Sandy Beach is a poet who has created collages for several decades. Her art is sparked by nature, contradiction, and memory. Recently, she has moved away from paper and glue to a totally digital process (photography and Photoshop). Influenced by the early surrealists, she mostly works within Oulipo constraints in both poetry and collage. Her digital collages have appeared in Rawhead, Voices, 1922 Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, and North Star Collage #2. She collaborates with artists and poets in various art and literary venues. She lives in Maple Grove, Minnesota.

Raised in a mill town on Lake Michigan in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, John Peter Beck is a recently retired professor in the labor education program at Michigan State University, where he still co-directs a program that focuses on labor history and the culture of the workplace, Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives. His poetry has been published in a number of journals, including Seattle Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Louisville Review, and Passages North, among others.

Michael J. Clark is an award-winning emerging artist who typically creates sculpture and collage but occasionally dabbles in other media. He is a recent graduate of Drew University and a current post-baccalaureate art student at the University of Pennsylvania. Michael’s work has appeared in Insanity’s Horse and Twisted Vine.

CS Crowe is three crows in a trench coat that gained sentience after eating a magic bean. He spends his days writing stories on a stolen laptop and trading human teeth for peanuts. A poet and storyteller from the Southeastern United States, he believes stories and poems are about the journey, not the destination, and he loves those stories that wander in the wilderness for forty years before finding their way to the promised land.

Drema Drudge’s work has appeared in several journals. Her poem “Mutual Mass” received a Pushcart Prize nomination. Her manuscripts have been longlisted for the 2025 Idaho Prize for Poetry and named a semifinalist in the Nine Syllables Press Chapbook Contest through the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College.

Michael J. Galko is a scientist and poet who lives and works in Houston, Texas. He is currently a professor in the Department of Genetics at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, where he runs a research laboratory that focuses on wound healing and pain. His poetry deals with the same topics, using a quite different methodology. He was a 2019 Pushcart Award nominee, a finalist in the 2020 Naugatuck River Review narrative poetry contest, and a finalist in the 2022 Bellevue Literary Review poetry contest. In the past year, he has had poems published by Spillway Magazine, Atlanta Review, Boudin, New Plains Review, and Fjords Review, among others.

Lynn D. Gilbert’s poems, twice nominated for Pushcart Prizes, have appeared in such journals as After Happy Hour Review, Arboreal, Blue Unicorn, carte blanche, The MacGuffin, Ponder Review, and Sheepshead Review. A founding editor of Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, she lives in an Austin suburb and reviews poetry submissions for Third Wednesday Journal.

Najib Joe Hakim is a working documentary photographer, artist, and photography instructor. Hakim also serves as the President of the Board for the Network of Photographers for Palestine and is a founding member of Class Conscious Photographers. He is the recipient of the Rebuilding Alliance Storytellers Award for a trilogy of projects on Palestine, a Political Art Fellow at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and a past nominee for the US Artist Fellowship. Website: jaffaorangephoto.com

Jessica Hinds is a writer and educator. She wrote the award-winning film, Stranger at Home, as well as best screenplay winner, The Mending Wall (Stonefair International Film Festival; Oregon Film Awards Gold Winner). She has been a finalist in over a dozen major competitions and festivals, including the Austin Film Festival, O’Neill Conference, Made In NY Writers Room, The Van Gogh Award, and The Heidman Award. Her scripts have been developed and produced at theaters across the country, including La MaMa, The Cherry Lane, Rattlestick Playwright’s Theater, Primary Stages, The Amoralists, The Flea, The Claque, and the New York Artists’ Community. Her Creative Nonfiction has been published in Still Point Arts Quarterly, Shooter Literary, OUCH! Collective’s Vol. 3, and FruitSlice Quarterly. She is the founder of meditativewriting.org.

Author, poet, and photographer, K.L. Johnston’s poetry has appeared in literary magazines and anthologies since the 1970s. She is best known for works centered in spiritual experience, nature, and trauma survival. Her poems have appeared in more than twenty anthologies, and she is the author of three books of poetry: In Every Season, Grace Period, and The Nature of These Gifts. In 2023, she tied with herself for the grand prize in Dreamer’s Creative Writing Haiku Awards, and in 2024, she was a finalist for the Lascaux Poetry Award. In 2025m, she was awarded a Selah Award for poetry. You can follow her at facebook.com/Kathleen-Johnston or visit her gallery of previously published photos at kathleen-johnston.pixels.com.

Yvonne Morris is the author of two chapbooks: Mother was a Sweater Girl (The Heartland Review Press) and Busy Being Eve (Bass Clef Books). Her poetry and fiction have appeared in ONE ART, Eclectica, MacQueen’s Quinterly, The Galway Review, and elsewhere. She lives in a small town in Kentucky.

Lauren Richey is a veterinary pathologist, writer, and photographer in Boston. She writes scientific reports on morbidity and mortality for work and writes creatively in her free time.

Carla Schick is a queer social justice activist who strives to interweave everyday events with politics in a poetical form. Their works have appeared in SF City College’s Forum, Sinister Wisdom, Qu, Black Fox Literary Mag, and Fourteen Hills, as well as in anthologies by Colossus Press, Pure Slush, and Poet’s Choice. They received an honorable mention in the 2025 Tom Reid Poetry Contest. They were awarded a 2023 Literary Award in Poetry from SF Foundation/Nomadic Press.

Patrick Trombly published poetry at the College of the Holy Cross in 1989-1990. He then took a 35-year hiatus from publishing poetry, but has returned in 2025. His poems can be found in several online and print journals, including The Dewdrop and Hemlock Journal. Patrick lives in Yorkville, New York City with his partner, Corinne.

Jeanne C Wilkinson is an artist and writer sharing time between Madison, Wisconsin and Brooklyn, New York. After ten years of going back to the land on an organic dairy farm, she received a BA from the University of Wisconsin/Stout, and an MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, subsequently teaching art and art history at Pratt and Kingsborough, CUNY. She has been published in numerous journals, including Beyond Words, New Millennium Writing, and Columbia Journal, as well as appearing on NPR and WNYC. Her video work has been shown at numerous film festivals, most recently at the Georges Berges Gallery in New York City.

Artist Robin Young, based in Borrego Springs, California, works in mixed media, focusing on collage and contemporary art making. Her focus on collage art using magazine clippings, masking tape, wallpaper, jewelry, feathers, and foil allows her to develop a whimsical, intuitive style. From large, life-sized pieces and 3D sculptures to small postcard-sized arrangements, Robin’s keen eye and gripping aesthetic guide her viewers into her own semi-readymade world. Repurposing these nostalgic images for lighthearted and sometimes disquieting messages, Robin’s artistic universe is strange, funky, sometimes perverse, and always alluring.