Contributor Notes

Lorelei Bacht (she/they) successfully escaped grey skies and red buses to live and write somewhere in the monsoon forest. Their recent writing has appeared and/or is forthcoming in After the Pause, Harpy Hybrid Review, The Inflectionist Review, Beir Bua, Mercurius, Strukturriss, The Inflectionist Review, Sinking City, and others. They are also on Instagram: @lorelei.bacht.writer and on Twitter @bachtlorelei.

Gray Birchby is a queer writer. Their first publication is in an anthology through Grubstreet Boston’s Summer Fellowship.

Harper Campbell currently lives in Vancouver. His work has appeared in the Salt Chuck City Review, the Ormsby Review, Columbia Journal and Lunch Ticket. His translations of the Indonesian poet Chairil Anwar can be found at the Twitter handle @Chairil57115624. He has an honours degree in philosophy and Asian studies from the University of British Columbia.

Julie Flattery’s work has been published or is forthcoming in Idle Ink, Red Fez, Emerge Literary Journal, Brevity‘s Nonfiction Blog, and Meat for Tea. Six of her plays have been performed at the iDiOM theater in Bellingham, WA. She writes professionally about architecture and building design. For the past two years, she has been temporarily living in Texas as a caretaker for her mom, who recently flew away.

Rosie Garland, named by Val McDermid one of the UK’s most compelling LGBT writers, is author of The Night Brother, described by The Times as “A delight… with shades of Angela Carter.”

Diane Gottlieb’s essays, stories, and reviews have appeared in About Place Journal, The VIDA Review, The Rumpus, Hippocampus Magazine, Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and Entropy, among others. She has an MSW, an MEd, and received her MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles where she served as lead editor of creative nonfiction for Lunch Ticket. You can find her at https://dianegottlieb.com and on Twitter @DianeGotAuthor.

Kathleen Hellen’s collection meet me at the bottom is forthcoming in Fall 2022 from Main Street Rag. Her credits include The Only Country Was the Color of My Skin, her prizewinning collection Umberto’s Night, and two chapbooks, The Girl Who Loved Mothra and Pentimento. Featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, her work has appeared in Ascent, Barrow Street, The Carolina Quarterly, Colorado Review, jubilat, New Letters, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, Subtropics, The Sycamore Review, and West Branch, among others. For more on Kathleen, visit https://www.kathleenhellen.com/

Aelita Klausmeier is a poet currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in mathematics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Her work has been awarded the Academy of American Poets College Prize and the Jeffrey L. Weisberg Memorial Prize, and has appeared in several university journals and anthologies.

Virginia Laurie studies English at Washington & Lee University. She has published in Apricity Magazine, South Florida Poetry Journal, Phantom Kangaroo, Cathexis Northwest Press, and more. Find her online at virginialaurie.com.

Lutivini Majanja is a writer from Nairobi, Kenya. She has writing published in Wigleaf, Down River Road, McSweeney’s, Popula, Best Microfiction and more.

Avra Margariti is a queer author and poet from Greece. Avra’s work haunts publications such as Baffling Magazine, Lackington’s, Best Microfiction, and Best Small Fictions. You can find Avra on Twitter (@avramargariti).

Natalie Marino is a poet and physician. Her work appears in Bitter Oleander, Isele Magazine, Leon Literary Review, Rust and Moth, Shelia-Na-Gig online, The Shore,Variant Literature, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Memories of Stars, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press (June 2023). She lives in California.

Amy R. Martin is a producer/screenwriter and essayist based in Vienna, Virginia. Her work has appeared in Literary Mama, Pithead Chapel, and Hungry Ghost Magazine, and she is the Stage and Screen Editor for the Southern Review of Books. She has an MFA from the Queens University of Charlotte.

Edie Meade is a writer, artist, and mother of four in Huntington, West Virginia. Recent work can be found in The Normal School, Still: The Journal, Feral and elsewhere. Say hi on Twitter @ediemeade or https://ediemeade.com/.

Librarian, mother, and minor trickster, Janna Miller has published works in SmokeLong Quarterly, Cheap Pop, and Scissors and Spackle. Nominated for Best Small Fictions and Best Microfiction. Generally, if the toaster blows up, it is not her fault.

Camille Newsom is a creative currently living in Portland, OR. She explores the world through teaching, poetry, farming, collage art, and vulnerable conversations. Her poetry has been previously published in SAND Journal and Inklette Magazine.

Gloria Pearlman is a second year MFA candidate at Western Washington University. She loves the malleability of the Creative Nonfiction genre and enjoys pushing prose toward hybrid poetry and lyricism.

Meg Pokrass is the author of 8 collections of flash and microfiction and two-time recipient of San Francisco’s Blue Light Book Award. She is Founding Co-Editor of Best Microfiction.

Mary Lynn Reed’s fiction has appeared in Mississippi Review, Colorado Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, and many other places. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Maryland. She lives in western New York with her wife, and together they co-edit the online literary journal MoonPark Review.

J.B. Stone is a Neurodivergent slam poet, writer, and literary critic from Brooklyn, now residing in Buffalo, NY. He is the author of A Place Between Expired Dreams And Renewed Nightmares (Ghost City Press 2018) and INHUMAN ELEGIES (Ghost City Press 2020). He is the Editor-In-Chief/Reviews Editor at Variety Pack. His work has appeared in Chicago Review of Books, Flash Fiction Magazine, BULL, Noctua Review, Rejection Letters, Atticus Review, and elsewhere. He tweets @JB_StoneTruth.

Hayley Swinson is an overeducated troublemaker who loves learning, teaching, and everyday adventure. She teaches English and creative writing in Wilmington, NC and edits books in her spare time. Her writing has been published in various outlets online and in print, including Cutbank Online, VALVE Journal, The Messenger, The New Southern Fugitives, and Edinburgh City of Literature’s Story Shop.

Sage Tyrtle’s work is available or upcoming in X-R-A-Y, The Offing, and Cheap Pop among others. She’s told stories on stages all over the world and her words have been featured on NPR, CBC, and PBS. She runs a free online writing group open to everyone. Twitter: @sagetyrtle

Robert Vaughan is an award-winning author, playwright, and teacher. His books include Microtones (Cervena Barva, 2012), Diptychs + Triptychs + Lipsticks + Dipshits (Deadly Chaps, 2013), Addicts & Basements (CCM, 2014), RIFT (Unknown Press, 2015), Funhouse (Unknown Press, 2016), and ASKEW (Cowboy Jamboree, 2022). He was twice the runner-up for the Gertrude Stein Award for Fiction. His work has been widely anthologized, including the New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction (W.W. Norton, 2018) and Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2019 (Sonder Press). His plays have been produced in S.F., N.Y.C., and Milwaukee. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Bending Genres. www.robertvaughan.com

Georgia White is a queer writer based in Berkeley, CA. Her previous work has been published in NUNUM, the Nasiona, and the Santa Ana River Review.

Stephanie Yu lives and writes in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in Eclectica, Hobart, Longleaf Review, and Phoebe Journal, among others, and has been previously selected for the Wigleaf Top 50. Find her @stfu_stephanie.

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