Celeste Chan is a writer and artist, schooled by Do-It-Yourself culture and immigrant parents from Malaysia and the Bronx, NY. Celeste co-founded Queer Rebels, a queer and trans people of color arts project, toured the West Coast with Sister Spit, and facilitated LGBTQ history workshops for youth. She also recently served as a San Francisco Public Library Artist in Residence. Celeste's writing can be found in AWAY, Alta, cream city review, Foglifter, Feminist Wire, The Seventh Wave, and The Rumpus. She’s currently writing her family memoir.

Mamie Willoughby Pound is the founder of Gather, a writing community based in Columbus, Georgia that sponsors local and regional workshops and seminars. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing. Her work is featured in Smokelong Quarterly, James Dickey Review, Image Journal, Gooseberry Pie, Ghost Parachute, Bath Flash Fiction Anthology 2024, and Milk Candy Review among others. Her work was long listed for the Craft Fiction Award. Her chapbook was a finalist in Fractured Lit’s Chapbook Prize 2024. 

Lianne O’Hara is a poet and playwright.

The Patients All Seemed Happy (2025), a ‘powerful evocation of forgotten voices from Grangegorman asylum’ is published by Writing Ireland|New Dublin Press. Other writing is published in Poetry Ireland Review, Winter Papers, The Rialto, The London Magazine, and elsewhere.

Her play Baby (2024) won the Bewley’s Café Theatre ‘Little Gem’ Award. Fluff (2022) had a sell-out run at Dublin Fringe. Lianne is a participant on Irish Theatre Institute’s Six in the Attic programme. In 2024 she received the Mairtín Crawford Award for Poetry and a Theatre Bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland.

COURT HARLER is a queer freelance writer, editor, and educator based in Northern Kentucky. She holds an MA in literature and an MFA in creative writing. She's owner of Harler Literary LLC, and former editor in chief of CRAFT Literary. Her award-winning, multigenre work has appeared in lit mags around the world.

Learn more at harlerliterary.llc or find her on Instagram @CourtneyHarler.

Nancy Stohlman is an award-winning author of six books including After the Rapture (2023), Madam Velvet’s Cabaret of Oddities (2018), The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories (2014), The Monster Opera (2013), Searching for Suzi: a flash novel (2009), and the craft book Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction (2020). Her work has been honored in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, The Foreword Indies, TheInternational Book Awards, Reader Views Book Awards and theColorado Book Awards, and her stories have been anthologized widely, appearing in the Norton anthology New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction and The Best Small Fictions, as well as adapted for both stage and screen. She leads writers on workshops and retreats around the world.

http://www.nancystohlman.com

http://www.flashfictionretreats.com

IG: @nancy_stohlman

FB: https://www.facebook.com/nancy.stohlman/

Sylvia Jones is an adjunct professor at George Washington University. She also works as poetry editor for Black Lawrence Press and serves as a first reader for Ploughshares. Her first book —Television Fathers (Meekling Press, 2024) was released last year. Her next book, Dope Callisthenics, is forthcoming from Relegation Books in the Fall of 2026. She has received fellowship and support from the Peaked Hill Trust; The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Walters Museum, Topical Cream; Jack Straw Cultural Center; The Emerging Artist Initiative; OUTWrite DC; Poets at the End of The World Collective; Literary Cleveland; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Bucknell University, where she was a 2021-22 Stadler Fellow. Her writing can be in DIAGRAM, Smartish Pace, Shenandoah, R&R Journal, the American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She earned her M.F.A. from American University in Washington D.C. and lives in Baltimore, MD.

A.J. Rodriguez is a Chicano fiction writer born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is a graduate of the University of Oregon’s MFA program and the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell and Yaddo. His stories have won CRAFT’s Flash Fiction Contest, the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize, second place in Salamander’s Fiction Contest, and the Kinder/Crump Award for Short Fiction from Pleiades, judged by Jonathan Escoffery. His fiction also appears in New England Review, Passages North, The Common, and elsewhere. He is the forty-third annual Writer-in-Residence at St. Albans School in Washington, D.C.

Skye Jackson was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her work has appeared in The Southern Review, Electric Literature, Green Mountains Review, RATTLE and elsewhere. Her poetry has been a finalist for the 2023 Iowa Review Poetry Award, the RATTLE Poetry Prize, the RHINO Founders’ Prize, and in 2021 she received the AWP Intro Journals Award. Skye’s work was also selected by Billy Collins for inclusion in the Library of Congress Poetry 180 Project. Her debut full-length poetry collection, Libre, will be published by Regalo Press and distributed by Simon & Schuster in Spring 2025. She currently teaches at Xavier University

Zach Zimmerman is a writer and comedian who was recently named a 2023 Vulture Comedian You Should and Will Know.  Zach’s writing has been published in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, and The Washington Post; and Zach’s first book Is It Hot in Here? (Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?) was named a Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2023. A regular at the Comedy Cellar, Zach has appeared on The Late Late Show with James Corden, Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, After Midnight, and Zach’s first comedy album “Clean Comedy” debut on the Billboard Top 10.

Kathy Fish’s stories have been widely published in journals, anthologies, and textbooks. Her work has been published in Ploughshares, Guernica, Swamp Pink, Electric Literature, Denver Quarterly, Best American Nonrequired Reading, the Norton Reader, and Norton’s Flash Fiction America (2023). Honors include the Copper Nickel Editor’s Prize, six appearances in the Best Small Fictions series, and a Ragdale Foundation Fellowship. The author of five short fiction collections, Fish teaches a variety of writing workshops online. She also publishes a popular monthly craft newsletter, The Art of Flash Fiction, which was recently named as one of the 20 Best Creative Writing Substacks by Writers at Work.

Steve Chang is a Taiwanese writer and educator from the San Gabriel Valley, California. His work appears in Epiphany, Guernica, North American Review, and The Southampton Review, among other places. It has also been commended by The Iron Horse Prize, the Ploughshares Emerging Writers Contest, the StoryQuarterly Fiction Prize, and even by (some of) his friends. He is thankful for the support offered by MacDowell, the KHN Center for the Arts, the Carolyn Moore Writers House, and The Kerouac Project. He edits fiction at Okay Donkey and holds an MFA from Cornell.

Ezza Ahmed is an educator and poet based in NYC. She holds an MFA from Brooklyn College. Her poetry is concerned with diaspora, memory, and water (rivers, creeks, lakes, etc.). When she isn’t writing, she enjoys cozying up with a good cup of tea. Her poems are in Wande Magazine, The Idaho Review, The Gingerbug Press and are forthcoming in the Sycamore Review and Apogee Journal.