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Danny Judge's fiction has appeared in Litro, The Boiler Journal, Lunch Ticket, and other magazines. His writing has been nominated for several awards, including two Pushcarts—which he clearly did not win, or this sentence would've started very differently. He was the Editor-in-Chief of  The Indianola Review from 2015-2017, has a BA in English, and works as a Marketing Director. He's one of the few living people to have read both Gravity's Rainbow and Infinite Jest in their entirety, which aged him horribly. 

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J. Courtney Reid has written plays that have been produced for the Unchained Theatre Festival in Long Island City and throughout the Capital District of New York. She has written essays published in the Oxford Journal of Public Policy, Maine Life Magazine, and Manifest Station. She has been a recipient of a New York State Artists Grant, a feature writer for a newspaper, and a bookstore owner. She is a novelist and an emeritus professor of English. Since girlhood, her passion has been reading and writing. By the ocean.

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​Aisling Lynch is a writer from Ireland, currently living in Boston. She writes short stories because doing that makes her feel the most alive. She is obsessed with people, and she kept on learning about them until she had an MS in Psychology. She is a first-generation college student, a mother, an obsessive reader, and a volunteer at 826 Boston and The Learning Exchange, places whose mission is about making writing accessible to everyone. These days, she is also pursuing a Master's degree in Creative Writing and Literature at Harvard Extension School.

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Alexandra (Alex) Hall Miles is a millennial who loves books, dogs, and solitude. Her perfect day would be curling up with a good book, one or both of her senior dogs, and quiet. Originally from Canada, she now lives in North Carolina and hates the summer heat. If Alex won the lottery, she’d buy a house in the mountains, rescue dogs, and hoard books. 

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Jay Barrett, a Jersey Shore native, recently graduated from Ithaca College with a BA in Writing. His creative nonfiction has been published in DIAGRAM Magazine. When he’s not reading, he’s daydreaming about opening a dog sanctuary.

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​​Myranda Lockwood is an undeniable bibliophile who lives in Upstate New York. She has her BA in English Professional Writing and Rhetoric and is currently pursuing a Master's in Publishing at George Washington University. What she feels to be her most impressive literary feat, Myranda has read almost all of Stephen King's 98 novels and novellas and is willing to discuss the topic with anyone at all times. A polarizing opposite, Myranda also has a strong passion for 19th-century British novels and has spent time in London, England studying works of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and Shakespeare, among others. Her ideal day is any day that she gets to read with no distractions.

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Sophia Craig is an English PhD candidate at the University of Iowa interested in 19th/20th century American novels and short stories. Before graduate school, Sophia earned her BA at Purdue University where she studied English literature, creative writing (emphasis on prose), and classics. At Purdue, she acted as Editor-in-Chief for The Bell Tower, where some of her poems are published. In her free time, she enjoys procrastinating on her novel and critiquing movies with her cat. Find out more on her website.

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Sadie Bernard is a writer currently based in Washington State. She is a recent graduate of Bard College where she was founder and editor-in-chief of Feeding the Crows Literary Magazine. When she isn’t reading or writing bleak stories, she likes to study astrology charts and sit outside in the sun.​​

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LW Platt is an essayist and fiction writer from the Midwest who grew up in a trailer and now longs for the comforts of his family’s double-wide while he currently resides in some metropolitan hell-hole on the East Coast. He has published works in CNF and short fiction and now enjoys receiving weekly (and sometimes daily) encouraging letters of rejection from publishers and journals alike far and wide. Name a continent, he’s definitely been told by someone on that strip of rock that they loved his work but it wasn’t a good fit. I—He’s not bitter, not bitter at all. Feel free to talk to him about literature and be amazed at how quickly he shoehorns Flannery O’Connor or Raymond Carver into the conversation. It’s a party trick at this point—though not a very fun one for anyone but him. Has he mentioned how The Violent Bear It Away is the greatest American novel ever written? Because he will whether you ask him or not. Because it is.

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Zalak Shah decided that after a decade of corporate work, it was time for Career 2.0. So she quit her job, moved to a new city and started feeding her creative alter-ego. Now she spends her days reading, writing, getting rejected for publishing internships and sending cold emails to not receive any responses. In short, living the dream! 

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Zachary Shiffman is a fiction writer. He has a BA in Creative Writing from Susquehanna University, where he served as the fiction editor for the magazine RiverCraft. His fiction has appeared in the online magazines Variety Pack, Inspiring Fiction, and Rune Bear. When he’s not tinkering with a story or reading an Octavia Butler novel, he can be found watching sitcoms at his home in New Jersey.

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Caroline Tuss graduated from the University of Montana with a BFA in Creative Writing. Her poetry can be found in Scribendi, The Oval, and Mosaic, and she spent time as a poetry reader for the High Desert Journal. When she's not bouncing between prose, poetry, and playwriting, she can be found onstage or backstage for her local community theatre. She lives and works on Montana's Hi-Line with her partner. Her favorite word is spelunk. 

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​Valeria (Val) Valdez is a fiction writer and poet from border town Laredo, Texas. They are currently based in Austin, Texas and have a BA in English literature from the University of Texas at Austin. During their time at UT, they were a part of the poetry editorial board for Analecta Journal. They have also written for the Austin Chronicle. Currently, they spend their days curating tea and specialty coffee menus when they aren’t working as a barista. They love spending their free time making playlists, reading queer horror, romance, and coming-of-age novels, as well as making their way through Mubi’s catalog of films. 

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Alexandrea Watson grew up between Southern Ohio and Nassau, Bahamas. She has since lived in Portland, Paris, Beirut, and London. Curious about language and Karl Marx, she earned a BA in Linguistics from Reed College and a MSc in Development Economics from École d’économie de Paris. An avid reader and a writer, Alexandrea particularly enjoys both absurdist and 19th century romance fiction.

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Kylee Youngstrom is a poet and fiction writer from Minnesota. She recently graduated from the University of Denver with a degree in English and International studies. Her poetry has been published in Foothills Magazine as well as Half and One. When she’s not raving about the most recent book she’s finished you can find her outside with her doggo, watering her plants (objectively she has way too many), or watching some incredibly niche video on YouTube (who knew aquascaping was so interesting?).