Diana S. ADAMS is an Edmonton, Alberta based writer with work published in a variety of journals including Fence, Boston Review, Drunken Boat, Fogged Clarity, Poets and Artists, The Laurel Review, and Ekleksogaphia. Her fourth book of poetry Lights on the Way Out was published by Finishing Line Press. Corrupt Press published her chapbook Catch. Diana has three poems in Best American Experimental Writing 2016.
Josette AKRESH-GONZALES (@vivakresh) lives in the Boston area with her husband and children and is a production editor at NEJM Group. Her work has been published in journals including JUXTAPROSE and PANK. She co-founded the journal Clarion and served as its editor for two years.
Russell BENNETTS (@RussellBennetts) is the founder and editor of Berfrois magazine. He is the co-author of Vaping Not Smoking.
Paul BLUMER studied English at the University of Michigan, and writing at California College of the Arts. He is a frequent contributor to New England Review of Books. He is head bartender at The Rogue Gentlemen in Richmond, Virginia. Look out for the reprint edition of his novel Bareknuckle being released later this year.
Hannah CRAIG lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is the author of This History that Just Happened (Parlor Press, 2017). Her work has recently appeared in journals including Mid-American Review, North American Review, and Copper Nickel.
Diana DINVERNO (@dianadinverno) was a finalist for the New Rivers Press 2015 Short Story Prize. Her work appears in The MacGuffin, Peacock Journal, Ekphrastic Review, Peninsula Poets, and American Fiction, Volume 15: The Best Unpublished Stories by New and Emerging Writers.
helga FLOROS (@helgafloros) is a virgo moon. Find their work in Spy Kids Review, Vagabond City Lit, Witchcraft Magazine, & elsewhere.
Erik KENNEDY (@thetearooms) is the author of There's No Place Like the Internet in Springtime (Victoria University Press, 2018). His poems have recently been published in places like 3:AM Magazine, Hobart, LEVELER, The Manchester Review, Poetry, and Powder Keg Magazine, and his criticism has been in the Los Angeles Review of Books and the TLS. He is the poetry editor for Queen Mob's Teahouse. Originally from New Jersey, he lives in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Rax KING (@raxkingisdead) is the author of the chapbook The People's Elbow: Thirty Recitatives on Rape and Wrestling (Ursus Americanus, 2018). Her work has appeared in (b)OINK Zine, Five:2:One, and Bad Pony Mag. In non-poetic life, she spend most of her time lounging in the company of dogs and being funnier on social media could be hoped to happen in real life.
Georgia PARK is a principal creator of the feminist literary collective Whisper and the Roar; a member of Sudden Denouement; and a performer with D.E.N.C.I.T.Y. of Wreck Shop Movement. She is the author of 5.Poems, a Komma Series chapbook published in 2016.
Abagail PETERSEN (@abbazzabba) is originally from the Mojave Desert, and after a four-year stint in Boston, is now in Minneapolis, coaching rock climbing to pre-teen girls. Her poetry has appeared in the magazines Hawk & Whippoorwill and Burn, and will appear in a chapbook later this year being published by Pen & Anvil.
Nina POWLES is a writer and poet from New Zealand, currently living in London. Her poems in this chapbook are about breakfasts in Shanghai, China, where she partly grew up.
Whiskey RADISH (@WhiskeyRadish) lives and teaches art in Boston, MA. Her recent book, Sam Cat Goes to the Jungle: Love and War in the Time of Ulysses is on sale at Grolier Poetry Bookshop. She holds a degree in French Literature from Columbia University. For many years Whiskey has worked a night or two a week at Ryles Jazz Club as a bouncer/door person. As for the name: "Whiskey" is for "Alabama Song" (Brecht/Weill) and "Radish" is in honor of Samuel Beckett, who championed such lowly roots. Whiskey is married with three kids.
