MASTHEAD

Elaine Cary lives in Nebraska with her fiancé and pet bird, a pacific parrotlet who loves scritches and dried fruit. Her work is published in Rejection Letters and Barren Magazine. You can find her on Twitter @angsty_witch.

Michael Todd Cohen’s work appears in Columbia Journal, JMWW Journal and HAD, among others. He lives with his husband and two dogs, by a rusty lighthouse, in Connecticut. He is currently pursuing his MFA at Goucher College. You can find him on twitter @mtoddcohen.

Chris Dankland lives in Phoenix with Jennifer Greidus. He is a Founding Editor of XRAY Literary Magazine and author of Weed Monks. 

Priya Ele is a New York-based writer. She studies dramatic writing at New York University and has work in Passages North, The Blood Pudding, Hobart after Dark, and Pidgeonholes, among others. Her play Red Handed was performed at the Soho Playhouse as part of the Lighthouse Series. You can find her on Twitter @priyaeler or Instagram, @priyarinkus.

Rebecca Gransden lives on an island. She is published at Tangerine Press, Burning House Press, Muskeg, Ligeia, and Silent Auctions, among others. Her books are anemogram., Rusticles, and Sea of Glass.

Jennifer Greidus lives in Phoenix with Chris Dankland and their sweet dogs. She is the Founding Editor of XRAY Literary Magazine and author of American Lit, her first novel.

Tex Gresham is an award-winning screenwriter, novelist, and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. His books include Sunflower, Heck Texas, and This Is Strange June. His debut feature, MUSTARD (which he wrote, directed, edited and acted in), is available to stream for free on Vimeo. He’s online at www.squeakypig.com and on Twitter as @thatsqueakypig.

Connor Harding is a fiction writer and current MFA candidate from the Midwest. His works have been published in HAD, Unstamatic, Every Day Fiction, Rogue Phoenix Press, and is forthcoming in Crow & Cross Keys. When he isn’t doomscrolling on Twitter (@connorharding25), he’s probably eating a nice bowl of soup.

Joshua Hebburn is a fiction writer who lives in Los Angeles. His fiction has appeared in New World Writing, here, and elsewhere. 

Kira K. Homsher is a writer from Philadelphia, currently living in Los Angeles. She is the winner of phoebe’s 2020 nonfiction contest and is a Pushcart nominee. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Kenyon Review Online, Indiana Review, Passages North, Longreads, The Offing, and others. Find her at kirahomsher.com. 

Claire Hopple is the author of five books. Her fiction has appeared in Wigleaf, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Peach Mag, Forever Mag, and others. She grew up in the woods of Western PA and currently lives in Asheville, NC. More at clairehopple.com. 

KKUURRTT writes and Adobe Creative Suites.

Eros Livieratos is a Greek-Belizean writer & artist whose work focuses on the intersection of identity, aesthetics, and capital in the Anthropocene. Eros has published poetry, fiction, non-fiction, comics, photography, and film score work. They can usually be found making harsh noise & screaming in your local basement.

Jillian Luft is a Florida native currently residing in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in Hobart, Expat Press, Booth, The Forge Literary Magazine, and other publications. Find her on Twitter @JillianLuft.

Alice M. is a pseudonymous nonbinary femme writer and painter from London. Aer short fiction has appeared in X-R-A-Y, HAD, Hobart, Rejection Letters, and has been reprinted in Salt Publishing’s Best British Short Stories (2022 volume). Ae are founding editor of bodyfluids.org, a small journal for writing about social discomfort.

Nairi Simonyan is an Armenian writer based in Los Angeles, California. She self-published her first novel, From Afar, in 2016. Since then, her work has appeared multiple times in The Northridge Review, and she has gone on to work for The Gryphon Press. Sometimes, you’ll find her prophesizing on Twitter as @nsimonyann.

Jo Varnish is a writer and editor from England, who lives outside NYC. She has a PhD and an MFA and work in Jellyfish Review, PANK, JMWW, among others. Her pit bull Theo is her constant companion, and you can find her on Twitter @jovarnish1.

Holden Wright is a queer writer and teacher whose words have appeared in Ninth Letter, Salt Hill Journal, Barren Magazine, and elsewhere. He has previously read for Mid-American Review and JuxtaProse.