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Anna Stroud is a creative writer based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She has a journalism degree from Rhodes University and a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Pretoria. In her review of Future Imperfect by Babette Gallard, she searches for hope in a future ravaged by greed ...

Annette Higgs is a writer living in the bush suburbs of northern Sydney, Australia. Born and raised in Tasmania, she has lived, worked and studied in Sydney, London and Italy. Her debut novel, set in the back blocks of Tasmania in the 1870s, was awarded the Penguin Literary Prize and ...

Anthony Huerta Velasquez hails from the San Joaquin Valley of California, but spent the last decade in Busan, South Korea. His creative nonfiction/personal essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Hunger Mountain, Mount Hope, Sierra Nevada Review, Concho River Review, South Dakota Review, Stone Canoe, Touchstone Literary Magazine, and The ...

I worked originally not as an artist but as a trained nurse. After a career break, I completed a degree from the University of Hertfordshire. My work focuses on portraiture and depiction of the human figure in textiles. It offers an emotionally-charged visual narrative, often with a specific message and ...

Areeb is an Editor-at-Large at Asymptote and a Books Editor at Inklette Magazine. He likes to look at the intersections of gender and sexuality across texts. They enjoy exploring how the personal and the political as well as form and content interact in art. Most of his writing can be ...

Arina Kole is a writer, educator, and film professional. She’s the founder and former host of Literally Literary Radio Show. A recent recipient of the Denis Diderot Award, she is scheduled to attend The Chateau d’Orquevaux Artists & Writers residency next spring, where she’ll focus on developing her novel that ...

Arturo is a documentary and portrait photographer based in the Canary Islands.

Aswin Prasanth is the Academic Essay Editor of Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature and an Editor at Twelve Winters Journal. His articles, columns, reviews, and interviews have appeared in Studies in European Cinema (Routledge), Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (Routledge), Quarterly Review of Film and Video ...

Audrey Shipp's writing has appeared in various journals, including Crayon Magazine, Brittle Paper, Isele Magazine, Another Chicago Magazine, LitroUSA, A Long House, and A Gathering Together. With its theme of writing and (un)writing in Los Angeles, she is currently working on a memoir that has a first chapter that begins ...

Audrey Shipp is interested in bridging the gulf between the personal essay and academic writing. She is passionate about the ways in which research can be woven into memoir. Her writing has appeared in various journals, including Crayon Magazine, Brittle Paper, Isele Magazine, Another Chicago Magazine, LitroUSA, A Long House, and A Gathering Together. With ...

Azzeddine Tajjiou is a creative writer, a doctoral researcher, and a Guest Contributor for Panorama. He studies Cultural Studies at the Multidisciplinary Faculty of Nador, Mohamed 1st University in Morocco, with a focus on Colonial and Post-Colonial discourse. He is an expert on African Literature and Film of the 20th ...

I pursued and received both a Bachelor and Master’s degree in American Literature. Additionally, I received my first publication credit after an original short story was published by my university’s literary magazine. Currently, I work in education, but I still maintain my writing practices in my free time. My recent ...

I am a writer and environmental activist. I try to explain my world and concerns for it through my writing.

Bernadette McDonald was the founding Vice President of Mountain Culture at The Banff Centre and director of the Banff Mountain Festivals for 20 years, and few people have the relationships that McDonald does with the world’s most accomplished alpinists. The author of more than a dozen books about mountaineering and ...

Bi Pickard is a New York native photographer currently living and working out of Cleveland, Ohio. Bi specialises in 35mm analogue works and has been seen in publications such as Wanderlust as well Chicago’s Levitate. You can view more of their work @bpickardphoto on Instagram.

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 ...

Brian Crouse lives in the Nebraska Sandhills with his wife and children and their myriad animal friends in a mythical valley of gentle prairies flanked by towering grass-covered dunes. He is interested in lyric, experimental, and short/flash CNF with a focus on memory, liminal spaces, and nature writing that sometimes ...

Bryanna Plog is a park ranger naturalist, traveller, and writer. Her travel essays have been included in THE WONDER OF IT ALL: 100 STORIES FROM THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, GoNomad, and CANARY and she has self-published two travel books, including MISSPELLED PARADISE about her year living and teaching in Colombia. ...

Buffy Shutt is a former marketing executive for movies and documentaries. She lives in Los Angeles. A two-time Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, her work appears in Anthropocene, Paper Dragon, Sonic Boom, Door is a Jar, Dodging the Rain, Split Lip Magazine, among others. She has published two ...

Cairn J. McCormack is a retired geologist, author, and poet living in a rustic log cabin in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, USA. When not tirelessly working on the cabin to keep erosion at bay, she writes about the nature and geology of the Colorado Plateau and about thriving with ...

Callie S. Blackstone writes both poetry and prose. Her debut chapbook sing eternal is available through Bottlecap Press. Her online home is calliesblackstone.com.

Carlo Rey Lacsamana is a Filipino writer, poet, and artist born and raised in Manila, Philippines. Since 2005, he has been living and working in the Tuscan town of Lucca, Italy. He regularly contributes to journals in the Philippines, writing politics, culture, and art. His works have appeared in Esquire ...

Carmen Bellos believes traveling to other continents is the ultimate opportunity to gain insight, empathy, and appreciation for cultures that may be vastly different from your own. She hopes writing about her travels, with its stumbles and triumphs,will connect with the explorer imagination in you. Carmen currently resides in Valencia, ...

Carolyn Jones is a journalist, writer, and editor. She’s working on a novel about climate change as well as a series of non-fiction essays about the environment. Previously, she has written about women’s reproductive rights in the U.S., as well as other political issues such as gun control. She has ...

Carrie Carter is a poet living in Washington, DC. She holds a BA in English from The Ohio State University. Her work is published or forthcoming with Gnashing Teeth Publishing, Troublemaker Firestarter, Humana Obscura, and elsewhere. Her chapbook High Water was published by Quillkeepers Press in May 2023. She is ...

Carrie Walker is a visual artist who can’t stay away from words. This entanglement has led her to make zines, artist books and countless drawings with titles that are too long. She is a recent graduate of Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio. Carrie is currently writing a memoir about her ...

Cathlin Carlson co-leads the family travel blog Bond & Thomas. A native of Michigan, she now lives in County Kerry, Ireland.

I am a freelance writer based in Laguna, the Philippines. I have been writing and editing professionally for a little over two decades now. I began in print magazines and now write and edit digital content. Among my clients are health and lifestyle websites, government agencies, and local and international ...

Charlianne Sutcliffe is a recent graduate from Aberystwyth University with a first-class degree in English Literature, and she looks forward to a creative writing masters in September. She is from the East Midlands of England, caught between the bustle of the city and the majesty of the countryside. Her work ...

Chika Onyenezi is a Nigerian-born fiction writer. A recipient of the Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award. He finished as a semi-finalist in the inaugural Jesmyn Ward Prize, and a finalist in the 2021 Tupelo Quarterly Prose Open Prize. His short story “Twenty Thousand Cedis” won the 4th Annual Scoundrel Time ...

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).

Chithra Jeyaram is a multi-lingual filmmaker and film educator. She directs, produces, and edits films about identity, relationships, race, art, and health. She also teaches documentary production at NYU Tisch. A failed attempt to fund a film in India led her to quit a decade-long career as a Physical Therapist ...

Chris Dahl cups handfuls of murky pond water, examining another world half-hidden in this one. Her chapbook, Mrs Dahl in the Season of Cub Scouts won Still Waters Press’s “Women’s Words” competition. Extensively published, she also serves on the Olympia Poetry Network board and edits their newsletter.

Chris Wardle (Hamza) works at being happy and grateful, while writing through his second childhood, with an eye for wonder in the every-day, a taste for questions, and a sense of proximity to the Sacred. He is unapologetically un-social-media-averse, although you can reach out to him at: [email protected]