Jordan E. Franklin

Jordan E. Franklin hails from Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA from Stony Brook Southampton and a PhD from Binghamton University. She is the author of the poetry collection, when the signals come home (Switchback Books), and the chapbook, boys in the electric age (Tolsun Books). Her work has appeared in Breadcrumbs, Frontier, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, the Southampton Review, Torch Literary Arts, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the 2017 James Hearst Poetry Prize, the 2020 Gatewood Prize, and the 2024 AWP Intro Journals Project Award.

Rose Jenny

Rose Jenny is a trans writer/performer based in Tennessee. Her chapbook, My Apocrypha, is available through Bottlecap Press. Rose's other selected poems have been published in SWWIM Every Day, Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly, SoFloPoJo, new words {press}, and elsewhere. Her work has received additional support from Tin House and the Sewanee Writers' Conference; she was also a finalist for the 2025 Maureen Seaton Poetry Prize. Rose has an MFA in Creative Writing from University of Miami, where she was a Michener Fellow. All of her work can be found at rosejenny.com.

Richard James Mehdi

Richard James Mehdi (he/him) is a writer and visual artist, a trans man who is legally disabled by mental illness and who has lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado since 2003. He has self-published a few experimental literary novels, including The Food in the Manger and Furtive and Bearable Cessation. He also likes to compose and play music on his piano.

Dominic Xalli Anaya Gulaya

Dominic Xalli Anaya Gulaya is a young butch, QTPOC, and Disabled writer living on unceded Tongva land. Zie cares deeply about storytelling as a form of resistance and community-building, and aims to embody that in hir poetry. Xalli has published in Drifter Zine, Transmuted, and LBRNTH among others, acted as the Editor-in-Chief for hir high school’s literary magazine, and worked as an Executive Editor and Junior Board member for Polyphony Lit. In hir daily life, most of hir energy goes toward zines, reading & writing, folk punk music, watching horror movies, and mutual aid. You can find hir on Instagram @saintpsyop and on hir website, anayagulaya.com.

Wendy A. Gaudin

Wendy A. Gaudin is the author of the forthcoming monograph, "Barbara Ann: A Life, Recovered," a multi-genre, creative nonfiction exploration of the life of a disabled child and how her death shapes her family's narrative. Using personal narrative, oral history, poetry, creative nonfiction, and autoethnography, Gaudin explores the themes of race and mixed-race, ancestry, family, migration, and memory in her writing. Her shorter works have been featured in Indiana Review, Rappahannock Review, Puerto del Sol, About Place Journal, the North American Review, and New Orleans Review Online.

Ellen White

Ellen White (she/her) is a poet, writer, and contemplative arts teacher living in southern Maine. Retired from a career in IT she now offers writing workshops and leads retreats that combine meditation, movement, and writing. Ellen holds an MFA from Lindenwood University and has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Suspended, her first collection of poetry, was released by Cathexis Northwest Press in May 2023. Visit her website at ellenwhiterook.com.

Tomás Baiza

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Tomás Baiza is originally from San José, California, and has lived in Boise, Idaho, since 2013. He lived many places between San José and Boise, yet he still wakes up in San José in his mind most mornings. Tomás writes because he would like to someday call himself a writer because that would sound pretty cool, and he suspects it would probably surprise many of the people who knew him back in San José. Tomás is from San José and, for better and for worse, will never not be from San José. 

Logan Elizabeth Craig

Logan Elizabeth Craig (she/they) is a therapist and poet currently residing in Chattanooga, TN. Her poems are published or upcoming in several print and online publications, including elsewhere, Frozen Sea, underscore_magazine, and others. Her work can be found at https://linktr.ee/loganelizabethcraig.

Kevin Chesser

Kevin Chesser is a writer and musician who lives in West Virginia.
www.kchesser.com

Kaitlyn Owens

Kaitlyn Owens writes poetry that explores the inheritance we carry in our bones—the family patterns that don’t show up on medical forms but shape us nonetheless. Her work has recently appeared in Hare’s Paw and Novus Literary Arts Journal. By day a product manager, by night a crafter trying to make old things beautiful again—she believes in naming things accurately, even when the truth is complicated. Visit her at www.kaitlynowens.squarespace.com.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Elle Snyder

Elle Jay Snyder is a trans woman, poet, and part-time phantom from Staten Island. She has represented her borough as part of the 2018 Advanced Slam Team at NPS, facilitated workshops in her community and for LGBTQIA youth, buried herself alive at Queer Van Kult: Revelation exhibition in 2022, and published a limited release chapbook, Where the Knife Landed, from NYSAI Press. Her work has appeared in several anthologies from great weather for MEDIA Press, Lupercalia Press, In Between Hangovers, et. al. Her work is forthcoming in In Parentheses and Chrysalism Press.. She is also aggressively seeking a sponsorship from Mountain Dew. Instagram: @ourladyofpoetics Pixelfed: Ourladyofpoetics

Violet Robak

Violet Robak is an artist whose work focuses on capturing the lived experiences of transgender women and their often-untold stories. She is, by her own admission, obsessed with exploring loneliness, both within the queer spectrum and beyond it. Reflecting this, her works often incorporate the liminal, hectic nature of sprawling cities as a foil for gender identity and transition.  

Parker Logan

Parker Logan is from Orlando, Florida and lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. His work has been featured in Split Lip Magazine, Gulf Coast, The Texas Review, and elsewhere. You can catch him at the library, the park, or on his delivery route, depending on what job he is working this week.

Isadora Spangler

Isadora Spangler is a Floridian writer and educator whose poetry has been featured in the Mississippi Review, Pile Press, American Chordata and on Poets.org. They received their MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Miami and play guitar in a punk band.

Dustin King

Dustin's poems pop up in New Letters, Prism Review, Marrow Magazine, samfiftyfour, and other rad spots. He is a poetry reader for Sublunary Review and curates the poetry and performance event "Yodel Farm." His first chapbook “Last Echo” is now available from Bottlecap Press. His second "Courteous Gringo" will be out this summer from Seven Kitchens Press. Find him on instagram @dustinking82.

P.D. Edgar

P.D. Edgar (MFA, MA) grew up between Managua, Nicaragua, and central Florida, and is now a Ph.D. student in Texts & Technology at the University of Central Florida, where he studies poetry culture, social media, and electronic literature. As an experiment and extension of his research, he started re•mediate, a lit mag for computer-assisted creative writing, in 2024. His previous work is available at Ghost Proposal, Ekphrastic Review, SAND Journal, and AI Literary Review.  

Grace Nunamaker

Grace Nunamaker lives in Idaho, where she studies Linguistics and Creative Writing as an undergraduate student at Boise State University. She is currently a co-runner of Platypus Poetry, a monthly open mic reading series for writers based in the Treasure Valley. Her poetry has appeared in dadaku and the second volume of Paper Plane.

Susan Lasater

Susan Lasater earned a BA in Visual Art from Boise State University. Her work can be found at Paper Plane Press and Stonecrop Magazine.  With twenty-seven screws and four rods drilled into her spine, plus a plate in her skull, she has the power to predict rain and snow with 98.97% accuracy.

Katie Zillah

Katie Zillah, nicknamed “Pink Katie,” by her colleagues at the University of Idaho College of Law processes their emotions via pen. Their undergraduate degree is in Accountancy with a Sustainability Minor from Boise State University. She is seeking an emphasis in Native American Law via the Natural Resources track and hopes to work to bolster tribal sovereignty in Idaho following the bar exam. Katie believes that making art is fundamental as a way of knowing oneself. “Rot,” (Katie’s first publication) is what they describe as a result of feeling like you’re watching a trainwreck that lasts years as your loved one’s unreconcilable ideological views collide with your moral standards. The piece was written following the death of their youngest sister and is dedicated to her younger sister.  Katie and her partner are "disgustingly cute and happy" living in Boise with their cat and dog.

Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin

Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin (they/them) is a queer and trans, biracial, Vietnamese American diaspora writer whose work revolves around themes of dreaming, fantasizing, and futurizing, and focuses on topics of diaspora, transness, ecology, empire, and intergenerational histories. Originally from the Bay Area, CA, they now live in Cambridge, MA. Kyla-Yến's work has appeared in The Offing, Beyond Queer Words, Vănguard, and more. They are the Managing Editor at Rawhead, a Member of the Reader Board at Sundress Publications, and a Fiction Reader for Okay Donkey. They have been awarded residencies, workshops, and/or fellowships from Tin House, the Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA), Seventh Wave, Abode Press, and more. You can visit Kyla-Yến's author page at www.kylayenhuynhgiffin.com, and find them on Instagram @yenshrine.