Noah Renn has lived as a working writer and educator in Southeastern Virginia for over 15 years.

Carla M. Cherry is a high school English teacher. Her work has appeared in Random Sample Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, 433, and Raising Mothers.

Ankit Raj Ojha is a poet, assistant professor of English, former software engineer and former rock band frontman from Chapra, Bihar, India.

Jared Beloff is a teacher and poet who lives in Queens, NY with his wife and two daughters.

Joshua Wetjen is a high school English teacher living in Minneapolis and working in St. Paul.

Karis Lee is a middle-school-teacher. She lives and writes in Washington D.C.

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.