allison anne is a queer, nonbinary artist working in a variety of mediums including paper collage, zinemaking, artist books, design & independent publishing based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. With a focus on texture and abstraction, allison’s work prioritizes that which is found, discarded and left behind, exploring intersections and interactions between context, materiality and creativity. They are a founding member of Twin Cities Collage Collective, a volunteer at the Workshop for Independent Publishing in Minneapolis, and work collaboratively with the artist Jeremy P. Bushnell as Morphic Rooms and as Nonmachinable, their publishing & distribution project.
J.B.‘s influences include 70s punk, Montana bars, and Japanese haiku. He has six books of poetry from Ravenna Press, each with an increasing number of maps, graphs, and comics interwoven. See more of his haiku comics on Insta @punkpoet and read his A History of Poetry Comics here.
Stewart C Baker is an academic librarian and author of speculative fiction, poetry, and games. He is the author of The Butterfly Disjunct: And Other Stories (Interstellar Flight Press) and co-author of the Nebula-nominated The Bread Must Rise (with James Beamon). Stewart’s writing has appeared in Asimov’s, Nature, Modern Haiku, and elsewhere; he was born in England, lives in Oregon, and can be found online here.
Deborah A. Bennett is an Illinois-based poet who has been writing for over twenty years. Her work has most recently appeared in Frogpond, First Frost Poetry, and Wales Haiku Journal.
Jerome Berglund has worked as everything from dishwasher to paralegal, night watchman to assembler of heart valves. Many haiku, haiga and haibun he’s written have been exhibited or are forthcoming online and in print, most recently in bottle rockets, Frogpond, and Presence. His first full-length collections of poetry were released by Setu, Meat For Tea, Mōtus Audāx press, and a mixed media chapbook showcasing his fine art photography is available now from Fevers of the Mind.
Christina Chin is a painter and haiku poet from Malaysia. She is a four-time recipient of top 100 in the mDAC Summit Contests, exhibited at the Palo Alto Art Center, California, 1st prize winner of the 34th Annual Cherry Blossom Sakura Festival 2020 Haiku Contest, and 1st prize winner in the 8th Setouchi Matsuyama 2019 Photo-haiku Contest. She has been published in numerous journals, multilingual journals, and anthologies, including Japan’s prestigious monthly Haikukai Magazine.
Doniell Cushman has a B.A. in Humanities, composes, and teaches piano. She is currently working on writing her memoir of abuse with the intention of bringing sexual, emotional, and physical abuse into the spotlight so that early intervention can help others. Doniell currently resides in Spokane, Washington with her son, and is partially disabled. INSTA
Timothy Daly is a travel-sick wanderer born in the British Isles and reborn beyond them. He is a researcher, writer and teacher at the dizzying crossroads of neuroscience, philosophy, and literature. He can usually be found in an airport departure lounge, from whence he edits Cold Moon Journal with co-editor Oana Cercel.
Jim Daniels’ latest fiction book, The Luck of the Fall, was published by Michigan State University Press. Recent poetry collections include The Human Engine at Dawn, Gun/Shy, and Comment Card. His nonfiction book, Ignorance of Trees, is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press in Fall 2025.
S. D. Dillon has an MFA from Notre Dame and lives in Michigan. His poetry has appeared recently in Tampa Review, Door = Jar, Panorama, ephemeras, #Ranger, and The Shortlist: Best of BarBar 2024, and is forthcoming in The Phare and Bloodroot. INSTA
Joshua Gage is an ornery curmudgeon from Cleveland. He is the editor of The Ohio Haiku Anthology, the first collection of haiku by Ohio poets in over twenty years. His newest chapbook, blips on a screen, is available on Cuttlefish Books. He is a graduate of the Low Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Naropa University. He has a penchant for Pendleton shirts, Ethiopian coffee, and any poem strong enough to yank the breath out of his lungs.
Henry Goldkamp (he/they) lives in New Orleans, where he teaches experimental poetics and clown at Louisiana State University, hosts the poetry series Splice, edits intermedia for Tilted House, and serves as communications director of the New Orleans Poetry Festival. His debut collection, JOY BUZZER, is forthcoming from Ricochet Editions in September 2025. Recent art, criticism, and performance appear in Chicago Review, DIAGRAM, Annulet, Poetry Northwest, and Yalobusha Review, among others. WEB
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in New World Writing, City Brink, and Tenth Muse. Latest books, Subject Matters, Between Two Fires, and Covert are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Paterson Literary Review, Amazing Stories, and Cantos.
Akua Lezli Hope, a Grand Master of Fantastic Poetry (SFPA) & paraplegic creator of poems, patterns, stories, music, and sculpture, has been in print since 1974. Her collections include Embouchure: Poems on Jazz and Other Musics (Writer’s Digest Book Award) & Otherwheres: Speculative Poetry (Elgin Award). She created the ongoing Speculative Sundays Poetry Reading series & edited NOMBONO: An Anthology of Speculative Poetry by BIPOC Creators, the first of its kind. WEB DISABILITY POETICS
Monica Kakkar (she/her/hers) values her freedom and peace. Her haiku have won awards, reached the final shortlist, been translated in three languages, and published in four continents. Her works have appeared on a cedar pole, window cling, garden listed on the National Register of Historic Places, libraries, tear-off-strip flyers at poetry festival, gallery of viewing stones appreciation, among others. LINKEDIN
Casper Kelly is a writer in the United Kingdom. He only comes out at night. INTSA
H. L. Kim received a BA in English from Bowdoin College. She lives in Chicago.
Matthew Klane‘s books of poetry include Of the Day (Publication Studio 2025), Hist (w/ James Belflower, Calamari 2022), Canyons (w/ James Belflower, Flimb Press 2016), Che (Stockport Flats 2013), and B (Stockport Flats 2008). An e-book My is online at FENCE. He lives and writes in Albany, NY and is currently co-curator of the poetry and performance series Salon Salvage. WEB
Grace Kwan is a Malaysian-born sociologist and writer raised in “Vancouver,” the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. A Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets nominee, their first full-length book THE SACRED HEART MOTEL was published by Metonymy Press in November 2024.
Shikha S. Lamba is a jewelry designer and poet living in Hong Kong. She is the co-editor of an online magazine, Coffee and Conversations. Shikha’s poetry has been published in journals globally. Her poems have been nominated for Best of the Net. She is a 2023 Pushcart prize nominee. INSTA
Kat Lehmann is a founding co-chief editor of whiptail: journal of the single-line poem. Her fourth collection no matter how it ends a bluebird’s song is a winner of the 2024 Rattle Chapbook Prize. WEB
Athena Melliar is a Greek feminist poet and essayist who lives and writes in Athens, Greece. Athena is a philologist specialising in educational and developmental psychology. Her work has appeared in Flyway, Magma Poetry, Harpy Hybrid Review, Neologism, The Coachella Review, So to Speak, and elsewhere. INSTA
Joanne Merriam lives in Nova Scotia. Her writing has appeared in her collection The Glaze from Breaking and in dozens of periodicals including The Baltimore Review, Pictura, and Riddle Fence. She owns Upper Rubber Boot Books, known for the first English-language anthology of solarpunk, Sunvault. WEB
Nathanael O’Reilly is the author of fourteen poetry collections, including Terminals, Separation Blues: Poems 1994-2024, Dublin Wandering, Landmarks, Boulevard, and (Un)belonging. His poetry appears in journals and anthologies published in fifteen countries, including Cordite, Mascara, Meanjin, Rabbit, Southword, Trasna, and Westerly. He is poetry editor for Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature.
J G Orudjev is a mixed media artist working primarily in collage. She has a background in sculpture and printmaking. Her work explores the nature of memory, transformative and transitory states, and the act and language of making meaning. BSKY INSTA
Marianne Paul is a Canadian poet. Her chapbook, Body Weight, A Collection of Haiku and Art, won the Haiku Canada Marianne Bluger Chapbook Award. Much of her recent work is inspired by haiga, the Japanese art form that combines short poems and images. INSTA
Vikas Sehra is a researcher living in Hyderabad, India. His poems have appeared in EKL Review, Borderless Journal, Cold Moon Journal, Fresh Out Mag: An Arts and Poetry Collective, Failed Haiku, Haikuniverse, and Sonic Boom.
Shloka Shankar is a poet, editor, and visual artist from Bangalore, India. A Best of the Net nominee and award-winning haiku poet, Shloka is the Founding Editor of Sonic Boom and its imprint Yavanika Press. She is the author of the haiku collection The Field of Why (Yavanika Press, 2022) and co-author of the haiga anthology, living in the pause (Yavanika Press, 2024).
Thomas Smith has free verse poems, rhymed poems, haiku, tanka, and limericks published in a number of literary journals. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his family. WEB
Debbie Strange is a Canadian short-form poet, artist, photographer and musician. Her daily creative practice helps mitigate the effects of chronic illness, and has yielded thousands of internationally published poems and artworks. Debbie’s haiku collection, Random Blue Sparks (2024), won the 2020 Snapshot Press Book Award. WEB INSTA
Timothy Tarkelly is the author of several collections of poetry including The You We Know and Love (Spartan Press, 2024), A Horse Called Victory (Kelsey Books, 2023), and Angie and Her Roommate (Alien Buddha Press, 2023). When he’s not writing, he teaches in Southeast Kansas.
C.X. Turner writes poems about dandelions, frozen fingers, and frogs. Passionate about Japanese short-form poetry, she is the author of evergreen – a collection of haiku, senryu and tanka (Alba Publishing, 2024).
C.J. Weeks (he/him) is a teacher living in the Blue Ridge backwater of Bedford, Virginia. His work has appeared in Drunk Monkeys and Hail, Muse! Etc.
Jeffrey Zable is a teacher, conga drummer/percussionist, and a writer of poetry, flash-fiction,
and non-fiction. He’s published five chapbooks and his individual writing has appeared in hundreds
of literary journals, more recently in New English Review, The Raven’s Perch, Ranger, and many others.
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