By Dawn Bratton Dawn Bratton lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she writes poetry and prose orbiting the image of eyes and theme of perception. During 2021 - 2023 she served as secretary and vice president on the board of directors for WordSwell ( wordswelljournal.org ). In 2023, she co-founded Moon Blossom Collective, an arts and wellbeing collective ( moonblossomcollective.org ). In 2025 she founded Karma for supporting the literary and arts communities ( karmafinan

By Christine Sloan Stoddard Christine Stoddard is a multimedia creator and artist named one of Brooklyn Magazine’s Top 50 Most Fascinating People and Style Weekly’s Top 40 Under 40 of Richmond, VA. She co-hosts the comedy TV show “Don’t Mind If I Don’t” with Aaron Gold, and runs the YouTube channel Stoddard Says via her production company, Quail Bell. Her artwork, fiction, and poetry have been featured in the Queens Botanical Garden, the Portland Review, Ms. Magazine, So to S

By Ashley Parker Owens Ashley Parker Owens is an Appalachian writer, artist, and spiritualist living in Richmond, Kentucky, USA. Her previous published poetry collections include Euphoric Drift (2018), Retrospecter (2019), Unruly Spirits (Dancing Girl Press, 2018), Puppet (Rinky Dink Press, 2018), and Territorial Misfortune (2017). See video poems at https://www.youtube.com/@visual_poems   https://www.ashleyparkerowens.com

By Dawn Bratton