Gale Acuff has had hundreds of poems published in fourteen countries and has authored three books of poetry. Gale has taught tertiary English courses in the US, PR China, and Palestine.

C. J. Anderson-Wu (吳介禎) is a Taiwanese writer, her works have been shortlisted by a number of international contests, and she won the Strands Lit International Flash Fiction Competition, the Invisible City Blurred Genre Literature Competition, and the Wordweavers Literature Contest.
 
Shaina Clingempeel is a Philadelphia-based poet who has a poetry MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She owns a small book editing business, as well as a literary magazine called Cypress Review. Her poems can be found in Coffin Bell, The Rupture, Free State Review, and many other places. 
 
Eoin Flannery is a writer and critic based in Limerick, Ireland, where he is Associate Professor of English Literature at Mary Immaculate College. His poetry has appeared in The Honest Ulsterman; Libre; The Galway Review; Rochford Street Review; Red Ogre Review; The City Key; Prairie Home Magazine and Vita and the Woolf Literary and Arts Journal.
 
Steven Fortune is a resident of Sydney, Nova Scotia (Canada) and a graduate of Acadia University (English Literature/History). He has released five poetry collections to date, edited several works for others, and has also appeared on CBC Radio, while his work has been featured and read on several radio programs. He also aspires to write for the stage, having recently completed his first one-act play.
 
Heather D. Haigh is a sight-impaired spoonie and emerging working-class writer from Yorkshire. She has poems published with Dark Winter Lit, Frazzled Lit, Anansi Archives, and others. When not writing or napping she can be found waving her camera around or making messes she optimistically calls arty. 
 
Sheila Murphy's poems have appeared in Poetry, Hanging Loose, Fortnightly Review, and numerous others. Most recent book: Permission to Relax (BlazeVOX Books, 2023). Received the Gertrude Stein Award for Letters to Unfinished J. (Green Integer Press, 2003). Murphy's book titled Reporting Live from You Know Where (2018) won the Hay(na)Ku Poetry Book Prize Competition from Meritage Press (U.S.A.) and xPress(ed) (Finland).
 
S. Abdulwasi'h Olaitan is a Nigerian introverted poet, savant, graphics designer and essayist. He writes from a hole 54 kilometers away from Kwara State. He is deeply devoted to God and lover of his parents.
 
Christina M. Rau, The Yoga Poet, leads Meditate, Move, & Create workshops for various organizations. Her collections include How We Make Amends, What We Do To Make Us Whole, and the Elgin Award-winning Liberating The Astronauts. During her downtime, she watches the Game Show Network.  http://www.christinamrau.com 
 
Niles Reddick is author of a novel, four short fiction collections, and two novellas. His work has appeared in over five hundred  publications including The Saturday Evening Post, New Reader Magazine, Cheap Pop, Flash Fiction Magazine, Citron Review, Hong Kong Review, and Vestal Review.
 
Carl Scharwath has appeared globally with 175+ journals selecting his writing or art. Carl has published four poetry and photography books He was nominated for three The Best of the Net Awards (2021-23) and two different 2023 Pushcart Nominations for poetry and a short story.
 
Al Schnupp is a retired university theatre professor.  Many of his plays feature female artists and activists, such as Peggy Guggenheim, Käthe Kollwitz and Ivy Bottini.  Recently, his political satire ZERO and award-winning novella GOODS & EFFECTS were published by small independent presses.
 
Yermiyahu Ahron Taub is a poet, writer, and translator of Yiddish literature. He is the author of two books of fiction and six volumes of poetry, including A Mouse Among Tottering Skyscrapers: Selected Yiddish Poems (2017). His recent translations from the Yiddish include Dineh: An Autobiographical Novel (2022) by Ida Maze and Blessed Hands: Stories (2023) by Frume Halpern.
 
Author of the debut novel Twelfth House and Shaded Pergola, a collection of short poetry and haiku with original illustrations, E.C. Traganas has published in scores of literary magazines including The Society of Classical Poets, The San Antonio Review, The Brussels Review, Wilderness House Literary Review, Kosmeo Magazine, and many others. She enjoys a professional career as a Juilliard-trained concert pianist & composer, has held over 40 nationally-curated exhibitions of her artwork and is the founder/director of Woodside Writers, a literary forum based in New York City. 
 
Ernest Williamson III is an artist living in Tennessee. His artwork has appeared in numerous journals including New England Review, Fourteen Hills, Columbia Journal, and Penn Review. His poetry has appeared in over 200 journals including Roanoke Review, Pinyon Review, and Poetry Life and Times.
 
Lee Wright was born in Warwickshire and has an MA in Creative Writing. He is currently working towards a PhD researching memoir and film. His work has been published with Fairlight Books, époque press and Burning House Press amongst others. 

Gerald Yelle has worked in restaurants, factories, schools and offices. His books include The Holyoke Diaries, Mark My Word and the New World Order, and Dreaming Alone and with Others. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.