Robby Cale is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Reiki practitioner living in Whitefish, Montana. This is his first published poem, though he’s spent decades playing with words, performing stand-up, improv comedy, and community theatre. His poetry moves across themes like politics, wellness, and sci-fi, always aiming to stir something real. Robby writes to make sense of uncertainty for himself, and hopefully for others, too.
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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.
Mary K O’Melveny, a happily retired attorney, is the author of four poetry collections and a chapbook. Her most recent, If You Want To Go To Heaven, Follow A Songbird (Jerry Jazz Musician 2024) is an album of poems, art and music available at Jerry Jazz Musician. Mary’s award-winning poems have appeared in many print and online literary journals and anthologies and on international blog sites. Mary’s collection Flight Patterns was nominated for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. Her book, Merging Star Hypotheses (Finishing Line Press 2019) was a semi-finalist for The Washington Prize, sponsored by The Word Works. Mary has received three Pushcart Prize nominations. She is an active member of the Hudson Valley Women’s Writing Group and her poetry appears in the Group’s two published anthologies, An Apple In Her Hand and Rethinking The Ground Rules. Mary lives with her wife near Woodstock, New York. She is looking for a home for a fifth collection. Mary’s website is: https://www.marykomelvenypoet.com.
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.
Nicholas Skaldetvind was born in New York.
Jonathan Chibuike Ukah is a Pushcart-nominated poet living in the United Kingdom. His poems have been featured in Unleash Lit, The Pierian, Propel Magazine, Atticus Review, The Journal of Undiscovered Poets and elsewhere. He won the Alexander Pope Poetry Award in 2025, and the Poem of the Month of The Literary Shark in February 2025. His first Chapbook, A is for Anfang was released in December 2025 by the Island of Wak-Wak. He was the Editor’s Choice Prize Winner of Unleash Lit in 2024, and the Third Poetry Prize Winner of The Hemlock Poetry Award in 2025.
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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