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E. M Antonio

Clover

E. M. is an alum of Shared Worlds hosted at Wofford College from 2014 to 2017. They strive to tell stories about queer and disabled characters most of all, as an outlet for their own experiences and as a light of hope for those with similar experiences to their own.

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D. Arifah

DSC_2354

D. is a photographer captivated by the silent stories the world tells. Her photography seeks to preserve these delicate narratives and share with others the depth of human experience and the quiet power of our interrelation with our environments.

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Melanie Bell

In From the Rain

Melanie is the author of four books, most recently The Heart Decided to Move. Her work has appeared onstage and in publications such as Cossmass Infinities, Contrary, and The Fiddlehead. A Canadian living in the UK, she loves art, music, wondering, and wandering.

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Kevin Bodniza

Ride the Snake

Kevin held his first solo exhibition in 2024 at his studio in Miami Shores, a milestone in his emerging artist career. Kevin is driven by the hope of sharing his work on a larger scale. His art challenges viewers to question their feelings, sparking conversations that linger. 

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Dustin P. Brown

Move? In This Market? I’ll Live With The Plants, Thanks

Dustin interned at Third Coast Magazine and New Issues Poetry & Prose. He edits as Vaccei Literary Editing and lives in Spain with his boyfriend and two cats. He is published in Lit Shark, Third Wednesday, Hawaii Pacific Review, and others.

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Gio Clairval

Watercode

Gio was born in Italy and studied in Paris before working as an international management consultant. Her stories have appeared in The Dark, Nature: Futures, Weird Tales, Fantasy Magazine, Postscripts, and elsewhere. She also translate fiction from several languages into English.

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Tinamarie Cox

Tree Spirits

Tinamarie lives in an Arizona town with her husband, two children, and rescue felines. Her written and visual work has appeared in a number of online and print publications under various genres. You can explore her work at tinamariethinkstoomuch.weebly.com.

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Viviana DeCecco

Solarpunk City

Viviana is a writer, translator, and visual artist. Her art appeared in Ink Nest Poetry (Cover), Mud Season Review, Acta Victoriana, Spellbinder Magazine, and others. She was the 2nd place winner of Sunlight Press 2024 Photography Contest. You can find her https://vivianadececco.altervista.org/ 

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Ron Fein

A Line in the Fading Paint

Ron is a Boston-area public interest lawyer who, in his copious spare time, writes science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, and comedy. His work appears in Nature, Factor Four, Daily Science Fiction, MetaStellar, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. 

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Maxwell Folkman

Fungicidal

Maxwell is a queer educator, researcher, and author from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His research primarily focuses on educational environments for queer kids. In his free time, he enjoys going to his local comic shop, working out, and spending time with his kitten Bassoon. 

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Jeannine Hall Gailey

I Am the Last

Jeannine is a writer with MS who served as 2nd Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington. She’s the author of six books of poetry, her latest, Flare, Corona was a finalist for the Washington State Book Prize. Her work has appeared in journals like American Poetry Review, Salon, and Poetry. 

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Tytti Heikkinen

Departure

Tytti is a Finnish visual artist working across photography, painting, and digital media. Based in Finland, she has exhibited internationally, with work appearing in Amsterdam Review, Arkana, and Ex-Puritan, among others. This work was supported by Kone Foundation. 

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Wednesday Reim Ifrach

Witchlight in the Ruins

Wednesdae is a queer art therapist, researcher, and swamp witch at heart, Wednesdae weaves punk rock, ecology, and genderqueer embodiment into poetry and practice. They nurture healing through expressive arts and harm-reduction, composting binaries into bloom. 

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Adan Jerreat-Poole

My Bodies

Adan’s YA fantasy novels, The Girl of Hawthorn and Glass (2020) and The Boi of Feather and Steel (2021), were published with Dundurn Press. Their short fiction has appeared in The New Quarterly, Soliloquies, Qwerty Magazine, The Feminine Collective, and Space and Time Magazine.

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Andrew Kirk

This House Eats My Sorrows

Andrew published the dystopian novel Nessuna pietà (Spring, 2020) and the apocalyptic short story collection Ānanda (PubMe, 2021). He also writes on Substack and his blog “La Voce d’Argento,” where he mainly explore themes of art and literature.

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Shelbey Leco

Just a DeWalt Battery

Shelbey enjoys a breath of art, but is focusing on her mixed media works. Leco uses all different types of discarded media and incorporates them into her creations including: newspapers, magazines, thread, yard, wrappers, and other trash.

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E. J. LeRoy

Blessed Are the Androids

E. J. is a freelance writer, poet, and aspiring novelist with works in Submittable Content for Creatives, Transmundane Press, Androids and Dragons, and in several speculative fiction anthologies. LeRoy also published the novelette Fusion. Visit the author’s website at http://ejleroy.weebly.com.

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Tim Lieder

Fungicidal

Tim was born into a musical family, having a saxophone mother, a viola father, and timpani twin brothers. He rejected music for writing after one of his brothers married a bagpipe who mocked him for his monotonality. His one nod to musicality is to sing in the shower. Very quietly. 

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Grace Lynn

Climate Crisis in Dalí’s The Persistence of Memory

Grace is an emerging queer painter who lives with a chronic illness. Her work explores the intersections between faith, the natural world, art and the body. Grace enjoys listening to Bob Dylan, reading suspense novels and exploring absurd angles of art history.

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Matthew McCain

Blinded By Your Beauty (cover image)

Matthew is an author and fine artist with 3 of his novels reaching the top #10 on Amazon Kindle Unlimited. His fine art paintings can be found all around the world from London to Las Vegas with Bar Rescue’s Jon Tafer and Alice Cooper’s Teen Youth Rock Center in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Michael McDonough

Memory

Michael lives and teaches in Salt Lake City, Utah. His poetry has appeared in Eunoia Review, Utah Life Magazine, Consecrate/Desecrate: a Great Salt Lake Anthology, and The Road Not Taken: A Journal of Formal Poetry.

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Christopher R. Muscato

Rewilding

Christopher is the former writer-in-residence of the High Plains Library District, and a winner of the XR Wordsmith Solarpunk Storytelling Showcase. His climate fiction can be found in Tractor Beam, Strange Horizons, and Solarpunk Magazine, among other places.

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Isabelle Nygren

Past Pineapple Weed and Watermelon Berries

Isabelle is a born and raised Alaskan with a degree in English from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. She has previously been published in Ice Box, Sanctuary, and Apricity. She hopes to pursue an MA in Creative Writing in London this September.

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Gloria Ogo

Dancing Bees

Gloria’s work has appeared in Brittle Paper, Spillwords Press, Metastellar, CON-SCIO Magazine, Kaleidoscope, The Easterner, Daily Trust, and more. With an MFA in Creative Writing, Gloria was a reader for Barely South Review. She is also the winner of the Brigitte Poirson 2024 Literature Prize. 

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Kaycee Painter

Chernobyl Was the First Garden

Kaycee’s poems have appeared in queer anthologies and community zines, and she is currently working on a chapbook about disability, exploring the politics of pain, access, and the quiet rituals of staying alive.

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Brian Malachy Quinn

Earth in Harmony

Brian’s style can be surreal for speculative or literary fiction, or realistic for his fallback of lion paintings. He works as an analyst but longs for the day he can do art fulltime. He is compelled to create art and finds it a way to put aside his worries and produce “good brain chemicals.”

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Kelsey Stewart

Last Lighthouse

Kelsey is a writer from Houston. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Loyola Marymount University and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in creative writing at Harvard. 

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jp thorn

letter to a young poet :: from your future cyborg

jp is a queer, neurodivergent artist raised in & returned to the bible belt. advocate for destigmatization & radically open communication, their work is inspired by humanness, reframing traditionalism, therapeutic processes, unlearning patriarchy, identity, & global patterns.

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Avril Shakira Villar

Mycelium Networks

Avril is a writer and youth leader from the Philippines Her poem was selected for the Editor’s Pick Award for Summer 2025 by Words With Weight. Her poems are featured in printed books of RCC Muse, Arcana Poetry Press, Viridine Literary and elsewhere.