Contributors
Poetry
Millicent Borges Accardi, a Portuguese-American writer, is the author of four poetry books, including Through Grainy Landscape, and Quarantine Highway. Her awards include fellowships from CantoMundo, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Fulbright, and California Arts Council. She serves as a mentor in the AWP Writer 2 Writer and Adroit summer writing programs.
Christopher Buckley's SPREZZATURA is out from Lynx House Press 2025. His last book, One Sky to the Next, won the Longleaf Press Book Prize for 2022. He has recently edited NAMING THE LOST: THE FRESNO POETS—Interviews & Essays, Stephen F. Austin State Univ. press. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, two NEA grants, a Fulbright Award in Creative Writing, and four Pushcart Prizes.
Jennifer Campbell is a writing professor in Buffalo, NY, and a co-editor of Earth’s Daughters. She has two poetry collections, Supposed to Love (Saddle Road Press) and Driving Straight Through (FootHills), and a chapbook of reconstituted fairytale poems called What Came First (Dancing Girl Press, 2021). Jennifer’s work has recently appeared in American Journal of Nursing, Bacopa Literary Review, NOVUS, ArLiJo, and Crosswinds Poetry Contest issue.
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Lynn D. Gilbert's poems, twice nominated for Pushcart Prizes, have appeared in such journals as Appalachian Review, Arboreal, Blue Unicorn, Concho River Review, The MacGuffin, Sheepshead Review, and Southwestern American Literature. A founding editor of Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, she lives in an Austin suburb and reviews poetry submissions for Third Wednesday.
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Therese Halscheid’s poetry and prose have been published in several magazines, among them The Gettysburg Review, Tampa Review, Sou’wester. Her poetry collection Frozen Latitudes (Press 53) received an Eric Hoffer Book Award. Other collections include Uncommon Geography, Without Home and a Puddinghouse Press Greatest Hits chapbook award. For years, she has been writing on the road by way of house-sitting. Her photography chronicles her writing life and has been in juried exhibitions.
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Joshua Bridgwater Hamilton is an Assistant Professor at Southwestern College, Kansas, and holds an MFA from Texas State University. His books are Lightspeed (forthcoming from Flowersong Press 2026) and Excavator (Gnashing Teeth Publishing 2024). His poetry appears in Windward Review, Amarillo Bay, Voices de la Luna, San Antonio Review, and other places. His social media can be found @joshuabridgwaterhamilton.
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​What luck to study with Denise Levertov at college! Later as a California Poet in the Schools, Gynn O’Gara saw poetry change the course of people’s lives. From 2010-2012, she was honored as the Sonoma County, California Poet Laureate. Published in Paddlefish, The Evansville Review, and the anthology Pillow: Exploring the Heart of Eros, her first book SNAKE WOMAN POEMS was published by Beatitude Press. Finishing Line Press published her latest chapbook, We Who Dream.
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David Sahner is a poet and physician-scientist whose verse has appeared in The Bitter Oleander, Steam Ticket, Connecticut Review, Catamaran, The Sandy River Review, Blue Unicorn, Blackbox Manifold, Mudlark, The Raven’s Perch, Tears in the Fence, Agenda, Eclectica, and elsewhere. His book-length collection, Hum, was published in 2022, and his work has been anthologized in several multi-author collections.
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Samantha R. Sharp is a neurodivergent writer and PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at SUNY Binghamton, where she studies ecopoetics and political ecology. She serves as Poetry Editor for Midway Journal, and her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Cleaver Magazine, Wild Roof Journal, Up the Staircase Quarterly, and others. In her free time, she enjoys petting sheep.
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Susan J. Wurtzburg has won or placed in several poetry competitions. She is a Commissioned Artist in Sidewalk Poetry: Senses of Salt Lake City, 2024, and an Associate Poetry Editor at Poets Reading the News. Her poetry book, Ravenous Words, with Lisa Lucas will appear in May, 2025 (Brandylane Publishers).
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Fiction
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Andrew Blackman is a freelance writer from London. His first novel, On the Holloway Road, won the Luke Bitmead Writer’s Bursary and was shortlisted for the Dundee International Book Prize. His second novel, A Virtual Love, explored themes of identity in the age of social media. His short stories and essays have appeared in Post Road, Spark, Switchback and Monthly Review, among others.
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Jonathan Fletcher holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Columbia University School of the Arts. A Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Microfiction nominee, he won Northwestern University Press’s Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize contest in 2023, for which his debut chapbook, This is My Body, was published in 2025. Currently, he serves as a Zoeglossia Fellow and lives in San Antonio, Texas.
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Allie King writes about queer lives, women’s lives, social and economic power imbalances, collective living, and the consequences of speaking your truth in public. Allie’s work has appeared in 13 Bridges Review, On the Run, and in the anthology Unfolding Colors. Allie can be reached at AllieKing@protonmail.com.
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G. M. Monks’ work has appeared or is forthcoming in Minds Shine Bright, Medical Literary Messenger, The Militant Grammarian, L’Esprit Literary Review, Birdland Journal, The Hunger, Vine Leaves Literary Journal, RavensPerch, Kansas City Voices, and elsewhere. Awards include finalist in Ben Nyberg Fiction Contest 2022, the 2020 Breakwater Review Fiction Contest, and runner-up in the 2016 Big Wonderful Press Funny Poem contest. She has been nominated for Best American Short Stories, and the Pushcart Prize.
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Terry Sanville lives in San Luis Obispo, California where he writes full-time. His stories have appeared in journals, magazines, and anthologies, including The American Writers Review, Bryant Literary Review, and Shenandoah. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and for inclusion in Best of the Net anthology. Terry is a retired urban planner and an accomplished jazz and blues guitarist – who once played with a symphony orchestra backing up jazz legend George Shearing.
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Carl L. Williams is the author of short stories and poems that have appeared in a variety of literary journals. He is also a playwright, with over 40 published plays. Several of his one-act plays are included in anthologies. Carl is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and has a B.A. in English from the University of Houston.
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Nonfiction
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Rosa Sophia Godshall is the author of Many Miles (Harbor Editions). Her work has been published in Philadelphia Stories Magazine, SoFloPoJo, Thimble Literary Magazine, Limp Wrist, and others. She was the recipient of the 2023 Christopher F. Kelly Award for Poetry, sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, through Florida International University. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and a degree in automotive technology. Rosa lives in Palm Bay, Florida.
Ashley Hardin has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism and Public Relations from Madonna University. Her poetry will be published in The Journal of Undiscovered Poets and The Closed Eye Open in 2025. In addition, her poetry has been published by Wingless Dreamer in 2025. She enjoys reading in her spare time. Ashley resides in Michigan with her husband, son, and dog.
Dr. Sarah Jefferis, editor, writing coach and TEDX speaker, is the author of three books of poetry, "Lucky to Have You," (Finishing Line Press, forthcoming 2025), "What Enters the Mouth," (Standing Stone Books, 2017), and "Forgetting the Salt," (Foothills Press, 2008). Her poems, essays, and stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Hoxie George Review, Survivor and Beyond, An Anthology Project, Croak, 2ndRiverReview, The North American Review, Rhino, The Patterson Review, NYQ, and others. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Cornell and a PhD in Lit/Creative Writing from Binghamton University. Currently, she runs her own writing consultant business, Write. Now. in Ithaca, NY.
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Skyler Lambert is an emerging writer and poet from the coal camp of Besoco, West Virginia. His poetry is forthcoming in Appalachian Journal. Skyler’s memoir-in-progress investigates two murders and explores the multitudes of the human condition. He has held various book publishing roles and volunteers at a community arts incubator. Skyler shares a home with his partner, a cattle dog, and two black cats.
Em Tran (pen name) is a Vietnamese writer and immigrant dreaming of her hometown, Ho Chi Minh City. Her writing explores heritage, community, memory and the often-fraught, liminal spaces in between. She lives in New York City with her partner and two dogs.
Dramatic Scripts
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Eamann Breen is an Irish playwright and story teller. His play Shinaid was broadcast on RTE Drama on One in 2024 and was a Druid Theatre Debut at the Galway International Arts Festival. His work has been published online and in print in the USA, Ireland, United Kingdom and Canada.
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Straton Rushing is an award-winning playwright and theatremaker originally from Sonora, Texas, currently based in DFW. His works have been featured at numerous professional theatres, colleges and schools around the US, UK, Canada and India. He holds degrees in Theatre and Philosophy from UT Arlington. He received his MFA in Dramatic Writing from Arizona State where he was recognized as an Outstanding Graduate for Excellence and Innovation in Creative Practice.
Art and Graphic Lit.
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Mandy Wilson is a figurative oil painter and educator from Louisiana. Her current work explores how women experience and respond to society’s beauty standards. She incorporates augmented reality in some pieces to create interactive experiences that shift the visual meaning and engage viewers beyond the canvas. Wilson currently teaches art at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.