Photo: Bird Bath: Vicky Martin
Author Bio: Lauren Villa is a writer based in San Diego, California. She is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars program. She likes to write about coffee shops, sex, space, and death. Her work has appeared in Sky Island Journal, Thoughtful Dog, and Coffin Bell. She is working on her first novel.
Photo: There, and Lack Thereof: Impermanent Marks: Joey Aronhalt
Author Bio: Savannah Slone is a writer, editor, and English professor who currently dwells in the Pacific Northwest. Her work has appeared in Split Lip Magazine, Paper Darts, The Indianapolis Review, Glass: A Poetry Journal, Crab Creek Review, FIVE:2:ONE, Pidgeonholes, decomP magazinE, Crab Fat Magazine, Pithead Chapel, Hobart Pulp, and elsewhere. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Homology Lit, as well as the author of An Exhalation of Dead Things (CLASH Books, 2021), Hearing the Underwater (Finishing Line Press, 2019) and This Body is My Own (Ghost City Press, 2019). She enjoys reading, knitting, hiking, and discussing intersectional feminism. You can read more of her work at www.savannahslonewriter.com.
Photo: Finding Bright: Jaina Cipriano
Author Bio: Jeff Fleischer is a Chicago-based author, journalist and editor. His fiction has appeared in more than fifty publications including the Chicago Tribune’s Printers Row Journal, Shenandoah, the Saturday Evening Post and So It Goes by the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library. He is also the author of non-fiction books including “Votes of Confidence: A Young Person’s Guide to American Elections” (Zest Books, 2016 and 2020), “Rockin’ the Boat: 50 Iconic Revolutionaries” (Zest Books, 2015), and “The Latest Craze: A Short History of Mass Hysterias” (Fall River Press, 2011).
Photo: Goauche: Kelly Emmrich
Author Bio: Divya Mehrish is an emerging writer from New York. Her writing has been commended by the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award and the Scholastic Writing Awards, which named her a recipient of National Gold and Silver Medals. Her work has been published in the Ricochet Review, PANK Magazine, the Tulane Review, Body Without Organs, Inscape Magazine, Sandcutters, The Battering Ram, and Amtrak’s Onboard Magazine The National, among others.
Photo: Abstract Works: Kimberly Williams
Author Bio: Ellery Pridgen is a 19 year old undergraduate student in the english department at Western Washington University. Her work has been featured in The White Wall Review, Unstamatic Magazine, Prometheus Dreaming, and Coffin Bell Journal. In her free time, she enjoys painting, reciting her poetry, and reading novels about people with exciting lives.
Photo: Nature’s Art: Nam Nguyen
Author Bio: Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey is an 18-year-old writer from Petaluma, California. She is the founder of her school’s creative writing club and editor of the school literary magazine, and her work has been recognized by the National YoungArts Foundation and the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Her work has been published in Teen Ink, Blue Marble Review and Amaryllis. When not writing, Esmé enjoys taking walks and spending irrational amounts of time making playlists.
Photo: Twilight Retreat: Timothy Phillips
Author Bio: Divya Mehrish is an emerging writer from New York. Her writing has been commended by the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award and the Scholastic Writing Awards, which named her a recipient of National Gold and Silver Medals. Her work has been published in the Ricochet Review, PANK Magazine, the Tulane Review, Body Without Organs, Inscape Magazine, Sandcutters, The Battering Ram, and Amtrak’s Onboard Magazine The National, among others.
Photo: There, and Lack Thereof: Impermanent Marks: Joey Aronhalt
Author Bio: Prisha Mehta is a passionate writer and a high school student from Millburn, New Jersey. Her work has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, and she has pieces published or forthcoming in a number of literary journals, including The Baltimore Review, Ginosko, Asymmetry, The Copperfield Review, Gravel, Five on the Fifth, and Déraciné. When she isn’t writing, she might be found scrolling through psychology articles, sketching in her notebook, or (of course) reading. You can find out more about her at prishamehta.com.
Photo: Pass It Down: Juan Cajigas
Author Bio: Alexandra Naparstek is a senior at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts and a poetry editor of her school’s international literary magazine, Élan. Her poetry has been published in the Inlandia Journal, Élan, in a forthcoming edition of River Rising, and has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. She is most recognized for her eight-bit Bowser bumper sticker and her love for Siberian sheep herders.
Photo: Pass It Down: Juan Cajigas
Author Bio: Los Angeles native Joshua Corwin is an emerging poet and a recent graduate from Pitzer College in Claremont, CA with a degree in Mathematics and a minor in Philosophy. He is published in SPECTRUM Vol. 20, Al-Khemia Poetica, Rattle’s Rattlecast #9 and #10, and forthcoming (April 2020) in poeticdiversity.
Photo: Kitchen Window in White: Robert Cross
Author Bio: David Poses writes and speaks about addiction and mental health.
Photo: Psychorhythms: Karyna Aslanova
Author Bio: Maya Price is an undergraduate student at Columbus State University.