Vidya Hariharan is a manic reader, traveller and teacher. In her spare time, she wrestles with crossword puzzles. Some of her work can be found on Poem Hunter, Setu, Poetry Super Highway, Muse India’s Your Space, Glomag, Café Dissensus, Borderless, The Bamboo Hut, The Wise Owl, Poems India, Pan Haiku Review, Contemporary Haiku Online and Under the Basho. Her poems “Beauty” and “Open Heart Surgery” have been selected as Editor’s Pick for July and September 2024 respectively. She also won the Editor’s Choice Award for her haiku from Under the Basho in 2024.

John Holman is the author of Squabble and Other Stories, Luminous Mysteries, and Triangle Ray. He teaches writing at Georgia State University.

Audrey Holmes paints and dreams among trees in rural New Zealand. She uses sculptural forms and flowing lines to create rich, evocative pieces that have a profound impact. She mostly works in oil on canvas/board but also enjoys the vibrancy of Inktense and delicacy of metalpoint. Her practice is inspired by the natural world, things glimpsed from the corner of her eye, mythology and half-remembered dreams. Visit www.audreyholmesart.com to view her work.

Tracey Knapp’s second collection, Swerve, is forthcoming from Pine Row Press in Spring 2026. Her first book, Mouth (2015), won the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award. Tracey has received awards from La Romita School of Art in Terni, Italy, the Tin House Writers’ Workshop, and the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fund. Her work has appeared in Cream City Review, The Pinch, Best New Poets, Poetry Daily, Rattle, Five Points, New Ohio Review and elsewhere. She has been nominated for Best of the Net and two Pushcart prizes. Originally from Upstate New York, Tracey lives in the Bay Area of California.

A Pushcart Prize nominee, MK Kuol is a self-taught South Sudanese poet based in Juba. His work has appeared on Ghudsavar, ANMLY, Kalahari Review and elsewhere. He tweets rarely at @mk_kuol14.

Charlene Langfur is a green and LGBTQ writer, an organic gardener living in the California Desert, a Syracuse University Graduate Writing Fellow with many publications including poems in The Hiram Poetry Review, Poetry East, The Healing Muse, and North Dakota Quarterly.

Bob McAfee is a retired software consultant who lives with his wife near Boston. He has written nine books of poetry, mostly on Love, Aging, and the Natural World. For the last several years he has hosted a Wednesday night Zoom poetry workshop. Since 2019, he has had 139 poems selected by 55 different publications. Two poems Nominated for Best of the Net. His website, www.bobmcafee.com, contains links to all his published poetry.

Marcelo Medone is a Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions nominee fiction writer, poet, essayist, journalist, playwright and screenwriter. He has received numerous awards and published in multiple languages in more than 50 countries around the world. Originally from Buenos Aries, Argentina, he currently lives in Montevideo, Uruguay. Facebook: Marcelo Medone / Instagram: marcelomedone

Stephen C. Middleton is a writer working in London, England. He has had five books published, including A Brave Light (Stride) and Worlds of Pain / Shades of Grace (Poetry Salzburg). He has been in several anthologies, including Paging Doctor Jazz (Shoestring), & From Hepworth’s Garden Out (Shearsman, 2010). For several years he was editor of Ostinato, a magazine of jazz and jazz-related poetry, and The Tenormen Press. He has been in many magazines worldwide. He is currently working on projects (prose and poetry) relating to jazz, blues, politics, outsider (folk) art, mountain environments, and long-term illness.

R.H. Nicholson is a professor emeritus of English who taught writing for forty years but is now (finally) focused on his own work which has appeared in Ignatian Magazine, Adelaide Literary Journal, Echo Ink, The Blue Lake Review, Big Window Review and elsewhere. His debut novel Justice House Shadows is now available from Main Street Rag Publications. His play The King and Queen of Foggy Flats won the 2024 Chickasaw Writing Prize. He and his wife live in a small Ohio River Valley town with a striking and reclusive Russian Blue rescue cat named Steinbeck.

Andrea Maxine Recto is a Spanish-Filipino poet living in Manila whose work explores the intricacies of womanhood, grief, love, darkness, and introspection. Her poetry has been featured in One Art: a journal of poetry, Rust & Moth, Rogue Agent, Honey Literary Review, and elsewhere, with more forthcoming in other places. When she’s not writing, you can find her reading love letters in Spanish. She’s on Instagram: @itsandreamaxine.

Andy Roberts is the author of nine collections of poetry. His latest book is My Favorite Failures (Half Inch Press 2025). His work has appeared in Atlanta Review, Fulcrum, Lake Effect, The MacGuffin, The Midwest Quarterly, Roanoke Review, and Slipstream. He lives in Columbus, Ohio where he handles finances for disabled veterans.

Charles Roberts is retired and has had 20 plays published under the name of Charles Stott and has self-published twenty nine books, mostly children’s books, under the pen name Charles Roberts. He has had plays and stories published in Almeria Living, a local monthly magazine, Culture Cult First Folio, and All Your Stories Anthology. His Facebook page is Charles Roberts. He tries to write interesting and thought provoking stories.

Natalie Sforza is an Associate Professor of English at Fisher College. She has taught English for over 25 years. She is the faculty advisor to the student literary magazine, The Charles Viewer, and English Honor Society, Sigma Tau Delta. She writes non-fiction essays and short memoirs that focus on her experiences growing up in an Italian family and being in front of a classroom. She lives in Medford, Massachusetts with her husband, two daughters, father, and neurotic pit bull.

Diane Webster writes mainly poetry but sometimes crosses over into other genres. New English Review published one of her nonfiction pieces. Her poetry has appeared in Studio One, North Dakota Quarterly, New English Review, Winamop and other literary magazines. She was a featured writer in Macrame Literary Journal and WestWard Quarterly. Her website is: www.dianewebster.com

Watt Worris is a thinly-veiled nom-de-plume of a prize-winning poet/editor/publisher whose work has appeared internationally in countless magazines & anthologies—or, at least, he’s not bothered to count. “Cultural Exchange” & “Looney Tunes” first appeared in Crab Creek Review (Vol. 1, 2020) & subsequently in Ordinary Fish/Watt Worris (Half Inch Press, 2025), whose world turned upside-down, two-books-in-one, tête-bêche format more than doubles the reading fun.