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Abigail Ham is a journalist and writer whose creative work has appeared in Northwest Review, Greensboro Review and other places. She writes essays, poetry and fiction, and is currently looking for a home for her first novel.

Alex Ohtea is a street photographer currently cycling from Morocco to South Africa focused on instinctive, in-motion shooting.⁠

Alton Melvar M Dapanas (they/them), essayist, poet, and translator from the southern Philippines, is the author of M of the Southern Downpours (Australia: Downingfield Press), In the Name of the Body: Lyric Essays (Canada: Wrong Publishing, 2023), and Towards a Theory on City Boys: Prose Poems (UK: Newcomer Press, 2021). ...

Anselm Eme is a Nigerian writer, poet, banker, and independent financial consultant. He is the author of Eleven books, including WHISKERS, OUR KIDS AND US, AWAKE AFRICA!, SAGES IN PURSUIT, and SHRIEKS AND GIGGLES series. Blending finance with creative storytelling, Anselm writes with heart, clarity, and purpose. His work explores ...

Brian Cronwall is a retired English professor from Kaua`i Community College in Hawai`i. His poetry has won an Oscar Wilde Poetry Prize, been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and been published in journals and anthologies in Hawai`i, Guam, Continental United States, Australia, Japan, France, United Kingdom, and Ireland, including California ...

Callen S. Sor is an American-Canadian physician of Cambodian origin. He and his family had lived through the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime (1975-1979), after which they immigrated as refugees to the US and Canada. In general, his background as a refugee and in medicine informs his writing. His work has ...

Catherine's short fiction has a strong sense of place. Her writing can be found in the print journals Confluence, Mor Media Anthology, Impspired, and online lit journals inc. Foxglove and Apricot Press.

Chika Unigwe is Professor of Creative Writing at Georgia College and the author of several celebrated works of fiction including On Black Sisters’ Street, which won the NLNG Prize for Literature, and most recently the short story collection Better Never Than Late (2019).

Chris Girman is an American author, academic, and immigration attorney. He has authored several books, and his recent creative work has appeared in multiple venues, including Bull Magazine, Jet Fuel Review, Hobart, Eclectica Magazine, The CEA Critic, and the anthology What I Didn’t Know about Becoming a Teacher. His perfect ...

Christopher Bowen is the author of the chapbook We Were Giants, the novella When I Return to You, I Will Be Unfed, and the non-fiction Debt. He was a semi-finalist in the 2017 Faulkner-Wisdom Novella Competition and honorable mention in the 45th New Millennium Writing Awards in the non-fiction category. ...

Clint Margrave is the author of the poetry collections Salute the Wreckage, The Early Death of Men, and most recently, Visitor, all from NYQ Books. He is also the author of the novel Lying Bastard and editor of Requiem for the Toad: Selected Poems of Gerald Locklin (NYQ Books). His ...

David Radavich has published a variety of poetry, drama, and non fiction essays. His plays have been performed across the U.S. and in Europe. His recent books are UNTER DER SONNE / UNDER THE SUN: German Poems (Deutscher Lyrik, 2021), and HERE'S PLENTY (Cervena Barva, 2023).

Deborah Fleming's nonfiction collection Resurrection of the Wild won the 2020 PEN-America Art of the Essay Award. Her second essay collection Ghosts of an Old Forest was published last year. She has published five books of poetry, one novel, and four volumes of scholarship. For many years she was editor ...

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 ...

Eliana Gruvman is an editor and writer currently located in the Canary Islands. She is trying and failing to learn how to surf.

Ella Shively is a writer and naturalist from the American Midwest. She is currently working toward her MFA in Poetry at Cornell University. Her writing has been published in Dunes Review, Poetose, SoFloPoJo, and elsewhere. You can find her on Instagram @shivelywrites.

Ellen is a writer of short stories, she primarily delves into creative non-fiction but also dabbles in fiction and poetry as well. She recently graduated university and is now enjoying her free time writing more, reading new genres, and exploring state parks.

Emily Bo Tennant is a writer from Dorset, UK. She graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a Master's degree in Politics. She writes mostly nonfiction, and has had essays and book reviews published in journals such as the Dublin Law and Politics Review, the Intersectional Journal for Social Justice, ...

Fausto's practice focuses on the intersection of photography and moving image, using light, subtle gesture, and texture to create work that invites reflection and quiet engagement. Rather than presenting explicit narrative, the work functions through absence and temporal tension.

Gabrielle wrote Hive-Mind, a memoir, the poetry books Too Many Seeds (2021), Break Self: Feed (2024), Points in the Network (2025), and the forthcoming Go Forth: Lose Yourself into Life and La Ruta es Clara (2026). Her publications include work in the Atlanta Review, Evergreen Review, Adirondack Review, SF Public ...

Giancarlo Huapaya (Lima, Peru) is an editor, poet, curator, and educational facilitator. In their latest books, [gamerover] (AUB 2023, Deep Vellum 2025) and procesos de separación (AUB 2025), they investigate places and archives through counter mapping in poetry. They are the Editorial Director of Cardboard House Press, a project dedicated ...

Isabel Fontes was born in Lisbon and is based in London. She is the author of three books in Portuguese, including Poesia Erótica, O Silêncio das Almas, and Vidas em Silêncio. Her work has appeared in literary magazines and anthologies across the United Kingdom, Europe, Canada, and the United States, ...

I’m a writer and environmental advocate with professional experience in climate policy and philanthropy. My work has previously appeared in The Hill and Inside Philanthropy. You can find me on Instagram (@isabela_valencia) and Substack (@isabelavalencia1).

Ishraq A. Hashmi is an author who has used literary nonfiction to examine the themes of place, conflict, climate and human dignity. His writing explores issues of belonging, ethical witnessing and the points of interaction between environment and lived experience.

J.M.C. Kane is the author of the non-fiction book Quiet Brilliance: What Employers Miss About Neurodivergent Talent and How to See It (CollectiveInk UK). He is an ASD-1 and writes from this learned experience at the periphery. His prose work has been published in more than three dozen literary journals ...

Jill Darling has published poetry, fiction, and creative and critical essays. Her books include Geographies of Identity: Narrative Forms, Feminist Futures, (re)iterations, a geography of syntax, Solve For, and begin with may: a series of moments as well as two collaborative chapbooks with Laura Wetherington and Hannah Ensor. She’s won ...

Joanne Godley is a thrice-nominated Pushcart and Best-of-Net poet, writer, and recent MFA graduate from Pacific University. She is a retired physician and public health specialist, and lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico with her puppy, Jazz. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Decolonial Passage, ...

Khaleel is a Jamaican-British LGBTQ+ traveller and creative working in luxury hospitality. With an MSc in International Tourism Destination Management, his work explores the intersections of artistic expression, identity, and migration. As a freelance event designer and mentor, community is the through-line of his practice. Grounded in an ongoing interrogation ...

Word/visual Lance Mazmanian: Random House with Harlan Ellison, got coffee as payment. 81+ publications since 2025, Jane Hirshfield’s Poets for Science (Kent State), ALMA, more. 2026 Pushcart nom. Nicknamed “Lance Vegas!” by Janusz Kamiński; screenwriting gigs upcoming in 2026. Leonard Cohen (RIP) wanted chapbooks with Mazmanian. Til "Scrapbook File" imploded.

Lauren Kelley is a Minnesota-based writer whose work explores thresholds, perception, and the quiet forces that shape internal landscapes. She is the author of Unreliable, on Purpose, a collection of creative nonfiction and flash. Her writing has been accepted by Panorama Journal and Inglenook. Rooted in recurring imagery of water, ...

Leslie is a poet, memoirist, and visual artist living in the Greater Chicago area. Her work focuses on home, ancestry, and rootedness. Learn more: www.leslielindsay.com

Lisa Jean Moore is a sociologist and writer whose work crosses between academic scholarship, personal essay, and environmental observation. She is a SUNY Distinguished Professor at Purchase College, where she teaches medical sociology, feminist science studies, and bioethics. Her books include Sperm Counts, Buzz: Urban Beekeeping and the Power of ...

Luke Dumas is the USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of the novels THE PALEONTOLOGIST and A HISTORY OF FEAR. He is the winner of a 2024 Thriller Award for Best Paperback Original, and his work has been optioned for film and TV. He received his master’s degree in creative ...

Luke Oppenheimer is a writer and documentary photographer from rural Oklahoma with a background in agroforestry and sustainable farming. After earning a degree in Latin American History from the University of Missouri–Kansas City, he spent several years living and working across South America before producing his first photographic project along ...

Maddie Hoagland-Hanson lives and writes in Washington, DC. A licensed landscape architect, she currently works for an urban forestry non-profit designing and installing native gardens throughout the city. She aspires, however, to live in the woods.

Marcella Peralta Simon is a retired Latinx grandmother, splitting her time between Ely, UK, and Kissimmee, Florida. She has travelled to more than 40 countries. She is a writer (short fiction, poetry) and painter (abstracts and nature).

Maria McLeod’s poetry and prose have been published by literary journals in the U.S., England, Germany, India, and Scotland. She’s won the Quarter After Eight Robert J. DeMott Short Prose Prize, the Indiana Review Poetry Prize, and has been nominated for Best of the Net and five Pushcart Prizes. Publications ...

Matthew J. Andrews is a private investigator and writer currently living in Central Iowa. He is the author of The Hours, A Razor’s Edge, and I Close My Eyes and I Almost Remember. He can be contacted at www.matthewjandrews.com.

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.

Maxwell Dionisio (he/him) is a freak and a geek, a qt writer of color, and occasionally a local nuisance. Professionally, he is an operations and finance administrator in university research. Creatively, he likes to consider race, adoption, sex(uality), (trans)gender, and queerness in short- and long-form writing. He is pursuing an ...

Meghana is a journalist, writer, and researcher from northern Kerala in India. She has published reportage and academic work on subjects including religious nationalism, caste, politics, and the media. Her love for birds is now drawing her into nature writing; she hopes to become a bird guide who can introduce ...

Melissa Lloyd is a Washington DC-based writer and advisor. Her essay work is influenced by working with 40+ countries and 15 years living overseas on the sharp edges of geopolitical competition and published in War on the Rocks. Her personal nonfiction explores travel, grief, crisis, and the dark comedy found ...

Michael D. Burke is the author of the memoir/adventure, The Same River Twice (University of Arizona Press) and of feature nonfiction and essays in Down East, Yankee, Islands, Outside, Boston Globe, The New York Times, Maine Décor, AMC Outdoors, and The Sunday Times (South Africa). He is also a playwright, ...

Michael Mortimer spent 30 years living and working in 18 countries. His fiction draws on travel, escape and expatriate dislocation. He is currently working on a linked sequence of stories that will form a mosaic novel. He teaches and lectures in the UK.

Michael E. O’Reilly is a car hauler living outside Detroit, Michigan, and a graduate of University of Utah’s MFA Creative Writing program. He has published nonfiction books with Globe Pequot and TwoDot presses. He has also worked as a screenwriter and published fiction, journalism, literary criticism, poetry, and interviews in ...

Mildred Thompson's upcoming memoir shares her journeys across Africa, Europe, Egypt, and India. As part of Sonoma Valley Museum of Art's 2022 exhibition celebrating American artist Raymond Saunders, Thompson was commissioned to write a poem for their literary event: Freedoms Found: Writers Speak to the Art of Raymond Saunders. Since ...

Mohul Bhowmick is a cricketer, poet, sports journalist, essayist and travel writer from Hyderabad, India.

Naomi Klouda is an Alaska writer whose work moves between witness and imagination. She earned a BA in Journalism from Gonzaga University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alaska Anchorage. Her writings have appeared or are forthcoming in Amphibian Literary Arts Journal, After the Storm, Hope ...

Obinna Udenwe is the winner of the Chinua Achebe Prize for Literature 2021 for his second book Colours of Hatred, which was also a finalist for the NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature. His story, It Has to do With Emilia was made into a film by Bump Films, South Africa. ...

Olivia Rose Bridge is a writer and teacher from the North West of England. With a background in Creative Writing and Film, she has lived and worked in Seoul and Mérida as an English teacher. Her work is shaped by travel, place, and storytelling through short fiction and creative non-fiction.

I’m a travel writer and storyteller passionate about culture, time, and place. I’ve lived in seven countries, explored many more, and visited forty-eight of the United States—still saving North Dakota and Alaska for later. My recent features on ethical fashion and sustainability, published in London’s Sublime Magazine, reached readers in ...

I was born in Florence and have lived in Australia and Ireland. I've written on memory and time in literature, especially the work of Italo Svevo, Gerald Murnane, and Jorge-Luis Borges. I've also worked on the theory of objects and their significance in literature and art. I'm Professor Emeritus of ...

Pete Warzel has published poetry, short fiction, essays, interviews, non-fiction articles, and book reviews in national and international literary journals, regional and national magazines, and newspapers. Upon retirement from business life he has been exploring the meaning of place and identity in the Southwest through essays and photographs. He lives ...

Rachel Weber was the guest editor for the Santa Fe Writers Project Spring 2025 Journal. Her work with SFWP has included a variety of editorial tasks in the Acquisitions department. She recently completed the Creative Writing Certificate program at Santa Fe Community College, where her work has been chosen for ...

Reem is a Palestinian American author and scholar. She writes both fiction and poetry, often drawing from her travel experiences and weaving in themes related to her Arab heritage. Her creative work has appeared in Eclectica, Kweli, the tiny mag, Folio, and Grist. She is currently working on two novels. ...

Ria Cabral is an author, artist, and graphic designer whose work is shaped by a lifelong passion for creativity and storytelling. A self-described daydreamer from an early age, she spent her youth immersed in books, sketching ideas, and imagining new worlds—interests that would later define her creative path.

Richie Magnia-Rohrig is a recent graduate from the University of North Texas. His work has been featured in the North Texas Review (where he served as Assistant Poetry Editor and Online Editor), Mantis, The Words Faire, and more. Greatly focusing on estrangement, masculinity, and guilt, he explores how these bleed ...

Rip Underwood owned a dental lab for many years, but has retired and wishes to devote his energies to poetry. In Austin, he has volunteered with deaf clients and with developmentally disabled residents at the Austin State School. He has also volunteered at the local women's shelter and for Victim ...

Rob Salvino lives and writes in Seattle, Washington. He is a volunteer forest steward with the Green Seattle Partnership, contributing to habitat restoration and public-facing interpretive work that explores the natural and cultural history of Seattle’s parks.

Rory Attwood is a writer and learning designer from Norwich, England. He holds an MFA from the University of Michigan, where he was also a Zell Fellow. His poetry is part of a broader project to understand what is actually going on here.

Ryan Buyco is a travel writer who teaches Filipino American studies at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, California. He writes about decolonial travel in the Pacific. Maraming salamat to Manarii and Nalini Gauthier, Stevie and Tiffany Te Moni, Tetuarii Pino Teapehu, Becca Lucas, and J. Lorenzo Perillo for being ...

Samantha Vargas is a queer poet and educator who lives in New Jersey. Her work has been featured in Carolina Muse, The Night Heron Barks, Ruby, Inside Voice, The Knight's Library Magazine, and The Imaginate. She was a semi-finalist for the 2024 Sundress Chapbook Contest, and her work was nominated ...

Sandy J. is a travel writer whose work explores the complexities of travel in relation to identity and culture. She is also passionate about writing about culture generally, and the everyday lived experiences of women — their relationship with femininity, and what it means to navigate the world on their ...

Sharon M. Carter is a poet and visual artist who lives on Washington State's Olympic peninsula. She retired from a career working in non-profit health care systems. Her work has been published in the Amsterdam Quarterly, Quartet, Ars Medica, Raven Chronicles and One Art. Her poetry books are Quiver (2022), ...

Sreyash is an applied physicist and an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of science, music, and literature. Trained in Hindustani classical music within the Kirana and Gwalior traditions, he later expanded toward cross-genre composition and Western classical collaboration. His poetry has appeared in international journals, including Indiana Review, B ...

Vivek N.D. is a Bangalore-based writer and researcher. He teaches Political Science at Vidyashilp University and loves cats, music, meat, police procedurals and to travel; not necessarily in that order.