Makaila Aarin works as an academic librarian in Mississippi where she lives with her three rescue dogs. She holds degrees in English, library science, and education. Currently, she is pursuing an MFA in creative writing. Her poetry has appeared in Prismatica Magazine, Stone of Madness, Glitch Words, Poetically Magazine, and other magazines. Her work is forthcoming in Dwelling Literary and Sinister Wisdom. Find her on Twitter: @makaila_aarin

Elizabeth Bates is a writer and teacher. She lives in Washington state in a home filled with boys: her husband, her son, and two Siberian Huskies. Bates wrote "Roles My Body Served” in memory of her miscarried child and for all women who have suffered through the trauma of pregnancy loss. She has recent or forthcoming pieces in Versification, The Daily Drunk, Seaborne Magazine, and elsewhere. She tweets about writing and life at @ElizabethKBates.

Lara Bausten (she/her) is a writer and grad student currently based in Berlin. She's interested in book studies, textual scholarship and so-called experimental fiction. Some of her texts have been published in Second Chance Lit or Literaturautomate. You can find her on Twitter: @PlayhouseZine

Elizabeth Bluth is a writer of fiction, poetry, and plays. Her work has appeared or is upcoming in LIT Magazine, Emerge Literary Journal, Kissing Dynamite Poetry, and others. She has a BA in Theatre and Creative Writing and an MFA in Fiction from The New School. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her cat, Astaire. You can find her on Twitter @elizakbluth. www.elizabethbluth.com

Melissa Boles is a writer, storyteller, and impatient optimist from the Pacific Northwest who recently relocated to Tennessee. Her writing focuses on art, mental health, love, and the human connection. Melissa has been published in The Daily Drunk, Emerge Literary Journal, Stone of Madness Press, and at Fanfare and Sexology on Medium. Her forthcoming chapbook, We Love in Small Moments, will be published through ELJ Editions, Ltd. in May 2021. You can find her at MelissaBoles.com or at @melloftheball.

Sidney Dritz is currently reevaluating what to do with the rest of her life. She finished her three-college tour of America at the University of Southern Maine, and her poetry has appeared in Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters, The Daily Drunk, and some other places. Follow her work as it develops on twitter at @sidneydritz.

Christine M. Estel (@EstellingAStory) is a Philadelphia-based writer, stay-at-home mom, and private tutor. Her one tattoo and nostril piercing are the funkiest things about her.

Grace Alice Evans (she/they) is a LGBTQ+, mixed-heritage poet, writer, sound/visual artist and survivor, whose work explores living with mental illness, trauma, recovery, and the dichotomy between the inner and outer worlds. Grace’s social media handle is @gracealiceevans.

Elizabeth Fletcher, MFA, RYT-500, has work in Confrontation, Schuylkill Valley Journal Online, Leaping Clear and more. She writes and teaches yoga in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Fluent in woo and gif, she can be found on Twitter @esfletcher

Madi Giovina writes poems and stories. she has work in/forthcoming in fresh.ink, Polemical Zine, Feels Zine, Second Chance Lit and more. Madi is a co-editor for Backslash Lit and the founder of Perennial Press. Madi lives in Philadelphia with her feisty cat, Shrimp. She has no known allergies.

Elizabeth Hoyle is from and lives in southern West Virginia. Her fiction has been featured in The Daily Drunk, Blind Corner Literary Magazine, 365 Tomorrows, and other print and online publications. Her poetry has been featured in The Daily Drunk, What Rough Beast, and Boned: A collection of skeletal writings. She's currently pursuing her master's in library science and can usually be found spending what spare time she has under a tree with a book and notebook. Follow her on Twitter @ERHoyle.

Rahma O. Jimoh is a punk from Lagos, Nigeria. She is a  writer and nature photog. She loves to write on humanity, identity and politics. She's a lover of nature, photography and tourism. She has been published or forthcoming in Feral, Serotonin, The Hellebore and other literary journals. She was a joint winner, PIN 10-day poetry challenge, 2019, Second runner up in the Poesy writers contest 2019 and recently shortlisted as top ten in the Hysteria Writing Contest, 2020. She is a 2020 Pushcart Prize Nominee. She is the Poetry Editor for The Quills and a Contributor at Best Of Africa. When her mind is calm and she's not thinking of transforming the voices on her head to words, then she should be seen baking, travelling or talking to flowers. FB @Rahma O. Jimoh, TW/IG   @dynamicrahma

Andrea Lynn Koohi writes from the grey areas where her brain is happiest. She has work appearing or forthcoming in (mac)ro(mic), Streetlight Magazine and Emerge Literary Journal. Find her on Twitter @AndreaKoohi

Colin Lubner writes (in English) and teaches (math) in southern New Jersey. His work has either appeared or will appear, temporally speaking. Recent pieces can be found through his Twitter: @no1canimagine0. He is keeping on keeping on.

Sophie MacArthur is a northern poet and performer from the Uk. She has performed her own work at theatres across London and is currently locked down by the coast writing to entertain herself...which doesn’t always work. For other poems about wanking or hope or chips it’s Twitter: @macarthursb and Insta: @_sbwrites

Heidi Miranda is a Mexican poet working towards a B.A. in English. She has published poems in both online and in-print journals and hopes to publish her first chapbook soon. She is active on Instagram (@weepingblueberry) where she can be found posting landscape photography and quoting from her favorite poets.

Katharine Mussellam is a writer and cinephile from Markham, Ontario, Canada. She thinks conventional beauty standards are a bore. Some of her previous work has appeared in The Mitre and other corners of the Internet. Chat with her on Twitter: @KVMwrites.

E.G. Regan is a writer from Toronto, ON and is currently studying Creative Writing and Publishing at Sheridan. She loves true crime, fantasy novels, and stomping on ant hills. Her work has appeared in Savant Garde and The Bangor Literary Journal. You can find her on twitter @eg_regan.

Magi Sumpter is a part-time paralegal, part-time college burnout. She won a schoolwide poetry contest in fourth grade with a limerick detailing mermaid cannibalism and has since been referred for counseling. She is currently finishing her BA in Political Science, all the while attempting to immortalize her existence on this earth.

Adritanaya Tiwari is a dental intern from India. Her work has been/is forthcoming in Versification Zine, The Daily Drunk Mag, Nightingale and Sparrow magazine, Ayaskala, and others.  

Jo Withers writes short fiction and poetry. Recent work features in Molotov Cocktail Flash Monster, Milk Candy Review, XRAY and Best Microfictions 2020. Originally from England, Jo now lives in South Australia. Over the years, Jo has lived in some of the murder capitals of the world but she promises this is just a co-incidence.

Jenny Wong is a writer, traveler, and occasional business analyst. She resides in the foothills of Alberta, Canada and tweets @jenwithwords. Lately, her poems have been more about indoor things, but she still dreams about wandering Singapore hawker centres, Portuguese sidewalks, and Parisian cemeteries. Recent publications include Atlas & Alice, Whale Road Review, Lost Balloon, Ellipsis Zine and perhappened mag.

Two lifetimes ago, Catherine performed her poetry in Madrid. Now her main jobs are to write and hang out with her family. Watch/read more at www.caththegreat.blogspot.com