MEGAN WILDHOOD is a writer who helps her readers feel seen in her monthly newsletter, poetry chapbook Long Division (Finishing Line Press, 2017), her full-length poetry collection Bowed As If Laden With Snow (Cornerstone Press, May 2023) as well as Mad in America, The Sun and elsewhere. You can learn more about her at meganwildhood.com.

SHELLEY LLOYD (she/they) is a queer, disabled writer. Originally from Florida, her writing combines personal musings with theoretical rambling, often exploring themes of disability, time, and why everything feels a little bit off. Their work has appeared in Wordgathering, they contributed to BorgDiem, and their chapbook, A Reading, is out now from Bottlecap Press. She earned a PhD in Rhetoric from Clemson University — because why not spend years of your life earning a degree to talk about language for a living? When not overthinking life, they can be found avoiding their responsibilities, contemplating the absurd, and hanging out with their cat, who, unsurprisingly, is much better at managing their time. She can be found on Instagram and Twitter/X as @vileteapot.

ASHLEY LINKLETTER is a writer and poet based in Vancouver, BC. Her work has appeared in Ink & Marrow, Campfire Confessions, and SAD magazine. She has an upcoming essay on Elizabeth Bathory and 70s arthouse horror films slated to appear in Bloodletter Magazine's upcoming Lore issue.

CASEY ZELLA ANDREWS (she/hers) is a queer poet and teacher who lives in West Medford, Massachusetts, with her partner and toddler. She became a parent in the first months of the coronavirus pandemic. Andrews has a BA from Hampshire College, earned a MAT from Simmons College to become a high school English language arts teacher in Boston, and earned an MA in Critical and Creative Thinking from the University of Massachusetts - Boston.

MATTHEW J. HALL is 19-year-old poet, writer, and artist based in East Yorkshire. For the last five years, Matthew has been active acting, directing, and performing across the region. Their production ofThe Heights by Lisa McGee has been performed at the York Theatre Royal. Matthew’s work explores surrealism, existentialism, esoteric theology, and philosophy, often trying to decipher the human condition through a personal perspective.

RL SELDEN is a writer, educator, and coffee enthusiast. His work confronts traditional forms of poetry and thought, and can be found in #Ranger Magazine. He lives, writes, and teaches in Wilmington, NC.

heidi andrea restrepo rhodes (they/them) is a queer, nb/trans, crip/disabled, brown/Colombian, writer, scholar, educator, and cultural worker. They are author of the poetry collection, The Inheritance of Haunting (University of Notre Dame Press, 2019) and the chapbook, Ephemeral (Ecotheo Collective, 2024). They are a 2023 recipient of the Creative Capital Award, a VONA Alum, and have received poetry fellowships from Zoeglossia, CantoMundo, Radar, and Yale’s Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration. Their poetry and creative non-fiction have been published in American Poetry Review, Michigan Quarterly Review,  Poetry, and Waxwing, among other places. They currently live in California.

MARY ANN HONAKER Mary Ann Honaker is the author of Becoming Persephone (Third Lung Press, 2019), Whichever Way the Moon (Main Street Rag, 2023), and the forthcoming Night is Another Realm Altogether (Sheila-Na-Gig, 2026). Her poems have appeared in Bear Review, DIAGRAM, JMWW, Juked, Little Patuxent Review, Rattle.com, Solstice, Sweet Tree Review, Tuskegee Review, and elsewhere. She currently lives in Beckley, West Virginia.