Jesus Govea
Jesus Govea is a writer from Chicago, Illinois. He received his B.A in Creative Writing from Columbia College Chicago. He has been published in Poetry, Respect the Mic: Celebrating 20 Years of Poetry from a Chicagoland High School, and has appeared in Slam Your Poetry by Miles Mercill and Narcisa Nozica. He enjoys reading world literature, watching Columbo, and playing badminton.
Emelia Kamadulski
Emelia Kamadulski is a poet and artist born in St. Louis and raised in the Pacific Northwest and the Mountain West. Her work explores mental illness, love, family, and the boundaries between art, place, and identity. She graduated from the University of Denver with a BA in creative writing and a minor in studio art. When she isn’t writing, she enjoys birdwatching, fiber crafts, and haunting her local library.
Karan Kapoor
Karan Kapoor is a writer from New Delhi, India. They have been awarded or placed for the James Hearst Poetry Prize, Frontier Global Poetry Prize, Ledbury Poetry Prize, Red Wheelbarrow Prize, and BLR Prize among others. Their poems have appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI, North American Review, Rattle, Colorado Review, Prism Review, The Offing, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere. You can find them at: karankapoor.co.in.
Riley O’Mearns
Riley O’Mearns is a poet and a Gemini. Originally from Memphis, Tennessee, she holds a BA in Creative Writing from Saint Mary’s College in Indiana and an MA in English from Kansas State University. Her work fosters a gentle curiosity about identity and nature. She has so much to love: crocheting, her cats, the Legend of Zelda series, yacht rock, and the em dash (among other things).
Ifreen Raveen
Ifreen Raveen is a writer from Indian Administered Kashmir. She has previously worked as an associate software engineer and an independent journalist. Her stories focus on the inner lives and private spaces of women living in a conflict zone, collective and generational trauma, and the many projections of everyday life under prolonged political turmoil. She believes in the power of storytelling, of words and imagination, for personal healing, and to remember, connect people, and transcend limitations.
Kirk Reilly
Kirk Reilly is a fiction writer, playwright, and former actor from Central Florida. He received a BFA in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College. His plays have been developed and/or performed at HB Studio, Brooklyn College, The Tank NYC, and Treefort:Storyfort.
Amanda Silva
Amanda Silva (or A.C. Silva) was born and raised in Carlisle Pennsylvania, earned her B.A. in Written Arts and Spanish Studies from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson New York, and has lived in Boston Massachusetts ever since. Her short stories have been published by Haunted Waters Press, Add To Cart Magazine, and The Bangalore Review. She likes her fiction funny, suspenseful, and/or unsettling. Her favorite person is her cat, Bowling Ball. Her favorite animal(s) are the hordes of wild turkeys that roam the streets of Boston. Her favorite mode of transportation is swimming. She dreams of someday owning a haunted house.
Grace Turner
Grace Turner is a pack rat and an easy laugh. She takes sleeping very seriously and can often be found in the wild clad in vintage nightwear—the world is her bed/clamshell/crypt. She is interested in material culture and memory.
Eric Yoo
Eric Yoo was born in Texas and grew up in Virginia. He likes the Spurs and also the sport of tennis. His favorite drink is cold sparkling water on a hot day.
