Julie Brandon is a playwright, poet and short story writer. Her work has appeared in Bewildering Stories, Fresh Words, Mini Plays Magazine, Detangled Brain, The Corner Bar Magazine, The Writers’ Journal, Hotch Potch Literary Review, Witcraft, Bright Flash Literary Review, Flash Phantoms and many others. Her short plays have been produced in theaters throughout the US and several can be heard on Theatrical Shenanigans, Broken Arts Entertainment and RubySky podcasts. All of Julie’s plays can be found on New Play Exchange. She’s a Dramatist Guild member and lives in Downers Grove, Illinois.

Esther Fishman is a San Francisco poet and writer. Her poems and short stories have appeared in numerous literary publications, most recently Audi Locus and upcoming in The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal. She is currently at work chronicling the use of imagery about death in world poetry. 

Ken Gosse usually writes humorous, rhyming verse using traditional meters. First published in First Literary Review–East in November 2016, since then he has been published in various online sites and in print anthologies, including Home Planet News Online, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Academy of the Heart and Mind, The Writers Club, Spillwords, and others. Raised in the Chicago suburbs, now retired, he and his wife have lived in Mesa, AZ, over twenty-five years, usually with cats and dogs underfoot.

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Shift, Trampoline and Flights. Latest books, Bittersweet, Subject Matters and Between Two Fires are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Mobius, White Wall Review and Willow Review.

Roger W. Hecht has published a collection of poetry and two chapbooks. He has also published two edited collections of writings about the Erie Canal and New York’s Anti-Rent War. His poems have recently appeared in Anti-Heroin Chic, Nine Mile, Home Planet News, and A-Minor . He is an Associate Professor of English at SUNY Oneonta. 

Justin Hollis has an MFA from Hofstra University and currently teaches language and literature at Palm Beach State College.  His work has appeared previously in the Querencia Press Quarterly Anthology, Action Spectacle, Cholla Needles, The Orchards Poetry Journal, Eunoia Review, GAS: Poetry, Art and Music, and The Chiron Review. Half Inch Press recently released his debut collection, Ferrying the Stars.

Janis La Couvée (she/her) is a writer and poet with a love of wild green spaces, dedicated to conservation efforts in Campbell River, Canada—home since time immemorial to the Liǧʷiɫdax̌ʷ people. She is an alumna of the inaugural Fahmidan Literary Journal mentorship. Her work has been featured in Splendor of Wings  (League of Canadian Poets chapbook), New York Writers Coalition’s Common Unity, and New Feathers Anthology.  Her audio poem Remember a Cold Season placed second in the Wordstorm Society of the Arts Synchronous Connections contest. Words in Griffel, Keeping the Flame Alive, Stickman Review, Feral Poetry, Humana Obscura, Isele, among others.  

For twenty years, Craig Loomis taught literature and writing at the American University of Kuwait in Kuwait City.  Over the years, he has had his short fiction published in such literary journals as The Iowa Review, The Colorado Review, The Prague Revue, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Prairie Schooner, Yalobusha Review, Fiction International, Critical Pass Review, Mid-American Review, The Owen Wister Review, Juxtaprose Literary Magazine, Cumberland River Review, REVUE, Consequence Magazine, SAND, and others.  His most recent short story collection, Nada Among the Epics and Other Tales of Kuwait (Hemingway Publishers) was published Sept. 2025.

Terri McCord’s work appears recently in the Coast Lines anthology from CLASS Publishing, and the Querencia Press We Were Seeds anthology. She earned a literary fellowship (2001-2002) from the South Carolina Arts Commission and a fellowship from the Vermont Center. She has been a reader and/or editor for several literary journals. She has participated in several collaborative projects many of which have an ekphrastic component. A visual artist as well, she often utilizes the visual for expression in the literary arts, and her poems frequently focus on memory, nature, and relationships. McCord earned her M.F.A. from Queens University in Charlotte. 

George Murray is an older poet, living in New Jersey. Although previously unpublished, he has been writing (and reading) poetry most of his life. 

Kenneth Pobo (he/him) is the author of thirty-three chapbooks and fifteen full-length collections. Recent books include Bend of Quiet (Blue Light Press), At The Window, Silence (Fernwood Press) and It’s Me, Dulcet Tones (Half Inch 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 several poetry collections, including most recently That Special Something from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, as well as Attuning, a novel from Broken Tribe Press. His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as Cutleaf, Gramercy Review, and Rawhead.

Ken Poyner has ten available collections of poetry, flash fiction, micro-fiction, and with his latest, Science Is Not Enough, speculative poetry. He has suffered ten Pushcart nominations without a win, and has taught on an NEA Poets in the Schools grant. He spent 33 years herding computers.

Ron Riekki has been awarded a 2015 The Best Small Fictions, 2016 Shenandoah Fiction Prize, 2016 IPPY Award, 2019 Red Rock Film Fest Award, 2019 Best of the Net finalist, 2019 Très Court International Film Festival Audience Award and Grand Prix, 2020 Dracula Film Festival Vladutz Trophy, 2020 Rhysling Anthology inclusion, and 2022 Pushcart Prize.  Riekki co-edited The Many Lives of The Purge, which is a 2025 nominee for The Eiffel Award: The Year’s Best Books on Film.  Right now, Riekki’s listening to The Veils’ “Lavinia.”

Tracey Schaeffer just can’t settle on anything. She was born in New York but raised in Winnipeg, Canada. Ms. Schaeffer moved to Toronto to study Theatre before dropping everything to travel through Asia, spreading her love of English through conversation classes. Tracey landed in Vancouver to seek her fortune as a TV Professional, but never left. Finally, even she can admit that she’s settled. Just in time to discover her real passion: writing about herself. Her personal essays have appeared on the CBC News website and in the Globe and Mail newspaper.

Beate Sigriddaughter grew up in Nürnberg, Germany, and now lives and writes in Silver City, New Mexico (Land of Enchantment), where she has served as poet laureate. Recent book publications include poetry collections Circus Dancer (2025) and Wild Flowers (2022) and two short story collections, Dona Nobis Pacem (2021) and They Didn’t Know What to Say, recently released by Half Inch Press.

Tom (WordWulf) Sterner is a multi-media artist employing imagery, music, photography, and WORD in his work. A native of Colorado, Tom’s artwork, music, photography, and written word have been published in ink and on the internet, including Howling Dog Press/Omega, Carpe Articulum Literary Review, Skyline Literary Review, Storyteller, and Flashquake. Published work includes six novels: Momma’s Rain, The Warrior, Spiders ‘n Snakes, Gordian Objective, After Earth, Cranial Loop and the epic book-length poem Quodlibet. He is winner of the Marija Cerjak Award for Avant-Garde/Experimental Writing and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2006 and 2008.

Andrea Tillmanns lives in Germany and works full-time as a university lecturer. She has been writing poetry, short stories and novels in various genres for many years. Her poems and stories have been published in The World of Myth, Hawthorn & Ash (Iron Faerie Publishing), Home Planet News, SciFanSat, and other journals and anthologies. She has also published more than twenty books in German. More information about the author and her texts can be found on her website.

James Toupin is a retired federal government lawyer who has published poems in dozens of journals, including Pleiades, Nimrod and Beloit Poetry Journal. His first book of poetry, Upon the Century Called American (Main Street Rag Publishing), appeared in 2024. He is also a translator of Selected Letters of Alexis de Tocqueville on Politics and Society (University of California Press), and writer on legal topics. 

 Watt Worris is a thinly-veiled nom-de-plume of a prize-winning poet/editor/publisher whose work has appeared internetally in a gluteus maximus-load of magazines & anthologies, many of which you may find links to at The Greater Encyclopedia of Universal Knowledge. “Stalin’s Fingers” & “3 in the Morning” first appeared in Exacting Clam (Spring 2024) & subsequently in Ordinary Fish/Watt Worris (Half Inch Press, 2025), whose topsy-turvy, two-books-in-one, tête-bêche format doubles the reading fun.

Cynthia Yatchman is a Seattle based artist and art instructor. A former ceramicist, she received her B.F.A. in painting (UW). She switched from 3D to 2D and has remained there ever since. She works primarily on paintings, prints and collages. Her art is housed in numerous public and private collections. She has exhibited on both coasts, extensively in the Northwest, including shows at Seattle University, SPU, Shoreline Community College, the Tacoma and Seattle Convention Centers and the Pacific Science Center, and has been published in multiple books and online journals.