Paul Arney obtained a geology degree in 1994, but he went on to brew beer for a living instead. In 2003, he and his wife quit their jobs to travel.  Upon their return, Paul planned to chase his dream of writing, but you know, the mortgage. In 2011, he pulled out his 401k to start a brewery in the woods, hoping to be left alone. Instead, his brewery gained global notoriety for the beers Paul brewed in the trunk of a tree.  Paul sold his brewery in 2024 and is in the process of writing his first novel. This is Paul's first publication. [email]

Benjamin Bellas currently lives in Miami, Florida. His work have been featured in Puerto Del Sol, Miracle Monocle, New Delta Review, Redivider, LIT, Hunger Mountain, Jet Fuel Review, The Pinch, and F I V E S, amongst others. 

Simeon Berry won the National Poetry Series for his first collection of poetry, Ampersand Revisited (Fence Books), and his second book of poetry, Monograph (University of Georgia Press). He has been an Associate Editor for Ploughshares, and his work has appeared in AGNI, Black Warrior Review, Blackbird, The Iowa Review, and many other journals. [website] [email]

Lila Bonow writes poetry and fiction in Seattle. Her work can be found on Poets.org, in Poetry Northwest, and forthcoming in Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora. [email]

Kenneth M Cale is a lapsed Scot who lives in Oregon and makes word/image things. Publications include the co-authored [with Matthew Kinlin] novel Oberon's Zoetrope (Submersible Press, 2026), Greater Vegas Bleeds into the Dreams of my Cryogenic Slumber (Steel Incisors, 2022), and Midnight Double Feature (C22 Press, 2025 / Sweat Drenched Press, 2020). [bluesky] 

Adrienne Celt is a novelist and cartoonist, living in Berkeley, missing the desert. She's the author of three novels—End of the World House, Invitation to a Bonfire, and The Daughters—and a collection of comics, Apocalypse How? An Existential Bestiary. [website] [email]

irene cooper wrote the poetry collections spare change & even my dreams are over the constant state of anxiety; the chapbook octets; & the novels Found & Committal. she supports AIC-directed creative writing, co-hosts raging writers/spoken words, & teaches in the middle of oregon, where she lives with her people & roxy. 

John Estes is author of three poetry collections: Kingdom Come (C&R Press), Stop Motion Still Life (Apocryphile Press, forthcoming) and Sure Extinction, which won the Antivenom Award from Elixir Press. A book of short fictions, The Irrelevant Self, is also forthcoming. He directs the MFA and Creative Writing Program at The University of Alabama and lives in Tuscaloosa. 

Laura Childs Gill is a writer, photographer, and teacher, living in Miami, Florida. Her forthcoming book, What a House Can Hold, will be published by Autofocus. Her essays have been published in AGNI, The Los Angeles Review, The Bennington Review, Washington Square Review, and Electric Literature, amongst others. [website] [email]

Ashley Hutson is the author of One's Company (W.W. Norton & Co., 2022). Her work has appeared in The Baltimore Review, Granta, Wigleaf, XRAY, and elsewhere. She lives in rural Maryland. [email]

Similar work by Timston Johnston can be found at Denver Quarterly, Bull, Theadcount, Whiskey Paper, and other admirable elsewheres. 

Steven Karl is the author of three books of poetry, most recently I HRT THE CULT YEARS (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press) as well as the chapbook, If Your Lungs Are Skyed Make the Scar Song Echo Until All the Winged Things Bleed Your Poetry (Bloof Books). Recent poetry and non-fiction have appeared in Notre Dame Review, Sixth Finch, LIT, and Hanging Loose. Born in Philadelphia, he currently divides his time between Boston and Tokyo. [website]

Madalena Lamadrid is a Portland-based writer. She a huge fan of Bertrand Russell, David Lewis, and Taylor Swift with a keen interest in syntax systems, fabula, and hermeneutical injustice. Her writing circles topics of illness, grief, levity, and language. On Sundays, she volunteers at the municipal park/actual volcano near her house. [email]

Megan Martin is the author of two books of fictional experiments, NEVERS (Caketrain/Dzanc Reprint), and SERIOUS LITERATURE! (forthcoming from Stalking Horse Press, 2027). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, WebConjunctions, Denver Quarterly, Wigleaf, Split Lip, DREGINALD, X-R-A-Y Lit, and elsewhere. She teaches writing in Cincinnati, where she also co-runs the micropress/collective FTP. [email] [website]

mm/dd/2025 are the authors of gadzooX! Previously, as mm/dd/2020, they authored Residue, also published by Calamari Archive. [email]

olga mikolaivna olga mikolaivna was born in Kyiv and lives in Philadelphia. She co-curates peel lit wth Becca Rae Rose and teaches at Temple University. [website]

Ann Pedone is a writer, book designer, and publisher based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the author of two books of poetry as well as multiple chapbooks. Her poetry, reviews, interviews, and creative non-fiction have been published widely. Ann is the founder and editor-in-chief of Antiphony: a journal & press and Pin//a journal of contemporary poetics.

Matt Reeck's recent translations can be found in Fence, Bombay Literary Magazine, Pittsburgh Review of Books, Denver Quarterly, 128 Lit and in books, most recently, Anthropocene Communism (2025, Verso), The Wound of the Name (2025, Northwestern UP) and 89 Words (2025, Harper-Perennial). Another creative piece from The Undertow of the World can be found currently in Harp & Altar 14. [website] [email]

Robin Robinson is mostly a poet (but also a fiction writer, playwright, and translator) from Northern California, currently based in Brooklyn. You can find his work in Black Warrior Review's Boyfriend Village and elsewhere. [email]

Carrie Shipers's poems have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, and other journals.  She is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Grief Land (University of New Mexico, 2020). [email]

Stefan Sullivan is the author of a memoir set in Siberian oil country (Aufbau/Berlin) and Marx for a Post-Communist Era (Routledge/London). He's also performed over 500 times as a lounge singer/pianist. He lives in Washington DC. [website]

Natasha Tiniacos is a poet, scholar, and translator from Maracaibo, Venezuela, who lives in New York. She writes in English on purpose and in Spanish by accident, or the other way around. She is the author of Against the Regime of the Fluent / Contra el régimen de lo fluido (Ugly Duckling Presse, trans. Rebeca Alderete Baca), Historia privada de un etcétera, and Mujer a fuego lento, and translated Gabriel Dozal's The Border Simulator / El simulador de fronteras (One World) into Spanish. Her work appears in Fence, The Baffler, and elsewhere. [email] [website] 

Dana Wall's work appears or is upcoming in DIAGRAM, Brevity, River Teeth, Tupelo Quarterly, Hunger Mountain, Strange Horizons, Pithead Chapel, The Maine Review, and elsewhere. Dana lives in Manhattan Beach, California. [email]

Andrew Zornoza is the author and photographer of the novel Where I Stay. Born in Houston, Texas, his short fiction, poetry and essays can be found in: AGNI, NPR's Morning Edition, Bomb, The Poetry Foundation, Bookforum, Gastronomica, Pine Mountain, The McNeese Review and many others. He teaches writing, literature, and technology design at The New School for Social Research and at Parsons School of Design. He lives in New York City. [website] [email]