Sarah J. Sloat is the author of HOTEL ALMIGHTY, a collection of visual poetry from Sarabande Books. Sarah is originally from New Jersey but has lived for many years in Europe, where she works in news. Her poems, prose and collage have appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, Diagram and elsewhere. You can keep up with her at sarahjsloat.com, on Twitter at @SJSloat and on Instagram at @sjane30.

Nina Gaby is a writer, visual artist and psychiatric nurse practitioner who’s hunkered down across from the longest floating bridge east of the Mississippi maintaining a clinical practice from her kitchen counter while trying to finish a memoir about her family’s “rebounding” from the decision to uproot and buy a tired old inn in a Vermont village. Gaby turned to mixed-media (collage and non-traditional bookmaking) and creative non-fiction pursuits, which along with great luck, brought her back from the dark places we sometimes find ourselves.

To review a memoir, to reframe it, to rework it in image and color, means we are looking at it from yet another angle. To know something again.

Gaby’s essays and articles have been published in numerous anthologies, journals and magazines. She published the anthology “DUMPED: Stories of Women Unfriending Women” in 2015, also based on the theme of bouncing back. Her artwork is held in various collections, including the Smithsonian, Arizona State University and Rochester Institute of Technology. More at www.ninagaby.com.

Koss is a queer artist and poet with over 170 writing and art publications in journals including Bending Genres, Schuylkill Valley, Gone Lawn, Cincinnati Review (micro), Chiron, Rogue Agent, Spoon River Review, Diode Poetry, Outlook Springs, Anti-Heroin Chic, Variant Lit, San Pedro River Review, Michigan Quarterly Mixtape, and many others. Anthologies include Best Small Fictions (’21), Punk (’22), Get Bent (’23), The Red Ogre Review Anthology (’22), and Beyond the Frame (’23). They won the ‘21 Wergle Flomp Humor Award and received four BOTN nominations (’22 and ’23) for poetry and fiction from (Bending Genres, Kissing Dynamite, Outlook Springs, and Gone Lawn) and Pushcart nominations in CNF and fiction from Variant Lit and Gone Lawn in ’22. Find them at https://koss-works.com.

James Diaz is the author of This Someone I Call Stranger, All Things Beautiful Are Bent, and Motel Prayers, as well as the founding editor of Anti-Heroin Chic. Their most recent work can be found in Surging Tide, Suburban Witchcraft, and Wrongdoing Mag. They live in upstate New York.

M.A. Scott is the author of Hunger, little sister, forthcoming from Kissing Dynamite. Her work has recently appeared in the Haunted Anthology from Porkbelly Press, Westchester Review, DMQ Review, and Ran Off With the Star Bassoon. She grew up in Rhode Island and currently lives in New York’s Hudson Valley where she likes to spend time with trees.

Twila Newey received her M.F.A. in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University. Her poems have been finalists for The Coniston Prize, The Jane Underwood Prize, and won honorable mention in the Juxtaprose Poetry Contest. You can read/see recent work in Indianapolis Review, Interim Poetics, and Green Mountains Review. Twila lives at the confluence of the San Joaquin and Sacramento Rivers in Northern California.