Contributors Dee Allen is an African-Italian performance poet based in Oakland, California. Active on the creative writing & Spoken Word tips since the early 1990s. Author of five books (Boneyard, Unwritten Law, Stormwater, and Skeletal Black, all from POOR Press, and his fifth from Conviction 2 Change Publishing, Elohi Unitsi) and 30 anthology appearances (including Your Golden Sun Still Shines, Rise, Extreme, The Land Lives Forever, Civil Liberties United, Trees In A Garden Of Ashes, Colossus: Home, Impact! and from Portland, Maine-based Underground Writers Association, Essential) under his figurative belt so far. Glen Armstrong holds an MFA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and teaches writing at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. He edits a poetry journal called Cruel Garters and has three current books of poems: Invisible Histories, The New Vaudeville, and Midsummer. His work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Conduit, and Cream City Review. Cathy Barber’s work has been published in many journals, including SLAB, Sweet, Slant and Kestrel, and anthologies, including Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California. Kara Barsalou graduated from Asnuntuck Community College in the Spring of 2020. She has always loved creating and expressing herself on paper, whether it be in a drawing, a painting, or in writing. She has been doing all three of these things religiously since middle school. This is her first published work, and she hopes it can resonate with at least one person! Paul Beckman is a Connecticut writer whose latest flash collection, Kiss Kiss (Truth Serum Press) was a finalist for the 2019/2020 Indie Book Awards. Some of his stories have appeared in Spelk, Anti-Heroin Chic, Necessary Fiction, Bending Genres, Fictive Dream, Pank, Playboy, WINK, and The Lost Balloon. He had a story selected for the 2020 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology and was short-listed in the Strands International Flash Fiction Competition. Paul curates the monthly KGB FBomb NY flash fiction reading series (currently virtual). Robert Beveridge (he/him) makes noise (xterminal.bandcamp.com) and writes poetry in Akron, Ohio. Recent/upcoming appearances in Blood and Thunder, Feral, and Grand Little Things, among others. Callie S. Blackstone is a lifelong New Englander. She is lucky enough to wake up to the smell of saltwater and the call of seagulls. Her creative nonfiction has been published in special interest magazine SageWoman. It is also forthcoming in The ManifestStation. Her poetry has been published in The Elephant Ladder. It is also forthcoming in an anthology titled Tell Me More that is being published by East Jasmine Review. Ace Boggess is author of five books of poetry, including Misadventure, Ultra Deep Field, and The Prisoners. His writing has appeared in Harvard Review, Notre Dame Review, Mid-American Review, and other journals. He received a fellowship from the West
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