E.Q. Adair is the host of The Publishing Workshop at The Write Practice. By day, she writes business content for start-ups, by night, she writes literary fiction exploring the consequences of life choices. Researching her upcoming debut novel, Parade Wounds Burn Like Suns, she became a certified sherry wine specialist through the House of Lustau in Jerez, Spain. Vacationing in the Alps a decade ago, she fell in love with the mountains and decided to stay forever. She enjoys skiing, hiking, sailing, and finding the perfect wine to pair with dinner. She lives in Chamonix, France. You can find her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/e.q.adair/

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Jonathan S. Baker lives and works in Evansville, Indiana along the banks of the Ohio River. They are the author of 12 books of poetry including Cock of the Walk (Laughing Ronin Press, 2022) and Centaur (Dark Heart Press, 2023). They are also the editor-in-chief at Pure Sleeze Press.

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Abi Burlingham is a published author and freelance artist living in Derbyshire. She has been drawing for as long as she can remember but only took up lino-cutting a couple of years ago. She is mostly inspired by nature and landscapes, and endeavours to create her own colourful and abstract take on the things around her.

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Camille Duran is a freshman at the University of Richmond, double majoring in English and Finance. Along with writing film criticism for The Collegian’s Op-Ed section, she serves as Head of Creative Design for Counterculture Magazine. Her passion for prose, poetry, and photography has been a tenet of her self-expression, and she continues to share her love for the written word and artistic freedom around campus.

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Erin Jamieson (she/her)’s writing has been published in over 100 literary magazines, including two Pushcart Prize nominations. Her poetry chapbook, Fairytales, was published by Bottlecap Press and her most recent chapbook, Remnants, came out in 2024. Her debut novel (Sky of Ashes, Land of Dreams) came out in November 2023.

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Thirdy Japsay is currently finishing his master’s degree in Literary and Cultural Studies. He works as a freelance video editor and a videographer. His interest in poetry revolves around post-confessionalism, memory, trauma, and political discourses. He also teaches in a university in Manila.

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With a BA in English and a few evening courses at Philadelphia art schools, John Langdon is a self-taught graphic designer, ambigram artist, and painter. He taught Lettering courses at Moore College of Art for three years and Typography courses at Drexel University in Philadelphia for twenty-seven years. John is the originator of the art form known as ambigram design. Wordplay, his book of ambigrams, inspired Dan Brown to commission several ambigrams for his book, Angels & Demons, and Ron Howard’s film of the same name.

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Drew Levister (she/her/ #bipoc #pgm) was born and raised in New York City and currently lives in the Lake Tahoe area on the Nevada/ California border near a National Forest.  She is a professional in the music industry and graphic artist.  Drew has found that outward observations of life through poetry and art help her deepen her own inner connection to all. @drewzmuze

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Janet McAdams is the author of the poetry collections Feral and The Island of Lost Luggage, which received an American Book Award. Her chapbook of prose poems, Seven Boxes for the Country After, won the Wick Chapbook competition and was published in 2016. Recent work has appeared in Anti-Heroin Chic and Heavy Feather Review. She lives in Mexico.

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Bruce McRae, a Canadian musician, is a multiple Pushcart nominee with poems published in hundreds of magazines such as Poetry, Rattle and the North American Review. The winner of the 2020 Libretto prize and author of four poetry collections and seven chapbooks, his poems have been broadcast and performed globally.

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Michael Mirolla has published close to 20 poetry and fiction titles. His novella, The Last News Vendor, won the 2020 Hamilton Literary Award. A symposium on Michael’s writing was held on May 25, 2023. He makes his home near Gananoque in the Thousand Islands.

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Jolene Raison is a children’s author, poet and Linguistics lecturer. She holds a Master’s degree in Linguistics and is studying toward a PhD in Linguistics, Languages, Linguistics and Literature. As a cognitive linguist she is interested in exploring the way language, as an encultured phenomenon, shapes our thoughts and connects on the most basic and most profound human levels. She is a member of ZAPP (the South African Poetry Project) and believes poetry is more than a creative expression, it is a life skill.

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Joey Romualdo, a teacher by vocation, is currently employed as a corporate trainer in Dumaguete, Philippines. He has been quitting smoking for the past four years.

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Paris Rosemont is an Asian-Australian poet. Her debut poetry collection Banana Girl was published by WestWords in 2023. Paris writes unflinching poetry that plays within liminal spaces. She takes delight in bringing her poetry to life through multi-disciplinary modes of expression, including theatrical performance.

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Jason Ryberg is the author of eighteen books of poetry, six screenplays, a few short stories, a box full of folders, notebooks and scraps of paper that could one day be (loosely) construed as a novel, and countless love letters, never sent. He is currently an artist-in-residence at both The Prospero Institute of Disquieted P/o/e/t/i/c/s and the Osage Arts Community, and is an editor and designer at Spartan Books.

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Cliff Saunders is the author of several poetry chapbooks, including Mapping the Asphalt Meadows (Slipstream Publications) and The Persistence of Desire (Kindred Spirit Press). His poems have appeared recently in The Rockford Review, Exacting Clam, Concision Poetry Journal, ArLiJo, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, and The Evening Universe.

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Haylie Stopher is a LGBTQ+ writer and artist from Louisville, KY. Her favorite place to write is in the shower. Her first ever publication was at the age of twelve in A Celebration of Poets Anthology (Creative Communication Publishing).

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Donna D. Vitucci has been publishing stories, poems and slices of memoir since 1990. Read selected publications, and information about her 4 novels, at: www.magicmasterminds.com/donnavitucci She is a member of Alamance Artisans Guild, and her painting can be viewed at: Donna D. Vitucci | Alamance Artisans Guild.

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Lucy Yeomans is your local explorer. She holds an English degree from the University of Richmond, enjoys being near bodies of water, and is excited to volunteer with the Peace Corps as her next step in life.