Category: Contributor

Noah Lane Browne is a full-time lawyer, part-time yoga teacher, and some-time gardener. Tomatoes, mostly. His writing focuses on family, memory, and survival. He lives in Washington DC with his wife and cat.

Daniel Mueller is the author of three collections of short stories: How Animals Mate (Overlook Press 1999), winner of the Sewanee Fiction Prize; Nights I Dreamed of Hubert Humphrey (Outpost 19 Books 2013), winner of a Santa Fe Writers’ Project Book Award; and Anything You Recognize (Outpost 19 Books 2023). His work has appeared in…

Terry Sanville lives in San Luis Obispo, California with his artist-poet wife (his in-house editor) and two plump cats (his in-house critics). He writes full time, producing stories, essays, and novels. His stories have been accepted more than 580 times by journals, magazines, and anthologies including The American Writers Review,Bryant Literary Review, and Shenandoah. He…

Dennis McFadden, a retired project manager, lives and writes in a cedar-shingled cottage called Summerhill in the woods of upstate New York. His first collection “Hart’s Grove,” was published by Colgate University Press in 2010, and his second, “Jimtown Road,” won the 2016 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction; another collection, “Lafferty, Looking for Love,”…

Laura Bernstein-Machlay teaches creative writing and literature at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan. Her poems and essays have appeared in The American Scholar, Fourth Genre, The Georgia Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, North American Review, and others. Her collection of creative nonfiction essays, Travelers, was published in 2018.

Kristen Field is a queer, non-binary playwright originally from Melbourne, Australia. She earned her MFA in Writing for the Screen and Stage from Northwestern University, and her scripts have been published by Hayden’s Ferry Review, Feels Blind Literary, and Concord Theatricals. Her full-length play, sex/work, was recently a finalist in Playhouse on the Square’s NewWorks@TheWorks…

Mark Scharf is an award-winning American playwright living in Baltimore, MD whose plays have been produced and published widely in the United States and internationally. Mark has served as Playwright-in-Residence for Theatre Virginia’s New Voices Program and taught Playwriting at the University of Mary Washington and Howard Community College. He has presented Playwriting seminars for…

Grace Willcox is a writer and graduate of Mills College with her BA in English. She now lives in Portland, Maine, and her work has been seen in PHEMME Zine, Chaleur Magazine, Elementia, and Phoenix. She loves to write about complex relationships, different forms of love, and obsession.

Emma Golden is a New York City-based writer and teacher. She has an MFA in creative nonfiction from Columbia University, and her essays and criticism have appeared in Literary Hub and Qu. She teaches writing at Hunter College-CUNY and Stevens Institute of Technology.