Chelsea Laine Wells is a Creative Writing teacher and managing editor of Hypertext Magazine, living in Dallas, TX. Her work has been published in Pithead Chapel, PANK, New South, Split Lip, and many others. A limited-edition book containing her work was released by Lark Sparrow Press in 2016. Eleven of her stories have been nominated […]
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Elizabeth Earley is the author and host of the popular Substack series, Queering Reality, and the author of two novels: A Map of Everything, a debut finalist for the Lambda Literary Prize; and Like Wings, Your Hands, winner of the Women’s Prose Prize at Red Hen Press, the American Fiction Prize for Best LGBTQ novel,
Danielle Bainbridge is Assistant Professor of Theatre, Black Studies, and Performance Studies at Northwestern University. Her first academic book, Currencies of Cruelty: Slavery, Freak Shows, and the Performance Archive, is forthcoming in 2025 from NYU Press. Her first memoir, Dandelion: A Memoir in Essays, is forthcoming from Jaded Ibis Press in 2025, where it was
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Anel I. Flores is a trans, queer, lesbiane, Xicane creative, and strives to explore intersectional feminism, queer politics, and resistencia in their writing and artwork. Flores holds an MFA in Creative Writing and is the author of the Lambda Literary Award-nominated Empanada: A Lesbiana Story en Probaditas, as well as several chapbooks. Their artwork has
Dasha Kelly Hamilton is a writer, performance artist, and creative change agent. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University, and has authored award-winning poetry, essays, and fiction. A skilled engagement practitioner and an adjunct instructor, Dasha has facilitated initiatives in Botswana, Mauritius, and Beirut as an Arts Envoy for the U.S. Embassy.
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Margaret Vandenburg is a novelist, playwright, and essayist whose books include The Home Front, a portrait of a family facing autism; Weapons of Mass Destruction, an Iraq War requiem; and An American in Paris, a historical romp through the sapphic salons in the Roaring Twenties. Her plays include Belly of the Beast, a finalist for
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Roberta Payne is a memoirist, translator, and a teacher of Latin, Greek, and Italian. She served on the board of the Mental Health Center of Denver for thirteen years, and has been a speaker and schizophrenia advocate at the University of Colorado’s School of Medicine for twenty. She is also the author of Speaking to My
Peruvian-born and LA-raised, Gianella Ghiglino began writing poetry at five years old while simultaneously learning to speak English. Her work as a journalist includes covering the ongoing refugee crisis, the border wall construction, and how the pandemic has affected border cities. She has also worked in Texas, reporting on abortion rights and climate change. She
Chana Shinegba has been passionate about writing from a young age. She discovered her love for literary arts when writing her first haiku at age five.
Mei-Mei Holland is a mixed-race Chinese-American writer from the Washington, DC area.
