Noah Berlatsky
Noah Berlatsky (he/him) lives in Chicago. He’s published poems in the Chicago Review, the Toast, Five Fleas, and numerous other venues. He won an Honorable Mention in the 2022 Wergle Flomp humor poetry contest, and has a number of chapbooks forthcoming, among them: No Devotions (LJMcD Communications), and Send $19.99 for Supplements and Freedom (above/ground). He tweets too much at @nberlat and scribbles longer at Everything is Horrible! https://noahberlatsky.substack.com/
It's Fab consists of six short untitled poems. Much of his current work is influenced by Gertrude Stein and embracing his neurodivergent fascination with the way repetition forms and empties out identity.
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Marilyn J Wolf has been writing since childhood. Internationally reviewed In Celebration of the Death of Faeries is her first chapbook. Presently, she is editing a second. Her work has been published in The Polk Street Review, Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Haiku journal, Poet’s Choice, The Elevation Review, and Living Artistically; displayed in galleries at Nickel Plate Arts, Community Education Arts Online Showcase, Lost Dog Gallery, and the INverse Poetry Archive. She writes and edits regularly in a variety of publications at 
During his retirement from teaching, Walter Biskupski has been writing poetry. Recently he has been published in Nine: A Baseball Journal (University of Nebraska), Carmel Creations V, and Ink to Paper, Volume 7 and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2022. His poem, Lament for the Children of Uvalde, was published in the June 23 edition of the Uvalde Leader-News. He has also written poems on the Holocaust, on the January 6, 2021 insurrection, and on George Floyd. He has recorded several of his poems on YouTube, on a channel under his name.
Jane (Yevgenia!) Muschenetz arrived in the US as a child refugee from Soviet Ukraine. MIT graduate and former Bain Management Consultant, Jane is a 2023 City of Encinitas Exhibiting Artist and winner of The Good Life Review 2022 Poetry Prize. Her debut poetry collection, All the Bad Girls Wear Russian Accents (Kelsay, 2023), was shortlisted for the Jacar Press Chapbook Prize.
Melanie Barbato is a research associate at the University of Münster, Germany. She works on religion, comparative theology, dialogue, and art, mostly with a focus on the Asian traditions and their global interactions. In her poems, she thinks creatively about the topics of her academic work. Her first poetry collection, Die Erdbeerschale (The Strawberry Bowl) was published in 2022 by Ralf Schuster Verlag.
Robert Allen teaches writing and literature at Eastern Florida State College. He began experimenting with poetry while completing a BA in journalism at Ohio Northern University, which may help explain why his poetic inclinations often tend toward an economic and observational style. He continued working on his own writing while completing an MA in English at Stetson University in Deland, Florida.
Brandon McQuade is the founding editor of Duck Head Journal and the author of two poetry collections, Mango Seed and Bodies. He earned his B.A. from the University of New Brunswick Saint John and his M. Phil in Irish Writing from Trinity College Dublin. For a selection of poems from his second collection, Bodies, he was the recipient of the 2022 Neltje Blanchan Memorial Writing Award. He lives in Northern Wyoming with his wife and their children.
Jerome Berglund has published many haiku, haiga and haibun, most recently in bottle rockets, Frogpond, and Modern Haiku.