David Harrison Horton is a writer, artist, editor and curator. He is author of Maze Poems (Arteidolia, 2022) and Necessary (forthcoming from Downingfield Press in 2025). His latest chap, Model Answer, was released by CCCP Chapbooks/subpress in 2024. His work has recently appeared in The Belfast Review, Roi Fainéant, Verbal Art and Yolk, among others. He edits the poetry zine SAGINAW. davidharrisonhorton.com
Terry Trowbridge is a Canadian poet, essayist, fruit farmer and sociolegal researcher living on the south shore of Lake Ontario. His work has appeared in over 150 literary journals, zines, academic journals, and occasionally chapbooks. He is grateful to the Ontario Arts Council for funding poetry during the polycrisis.
Craig Czury is a creator of poetry and poetry performances, a university lecturer, an author and publisher, an editor and translator, and an arts advocate who energizes communities and organizations through public poetry. Czury’s early adulthood was spent hitchhiking North America, working carnivals, warehouses, canneries, construction crews, restaurant kitchens, and organizing community poetry readings. It is from his childhood growing up in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania, from his experiences during 15 years of hitchhiking, and from his continued travels all over the world that Czury’s indomitable spirit springs colorfully forth into his poetry. www.craigczury.com
Ihor Pidhainy is a teacher and writer who lives in the Atlanta region. His poetry has appeared in Washington Square Review, Litbop, Quarter Press, Scapegoat Review and other journals. Another Snowball poem has appeared in Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit.
Juliana "Jules" Schifferes is a Washington, DC native. She has published in several publications. She values her chance to publish in Wishbone Words, The Mid-Atlantic Review, and Poetry X Hunger in particular; and was the inaugural Luce Prize winner in 2023.
Ayn Frances dela Cruz is an ESL teacher in Uzbekistan. She recently graduated with a Masters in International Art and Culture Management from Rome Business School where her startup Paper Monster Press was longlisted for the #RBS4 Entrepreneurship Prize. A fellow of the 7th UST National Writers Workshop and the Montaggio Writers Workshop, her work has been published in local Philippine and international magazines and anthologies and her micro-chapbook, Tumbleweed, was published by Tiny Press. Cover by Frederick Agustin. 
Eric Hadley is a poet when he feels like it, and the rest of the time too.