When not writing, Emalisa Rose enjoys crafting and drawing. She volunteers in animal rescue and tends to cat colonies. Living by a beach provides much of the inspiration for her art. She walks with a birding group on Sundays.
Some of her work has appeared in Writing in a Woman's Voice, The Red Wolf Edition, Origami Poems Project and other wonderful places. She can be reached at
Jen Schneider is a community college educator who lives, works, and writes in small spaces in and around Philadelphia.
Recent works include A Collection of Recollections, Invisible Ink, On Habits & Habitats, and Blindfolds, Bruises, and Breakups.
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Chuck Harp is a writer and winner of the Mad Cave Studios Talent Hunt. He released two poetry collections with Unsolicited Press, What Must Go On and Working Title. In 2021 Chuck released a poetry spoken word/music EP under the name, Katcheen Tongues.
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Joris Soeding's most recent collections of poetry are Forty (Rinky Dink Press, 2019) and Home in Nine Moons (Clare Songbirds Publishing House, 2018). Soeding’s writing has appeared in publications such as Another Chicago Magazine, Columbia Poetry Review, and Red River Review. He is a fifth grade Language Arts teacher in Chicago, where he resides with his wife, son, daughter, and kittens.
Photo taken by Christa Poskozim in July, 2021, in front of the statue, "David & Yonatan"
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Preeth Ganapathy is a software engineer turned civil servant from Bengaluru, India. Her recent works have been published in several magazines such as Last Stanza Poetry Journal, The Ekphrastic Review, Star 82 Review, Panoply Zine, Tiger Moth Review, The Sunlight Press and various other journals. Her microchaps 'A Single Moment' and 'Purple' - have been published by Origami Poems Project. Her work has been nominated for the 2023 Best Spiritual Literature.
Matt Stefon was religion editor of Encyclopaedia Britannica, poetry editor of West Texas Literary Review, adjunct in English and humanities at Middlesex Community College, and adjunct in comparative religion in Norwich University’s online degree completion program.
He studied at Penn State and Boston University and has two chapbooks and 463 wiffle ball home runs.
Tonya McKenna Trabant is a coach, educator, poet, mom living in rural Wisconsin with her partner, their two near-perfect offspring, a rescued dog, and some laying hens. Her poems appear in Clockhouse Journal, Bramble, Verse Wisconsin, Icebox Journal, and others. She is a willingly displaced Alaskan who writes to catalyze human connection, justice, and joy.
Lourdes Tutaine-Garcia is Cuban by birth, American by citizenship, Cuban-New Englander by culture. She lives in Mid-coast Maine where she listens to what the ocean has to say, then runs home to write it down. Her work has appeared in many journals, including Metafore, The Adanna Literary Journal, Avocet, and Cathexis Northwest Press. Blanket Sea nominated one of her poems for Sundress Publications 2019 Best of the Net. In 2018, BestLit Review selected her as one of the ten best prose writers in mid-coast Maine.