CONTRIBUTORS
Shane Allison hates and lives in Tallahassee, Florida. His poems have graced the pages of Fence, New York Quarterly, West Wind Review, Mississippi Review, and New Delta Review. He has penned five collections of poetry, with his collection Turbulent being his most recent from Hysterical Books (2024). Others include Sweet Sweat from Hysterical Books (2019), Slut Machine from Rebel Satori Press (2011), Remembered Men from Ranger Press (2025), and I Remember published by Future Tense Books (2011). He has penned two novels You’re the One I Want (2016) and Harm Done (2017), out from Simon & Schuster. Shane is at work on a new poetry collection as well as a new novel.
Ewan Downie is a Glasgow-based writer and theatre-maker. His plays have been performed all over the UK and internationally. “Little Thing” is his first published story. Current works in progress include a new version of Aeschulus’ Agamemnon, many poems in varying states of disarray, a clutch of short stories, and two children. He is joint artistic director of Company of Wolves, Scotland’s foremost laboratory theatre.
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. Honors include the Copper Nickel Editor’s Prize, and six appearances in the Best Small Fictions series. The author of five short fiction collections, Kathy teaches a variety of writing workshops online. She also publishes a popular monthly craft newsletter, The Art of Flash Fiction, named as one of the 20 Best Creative Writing Substacks by Writers at Work. Her writing has been generously supported by fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation and the Kerouac Project.
Adelaide Gifford is a recent graduate of Hamilton College in New York, where she majored in Creative Writing and double-minored in Hispanic Studies and Environmental Studies. Her favorite genre to write is a mixture of nature writing and fantasy, with a bit of magical realism thrown in, and her favorite authors include Richard Powers, Harper Lee, Billy Collins, and Brandon Mull. She has previously published a short story, “Bullfight” in Sucarnochee Review; a graphic narrative piece, “The Lepidopterist,” in The Core Review, and poems in Glass Mountain and Assignment Literary Magazine, among others. When she’s not writing, she enjoys hanging out with her dog and exploring the natural world. Instagram: @adelaideluciagifford.
Samuel Goldsmith (he/him) is a writer, photographer, and musician who lives in Richmond, California. He writes so as to become a river, not a lake. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Euphemism, Gone Lawn, Empyrean, and others.
Kim Magowan lives in San Francisco and teaches in the English Department of Mills College at Northeastern University. She is the author of the short story collection Don’t Take This the Wrong Way, coauthored with Michelle Ross, published by EastOver Press (2025); the short story collection How Far I’ve Come, published by Gold Wake Press; the novel The Light Source, published by 7.13 Books (2019); and the short story collection Undoing (Moon City Press, 2018), which won the 2017 Moon City Press Fiction Award. Her fiction has been published in Colorado Review, The Gettysburg Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Wigleaf, and many other journals. Her stories have been selected for Best Small Fictions and Wigleaf’s Top 50. She is the editor-in-chief and fiction editor of Pithead Chapel. kimmagowan.com.
Jasmine Melchor is a freelance creative who studies journalism at the University of Santo Tomas, Philippines. Her work has appeared in The Poet Heroic, and in Southword. Alongside submitting to literary journals, she prints and sews her self-written collections, namely Munting Makata and Poetry & Paralysis, which readers preorder via her social media writing account at TikTok: @_jasminemelchor. She also sews felt fabric crafts such as wallets and pen pouches, some of which she sells under a brand name she calls dumboredom. On days when she’s not dealing with sales, she plays guitar or piano.
Michael Meyerhofer is the author of five books of poetry, including What To Do If You’re Buried Alive (originally published in 2015; now free to download from Doubleback Books). His work has appeared in The Sun, Missouri Review, Southern Review, Brevity, Rattle, and other journals. He’s also the author of a fantasy series. For more info and an embarrassing childhood photo, visit troublewithhammers.com.
David B. Prather is the author of three poetry collections: We Were Birds (Main Street Rag, 2019), Shouting at an Empty House (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2023), and Bending Light with Bare Hands (Fernwood Press, 2025). His work has appeared in many publications, including New Ohio Review, Poet Lore, Cutleaf, The Comstock Review, Prairie Schooner, etc. He lives in the town where he was born, Parkersburg, West Virginia. Website: www.davidbprather.com.
Michelle Ross’s latest story collection, Don’t Take This the Wrong Way, which she cowrote with Kim Magowan, is just out from EastOver Press (2025). Michelle is the author of three other story collections: There’s So Much They Haven’t Told You (Moon City Press, 2017), winner of the 2016 Moon City Short Fiction Award; Shapeshifting (Stillhouse Press, 2021), winner of the 2020 Stillhouse Press Short Fiction Award (2021); and They Kept Running (University of North Texas Press, 2022), winner of the 2021 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. Her work is included in Best Small Fictions 2023 (Alternating Currents Press, 2023), Best Microfiction 2023 (Pelekinesis, 2023), the Wigleaf Top 50, and the Norton anthology Flash Fiction America (W.W. Norton & Company, 2023). Her work received special mention in the annual anthology Pushcart Prize XLVII: Best of the Small Presses 2023 Edition (Pushcart Press, 2023). She is an editor at 100 Word Story.
Claire Scott is an award-winning poet who has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work has appeared in the Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, New Ohio Review, and Healing Muse, among others. Claire is the author of Waiting to be Called (IF SF Publishing, 2015) and Until I Couldn’t (Prolific Press, 2019). She is the coauthor of Unfolding in Light: A Sisters’ Journey in Photography and Poetry (She Writes Press, 2015).
Michael T. Young’s fourth collection, Mountain Climbing a River, will be published by Broadstone Books in January 2026. His third full-length collection, The Infinite Doctrine of Water (Terrapin Books, 2018), was longlisted for the Julie Suk Award. He received a Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award. His poetry has been featured on Verse Daily and The Writer’s Almanac. It has also appeared in numerous journals including I-70, The Journal of New Jersey Poets, Rattle, and Vox Populi.
