Tara Giancaspro (she) is the creator of xoxo Gossip Giancaspro, a weekly Substack including personal essays, pop culture commentary, and the various and sundry of her silly little life. She has released music under the name Sweaty Lamarr, available to stream everywhere, including "Abbey, I'm Sorry I Stole Your Man," a Jolene sequel from Jolene's perspective. She has been published in Wig-Wag Mag and Drunk Monkeys Literary, is a Cancer sun, and got bit by a dolphin once - establishing a potentially generational blood feud. Giancaspro can be found on Instagram and Twitter at @SweatyLamarr. She is based in New Jersey, if you couldn't tell by the hair.

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Anthony Robinson lives on the side of a mountain in rural Oregon with an orange cat named Raúla. Sometimes he writes poems.

Meca'Ayo (Tameca L Coleman) is a singer, multi-genre writer, itinerant nerd, intermittent zine maker, massage therapist, and point and shoot art dabbler in Denver Colorado. Their multi-genre writing and digital photography are featured in literary magazines, art exhibits, newspapers, and other venues and publications. Their first book an identity polyptych debuted from The Elephants in 2021, and considers familial estrangement, being in-between things as a mixed-race Black person, and moving towards reconciliation. Meca’Ayo leads community-centered projects with a collaborative bent, and they have been working in the healing arts since 2011. For more information about Meca’Ayo’s work, you can find them on social media with the handle @sireneatspoetry. 

Kenning JP García is a diarist and the author of Suffused. ​

Carter is blind in one eye and has Glaucoma, contrast loss and field loss in the other eye.

Mr. Boucher is a Master Teaching Artist working in the Arts Access South Carolina programs that provide inclusive art programs for people with disabilities. He is currently active on the South Carolina Arts Commission's Artist Directory and the Virginia Commission for the Arts teaching artist roster. Mr. Boucher’s video entitled “How to Engage Students on the Autistic Spectrum,” was a training video for the Palmetto State Arts Educators Association teacher training workshops. The South Carolina Arts Commission awarded him the Ad Astra per Aspera Commendation for exemplary performance as an artist in residence.
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Carter’s personal work has been in numerous books and magazines including The New York Art Review, American Artist Magazine's Annual Watercolor edition, Who’s Who in Art, About the Author and have been featured in many newspapers and on both Public and Commercial Television programs. Richard C. Owen publishes his children's books. Mr. Boucher won the International Golden poet award. 

RECENT EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS 
2023 Quagmire Magazines, Cover runner up show, acrylic painting , “The All Seeing Eye is Here”

2023 GreenPrints magazine, publishing essay, “From Hate to Love,” about gardening tomatoes.
2022 Antithesis Journal: Tender (“…published annually in association with the School of Culture and Communication at The University of Melbourne…”) publishing painting, “At the Edge of the Universe,” acrylic on paper, 22” w x 30” h
2022 Alchemy Literary Magazine, paintings published, Brilliance (acrylic on canvas) 10” h x 10” w and Buddies (acrylic on canvas) 10”h x 10” w
2022 Art of Possibilities, paintings accepted, Blue Orbs with Spirals (oil on canvas), Left Rectangle (Oil on panel), Five and Soon More (acrylic on paper), Pandemic Engulfment (oil on canvas).
2022 Poet’s Choice, publishing poem, “Grey is Beautiful.”
2021 Wingless Dreamer, publishing short non-fiction, “Summer, I Love You…Please Go Away!”
2021 Nine Cloud Journal, publishing poem, “I Am Tempered Steel.”

​Shannon Hozinec lives in Pittsburgh. Her work can be found in DIAGRAM, Salt Hill Journal, Action Books Blog, and elsewhere.

​Robin Joan Steckel lives and writes in scenic central New Jersey, near to the site of the legendary City Gardens. A graduate of Rutgers Camden MFA program, they are in the process of pursuing further study in the hopes of obtaining a doctorate in American letters. When not lost in the warm glow of cinema or the worn pages of a book, you can find them bopping around at any number of venues in the Tri-State Area.

Joey Gould is a queer teacher who wrote The Acute Avian Heart & Penitent>Arbiter (2019 & 2022, Lily Poetry Review), both of which have companion playlists. Their recent poetry also appears or is forthcoming in Alice Says Go Fuck Yourself, miniskirt magazine, & beestung. They serve as Poetry Editor for Drunk Monkeys. Where do they write? Cool-sounding places like Skunk's Misery & SAFTA's Firefly Farms! On misty nights since 2018, they have performed as Izzie Hexxam in the Boston cast of The Poetry Brothel.

​Said Shaiye is a late-diagnosed Autistic + ADHD Somali Artist & Disability Advocate in Minneapolis. He is a 2024 MacDowell Colony Fellow and was awarded a 2024 MN State Arts Education Grant to lead a BIPOC Autistic writing group. His debut book, Are You Borg Now?, was a 2022 Minnesota Book Award Finalist in Creative Nonfiction & Memoir. He works as a Career Navigation Counselor, helping other people with disabilities navigate the employment & higher education worlds.

Tristen is a he/him artsy guy from Roanoke VA that loves to be outside and shoot photos! In his free time he can be found playing guitar or outside performing parkour stunts. He is a drum instructor for a high school marching band and loves his music almost as much as his cat Onya (the sweetest baby in the world). He loves watching soccer and his team is the West Ham Hammers. You can find @_.triscuit._ on Instagram or TikTok.