was awarded the Emerging Fiction Writers Award in 2021 from the Bluegrass Writers Studio, was a finalist for the Baen Fantasy Award in 2023, and was a recipient of the Working-Class Writers Grant from the Speculative Literature Foundation in 2020. You can find her work in Galaxy’s Edge Magazine, Writers of the Future Volume 35, and A Bit of Luck: Alternate Histories in Honor of Eric Flint.

made this zine because they love all of the writers that they included here and think they all need to be recognized for their literary prowess. They are a MA student in the University of Louisville’s Department of English, with a focus on rhetoric and composition. They have a cat named Lewis.

is a 26-year-old trans woman lost in nashville who, last year, while in desperate love with her editor, was Doordashing up Chattanooga mountains, tweaking to the Bloodsport soundtrack. A septic gimp, loves vom.coms and rom-coms, bible-belt poodles; she is a confessor born from the abdomens of crazed hags and drunk folk-singer fucks, carrying with her tactful, turquoise prose, the chicken noodle soup of at least one person’s soul.

is interested in horror, speculative fiction, and counting the ghosts in the back of The Haunting of Hill House. She advises you not to make deals with birds you meet, even if they only ask for bread as payment.

 is an author operating out of Louisville, KY. He writes short fiction, prose poetry, and creative non-fiction that focuses on the way that people connect with each-other.