Helena Barbagelata is an award-winning high-fashion model, multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, writer, researcher, and activist. She has received multiple artistic awards from the Onassis Foundation, the Academy of Fine Arts of St. Petersburg, and the Ministry of Culture of Greece, among others. She is a member of the Israeli Artist Network, the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, the Society of Jewish Artists (SoJa), the Young Italian Artists Association (GAI), and the Organization for the Democratization of the Visual Arts (OBDK). Her work combines mixed media, sculpture, painting, video, dance, and sound art. She is the author of several collections of poetry, short stories, essays, and plays, and has published articles in various magazines and anthologies.

Katherine J. Barrett lives in rural Nova Scotia / Mi’kma’ki. Her work has appeared in Geist, The Malahat Review, The New Quarterly, Quiddity International Literary Journal, and many other publications. Her chapbook, a disobedient gathering: poems for plants who can’t stay put, was published in 2024. Website: katherinejbarrett.com

Julie Benesh is the author of the poetry collection Initial Conditions and the chapbook About Time. She has been published in Tin House, Another Chicago Magazine, Florida Review, and others, earned an MFA from Warren Wilson College, and received an Illinois Arts Council Grant. She works as a professor and management consultant and holds a PhD in human and organizational systems. She recently moved from Chicago to Black Mountain, North Carolina.

Daniel Brennan is a queer writer, romantic, and coffee devotee from New York City. When not working his day job in advertising, he can be found in the trenches of queer nightlife (producing and attending more events than his sleep schedule would prefer). His poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and he has appeared in numerous publications, including The Penn Review,  Shō Poetry Journal, and Trampset.

Allison Camp is a Washington State native, now living and working in North Carolina. A scientist by training, Allison has a deep affinity for biology and the fascinating details that abound in nature, so much so that she compulsively picks up acorns, insect wings, feathers, and other treasures. Substack: allisoncamp.substack.com / Instagram: @eclectic.curiosity.

Trinity Catlin is a writer from Los Angeles. They hold an MA in English from Loyola Marymount University and are currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at New York University. Their debut chapbook, Bone Hunting, was published by Cathexis Northwest Press in 2024. Their work has appeared in The Chestnut Review, Broken Antler Magazine, Bicoastal Review, and other publications. Instagram: @trinitycatlin

Andreea Ceplinschi is a Romanian immigrant writer, photographer, graphic designer, waitress, and kitchen witch. Her writing spans poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, and is featured in Solstice Literary Magazine, One Art, Bulb Culture Collective, The Quarter(ly), Bicoastal Review, JAKE: The Anti-Literary Magazine, Does It Have Pockets, and elsewhere. Website: poetryandbookdesign.com / Instagram: @loveliketheproletariat

Constance Clark has published poems online in Jerry Jazz Musician, Right Hand Pointing, Vita Poetica, Kosmos, Litbreak, and elsewhere. Other poems have appeared in print anthologies. From her current manuscript, What the Moon Never Told Me: The Microseasons of the Northeast, several poems are forthcoming in journals and online (The Dewdrop, Hawk & Whippoorwill). Her work embodies the essence and grief of impermanence, along with the full body immersion and intimacy of walking the seasons. It invites witness to fleeting beauty and the fragile yet unforgiving natural forces that break us open and sustain us. Clark, a nature enthusiast inspired by micro-dose epiphanies, lives and writes in central New Jersey.

Barbara Daniels’ Talk to the Lioness was published by Casa de Cinco Hermanas. Her other poetry collections are Rose Fever and four chapbooks: Moon Kitchen, Black Sails, Quinn & Marie, and The Woman Who Tries to Believe. Her poems have appeared in Good River Review, Book of Matches, Neologism, Rust & Moth, Lake, Cider Press Review, and elsewhere. She received four fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

Mary Kay Delaney, Ph.D., is an educator and poet who finds herself in Denver, Colorado after three decades of living in North Carolina. She served as professor of education at Meredith College, Raleigh, North Carolina, and as visiting clinical professor at the University of Denver. She is a 2022 graduate of the Poetry Collective, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, Denver. She spends her days talking to her dog, reading, writing, resisting, and making. Find her poetry in Ekphrastic Review and Professing Education.

Lisa DellaPorta holds a BS in English Teaching from West Chester University and lives in the deep woods of Philadelphia. Recent publication credits for her work include The Washington Square Review, New Letters, and The Bookends Review. Find her regular photo essays on Instagram @dellaporta_writes and on Bluesky @lisadellaporta.

Meg Dermody is a poet and lecturer based in southwest Colorado and originally from the coastal South. Her work appears in Recenter Press Poetry Journal, Landfill, Obliterat, and others. She writes toward surreal ecologies of the body: poems where grief and intimacy tangle with hauntings, creaturely transformations, and the divine/grotesque/divine. Meg teaches at Fort Lewis College and spends her time thinking about domestic strangeness, eco-mysticism, and how to be porous to a landscape. Instagram: @stultifies

Ryan Di Francesco is a neurodivergent Canadian writer and teacher. His writing has appeared in The Toronto Star and is published or forthcoming in Acta Victoriana, Soliloquies Anthology, Pinhole Poetry, Pacific Review, Rawhead, The Pit Periodical, Milwaukee Avenue Messenger, Shoegaze Literary, and elsewhere. He is Editor in Chief of Shadow and Sax, an independent literary and arts press. His chapbooks include Mirage of Burning Things (Parlyaree Press), Skeleton Mine Disaster (Bottlecap Press), and The Paper Hound and Canadian Classic (Alien Buddha Press). A poetry collection is forthcoming from Ethel Zine & Micro Press. He was shortlisted for the Rhonda Gail Williford Poetry Prize.

Dolo Diaz is a scientist / poet with roots in Spain, currently residing in California. Her work has appeared in One Art, The Summerset Review, Third Wednesday, and The Lake, among others. Website: dolodiaz.com

Nicole Farmer has published three books of poetry: Wet Underbelly Wind (Finishing Line Press 2022), Honest Sonnets (Kelsay Books 2023), and Open Heart (Kelsay Books, 2025). Her memoir in haibun, My Life as a Dog, will be published in 2026. Her poems have been published in Wisconsin Review, Suisun Valley Review, Apricity, Little Patuxent Review, Poetry South, Kakalak, and many other journals. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with her actor husband and their stubborn terrier.

Jenna Wysong Filbrun is the author of Running Toward Water (Shanti Arts, 2026). Her poems have appeared in The Dewdrop, Deep Wild Journal, One Art, and other publications. She practices poetry to deepen her awareness of connection. Instagram: @jwfilbrun

Colby Flade is a Midwest-based gay writer and artist with a deep love of coffee, peace, and nature. He works full time in human services and serves as an editor for Beyond Words Literary Magazine, based in Berlin. Find him on Instagram @theflade, or online at theflade.com and blueworldliterary.weebly.com.

Valentina Fulginiti is a bilingual writer based in Ithaca, NY. An alumna of the Universities of Bologna and Toronto, she teaches Italian language at Cornell University. Her debut novel, Nessuna di queste vite mi appartiene (Excogita, 2025), won the Premio Bianciardi inediti in Italy in 2024. Her poetry has appeared in Sacramento Literary Review, Sky Island Journal, January House Literary Journal, and other venues. She is also a volunteer reader of poetry for Wildscape Literary Journal.

Jeremiah Gilbert is an award-winning photographer and travel writer. His travels have taken him to over a hundred countries and all seven continents, while his photography has been published internationally and exhibited worldwide. He is the author of four travel books, including Can’t Get Here from There: Fifty Tales of Travel, From Tibet to Egypt: Early Travels After a Late Start, and On to Plan C: A Return to Travel. His most recent, Around the World in Eighty Photos, is out now. Instagram: @jg_travels

Emily Hall’s fiction, nonfiction, and book reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in places such as Passages North, Portland Review, Necessary Fiction, Blood Orange Review, Cherry Tree, The Plentitudes, 100 Word Story, and 50-Word Stories. She has a PhD in contemporary Anglophone fiction from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and she is a prose reader for West Trade Review. She lives in North Carolina with her husband.

Kerry J. Heckman is a mental health therapist and writer based in Seattle, home of the Coast Salish people. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Creative Writing at the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. Her work has appeared in North American Review, Multiplicity Magazine, Talking River Review, and Thimble Literary Magazine, among other publications. Website: kerryjheckman.com / Instagram: @kerryjwriter

Patricia Hemminger’s poems are inspired by her love of nature and her science background. Her poems have been published in Cider Press Review, Streetlight Magazine, Humana Obscura, The Write Launch, and SLANT, and in her chapbooks What Do We Know of Time? and All Things Gone. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and graduate of NYU’s Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program and of Drew University’s MFA Poetry and Poetry in Translation Program. She is currently a producer of Safer Stuff, a documentary focused on solutions to environmental pollution.

Dennis Hinrichsen’s twelfth book of poems, dementia lyrics, appeared from Green Linden Press in 2026. He has new poems appearing or forthcoming in Anti-Heroin Chic, Ballast, Bombay Gin Literary Review, Diode, Handwritten & Co., Heavy Feather Review, The Indianapolis Review, Rawhead, and The Shore. He lives in Lansing, Michigan, where he freelances and offers poetry workshops. Website: dennishinrichsen.com / Instagram: @dennis.hinrichsen.7

Haley Hodges received her MFA from Seattle Pacific University in 2025. She holds additional qualifications from Hope College, Shenandoah Conservatory, and Oxford University. Her work has been featured in Cassandra Voices, Only Poems, t’ART, Luna Luna, and elsewhere. Her debut book of poems, Eros Rex, was published by Orison Books in 2026.

Stacey C. Johnson is the author of Flight Songs (Finishing Line Press, 2024) and her essays, poems, fiction, and hybrid work have appeared widely in literary journals, anthologies, and awards nominations. She teaches literature and creative writing and is currently working on a book-length project exploring creativity, care, and survival in precarious times. Her work often examines language as a practice of attention and resistance in moments of personal and collective precarity.

Beth Kanell lives in northeastern Vermont among rivers, rocks, and writers. Her poems seek comfortable seats in small, well-lit places, including The Comstock Review, Indianapolis Review, Gyroscope Review, The Post-Grad Journal, Persimmon Tree, Northwind Treasury, RockPaperPoem, and Rise Up Review. Her collection, Thresholds, was published by Kelsay Books in 2026.

Olga Katsovskiy is a coffee-powered writer, educator, healthcare administrator, and Editor in Chief at JMWW Journal. Her essays have appeared in Atticus Review: The Attic, Barzakh Magazine, Brevity Blog, Pithead Chapel, Short Reads, and elsewhere. Website: writingincurves.com

Molly Klingler is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Moscow, Idaho. She is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Idaho. In her art, she works to express movement through a static medium, as well as the collective energy of the surrounding environment. Molly is drawn to multiple mediums for the way their unique processes result in pieces that convey different aspects of what she hopes to communicate.

Keith Kozloff is a photographer and mixed-media (photo encaustic) artist whose work is primarily exhibited in galleries in the Washington, DC region. After a long career protecting the environment, he incorporates his love and awe toward the natural world in his compositions, as well as his sadness around humanity’s disruption of natural cycles. He seeks opportunities to collaborate with others, as in a 2025 project in which he commissioned fifteen local poets to write pieces in response to his artwork. When not making art, Keith tilts at political windmills, takes his spouse on mystery dates, and combines random ingredients found in his kitchen pantry to make surprising meals.

Nathan Larson grew up across the United States, from the Rocky Mountains to the Green Mountains. He discovered photography at a young age and began writing poetry and essays while studying at the University of Chicago. He has worked as a roofer, dug hazardous waste pits in the western deserts, founded a theatre company, helped reintroduce the Mexican wolf in the Southwest, and owned and operated outdoor adventure schools and retail shops across the U.S. and Canada. He co-founded a gastropub in a restored railway station and, with his siblings, a small luxury inn in the former home of Maxwell Perkins, the legendary editor of Hemingway and Fitzgerald. Larson has published two monographs—Avian and Cloud Hunter—as well as two books in the Why We Stay series. His photographs have appeared in magazines, on book covers, and in galleries and collections around the world. His licensed work is currently represented by Wild Apple Graphics.

Blake Lavia is a multimedia artist and community organizer. Their art practice dances between writing, video, photography, sculpture, animation, and mixed-media illustration. Lavia is currently working on a speculative illustrated fiction series of eight novels titled Panoptic Snow. They also work with the ecocentric storytelling collective Talking Wings and the non-profit Talking Rivers (which they helped found) to honor the Rights and Voice of Nature. Website: blakelavia.com / Instagram: @blakephotoart

Hannah Levy is a writer living in Northern California. She’s been published in Luna Luna Magazine, Gather Poets, Humana Obscura, Variant Literature, HAD, and elsewhere. She is Editor in Chief of The Rebis, a tarot-themed print literary anthology. In her free time, she hikes in the redwoods, rides horses, and plays extensive make-believe games with her daughter.

Valerie Martínez is the author of five books of poetry, including Absence, Luminescent (winner of the Larry Levis Prize) and two book-length works (Each and Her and Count) as well as a chapbook of poetry and prose (A Hundred Little Mouths), and a book of translations (of Uruguay’s Delmira Agustini). Her poems have been published in The Best American Poetry, Touching the Fire: Fifteen Poets of Today’s Latino Renaissance, Ley Lines, New American Poetry: A Breadloaf Anthology, Puerto del Sol, American Poetry Review, AGNI, and Poetry. Valerie has a BA from Vassar College and an MFA from the University of Arizona. She taught poetry for over twenty years, including at the University of Arizona, Ursinus College, New Mexico Highlands University, the Institute for American Indian Arts (IAIA), the University of Miami, and the College of Santa Fe. She was the Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico from 2008-2010.

Jackie McClure writes poetry and fiction aiming to illuminate commonplace segments of our shared landscapes. Her poetry can be found in a variety of literary journals and anthologies, including Humana Obscura, Penumbra, The Nature of Our Times, Split Rock Review, Locust Shells Journal, Mocking Heart Review, and Sage (Yale School of the Environment). She publishes new work regularly on her Substack, Pouring Word Tea. She holds an MFA in writing from Goddard College and retired from a career working with interdisciplinary programs in higher education. She lives in the Cascadia bioregion in the northwest corner of Washington State.

Wesley Scott McMasters teaches and writes in East Tennessee with his wife, Caroline, and their dog, Poet (who came with the name, they swear). He is the poetry editor for Red Branch Review and an editor for Red Flag Poetry. He is the author of Trying to Be a Person (Words Dance, 2016), In Which My Lover Tells Me About the Nature of Wild Things (Mammoth Books, 2020), and The Bathtub Madonna (Riverdog, 2022).

Judith Mikesch-McKenzie is a teacher, writer, actor, and producer living in the Pacific Northwest. She has traveled widely, but is always drawn to the Rocky Mountains as one place that feeds her soul. Writing is her home. Her poems have been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize and have appeared in Calyx: A Journal of Art and Poetry by Women, Plainsongs Magazine, Clackamas Literary Review, Monterey Poetry Review, Cirque, Wild Roof Journal, and over forty others. She is a wee bit of an Irish curmudgeon, but her friends seem to like that about her.

Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Bruce Parker has published three chapbooks, Ramadan in Summer (Finishing Line Press, 2022), Tears for Things (Plan B Press, 2024), and Marriage: A History (Finishing Line Press, 2026). He holds an MA in secondary education from the University of New Mexico. His work appears in Triggerfish Critical Review, Wild Roof Journal, Cerasus (UK), The Brussels Review (Belgium), Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Paula Praeger is an artist and a writer. Her prints have been exhibited in the United States and abroad, and she has contributed artwork to literary magazines. Her poems were published in Hindsight, Cancer, Months to Years, Close Up, Visible Ink anthologies, The Poetry Distillery, Crab Creek Review, Epistle Literary Magazine, and Sad Girls Club and Humans of the World blogs. Website: paulapraeger.com / Instagram: @paulapraeger 

Lexi Rosen is a queer Greek-American writer from the Chicagoland area. She writes about true things like kissing girls and reading coffee grounds and waning crescent moons. She writes about wanting things, too, and being scared of having them. She is afraid of geese. Lexi serves as Editor in Chief and Poetry Editor of Silly Goose Press, and she studied Fiction at University of Redlands and holds a dual-genre MFA in Fiction and Poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work can be found at Outskirts, Maudlin House, HAD, Past Ten, Bullshit Lit!, and Fugue. Website: lexirosenwrites.com / Instagram: @lex.rosen / Others: @lexirosenwrites

Ella Shively is a writer and naturalist from Wisconsin. She is currently working toward her MFA in Poetry at Cornell University. Her writing has been published in Dunes Review, Poetose, SoFloPoJo, and elsewhere. Instagram: @shivelywrites

With a passion for continuous learning and a commitment to collecting histories across media—visual art, music, cinema, and fashion—Emma Sleva enthusiastically carries on artistic legacies through a critical lens, weaving the past into the present to cultivate a future that honors creativity across eras. Emma is a proud resident of Cleveland, Ohio and has been writing poetry for over two decades. A lifelong fan of classic Hollywood, lover of postmodernism, and amateur collage artist, Emma’s work pieces together images of the twentieth century for today’s readers. She works in higher education and has a background in film appreciation and museum studies.

Marin Smith is a wordwrangler, poet, essayist, mother, and an Enneagram 4. She has an MA in English from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and her work has been published in MER Literary, Milk Art Journal, Literary Mama, Split Rock Review, Oregon English Journal, CALYX Journal, DEHP Journal, and others. She is co-editor of Abraxas Review. You’ll find her in the garden, coffee in hand, or connect with her at marinsmithwrites.wordpress.com.

Ellen Stone advises a poetry club at Community High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she taught in the public schools and raised three daughters with her husband. Ellen co-hosts a monthly poetry series, Skazat!, and is an editor at the Public School Poetry literary journal. She is the author of Everybody Wants to Keep the Moon Inside Them (Mayapple Press, 2025), What Is in the Blood (Mayapple Press, 2020), and The Solid Living World (winner of Michigan Writers’ Cooperative Press chapbook contest, 2013). Ellen’s poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Website: ellenstone.org

Daniela Summerlin is an Appalachian visual artist and poet from East Tennessee. Summerlin holds a BA in English from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and she’s currently an MFA candidate at the University of Kentucky. Much of Summerlin’s work concerns womanhood, regional flora/fauna, and religion in southern Appalachia. 

Nicholas Trandahl is an award-winning Wyoming poet, photographer, and journalist. He is a community leader, mental health and suicide prevention advocate, and a disabled U.S. Army veteran. He has been awarded the Wyoming Writers Milestone Award, and his poems have received several nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Trandahl is the author of seven poetry collections, and his poetry and photography have appeared in various literary journals.

Ronald Walker is an artist living in the Sacramento area of California. He works in a style he calls Suburban Primitive. This style combines his interest in the origins and functions of art, along with life in the suburbs. His work concerns itself not so much with visual reality as with the emotional, psychological, and intellectual issues from the environment in which he lives.

Lindsey Warren received her MFA from Cornell University, and her first three collections (Unfinished Child, Archangel & the Overlooked, and Sentence, Forest) were published by Spuyten Duyvil. Her collection Saint October won the Test Site Poetry Series and will be published by the University of Nevada Press in 2026. She has had many poem collages published in various journals, including Fugue, Action, Spectacle, Wild Roof Journal, and Miracle Monocle. Lindsey lives in Ardencroft, Delaware with her husband and doggo.

Erika Zambello is a writer, artist, and communications specialist living and working in North Florida. Her poems are based on her commitment to ethical conservation and exploring the natural world. She has written five non-fiction nature books with AdventureKeen Press, as well as articles for Backpacker, BirdWatching Daily, National Parks Magazine, National Geographic Adventure, Maine Sportsman, Florida Sportsman, DUN Magazine, Piecework, Cast On, Spin Off, Farm and Fiber, Interweave, and more. Her art pieces have been featured in the NY Times, Parade Magazine, and Vogue Knitting, as well as in regional museums and art centers throughout Florida and Georgia. Two of her nature poems were published by Prose Poems, and she publishes poems on both @knittingzdaily and @a_day_in_the_landscape on Instagram.

Linlang Zhao is a writer, poet, and artist from a migration-based family. Her background as an immigrant informs her creative exploration of continuity, change, and belonging. She is Editor in Chief of Fourteen Lines, a magazine focused on the art of translation. Her work can be found in Sierra Nevada Review and Stepping Stone Magazine, and in her free time, she enjoys writing and drawing.