Caroline Bock is the author of Carry Her Home, winner of the Fiction Award from the Washington Writers’ Publishing House, and LIE and Before My Eyes, young adult novels, from St. Martin’s Press. The winner of the 2018 Writer magazine story award and the 2021 Adrift story award from Driftwood Press, she is also the fiction editor of the anthology This Is What America Looks Like: poetry and fiction from DC, Maryland, and Virginia and co-editor of the literary journal WWPH Writes. Her creative work has appeared in SmokeLong, Ploughshares, Bethesda Magazine, Brevity, Gargoyle, the Grace & Gravity series and more. In 2011, she earned an MFA in Fiction from The City College of New York. Find her often at Twitter @cabockwrites.

Letitia Despina is a writer from Denmark. Follow her on Twitter at @packletide. *Insert something weird/poetic here"

Meg Eden is a 2020 Pitch Wars mentee, and teaches creative writing at Anne Arundel Community College. She is the author of the 2021 Towson Prize for Literature winning poetry collection “Drowning in the Floating World” (Press 53, 2020) and children’s novels, most recently “Selah’s Guide to Normal” (Scholastic, 2023). Find her online at www.megedenbooks.com or on Twitter @ConfusedNarwhal and Instagram @meden_author.

Taiwo Hassan is a writer of Yorùbá descent, a poet and a vocalist. A Best Of The Net Nominee, his poems have appeared in trampset, Kissing Dynamite, Lucent Dreaming, The Shore, Brittle Paper, Dust Poetry Magazine, Ice Floe Press, Wizards In Space and several other places. He emerged the first runner-up for the MANI 10 year anniversary Poetry Competition. He’s also an undergraduate student of Demography and Social Statistics at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ilé-Ifẹ̀, Osun State, Nigeria. His first chapbook, Birds Don’t Fly For Pleasure is forthcoming for publication by River Glass Books.

Kristen Zory King is a writer and teaching artist based in Washington, DC. Recent work can be found in Electric Lit, The Citron Review, Tiny Molecules, Emerge Literary Journal, and mac(ro)mic, among others. She is currently working on a collection of flash fiction and micro stories. Learn more or be in touch at www.kristenzoryking.com.

BEE LB is an array of letters, bound to impulse; they are a writer creating delicate connections. they have called any number of places home; currently, a single yellow wall in Michigan. they have been published in Revolute Lit, Roanoke Review, After the Pause, and corporeal, among others. they are a poetry reader for Capsule Stories.

Listen to “Hunger Moon” here.

A.C. Mandelbaum is an ex-philosopher with a day job who lives in Seattle.

Tiffany Promise (she/her) is a writer, poet, chronic migraineur, and the mother of two wildlings. She holds an MFA from CalArts, and her work has been published/forthcoming in Narrative Magazine, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, Trnsfr, Okay Donkey and elsewhere. Tiffany now lives in Austin, Texas, but is originally from the mudbug-riddled swelter of the Gulf Coast, which is the setting of her first novel, Eggs.

Listen to “Shotgun” here.

Corinna Schulenburg (she/her) is a queer trans artist/activist committed to ensemble practice and social justice. She’s a mother, a playwright, a poet, and a Creative Partner of Flux Theatre Ensemble. Poems in: Arachne Press, Beaver Magazine, Capsule Stories, Lost Pilots, Long Con, LUPERCALIA Press, miniskirt magazine, Moist, Moonflake Press, Moss Puppy, Oroboro, Okay Donkey, Poet Lore, SHIFT, The Shore, The Westchester Review, and more.

https://corinnaschulenburg.com/writer/poet/

Stuti Sharma is a poet, stand-up comic, and photographer. You can find her in the prairies of Illinois or eating at restaurants where cooks facetime their family. She believes love is the most powerful force in the world. You can see more of her work and contact her at cyborgstuti.weebly.com.

Ashish Kumar Singh (he/him) is a queer poet from India and a post graduate student of English Literature. Other than writing, he reads and sleeps extensively. Previously, his works have been published in Chestnut Review, Blue Marble Review, Brave New Voices etc.

Debra Stone’s poetry, essays and fiction can be found in Under the Gum Tree, Random Sample Review, Green Mountains Review (GMR), About Place Journal, Saint Paul Almanac, Wild Age Press, Gyroscope, Tidal Basin, and forthcoming in other literary journals. Sundress Publishers nominated Debra’s essay, “Grandma Essie’s Vanilla Poundcake,” Best of the Net, judged by Hanif Abdurraquib in 2019. In 2021 her poem, “year-of- staying–in place,” was nominated Best of the Net and Pushcart nominated. She’s received residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Callaloo, The Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, New York Mills Arts Residency and is a Kimbilio Fellow. In 2019 she was a Loft Fellow for the Minnesota based The Loft Mentor Series in creative nonfiction and was a finalist for The Loft Emerging Writers Grant. She is also a recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board Cultural Community Partnership Grant and Minnesota Regional Arts Council Grant. Debra is Vice-chair and Chair of the Governance Committee at Graywolf Press in Minneapolis.

Morgan Ziegenhorn (she/they) is a graduate of UC Berkeley with a degree in biology and a minor in creative writing. Her work has previously appeared in 805 Literature and Arts, You Might Need to Hear This, and Persephone’s Daughters. She recently earned her PhD from Scripps Institution of Oceanography studying the voices and behaviors of whales and dolphins. She is from Sacramento, California.

Listen to “The Field” here.