About

Danila Botha is the author of three short story collections, Got No Secrets, For All the Men…which was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award, The Vine Awards and the ReLit Award. Her new collection, Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness will be published in March 2024 by Guernica Editions. She is also the author of the novel Much on the Inside which was recently optioned for film. Her new novel, A Place for People Like Us will be published by Guernica in 2025. She teaches Creative Writing at University of Toronto and is part of the faculty at Humber School for Writers.

Website: www.danilabotha.com

Facebook: @danilabothawriter

Instagram: @danilabotha

Twitter: @danilabotha

Mukut Borpujari graduated with a major in English Literature from Arya Vidyapeeth College, Guwahati, and completed his Masters in Computer Application (MCA) in 2015, from Guru Ghasidas Central University, Bilaspur, CG. Currently he is working as a Freelance Software Professional. He started writing poems and articles while he was still in college. Recently his poems appeared in various literary journals and magazines, including Mount Hope Magazine of the prestigious Roger Williams University (RWU), RI, USA and New Feathers Anthology. Remington Review and Zephyr Review are other major journals where his poems appeared.

Facebook: @mukut.borpujari

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Benjamin A. DiMaio is an artist from Louisville, KY. Educated in architectural design and visual art at the University of Kentucky, his work is noted for its grounding in traditional rendering techniques, monolithic expressions, and structural realism. Growing up in the woods of northern Kentucky, exploring abandoned buildings and construction sites brought the artist to education in architectural design, though ultimately returning to the fine arts due to dissatisfaction with the consideration for environmental impact in the design field. The artist’s work is dedicated to meditations on environmentalism through a range of media; visual art, design, performance, film, and music are all conduits by which DiMaio expresses a return to and respect for the natural world. Often works are grounded in the poetry and stories his single mother raised the artist on. This dedication to literature and narrative informs a guiding principle, the symbiotic relationship between creatures and shared space is to be honored just as the relationship between images and narrative honor their content.

Website: https://www.artstation.com/ben_dimaio

Instagram: @ben_dimaio

Blossom Kelley is a poet, essayist and master’s recipient from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where she studied the relationship between language acquisition forms of exclusion. Her complicated relationship with racial identity has been her main source of artistic and academic inspiration, where she often explores themes of sexuality, love, loss, and belonging. A lifelong New Yorker, Blossom has witnessed first-hand the inaccessibility of resources due to the clearly defined, yet often invisible, language barrier hindering the psychological and social development of individuals which subsequently repeats a torrid cycle of inequality and lack of access. Blossom is now a Bronx resident who is committed to sharing the beauty and complexity that exists within New York’s forgotten communities and lost languages.

Website: https://www.blossomspeaks.com/

Instagram: @ _honeyblosssom

Haris Malekos is a half Greek/half Cypriot visual artist working and studying in the Netherlands. He was born in 2002 and grew up on the island of Paros. At age 13 he moved with his family to Brussels where he finished high school. At age 18 he started his studies at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, in the department of photography. In the spring semester of 2023 he went to study abroad at Tokyo Zokei University. In his work he uses a cinematic verité approach to explore themes like memory, disability, and longing for home. His photographic work has been part of exhibitions across the world, and been featured in both online and printed publications.

Website: https://www.haris-malekos.com/

Instagram: @haris_malekos_art

Juliet Martin creates sculptural pieces infused with themes of love and loss. Her style is a little funny, a little scary, and more than a little uncomfortable. Each canvas of sewn-together hand-woven and machine-made fabric is then decorated with illustrations and paint. Her fiber memoirs combine illustration, storytelling, and weaving. Juliet Martin has a BA in Visual Art from Brown University and a MFA in Computer Art from School of Visual Arts. Her work has been written about in The New York Times and was named one of the “Women Artists to Watch” by Artsy. She lives and weaves in Brooklyn.

Website: http://julietmartin.com

Instagram: @remotelyjuliet

C.E. O’Banion is a writer, husband, and father of two living in Baton Rouge, LA. His work can be found in The Southern Review, The Hyacinth Review, Dead Mule, and more. His debut novel, Chinese New Year, came out via TBP Press in March of 2023. O’Banion is a graduate of LSU and USC’s creative writing programs. His writing usually focuses on family, friends, his hometown, and chain Mexican restaurants.

Website: www.ceobanion.com

Instagram: @ahhyeahmypics

Fergana Kocadoru Özgör was born in 1990 in Eskişehir/Turkey. She spent his childhood in various cities of Germany due to her father's job. She completed her undergraduate education in Anadolu University Painting Teaching Department in 2012. She completed her master's degree in Kütahya Dumlupınar University Painting Department. Her master's thesis (German Romance and the Solitude of Genius) was published as a book. In 2013, she started to work as a research assistant at Hacettepe University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Painting Department. In 2015, she started her art proficiency training at the same institution. In 2019, she finished her proficiency in art thesis with her doctoral thesis named "Urban Melancholia". She was in Berlin in 2017 and Vienna in 2018 for her studies and writings. The artist questions the image of the city through the female figure in her works. Gray and blue tones are frequently used in her works.

Instagram: @kocadorufergana

Cory W. Peeke received his BFA from Kendall College of Art and Design and his MFA from the University of Idaho. He has exhibited his work in numerous solo and group exhibits throughout the U.S. as well as Europe and South America. His work has been published in L’art du collage au Coeur de la creation, Published by P.J. Varet Editions- Musee Artcolle, France, Rapsodia: A Magazine of Arts and Literature, Dialogist, Whitefish Review and Agave Magazine among other publications. His works are included in the permanent collections of King County, Washington, Eastern Oregon University, Lockhaven University, Whitman College and the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction. Cory serves as Professor of Art and Director of the Nightingale Gallery at Eastern Oregon University in La Grande, Oregon.

Website: https://corypeeke.com/home.html

Instagram: @see_peekie

Abigail Reeth is a writer and visual artist living in Philadelphia, PA. She graduated in 2019 from Houghton College (which later became Houghton University) with dual bachelor degrees in Writing and Art. During her time in college, she wrote for The Houghton Star newspaper and worked as a writing consultant in the student writing center. After graduating, Abigail worked as the Communications and Journalism Intern with Second Harvest Heartland. In this position, she interviewed clients and wrote stories to raise awareness about food insecurity in her birth state of Minnesota. Abigail later pursued writing and art in connection to community and social justice, working with children at Metropolitan Ministries in Tampa, FL. In 2021, she won the Catholic Volunteer Network’s annual story contest, and her essay “Right Now” was published in Response 2021. Abigail is currently a resident teaching artist at a middle school in Philadelphia where she seeks to enhance students’ access to the arts and promotes social emotional learning.

Instagram: @ponderinpaint

Nelly Shulman is a writer currently based in Berlin. Her work has appeared on JewishFiction.net, in the Vine Leaves Press Anthology of the Best 2021 Flash Fiction and in the various literary magazines. She is a winner of three writing awards.

Website: www.nellyshulman.blog

Facebook: @nelly.shulman

Natallia Tsarkevich was born in Belarus, and moved to Georgia in January 2022. She was trained as a software developer, but picked up photography as a hobby. After 5 years in the IT sphere, Natallia changed her life to became a photographer.

Website: https://nafanyavictorovnauk.myportfolio.com/

Instagram: @natallia.tsar.ph