Jory Mickelson

(they/them) is an award-winning transgender writer living in Xwotʼqom/Whatcom/Bellingham on the homelands of the Lummi and Nooksack peoples. They are the author of three books of poetry: Picturing (2025, End of the Line Press), All This Divide (2024, Spuyten Duyvil Press), and Wilderness//Kingdom (2019, Floating Bridge Press).

Sara Hovda

(she/her) is a transgender woman from rural Minnesota. She currently attends the MFA program at UC-Riverside while also working as an online entertainer. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in magazines such as Passages North, Nimrod, and Sho Poetry Journal, among others.

Taylor Kovach

Taylor Kovach is a transgender poet residing in Riverview, Michigan. They hold a Psychology BA from Michigan State University. One can peruse their work in Nonbinary Review, Lavender Review, The Globe Review, Allium, Oddball Magazine, Belt Magazine, Literary Heist, etc.

Denise Bickford Hopkins

(they/theirs) is a queer poet originally from midcoast Maine. Their work is found in Foglifter, Seneca Review, El Portal, Oroboro, and Baest, among others. They currently live in Pullman, WA with their husband Miles, two cats (Paria and Kiva), and their dog (Radar).

Emily Chabra

(she/her) recently found a kitten in the engine of a car. The kitten is now very healthy and happy, meaning Emily lives and writes on the San Francisco Peninsula with her wife and four (4) cats.

Em Judkins

(they/he) is an over-caffeinated queer poet and filmmaker based in Massachusetts. They graduated with a B.A. in English and Film and Media Studies from Smith College. His work appears in Emulate, Voices & Visions, and the Worcester Art Museum. They believe in love and bad art.

Fendy S. Tulodo

writes about identity, memory, and the quiet spaces between words. Born in Indonesia, he explores the intersections of culture and selfhood through poetry and storytelling. When not writing, he enjoys music, videography, and finding meaning in ordinary moments.

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Veronica Wasson

(she/her) is a trans writer living in the Pacific Northwest. Her work has appeared in smoke + mold, en*gendered, The Seventh Wave, Your Impossible Voice, Blood Tree Literature, and elsewhere.

Mick Kligler

(he/him) is a trans Social Worker and writer living in New Orleans, Louisiana. His work has been published in Fence, Trains, Hanging Loose, and some other places.

Max Hunt

(he/him) is a queer, trans, and autistic writer/artist from Mississippi. His fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in december, CRAFT, One Teen Story, BreakBread, Mistake House, The Blue Route, and elsewhere. Max is currently pursuing an MFA in Fiction at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

nat raum

they/them) is a disabled artist, writer, and genderless disaster based on unceded Piscataway and Susquehannock land in Baltimore. They’re the editor-in-chief of fifth wheel press and author of this book will not save you, random access memory, fruits of the valley, and others.

Ashtyn Faye

(they/them) is a poet and fiction writer. They can usually be found haunting local libraries.

Erica Leslie Weidner

(she/they) is based, in New Jersey, and based in New Jersey. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of underscore_magazine. When she’s not writing, she’s at her day job doing badass librarian stuff.

Benningfield Ó Conchobhair

(he/they) is a playwright-turned-poet and an amateur ornithologist. When he isn’t writing poems about birds, he creates multimedia collages and maps.

Eden Chicken

(they/them) is a queer poet whose work explores hybridity, from textual forms to divergent identities and coexistences with(in) nature. Recently graduated from the MA Poetry course at University of East Anglia, their work has been published in anthologies by Egg Box, Sentire and Many Nice Donkeys.

A. Jenson

(they/them) is a writer, artist, and farmer currently featured in the Washington Queer Poetry Anthology. Between mornings spent harvesting mustards and sowing peas, they are busy revising a poetry manuscript.

Kora Dzbinski

 (he/they) is a Mad-queer poet and scholar based in Chicago, where they write about Madness, transness, disability, horror, film, and sex work. They hope you are drinking enough water.

Nathan O.A. Bakken

 (they/them) is a non-binary poet based in Reno, Nevada

Beth Macdonald

(she/they) is a writer from Scotland who honestly isn’t sure what the best thing about her is, it could the desire to never stop writing, it could be the generational trauma, it’s probably a laugh so loud that comedians pay for her to be in the audience.

Dean Jones

(he/they) is a queer, trans writer and yoga teacher living a life of longing in Hudson NY. His writing is an emotional deep dive into trans identity, queer love, intimacy, sex, and grief.

George Parker

(they/them) is a Pushcart, Best of the Net, and Space Crone Prize-nominated queer disabled writer and facilitator. Publications include debut collection Gynandromorph (Written Off), collaborative pamphlet Not Your Orlando (Punk Dust), and Twisted Roots (Reconnecting Rainbows). eff-able (fourteen poems) is forthcoming. Other publications include Mslexia, Financial Times, Arachne, Bi+ Lines.

Elly Katz

At 27, verging towards a doctorate at Harvard, Elly Katz survived what doctors surmised was unsurvivable: a brainstem stroke from a physician’s needle misplacement. Forthcoming books: creative nonfiction, From Scientist to Stroke Survivor (Lived Places Publishing) & poetry, Instructions for Selling-Off Grief (Kelsay Books), both in 2025.

Elliote Blake

(he/him) is an undergraduate college student at Ashland University. Storytelling has always been the biggest part of his life, no matter the type. He is an intern for the Ashland University MFA in Creative Writing program and a co-president of the English Honorary Society, Sigma Tau Delta.

Elise Salsman

(she/her) is a transgender woman. You can find her work published in Central Dissent: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality 2022, and Bi Women Quarterly Fall: 2021.

Harper Walton

(they/them) has a Master’s Degree in creative writing from the Paris School of Arts and Culture. Their work has been featured by Magma, 1883 Magazine, Whitechapel Gallery, Venice Architecture Biennale and more. They edited the anthology Carnival at the End of the World for Buoy Press.

A. Riel Regan

(they/any) is a queer, emerging author with an intense appreciation for “the human heart in conflict” (Faulkner). Their writing often deals with conflict within the self, chronic illness, and knowing oneself through nature. Their poetry has been featured in Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, Impossible Task, and Pegasus.

Helen Robertson

(she/they) Witch, bitch, and full-time disaster Helen Robertson is a trans, bisexual, genderqueer dyke moving through the lifelong process of accepting how lucky they’ve been; using poetry to excise her ire and sorrow — hopefully turning it into something worthwhile. They are a member of the poetry collective VII.

Denise Hopkins

(They/Theirs) is a queer poet originally from midcoast Maine. Their work is found in Foglifter, Seneca Review, El Portal, Oroboro, and Baest, among others. They currently live in Pullman, WA with their husband Miles, two cats (Paria and Kiva), and their dog (Radar).

Arden Eli Hill

(he/they) Despite being from Louisiana, Arden Eli Hill has never wrestled an alligator, only a kangaroo. Arden has published in places such as Willow Springs, Western Humanities Review, First Person Queer, Second Person Queer, Hip Mama, and Trans Bodies Trans Selves. If you are still thinking about the kangaroo, Arden won.

C.H. Lieberman

(he/him) is a writer, performer, and visual artist from South London. His work explores queer intimacy, grief, and mental illness. His poetry has appeared in “& Change”, “Trans Tongues”, “The Amphibian”, and “Carnations, Violets + Lavender”.

Leah Raidt

they/she) is an interdisciplinary artist, trauma-informed meditation teacher, and LGBTQ+ wedding officiant. They are a 2024 Literary Arts grant recipient from KY Foundation for Women. Leah is director/producer of the award-winning short-film LEE BABY, now streaming on OTV. Based in Louisville, KY.

Emily Rose Miller

(they/she) holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Central Florida. Their work has been published in Passengers Press Journal and Saw Palm, among other places.

Ira Joel Haber

(he/him) was born and lives in Brooklyn. He is a sculptor, painter, writer, book dealer, photographer and teacher. His work has been seen in numerous group shows both in the USA and Europe and he has had 9 one man shows including several retrospectives of his sculpture.

Alice Fulmer

(she/her) is a poetess and PhD student at UCSB in English. She studies medieval poetry and its contemporary intersections, gender, and sexuality. Her influences range from Marie de France, Dylan Thomas, and Ocean Vuong. She has a cat called Precious and a loving partner named Cassidy.

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Jay Orlando

(he/they) is a trans, queer, folk punk poet from northern Appalachia. He has LOVE POEM tattooed across his knuckles. His work has recently been published by Red Flag, Ouch! Collective, and Red Branch Review. Jay’s debut poetry collection, A Tangled Lineage (2024), is available now from Redhawk Publications.

Sakib Shahriar

(they/she) is an LA-based, trans-deshi-muslim philosopher-writer-poet. They have frequented Celia DaPoet’s open mic and read at the GetLit Prose Bowl. They currently write with the Trans/gressive Writer’s Workshop. Her short stories have appeared in Sinister Wisdom and Book XI

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Lorhenz Lacsa

(he/him they/them) is a queer writer and a human rights advocate based in the Philippines. His creative works are usually about the oddities of humanity, love, and sex

m.e. gamlem

(they/them) is a non-binary queer anarchist and writer from New Mexico. They are a MFA Fiction candidate in the Low Residency MFA program at the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe. Their work most recently appears on Hello America Stereo Cassette and is forthcoming in the Potomac Review.

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Milo Skaarsgard

(he/him) is a 22 year old trans man obsessed with dragons and stoners and queer love. Milo can regularly be found reading Brandon Sanderson in the back of a coffee shop, skipping rocks on the Sandy River, or standing ominously in the dark woods

Regn Evu

(they/it) is a poet, activist and visual artist based in Reykjavík, Iceland. Both their poetry and visual art entwines identity, technology, spirituality and the visceral.

Donald Patten

is an artist and cartoonist from Belfast, Maine. He creates oil paintings, illustrations, ceramics and graphic novels. His art has been exhibited in galleries throughout Maine

slp

(they/them) is a Mad/Madqueer/genderqueer poet, songwriter, musician, and educator living in Colorado. Their manuscripts have been finalists for the Ahsahta Sawtooth & Chapbook Competitions; the Slope Book Prizel; Gazing Grains; the 2023 UNLV Black Mountain Institute Witness Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction; and semifinalists for the Wisconsin Brittingham-Pollak Prizes.

Anastasia Walker

(she/her) Maine native Anastasia Walker is a poet, essayist, and scholar living in Pittsburgh. Her first book of poetry, The Girl Who Wasn’t and Is, appeared in 2022. She’s currently shopping an essay collection subtitled “A Memoir in Shards.” She volunteers for the Transgender Law Center’s prison mail program and PFLAG.

Gabriel Noel

(he/they) is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet who received his Bachelor’s for Theatre Arts and English at Salem State University. Gabriel’s work has previously been featured by new words {press}. In his down time Gabriel can be found at karaoke bars, concerts, or flea markets.

Jay Griffith

(he/any) is a not-quite-human being living and teaching in Northern New Jersey. His work has been featured in Ghost City Review, Shapeless Press’ Trans Futures zine, Blueline Review, and new words {press}.

Liam Strong

(they/them) is a genderless question mark and the author of three chapbooks. They died in 2021 and have been writing ever since.

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Alix Perry

(they/them) is a trans writer from the Pacific Northwest. Their work has been nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology and can be found in beestung, The Shore, Rejection Letters, and elsewhere. Their debut chapbook, Tomatoes Beverly, was just released by Querencia Press.

M. Lopes da Silva

(he/they) is a bisexual and non-binary trans masc author and artist from Los Angeles. Weirdpunk Books just released his fiction collection Infinity Mathing at the Shore and Other Disruptions, in March of 2024.