Mahnoor Ali is a writer and graduate student at the University of Southern California. She is based in Los Angeles, where she is at work on her first novel.
Marianne Boruch has written poems (eleven collections), essays (four books), memoir (one out a while ago and one forthcoming) and, most recently, one odd short story about an obnoxious old lady’s not-so-secret life. She also does pen-and-ink drawings and small watercolors. “Darkly Doing What It Has To” is the first time she has tried to bring words together with visual images, hoping for a third thing somehow.
Ian Cappelli is a creative writing (poetry) PhD student at the University of Denver and served as the George Mason 2021/2022 thesis fellow during his MFA.
Shirley Chan is writing a memoir about growing up in a Chinese restaurant. She is the cofounder of Oakland reading series Secret Nook (@secret.nook on Instagram) and a member of The Writers Grotto. Her prose has appeared or is forthcoming in The Racket, Waxwing, HAD, Longleaf Review, Paranoid Tree, Roi Fainéant, and other publications.
Clara Chow (赵燕芬) is a Singaporean writer who writes prose in English and poetry in Chinese. She runs indie publisher Hermit Press, with an interest in handmade artist books.
Under the name Robbie Clipper Sethi, Roberta Clipper published two novels, The Bride Wore Red and Fifty-Fifty. She’s had fellowships from New Jersey, the NEA, and the Fulbright-Nehru Foundation. She’s a professor emerita, an editor, and a teacher.
Sara Dudo is an adjunct professor of writing and a recent MFA graduate from the University of Nevada Las Vegas. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, Best of the Net nominee, and Best New Poets nominee.
Shala Erlich, born in Berkeley, CA, has flown back and forth across the continent all her life, usually without incident. Her work has appeared in The Missouri Review, The Ghost Story, Cola Literary Review, and Lilith.
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets, Loisa Fenichell’s collection, Wandering in all directions of this earth, was selected by Eduardo C. Corral for publication by Ghost Peach Press.
Zanny Fran is a writer and editor based in Boston, MA. Her work has previously appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Solstice, Mount Hope Magazine, and other publications.
Gyasi Hall is from Columbus, Ohio. Their work can be found or is forthcoming in Longreads, Guernica, Lit Hub, and ANMLY, among others. They are currently working on a book about Black people and comics.
Jill Kitchen’s work appears in The Dodge, Ecotone, Hooligan Magazine, MQR Mixtape, The Night Heron Barks, The Penn Review, Poet Lore, Tahoma Literary Review, trampset, West Trade Review, and Whale Road Review. She lives in Washington, DC.
Shane Kowalski lives in Pennsylvania, where he teaches creative writing at Ursinus College. He is the author of Small Moods (Future Tense Books).
Sarah Lao is a writer from Atlanta, Georgia. Her poems appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI, Narrative, Black Warrior Review, and Bennington Review, among others. She studies economics at Harvard College.
Peter Mishler is the author of two collections of poems, Fludde and Children in Tactical Gear. His new poems appear in Poetry London, The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Granta, and Lana Turner.
Dev Murphy is the author of I’m not I’m not I’m not a baby (Ethel 2023). Her writing and art have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, DIAGRAM, The Guardian, ANMLY, Brink, and elsewhere. She lives in Pittsburgh.
Mary Mussman lives and works on unceded Ohlone homelands in Berkeley, CA, where they research literary histories of sexuality and gender. Their poetry can be found in The White Review, Fieldnotes, and elsewhere.
Sam Paynter lives in Lakewood, Ohio.
Travis D. Roberson is a New York–based writer and artist. His writing appears in Pithead Chapel, Juked, Maudlin House, and many other publications. More of his work can be discovered at www.travisdroberson.com.
Dan Rosenberg’s most recent collection of poems is Bassinet (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2022). He lives in Ithaca, NY, and teaches at Cornell University.
Henk Rossouw is the author of Xamissa (Fordham University Press, 2018). His poems have been in POETRY and The Paris Review. He’s an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Domenica Ruta is the New York Times–bestselling author of Last Day and With or Without You and the forthcoming All the Mothers (Summer 2025).
Sam Schieren received his MFA from UC Davis. His fiction has been published in Bellevue Literary Review, Gulf Coast, and Southern Humanities Review, among other journals. He lives in Richmond, VA, and teaches at VCU.
Amy Lee Scott is a writer and illustrator who lives in southeast Michigan with her family and tabby cat. Her first book of essays, When the World Explodes, won The Gournay Prize and will be released by Mad Creek Books/Ohio State University Press in March 2025. Find more information at amyleescott.com.
Dara-Lyn Shrager is a poet and editor. She is the co-founder/editor of Radar Poetry. Her first full-length poetry collection, Whiskey, X-Ray, Yankee, was published by Barrow Street Books in 2018.
Emira Tufo is a Bosnian Canadian writer and storyteller living in Montreal. Her work has appeared in a number of Canadian and American literary journals, including The New Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, The Antigonish Review, and Mundus Artium, and in newspapers such as The Globe and Mail and The Montreal Gazette. Her storytelling has been featured on the Confabulation and Volume Knob podcasts.
