Mac Chamberlain (he/him) is a fourth-year English and Spanish student at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee. Texas-born and raised, Mac’s nomadic speakers often wrestle with the conflict of the identities he inherited, and his own queerness that he discovered in moving away from home. Mac’s work has been published in Red Noise Collective, Literary Forest Magazine, and Feral. Mac was also longlisted for the 2024 Frontier Poetry: Nature and Place Prize.
Claire Scott is an award-winning poet who has received multiple Pushcart Prize
nominations. Her work has appeared in the Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary
Review, New Ohio Review and Healing Muse among other journals. Claire is the
author of Waiting to be Called and Until I Couldn’t. She is the co-author of Unfolding in Light: A Sisters’ Journey in Photography and Poetry.
LILLO WAY‘s latest book is FLYING: Trapeze Poems from Red Bird Chapbooks, 2024. Way’s poetry collection, Lend Me Your Wings, is described by Ellen Bass as “rich in music and in imagination…a celebration and a joy”. Her chapbook, Dubious Moon won the Hudson Valley Writers Center/Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Contest. Her poems have won the E.E. Cummings Award and a Florida Review Editors’ Prize. Her writing has appeared in such journals as New Letters, Poet Lore, Tampa Review, Louisville Review, Poetry East, and in many anthologies. Way has received grants from the NEA, NY State Council on the Arts, and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation for her choreographic work involving poetry. www.lilloway.com
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