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Naomi Anne Goldner is a San Francisco-based writer of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. She holds an MFA in Fiction from San Francisco State University, and her work has been performed, published and anthologized in various journals and publications including Entropy Magazine, The Blue Nib Literary Review, Quiet Lightning to name a few. Founder of WordSpaceStudios Literary Arts Center, she is currently editing her first novel which spans four generations and three continents.

Mariah Lanzer is a recent graduate from Kent State University in Ohio. She has a bachelor’s degree in English with a minor in Creative Writing and a minor in Professional and Technical Writing. Mariah currently attends Manhattanville College in New York, and is pursuing her MFA in Creative Nonfiction. Mariah has other work published in Runestone Literary Journal and Uncomfortable Revolution. She currently resides in Connecticut.

Kristin Dombek is the author of The Selfishness of Others (FSG, 2016) and an essayist (n+1, The Paris Review, Harper’s) whose work has been anthologized in Best American Essays and translated into a dozen languages. She’s taught writing at New York University, Princeton University, Queens College, and Queens University of Charlotte.

Lisa Summe is the author of Say It Hurts (YesYes Books, 2021). She earned a BA and MA in literature at the University of Cincinnati, and an MFA in poetry from Virginia Tech. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Bat City Review, Cincinnati Review, Muzzle, Salt Hill, Verse Daily, West Branch, and elsewhere. You can find her running, playing baseball, or eating vegan pastries in Pittsburgh, PA, on Twitter and IG @lisasumme, and at lisasumme.com.

Michelle McMillan-Holifield is a recent Best of the Net and Pushcart nominee. Her work has been included in or is forthcoming in Boxcar Poetry Review, Nelle, Stirring, The Collagist, The Main Street Rag, Whale Road Review and Windhover among others. She hopes you one day find her poetry tacked to a tree somewhere in the Alaskan Wild.

John Leonard is an English teacher and poetry editor for Twyckenham Notes. He holds an M.A. in English from Indiana University. His previous works have appeared in Chiron Review, december, PoetryQuarterly, North Dakota Review, Roanoke Review, Eclectica Magazine, Rappahannock Review, Mud Season Review, The Blue Mountain Review, Trailer Park Quarterly, Genre: Urban Arts, and Burningword Literary Journal.  You can follow him on Twitter at @jotyleon.

Jose Hernandez Diaz is a 2017 NEA Fellow. He is the author of The Fire Eater (Texas Review Press, 2020). His work appears in The American Poetry Review, Boulevard, Cincinnati Review, Georgia Review, Iowa Review, The Nation, Poetry, The Southern Review and in The Best American Nonrequired Reading. He has been a finalist for the Andrés Montoya Prize, the Colorado Prize, the Akron Prize, and The National Poetry Series. Currently, he is an Associate Editor at Frontier Poetry and an educator in Southeast Los Angeles County.

Alex Dodt is a philosophy teacher, hockey player, and chihuahua father in Phoenix, Arizona.

Susan Comninos is a writer and teacher in New York. Her poetry’s appeared in the Harvard Review Online, Rattle, The Common, Prairie Schooner and North American Review, among others. She’s taught writing at Siena College, The College of St. Rose, and most recently, SUNY Albany. Her debut book of poems, “Out of Nowhere,” is forthcoming from SFA Press/Texas A&M in spring/summer 2022.