Lisa Allen is Boston-based writer and freelance journalist. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in The Boston Globe, Meridian, Arrowsmith Press, Ghost City Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, Ghost Parachute, and elsewhere. She is currently at work on a book. Find more of her writing here: https://www.lisa-allen.com/.
Marina Burana is an Argentine writer and painter of Algerian and Italian descent, based in Taiwan. She writes both in English and Spanish and keeps a journal in Chinese and French. She has published 3 books of short stories and her work has appeared in numerous journals, newspapers, and magazines. Her plays have had stage readings and full productions in the US, in Taiwan and elsewhere. She is currently a Reviews Editor for Action, Spectacle magazine and a poetry reader for The Adroit Journal. Marina is also an amateur violinist, a puppeteer/puppet builder, and a facilitator of participatory art projects for different types of communities.
Janée J. Baugher is the author of the only craft book of its kind, The Ekphrastic Writer: Creating Art-Influenced Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction (McFarland, 2020), as well as two full-length poetry collections. She’s an assistant editor at Boulevard magazine, and she’s been featured on Seattle Channel TV and at the Library of Congress. The Seattle Office of Arts & Culture awarded her a 2024-2025 CityArtist grant. She won Tupelo Press’s Dorset Prize for The Andrew Wyeth Chronicles (forthcoming 2026).
jason b. crawford (He/They) born in Washington DC and raised in Lansing, MI, is the author of Year of the Unicorn Kidz. Their second collection, YEET! is the winner of the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Prize and will be published Fall 2025. They have been published in POETRY Magazine, Academy of American Poets, Cincinnati Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, RHINO Poetry, among others. They are a 2023 Emerging Writers Fellow for Lambda Literary and hold their MFA in Poetry from The New School.
Abbie Doll is a Columbus, OH writer with an MFA from Lindenwood University. Her work has been featured in places such as Door Is a Jar Magazine, 3:AM Magazine, and Pinch Journal Online, while also receiving nominations for The Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, and the Pushcart Prize, as well as being longlisted for The Wigleaf Top 50. She serves as a Fiction Editor at Identity Theory. Connect on socials @AbbieDollWrites.
Rocko Foltz is a poet-scholar from Cleveland, Ohio. Rocko holds an MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics from Naropa University, where they were the Allen Ginsberg Fellow. They are currently pursuing a PhD in Literature at the University of Arizona. Rocko’s poetry can be found in Reed Magazine, J Journal, Ink in Thirds, and elsewhere.
David Hopson is the author of the novel, All the Lasting Things (Little A., 2016). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Copper Nickel, The Adroit Journal, and Foglifter. He earned his MFA at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Cindy King is author of the poetry collection, Zoonotic (2022), and two poetry chapbooks, Easy Street (2021) and Lesser Birds of Paradise (2022). She was born in Cleveland, Ohio and grew up swimming in the shadows of the hyperboloid cooling towers on the shores of Lake Erie. She currently lives in Utah, where she is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Utah Tech University and editor of The Southern Quill and Route 7 Review. Cindy’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Sun, Callaloo, The Threepenny Review, New England Review, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, Denver Quarterly, American Literary Review, Gettysburg Review, Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere.
A practicing lawyer in Vermont, Justin Kolber is a recovered ripped dude, an athlete, activist, and author of Ripped, the first memoir about the dual extremes of muscle and food disorders. Read more at Slate, Newsweek, The Good Men Project, Open Secrets, The Haven, Greener Pastures and free newsletter at justinkolber.substack.com/
Jill Mceldowney is the author of Otherlight (YesYes Books 2023), a finalist for the Julie Suk Prize. She is a recent National Poetry Series finalist. She is a founder and editor of Madhouse Press. Her previously published work can be found in journals such as Prairie Schooner, Fugue, Vinyl, and Muzzle.
Poet, memoirist, and translator, Rajiv Mohabir is the author of five books of poetry, the latest is Seabeast (Four Way Books 2025). His books have been awarded gold in Forward Indies and Eric Hoffer Medal Provocateur. His other honors include being finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/America Open Book Award, the Lambda Literary Award, the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, and both second place and finalist for the Guyana Prize for Literature. His translations have won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the American Academy of Poets. Currently he teaches poetry at the University of Colorado Boulder.
samodH Porawagamage is the author of becoming sam (Burnside Review Press) and All the Salty Sand in Our Mouths (forthcoming from Airlie Press). His writing focusses on the Sri Lankan Civil War, poverty & underdevelopment, colonial & imperial atrocities, and disproportionate impacts of climate change on rural & marginalized communities.
Caiti Quatmann (she/they) is a disabled and queer writer residing in St. Louis. She is the author of three poetry collections and Editor-in-Chief for HNDL Mag. Her work is forthcoming or appearing in McSweeney’s, Rattle, Neologism Poetry Journal, North Dakota Review, The Bitchin’ Kitsch, Thread, and others. Find her on social media @CaitiTalks.
Anna Smetanenko is a multidisciplinary artist from Zhytomyr, Ukraine, researching concepts such as consciousness, AI and spirituality. She received BA of Fine Arts in Academie Minerva, The Netherlands, Groningen. Anna lives and works in Kyiv region. Her prose about Maidan was published in Rising for Freedom and Democracy in Ukraine (Brine Books Publishing). Artworks were exhibited in some international galleries and published in various international online and print magazines. On February 24, 2022 russia attacked Anna’s homeland, Ukraine. We need to stay together!
Henry Lloyd Sodergren grew up in Connecticut and is currently an undergraduate student at DePaul University in Chicago, where he studies English literature and creative writing. He is 21 years old and will graduate this spring. This summer, he will spend three weeks at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in a class led by Claire Lombardo, and you can find his poetry in Crook & Folly’s 44th issue.
Kelsey Stewart writes satirical fiction focused on domestic life and womanhood. Her work examines ordinary structures—homes, routines, marriage, and family— often through humor and surreal elements. She is a master’s degree candidate in Creative Writing and Literature at Harvard.
Conan Tan is a Singaporean Chinese writer and undergraduate at the University of Oxford. He is the recipient of the 2024 Martin Starkie Prize, Singapore’s 2022 National Poetry Competition, and a finalist in the 2024 Oxford Poetry Prize. A 2025/26 Barbican Young Poet, his poems appear in Pleiades, Salt Hill, Cincinnati Review, Passages North, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. Instagram: @conan.tan | Website: conantan.com.
Eileen Frankel Tomarchio lives in a small NJ town, where she’s been a librarian for 18 years. Her writing appears in The Baltimore Review, Passages North, Porter House Review, Hunger Mountain, The Forge, Atticus Review, The Penn Review, and elsewhere. Her work is featured in the Best Small Fictions 2023 anthology. She holds an MFA from NYU/ Tisch School of the Arts. Find her on Bluesky @eileentomarchio.bsky.social and Instagram @gondaline26.
Sara Moore Wagner is the author of three prize winning full length books of poetry, Lady Wing Shot, winner of the 2023 Blue Lynx Prize (2024), Swan Wife (Cider Press Review Editors Prize, 2022), and Hillbilly Madonna (Driftwood Press Manuscript Prize, 2022), and of two chapbooks, Tumbling After (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2022) and Hooked Through (2017). She is also a 2022 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award recipient, a 2021 National Poetry Series Finalist, and the recipient of a 2019 Sustainable Arts Foundation award. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in many journals and anthologies including Rhino, Gulf Coast, Smartish Pace, Waxwing, Beloit Poetry Journal, and The Cincinnati Review, among others. In 2023, she became the Managing Poetry Editor of Driftwood Press.
Originally from Mississippi, Hannah V Warren is a poet, translator, and scholar living between Birmingham, AL, and Gambier, OH, where she works at Kenyon College as the Kenyon Review Fellow. Along with authoring the poetry collections Hurricane Pastoral (Sundress 2027) and Slaughterhouse for Old Wives’ Tales (Sundress 2024), she has received support from Fulbright-Germany, the PEN/Heim Translation Grant, Bread Loaf, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Warren’s writing and research often explore the intersections of gender and perceived monstrosity.
Cassondra Windwalker writes full-time from the foothills of Colorado Rockies. Her tenth novel, THE GARDENER’S WIFE’S MISTRESS, will be published in 2026 by Type Eighteen Books. Her fourth and fifth poetry collections, PAINT-BY-NUMBERS WORLD and THE FISHING CAT, will also be published in 2026 by Serving House Books and Fernwood Press. She enjoys interacting with readers through social media, smoke signals, or secret hand signs.
Travis Wright is a poet and professor based in northern Virginia. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, and was a Junior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford. His poems have appeared in Brooklyn Quarterly, The Windhover, Dappled Things, Calf Magazine, and Anthropocene (UK), among others, and his chapbook, A Woodland Lexicon, is forthcoming from Little Gidding Press.