Category: Contributor

Claire Thompson is a former longtime seasonal trail worker with the U.S. Forest Service. She teaches English at Wenatchee Valley College and is pursuing an MFA in Nature Writing from Western Colorado University, where she was the recipient of a Mari Sandoz Emerging Writer Fellowship. Her work has appeared in, among others, High Country News, The…

David Stern is new to the community of writers after decades working as a physician scientist and health sciences administrator. He has placed pieces in The Write Launch, Windmill, Free Spirit Publishing, 1922 Revival/VOICES, Citizen-Times (Gannett), Streetlight Magazine, Manifest Station, Thimble Literary Magazine, Awakenings Review, and Personal Story Publishing Project. Dave grew up on the North…

Olivia Rose was born and raised in San Jose. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Jose State University, where she earned the Alan Soldofsky Award for Outstanding MFA Thesis and served as Reed Magazine’s Senior Poetry Editor. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Red Coyote, The Ear, Scapegoat Review, and elsewhere. She lives in…

Andrew Quimby is a writer from Atlanta, Georgia. His playwriting credits include Secondhand Smoke, Made in Maricopa (shortlisted, Distillery New Works Festival), Burnt Hickory (reading, Breaking & Entering Theatre Collective), This Little Light of Mine (staged, Florida Players), and Abomination (staged, Florida Players). Andrew is credited on seven film and television projects as personal and creative assistant to actor Owen Wilson, including Apple TV’s Stick and the Disney+…

Sydney Mayes is a poet from Denver, Colorado. She is the inaugural ONLY POEMS Poet of the Year, and her work can be found in The Atlantic, Prairie Schooner, The Kenyon Review and Poets.org among other publications. In 2024 Mayes was a Finalist for the Furious Flower Prize and the 2024 Adrienne Rich Award. Mayes has received scholarships and support from Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Community of Writers,…

Mir Rose Lawson (they/she/he) loves using whimsical, surreal, and sometimes gruesome stories to unearth human truths. Their writing searches for reflections in every corner of our world— and beyond. Mir fills his days in Chicagoland with bright colors and brilliant friends who encourage her to constantly create. 

Dave Huber is both a new and old playwright. He wrote and published a collection of short plays that had numerous productions, but that was 30 years ago. After working in educational theatre where he directed over 100 plays and musicals and taught hundreds of theatre students to act, write, and direct, he finally is back to writing. He has…

Rigoberto González is the author of 20 books of poetry and prose, and the editor of Latino Poetry, a Library of America anthology. He received the 2025 Ruth Lilly Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry from the Poetry Foundation

Christa Fairbrother, MA, has had poetry in Arc, Epiphany, Pleiades, and Salamander, among others. Currently, she’s Gulfport, Florida’s poet laureate, and she has been a Pushcart Prize nominee and a finalist for the Leslie McGrath Poetry Prize, The Prose Poem Competition, and The Wilder Prize. Connect with her at www.christafairbrotherwrites.com.