William D. Baker’s fiction has most recently appeared in Rosette Maleficarum, Active Muse, LEON Literary Review, Red Rose Thorns, Revolver Literary Magazine, Word City Lit, Literary Heist, confetti, and Tenth Muse. Additionally, he has over a dozen more fiction publications dating to 2013. He maintains an author website with publication links at http://www.sylbun.com and email of williamdbakerauthor@gmail.com

Julie Brandon is a poet, playwright and lyricist. Her work has been published in Corner Bar Magazine, Awakenings Review, Bewildering Stories, Poetica Magazine, Shemom, Mini Plays Review, Love’s Last Chance and Am Yisrael Chai (vol. 1 & 2). Several plays have been produced and published. Julie lives in a Chicago suburb.

John Brantingham is the recipient of a New York State Arts Council grant and was Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks’ first poet laureate. His work has been in hundreds of magazines and The Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2022. He has twenty-two books of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction. Check out his work at johnbrantingham.com.

James Finnegan has published poems in Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, The Southern Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Connecticut River Review as well as in the anthologies: Good Poems: American Places, edited by Garrison Keillor; Laureates of Connecticut; Shadows of Unfinished Things; Imagining Vesalius; Waking Up to the Earth; and Walkers in the City. He posts aphoristic ars poetica on the blog ursprache: https://ursprache.blogspot.com/

Alexander Limarev—freelance artist, mail art artist, poet, visual poet and curator from Russia/Siberia—has participated in more than 1000 international projects and exhibitions. His artwork–part of collections in 74 countries—and poetry have been featured in various publications including Bukowski Erasure Poetry Anthology, Superpresent: A Magazine of the Arts, Flora Fiction Literary Magazine, Home Planet News, New Feathers Anthology, Anti-Heroin Chic, Utsanga, Revista Literia Ouroboros, Route 7 Review, Unlost: a Journal of Found Poetry & Art, Maintenant, etc. He recently won the 2025 Creative Flash Nonfiction Contest (visual art category) at the Fort William Mountain Festival in Scotland.

For the last twenty years, Craig Loomis taught English at the American University of Kuwait. His fiction has appeared in The Iowa Review, The Colorado Review, The Prague Revue, Sukoon Magazine, The Maryland Review, The Louisville Review, Bazaar, The Rambler, Prairie Schooner, Yalobusha Review, Fiction International and others. His collections include A Softer Violence: Tales of Orient, The Salmiya Collection: Stories of the Life and Times of Modern Day Kuwait, and Where the Clouds Begin: Tales from the California Foothills. His novel, This is a Chair: A Lyrical Tale of Love, Death and Other Curriculum Challenges, was published in 2021.

John Martino is a writer, educator, and avid traveler. Some of his wayward poems have found a home at J Journal (forthcoming), Another Chicago Magazine, North Dakota Quarterly, and Heart of Flesh, among others. He currently resides in Marseille, France, with his partner, Xiuli, and a stray porch cat dubbed Zappa.

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. The winner of the 2020 Libretto prize and author of four poetry collections and seven chapbooks, his next book, Boxing In The Bone Orchard is coming out in the Spring of 2025 via Frontenac House.

Kirby Olson studied poetry with Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso at Naropa Institute. His first book of poetry is entitled Christmas at Rockefeller Center. His poems have appeared in Partisan Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Poetry East, and many dozens of others. He lives in upstate New York where he teaches at SUNY Delhi.

Kenneth Pobo (he/him) is the author of twenty-one chapbooks and nine full-length collections. Recent books include Bend of Quiet (Blue Light Press), Loplop in a Red City (Circling Rivers), and most recently, At The Window, Silence (Fernwood Press). His work has appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Amsterdam Quarterly, Nimrod, Mudfish, Hawaii Review, and elsewhere.

John Popielaski is the author of a novel, The Hollow Middle (Unsolicited Press), as well as a few poetry collections, including the chapbook Isn’t It Romantic? (Texas Review Press). His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as The Broadkill Review, Clade Song, Roanoke Review, and Sheila-Na-Gig. The poems in this issue are part of his most recent collection, That Special Something (Sheila-Na-Gig, 2025).

Andy Roberts operates out of Columbus, Ohio where he handles finances for disabled veterans. His work has appeared in American Life In Poetry, Atlanta Review, Fulcrum, Lake Effect, The Midwest Quarterly, San Pedro River Review, and Slipstream.

Lauren Scharhag (she/her) is an award-winning author of fiction and poetry, and a senior editor at Gleam. Her latest releases include Screaming Intensifies (Whiskey City Press), the In the King’s Power series (self-published), and Ain’t These Sorrows Sweet (Roadside Press). She lives in Kansas City, MO. https://linktr.ee/laurenscharhag

Mather Schneider has several books and lives in Tucson, Arizona where he works as an exterminator.

Hilary Sideris is the author of the poetry collections Calliope (Broadstone Books, 2024), Liberty Laundry (Dos Madres Press, 2022), Animals in English (Dos Madres Press, 2020), The Silent B (Dos Madres Press, 2019), Un Amore Veloce (Kelsay Books, 2019), The Inclination to Make Waves (Big Wonderful LLC, 2016) and Most Likely to Die (Poets Wear Prada, 2014). Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Originally from Indiana and a longtime Brooklyn resident, she is a co-founder and curriculum developer for CUNY Start, a college preparatory program within the City University of New York.

Beate Sigriddaughter, www.sigriddaughter.net, grew up in Nürnberg, Germany. She lives and writes in Silver City, New Mexico (Land of Enchantment), where she has served as poet laureate. Her work is widely published in literary magazines. Recent book publications include poetry Wild Flowers (2022), and a short story collection, Dona Nobis Pacem (2021). The poems in this issue are from her most recent collection, Circus Dancer (Cholla Needles Arts and Literary Library, 2025).

Mark Young was born in Aotearoa / New Zealand but now lives in a small town in North Queensland in Australia. He has been publishing poetry for over sixty-five years, & is the author of around seventy-five books, primarily text poetry but also including speculative fiction, vispo, non-fiction, & art history. His most recent books are the downloadable pdf, Closed Environment, from Neo-Mimeo Editions, Nualláin House, Monte Rio, California, & The Complete Post Person Poems, from Sandy Press, Santa Barbara, California, both published in March, 2025.