by Dark Owl Press in Winter 2025. In 2018, his annotated translation of Eugène Briffault’s Paris à table: 1846 was published by Oxford UP. More at https://jweintraub.weebly.com/

Ian Li is a Chinese-Canadian economist/developer/writer/poet based in Toronto, with poetry published in Strange Horizons, Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction, and the Toronto subway system, among other venues. 

A. Roger Hammons Jr. is a former Ph.D. research mathematician and engineer currently enjoying life in Ashburn, Virginia as a professional photographer and writer of speculative fiction. He is intrigued by clever, pretty things — whether a theorem, a portrait, or a short story. They make him smile. 

Danielle Robertson holds a BA in creative writing from SUNY Purchase and is a Tin House YA Workshop alum. Her short fiction for teens and adults has been published in anthologies by Terrorcore Publishing, Read Furiously, Haunted Words Press, and Once Upon a Book Club. She lives in New Jersey with her husband, their two children, and their overstuffed bookshelves.

www.daniellerobertson.net

Bruce McRae, a Canadian musician, is a multiple Pushcart nominee with poems published in hundreds of magazines such as Poetry, Rattle and the North American Review. His latest book, Boxing In The Bone Orchard, is available now via Frontenac House.
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Matthew Bines, English caffeine addict and traveller, fumbles his way through the world yet finds clarity in his craft. Spilling his thoughts onto the page, he creates settings that he sometimes dreams he lived within… or is sometimes glad that he does not.

Mitch Roshannon is a writer based in the coal region of Pennsylvania. He has previously (and gratefully) been published by Writer’s Resist, Panoply, Santa Fe Writers Project, Interfaith America, and others. He is currently working on a Chapbook titled Humanist Devotional which writes poetry and micro-essays inspired by quotes pulled from the Secular Humanist Manifestos.

Evie Groch, President of the Ina Coolbrith Circle, writes opinion pieces, humor, poems, short stories, word challenges, and memoir vignettes. She has been published in the New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Contra Costa Times, anthologies, and many online venues. Her themes center on travel, language, justice, and immigration and she focuses on them in her book Half the Hurricanes and soon to be published The Other Shoe.

Todd Sullivan taught English as a Second Language in South Korea and Taiwan for sixteen years. His fiction, poetry, and non-fiction have been published internationally. He was listed on the preliminary ballot for the Bram Stoker’s Awards in 2018, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for poetry and fiction in 2023. He currently has two book series through indie publishers in America. He wrote for a Taipei play and web series that focused upon African narratives. He founded the online publication, Samjoko Magazine, in 2021, and hosts a YouTube Channel that interviews writers across the publishing spectrum. 

Sara O'Mara lives and works in West Yorkshire where poetry is a vibrant force. She is an active member of several open mic groups and working on her first poetry collection. Her work covers themes of life, love, loss and reflects her interests in myth, tradition, nature, and making the ordinary extraordinary. 

Jaimen Shires is a Canadian author, born and raised in Leamington, Ontario. His titles include: Bird Droppings, Of Ravens and Sturgeon, Timothy & The Crab,  and The Fiending of the Masses (a series). He has also released two collections of poetry: (P)articles I-LVII and forage.
Jaimen’s work has been featured in a variety of small publications and his poetry has been recognized by the City of Maple Ridge where he currently resides.

Ronald L. Kundinger is a writer and artist living in Appleton, Wisconsin

Murray Eiland is a poet and archaeologist.