Bel Beeson

Bel Beeson is a librarian and media resource specialist at The Brandeis School in San Francsico. She graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a B.A. in comparative literature and a minor in Black studies. After that, she taught creative writing…

Evan Wolkenstein

M. Evan Wolkenstein is a high school teacher and writer. He attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Hebrew University, and the Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies. His work can be found in The Forward, Tablet Magazine, The Washington…

Evgeniya Dame

Evgeniya Dame is a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, a Fulbright Scholar, and graduate of the MFA program at the University of New Hampshire. Her writing appears in Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, Electric Literature, and…

Lauren Davis

Lauren Davis is an Eisner-nominated comic book writer and cartoonist. With Mel Hilario and Katie Longua, Davis co-created the graphic novel Debian Perl, Digital Detective and the upcoming graphic novel Agent Cupcake. Her short comics have appeared…

Sandy White

Sandy White has a BFA in painting from the University of Pennsylvania in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She recently graduated from Dominican University of California with an MFA in creative writing. Her poetry has…

Nichole Turnbloom

Nichole Turnbloom lives in Sonoma County and works as a yoga therapist to alleviate pain and facilitate healing with clients, which is not unlike the process of writing poetry, on some days. She is currently a graduate candidate at Dominican…

Reneé Marie

Reneé Marie moved from Vermont to Sacramento in 2006 to serve with the Army’s Wounded Warriors In Transition Program. After a deployment to Afghanistan in 2010, she made California her home. Major Marie is now a Retired Reserve, Medical Service…

Abby Peyton Laporte

Abby Peyton Laporte is an MFA student of narrative medicine. She is previously published in The Berkeley Times Poetry Edition, Unlimited Literature, and Tuxedo Literary Magazine, with two chapbooks available (Bitter Elixir and Sacred Lucidity).…

Matthew Kline

Matthew Kline is an MFA Candidate at Dominican University of California and a bookseller at Sausalito Books by the Bay. He writes about anxiety and the unknown and has a novel in the works. His writing has been published in the Pennsylvania…

Judy Halebsky

Judy Halebsky is the author of three poetry collections—Sky=Empty, Tree Line, and Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged)—and the chapbook Space/Gap/Interval/Distance. Born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, she holds an MFA in English…