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Emmanuella Hristova was born in Oakland, California and grew up in the Bay Area. She is the third daughter to Bulgarian parents who immigrated to California shortly before she was born. She began drawing at the ripe age of four, and studied the fine arts for five years in high school. There, she received many art accolades including a Congressional award for her piece Boy in Red in 2009. In 2015, she received her Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley. She began writing poetry at age twenty-four when she was in graduate school.

Shaylee is pursuing a PhD in Biochemistry in Galway, Ireland. Poetry keeps her sane. She uses it throughout her day in the lab, reading and writing during incubation times. Science poetry makes up a large part of her personal writing and has also spurred an involvement in the online poetry journal Consilience, which publishes peer-reviewed science poetry.

Rachel Jeffcoat is a poet, writer and editor. She has had work published in Dear Damsels, Fourth Trimester Magazine and Huff Post. She lives in an old house in the South-East of England, with her family and approximately ten thousand books.

Kaci Skiles Laws is a closet cat-lady and creative writer who reads and writes voraciously in the quiet moments between motherhood and managing Crohn's Disease. She grew up on a small farm in a Texas town alongside many furry friends, two sisters, and a brother. She has known tragic loss too well, and her writing is a reflection of the shadows lurking in her psyche.

Devon Bohm received her BA from Smith College and earned her MFA with a dual concentration in Poetry and Fiction from Fairfield University. After serving as Mason Road’s Editor-in-Chief, she worked as an adjunct professor of English. She was awarded the 2011 Hatfield Prize for Best Short Story, received an honorable mention in the 2020 L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest, and was long-listed for Wigleaf’s Top Very Short Fictions 2021.

Amanda Roth (she/her) is poet, photographer, and former clinical social worker. She is the author of the full-length poetry collection, A Mother's Hunger (2021), and has been published in Rag Mag Revival. After nearly two decades in the Pacific Northwest, she now lives in Central Texas with her husband and two sons. Find her on Instagram @amandarothpoetry

Maggie Doyle is a poet and digital content designer working in various story contexts including written word, film, web, theatre, and transmedia storytelling. Maggie has a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and works as a story consultant through her business, What Is Your Story. Maggie is currently working on a collection of poems about her walks by a river during the pandemic which chart the emotional tributaries of life in lockdown.

adam Shove is an Estonian English poet, who writes poems laden with cryptic metaphors and pop culture references; doused in vodka and thrift shop ideas. Inspired by RZA, Frank Ocean, secondhand clothes, models, tattoos and expensive cars.

Caitlin Upshall is a British-American author from Washington State. Her work has been published by the tiny journal, OyeDrum, The Sweet Tree Review, Entropy Magazine, and others. In her spare time, she enjoys most things dinosaur-related, trivia nights, and reading scholarly articles on the Great Emu War.

Nelly Bryce is a writer, a poet, a mother of four living in Manchester, UK. In 2016, after spending most of her career working in HR (learning and development), she left her corporate job to launch Guilty Mothers Club, a community for modern feminist mothers. Nelly is a journaling addict, who is never far from a notebook and pen. She is also an optimist and encourager, so if you need a dose of either of those two, you found a home with Nelly.

Jax Bulstrode writes poems, usually about rivers or fruit or being queer. Jax has had work published in Verandah Journal, Gems Zine, Wordly Mag, and Blue Bottle journal. You can find them online at @jaxlb1234 on Instagram. Jax lives and writes in Naarm/Melbourne.

Stephanie Powell is a poet based in London. Her work has been recently featured in the Bacopa Literary Review, The Halcyone, Not very quiet and New World Writing. She grew up in Melbourne, Australia and also works in documentary television.

Jennie Louise is a writer and poet from Hampshire, UK. She has been writing from a young age, but only began to experiment with poetry during her teen years as a form of self-expression. Jennie wrote and self-published her debut poetry collection, All The Things I Never Said, in 2020. When not writing, she can be found curled up on the sofa with a book and a cup of tea.

T.C. Anderson is a multimedia artist based in Houston, Texas. Additionally, T.C. is a writer and poet, with work published in Capsule Stories, Pages Penned in Pandemic: A Collective, mental health anthology Pluviophile, The Raven Review, and more. She proudly serves as a reader for the literary journal for youth writer organization The Young Writers Initiative, Juven. Her poetry collection, The Forest, was published by Riza Press in 2021 and will serve as the inspirational basis of the aforementioned art installation being developed with artist Mari Omori, as well as a launching point for a larger, developing cross-media project.​

Eleanor is a historian of medicine living in Yorkshire. She writes about parenting, finding belonging, and the afterlife of other versions of ourselves. She has most recently been featured in the parenting anthology Songs of Love and Strength. You can find her work at @pushing.and.pining on Instagram.

Gina Bowen lives, breathes, and photographs the mountains of Eastern Tennessee. She spends her time writing poetry and short stories on her porch and getting lost in the woods with her pups to photograph the beautiful landscapes.

Constance is somewhat of a late starter when it comes to writing. Growing up in a regular working-class family in the Flemish coastal region of Belgium, she didn’t have access to the right support network to be able to realize her dormant literary impulses.

Tala Woods (she/her) is an English-Syrian-Irish poet based in the UK, whose work focuses on identity, culture, love and everyday life. Tala’s poetry and articles have been published by publications such as Train River Publishing, By Me Poetry, Global Comment and CHERRYBOY Magazine. Before the pandemic, she ran poetry workshops offline (and online during lockdowns) which received extremely positive and rewarding feedback. Tala is also the co-founder of The Soft Approach (@thesoftapproach), a zine that aims to tackle tough issues with a soft approach. Before the pandemic, the poet ran poetry workshops offline (and online during lockdowns) which received extremely positive and rewarding feedback. You can find her work on Instagram (@talawrites).