Deborah Hunter Deborah J. Hunter is a Tulsa, Oklahoma-based multi-disciplinary poet and spoken word artist whose work has been commissioned for publication and performance. She received a 2020 Greenwood Art Project grant for her original play,  Porches , a 2018 Women of the Year Pinnacle Award, and was a 2013 Oklahoma Poet Laureate finalist. Stalking I stalked the man who raped my daughter. I stalked him in my dreams after I Made her tell me what he looked like Pinned her dow

Atma Frans Atma Frans’ poetry won first prize in Quagmire Magazine’s Poetry Contest, second in Muriel’s Journey Prize and in SCEWS’s Beachcombers Contest, and was nominated for the (Canadian) National Magazine Award. Her work has been published in Arc Poetry Magazine, CV2, TNQ, FreeFall, Prairie Fire Magazine, Obsessed with Pipework , and Lighthouse Literary Journal, among others. Afterwards I Pick up Fire Eating Smoke curls in the cold cave of my mouth Heat scorches my wintr

Evgeniya Dineva Evgeniya Dineva is a poet from Bulgaria. Her works appear in Oxford Poetry Library , The Hong Kong Review , Ethel , Asian Cha and others. Her debut poetry collection Animals Have No Fathers  came out in November 2023. Evgeniya is a fellow of the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation for Creative Writing and the recipient of the Traduki Writer Grant, Tirana 2025. Emptyfull – the feeling of being uncertain about things surrounding you Things I Felt Emptyfull About This D

Mona Mehas Mona Mehas (she/her) writes from the perspective of a retired disabled teacher in Indiana USA. A Pushcart and Best New Poets nominee, her poetry books include Questions I Didn’t Know I’d Asked (LJMcD Communications, 2024), Hand-Me-Downs  (LJMcD Communications, 2024), Calling to Shore (Cicada Song Press, 2025), Self-Centered (Bottlecap Press, 2024), My Colorful Heart  (Bottlecap Press, 2025), and Breathing Through My Spine  (Poptab Pres, 2025.) Her work has appeared

Jaxx Davis Jaxx Davis (they/them) is a trans fat queercrip writer, artist and activist. They often combine those elements and create around their live experiences as well as the state of the world. Jaxx unfortunately has multiple experiences around sexual assault, abuse, domestic abuse, and incest, so those themes regularly pop up in their work. Being mostly bedridden due to their disabilities, they mostly create from their bed. Healing Whoever said that healing was a line wa

Tara Temprano Tara Temprano is a 47-year-old woman living in New Jersey as an educator of young children. Her experience with sexual assault spans a few circumstances and poetry has served her well as an outlet to address the assaults, harassment, and abuse that she endured in her twenties and thirties. The five poems selected have not been published in any way. Her substack, named “Poetry and Artifacts,” publishes poems weekly as well as “Artifact Journaling,” which combines

Sam Harty Sam Harty is a poet living near New Orleans. Her work explores love, loss, survival, and the healing  power of truth. She is also the author of Lost Love Volume I and  Volume II. Sam has been published in  several journals and anthologies and has just completed The Lost Little Series, a poetry collection about  reclaiming voice after sexual trauma. In her spare time, Sam volunteers at a Louisiana Trauma Nonprofit.  Sam Harty writes to breathe—and to help others do t

Valentine Cusin A student, currently based in the UK, Valentine is a French and Italian poet . Writing in her third language, she aims to take her works further out into the world in the hope that they help people the same way poetry has helped her, transcending through language and culture.   Polaroid The young me wears one sock   inside-out, ink stains glow   on the sides of her frail knuckles.   She whimpers like a creaking door   and I cannot help but ask her where it hur

Valentine Cusin Valentine is a French and Italian poet currently based in the UK as a student. Writing in her   third language, she aims...

Evgeniya Dineva Evgeniya Dineva is a poet from Bulgaria. Her works appear in Oxford Poetry Library , The Hong Kong Review , Ethel , Asian...

Sam Harty Sam Harty is a poet living near New Orleans. Her work explores love, loss, survival, and the healing  power of truth. She is...

Deborah Hunter Deborah J. Hunter is a Tulsa, Oklahoma-based multi-disciplinary poet and spoken word artist whose work has been...

Raine Raine has been writing poetry since she was in seventh grade and fell in love with a guitar player. She has had four articles...

Naomi Atwood Naomi Atwood is and older Japanese Canadian woman who has lately been reflecting upon the many interesting events in her...

J. Kathryn Fulton J. Kathryn Fulton is a writer and educator whose writing often explores identity and trauma and the intersection of the...

Mona Mehas Mona Mehas (she/her) writes from the perspective of a retired disabled teacher in Indiana USA. A Pushcart and Best New Poets...

Blake Bell Blake Bell is a writer and educator from South Louisiana. Learning to Play Dead “You are one tough cookie.” The dental...

June Trop June Trop has studied storytelling her entire professional life. As a professor of teacher education, she focused her research...

Jaxx Davis Jaxx Davis (they/them) is a trans fat queercrip writer, artist and activist. They often combine those elements and create...

Heather Haigh Heather D. Haigh is a multi-genre,disabled, working-class writer from Yorkshire and a survivor. She is published by Oxford...

Linda Henderson Linda Bridget Henderson is a poet and creative nonfiction writer whose work explores memory, embodiment, and the long arc...

Paula Mathieu Paula Mathieu is a writer and writing teacher who lives in Massachusetts. Her nonfiction work has appeared in Writers:...

Tara Temprano Tara Temprano is a 47-year-old woman living in New Jersey as an educator of young children. Her experience with sexual...

Tammy Qualls Tammy Qualls (she/her) is a bisexual author who lives in Northern California. She’s an environmental engineer by day and a...