Haley is an art-hungry gardener from Annapolis, Maryland. She has published poetry in Slipstream, Rattle, The Shore Poetry, Breakwater Review, Folio Literary Journal, and elsewhere. She is a University of Memphis MFA Creative Writing program graduate. Her poems are influenced by the intrinsic connections between humans and the environment; obsessed with inhabiting toxic patriarchal voices to satirize the societal systems that oppress the Earth. But sometimes she wakes up and needs to just wade in a pastoral. In her undergrad, she studied Environmental Studies and Creative Writing, with specific focuses on environmental justice, sustainable agriculture, and poetry.

Ellery Beck is an artist of many mediums: poet, silver worker, lino stamp artist, photographer and more. They graduated from Salisbury University with a degree in English and currently work at both a coffee shop & a wine and book store. A Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, they were also the Founding Interview Editor for The Shore Poetry and a reader for Poet Lore. They have poems published or forthcoming in Passages North, Sugar House Review, Typehouse, Atlanta Review, Waccamaw, Cider Press Review and elsewhere.

Silas Denver Melvin (he/him) is a transsexual poet and creative from New Hampshire. His debut book of poetry, GRIT, was published with Sunday Mornings at the River in November of 2020. He has been published with WACK, SCAB, Doghouse Press, Bullshit Lit, Beaver, Toyon Literary, and other outlets. silas is a Best of the Net nominee and a New England Young Writer’s Conference attendee (Middlebury College). He can be found on Instagram @sweatermuppets and on Tumblr/Twitter @sweatermuppet.

Shallom Johnson is an artist, writer, and curator who grew up off-grid in Northern BC. She holds a BFA in Dance and English from Simon Fraser University. Shallom has been working as a creative across a wide range of mediums and genres since 2004. She has exhibited her artwork in Canada, the United States, UK, Europe, Australia, and South Africa. Her murals have been featured in multiple international street art books. Shallom’s nonfiction writing has been published in ION Magazine, Spade Magazine, and others. Her portfolio is online at shallomjohnson.com.

Aarron Sholar is a transgender writer who has been working on lit mags and publishing his own work since 2019. He is originally from Elkridge, MD, he got his BA in English at Salisbury University, and he is an MFA Candidate in CNF at MNSU, Mankato. He LOVES essays that take risks, provide new outlooks on common ideas, etc. He has essays forthcoming and/or published in Dead Skunk Magazine, Sunspot Lit (awarded the Quarterly Editor’s Prize), Broadkill Review (nominated for Best of the Net 2022), Sierra Nevada Review, 45^th Parallel Literary Magazine, Hobart, and others. Interact with him on Twitter (@aarron_sholar) and visit his website to see the pieces he has to offer the world!

Chinonso Nzeh is first Igbo, then a storyteller. His works interrogate grief, gender, sexuality, class, politics, and Igbo history/ontology. His works have been published or are forthcoming in Isele Magazine, Agbowó art, Black Boy Review, Ibadan Arts, Evergreen Review and elsewhere. He thinks of storytelling as a way to comprehend the world’s wonder.

Latitude Brown will eventually graduate college, and afterwards they will pursue more degrees in the hopes of collecting them all. Their favorite things to write about include: the concept of the body, girls who have knives, and procedural murder mysteries. They live in Michigan, their favorite place.

Terin Weinberg earned her MFA from Florida International University in Miami, Florida. She graduated with degrees in Environmental Studies and English from Salisbury University in Maryland. She is a lecturer in the English Department at DeSales University. She has been published in journals including: The Normal School, Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment, Red Earth Review, Dark River Review, Split Rock Review, and Waccamaw. When she isn’t writing or lecturing, she is farming her family’s property in rural New Jersey.

Robin Arble is a poet and writer from the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Beestung, Door Is A Jar, Pøst-, ALOCASIA, Brazos River Review, and Overheard Magazine, among others. They have served as a summer poetry reader for The Massachusetts Review. They study literature and creative writing at Hampshire College.

CD Eskilson is a trans nonbinary poet, editor, and translator. They are a recipient of the C.D. Wright/Academy of American Poets Prize, as well as a Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and Pushcart Prize nominee. Their debut poetry collection, Scream / Queen, is forthcoming from Acre Books in 2025.