Patricia Horvath is the author of the story collection But Now Am Found (Black Lawrence Press) and the memoir All the Difference (Etruscan Press). Her work has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, The Los Angeles Review, Confrontation, and Shenandoah among other journals. She received New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in both fiction and literary nonfiction, the Goldenberg Fiction Prize at Bellevue Literary Review, and the Frank O’Connor Award. She teaches at Framingham State University.

Sebastián Molano (he/él) is a migrant, a parent, and a writer. He explores issues of masculinity, gender, and care. He is from Colombia and lives in Dorchester, MA. English is his second language and has become his first home.

Paulette Perhach’s writing has been published in the New York Times, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Hobart, and Vice. Her book, Welcome to the Writer's Life, was selected as one of Poets & Writers' Best Books for Writers. Find out more about her writing and her program, The Finishing School for Writers, at PaulettePerhach.com.

Jen Parsons is a writer, mother, and adventure seeker in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. She is currently working on a full -length memoir.

Evan Wiig is a writer, journalist, and farm advocate based in Santa Rosa, CA. To learn more, visit www.evanwiig.com.

​Ariel Xinyu Peng (they/she) is a writer and teacher of translanguaging from Shanghai. They are the editor-in-chief of Mother Tongue Journal, a multimedia magazine. They hold a BA in English literature from New York University and an MFA in creative nonfiction from Columbia University. Ariel’s work sheds light on urban life, neurodiversity, and queerness. They always have a meme.

Kathy Vo is a digital marketer based in Santa Clara, CA. Her works have been published by Unbroken Journal, Hibiscus, and Flash Fiction Magazine. Instagram @khv.writes.

Originating from the Midwest, Levi Walker Polzin enjoys writing stories and poems about the eternal battle of what it means to be human and find our place in the universe.

Brett Mink (he/him) is a writer from Morgan Hill, California. While he has written other short stories in the past, this entry is the first that he submitted for publication.

Nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best American Short Stories, and Best American Fantasy, Judith Cooper’s stories and essays have appeared in Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. Her work has been supported by Hambidge, Ragdale, VCCA, The Tyrone Guthrie Centre and Carraig-na-gCat in Ireland, and Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Germany. She lives in Chicago.

James Sullivan is the author of Harboring (ELJ Editions). His stories and essays have appeared in Cimarron Review, New Ohio Review, Third Coast Magazine, Fourth Genre, The Normal School, and Fourteen Hills, among other publications. Having grown up in South Dakota, he splits his adult life between Japan and the American Midwest and now resides in South Carolina. Connect on socials @jfsullivan4th.