We Are What We Notice (cover)

Linds Sanders (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist living on the road. Winner of the Icebreaker Prize from Sparked Lit Mag, her poetry is found in FOLIO, Open Door Magazine, Rising Phoenix, and elsewhere. Her artwork is a Best of the Net nominee and is featured both internationally and nationally in publications such as 3Elements, Bracken, Leavings, Harbor Review and elsewhere. While her whereabouts are ever-changing, her work resides at LindsSanders.com and IG @resounding_bell.

Read her artist interview here.

Huitzlin

Tomas is a Pushcart-nominated writer whose work has appeared in Parhelion, Meniscus, PANK Magazine, 101 Proof Horror, Peatsmoke, The Good Life Review, Kelp, Black Lawrence Press, Bacopa Literary Review, Passengers, NonBinary Review, and elsewhere. His first novel, Deliver Me: A Pocho’s Accidental Guide to College, Love, and Pizza Delivery, and his short-fiction collection, A Purpose To Our Savagery: Stories and Poems will appear on Running Wild/RIZE Press in 2022.

Read his author interview here.

They’re Here

Philip is a writer of fiction and creative nonfiction. His debut dystopian novel, Fatizen 24602, was published by Branch Hill Publications in 2015 and is the basis for the Fatizen, The Graphic Novel, released in July 2017 by Embonpoint Publishing. Philip lives in Long Beach, California with his visual artist husband where they publish graphic novels under their Embonpoint imprint.

A Gathering of Ashes

Gustavo is a novelist, short story writer, member of Codex, and Active Member of SFWA. His writing has appeared in Future Science Fiction Digest, The Grantville Gazette, DreamForge, Pearson’s Texas STAAR English Test cycle and many others. He was awarded second place in the Jim Baen Memorial Contest and was a Writers of the Future Finalist. In 2018, I received a Judges’ Commendation (and second place) in The James White Award. 

Being Recycled

Jack is an artist with a focus on sculpture work and photography. Many of his pieces involve a unique cross between the living and the inanimate. The humanistic qualities of these sculptures are his way of giving a voice to what were once objects without any sign of life or soul. He often also incorporates surrealist ideas, mythological themes, and magical imagery in order to tell deep, whimsical tales beyond common storytelling.

Frozen Boot

Karina is the author of Rosetta (Ex Ophidia, 2021), Proof (Codhill Press, 2014), and The Bees Are Waiting (Marick Press, 2011). A French bilingual volume of new and selected works, Tomates de septembre, was published by Cheyne-éditeur in 2020.

The Irony of Saving Myself

Johnson has been featured in 80+ exhibitions and 60+ publications. She is the recipient of fellowships from the NEA, Houston Center for Photography, the Visual Studies Workshop, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She received her MFA from Ohio University and BFA from Boston University. 

Read her artist interview here.

Walking

Ann is a medical editor; a writer of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and children’s books; a mixed media collage artist; and a classical piano student.

The Day of Fixing Things

Monica is a Romanian-American poet, writer, and translator currently based in Bucharest. She is a two-time Fulbright grantee and her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Plume, Rust + Moth, Little Stone Journal, and elsewhere. 

A Terrified Muslim Man

Afresh is 13-year-old and in Class 8th. He’s a painter and writer. Though he loves math and science so much, art and writing have a special place in his heart. His work appears or forthcoming in Blue Marble Review, Nonbinary Review, Prospectus: A Literary offering, The Elephant Ladder, Moonchild Magazine, The Celestal Review, The Ekphrastic Review and elsewhere. He lives in Hyderabad, India.  

Demon Sex

Rose is a poet & electronic producer. She has publications in Lotus-Eater, Bombay Gin, BlazeVOX, Hotel Amerika, Gargoyle, & others. She has poetry collections with Hesterglock Press and Dostoyevsky Wannabe. She currently lives in Minneapolis. 

Dooming the Apocalypse

Andrew’s fiction has been published in Escape Pod, Flash Fiction Online, Daily Science Fiction, and Analog. His first book of poems, City of Regret (Zone 3 Press, 2007), won the Zone 3 First Book Award.

Wuhan, the Warning

Anji’s recent works have been an emotional reaction to the events of the pandemic and global political response to it. As far as she is concerned, the Apocalypse has already come. She has been painting and working with photography since 1990. She has been tattooing professionally since 1998. Her art can be seen at http://resonanteye.net

Murmur

Hanan is a research scholar pursuing MTech Electronics & Communication Engineering at Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, Kerala. For him, a poet is a trash bin of the society, who converts junk into fragrant flowers. He believes he can make a difference, and victory is for those who believe.

Overcome by Water

Thu Anh’s poetry has been featured in NPR’s “Social Distance” poem for the community, The Cider Press Review, The Crab Orchard Review, The Salt River Review, 3Elements, Connections, and RapGenius. The author’s poems were also named as a semi-finalist for the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize for the Southern Humanities Review. Her essays on the importance of reading diverse literature have been featured in Literacy Today.

Poetry Cycle

James’s poetry has garnered two Willow Review awards, a Dana Literary award, seven Pushcart nominations, and one Best of the Net nom. His full-length collections include Manhattan Plaza, Stage to Page: Poems from the Theater, Wind in the Cave (2017), Out of Nothing: Poems of Art and Artists (2018), Quickening: Poems from Before and Beyond (2019), and Fires of Heaven: Poems of Faith and Sense (2021). 

1441

John is an undergraduate student at Ignatius Ajuru University Of Education Port Harcourt Rivers State, Nigeria. His writings have appeared in Spillwords, Melbourne culture corner, Nnoko, TunaFishjournal, Moreporkpress, Nymphspublications, Ethelzine, Youthmagazine, Acumen, Zindaily, pawnerspaper and conceitmagazine. He wishes to be found in the soil of literary world someday as he works on his first poetry collection titled: I AM FINDING MYSELF.

Read his author interview here.

Into the Mystic

Maeve is a recent graduate of Denison University living outside Chicago and teaching special education. Over the past four years, her poetry has been published in her university’s literary journal Exile, as well as in Prairie Margins, Invisible City, and the anthology Ohio’s Best Emerging Poets. maevemquinn.wordpress.com.

Ten Seconds

Rebecca’s work is included in The Lakeview Review, CafeLit, Metamorphosis, Blue Collar Review, The Best Rejected Manuscripts of 2018, Date Night, and Dear America. Dear Jennifer, a novella is adapted for the stage. Redshaw’s commissioned and produced plays are Vignettes - A Good Time With Wine and Hazel Speaks! International publications, including American Cinematographer, have published her non-fiction work. 

Read her author interview here.

All Cakes Are Bastards

Jendi is the author of the novel Two Natures (Saddle Road Press, 2016), the short story collection An Incomplete List of My Wishes (Sunshot Press, 2018), and four poetry books and chapbooks, most recently Bullies in Love (Little Red Tree, 2015).

Read her author interview here.

Life Sentences

Bruce’s work appears or is forthcoming in Seventh Quarry, Pangyrus, Main Street Rag, Connecticut River Review, Maintenant, Evening Street Review, Spoon River, and Xavier Review. Following his studies at Kenyon and Johns Hopkins, he now lives in Brooklyn and Albany, NY.

Haruspicy

Nnadi’s works have been previously published in Suburban Review, Seventh Wave Magazine, North Dakota Quarterly, Quarterly West, Blood Orange Review, Uncanny Magazine, Contemporary Verse 2, Gutter Magazine & elsewhere. Winner of the Miracle Monocle Award for Ambitious Student Writers 2021(University of Louisville), Lakefly Poetry Contest 2021 (Wisconsin), and the Canadian Open Drawer contest 2020. He is the author of “Reopening of Wounds” & “Subject Lessons” (forthcoming).

The Embroidress

Moe is a Palestinian-American author of literary, science fiction, and fantasy novels, and former junior literary agent. In 2015, his short story “Palestina” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. 

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200 After

Sarah is a New Yorker at soul, taking all the personality tests she can get her hands on so that, you know, she finds words to tell other people about herself. She published her first book, core collection: poems about eating disorders, with Adelaide Books in 2019. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19663814.Sarah_E_Simon

Poetry: Blue Note

Alex is a writer in the SF Bay Area. Prior recognitions include the Dorothy Sugarman Prize in Poetry, George Harmon Coxe Award in Fiction, and Barnes Shakespeare Essay Prize from the Cornell University English Department. Alex holds a B.A. in Philosophy/English from Cornell and Oxford where he co-led the Mansfield College Poetry Society.

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The Seven Letters of a Perfect Apocalypse

Karenlee is an award-winning short story writer, author of the collection Flame Tip (Hybrid Publishers) and a vagabond. She dances like Elaine from Seinfeld.