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Aaron Sommers is a writer living in New Hampshire. His short fiction has been featured in the Emerson Review, the Berkeley Fiction Review and Word Riot, among others.

Alexander Carver is an author, screenwriter, and playwright, originally from Radnor, Pennsylvania. His stories have been published in such literary magazines as: ZYZZYVA, Foliate Oak, The Southern Pacific Review, The Satirist, Dark Matter, and The Writing Disorder. Razor Literary Magazine selected his story "Uber Trouble" as a prize winner in ...

Barbara Chase-Riboud is the author of Sally Hemings, The President’s Daughter, Echo of Lions, and Liberty. Her sculptures are in major collections in Europe and the United States. In 2021, she received the prestigious Grand Artistic Prize of the Simone Foundation and the Cino Del Duca Institut de France in ...

Cameron Walker is the author of the short story collection HOW TO CAPTURE CARBON and the award-winning children's book NATIONAL MONUMENTS OF THE USA. She lives and surfs on California's central coast.

Carol McGruder is a seasoned veteran of California’s tobacco control experience and a founding member and Co-Chairperson of the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council (AATCLC). She is also a recipient of the prestigious Jefferson Award for community activism, and she was the American Legacy Foundation national honouree for “Community ...

Cassady O’Reilly-Hahn is a poet with an MA from Claremont Graduate University. He is an editor for Foothill: A Poetry Journal that highlights graduate student voices. He works for Deluxe, a company that localizes TV and Film for a global audience. In his free time, Cassady writes Haiku for his ...

Charlie is a story-teller, -collector, and -enthusiast, with a BA in Writing and a BS in Forestry. His recent work focuses on intersections between queer/trans narratives, grief, and human ecology. His stories seek to examine the limits of language and stretch them if possible. He currently lives on the South ...

Christy Moore is a songwriter, a blogger, a sixth-generation Texan, and a Democrat who teaches writing at the University of Texas. She has a Masters in creative writing from Wilkes University. She is currently finishing a memoir made up of stand-alone, overlapping essays unified by the theme of death and ...

I'm the author of three critically acclaimed collections of short stories, Got No Secrets, For All the Men (and Some of the Women) I've Known, which was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award, the Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature and the ReLit Award and Things that Cause Inappropriate ...

Dawn S. Booker is a writer, educator, and global entrepreneur who leads Pack Light Global Itineraries, a travel company curating cultural experiences for Black women 40+. A frequent contributor to travel and culture publications, she was the first editor-in-chief of DETOUR: Best Stories in Black Travel. With 25+ years in ...

I am a multimedia journalist who spent one year living in Paris as an expat, immigrant, foreign student, and enchanted flaneuse. I received my Masters in Journalism from UC Berkeley, and am a proud alum of various Voices of Our Nations workshops for people of color, including poetry, memoir, and ...

Elaine Lee, Esq., is a globetrotter and award-winning travel journalist. She is the editor of the pioneering travel book "Go Girl: The Black Woman's Book of Travel and Adventure" and its sequel "Go Girl 2."Her freelance work has appeared in numerous national magazines and webzines. She has shared her love ...

Elissa Greenwald has a Ph.D. in English Literature from Yale University (1981) and an MFA in Creative Writing from William Paterson University, NJ, USA (2024). She has been fascinated with internationalism since she began writing her book, "Realism and the Romance: Hawthorne, Henry James, and American Fiction" (1989). She has ...

Faith Adiele founded the USA’s first writing workshop for travelers of color through VONA and is the first columnist for DETOUR: Best Stories in Black Travel and a senior editor at PANORAMA: THE JOURNAL OF TRAVEL, PLACE, AND NATURE. Her award-winning memoir MEETING FAITH routinely makes travel listicles, and her ...

Fiona Sze-Lorrain is a writer, poet, translator, and editor who writes and translates in English, French, and Chinese. She is the author of a novel in stories, Dear Chrysanthemums (Scribner, 2023); five poetry collections including Rain in Plural (Princeton University Press, 2020) and The Ruined Elegance (Princeton University Press, 2016); ...

Glenn Kletke lives and writes in Kanata, Ontario, Canada. His work has appeared in Rattle, Geist, ARC and other journals.

Hazel (she/her) is a writer based in Paris, France. Her work explores trans identities, queerness at large, and resistance through art, and she often returns to give a voice to the surreal, fantastic, and magical.

Helen Salsbury is the founder of Pens of the Earth: a community of writers and poets who create positive environmental fiction and poetry in collaboration with local environmentalists. She is co-editor of Wild Seas, Wilder Cities, their first published book which contains work from 54 contributors, with all proceeds donated ...

Jamie is an American writer who has been living in Paris since 2014. After receiving her BA in English from Santa Clara University in 2004, she went on to work in marketing communications in the Seattle area until she and her husband, Ben, took a last-minute trip to Paris where ...

Jennifer Clark’s fourth full-length poetry collection, Intercede: Saints for Concerning Occasions, was recently released by Unsolicited Press. An award-winning writer, Clark is also the author of a children’s book and a memoir, Kissing the World Goodbye, which blends family stories with recipes and was named a top-selling book of 2022 ...

Joan Haladay studied literature and Portuguese. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The MacGuffin, Interim, Unbound Brooklyn Journal, Silk Road Review , the tiny journal, The Inquisitive Eater, Travelers’ Tales The World Is a Kitchen, The Brasilians, and other publications. She lives in Northern Manhattan and is always ...

Joel Wachman has written short works for Harvard Review, the Boston Globe, Sycamore Review, Fourth Genre, and elsewhere. His collection of narrative nonfiction, The Uncertainty Principle, was published by Alternating Current Press in 2021. Caillebotte: The Floor Scrapers was excerpted from An Object of Exquisite Beauty, his novel about love ...

John-Ivan Palmer began his life of travel as the son of a travelling floor show magician. His career as a stage hypnotist has taken him to many international locations. He has published in several countries.

Joy V. Harris is a Boston native and former teacher of African American literature. After a successful business career, which included owning her own shipping franchise, she is now seriously pursuing a writing career.

Julene Waffle, a graduate of Hartwick College and Binghamton University, is a teacher in rural NYS, an entrepreneur, nature lover, wife, mother of three boys, two dogs, three cats, a bearded dragon, and, of course, she’s a writer. She finds pleasure in juggling these jobs while seeming like she has ...

Julia Lichtblau’s writing has appeared in The American Scholar, The Museum of Americana, American Fiction, Blackbird, Narrative, The Florida Review and The Common, where she was previously book review editor. After a journalism career in New York and Paris with BusinessWeek and Dow Jones, she earned an MFA in fiction ...

A 2024 Disabled Futures Fellow awarded by The Ford Foundation and United States Artists, Kay Ulanday Barrett is a poet, essayist, cultural strategist, and A+ napper. They are the winner of the 2022 Cy Twombly Award for Poetry by The Foundation for Contemporary Arts. They have been awarded residencies from ...

Keenan Norris's novel The Confession of Copeland Cane received the 2022 Northern California Book Award, while his essays have garnered a National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award and Folio: Eddie Award. His other books include the non-fiction work Chi Boy: Native Sons and Chicago Reckonings and his debut novel Brother ...

Li Ruan, born and raised in Beijing, China, is a Manhattan-based educational consultant, emerging immigrant poet, and writer. She felt a special calling to write during the COVID pandemic. Crafting in English has deepened her intimate connection to the language and empowered her to promote cultural understanding. Li's work has ...

Lydia A. Nayo is a writer who lives in Oakland, California. Her commentaries on life and culture have appeared in the Los Angeles Times and have been aired on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” She is currently working on her first novel.

Maria B. Olujic, Ph.D., is an anthropologist and writer who served as Deputy Minister of Science and Technology in wartime Croatia during the violent dissolution of Yugoslavia. Her work appears in Brevity, 100 Word Story, Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, The Catamaran, Sky Island Journal, Plant-Human Quarterly, Beyond Words Magazine, and Penstricken. ...

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.

Merna Dyer Skinner is a poet, anthology editor, and communications consultant living in Portland, OR. Her poems appear in numerous US and international journals, including: SWWIM Every Day, Whale Road Review, Rust & Moth, ONE ART, and The Baltimore Review, among others, and six anthologies, including UK based Linen Press. ...

Calvin Mills hosts the Raymond Carver Podcast. He is the author of The Caged Man (Stories) from Cornerstone Press (2025) and A Handful of Tragic Days, a chapbook of creative nonfiction (2025). His work has appeared in Short Story, Weird Tales, Short Form Creative Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology ...

Michelle Spinei’s work has appeared in Catapult, Hinterland Magazine, Ós Pressan, and elsewhere. She is an American currently living in Iceland with her family.

Noah Weisz holds an M.F.A. in Fiction from UT Austin’s New Writers Project, where he received a fellowship from the Michener Center for Writers. He has won the F(r)iction Short Story Contest, the A. Orr Fantasy Grant, and the Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award, and has had three novels shortlisted for ...

Oleg Olizev is a poet, writer, and artist based in New York City. His work is forthcoming in BULL, Fjords Review, Audience Askew, Beyond Queer Words, Night Picnic, Half and One, Neon Origami, The Argyle Literary Magazine, The Ana, and Untenured. He has completed two novels and is currently seeking ...

Patricia Joslin is a poet and essayist living in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her chapbook, I’ll Buy Flowers Again Tomorrow: Poems of Loss and Healing, was published in 2023 by Charlotte Lit Press. Poems have appeared in Feral: Journal of Poetry and Art, Amethyst Review, Kakalak, Litmosphere, Tipton Poetry Journal, GROUND ...

Patrick Johnston is a former professor of psychology and neuroscience who turned to fiction and poetry after two decades in academia. He lives with Bipolar Disorder, and his work often blends personal reflection, dark humor, and explorations of memory, loss, and post-truth culture. His writing has appeared in Argyle Literary ...

Paula Read is a writer and translator. She has written fiction and non-fiction for many publications, including The Independent, Undark, Litro, the Bristol Short Story Anthology, and elsewhere. Born and raised in California, she has lived in France for many years. Her recent PhD novel and dissertation in Creative Writing ...

Literature professor most of my working life. Now a freelance writer. Published several travel essays in online journals, including Nowhere Magazine and The Fortnightly Review. Born in the UK, but spent much of my life working and living in other regions, Mexico, France, Saudi Arabia, Brunei, Kuwait and now Thailand.

Rob Greene is the founder of Raleigh Review.

Rob Spillman is a writer, editor, teacher, and literary citizen. He currently teaches private classes and offers manuscript consultations through the Shipman Agency’s Work Room, is a contributor to Lithub, and is a Fellowship Coach for the Op Ed Project. He co-founded and edited the seminal literary magazine Tin House, ...

Salena Casha's work has appeared in over 150 publications in the last decade. She survives New England winters on good beer and black coffee. Subscribe to her substack at salenacasha.substack.com.

Sarena Tien is a queer Chinese American writer and doctor (the PhD kind). Once upon a time, she used to be so shy that two teachers argued whether she was a “low talker” or “no talker,” but she’s since learned how to scream. Her poetry and prose have appeared in ...

Shara Kronmal is a writer, editor, and literary translator from French to English. Her literary translations can be found in Hunger Mountain Review and MAYDAY. Her creative writing, reviews and interviews have appeared in PLEASE SEE ME, the Journal of the American Medical Association (creative nonfiction), FlashFlood, CRAFT, Necessary Fiction, ...

Shay Youngblood was an American playwright, author of short stories and novels, artist, and educator. Her works explored themes of identity, community, and resilience, giving voice to generations of African-American women.

Shizue Seigel has been travelling since before she was born, in exile since her family’s release from World War II incarceration. Her poetry, prose and visual art draw from lived experience in segregated Baltimore, post-Occupation Japan, California farm labour camps, and journeys in India, Nepal, Bali, Mexico, Italy, and the ...

Stephen Jackson is a writer, musician, and educator living on the border between the United States and Mexico. His work frequently explores the liminality of spaces, systems of belief, and interactions between the sacred and secular. Past works have been published in “Black Fox Literary Journal”, “The International Human Rights ...

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 ...

Susann Cokal’s novels are Mirabilis, Breath and Bones, Mermaid Moon, and The Kingdom of Little Wounds. The Kingdom won several national awards, including a Michael L. Printz Honor from the American Library Association. Her shorter work has appeared in venues such as Hunger Mountain, Cincinnati Review, Electric Lit, Enchanted Living, ...

I am most recently Winner of the Moonlit Getaway Poetry Prize. I have published in the anthology, Rumors Secrets and Lies, Poems about Abortion, Pregnancy and Choice, Write-Haus, Aether Avenue Press, The San Diego Poetry Annual, Vita and the Woolf Literary Journal, and Dumbo Press. I received a BA in ...

Tricia Gates Brown's poetry has appeared in Portland Review, ANTAE Journal, and Yellow Arrow Journal, among other publications, and her first poetry collection Of A Certain Age is forthcoming from Fernwood Press in mid-2025. By trade, she is an editor and co-writer, mainly working for the National Park Service and ...

Veronica A. Bettencourt’s poetry was long-listed for the 2025 and 2024 Fish Poetry Prize Judged by Billy Collins and has appeared or is forthcoming in Epiphany, The Comstock Review, Crab Orchard Review, and Crab Creek Review, among others. She studies poetry with Mark Doty and is an MFA candidate at ...

Virginia LeBaron is a nurse and a poet. She has published one chapbook (Cardinal Marks, Finishing Line Press, 2021) and her writing has been supported by a residency with the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and through the Lighthouse Poetry Collective. She was a 2025 finalist for the Arts ...

Vishaal writes short stories and poems, mostly about memories and travel. Some of his work has appeared or is forthcoming in ARTS by the People, Five on the Fifth, Kitaab, Ghudsavar, Panorama, The Kelp Journal, Vermilion, The Rush, Open Minds Quarterly, The Rainbow Poems, Antonym Mag, Good Printed Things and ...

Wakaba is a Japanese writer and journalist based between Tokyo and New York City, with bylines in Tokyo Weekender, The Japan Times, Ms. magazine, and others. Raised across three continents, she’s flown to Morocco to meet a stranger for a first date, worked undercover as a hostess in Tokyo’s red-light ...