Stuart James Forrest was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1951. He is a retired public servant living in Foster City, California. He writes poetry, short stories, screenplays and hopes to develop enough skill to be a strong, creative voice of my generation of Black Americans who lived through very tumultuous times in American history.

Richard Weems is the author of three short fiction collections: Anything He Wants (finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Prize) (Spire Press, 2006), Stark Raving Blue (WbW Ink, 2016) and From Now On, You’re Back (WbW Ink, 2017). Recent appearances include North American Review, Flash Fiction Magazine and Ginosko Literary Journal. He lives and teaches in New Jersey.

J H Martin is from London, England but has no fixed abode. His writing has appeared in a number of places in Asia, Europe and the Americas.

Amanda Dettmann is an English major at Marist College in New York. Her poetry has appeared in the Mosaic and Angles, and she has a published poetry book titled Untranslatable Honeyed Bruises. She is also involved in theatre at her college and recently returned from a semester abroad in Florence, Italy.

George Burns is a full time civil engineer and part time writer.

Winniebell Xinyu Zong is a poet and djembe player. She was born and raised in an industrial city in China. Zong holds a B.A. in Creative Writing from Franklin and Marshall College, where she received Nolt Music Award and Honaman Japanese Study Fund. Her work has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Rigorous, littledeathlit, NYMBM, High Shelf Press, and Little Patuxent Review. She now mentors high school students on college access at College Advising Corps.

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Ruth Gilmour is an emerging Australian author and playwright from Gunnedah, NSW. She graduated with a Bachelor of Dramatic Art in 2013, and was tutored in scriptwriting under the celebrated Australian playwright, Donna Abela. Writing credits for theatre include The Drunk Diaries (Excelsia Theatre) and Cradle Me (Excelsia Theatre). Most recently, Ruth’s stories have been published in the 2017 Newcastle Short Story Anthology, Stringybark Story’s A Nice Boy and Hunter Writers Centre’s Grieve Volume 5. Her poetry has appeared in the Words of Wyndham Anthology. Ruth is currently writing and performing in shows for Babble Productions, a theatre company run by herself and her husband.

At fifteen Christa emigrated to the US from Germany, she has lived the Midwest, the South, New England and now resides in Tucson with her husband and dog Whisky. An avid hiker, she contemplates the sweetness and sorrow of life on Arizona’s desert trails, while using poetry to give shape to her thoughts. She thinks of her writing as the footprint of her being, the legacy she leaves.

Rex Caleval lives in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, where he spent twenty years as an air traffic controller. Always an avid reader with story ideas popping into his head, he decided to try writing a few, and has been pleased to find that some people like them. His stories have been published by or are upcoming in Every Day Fiction, Antipodean SF and Medusa’s Laugh.