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 Anaya Gulaya

It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

Don’t worry about sounding professional. Sound like you. There are over 1.5 billion websites out there, but your story is what’s going to separate this one from the rest. If you read the words back and don’t hear your own voice in your head, that’s a good sign you still have more work to do.

Be clear, be confident and don’t overthink it. The beauty of your story is that it’s going to continue to evolve and your site can evolve with it. Your goal should be to make it feel right for right now. Later will take care of itself. It always does.

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.

Wendy 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.

Tomás Baiza

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.

Kaitlyn Owens

Kaitlyn Owens is a product manager and poet based in Richmond, Virginia. With roots in Indiana and Tennessee, she writes both formal and free verse poetry exploring inheritance, identity, mental illness, and modern relationships. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Death Rattle, Novus Literary Arts Journal, Argyle Literary Magazine, Libre, and Hare's Paw, and she can be contacted and her work read at https://kaitlyn-owens.

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.

Elle Snyder

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.  

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

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