a.d. is drawn to the sacred, the profane, the mysterious and the mythological, which provides inspiration for her work. She is an award-nominated bisexual poet, writer and visual artist, and her work is published in HAD, Hominum Journal, HAWKEYE, Eulogy Press, God's Cruel Joke, PISSOIR!, Bleating Thing, and elsewhere.

linktr.ee/godstained; @godstained_

Abdulbasit A. Olúwaníshọlá, SWAN V (he/him) has works up/forthcoming in A Long House, ANMLY, Poetry Column, Ake Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Singapore Unbound, Sley House, Saranaca Review and elsewhere.

@abdulbasitoluwa

Aimee Lowenstern (she/her) is a twenty-seven year old poet living in Nevada. She has cerebral palsy, a pulse, and a pen.

@everyepithet / @aimeelowenstern

Alix Perry (they/them) is a trans writer from the Pacific Northwest. Their work has been nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology and is published or forthcoming in Flash Fiction Magazine, The Shore, beestung, and elsewhere. Their chapbook, Tomatoes Beverly, is out with Querencia Press.

alixperrywriting.com / alix-perry.bsky.social

Andrea Maxine Recto (she/her) is a Spanish-Filipino poet living in Manila whose work explores the intricacies of womanhood, grief, love, darkness, and introspection. Her poetry has been featured in One Art: a journal of poetry, Rust & Moth, Rogue Agent, Honey Literary Review, and elsewhere, with more forthcoming in other places. When she's not writing, you can find her reading love letters in Spanish.

@itsandreamaxine

Ash Reynolds (they/them) is a queer, nonbinary, ace poet residing in College Park, Maryland, with their South African rescue mutt and 46 house plants. They've been published in Rogue Agent, Common Ground Review, new words {press}, Writers Resist, and The Bitchin' Kitsch.

@ash.reynolds784

Basundhara (any pronouns) is a queer visual artist and graphic designer from India who seeks creative outlets through multiple artistic mediums and techniques. Stemming from a confluence of introspection, observation, and morbid existentialism, their artistic practice explore ideas of selfhood, mental health crises, and experiences of internal struggles which they otherwise struggle to verbalize.

@simplydoodle

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, the space beneath a collapsed ceiling on unceded Anishinaabe land in Michigan. they have been published in PULP, Dirt Child, MOODY, and Landfill, among others.

patreon.com/twinbrights / @twinbrights

Bitch Baby Collective is a project by Meg (a swamp drip they/them enby) and Naya (a sparkly she/they tgirl princess) grounded proudly in Oakland. Bitch Baby exists to make space for the art that bubbles out of the inner turmoil of fighting to be trans/enby/queer and wanting to exist freely and safely in the world and owning the radicalness + hotness inherent to queer life.

@bitchbabycollective

Blake HC Mihm (he/him) lives in southwestern Virginia with his two dogs. His work has been featured in New Words Press, Lilac Peril, BULL, and Boyfriend Material. He was selected as one of the poets for DC Pride Poems 2024.

substack.com/@cakeandcynicism

Braden Hofeling (he/him) is an emerging poet located in Phoenix, AZ. He has two self-published collections of poetry out and is hoping to publish his third book through an independent small press. His work has been featured in the Gival press ArLiJo issue 153 journal, Death Rattle's Penrose Vol. 2, Prometheus Dreaming, Arc Prose magazine, and New Note poetry.

@the_plant_poet

Calen Romig (she/they) is a politics and environmental student from California trying to do everything all the time. She’s currently tripping over coffee cups and yarn balls from random projects that she promises to get to eventually. She has extensive experience working in the arts, published poems and stories in several literary magazines, and has recently finished reading “War and Peace”. Yeah. Pretty impressive.

@calenromi

Cassey Abella (she/they) is a Filipino writer and creative pursuing a BA in English and American Studies at the University of Graz in Austria. She seeks to explore the multifaceted human experience with her visual and written work. Cassey's writing has been published in Scribbled, mothertongue magazine, ruum, Creekside Magazine, Hemlock Journal, and elsewhere. She has performed her work at events hosted by LYSL Kollektiv and Tint Journal. She currently volunteers for Tint Journal as a social media assistant.

@kczzi

Cassia Artanegara (they/she) is an artist and designer from the Bay Area. After receiving their B.A.s in Art and Computer Science at UC Santa Cruz, they worked in the data privacy space creating image-based narratives that explored power relations in the data and technology ecosystem. Currently, they organize art events, teach art classes, and make work exploring liminality and belonging, especially through the lens of diaspora and family.

cassiarta.com / @cassiamakes

Cate Herrold (she/her) is a writer living in Los Angeles.

@cateherrold

Charlie van Ewyk (they/them) is an artist and writer from Australia. They focus on their daily life of dealing with disability and gender fluidity.

@weirdcontinuitysituation

Dana Ysabel (they/any) is a community organizer, poet, and public librarian living in Brooklyn. Their work is situated in the struggle against imperialism. They have received fellowships at the Poetry Project and Brooklyn Poets. Their poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Protean Magazine, Apogee Journal, and elsewhere. Born in Manila, they have lived by the ocean their entire life.

dana-ysabel.nekoweb.org / @daikondana

David Anson Lee (he/him) writes poetry that twists the ordinary into the uncanny, illuminating fractured selves, secret moments, and the magic hidden in everyday life. His work revels in surreal imagery, lyrical intimacy, and dreamlike landscapes where identity shimmers and bends. Published in journals including Right Hand Pointing and The Scarred Tree, his poems invite readers to witness the strange, glittering spaces between memory, desire, and transformation.

Elle J. Snyder (she/her) is a trans woman, poet, and full-time pixie, from Staten Island. She's done some cool stuff, appeared in cool places, but is so so so tired of conventional bios. She loves stromboli rolls. If you see her, feed her. She is also aggressively seeking a sponsorship from Mountain Dew.

@ourladyofpoetics

Emma Johnson-Rivard (she/her) is a doctoral student in creative writing at the University of Cincinnati. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Coffin Bell, Red Flag Poetry, and others.

emmajohnson-rivard.com / @blackcattales

Eva Lewis (they/them) is a queer-crip writer and interdisciplinary artist. Their work has been published widely among places such as Broken Sleep Books; Fourteen Poems; The Poetry Business; A Velvet Giant, and many others.

@ow.lita

Ezra McConnor Serra (they/he) is a queer Catalonian poet and zine artist in recovery based in Ireland. They write about childhood, grief, addiction, anything akin to love, and individual/collective closeness to death. His work is fundamentally somatic but often entertains the abstract. They’ve been published or are upcoming in The Ex-Puritan, Archer Magazine, Seedlings, Verdict Magazine, Broken Antler Magazine, and Lucky Jefferson and he was a finalist in the latter’s 2024 Poetry Contest.

Fendy S. Tulodo (he/him) is an art worker from Malang, Indonesia. He works with words and music to study how time feels different to people, and how connections linger even when they’re gone. By day, he sells motorcycles. By night, he makes moody music as Nep Kid and writes stories in different forms. His art lives in the gap between words and true feelings.

@fendysatria_

Grace Carrier (she/they) grew up in Brooklyn, New York, amidst the engaging sights, smells and sounds of people and human infrastructure. They have lived by the ocean and forests of Maine for the last 6 years. To Grace, poetry is a way of honoring the world surrounding them, allowing all to ripple outwards. Her column, Living Change, was published by the Penobscot Bay Press.

Hillary Smith-Maddern (she/her) is an educator and committed dilettante. A proud cat lady and avid collector of neglected plants, she enjoys diving into the shallow end of everything and scrolling casually through JSTOR. Currently residing in Western Massachusetts, she aspires to fake her death and never return to America. She will obviously take her cats with her. You can find her work in Whale Road Review, Only Poems, and The Disappointed Housewife among others.

@sylviaplathsdrunkghost

Jay Orlando (he/they) is a queer, trans, folk punk Appalachian poet with LOVE POEM tattooed across his knuckles. His debut poetry collection, A Tangled Lineage (2024) is available now from Redhawk Publications. His most recent chapbook, A Book of Queer Prayer (2026) is forthcoming from Last Picked Books.

@jaybird.orlando

Rooted in the forests and rivers of Maine, Lilith (Jessyca Matthews) (they/them) is a self-taught film photographer of five years whose work dwells in ritual, embodiment, and the sacred dark feminine. Working intuitively with analog processes, she treats grain and imperfection as devotion. Their images move through water, mirrors, skin, and mist—threshold spaces where identity softens, transforms, and returns. Each image is a way of being reborn for them.

@lilith_aspect

John RC Potter (he/him) is an international educator from Canada, residing in Istanbul. The author’s poem, “Nie Wieder/Never Again”, and his story, “Ruth’s World,” were Pushcart Prize nominees, and his poem, “Tomato Heart,” was nominated for the Best of the Net Award. The author has a gay-themed children’s picture book scheduled for publication. He is a member of the League of Canadian Poets and the Playwrights Guild of Canada.

johnrcpotterauthor.com / @PotterRc9391

Julietta Bekker (she/they) is a writer who lives in Portland, Oregon. Their poetry incorporates elements of the natural world to explore social themes through the lens of a queer parent. Their poems have been published by Pile Press, Oyster River Pages, Querencia Press, Flat Ink Magazine, The Inflectionist Review, Bitter Melon Review, Gather and The Dread Literary among others; more pieces are forthcoming from Free Verse Revolution, Silly Goose Press and The Yesterday Review.

@juliettabekker

June Little (they/she) is a game developer and multimedia artist based in Oakland. She creates work about conspiracy, gender, history, and the curious way digital things snake around reality. She is also known for her work on roblox, as the user blutreefrog, director of numerous games including Monkey Raft.

june.gay / paintbitch.bsky.social

K. Rose Dallimore (she/her) is a queer & disabled writer, restorative practitioner, and activist based in Washington, D.C. Her writing has appeared in Anodyne, Cripple Media, Lenticular, Rough Cut Press, Genrepunk, and Josephine Quarterly, among others. Her debut chapbook is available through Bottlecap Press. She hopes to raise awareness of the structural barriers to accessing quality healthcare that disabled women face and advocate for gender-inclusive scientific, medical, and political justice.

@dose.rallimore

Kat Kluegel (she/they) is a poet from Minneapolis, Minnesota who is interested in what it means to be human. She almost completed a PhD in cultural anthropology and gender studies, and her work has appeared in Ninth Letter, The Tangential, MPLSZine, and The Masticator. She loves film festivals, exotic fruit, & David Lynch. She is a condiment maximalist.

@katsmyname

Kenneth Pobo (he/him) has two recent books out: At The Window, Silence (Fernwood Press) and It Gets Dark So Soon Now (Broken Tribe Press). He's a retired teacher who loves to garden and watch birds with his husband.

L. Acadia (any pronouns) has creative writing in Kenyon Review, New Orleans Review, Strange Horizons, etc. and academic publications on topics including Qiu Miaojin's crocodile and the trope of lesbians doubling on bicycles. An assistant professor of literary studies at National Taiwan University and editorial member of the Taipei Poetry Collective, L. lives with a human and hound in the capital's 'literature mountain' district.

acadiaink.com / @acadialogue

Lareina Yuan (she/her) is a writer from Tianjin. Her work has been featured or forthcoming in Nowhere Girl Collective, Guava Poetry, Seven Crows, among others. She is a Crema Catalana enthusiast.

@verses.by.lareina

luna celi (they/them/elle) is a queer/trans Cuban-American multimedia artist based in Oakland, CA. as a film photographer, they enjoy capturing familiar spaces, faces and experimenting with conflicting themes. drawing inspiration from the darkness and subtleties of the natural world, luna infuses their pieces of any medium with a deep sense of atmosphere and intimacy.

@petite_cuchara

Mattea Falk (she/her) lives in Philadelphia.

Naomi Azriel (she/her) is a Bay Area based poet, Jungian analyst and queer activist. Her work was nominated for the Pushcart Prize, selected as finalist by Fjords Review, Host Publications, Inverted Syntax, and Fordham University’s Poetic Justice Prize, longlisted for Frontier Poetry's Breakthrough Prize and shortlisted for the Central Avenue Poetry Prize. Most recently, her poems be found in Clackamas Literary Review, Epoch Literary, the Jung Journal and elsewhere.

naomiazrielpoetry.com / @owlspool

Nicole Jean Turner is a hand-patched, sticker-smattered, torn-lace-layered writer from New England. Turner writes in cursive to hide the butchered spelling that might otherwise raise suspicion regarding her master's degree in writing.

poetry-journal.com / @journalpoet

Odi Welter (they/she/he) is a queer, neurodivergent author living in Milwaukee. Their first publication was an obituary– which should make him way more emo than she is– and since then their creative work has been published in many journals and anthologies, most recently America’s Slide Towards Authoritarianism by IHRAM, Between Queer Teeth by t’ART, and The Shallot by The Layered Onion.

aowelter19.wixsite.com/odi-welter / @o.d.i.welter

Patricia Nellene Deal (she/her) is a sapphic writer and educator in McLean, Virginia. Her writing focuses on the exploration and challenges to the ideas of a single story, memory and the resilience of the female spirit. Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in, Under the Basho (2025), The Pan Haiku Review, #FemKuMag, We Were Seeds, expanded digital book (Querencia Press 2025), and other publications.

Rae White (they/them) is the author of Milk Teeth, Exactly As I Am, and All the Colours of the Rainbow. They won the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, and have been shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, Queensland Literary Awards, and Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. Rae is Creative Director of Uplift Poetry, Founding Editor of #EnbyLife Journal, and a co-host on the 4ZZZ radio show Tranzmission.

raewhite.net / @rae.elliot.white

Ronnie Barth (she/her) is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist rooted in Southern California. Her work is transcendentalist at heart, reflecting the flora, fauna, and rugged land forms that have shaped her creative spirit. Her paintings seek to embody the delicate interplay between the earthly and the divine, bridging the seen and unseen, and reality effervescent in the imaginary. Each piece invites the viewer into a suspended moment, where the magic woven into the mundane is revealed.She strives to create art that rekindles a deep reverence for the natural world, inviting viewers to fall in love with its beauty, intricacy, and transcendence. Through her work, she attempts to awaken a sense of wonder and connection—an intimate dialogue between humanity and Nature that sustains and inspires us.

@mageronnie

Rowan Tate is a Romanian creative (poet, essayist, visual artist, songwriter). She reads nonfiction nature books, the backs of shampoo bottles, and sometimes minds.

Born and brought up in Kolkata, Rudra Kishore Mandal moved to Hyderabad to study at S. V. College of Fine arts. After graduating they worked as a graphic designer for 6 years. They resumed creating art in the varied mediums of painting, digital graphics and art installations after moving back to Kolkata in 2008. Their art explores different aspects of their queer identity. They exhibit their artworks in India and abroad through physical and virtual art galleries.

rudrascape.blogspot.com / @rudrascape

Shell Feda (they/them) is a poet and painter living in Central Illinois. This is their first publication in many years.

shellfeda.com

Solape Adetutu Adeyemi (she/her) is a dedicated professional with a Bachelor's degree in Microbiology and a Master's in Environmental Management. She is a researcher, a consultant,a passionate environmental sustainability enthusiast and a talented award winning creative writer, with her works published in esteemed journals and magazines.

Sonia Aggarwal (she/her) is a Boston based poet with an MFA from Emerson College. She is interested in personal and cultural histories, and the moments in which the two intersect. Aggarwal is a previous Pushcart Prize nominee and has poems published in SWIMM, SoFloPoJo, Worcester Review, and others.

@soaggarwal

Soon Jones (they/none) is a Korean-American lesbian raised in the rural countryside of the American South. A 2017 Lambda Literary Fellow, they are pursuing an MFA in Poetry at Oklahoma State University. Their work has appeared in Lavender Review, Denver Quarterly, Lunch Ticket, Poetry South, Moon City Review, and others. Their debut chapbook, These Aren’t My Woods Anymore, is out now from Poetose Press.

soonjones.com / @thesoonjones

Starly Lou Riggs (they/xe) is a writer, musician, and visual artist based in São Paulo, Brazil. Xe is Senior Editor at Fruitslice, Editor-in-Chief of Noise Made By, and writer for The Line of Best Fit and The Luna Collective. Their work is a process of playful exploration, reflecting, and world building to challenging the conventional. They can be found screaming into the void under the musical moniker Starly Kind.

starlykind.com / @starly.kind

Till Kallem (they/them) is a transmasc writer and biochemist from San Francisco who currently lives in Liverpool. Their poetry explores the tender and brutal moments that accompany queerness in young adulthood. Their work can be found in Thimble and Dog Teeth.

Tricia Kiehn (she/they) finds her home among the trees and river of Spokane, WA. She received an MFA from Eastern Washington University. You can find their work in Skeleton Flowers Press and Northwest Boulevard Magazine.

@triciareadsweirdshoot

Tuesday Taylor-York (they/them) is a poet based in Ottawa, Canada. Working to cultivate a unique poetic voice, Tuesday's work incorporates vivid imagery with the intent to evoke strong emotions in readers. Tuesday has previously been published in Flo. Literary Magazine, Shadow and Sax, and more.

@tuesletter

Vera Podell (she/her) is a Russian-born writer and photo artist. She writes in three languages, which are English, Russian and German. Vera's writing has been published in multiple literary journals, including "AC|DC Journal", "ST((O))NE[D]!", "Suburban Witchcraft", "Password. Very short poetry", "Sardine Can Collective" and others.

@verapodell

Wayden Rogers is a Coloured South African poet whose work appears in 3Elements Literary Review and is forthcoming in Decolonial Passage. When he isn’t incessantly refreshing Submittable, he’s probably listening to MARINA or avoiding his to-read pile. His poems explore the landscapes, both internal and external, that shape the stories we inherit.

@wayden.rogers

Yolía (she/they) - storyteller through poems - through visuals - through spoken. Recipient of the PCC Inscape Handley Award in 2022 for their poem: ¿Pero Quién Soy Yo?

yulymireles.com / @sagrado.yolia

Zakia “Z” White (they/them) is a photographer based in the Bay Area but raised on the East Coast. Growing up in the city has constantly kept their mind going and the urge to see everything that it had to offer them. Running with the idea that a city needs their portrait captured every once in a while just like humans. Specializing in urban landscape & travel photography and all the wonderful adventures that come along with it. Finding inspiration from the people they surround themself with. 

zwhitephotography.com / @zwhitephoto

Zoe Carver (she/her) is an emerging writer published in the Capitol Letters Magazine, Rainy Day Magazine, and Foofaraw Press. She is originally from Portland, Oregon, and studied International Affairs and Creative Writing at George Washington University. She was awarded the Julian Clement Chase Writing in Washington Award, and is currently on a writing fellowship at the American University in Cairo in Cairo, Egypt.

@zoecarverr

(featured image by Cassia Artanegara)