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Amanda Gaines is an Appalachian writer with a PhD in creative writing from Oklahoma State University. Her work has been published in Passages North, Cleaver, Potomac Review, Barrelhouse, Fugue, december,…    read more

“Old Friends: A Memoir” by Jane Gillette examines the makings of the people we know or once knew. No matter the passage of time or furthering of distance, the love…    read more

Mike Carlson is the author of Tips to Help You Do Your Best, published in 2025 by Tupelo Press. His first collection of poems, Cement Guitar, was awarded the Juniper…    read more

Gina Franco is the author of  The Accidental,  winner of the CantoMundo Prize, and  The Keepsake Storm. Her poems have appeared in  AGNI, The American Poetry Review, Narrative, Poet Lore, Poetry, 32 Poems,  and elsewhere. Her poem “The…    read more

Ben Austin’s “Butterfly Jeans” is a story of adolescent love that sees a boy out of a borrowed identity back to himself, and then sustains him throughout his life. “It’s…    read more

FM Stringer is from New Jersey. His poems can be found or are forthcoming in The Penn Review, North American Review, EPOCH, Lana Turner, and elsewhere. He lives in Pennsylvania…    read more

Tiffany Mi is a poet and Kundiman South Regional Co-Chair from Texas. Her work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, The Missouri Review, and Nimrod International Journal and has been supported…    read more

“The Finch” by David Ryan creates a contemplative mood in less than seven hundred words. One editor said, “This is a simply gorgeous little prose piece about love and mortality…    read more

Kathleen Winter is the author of Transformer (Word Works, 2020), winner of the Hilary Tham award; I will not kick my friends, (Elixir, 2018) winner of the Elixir Prize; and…    read more

Rufi Thorpe is the author of the Clark Fiction Prize-winning novel Margo’s Got Money Troubles, as well as The Girls from Corona Del Mar, Dear Fang, With Love and The Knockout Queen, which was a…    read more