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Eileen R. Tabios has released books of poetry, fiction, essays, art and experimental prose from publishers around the world. Recent publications include the novels The Balikbayan Artist; the poetry collection Engkanto in the Diaspora; an autobiography The Inventor; the short story collection The Erotic Space Around Art Objects; and an art monograph Drawing Six Directions. Her other projects include inventing the hay(na)ku poetic form. More information at https://eileenrtabios.com
Elle Jay Snyder is a trans woman, poet, and part-time phantom from Staten Island. She has done a bunch of stuff, you should ask her about it later. Feed her a stromboli, she's probably hungry. Her work appears most recently in: Discretionary Love, Procrastinating Writers United, Sardine Can Collective, and more. She is also aggressively seeking a sponsorship from Mountain Dew.
Z. T. Corley is a Tennessee-based poet who recently graduated with her B.A. in English from Austin Peay State University. She has been nominated for the Intro Journal Awards. Her work appears or is forthcoming in the Roanoke Review, Red Mud Review, Revolute, Outskirts, and January House Literary Journal. She currently serves as a reader for Callaloo, plans to pursue her M.F.A., and is working on a poetry collection.
Paul Hostovsky makes his living in Boston as a sign language interpreter and braille instructor. His poems have won a Pushcart Prize, two Best of the Net Awards, the FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize, and have been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Only Poems, The Writer's Almanac, and the Best American Poetry blog. Website: https://paulhostovsky.com/
Kelly Washatka is a multimodal artist based in Durham, NC. She creates from a place of chronic curiosity and is almost always thinking about death. She is the co-founder of MakeShift Puppetry. This is her debut poetry publication. On instagram as @kmwashatka
Andrew K. Peterson is the author of seven full-length poetry books and several chapbooks, most
recently The Infinite Surround (Submersible Press, 2026) and Young Stars of the Bubble (Carbonation
Press, 2025). A chapbook bonjour meriwether and the rabid maps (Fact-Simile Press, 2011) was featured in
an exhibition on poets’ maps at the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center. In 2017, he was a co-
organizer of the Boston Poetry Marathon. A co-founding editor of the literary journal summer
stock, he lives just outside Boston. Say hey at andrewkpeterson.com or IG (@akpitros).
Aubrey “Bee” Case is a first-generation college student from Schaumburg, IL (or Mobile, AL, depending on your perspective) with a heart condition and many odd things to say. When she’s not writing or swamped with school, she loves listening to music, watching shows with her roommate, and having off-putting existential conversations with anyone who’s willing.
Editor and author Philip Athans has been a driving force behind varied media including Alternative fiction & poetry magazine and Wizards of the Coast. He lives and works in the Pacific Northwest.
David Earl Williams is The Absurdilachian, a writer of absurdist anti-dada dadaist poetry for sure as hell rollin' in the aisles, barkin' at the moon, screechin' in p.h.d.-ese dada-dogmatic times.
To learn more about The Absurdilachian simply Google: David Earl Williams poetry... maybe, order a small collection of his work from c22press.wordpress.com (Open Editions) or another from wetcementpress.com (Berkeley)?
Ben Nardolilli is a scrivener and a theoretical MFA candidate at Long Island University. His work has appeared in Perigee Magazine, Door Is a Jar, The Delmarva Review, Red Fez, The Oklahoma Review, JMWW, Quail Bell Magazine, and Slab. Follow his publishing journey at mirrorsponge.blogspot.com and on Instagram @ssenjaminnardolilli.
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