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​Xoe is an artist, model and independent queer porn performer. They love immersing themself in books, writing their soul, and challenging rigid ideals, especially surrounding sexuality and what it means to be a queer person of colour today. They also love music, getting messy for the sake of art and ice cream. Find them at www.patreon.com/xoenova and Instagram @xoetrope


Xoe’s head shot credit: Alex Norelli (@lightisabettergod on Instagram). 

Photography by: Cassandra Panek
Art design by: Elizabeth Bergland 

Ari Rosenschein is a Seattle-based writer whose work appears in Stratus, Observer, PopMatters,  The Junction, Lunch Ticket, From Sac, and elsewhere. He is currently an MFA candidate at Antioch University. A lifelong musician, Ari has released albums as both a solo artist and as a member of The Royal Oui. He works at KEXP as Development Communications Manager. He can be found at the following places: [twitter] @arirosenschein; [instagram] @arirosenschein
[Facebook] www.facebook.com/arirosenschein; [website] www.arirosenschein.com 

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​Jonathan Papernick is the author of two collections of short stories and the novel The Book of Stone​. He teaches fiction at Emerson College in Boston and keeps busy tending to his two young boys. 

Art by: Elizabeth Bergland

 
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​Dylan Krieger is a divining rod of ungodly proportions in south Louisiana. She lives in the back of a little brick house with a feline reincarnation of Catherine the Great and sunlights as a trade mag editor. She earned her BA in English and philosophy from the University of Notre Dame and her MFA in creative writing from Louisiana State University, where she won the Robert Penn Warren Award in 2015. She is the author of "Giving Godhead" (Delete Press, 2017), "dreamland trash" (Saint Julian Press, forthcoming), "no ledge left to love" (Ping-Pong Free Press, forthcoming), and--most recently--an autobiographical meditation on the Church of Euthanasia. Find her at www.dylankrieger.com.