Claudine R. Moreau was born near Michigan’s Saginaw Bay, but was raised in the bituminous coal mining country of southwestern Pennsylvania. She is the author of Demise of Pangaea (Main Street Rag 2024) and the chapbook Dark Machines (Fugitive Poets Press 2012). Now residing in North Carolina, Moreau teaches physics and astronomy at Elon University and serves as a faculty director of a first-year student neighborhood where she has made stargazing an annual tradition. She lives with her daughter, her thespian partner, the force of gravity, and two celestially named cats.
Katey Funderburgh is a queer poet from Colorado. She is currently an MFA Candidate at George Mason University. Katey serves as a Poetry Alive! fellow, and as a co-coordinator for the Incarcerated Writers Project of Phoebe Journal. When she isn't writing, you can find Katey laying in the sun with her cat, Thistle.
Kate MacLauchlan’s poetry explores the complexities of identity, often using vivid imagery, alliteration and dichotomies. Drawing from her experience as a queer female in the rural South, she strives to illuminate the challenges and triumphs of self-discovery. She attends Manhattanville University in pursuit of her MFA in Creative Writing.
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Tamra Plotnick’s poetry and prose works have been published in many journals and anthologies, including, Global City Review and The Coachella Review. Her book In the Zero of Sky, Poems was released in 2022 by Assure Press and reviewed in the American Book Review in 2024. She has performed her work in multimedia shows at a range of venues in New York City where she lives. She dances, teaches, loves her friends and family and is revising a novel. For more details, please inquire or visit https://www.tamraplotnick.net/.
Blair Kinsey recently returned to her hometown of Austin, Texas. With a degree in mathematics, Blair is continuously thrilled to discover new ways math governs and complicates everyday life. She spends her free time collaging, reading, and reveling in nature's beauty. Blair’s creative writing and journalism has appeared in The Southwestern Review, the Daily Memphian, and Phi Beta Kappa's Key Reporter.
Brittany Micka-Foos is the author of the chapbook "a litany of words as fragile as window glass" (Bottlecap Press, 2024) and the short story collection "It's No Fun Anymore" (forthcoming, Apprentice House Press, 2025). Her work has been published in Ninth Letter, Witness Magazine, NonBinary Review, and elsewhere. Read more at www.brittanymickafoos.com.
Audrey-Anna Gamache is a writer based in New England. Her work has appeared in Chestnut Review, Underbelly Press, and Filling Station. When she isn't writing, she likes watching low budget movies with her cats and scouring flea markets for bizarre knick-knacks. She can be found on X @ScoutyLynch
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Su-Ling Dickinson is a published poet and writer from Newark, New Jersey. Her writing is inspired by raw emotion, cultural collision, and latent content. Her works are penned with unflinching honesty and a guttural wail. She enjoys being a total cinephile, photography, and “a damn fine cup of coffee”. Su-Ling Dickinson lives and creates in Washington.
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Elise Scott is a liberal back-woods bootlegger and artisanal vegan cheese-maker. They write from their lived experiences of fat-positivity, queerness, disability, mental illness, and moving through carnivorous shadows. They earned their bachelor’s degree from Mount Holyoke and their Master’s from Capella University. Elise is a full-time writer/mom represented by Marisa Corvisiero and Ciara Smith at Corvisiero Literary. They live with one tiny daughter and nearly two hundred pounds of fur-family. Their work has appeared in Five Minutes, High Shelf, HerStry, Knee Brace, All Existing, and Quibble among others. Say hi at http://elise-scott.com or on twitter/x at @buttonjar1.
