From Left to Right:
Kate O’Farrell is a poet from northern Vermont. She likes to pay attention and play with it all. Her work has been in the Burlington Free Press, VTDigger, and Vermont Public. She is an avid skier, trivia loser, and cheddar connoisseur.
Jack Keffer is a fiction writer from Philadelphia. He spent the last few years teaching English in Vermont after working in sports broadcasting. When not writing, he is biking and hiking.
Marian Thomas Bayker is a writer, a mother and a sourdough baker. Her work is centered around queerness, family, and the strange forms love can take under the constraints of a life.
Alyse James is a writer and classically trained clown who creates out of an insistent sense of curiosity and existential pondering, inspired by a deep desire to merge otherworldly cosmic clown etherealities with our everyday human failures. Their work has been supported by Davinci Arts Alliance, Mascher Space, and Philadelphia Greater Cultural Alliance.
Morgan Champine is an MFA candidate at Hollins University and a Best of the Net nominee. Their work has appeared in Fruitslice Magazine, Vellichor Literary, Orion Literary, Rewrite the Stars Review, and many more. When not writing, they can be found at their local planetarium, dreaming of being an astronaut.
Hannah R. Anderson is a multi-genre writer from Roanoke, VA whose work has garnered praise for its emotional depth, attention to the natural world, and ability to spark conversations around goodness, truth, and beauty. A graduate of Duke Divinity, Hannah is curious about the spirituality of craft and how making art makes us.
Michaela Molaro is a writer of short fiction from northern New Jersey. Apparently, she writes realism.
Riel Saylor is a poet and nonfiction writer from Delaware. Riel’s work considers place, trauma, identity, platonic relationships, and the idea of living outside the bounds of normalcy.
Jahedy Rojas is a nonfiction writer from Atlanta, GA, who focuses on identity, religion, food, humor, family, the immigrant experience, and ways they intersect. She holds a BA in English at Clayton State University, and has been published in their literary journal, Cygnet, and was an editor/contributor in their Newsletter.
