Marina Kraiskaya is a Ukrainian-American Writer and editor of the journal Bicoastal Review. She recently placed second in the Joy Bale Boone Prize and was a finalist in the Mississippi Review and Driftwood poetry prizes. Find Her in Poetry International, The L.A. Review, Southeast Review, Zone 3, The Shore, Ecotheo, Deep wild, Leavings, and more. mlraiskaya.com

Brennan Barney is a Creative Director residing in Michigan. Recently his fiction "Maureen" was published in Whiskey Island Magazine.

Kylan Rice is the author of An Image Not a Book (Free Verse Editions 2024), a collection of poems, and Incryptions (Spuyten Duyvil 2021), a collection of essays. His work has appeared in Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Image, Kenyon Review Online, Seneca Review, West Branch, and elsewhere. He is the associate editor at The Missouri Review.

Mark Crimmins (he/him) published his first book, travel memoir Sydneyside Reflections, in 2020. His place-based writings have been published in many magaziunes, including Chicago Quarterly Review, Columbia Journal, Tampa Review, Kyoto Journal, Queen's Quarterly, Apalachee Review, Fiction Southeast, Del Sol Review, Confrontation, and Flash.

Elizabeth Kate Switaj works at the College of the Marshall Islands. She is the author of one book of literary criticism (James Joyce's Teaching Life and Methods, Palgrave, 2016) and two poetry collections (Magdalene & the Mermaids, Paper Kite Press, 2009; The Bringers of Fruit: An Oratorio, 11:11 Press, 2022).

Linda McMullen is a wife, mother, daughter, diplomat, and homesick Wisconsinite. Over 200 of her short stories and the occasional poem have appeared in literary magazines.