- Julie Armstrong graduated from Washington College in 2015 with a BA in English and creative writing. From then until 2020, she worked for her alma mater as the administrative assistant for the Rose O’Neill Literary House. In 2017, she was awarded an Individual Artist Grant in poetry from the Maryland State Arts Council. Her work has appeared in RHINO, Gulf Stream, and Nashville Review, and is forthcoming in The Maine Review and Tampa Review. Julia received her MFA in poetry from Virginia Tech in 2023.
- Nathan Dragon is from Salem, MA. He has work in NOON Annual, New York Tyrant, Hotel. He co-runs a publishing project called Blue Arrangements.
- Florence Gonsalves is an author, poet, and educator at Virginia Tech where she received an MFA in fiction in 2023. Her published works include two novels with Little Brown Young Readers, Love and Other Carnivorous Plants and Dear Universe, as well as creative nonfiction and experimental prose featured in Lit Hub, Shenandoah, Hobart, and Pulp Magazine. In 2020 Florence founded the Dandy Line Poetry Troop, a community arts endeavor based in the New River Valley that aims to demystify “high brow” art through the spontaneous production of free, typewritten poems. For commissions, events, and inquiries visit her online at florencegonsalves.com.
- Theo Richards is your rural Connecticut boy next door: coffee stout in one hand, boxcutter in the other. Their writing? Much the same. Their work passes through the body, wandering in the juncture of what is and was alive, what could be and what might again become ghost. “Haunt” might as well be the copula here. The dead bobcat will always stand back up to dance. Half the scene is already underwater anyway. They have a “dog” named Fig and a steamed bun problem. They studied gender in undergrad.
- Kennedy Coyne is a fiction writer from Albany, NY. She received her BA and MA in English from the University at Albany. For two years she served as Barzakh Magazine’s Managing Editor as well as an intern at Fence. In a craft class Zadie Smith told her she should be a comedian. Her most recent publication, a conversation with Eileen Myles, is available in Michigan Quarterly Review Online.
- Shannon Sullivan is a poet from Lakeland, Florida. She has been featured in Lunch Ticket, Yuzu Press, and Eunoia Review. She has a cat named Percy who decorates the apartment with mice.
- Ivan Davenny was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, but has moved so many times that he just says he’s from “all over.” He received his BA in English from Brooklyn College in 2016 and since then has been living in Austin, TX. His writing reimagines life as a series of grotesque spectacles, blending absurdism and horror and filtering it all through the language of biology textbooks, Romanticist poetry, and pulp westerns.
- Amanda Hodes is a writer and new media artist. Starting fall 2023, she will be the Lecturer of Poetry in Creative Writing at Oberlin College & Conservatory. Her poetry has been published in Black Warrior Review, Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, AMBIT, Denver Quarterly, PANK, West Branch, Quarterly West, Interim Poetics, and elsewhere. She has an MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the University of East Anglia and an MFA in Creative Writing from Virginia Tech. Namely, she is interested in sound installation as a route to a somatic, spatial poetics. This work has been exhibited in venues such as the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, Torpedo Factory, Abington Arts Center, Hirshhorn Sound Scene Festival, Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology, AUDIRE, and Dartington International Music Festival.
- Mina Victoria is mostly a fiction writer from Georgia, New Jersey, and South Carolina. She graduated from the University of Tampa with a BA in Writing in 2019. Her first and only publication can be found in The Rumpus as part of their ENOUGH Series. She is the shortest person that any of her friends know, and she enjoys climbing whatever she can to reach the top shelf by herself.
