Alex Fonseca (they/he/she) is a 23 year old film production graduate, currently based in Lisbon, who explores their identity in the world and the cosmos through poetry, video and music.

@alexfonsecx

Alex M. Frankel (he/him) left Spain in the 1990s to settle in Southern California. He also publishes under the name "Alejo Rovira Goldner." For ten years he wrote reviews for The Antioch Review, appearing in every issue, until the journal went on indefinite hiatus. His new book is Flame at Door and Raisin, praised by Kirkus as "powerfully haunting tales of love, betrayal, and heartbreak in the Europe of decades past." 

alexmfrankel.com // @alexmfrankel

Alexander Perez (he/him) is published in Book of Matches, The Quarter(ly), South Florida Poetry Review, Cerasus Magazine, Queer Toronto Literary Magazine, New Note Poetry Magazine, Variety Pack Literary Magazine, Literary Yard, The Voices Project, and Whisky Blot. The Poetry Barn and Arts Society of Kingston selected his poetry to appear in a gallery exhibit entitled “Poetic License 2022.”

perezpoet.press // @perezpoet 

Alexis Seary (they/them) is a bi-cultural/non-binary photographer located in Emeryville. As an isolated queer teenager living in the conservative English countryside, photography became a tool for creative expression, leading Alexis on adventures that inspired a new sense of wonder and appreciation for the world. Alexis’ daily meditation practice informs their work – candidly capturing calm moments in between the fast pace of daily life. In 2012, Alexis was a top 10 winner of the International Google Photography Prize.

@alexisosharp

Andi Benet (they/them) is a self-taught, disabled, and queer lens-based artist working in San Francisco. Their artistic practice explores questions of perception, identity  and the interplay between them. Their work documents their own perceptual abnormalities and the dissociation between their interior and exterior identities.

andi.love // @andibenet

Anna Laura Falvey (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based poet and theater artist. She is currently serving as an ArtistYear Senior Fellow and resident teaching artist, teaching poetry in Queens, NY. Anna Laura has recently performed at The Tank NYC, and her written work has appeared in Icarus Magazine as well as in issues 15, 16, & 17 of Deep Overstock. 

Ash Bainbridge (they/he) is a trans non-binary poet, student midwife, and pansexual relationship anarchist based in Worcester, UK. These identities are uplifted in Ash's writing via language as safety, progress, and glue. In 2022, Ash received full mentorship with The Word Association. Their poems have been published by - amongst others - Pulp Poets Press, Words and Whispers, Spoonie Press, and Bleeding Thunder. 

@ash_bainbridge

Aynsley Leonardis (they/them) is a painter and multimedia artist with punk-rock sensibilities and a capital-B-Bad sense of humor. A lover of the lowbrow, Aynsley finds their artistic roots in comics, music zines, and kid art. Their experience as a young, queer person navigating the art world has only cemented their dedication to defiance. Since 2018, Aynsley has been exhibiting work in both solo and group shows and selling work to collectors across the United States. They currently live and work in Brooklyn.

aynsleyleonardis.com // @yelsnyaleonardis

Ayshe-Mira Yashin (she/her) is a lesbian artist and witch from Istanbul, Turkey, and Nicosia, Cyprus. She is currently studying illustration at Camberwell College of the Arts in London. Her practice involves drawing, stitching, lino and risograph print-making and the creation of artist books and zines, exploring themes of queer love, witchcraft and ecofeminism. 

illustrationwitch.hotglue.me // @illustrationwitch

BEE LB (they/them) is an array of letters, bound to impulse; a writer creating delicate connections. they have called any number of places home; currently, a single yellow wall in Michigan. they have been published in Revolute Lit, After the Pause, and Roanoke Review, among others. they are the 2022 winner of the Bea Gonzalez Prize for Poetry.

twinbrights.carrd.co // @twinbrights

Colin James (he/him) has a couple of chapbooks of poetry published. Dreams Of The Really Annoying from Writing Knights Press and A Thoroughness Not Deprived of Absurdity from Piski's Porch Press and a book of poems, Resisting Probability, from Sagging Meniscus Press.

CULKeeeN (he/him) Trying to do visual stuff with my own two hands. 

@CULKeeeN

Emily Sofaly (she/her) (b. 1993) is a French-American artist and poet who lives and works in London. Her contemplative paintings and poems explore notions of self through storytelling, mysticism and dreams. She often places her subject matters in natural - yet liminal - spaces, imbuing them with an eery and mysterious quality. 

@eilysfaly

Guy Nicholas Challenger (they/them) AKA Rob’s Birdhouse creates colorful photographic character collages using photoshop and a graphics tablet. They also make sculptures of their characters and brooches. Drawing influence from film, music, abstraction and the circus Guy aims to portray a sense of fun throughout their work. They currently study Ba Illustration at UWTSD Swansea. As an individual with bipolar art has become a powerful source of self-expression and solace. 

robsbirdhouse.bigcartel.com // @robsbirdhouse

Hayley Barker (she/her) is based in Denver, CO. Her work focuses on creating utopian worlds of whimsy and color with multi-dimensional materials. Hayley graduated in 2020 with a BFA in painting & sculpture from the Metropolitan State University of Denver. She has exhibited works throughout Denver and continues to work within the DIY music and arts scene at various venues and galleries. 

hayleyjo.me // @starrsprite

Isabella Escobar (she/her) is a person, poet, creator. 21 year old anti-imperialist radical who navigates liberation through collective creation, rebelling against the harsh realities of post American chattel slavery capitalism (though not much has changed in terms of how our current exploitative capitalist economy operates). She is the frontman of Speakeasy, an independent anti-establishment band based in New Jersey. 

instabio.cc/4020823NZAn88 // @isa_please & @speakeasy_nb

Jamie Avery (she/they) is a poet and educator whose life and work have been shaped by the Bay Area. Their poems can be found in High Shelf Press, The Ana, Forum, and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco.

Jason Masino (he/they) is an artist and writer. Originally from California, he received his BA in Dramatic Art from the University of California, Davis, and his MFA in Poetry from Regis University. His work has been published in Cultural Daily, Inverted Syntax, Rigorous, South Florida Poetry Journal, fifth wheel press, and others. His debut hybrid/poetry book -- Sinner's Prayer -- will be released in Fall 2022 (Passengers Press).

@lifeopablo 

Katie Ellidge (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist, she graduated from Cardiff School of Art and Design in 2019 with a Fine Art degree, she is now based in North Wales. She's inspired by found materials which informes her creative practice. Vibrant colours bring an element of playfulness to her paintings, creating a visual language. Katie uses symbolism which communicate hidden ideas and thoughts. She creates a sense of reality represented on block colours, experimenting with perception. This enhances the contrasting element and brings another aspect of ambiguity to her work.

@ellidge_art

Krapook Yanitta is a high school student from Bangkok, Thailand. She writes novels, short stories, songs and poetry when she isn't drowning in a sea of homework. When she isn't writing, she's studying for her exams, fumbling around with musical instruments or reading a riveting novel.

krapookyanittaiew.carrd.co // @krapoooook

Laya Cooperman (she/her) is a self-taught collagist living in Berkeley, CA. Driven by a fascination with coincidence, she creates hand cut paper collages using only materials found by happenstance. Her works explore themes of connectedness with the self and others; perceived, projected, and protected identities; and transformation. While emphasizing composition and characters she uses flourishes and subtle details to invite curiosity. In addition to her individual work, Laya frequently participates in collaborative projects. 

@verseandvariation

Lee Fenyes (they/them) studied poetry and English Language & Literature at the University of Michigan, where they received the Emerging Writers Award and the Virginia Voss Award for Academic Writing. Lee's writing, which centers on nature, memory, and identity, has been published in Lavender Review.

Madeline Beattie (they/she) is a Detroit-based graphic design student with a secondary focus in fashion and textiles. They enjoy creating multi-media pieces that reimagine the usage of everyday objects.

madelinebeattie.com // @mbeattiedesign 

Maggie Kaprielian (she/her) is a poet from Maryland. She is an editor in chief for the Erehwon Literary Arts Magazine and president of Potomac’s character of the Maryland Teen Writers Association. 

@maggiekaprielian_

Marcelo Gonzales (he/him) is a lover, a hater, and an author illustrator. He currently resides in Corpus Christi, Texas with the seagulls.

marcelomgonzales.com // @marcelomgonzales

Micaela Guedes aka Time For The Oniric (she/her) is a visual artist from Portugal. During her process she had the opportunity to attend institutions that solidified her artistic path, such as AR.CO and NextArt schools in Lisbon, and later graduated in Art and Heritage Sciences at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. She recently completed the digital illustration course at Lisbon School of Design. Her art carries disturbing themes of nowadays through a psychedelic surrealist approach with the purpose of illuminating some hidden places of the mind. Part of the creative process of the illustrations is usually traditional with archival ink and the painting is often digital. The artist is inspired by her personal demons, the immensity of nature, the dream, and by the mediocrity of the human condition. Her art is full of contrasting colors and misaligned features that come to deconstruct an accelerated and automatic society where the need for expression and reflection imposes. Although she finds expression through illustrations she is a visual artist that explores different media and materials. 

@time.for.the.oniric

Michael Larnelle (he/him) is a gay tutor in Omaha NE and received his MFA from the University of Iowa.  He has published poems in The Lyric, Blue Unicorn, Ragazine, The Disappointed Housewife, The Road Not Taken, and elsewhere.

Mikayla Elias (they/them) is an audio engineer and writer based out of Nashville, Tennessee. By day, they produce radio shows. By night, they pen poetry and essays.

@write.with.mik

Milly Aburrow (she/her) fabricates a transformative, encapsulating space, cluttered with materialistic objects and representations of food substances scrutinizing the superfluous associations within our everyday sustenance. Within the essay ‘Toward a Psychosociology of Contemporary Food Consumption’ by Roland Barthes he states:  ‘When he buys an item of food, consumes it, or serves it, modern man does not manipulate a simple object in a purely transitive fashion; this item of food sums up and transmits a situation; it constitutes an information; it signifies.’ Aburrow’s work is a current investigation in whether food needs to be a vessel of communication which transcends into other contexts of visuals and linguistics. ‘Come on Gal, Shop with Me’ is an extension of an ironic brand that the artist has contrived where commercialism ceases to exist, conceptualism being at the forefront of her work. Exploring gender, sexuality and stereotypes associated with food, embedded within our society, which has occurred throughout history and still occurs today - the naive, tacky and flamboyant disposition of her sculptures proposes connotations of irony with these notions, challenging the overarching patriarchy of Western society and breaking down outdated stereotypes.

@portfolio.milly

Mina Stollery (she/they) is a transgender gaffer and photographer living in Oakland, CA. She is originally from North Carolina but has lived in the Bay Area since 2013.

minastollery.com // @electric_skillet

Miranda Tess (she/they)’s work embodies embodiment. Using subconscious and conscious interpretations of what it means to inhabit one’s own body, their paintings are reading words etched inside your skin. Pain, pleasure, sweat, cum, anger and forgiveness. Eating disorders, memories of sexual abuse and first loves. For all of these things to exist within a body is overwhelming, confusing and sometimes disgusting. Miranda’s work is a comforting uncomfortable expression of what it is to feel.

@m.randatess

Moriah Katz (she/her) is a Black/Jewish writer. Her work explores the imprint of race, gender, and sexuality on the human experience, and can be found in Stellium Literary Magazine, the Queer26, and is forthcoming in the Black Lawrence Press anthology "Mamas, Martyrs, and Jezebels: Myths, Legends, and Other Lies You’ve Been Told about Black Women". She holds a degree in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

moriahkatriel.wixsite.com/moriahkatzwrites // @katzmoriah

Moriah Smith (they/she) is a 23-year-old artist in Dallas, Texas. Moriah is currently working as a full-time nanny and art tutor, and they are working to transition into art full-time within the year. Moriah's primary mediums are collage and mixed media assemblage, and their work deals with themes of healing, trauma, and identity. When Moriah isn’t making art, they enjoy spending time with their partner Laura and their dog Othello!

moriahtheartist.com // @moriahtheartist

Nic Hampton (they/them) is a queer, nonbinary, interdisciplinary artist based in Eugene, Oregon and San Francisco, California. They are currently attending California College of the Arts as an Individualized Major. T Nic's work explores nonbinary bodies, intimate relationships, and the power of vulnerability. 

@nichampton

Oliver Cain (he/him) Appropriated everyday objects transform stereotypes and famous art historical references become twisted. As a proud member of the queer community, Cain uses his work to examine, question and criticize the relationships between gender, sexuality and societies’ misconceptions about those themes. But, despite what it might look like to the contemporary spectator, a purely erotic and queer reading of the work would be misguided. There is a universal profundity at play revealing itself slowly for those willing to look and feel.

olivercain.com // @olivercainartist

Rachel Marie Cleary (she/her) is a pop artist and writer from the Midlands of Ireland. Her work focuses on self-image, the female body and society.

@spicytrauma

Robbie Denny (they/he) is a multimedia artist from New Jersey, currently studying Jewelry & Metalsmithing at MassArt. Their recent works explore gothic romance, spirituality, and devotion through sterling silver trinkets. These objects exist as idols of those we worship, our gods and our lovers. 

@leftwitness

Robert Beveridge (he/him) makes noise (xterminal.bandcamp.com) and writes poetry in Akron, OH. Recent/upcoming appearances in Cordite Poetry Review, Stardust Haiku, and GAS: Poetry, Art, and Music, among others.

last.fm/user/xterminal // @no_gods_exist

Rudra Kishore Mandal (they/she/he) graduated as a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2002 from S.V. College of Fine Arts in Hyderabad. They create independent artworks in the varied mediums of painting, digital graphics and art installations. Their art is an exercise in exploration of the self, as a creature of nature; an evolution through understanding of their physical, sensual and spiritual needs.  Their art seeks to invite intimacy, inspire introspection and provoke dialogue. As a queer individual the exploration of their sexuality and gender identity influences a great part of their art and they try to explore the politics of queer bodies and create a point of reference for other queer individuals to find a sense of belonging.

rudrascape.blogspot.com // @rudrascape

Sam Matsumoto (she/they) holds a BFA in Photography and a MEd in Visual Art Education. They teach photography at Berkeley High School and coach the Berkeley All Blues High School girls rugby team. They love adventuring, gardening succulents, fighting the patriarchy, and hanging out with their 2 cats.

sammatsumoto.com // @samatsumoto

Sarah Herrin (she/they) is a queer non-binary poet based in Colorado. They achieved a BFA at the Savannah College of Art & Design, where they studied in Southern France. She is the author of 3 poetry chapbooks. They are a sexual assault survivor and the owner/editor of Beyond The Veil Press, focusing on mental health awareness.

sarahherrinpoetry.com // @_sarahherrin

Sarah Judsen (she/her) is a queer artist and writer living in Orlando, Florida. She draws her inspiration from the romance of everyday life and phenomena in the natural world. 

@lizardego

Savannah Calhoun (she/they) is an image-based artist residing in Cedar Rapids, IA and from Indianapolis, IN. She received a BFA in Photography at Herron School of Art and Design in 2019 and an MFA at the University of Missouri in 2022. She currently teaches photography at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, IA. Her work playfully addresses image culture given the circumstances of the internet from a queer and feminist perspective.

savannah-calhoun.com // @sav.calhoun

Seneca Basoalto (she/her) is a bisexual Iberian-Sicilian poet and creative coach with dual degrees in Creative Writing and Psychology. Her unusual childhood and uncommon encounters have helped shape her experiences into highly personal candid narratives that expose the gritty complexities of tempestuous love, womanhood, and our own chaotic perception of self.

@senecabasoalto

Skyler Pham (they/them) is a queer transgender artist from Southern Louisiana. Their work often explores issues relating to the Queer body primarily though digital sculpture, drawing, and collage. Pham’s recent work focuses on the concept of gender dysphoria – the dissonance between the physical body and one’s gender identity. Drawing primarily from their own experiences, Pham illustrates dysphoria through distorted, uncanny humanoid figures that appear to be in a state of transformation.

@human_imitation

Sophia Bautista (she/her) is a queer performing dancer and poet based in Los Angeles, CA. She published her senior research project on unpaid internships as an academic article with UCLA; disavowing academic authority, the full report, published at-large as a 'zine by saalt press, is currently stocked in independent bookstores across California. She's currently a Masters student at Cal Arts. Her work was published with the Heritage Review, Fresno State, and was the undergraduate winner for the Andres Montoya poetry contest.

@sophiabautista

SULO BEE (they/them/ze) is an interdisciplinary maker and metalsmith. Their work is a response to lived experiences and how they materialize as the fragmented narratives that define their Trans Non-Binary identity. By layering and transforming elements through experimental techniques in metalworking and printmaking they actualize their self-made reality, $P4RKL3_FiLTH_CL0UD_NiN3, a state of equilibrium, a space for balance and belonging.

sparklefilth.cloud // @sparkle_filth

Via Bulaon (she/they) is a Filipina lesbian jedi who wine her heart out over a cat, unclaimed territory of West Phil Sea, missed out Star Wars merch, and her muse. She believes that Banksy is a lesbian artist who owns tons of cats. Kampaii! 

viabulaon.wordpress.com // @tintanglesbiyana

w.vv.vv (they/them). The anonymous artist, photographer, and AR designer who goes by w.vv.vv, is best known for their pastel pink photography and Instagram filters. Art creation is a way to satisfy their lust for customizing the world with their aesthetics. In 2017, they started posting a series of infrared and full spectrum photos with nuanced image manipulation. The photos have gained attention on the internet due to their unique and controversial colors. w.vv.vv transcends ordinary scenes into a fantastical landscape that offers the audience an imaginative escape. The objective of their work is to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society they envisioned, and make viewers re-evaluate our world and our existence.

@w.vv.vv

Wei Si Nic Yiu (姚煒詩) (they/them) is a first generation PhD candidate at University of California Los Angeles. Born and raised in Hong Kong, a port city by the coast of South China Sea, they moved to Beijing at the age of 9, then to Tkaronto when they turned 18. Informed by the visionary world-making capacity of feminist scholarship, their work is informed and inspired by their own experiences of migration as a queer Asian gender non-conforming person in Hong Kong, Beijing, Toronto, and now Los Angeles.