K McCreary is a Lesbian writer living in the Pacific Northwest She has been writing poetry and prose since the early 1960’s, and has just had a poem accepted for publication by Rough Diamond Poems. She also has Shakespeare Adaptations for children and Curriculum Guides available at www.teacherspayteachers.com. She enjoys classic films, opera, and early mornings under the trees.
Colleen Alles is a native Michigander and award-winning writer. The author of three novels and two poetry collections, she is also a fiction editor with Barren Magazine and an MFA candidate at Spalding University.You can find her online at www.colleenalles.com.
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Dennis Owen Frohlich is a professor at Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania – Bloomsburg in the Department of Communication Studies, Media and Journalism. Born and raised in North Dakota, he moved to Pennsylvania to begin the next chapter of his career. He's found that Bloomsburg is welcoming, the mountains are beautiful, and the people are kind. Visit his website: https://DennisFrohlich.com/
Ruth Holzer is the author of ten chapbooks, most recently, “On the Way to Man in Moon Passage” (dancing girl press) and “Float” (Kelsay Books). Her poems have appeared in Blue Unicorn, California Quarterly, Freshwater, POEM, Slant and elsewhere. She is a multiple Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee.
Katy Z. Allen (she/her) is a lover of the more-than-human world, poet, retired rabbi of an outdoor congregation, former healthcare chaplain, co-founder of a Jewish climate organization, and eco-chaplain. She has been writing in one context or another all her life. Her poetry has appeared in New Verse News, The Jewish Poets Collective Poetry Journal, and 2025 Art on the Trails: Number 9, and is forthcoming in Bluebird Word. My poetic book, A Tree of Life: A Story in Word, Image, and Text was published by Strong Voices Publishing.
Yucheng Tao is a Chinese poet and fiction writer based in Los Angeles, currently pursuing a B.A. in Songwriting at the Musicians Institute. He began writing poetry and fiction in 2024, and his work has since appeared in Wild Court (King’s College London), Red Ogre Review (UK), The Lake (UK), NonBinary Review, Apocalypse Confidential, The Rush Magazine (Mount Saint Mary’s University), The Arcanist, Cathexis Northwest Press, and over fifty other literary magazines. He was a Top 6 finalist for the Native Voice Award by Kinsman Quarterly . His debut chapbook was published by Alien Buddha Press, followed by his second from Bottlecap Press.