Contributors
Grace Turney
Grace Turney is an author and artist who specializes in astrology, pop culture, and literature. Her writing and artwork have appeared in shows, print, and online. Website: littlegnomeart.org Instagram: @littlegnomeart
Rachel Turney
Dr. Rachel Turney is an educator and teacher trainer in Colorado. Her poems and prose are published (or are in press) in The Font Journal, Five Fleas, Nap Lit, Ranger, Through Lines Magazine, Bare Back, and Teach Write Journal. Her photography appears in By the Beach. Blog: turneytalks.wordpress.com
Katie Thorn
Katie Thorn, currently studying creative writing online through Cornwall's Falmouth University, divides her time between baking and writing. When she's not decorating cupcakes or losing hours to historical research, she can often be found snuggling her cats or listening to odd musicals.
Lauren Oertel
Lauren Oertel is a writer and community organizer covering Texas and New Mexico for a nationwide nonprofit that works on voting rights, policy advocacy, elections, and antiracism. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her partner Orlando and their tuxedo cat Apollonia.
Elizabeth Rosen
Elizabeth Rosen is a native New Orleanian, and a transplant to small-town Pennsylvania. She misses Gulf oysters and Southern ghost stories, but has become appreciative of snow and colorful scarves. Color-wise, she’s an autumn. Music-wise, she’s an MTV-baby. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as North American Review, JMWW, Atticus Review, New Flash Fiction Review, Pithead Chapel, and others. Learn more at www.thewritelifeliz.com.
Kaelin Tester
Kaelin Tester is a rising artist whose work focuses on surviving queer abuse, addiction, and grief. Her work has previously been published in Calliope and Last Stanza Poetry Journal. She was awarded the Creative Scholar Grant by Chapman University in 2021. You can follow her on Instagram @kaelintart.
Diana Raab
Diana Raab, MFA, PhD, is a memoirist, poet, speaker, and award-winning author of fourteen books of poetry and nonfiction. Her writings have been published and anthologized worldwide. Her latest book is HUMMINGBIRD: MESSAGES FROM MY ANCESTORS. (Modern History Press, January 2024). She writes for Psychology Today, The Wisdom Daily, and Thrive Global and is a guest writer for many others. Visit her at: dianaraab.com
Candice M. Kelsey
Candice M. Kelsey [she/her] is a writer and educator living in both Los Angeles and Georgia. Often anchored in the seemingly quotidian, her work explores the intersections of place, body, and belonging; she has been featured in SWWIM, The Laurel Review, Poet Lore, Passengers Journal, and About Place among others. A finalist for Best Microfiction 2023 and longlisted by Wigleaf's Top 50 Short Fiction 2024, she is the author of seven books with the eighth releasing summer of 2025. Candice mentors an incarcerated writer through PEN America, reads for The Los Angeles Review, and binge watches "Murder, She Wrote" with her eight cats. Please find her @Feed_Me_Poetry and https://www.candicemkelseypoet.c
Laura Shell
Laura Shell has been published in Maudlin House, Citron Review, and many others. Her first anthology of paranormal stories, The Canine Collection, was released this year. If she isn't writing, reading, or submitting short fiction, she's slinging snarky jabs at her husband of 35 years. You can find out more about her at https://laurashellhorror.wordpress.com.
Elizabeth Cohen
Elizabeth Cohen is the author of The Family on Beartown Road, a memoir; The Hypothetical Girl, short stories, and four books of poetry. On November 18th, her newest book of poems, Mermaids of Albuquerque, will be available.
For more information, go to elizabethcohen.netShe holds an MFA from Columbia University
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Ellen Notbohm
Ellen Notbohm’s work touches millions in more than twenty-five languages. She is author of the award-winning novel The River by Starlight and the nonfiction classic Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew. Her short fiction and creative nonfiction appears in many literary journals including Eclectica, Brevity, Halfway Down the Stairs, Fabula Argentea, Eunoia Review, Bookends Review, Does It Have Pockets?, and in anthologies in the US and abroad.
Irina Tall
Irina Tall (Novikova) is an artist, graphic artist, illustrator. She graduated from the State Academy of Slavic Cultures with a degree in art, and also has a bachelor's degree in design. In 2022, her short story was included in the collection "The 50 Best Short Stories", and her poem was published in the collection of poetry "The wonders of winter"
Kritika Narula
Kritika Narula is a writer, journalist, content marketer (& retired overthinker). Born and raised in Delhi, she spends her time in the company of books, pens, and coffee. Her travels inform her writing, and her management skills inform her travels. She holds a Masters in Media Management from the University of Glasgow. You can find her on Instagram or Threads @kritika.narula
Sarah Rubenstein
Bio: Sarah Rubinstein is a writer and journalist living in Missouri. She is also a recent graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism. You can follow her on Twitter @sarah_rubin16.
C. Amber Richards
C. Amber Richards is a professional dreamer, amateur killjoy, and unreasonable poet working from the Austin area in Texas. Her poems have been published in The Austin Chronicle, This Order, and Empyrean Literary Magazine.
Ali Rowland
Ali Rowland is a writer from Northumberland whose first poetry collection Rooted was published by Maplestreet Press in 2024. You can follow her work at Musings of a Mad Woman on Substack.
Wendy Palmer
Wendy Palmer is an ex-social worker who lives on an island. Her work has appeared in Rosebud, New Millennium, Nimrod, Confluence, Sixfold, Lunch Ticket, Spillwords, Martha’s Vineyard Magazine, Sad Girl Diaries and various anthologies. She is working on a novel about Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 19th century radical feminist, described at the time as a genius, also described as hysterical and overly absorbed by the woman question.
Miranda Jensen
Miranda Jensen is a creative activist with roots in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through her writing and critical theory, she seeks not merely to interpret the world, but to change it. You can find her at www.mirandajensen.com
Andreea Ceplinschi is a Romanian immigrant writer, photographer, graphic designer, waitress, and kitchen witch living and working at the tip of Cape Cod. Her writing includes poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction, published and forthcoming in Solstice Literary Magazine, 86logic, One Art, Wild Roof Journal, The Quarter(ly), The Keeping Room, and elsewhere. You can learn more about her at www.poetryandbookdesign.com
Andreea Ceplinschi
Donna Cameron
Donna Cameron’s work touches readers worldwide in many languages. She is author of the Nautilus gold medal winner, A Year of Living Kindly, and the popular blog by the same title. Her short prose appears in many literary journals, anthologies, and other publications in the US and abroad, including The Washington Post, Writer’s Digest, Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, Brevity, and Eclectica.
J.B. Polk
Polish by birth, a citizen of the world by choice. First story short-listed for the Irish Independent/Hennessy Awards, Ireland, 1996. Since she went back to writing in 2020, more than 100 of her stories, flash fiction and non-fiction, have been accepted for publication. She has recently won 1st prize in the International Human Rights Arts Movement literary contest.
