Fernando Segall was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1997 from a family of Lebanese immigrants. He came to the US in 2016 where he graduated from NYU Tisch with a double major in Drama and Dramatic writing. Fernando has written multiple short plays that were performed at NYSumer and Winterfest, The workshop Theatre, Equity Library Theatre, The National Opera Center, The Secret Theatre, The Players Theatre, and was selected for the 2020 William Inge Theatre Festival. Full length Play Saudades received a reading sponsored by NYC City Corps in 2021 and was a part of American Stages 21st Century Voices 2022. He is currently working as a Screenwriter in Brazil with two features in development, including “Wrong Place, Wrong Time”( renowned Brazilian director Pedro Morelli attached to direct); while also pursuing a masters degree in playwriting at Columbia University.

Kerry Muir’s award-winning plays have been produced by Nantucket Short Play Festival, Gibraltar Drama Festival in Spain, Great Platte River Playwrights Festival, Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition, and elsewhere. Her plays The Night Buster Keaton Dreamed Me and Befriending Bertha are available in bilingual Spanish-English editions from NoPassport Press. Her prose has appeared in journals like Kenyon Review, Crazyhorse, Fourth Genre and more. Visit her online at: https://kerrymuir-5gnx.squarespace.com

Christine Butterworth-McDermott’s latest poetry collection is Evelyn As: Poems (Fomite, 2019). She is the founder and co-editor of Gingerbread House Literary Magazine. Her poetry has been published in such journals as Alaska Quarterly Review, The Massachusetts Review, Prime Number Magazine, and River Styx, among others.

Roy Bentley is the author of Walking with Eve in the Loved City, chosen by Billy Collins as finalist for the Miller Williams poetry prize; Starlight Taxi, winner of the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize; The Trouble with a Short Horse in Montana, chosen by John Gallaher as winner of the White Pine Poetry Prize; as well as My Mother’s Red Ford: New & Selected Poems 1986 – 2020 published by Lost Horse Press. Poems have appeared in North American Review, The Southern Review, Rattle, Shenandoah, New Ohio Review, and Prairie Schooner among others. His latest is Beautiful Plenty (Main Street Rag, 2021).

Mureall Hebert lives near Seattle, WA. Her work can be found in The Normal School, Sundog Lit, The Adirondack Review, Cease, Cows, Carve, Hobart, [PANK], decomP, and elsewhere. She’s been nominated for Best Microfiction, Best New Poets, a Pushcart Prize, and was a finalist in Split Rock Press’s 2020 chapbook contest. She holds an MFA from the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts.

Patrick Kindig currently teach in the University Writing Program at Brandeis University. Patrick is the author of the chapbook ‘all the catholic gods’ (Seven Kitchens Press 2019) and the micro-chapbook ‘Dry Spell’ (Porkbelly Press 2016), and my poems have recently appeared in Colorado Review, the Chattahoochee Review, Washington Square Review, Copper Nickel, and other journals.

Josephine Blair Cipriano (she/her) is a 2019 Brooklyn Poets Fellow whose work has been published or is forthcoming in The Rumpus, Copper Nickel, Epiphany Magazine, Yes Poetry, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the 2021 Brooklyn Poets Poem of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the 2021 Frontier Magazine New Voices Prize. She lives in Tucson, AZ.

Hari B Khalsa’s poems have been published, or are forthcoming, in numerous journals including the following: Nimrod, Western Humanities Review, Poet Lore, The Closed Eye Open and The New York Quarterly. She is the author of a chapbook, Life in Two Parts and a book of poems, Talk of Snow. Her award-winning chapbook, She Speaks to the Birds at Night While They Sleep, published by Tebot Bach, was released summer, 2021. Her website is at haribpoet.com.

Brittany Spires is an emerging poet whose work will appear in the upcoming issue of Mikrokosmos journal. She lives in Wichita, Kansas with her husband and five children. She is a graduate of Wichita State University where she earned a degree in Psychology, with minors in Creative Writing, Sociology and Women’s Studies, and received the Tilford Diversity Certificate.

Rose DeMaris writes poems, novels, and essays. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Los Angeles Review, Roanoke Review, Vassar Review, Big Sky Journal, Cold Mountain Review, and elsewhere. A California native, she lived in Montana for many years and now calls New York City home. Find out more at rosedemaris.com