Cheryl Clark Vermeulen is an Assistant Professor in Liberal Arts at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Her poems and translations have appeared in Caketrain, Jubilat, Third Coast, TWO LINES Online, DIAGRAM, EOAGH, Split Rock Review, Inertia Magazine, admit2, Carve [poems], Dispatx, Propeller Quarterly, Thermos blog, and eXchanges, as well as the anthology Connecting Lines: New Poetry from Mexico. She is the author of the chapbook Dead-Eye Spring (Cy Gist Press) and a recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Artist Fellowship. She received an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, after working for a decade in non-profit organizations. Raised in a suburb south of Chicago, she has lived in Boston since 1998.

Artress Bethany White is a poet, essayist, and literary critic. She is the author of the poetry collection My Afmerica (Trio House Press, 2019), and the debut essay collection Survivor’s Guilt: Essays on Race and American Identity (New Rivers Press, 2020). Her prose and poetry have appeared in such journals as Harvard Review, Tupelo Quarterly, The Hopkins Review, Pleiades, Solstice, Poet Lore and others. White has received the Mary Hambidge Distinguished Fellowship from the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts for her nonfiction, The Mona Van Duyn Scholarship in Poetry from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and writing residencies at The Writer’s Hotel and the Tupelo Press/MASS MoCA studios. She is an associate professor at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania.

Yelena lives in London with her husband, two kids, a dog and a cat. A few years ago she left her career in financial consulting to do what she has always loved--write. She writes book reviews on her blog and for UK magazines, works in a school of creative writing, and in her spare time enjoys pottery.

Deborah Norkin is Editorial Director of Santé, an online publication to the up-market restaurant trade (isantemagazine.com). She is wholly responsible for all editorial content for the magazine. Her features, essays and fiction have appeared in magazines and newspapers, including The Boston Globe. She holds a BS in Nutrition from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, a Professional Chef’s Diploma from the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts, and an MBA in Marketing from Rutgers Business School.

Christelle Saintis is a recent graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she earned her Masters in Education with a focus on International Education Policy. Prior to her studies, she worked as a teacher for 5 years, both domestically, in Chicago, and abroad in Thailand as well as Honduras. She is an avid reader and dabbles in writing when inspiration strikes.

Anri Wheeler is a writer, educator, and mother. She facilitates workshops on identity and antiracism for schools and nonprofits. She is a graduate of GrubStreet’s Memoir Incubator, Tin House, and VONA. Her essays and book reviews have appeared in LitHub, The Boston Globe, The Independent, Hippocampus, and Romper, among others. More at anriwheeler.com.

Aime Card is author of And Beneath it all Was Love, a memoir about her experience with breast cancer. Her current work in progress is an historical nonfiction narrative about a women's track team in 1960 and their journey to the Olympics from her hometown in Nashville. On the best days you can find her walking a beach on the North Shore of Boston with her sidekicks, Serendipity and Moose, baking with her daughter, listening to her son bang on the drums, or with a glass of wine in her hand by the firepit with her husband.

Dan Mazur is an independent cartoonist, editor, publisher, and author who lives in Cambridge, MA. His comics have appeared in numerous anthologies, and his Cold Wind (with Jesse Lonergan), was named a notable in The Best American Comics of 2013. He is the co-writer with Alexander Danner of Comics: A Global History, 1968 to the Present. He is co-founder of the Boston Comics Roundtable, and MICE: the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo, and founder of Ninth Art Press, a small press devoted to comics and comics anthologies.  www.danmazurcomics.com

Amy Glynn has been working in public health for over the past decade, focusing on health disparities research and evaluation to improve care for complex needs populations. In her spare time, she writes a newsletter, Outtakes, about bloopers from her life. She was recently accepted into the Pioneer Valley Writing Workshop year-long revision program where she is finishing her first novel. When not writing or working, she is usually out hiking with her partner or drinking cold brew on the couch with her two cats.

Esther Weeks has a BA in Studio Art from St. Olaf College and a MFA in Visual Information and Instructional Design from Harvard Extension School. She leads a semi-nomadic life working as a Park Ranger for the National Park Service, usually in the Western United States. She enjoys hiking, photography, videography, and travel.

Matthew Koentjoro is a Boston-based marketing expert and writer of fantasy fiction, children’s books, and roleplay games. He specializes in helping game developers, authors, and similar creators build brands and leverage social media for platform growth and sales. You can see him in action on his DungeonGlitch and Gemmed Firefly brands on Twitter and gaming on Twitch.

Otis Fuqua is a fiction writer from Boulder, Colorado, living in New York City. His work has appeared in Calliope, Capsule Stories, Arkansas Review, and Jet Fuel Review, among others. He holds a degree in Creative Writing from Brandeis University, where he received the Dafna Zamarripa-Gesundheit Fiction Prize. He plays DnD, runs long distances, and is presently typing around his cat.