Sarah Drury, an artist, poet and educator, is an MA grad. She thinks she is a mermaid with pearls and starfish in her hair. She has been shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize, amongst others. She established 'Speak Out Scunny', a spoken word open mic, and enjoys writing and performing her poetry. She is passionate about children being given access to the arts. You can find her on instagram @sarahdrurypoetry.
Gretchen Bartels-Ray lives with her husband and toddler in San Diego, California and teaches English at California Baptist University. Her poetry has appeared in The Ekphrastic Review, KAIROS Literary Magazine, Voices de la Luna, and Sojourners, and her flash fiction has also been published at Every Day Fiction. Her most recent project combines painting and poetry.
Lance Cheng is a graduate of Hunter College High School and a data and computer science student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He enjoys writing poetry, code, and literary (over)analysis of video games. Find him on the Internet at withoutanyparticularwonder.substack.com.
Irina Tall (Novikova) is an artist, graphic artist, illustrator. She graduated from the State Academy of Slavic Cultures with a degree in art, and also has a bachelor's degree in design. The first personal exhibition "My soul is like a wild hawk" (2002) was held in the museum of Maxim Bagdanovich. In her works, she raises themes of ecology, in 2005 she devoted a series of works to the Chernobyl disaster, draws on anti-war topics. The first big series she drew was The Red Book, dedicated to rare and endangered species of animals and birds. Writes fairy tales and poems, illustrates short stories. She draws various fantastic creatures: unicorns, animals with human faces, she especially likes the image of a man - a bird - Siren. In 2020, she took part in Poznań Art Week. Her work has been published in magazines: Gupsophila, Harpy Hybrid Review, Little Literary Living Room and others. In 2022, her short story was included in the collection The 50 Best Short Stories, and her poem was published in the collection of poetry The Wonders of Winter.
Blake McGrane-Corrigan (blakemcgc.wordpress.com) is a poet and artist from Dublin, Ireland. He is currently a PhD researcher in Mathematical and Theoretical Biology at Maynooth University, Ireland.