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Austin Segrest is the author of Groom (Unbound Edition Press, 2025) and Door to Remain (UNT Press, 2022). A former TMR poetry editor, Austin grew up in Birmingham, Alabama in the eighties and nineties. He…    read more

In Laton Carter’s short story “This Other World,” life is awkward and physically messy in contrast to ideals. TMR’s online-only prose anthology, BLAST features prose too vibrant to be confined…    read more

Adam K Bechtold is a Cuban-American poet residing in Central Virginia; a seafarer on merchants ships; and the managing editor at samfiftyfour_literary. His work has most recently been featured in Prosetrics, Fourth River, and Exist Otherwise.…    read more

Dion O’Reilly’s books include Limerence, finalist for The Floating Bridge John Pierce Competition for Washington State Poets; Sadness of the Apex Predator (Cornerstone Press 2024), and Ghost Dogs (Terrapin 2020). Her work appears in Rattle, New Ohio…    read more

Megan Ritchie’s short story “Mad Dogs and Scotsmen” opens a window on the mind of a boy whose psyche is shaped and hardened a little more each moment by the…    read more

Ryan Caidic is a Filipino poet and advertising creative. Born and raised in the Philippines, he later moved to Germany and now lives in Denmark. His poetry has appeared in…    read more

Tom Junod is a widely read longform investigative journalist whose work has earned both broad acclaim and occasional controversy. He spent the first two decades of his career at men’s…    read more

Donald Platt’s ninth book of poetry, Tender Voyeur, was published by Grid Books in 2025. His eighth book, Swansdown, won the 2022 Off the Grid Poetry Prize. He is a…    read more

L.F. Khouri’s heart-wrenching microfiction details a father’s reflection on the hardships of war, the weight of survivor’s guilt, and the deep desire for safety and normalcy. “Was Home Always This…    read more

Patricia Caspers is the founding editor-in-chief of West Trestle Review. She is the author of three full-length poetry collections, most recently The Most Kissed Woman in the World. She earned an MFA in…    read more