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Alexis Kent is an author, photographer, and teacher based in Mni Sóta Makoce (Minneapolis, Minnesota). Her work explores healing, learning, food, family, and ritual, uncovering the rawness of what it means to be human. Trained in Indigenous Education, Alexis is committed to decolonization through storytelling and Indigenous revitalization. When she ...

Allie Leach's work has appeared in Tucson Weekly, DIAGRAM, Hot Metal Bridge, and South Loop Review, among other places. She received her MFA in Nonfiction from The University of Arizona in 2011. She lives and teaches in Tucson.

I am a half Greek, half English unpublished writer. I have travelled extensively and lived in London, Bristol, Los Angeles, Athens and the Greek island of Zakynthos. In the year 2000, I was awarded a BA (Hons) in Fine Art & Visual Culture from the University of the West of ...

Anne Giordano is a former associate producer at CBS News’ 60 Minutes. She earned a Masters of Science degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, and her travel writing has been honored with a silver Solas award. Her work will be in a forthcoming issue of Hippocampus Magazine.

Bo Smolka is a Baltimore-based writer whose essays have appeared in the Washington Post, Boston Globe and Baltimore Sun, among other places, and he is working on a collection of essays on family and fatherhood. He holds a bachelor’s degree in math and English from Bucknell and a master’s degree ...

Born in 1962, Dato Magradze is a famous Georgian poet and author of the lyrics of the National Anthem of Georgia. In 1984 he graduated from Tbilisi State University, faculty of philology. At different times Magradze was an editor-in-chief of various newspapers and magazines; worked at various NGOs and organizations ...

David Frankel was born in Salford. His stories have been shortlisted for awards including the Bristol Prize, the Bridport Prize, the ALCS Tom-Gallon Award, and the Fish Memoir Prize. He was also longlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. His stories have appeared in publications including Best British Short ...

David Guiden (He/Him/His) is an award-winning actor and writer currently based in Chicago. Born and raised in Muncie, IN, he graduated with a BFA in Acting from Ball State University. He has been published in Passengers Journal, fauxmoir lit mag, and Throats to the Sky, with work forthcoming in Panorama: ...

Deborah Blenkhorn is a Canadian poet, essayist, and storyteller who lives, works and plays on the unceded ancestral lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. A strong commitment to coaching others to achieve their potential as writers has led to teaching at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and the University ...

Devi S. Laskar is the author of The Atlas of Reds and Blues, winner of 7th annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize (2020) for best debut novel set in the South, winner of the 2020 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature (selected by APALA); selected by The Georgia Center for the Book ...

Echo Guernsey is a former animal behaviorist with a lifelong passion for conservation and environmental justice. She holds an MFA in Nature Writing from Western Colorado University. Beyond her writing life, she is a licensed funeral director and death midwife with a passion for examining the connective threads between death ...

Emi Miyaoka is a Japanese poet and Hirakata city official. Her books and other works can be found in the Harvard-Yenching Library. Poetry "Early in summer, Diophantine approximation" (the April 2022 issue of Poetry, Chicago) . Haiku "A Long This Way" and Poetry "Where I Was Born" (Bath Spa University, ...

Emily Levang (she/they) is a poet and essayist living at the headwaters of Lake Superior, where she is working on a book about healing our collective relationship with water. She is the Creative Program Director for Waankam: People for the Estuary, a citizen-led Rights of Nature initiative. Her work has ...

Harsha Vadlamani is an independent photojournalist, filmmaker and National Geographic Explorer whose work explores the many inequalities that influence migration, health and the environment, with a particular focus on rural and indigenous communities across India. His work has appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street ...

During a long career in the business world, I’ve explored the world through personal essays about family, work and love in all its many forms. My non-fiction essays have been published in Raven’s Perch, Moria Review, Minerva Rising, Front Range Review, an anthology from Feminist Press entitled This is the ...

Isabella Millington is a writer and designer from the UK based in Madrid, Spain. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Sonder Magazine, Nowhere Girl Collective, and Rat World, among others. She is currently developing a collection of short stories and plotting her return to the sea.

Dr. Jessica Reilly-Moman is a mother, social scientist, and equestrian. She grew up on a tidal river and has been pulsing between the land and the sea ever since. Because she wanted to bring her dog to conduct research, she bought an old and very creaky boat and sailed around ...

J.G.P. MacAdam is the first in his family to earn a college degree. His publications can be found in The Colorado Review, The Atticus Review, JMWW, Pithead Chapel and Consequence, among others. His novelette "A Square of Dirt" about the birth, life and death of a firebase in the Tangi ...

A soil scientist and chartered horticulturalist, Julia has over 20 years experience in plant biodiversity, climate change, sustainable agriculture and conservation. For 12 years, Julia lived and worked in some of the greatest biodiversity hotspots in the world, including East China, Russia, and Latin America, overseeing major research funding programmes ...

Karen Wertheim is an award-winning creative marketer, writer, and co-founder of Studio Unfurl, a travel-inspired creativity community born from a writing workshop in Kathmandu. A former ad executive, she led innovative marketing campaigns for brands like Goldman Sachs and LEGOLAND, then shifted her focus to more human-centric storytelling—trading brand voices ...

A graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Banff Mountain and Wilderness Writing Program, Katie Ives has written for many publications, including The New York Times, Outside, Atlas Obscura, LitHub, Adventure Journal, Mountain Gazette and The Rumpus, as well as several anthologies. She was an editor at ...

Katrina Woznicki is an award-winning writer and a 2024 Pushcart Prize nominee. In 2025, she received the Solas Awards' grand prize for Best Travel Story Of The Year for her piece, "It Can Be Beautiful For Everyone," which was first published by Panorama in 2024. Her essays and reporting have ...

Kristin Winet is a writer and teacher who lives in the Sonoran Desert. In her day job, she teaches writing at the University of Arizona and trains graduate students in writing pedagogy and inclusive teaching. Her travel writing, which has won awards from The North American Travel Journalists’ Association and ...

Kristina Kasparian is a writer, scientist, travel photographer, and health activist with a PhD in neurolinguistics. Her writing about identity and wellness has been published by Roxane Gay, Condé Nast, Fodor's, Electric Literature, Longreads, HuffPost Personal, BUST, Catapult, Newsweek, Elle, the Globe & Mail, Panorama, and elsewhere. She was a ...

Helping to craft each issue since Panorama was launched, Webb has developed, edited, and published works from authors, artists, designers, photographers, and filmmakers from the UK, Iran, Germany, Tajikistan, Sweden, US, Scotland, Brazil, Greenland, Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Kenya, Nigeria, and beyond. He is looking forward to championing many more.

Mel Fawcett lives in London. Approximately one hundred of his stories have appeared in various print and online magazines.

Trained as a cultural anthropologist, Michael Engelhard worked for twenty-five years as a wilderness guide and outdoor educator in the canyon country and arctic Alaska. His latest books include Arctic Traverse, a memoir of a solo Brooks Range trip from Canada’s Yukon border to the Bering Strait; No Place Like ...

Myfanwy Williams (she/her) is a Sydney based queer poet and writer of Filipino Welsh heritage. With a passion for intersectional justice, her writing navigates a lexicon of existential grieving, while recentering art as a vehicle for social change. Her poetry has been published in Plumwood Mountain Journal, About Place Journal, ...

Nicolas D. Sampson is a writer-producer, and the author of the poetry collection Όμορφη η Υφήλιος (Beautiful, Our World In the Sun) by Armos Books. He wrote and co-produced Behind the Mirror (winner Best Thriller in the Manhattan Film Festival); and was an executive producer on Show Me the Picture: ...

Priya Dileep lives in Bangalore. Writing her 'author-bio' gives her stomach cramps.

Third Person Bio: Ranjith Sivaraman is an upcoming Poet from Kerala, a beautiful state in India. His poems merge nature imagery, human emotions, and human psychology into a gorgeous tapestry of philosophy. Sivaraman’s English Poems are published in Literature Magazines and Journals across the USA. His poem ‘Moments Without You’ ...

Sandip Saha (India) won two awards from India and one from USA, published six poetry collections (Latest in August, 2024 of title, “To Dig Grave of God”). He also published 166 poems in 52 journals including The Listening Eye, Pure Slush, The Gateway Review, 300 Days of Sun, Adelaide Literary ...

Stephen J. Bush is a computational biologist who lives in Xi’an, China. He also writes fiction on occasion.

Steve Russell, artist. Dealing with issues of self, identity and symbols through the medium of paint, ephemera and other drawing materials. My practice is a figurative style that marries diverse elements into an instantly recognizable, idiosyncratic idiom that is at times touching, dramatic and visceral. Using line and dramatically visceral ...

Steven Law is a poet, essayist, and storyteller. He’s the author of Polished, a collection of poems about exploring the Colorado Plateau by foot and raft. He is host and co-producer of Poetry Snaps!, a radio segment highlighting poets of the Colorado Plateau for KNAU, Flagstaff, Arizona’s NPR station. He’s ...

Susan Love Brown is Professor Emerita in Anthropology at Florida Atlantic University, where she specialized in psychological and political anthropology. In addition to her academic writing, her short mystery fiction has appeared in two Malice Domestic anthologies (Mystery Most Devious,2024, and Mystery Most Humorous,2025) and in Black Cat Weekly. Her ...

Susan Stiles lives in and writes about Croatia. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in such journals as The Lake, The Dalhousie Review, Innisfree, Slant, and The Westchester Review. More info, including her blog “Letters from Rab,” at susan-stiles.com.

As a writer, researcher, and expert on coercive control and gender-based violence, Tamara has written extensively on themes of trauma, survival, and intergenerational memory. Her work has been published in over 80 outlets, including The New York Times, Newsweek, Slate, and more. She holds a PhD in Middle Eastern Studies ...

Tatiana Chaterji is an educator, restorative justice practitioner, and participatory theatre artist based on Ohlone land in Oakland, CA. She was a 2017 Playwriting VONA Fellow. Her essays and poems are forthcoming in Seventh Wave, The Rush, and The Indianapolis Review.

Therese Gleason's poetry, flash fiction, and essays have appeared in 32 Poems, Chestnut Review, Cincinnati Review, Indiana Review, Lunch Ticket, New Ohio Review, On the Seawall, Rattle, and elsewhere. She is author of three chapbooks: Hemicrania (Chestnut Review, 2024), about living with chronic migraine; Matrilineal (Finishing Line, 2021); and Libation ...

Tom Sepulveda is a nonbinary Chilean-American poet. Their work has appeared in Pigeon Pages, Foglifter, Kissing Dynamite, Wild Roof Journal and Cathexis Northwest Press. They hold an MFA from Fresno State.

Tia Welch Maerz is an emerging writer. Her work has been published in The Christian Science Monitor, Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place and Nature and 7x7.com, a San Francisco lifestyle magazine. She is a member of Studio Unfurl, a travel-inspired and mentor-driven online creative community, and an enthusiastic multiple ...

Tiffany is many things, including a teacher, writer, and avid adventurer. She enjoys connecting with nature, wandering cities, and breaking bread with friends both old and new. She plays guitar poorly, was once a decent soccer player, and her scratch-off map of the world gives her major wanderlust. She lives ...

Yoko Nogami, an interdisciplinary artist, was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. She resides both in Eastern Kentucky and Tokyo. She was the Visual Art Department Chair at Pinellas County Center for the Arts in Saint Petersburg, Florida before moving to the Appalachia region of Kentucky as the Artistic Director ...