Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo
Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo is a Filipina poet and author of two self-care books — the twin deLights — titled "Haikuna Matata" (5-7-5 haiku/haiga) and "Hainaku! It's Pundemic!" (humour). Her poetry has been published in various anthologies and journals, most recently in the Haiku Corner, Tanka Society of America, Pan Haiku Review, Haikuniverse, Kokako, and Haiku Dialogue. Her Golden Haiku 2023 competition entry was one of the 200 printed signs displayed along the iconic streets of Washington DC. She is also a medical transcriptionist.•
C.X. Turner writes poems about dandelions, frozen fingers and frogs. She enjoys experimenting with Japanese short-forms, working collaboratively with other poets and on solo projects. Her poems and artwork have been widely published in a range of journals and anthologies; three of her poems were Touchstone-nominated in 2022. She is a social worker and observer of life, rediscovering her creativity and always making space on her bookshelves for more.
Michael Terence O'Brien is a poet, playwright, artist, and a singer/songwriter who resides in Chesterfield N.J. He currently works as a special education teacher and instructs students with autistic spectrum disorder. 
Noah Berlatsky (he/him) is a freelance writer in Chicago. His full-length collections are Not Akhmatova (Ben Yehuda Press, 2024), Gnarly Thumbs (Anxiety Press, 2025), Meaning Is Embarrassing (Ranger, 2025) and Brevity (Nun Prophet, 2025).
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.