Cecilia Savala is a Shrek-obsessed Latinx poet, teacher, and mom who writes about gender, body image, generational trauma, and cultural detachment 1200 miles from home. She is a morning person, a cat person, and an instructor with ASU Writing Programs. Her work can be found in Red Ogre Review, the Boiler, and Poetry South, among others. Her first collection, How to Be a Girl, was a finalist for the 2024 Trio Award for First or Second Books. Follow Cecilia at @cecsav on Instagram.
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Avitus Buckhaulter Carle’s work has appeared in The Commuter (Electric Lit), The Rumpus, Waxwing, JMWW, Best Small Fictions, and elsewhere. Avitus earned an MA from West Chester University and an MFA from the Naslund-Mann School of Creative Writing. She lives and writes outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Hannah Snutch is an up-and-coming writer from England. She has bachelors and masters degrees from the University of Leeds and is the author of Forgotten Reign. Hannah, who has featured in publications such as Teen Vogue, writes compelling fantasy novels that feature strong heroines, fiery romances and plot twists you'd never expect. Hannah is best known for her Booktok account, which has accumulated a large following. Join her booktok community, @hannahsnutch.
Rodney Leon enjoys island life, though he also ventures to countries further afield and without any specific destination once there. Under the old adage, travellers don’t know where they are going and tourists don’t know where they have been. Rodney hopes he falls under the former category. His love for St Gilbert’s grows with every passing year. It may be a speck of land lost in the vastness of the Indian Ocean, but to Rodney it will always be the place to which be belongs and to where he will always return, even if only in his imagination.
Who is Brock Meier? Did he spend fifty years as a research scientist? Was he a frequently awarded fine art photographer, or was he a painter of monumental astronomical subjects? Maybe he was he a spelunker, an inventor of practical luxuries, a relentless dreamer, or a maker of exotic wines? Of course, all these are true! While close friends still refer to him as “the most interesting man in the world” and “delightfully weird,” he is now a debut author of historical fiction.
Modou Lamin Sowe, pen name Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe, is a young Gambian scholar and creative writer. He has written five books: Don't Judge the Book by the Cover (novel), The Throne of the Ghost (play), The Memories of Reflection (novella), AfriKa Not AfriCa (poetry collection), and TWAWEZA (an anthology of 24 Non-fiction African Stories published by the African Writers Development Trust).
Linda M. Romanowski returned to Rosemont College (Class of 1975) to obtain an MFA in Creative Writing, Non-Fiction in 2021. Her thesis Final Touchstones, earned with distinction, was published by Brown Posey Press, an imprint of Sunbury Press in January 2023. Additional non-fiction and poetry publications include The City Key, the Mario Lanza Institute Facebook page and website, Moonstone Arts, Ovunque Siamo, and Vine Leaves Press.
I've always loved writing. Complete transparency alert—I never set out to become an author. I know, that probably sounds unlikely considering, but it’s true. I sat down one day and decided I wanted to write a story because I needed to know how a dream I’d awoken from ended. It snowballed and turned into chapters and eventually into an entire book. When I finished that book, I needed to make sure my characters were OK and thriving so I wrote the second book.
Danielle Carpenter is a fiction and non-fiction writer living in Miami, FL. Her work often explores the relationship between technology and the natural world, futuristic societies, and the human condition.
I live in Oregon. I draw inspiration from the temperate rain forest and people who interact with its varied range and depth. We are on the threshold of changing the environment in ways we have not imagined. The negativity of not only the politics of the world but the implications of climate change have caused us to abandon our commitment to people in our lives in favor of defending our perception of a world that has been created to question facts and truth. When we consider our own lives and relationships, we realize that as Dylan's lyrics state "I am meek, hard like an oak, seen pretty people disappear like smoke." We are the result of small incremental incidents that for the most part we don't recognize until we do.
