Prose Free Verse-hybrid Poem by Mimi Bordeaux

Mark Ready is a self-taught writer who has written five books. His newest two are The Bishop's Knight, a Christmas Story, and The Journey to New Edgarton, a Children's Story for Grownups. They are available on Amazon. He looks at the world differently than most and sees magic in the mundane--and beauty in ordinary things.

Julia Hawkins is a San Francisco native who wrote reviews of cultural events for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Point Reyes Light (West Marin, California) in the 1970s, wrote theater reviews freelance in Marin County for a decade, wrote two novels, a screenplay and several short stories. Retired from word processing in a law office and currently ... Read more

Tayah Groat is a 25-year-old bisexual writer from York, Pennsylvania. Groat graduated from Temple University in Philadelphia. Her work can be found in the New York Times titled "My First Love Called Me a Vacation," also translated into Spanish.

Thomas Harrison Humphreys, with a BS from the University of Lynchburg, is a history teacher in a small village who loves to talk to his students of literature. Thomas has been published in Westward Quarterly, Poetry Quarterly, Writers and Readers Magazine, Copperfield Review Quarterly, Written Tales and Mystic Publishers.

Liam Kerry is a thinking enthusiast with a bad memory. Writing helps him recall his daydreams. An anthology of his microfiction will be available later in 2024.

Shoshana Edwards is a retired teacher living in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and several feral cats they care for. In between writing, she quilts and tends her large polinator garden.

L. Keith lives in Ohio with her husband and three children. She has short stories featured in Apple in the Dark, Written Tales, Written Tales Chapbook, and Wicked Press Halloweenthology: Trick-or-Treat.

Karen Pierce Gonzalez is an award-winning writer whose non-fiction, prose, and poetry have been widely published. Her chapbooks include Coyote in the Basket of My Ribs (Kelsay Books), Sightings from a Star Wheel (Origami Poems Project), and the forthcoming Down River with Li Po (Black Cat Poetry Press). In addition to her literary pursuits, Karen is ... Read more

Dee Allen is an African-Italian performance poet based in Oakland, California. Active in creative writing & Spoken Word since the early 1990s. Author of 9 books--Boneyard, Unwritten Law, Stormwater, Skeletal Black, Elohi Unitsi, Rusty Gallows: Passages Against Hate, Plans, Crimson Stain and his newest, Discovery--and 72 anthology appearances.

Sarah Selim is a young Egyptian American artist and writer. She is currently a student and has been published in Coneflower Cafe, TeenInk, and CelebratingArt, and her favorite part about creating is sharing her vision with the world.

Andre F. Peltier (he/him) is a Pushcart and two-time Best of the Net nominated poet and a Lecturer III at Eastern Michigan University. His poetry has recently appeared in various publications both online and in print. His poetry collections Poplandia and Ambassador Bridge are available from Alien Buddha Press.