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...

Andreia Rodrigues Andreia Rodrigues is a Brazilian immigrant currently residing in Belgium. Her memoir, Wild Dandelions , shares her...

Rhea Melina Rhea Melina is a multi-ethnic poet who lives in Seattle. She has been writing and putting out poetry since the early...

Atma Frans Atma Frans’ poetry won first prize in Quagmire Magazine’s Poetry Contest, second in Muriel’s Journey Prize and in SCEWS’s...

Martha Ellen Johnson Martha Ellen lives alone in an old Victorian house on a hill on the Oregon coast. She is a retired social worker and...

Ash Ochoa Ash Ochoa is an artist, writer, and nightshift nurse. She tends to think a little too much in the shower and has way too many...

Mickey Black Mickey Black is a writer and poet from Richmond, Virginia. She began her writing journey in middle school, when she’d...

It was my last year as a teenager, three months into being 19. On this gloomy Thursday afternoon in October,  I wanted to change my hair....