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Tom Ball is from Canada. Tom has published novels, novellas, short stories, poetry, NF, a game and flash in 60 publications. Website: https://tomballbooks.com.

Yury Belyavskiy began in 2018 as a makeup artist at 15, driven by a love for transformation and self-taught techniques. This grew into a fascination with special effects makeup, which introduced Belyavskiy to sculpting and exploring human anatomy. Belyakskiy’s work focuses on hyperrealistic silicone sculptures, often blending morbid and mundane elements. Through these creations, Belyavskiy delves into themes of gender, identity, and transformation, using art to reflect personal experiences and provoke thought. Belyaskiy experiments with appearance for projects and documents those transformations online. Check out more work on Instagram: @yurybelyaksiy.

Shawn Cremer is a writer from Denver, CO who is obsessed with the surreal and the sublime. He writes a guide to contemporary literary culture called Scremes Report and co-hosts Boyfriends & Family, a live reading series active between New York and Los Angeles. He is writing his first novel.

Marek Danielewski is a multi-medium artist whose work has been featured in Philadelphia, New York and Arizona. His work on the Go Forth art book project is now housed in Manhattan’s MOMA library collection. Marek is currently working on a hybrid visual art and poetry project entitled Caesars of Rome featuring contemporary poetry from local Arizona poets. Marek lives in Arizona with his family where he teaches middle and high school art.

Phyllis Green is an author, playwright, and artist. Her art can be found at ArLiJo 123, Superpresent, CIRQUE, Cinematic Codes Review, Rip Rap, FERAL, Inscape, and other journals.

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in New World Writing, North Dakota Quarterly and Tenth Muse. Latest books, “Between Two Fires”, “Covert” and “Memory Outside The Head” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, Birmingham Arts Journal, La Presa and Shot Glass Journal.

Kale Hensley is a West Virginian by birth and a poet by faith. Sometimes, they moonlight as a visual artist, specializing in collage. They live in Texas with their soon-to-be-wife, best friend, and five silly pets.

Raja’a Khalid is a Saudi-born, Dubai-raised (and based) artist and writer. She has an MFA
in Art from Cornell University and has exhibited in London, New York, Basel, Vienna, Paris, Rotterdam, Madrid, Dubai and Athens. She is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee and her stories appear or are forthcoming in Vestoj, Jet Fuel Review, HAD, Maudlin House, SAND Journal and Yalobusha Review.

Paul Lewellan retired from education after fifty years of teaching. He lives, writes, and gardens on the banks of the Mississippi River along with his wife Pamela and a Chartreux kitten named Caitlin Cat. Paul’s latest story “Anger’s Sin” received the Kay Snow Award for Best Fiction from the Willamette Writers group. Find archives of his work at www.paullewellan.com

Bee Manesse (they/them) is a poet and writer from Las Vegas, Nevada. They enjoy writing about their experiences as a neurodivergent and queer person navigating the world. Their work has appeared in The Kolob Canyon Review: Southern Utah University’s Literary Magazine.

Savannah Meyer is a poet and aspiring editor from the Hudson Valley region of New York. She recently graduated from Purchase College with a degree in Creative Writing. When she’s not swallowing a glacier or growing her toes she can be found dozing at the bottom of a pond. Her work can be found in Gandy Dancer and Italics Mine.

Jennifer Lynn Pappalardo is a New York City-based artist that dabbles in crafts ranging across creative direction, design, photography, and film. She is known for her colorful, dream- like visions with a touch of home base nostalgia. Check out more of her work on her website: jenniferlynnpappalardo.com

Gerard Sarnat’s a multiple Pushcart/Best of Net Award nominee. His work’s been widely published; including four collections; by Israel Association of Writers in English, The Nature of Our Times/Poets For Science, Brooklyn Review, Tokyo Poetry Journal, Gargoyle, New Delta Review, Buddhist Review, New York Times, Oberlin, Northwestern, Yale, Pomona, Harvard, Stanford, Dartmouth, Penn, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, NYU, Brown, North Dakota, McMaster, Maine, British Columbia/Toronto/Chicago and Virginia university presses. He’s a Harvard Medical School-trained physician, Stanford professor, healthcare CEO. Currently, he’s devoting energy and resources to dealing with climate justice, serving on Climate Action Now’s board. Sarnat’s belonged to the longest-running U.S. Jewish-Palestinian dialogue group. Gerry’s

Bill Wolak has published his eighteenth book of poetry entitled All the Wind’s Unfinished Kisses with Ekstasis Editions. His collages and photographs have appeared as cover art for such magazines as Phoebe, Harbinger Asylum, Baldhip Magazine, and Barfly Poetry Magazine.

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