Bruce Parker: holds a BA in History from the University of Maryland Far East Division, Okinawa, Japan, and an MA in Secondary Education from the University of New Mexico. He has worked as an ESL teacher, technical editor, and translator. His work has appeared in The Inflectionist Review, Pif, Blue Unicorn, The Hamilton Stone Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Portland, Oregon and published a chapbook, Ramadan in Summer, in 2022, from Finishing Line Press.

John Jordan Olivar: his work has appeared in Spectrum (Santa Barbara), Storyville (Chigwell, UK), online at The American Center for Artists (americanartists.org), and in other publications. He currently works as Associate Editor at Curator (curator.guide).

Lora Obrohta: lives in Nashville, TN. She has a BA in Creative Writing from Beloit College and has been published in The Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center Expressive Writing Workshop.

Uche Nduka: is an itinerant poet and essayist presently living in New York City. He is the author of 14 volumes of poems of which the latest are Scissorwork and Bainbridge Island Notebook. His work has been translated into Finnish, German, Romanian, Arabic, Italian, Turkish, and Dutch. He teaches at the New School’s Eugene Lang College and Queens College, CUNY.