Caitlin M.S. Buxbaum is a writer and teacher from Wasilla, Alaska. She currently serves as CEO of Red Sweater Press.

Kristin Van Tassel lives and teaches in rural Central Kansas. She writes essays and poetry about place, travel, and teaching.

Abby Manzella is the author of Migrating Fictions: Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements.

Charlotte Cosgrove is a Poet and English Lecturer from Liverpool, England. Her work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies.

Jon Davis is the author of six chapbooks and seven full-length poetry collections, including Above the Bejeweled City and more.

Cassandra Whitaker (they/them) is a trans writer from Virginia whose work has been published in Michigan Quarterly Review and more.

Juliana Gray’s most recent poetry collection is Honeymoon Palsy (Measure Press 2017).

Carrie Esposito’s short stories have been published in The Georgia Review, Ruminate Magazine, Monkey Bicycle, The MacGuffin, and more.

Thea Swanson is a feminist atheist who holds an MFA in Writing from Pacific University in Oregon.

Liz Ahl is the author of the poetry collections A Case for Solace and Beating the Bounds.

Jessie Lovett Allen is originally from western New York and currently teaches English at North Platte Community College in western Nebraska.

Larry Narron is a poet and teacher from Southern California. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Phoebe, Bayou, Hobart, and more.

Diana Mullins is an author and editor who taught writing and theater arts in Maine and California.

Matt McGuirk teaches and lives with his family in New Hampshire. BOTN 2021 nominee and regular contributor for Fevers of the Mind and more.

Wm. Walters has been a professor of English and linguistics at Rock Valley College, in Rockford, IL, for the past thirty-three years.

Carol Parris Krauss enjoys using place/nature as theme vehicles. Her poetry can be found at– Louisiana Literature, Scrawl Place, and more.

Rebecca L'Bahy is a poet and writer who teaches middle school in Massachusetts.

Margaret D. Stetz is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.

Holly is a high school English teacher who is also a real human inside and outside the classroom.

Linda has two books of poetry. Her first was called Coming to be. Her second is available on Amazon: Poems to Amuse, Bemuse, and Entertain.