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is a Tigard resident and writer. When he is not writing (or staring at a blank page), he may be found hiking, gardening, politicking, or occasionally reveling. His work may be found in such places as Alchemy: issues 49, 50, and 52, on Oregon’s Tele-Poem hotline, online with , or occasionally on his Medium account. He believes the best hot dogs in the world are found at the Bæjarins Beztu hot dog stand in Reykjavik.

is a writer, teacher, and comedian originally from eastern Washington. Her work can be found in the Harvard Advocate, Shenandoah, X-R-A-Y, Autostraddle, and others. She is an editor of Moss Lit and her comedy was called one of the Best of PDX by Helium Comedy Club. She’s the recipient of the Prairie Lights Essay Prize and the Herodotus Award. She is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program where she is at work on her first full-length essay collection.

is a writer and teacher based in her hometown of Portland, Oregon. Her essays appear in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, Emergence, The Yale Review, and Orion, where she is a contributing editor. She is the author of Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell Ģ����ý Fear (Flatiron Books, 2023), which won the Oregon Book Award, and Bodies In Heat: Love in a Changing Climate, forthcoming from Flatiron (US) and Faber (UK). Winner of a James Beard Award, Oregon Career Fellowship, and a Spark Award from the Miller Foundation, she was a 2026 Mark and Melody Teppola Presidential Distinguished Visiting Professor at Willamette University.

is a 2025-26 Fiction candidate and Leslie Epstein Fellow at the Boston University MFA program. Her work has been published in Baltimore Review, Subtropics, Bayou, Beloit Fiction Journal, Blackbird and elsewhere. Her story “” was a 2023 Best of the Net Finalist, and her story “” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is originally from Kolkata, India.

(he/him) is a writer and visual artist based in Portland, Oregon. Born in Portland and raised on a farm in Boring, Wayne’s work investigates the intersection of fantasy and identity. His work centers on how a queer body moves through and reshapes landscapes. He crafts stories and images that exist outside of normative structures, prioritizing feminist and queer agendas and celebrating the weird and the magical. Bund was chosen for the . His writing and photographs have appeared in Vogue, Foglifter, Oregon Humanities, Willamette Week, and Portland Monthly. His interdisciplinary practice has been supported by grants from the Ford Family Foundation, WESTAF, Regional Arts and Culture Council, and the Oregon Arts Commission, as well as residencies at Caldera and PLAYA Summer Lake. He studied at Pacific Northwest College of Art where he got his MFA. He is a Pisces with a Scorpio Rising.

is a scholar, writer and artist who focuses on interdisciplinary arts practice . She is a professor of Performing Arts at Presidency University, India. Debaroti has created more than ten international performance projects , mostly in collaboration with Rosalie Purvis. Debaroti explores immersive intercultural methods of writing and performance making that delve into intimate narratives and lived experiences of women across borders. Over the past 6 years Debaroti and Rosalie have been working on a a series of interconnected movement-theatre piece titled “Nothing Happens in Women’s Literature” addressing interactions between women at most intimate levels. So far the piece comprises two chapters and currently they are working on the third chapter titled ”Freezing, Fighting, Flying Fauns”. She is deeply interested in regional literatures and with her academic training in Comparative Literature and Performance Studies, Debaroti likes to translate literary works by women across cultures. Debaroti also writes as a performance critic for reputed journals and newspapers.

is the author of five collection of poetry and one collection of short fiction. Their most recent collection of poems, , was a finalist for a 2025 Oregon Book Award. They are also the recipient of the William Stafford Centennial War No More Award. They are the poetry editor of .

is a poet and visual artist from West Virginia. Their writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Booth, Evergreen Review,��Sonora Review,��Epiphany, and other journals, with several nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. They are the recipient of the 2026 Elmer Kelton Prize for Poetry and the winner of the 2026 Clarion Poetry Prize.

(she/her) is the Japanese and Kanaka ʻŌiwi author of Every Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare (Bloomsbury 2023), a USA Today national bestseller. She is a 2026 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, a recipient of the 2025 Elliot Cades Award for Literature for Emerging Artist from the Hawaiʻi Literary Arts Council, and winner of the “Author Under 35” Award by the HONOLULU Book Awards. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Bon Appétit, Granta, and elsewhere. She received her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers and has been an Affiliate Faculty in Fiction at Antioch University Los Angeles, and a Lecturer in English at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. In 2026, she served as the Distinguished Writer in Residence at UH Mānoa and is currently an Instructor of English at Honolulu Community College. A Fiction Editor for journal, she lives in Honolulu.

(she/her) is a screenwriter and director whose work fuses high-concept whimsy with bittersweet comedy. Jewell recently premiered her new comedy What Happens in Vegas as part of the fellowship program, and was a participant in the 2025 Women in Media Activate Impact Initiative program for emerging filmmakers. TTRPG fans might recognize Jewell from her time hosting Tabletop News, or as Ecstasy in “The Party,” an ensemble comedy web series about a group of D&D friends that GamingTrend called a “refreshing blend of comedy and psychology.” Jewell also hosts and produces the podcast exploring fame and fandom with Charlie James. Jewell is an alumna of Southwestern Community College, and haunted the college radio recording booth while studying journalism and advertising at San Diego State University.

is a queer Latina and an M.F.A. graduate from Fresno State. A Ventura County Youth Poet Laureate emerita, she serves as a member of the California Poets in the Schools’ Board of Directors. Leaños has received poetry prizes from Blastbones Zine, Arkana, and California Lutheran University. In 2026, Leaños was the inaugural recipient of the Four Palaces Publishing Writing Residency. Her poems have been published by Fruitslice, Urban Word, Flowersong Press, Poetry Daily, and more.

is a Cuban-American writer and filmmaker based in Miami. She is the senior news reporter at where she covers immigration and labor, among other topics. She writes about arts and culture for outlets including , and .

is an writer and translator who lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He holds a BA from Lewis & Clark College and an MFA from the University of Virginia. Lucas has received fellowships from the Virginia Bibliographical Society, the University of Virginia, and was a fellow in residence at the in Provincetown, MA. Their writing has been published by . They have translated the work of Nicole Cecilia Delgado, Soledad Fariña, and Ulises Carrión. Their translations have appeared in small edition print runs and in . Lucas also translate articles for .

(they/he) is a transmasc nonbinary speculative-fiction writer, comics creator, illustrator, and musician living in the un-ceded territory known as Portland, Oregon. They are a graduate of Portland State University’s Creative Writing and Comics Studies programs and a 2024 graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop. Jai divides their time between writing fiction, producing comics and other visual art, self-publishing fiction and comics zines, teaching writing and comics workshops to youth, volunteering and fundraising for mutual aid initiatives, collectively organizing events and shows, and working as a proofreader of comics, art books, and fiction.

grew up in Texas working as a migrant/seasonal farmworker/child laborer. He was selected as a finalist for the 2023-2026 Poet Laureate of Kansas. He is a Lambda Literary Fellow and alum of the VONA/Voices and of the Macondo Writers workshops. Miguel served as a performer at the 2025 World Expo in Osaka, Japan. Miguel’s work appears in several anthologies and literary journals. He co-edited Pulse/Pulso: In Remembrance of Orlando, Fat & Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives, and the Farmworker Portfolio in The Common Journal, issue 26. Miguel mentors farmworker youth and other intersectional writers. He believes sharing community stories requires being of service to the community. In 2026 Miguel celebrated 25 years of working in the Billington Library at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas.

is a writer, journalist, union organizer, and born, raised, and prodigal New Yorker. She is the author of a forthcoming book of hybrid memoir-reportage about her decade reporting on the destruction of reproductive rights in the US, and her years embedded with the people providing reproductive health care outside of—and despite—systems and laws; to be published by Crooked Media Reads, an imprint of Zando / Tin House.

is an Assistant Professor of Theatre and English at the University of Maine, whose work as artist, researcher, and educator sits at the intersection of literature and performance. After a college double major in literature and dance, an MFA in theatre directing, and a PhD in Performing and Media Arts from Cornell, she has specialized in new play development, intercultural collaboration, and multilingual performance. Her work has been staged at , , , , and , as well as internationally.

is a queer, non-binary, gender-fluid, Viet-Am, child of a boat person-refugee, writer, movement worker, creator, and future ghost who uses hir work to explore inherited trauma, liminal spaces, auntie whispers, and connect with community. Rae is a 2025 Periplus fellow, a 2025-2026 Loft Mentorship Series fellow in Creative Nonfiction, and a 2026 Ragdale resident. Rae has received support from McCormack Writing Center, VONA, and Studio Luce. Rae’s work can be found at and . Rae is also the co-founder of which centers care and creating new narratives around these topics while working towards forming new futures of true liberation. Rae currently lives on unceded, ancestral lands of the Dakota people in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

is a writer and translator from Bangkok, Thailand. He is a graduate of the NYU MFA in Creative Writing, where he is a Jan Gabrial Fellow. He has received support from Clarion, Community of Writers, A/P/A Institute, and Tin House. His works have appeared, sometimes under the pen name Prad Aphachan, in , , and Chicago Quarterly, among others.