Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a physician and writer with work in Narrative Magazine, Tin House, Electric Lit, The Millions, Joyland, Michigan Quarterly Review and elsewhere. Her poetry and prose juxtapose Hindu epics, other myths and histories, and the survival of sexual harassment and racialized sexual violence by diverse women of color.
Farrah Fray is a writer and activist living in London. Growing up between London and Libya, she navigates in her work explorations of culture, displacement, feminism and identity with a focus on Libya and London. Although her poetry and prose has constantly moved between public and private spaces, she has written for various different platforms such as Letters Ly Libya and Khabar Keslan. Through her poetry she hopes to expand the understanding and representation of Middle Eastern women in modern literature.
Reyna Marder Gentin is an attorney and writer and studied writing at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College. Unreasonable Doubts is her first novel.
Chris Pellizzari is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His short stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including most recently Good Works Review and Counterclock. He…
Originally from Louisiana, Renee Hodges has lived in Durham, North Carolina, for the past 30 years where she has established deep roots as a writer, community volunteer, and mother. Her…
David Wind has published thirty-nine novels including Science Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Thrillers and Contemporary Fiction. He lives and writes in Florida, and shares his house with his wife, Bonnie…
Leilani Squire is home when she is swimming in the waters of the island of her birth, O`ahu. She is a writer, poet, award-winning playwright, and Associate Member of The Dramatist Guild. She is a CCA Certified Creativity Coach and facilitates creative writing workshops for veterans and military families. She produces Returning Soldiers Speak, an annual event where active duty and veterans tell their stories through prose and poetry to the community; and is senior editor of the anthology The Storytellers: Veterans and Family Members Write About Military Life.
Now 44 years beyond his bachelor’s degree in forestry, Steve is devoting his life to championing the cause of Nature-Inspired Learning and Leading. Steve founded the Nature Based Leadership Institute at Antioch University New England and his first book is Nature Based Leadership: Lessons for Living, Learning, Serving, and Leading .
Dera Williams lives, works, and plays in the Oakland/Bay Area, California. She is a writer, editor, mentor, researcher, and family historian. She is currently compiling a collection of childhood memories, In My Backyard: Stories of Growing Up in Oakland.
Jasmine H. Wade is an award-winning writer obsessed with the ridiculous, and oftentimes traumatic, trials of growing up. She is a member of the AfroSurreal Writers Workshop and her short stories have appeared in a number of journals.