Issue #25, November 2025

Kelsey Jordan is a poet and educator living on the Oregon Coast with her daughter. She holds her MFA in Writing from Pacific University.
 

Piper Rasmussen lives and works from Manhattan with her husband and cats. Her plays have been performed in Ohio, Oregon, and New York. Her poems have appeared in SplashLand Magazine, Kyoto Journal, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, and others. Piper is a low-residency MFA student with Queens University of Charlotte and a library student (MSLIS) with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. piperrasmussen.com
 

Luke Horsey is an MA student at the University of Glasgow and an English tutor from Hertfordshire, England. His poetry often reflects on queer experience and psychoanalytic theory. His writing has previously been featured by the Royal Philharmonic Society and the Dead Cat Poetry Prize.
 

Linda Stryker writes from Phoenix, AZ. Retired from university teaching, she has been published in numerous journals, including Southword, New Millennium Writings, Main Street Rag, Third Wednesday, and New Verse News. Her chapbook "Starcrossed " was published in 2018. Her newest full collection is making submission rounds.
 

Harmony Mooney is an elementary school teacher and writer living on the North Coast of California with her husband, two cats, and two dogs. Harmony likes to use writing as a way to savor the tiny moments of everyday life and connect with other people. She is interested in etymology and the sounds of words. Harmony also enjoys buying craft supplies, walking in the redwood forests with her dogs, baking banana bread, and lifting weights. Her work has been previously published in The North Coast Journal and 50-Word Stories.
 

Diana Raab, MFA, PhD, is a memoirist, poet, workshop leader, thought-leader and award-winning author of 14 books and editor of three anthologies. Her work has been widely published and anthologized. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and The Best of the Net. She frequently speaks and writes on writing for healing and transformation. https:/www.dianaraab.com.
 

Stephen J Cribari’s poetry and plays have appeared on the theatrical and operatic stage in the United States and abroad. His recent publications include Still Life (2020), Delayed en Route (2022) (Lothrop Street Press); poems in Writings from the Tyrrhenian Coast of Calabria (Rubbettino, 2025); Voices Unbound; Freshwater Literary Journal; Paterson Literary Review, Bluebird Word. The Grammar Lesson is included Passager’s Burning Bright podcast of January 14, 2025.
 

Darren C. Demaree is the author of twenty-four poetry collections, most recently “Now Flourish Northern Cardinal”, (Small Harbor Publishing, November 2025). He is the recipient of a Greater Columbus Arts Council Grant, an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Louise Bogan Award from Trio House Press, and the Nancy Dew Taylor Award from Emrys Journal. He is currently working in the Columbus Metropolitan Library system.
 

Haylee Shull is a writer from Fayetteville, Arkansas. Her work has appeared in Swim Press, Magpie Zine, and Sublunary Space. She is a Libra. She has two cats.
 

Brian C. Billings is a professor of drama and English at Texas A&M University-Texarkana. His work has appeared in such journals as Ancient Paths, The Bluebird Word, Confrontation, Evening Street Review, Glacial Hills Review, and Poems and Plays. Publishers for his scripts include Eldridge Publishing and Heuer Publishing.