Exodus is a writer, budding beekeeper, and a rising seamstress currently residing in the enchanting pine tree forest of Blackhawk, Ms. She is a graduate of Mississippi Valley State University with a BA in English and Mississippi University for Women with an MFA in Creative Writing. Exodus has been published or has forthcoming work with Electric Lit, West Branch, Denver Quarterly, F(r)iction and more. Her writing has been selected for Best MicroFiction [2022 and 2021], and Wigleaf Top 50 [2022]. She is the recipient of the 2022 "The Changing American South" fellowship at the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow. Exodus has perfected the French Seam by hand, and is unequivocally in love with the color green. You can find her at exodusoktaviabrownlow.com.

Ra’Niqua Lee has an MFA from Georgia State University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cream City Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Indiana Review, Passages North, and elsewhere. She is an assistant fiction editor for Split Lip Magazine, a 2022 Voodoonauts fellow, and a participant for the Kenyon Review and Tin House summer workshops. In 2021, the Georgia Writers Association awarded her the inaugural John Lewis Writing Grant for fiction. Her flash collection For What Ails You is currently forthcoming from ELJ Editions in 2023!

Timothy Boudreau lives in northern New Hampshire. His recent work has been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Microfiction and a Pushcart Prize. His collection Saturday Night and other Short Stories is available through Hobblebush Books. Find him on Twitter at @tcboudreau or at timothyboudreau.com.

Jennifer Fliss (she/her) is the writer of the story collections As If She Had a Say (2023) and The Predatory Animal Ball (2021.) Her writing has appeared in F(r)iction, The Rumpus, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. She can be found on Twitter at @writesforlife or via her website, www.jenniferflisscreative.com.

Julia Mallory is a storyteller working with a range of medium from text to textiles. She is a six-time author, including two children’s books. She is also the founder of the creative container, Black Mermaids and also serves as the Senior Poetry Editor for Raising Mothers. Their work has been featured in a variety of platforms, from podcasts to publications, including Barrelhouse, The Offing, the Black Speculative Arts Movement exhibition "Curating the End of the World: RED SPRING” , Stellium Literary Magazine, MadameNoire, Emergent Literary, Lumiere Review, Torch Literary Arts, and elsewhere. 


Kai Karolyn Smith is a Jamaican-born poet and abstract artist who resides in the Cayman Islands. She is a nature lover who often uses nature imagery as well as her experiences of grief, identity, love and healing to pour into her poetry. Karolyn is an author of two collections of poetry and enjoys writing every chance she gets. She has also guest blogged for the Arthritis National Research Foundation, Art Nest Cayman and for Cay Writers, providing useful tips to help other writers on their writing journey. When not writing, painting, or journaling, Karolyn can usually be found immersed in a book from her constantly growing “To Be Read” pile. She prefers to be called “Kai”. 

Kyla Hanington is a Canadian writer and photographer living in Maryland. Her work has appeared in such magazines as The Bitter Southerner, Fiction Southeast, Jabberwock Review, and more and has aired internationally on CBC Radio's The Sunday Edition. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Mississippi University for Women. She likes to ride her bike and look at birds.

Blake L. Bell is an educator and writer from Louisiana. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Mississippi University for Women and writes short fiction, poetry, and drama. She is a Drama Editor for The Loveliest Review and a reader for Fractured Literary Magazine.
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Xandr Brown is a multimedia producer and artist based in Michigan's Detroit area. In 2018, she graduated undergrad from the University of Rochester in upstate New York with a BA in History and Communications with a minor in Environmental Humanities. She recently debuted her first solo multimedia exhibition in Athens, TN called Free Hill: Renewal and Rememory. While trained as a journalist, she aspires to continue to do community-engaged, multimedia work based on the intersection of oral history, ethnography, and documentary. 

Addie Tsai (any/all) is a queer nonbinary artist and writer of color who teaches creative writing at the College of William & Mary. They also teach in Goddard College's MFA Program in Interdisciplinary Arts and Regis University’s Mile High MFA Program in Creative Writing. Addie collaborated with Dominic Walsh Dance Theater on Victor Frankenstein and Camille Claudel, among others. They earned an MFA from Warren Wilson College and a Ph.D. in Dance from Texas Woman’s University. Addie is the author of Dear Twin and Unwieldy Creatures. She is the Fiction co-Editor and Editor of Features & Reviews at Anomaly and Founding Editor & Editor in Chief at just femme & dandy.

C.T. Salazar is a Latinx poet and librarian from Mississippi. He's the author Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking, named a 2023 finalist for the Thodore Roethke Memorial Award, and editor of Mid/South Sonnets, forthcoming from Belle Point Press in 2023. C.T. writes reviews for Rhino and reads for Poetry Northwest. 

Dr. Charles Phillips is an Application Scientist for a leading Cheminformatics/Bioinformatics platform. He is based in rural Mississippi, by way of Coila, and earned his BS in Biology from Tougaloo College and PhD in Pathology from UMC. As a scientist, Charles has high interest in life science, particular in metabolic ailments of Mississippians. Outside of science, he has strong interests in the arts, from his brief background in musical performance to amateur photography and mixed media art.