Jackie Hedeman

Jackie Hedeman is a tea drinker and a Midwesterner. She holds a BA from Princeton University and an MFA from The Ohio State University. Her work has appeared in...

Brenda Taulbee

Brenda Taulbee lives in San Diego, where she teaches composition, rhetoric, and creative writing at San Diego State University. Her work has appeared in va...

Maya Frizzell

Maya Frizzell is a senior literary artist at Pittsburgh CAPA 6-12, a magnet arts high school. 

Lydia A. Cyrus

Lydia A. Cyrus is a creative nonfiction writer and poet from Huntington, West Virginia. Her work as been featured in Thoreau's Rooster, Adelaide Literary Ma...

Julia Perch

Julia Perch is a queer and femme-identified editor, essayist, and poet living and working in West Philly. Her work has appeared in Philadelphia Stories, be...

Kelly DuMar

Kelly DuMar is a poet, playwright and workshop facilitator from Boston. She’s author of two poetry chapbooks, All These Cures, (Lit House Press), and Tree ...

Anna Keeler

Cupcakes i. Dichen was a demi-girl; I don’t regret her like I do the rest. We almost had sex and woke the baby up, and her lips were soft and shiny against mine...

Téo Chesney

You waited with her mother in her cousin’s apartment in the Old North End of Burlington. There were crusty socks on a shoe mat by the door, and a peach rot...

Diane Payne

In ninth grade, you go into the basement with your boyfriend and shoot bumper pool while listening to Jethro Tull. After Dad sees that your boyfriend has l...