Deanna Whitlow is the founder of Same Faces Collective . She completed her MFA in Fiction at Columbia College Chicago....

Jennifer Coley is a writer from North Carolina. She is a graduate of East Carolina University, where she obtained a BA in Art History...

Tatiana Johnson-Boria (she/her) is the author of Nocturne in Joy (2023), winner of the 2024 Julia Ward Howe Book Prize in poetry. She's...

Joi’ C. Weathers is an award-winning marketer turned writer and third-generation Chicago South Sider with over 14 years of experience...

Elisha Mykelti conjures poetry that honors sight. She serves on the editorial board for Sundress Publications. She received the 2023...

Sakena Jwan Washington (she/her)   is a Pittsburgh boomeranger and creative nonfiction writer. She was recently named the 2024-25...

Jordan E. Franklin (she/her) hails from Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA from Stony Brook Southampton and is a doctoral candidate at...

Photo credit : Aishvarya Arora  Esther Kondo Heller is a poet, literary critic, and experimental sound and filmmaker. They are a...

Sandra Jackson-Opoku is the author of an award-winning novel, The River Where Blood is Born  and  Hot Johnny and the Women Who Loved Him,...

Mon Misir (she/they) is a queer Black British writer and recovering lawyer based in London, UK. They use their writing to explore facets...

A. E. Wynter is a Black, Jamaican-descended writer and editor from New York. She is also a community organizer and currently lives in...

Erica Frederick is a queer, Haitian American writer from Orlando, Florida currently living in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA...

Chyann Hector is a Black Jamaican-American writer and educator based in the DMV. She has been writing ever since she could remember and...

Chidima Anekwe is an emerging writer hailing from the old coastal town of Stratford, CT.  She is a recent graduate from Yale University...

Talicha J. is a Black queer poet and teaching artist. A Pushcart Prize nominee and Collaborating Fellow at The Poetry Lab, she’s...

Lydia Mathis has an MFA in fiction from New York University. She earned her BA in English literature with a minor in classical...

Sabrina Spence is an event coordinator, poet, and theatre-lover from Memphis, TN. She is also an MFA candidate at the University of...

Natiesha Evans is an emerging writer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work, which includes poetry, essays, and short stories, explores...

Shams Alkamil is a Black Muslim poet. Alkamil began writing as a mode of self-expression to then being twice nominated for a Pushcart...

Sydney Mayes is a poet from Denver, Colorado. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in The Atlantic, Poets.org , The Iowa...