Christopher Buckley’s most recent books are Early & Late (Cloudbank Books, Corvallis, OR) and, as editor, Naming the Lost: The Fresno Poets—Interviews & Essays.

Alaina Hammond’s poems, plays, fiction, creative non-fiction, philosophical essays, paintings, drawings, and photographs have been published both online and in print. Over fifty of her original plays have been performed off-off Broadway. For her portrayal of Inez in No Exit, she received rave reviews and was nominated for a BroadwayWorld award. Her fiction has garnered her multiple Pushcart Prize and Best Microfiction nominations. Her novelette entitled Jillian, Formerly Known as Frog Girl won the Magnum Foof, the award for best novelette bestowed by Foofaraw Press. She lives in Fishkill, NY with her husband and son.  Her short fiction collection, Tutor in Juvenile and Other Stories, was recently published by Half Inch Press. 

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

Nathan D. Horowitz is from Michigan and studied English and Applied Linguistics. After four years in Ecuador, fifteen in Austria, and three in Kansas, he works in Baltimore as a high school English teacher and support staff for three cats and a golden retriever.

Susan Kaplan is the creator of the independent comic, Puncentration Camp, and lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can see more of her work and new work on Instagram @susanbamboozin.

Alexander Limarev, multidisciplinary artist, mail art artist, poet, visual poet and curator from Russia/Siberia. Participated in more than 1000 international projects and exhibitions. His artworks are part of private and museum collections of 78 countries. His artworks as well as poetry have been featured in various online and print 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, and others. Limarev won the 2024 Creative Flash Nonfiction Contest in the visual art category at the Fort William Mountain Festival in Scotland; he was nominated for the Best of the Net in 2026.

Donald Mangum is retired from teaching English and philosophy.  In addition to a number of stories and poems appearing in various periodicals, he has published a novella (The Roar Beneath, Main Street Rag Publishing Co., 2016), a brief history of philosophy (A History of Western Philosophy in a Nutshell, Half Inch Press, 2025), and a collection of short fiction (Happiness Quotient, Half Inch Press, 2026), from which “Night Fishing“ has been excerpted.

Brooke Marshall is a writer and poet based in Creswell, Oregon. The daughter of an immigrant mother and an only child, she draws on her upbringing to inform her work. Her writing explores themes of connection, grief, and becoming. She lives in Oregon with her family and two rescue dogs.

John Martino is a writer, photographer, and educator who has lived for the past decade in Hong Kong, where he holds permanent residency. His debut poetry collection, American Sonnet, a suite of 51 “little songs,” was published by Half Inch Press in 2025. Additional poems and stories appear or are forthcoming in Main Street Rag, Another Chicago Magazine, North Dakota Quarterly, JONAHmagazine, Revolution John, and others. The poems printed here are from his second collection, Enemy Lines.

John McKernan’s poetry appeared in many fine literary journals and magazines, such as Atlantic Monthly, Boston Review, Field, The New Yorker, New York Quarterly, Ohio Review, Paris Review, and Prairie Schooner, to name only a few. His poetry collections include Walking Along the Missouri River, Erasing the Blackboard, Postcard from Dublin,  Resurrection of the Dust, and Zero Outside: 40 Christmas Poems.

Ricardo Moran is a past recipient of the Peter K. Hixson Memorial Award for Poetry. His debut poetry anthology, Not Quite Heaven, from Broken Tribe Press published in 2025 was shortlisted for the 2024 Tribe Poetry Award. He is a former board member for San Diego Writers, Ink; a former associate editor with Zoetic Press; and a recent guest editor with Odd Pocket Press. He has delivered poetry readings in Albania and Ireland, in addition to a book signing in Norway. He lives in Albania, enjoys traveling, and learning how to say “good morning” in as many languages as possible. www.ricardomoranwriter.com

A poet, fiction writer and storyteller, William Pruitt has also taught ESL in public schools and for the NYS Dept. of Migrant Education. His poems and stories have been published in many journals and anthologies as well as in eight books. He has performed both traditional tales and original stories about Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass and Mary Jemison in various venues including  the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York.  His core values for poetry are clarity, the musical rhythms of natural speech and the engagement of language in the expression of authentic feeling.

Nominated for the Eric Hoffer Book Award, twice for the National Book Award and four times for the Pulitzer Prize, J.R. Solonche is the author of more than 50 books of poetry and coauthor of another. He lives in the Hudson Valley.

Dudley Stone has received the A.R. Ammons Poetry Prize and his work has been Pushcart Prize-nominated. He has a B.A. in Theatre from the University of Kentucky, studied playwriting at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and the Kentucky State Poetry Society. He is also a volunteer mechanic at Broke Spoke Community Bicycle Shop. Mr. Stone lives, writes, bikes, feeds stray cats, and plays the ponies in Lexington, KY. His debut collection, Strays & Fellow Travelers, was published by Half Inch Press. More of his writing can be found at dudleystone.com.

Watt Worris is the thinly veiled nom-de-plume for poet & editor M–. His first book, Nearing Narcoma, was selected by Joy Harjo as winner of the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. Other books include Walking in Chicago with a Suitcase in My Hand, Reckoning Ball, and his latest, the topsy-turvy, two books in one, tête-bêche collection Ordinary Fish/Watt Worris.