Authors, poets, and artists featured in this issue…
Short Story:
Beaus & Bootleggers
Alison Attoe is a novelist interested in writing romance, comedy, and paranormal. She resides in a Greater Vancouver apartment with her husband and far too many house plants. When not living vicariously through her characters, she enjoys crafting, drinking copious amounts of tea, and reading love stories.
- Instagram: @alisonattoe
Poem:
In the Movie of My Mind
Ruth Broome is an emerging Poet residing in the UK and has only just begun to send her writing out into the world. Largely inspired by the nature she encounters on her daily dog walks, Ruth’s work investigates and seeks to capture the plethora of human emotional responses caused by certain situations and stimuli.
Poem:
Poetic City
Rohan Buettel lives in Canberra, Australia. His haiku appear in Australian and international journals (including Presence, Cattails and The Heron’s Nest). His longer poetry appears in various journals, including Rattle, The Goodlife Review, Meanjin, Meniscus and Quadrant.
Art:
Light and Shadow
Ann Calandro is a writer, artist, and classical piano student. Serving House Books published her short story collection, Lost in Words, in February 2025 and will publish her poetry collection in January 2026. Her writing and artwork have appeared in literary journals, and her artwork has been included in the New Jersey Arts Annual and exhibited in museum and gallery shows. Shanti Arts Press published three children’s books that she wrote and illustrated.
- Website: ann-calandro.pixels.com
Poetic Prose:
Books and Bridges
Steve Gerson’s chapbooks include Once Planed Straight; Viral; And the Land Dreams Darkly; The 13th Floor: Step into Anxiety; What Is Isn’t; There is a Season; Have Not, and Who Am I Today.
Art:
15c
Richard Hanus had four kids, but now just three. Zen and Love.
Short Story:
The Marigold Man
Kenneth M. Kapp lives with his wife in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, writing late at night in his man-cave. He enjoys chamber music and mysteries. His stories have appeared in more than eighty-five publications world-wide, including The Saturday Evening Post and October Hill Magazine.
Poem:
Grave of Lanterns
Erica Liu (she/her) is a writer and educator from Brooklyn, New York. She is pursuing a BS in English Education and a minor in Creative Writing at New York University. Erica is a Reader for Flash Fiction Magazine and has mentored youth in reading and writing for 5+ years. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in Generasian, Spires Magazine, and The Weasel. When Erica’s not writing, you can find her painting rocks.
- Website: sites.google.com/view/ericaliupoetry
Short Story:
Paper Money
Jaclyn Port is named for where the ocean meets the land, for hubs of connections between people and locations. Her writing is sometimes about points of transition and in-between places, but other days, she just makes it up as she goes. She currently lives near one of the busiest ports in the world, where she enjoys hiking and crafting.
- Website: jaclynportwrites.carrd.co
Poem:
Urban Renewal
David Radavich has published a variety of poetry, drama, essays, and reviews. His plays have been performed across the U.S. and in Europe. His latest books are UNTER DER SONNE / UNDER THE SUN: German Poems (Deutscher Lyrik, 2021) and Here’s Plenty (Cervena Barva, 2023).
- Website: www.davidradavich.org.
Art:
Urban Landscape in Light Rain
Rod Raglin is a journalist, photographer, and author of fourteen self-published novels, a collection of short stories, and two plays. His short fiction, poetry, and photographs regularly appear in online publications and anthologies. He lives in Vancouver, Canada.
Poetic Prose:
My Dad Died Two Days Before Trump was Sworn In for the Second Time
Alexis Raymond is a poet that writes to honor the minority experience in predominantly white spaces. A Stonecoast MFA graduate and an Ashley Bryan Fellow. She is also a journalist, and published short-story fiction writer. Her work can be found in Portland Monthly Magazine, The Elevation Review, So to Speak Journal, Moonstone Arts’ Fatal Force Anthology, and Hellbender Magazine.
Art:
Father and Son
Juan “zeb” Restrepo, is a Colombian-American artist whose paintings and drawings explore memory, domesticity, and emotional life. Born in Barranquilla, Colombia, and raised in Miami, zeb creates intimate visual narratives—cluttered tables, napping cats, and traces of family life. With a BFA from Pratt Institute (2015) and an MFA from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (2020), zeb has exhibited widely, including solo shows at The Art and Culture Center in Hollywood, FL, and [NAME] Publications in Miami. Their work blends personal ritual, postmodern symbols, and Tarot iconography, using soft palettes and flattened perspectives to transform everyday scenes into emblems of care and reflection. zeb also teaches and engages in cultural dialogue through workshops and publications.
Art:
Valentine’s Day in the City 2
Edward Michael Supranowicz is the grandson of Irish and Lithuanian/Russian/Ukrainian immigrants. He grew up on a small farm in Appalachia. He has a grad background in painting and printmaking. Some of his artwork has recently or will soon appear in Fish Food, Streetlight, Another Chicago Magazine, Door Is A Jar, The Phoenix, and The Harvard Advocate. Edward is also a published poet who has had over 700 poems published and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize multiple times.
Poem:
Start from the Depths of the Dark
Yucheng Tao is a poet; his work has appeared in Wild Court (King’s College London), Strange Horizons, Like A Field, and others. His chapbooks with two are forthcoming from Bottlecap Press and Finishing Line Press.
Cover Art:
Montreal
Art:
Truss Me
Vishaal is a self-taught photographer with an eye for quiet, still moments and a deep appreciation for nature. His photography has appeared or is forthcoming in Juste Milieu Zine, Moiramor, Ink In Thirds, Moonlit Getaway, Quibble Lit, Union Spring Literary Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Gabby & Min’s Literary Review, Paper Dragon, 3Elements Review, Eleventh Hour Literary, and The Word’s Faire.
Art:
Walled Off
Jennifer Weigel is a multi-disciplinary mixed media conceptual artist. Weigel utilizes a wide range of media to convey her ideas, including assemblage, drawing, fibers, installation, jewelry, painting, performance, photography, sculpture, video, and writing. Much of her work touches on themes of beauty, identity (especially gender identity), memory & forgetting, socio-political discourse, and institutional critique. Weigel’s art has been exhibited nationally in all 50 states and has won numerous awards.
- Website: jenniferweigelart.com
Art:
Evening Rain, NYC
Christopher Woods is a writer and photographer who lives in Texas. He has published a novel, The Dream Patch, a prose collection, Under a Riverbed Sky, and a poetry collection, Maybe Birds Would Carry It Away. His novella, Hearts in the Dark, was published in an anthology by Running Wild Press in Los Angeles. He has received residencies from The Ucross Foundation and the Edward Albee Foundation, and a grant from the Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation. His plays included Moonbirds, an absurdist play about census-takers in a country where there are no people left to count, Fire, a drama about a woman who loses her family in a house fire she may have set, Interim, about souls in purgatory, and Heart Speak, an evening of monologues for men and women.
- Gallery: christopherwoods.zenfolio.com/f861509283
Art:
No Direction Home
Robin Young based in Borrego Springs, California, currently works in mixed media, focusing mostly on collage and contemporary art making. Her focus on collage art using magazine clippings, masking tape, wallpaper, jewelry, feathers, foil, etc., allows her to delve deep into the whimsical and intuitive. From large, life-sized pieces and 3D sculptures to small postcard-sized arrangements, Robin’s keen eye and gripping aesthetic guide her viewers into her own semi-readymade world.