Caoimhe Harlock (she/her) is a southern trans woman writer and artist. Her stories and comics about sad women and the things that haunt them have appeared in Evergreen Review, Tribes, Honey Lit, and others. Her new comic, Garbage Time in Dyke Town, is forthcoming from Diskette Press, and she self-publishes the bi-monthly queer comix anthology, Charybdis. She comes from the land of Florida Men, holds a PhD in English and Gender Stuff from Duke, and is currently working on an MFA in fiction at UT Knoxville. Find her on Twitter at @keevacomix, on Instagram as @blackleaf199x, or at any three-way crossroads doing the work of the goddess.
Central Virginia native CJ Grooms is an award winning playwright, screenwriter, and educator. In 2016 her one-act play Necessary Trouble about white supremacy in her Charlottesville community won Best Original Production by the Virginia Theater Association. She received the 2017 Rising Star Award by Virginia Counsel of the Arts. CJ holds a film degree from George Mason University where her thriller feature film PIT garnered the Fall 2020 Best Screenplay Award. This storyteller longs for happy endings and for untold stories to grace the screen. CJ writes episodic and feature film projects and aspires to center black queer joy, adventure, and love in everything they write. @dreamscapecj
Daniel Garcia’s essays appear or are forthcoming in Ninth Letter, The Offing, Quarterly West, Guernica, Passages North, The Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Poems appear or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, Electric Literature, Crazyhorse, Porter House Review, and others. A recipient of prizes, scholarships, and grants from Bat City Review, So to Speak, Tin House, PEN America, and others, Daniel is the InteR/e/views editor for Split Lip Magazine and the Creative Nonfiction editor for GASHER Journal. Daniel’s essays also appear as Notables in The Best American Essays. Daniel tweets @daniellovesyooh.
donia salem harhoor (they/she) is a Disabled egyptian-american anthophile. Executive director of The Outlet Dance Project, founder of the Duniya Collective, they are an alum of Community of Writers, Open Mouth Poetry Retreat, & Urban Bush Women’s Summer Leadership Institute. harhoor was Ground For Sculpture’s inaugural Performing Artist in Residence. A 2022 Frontier Poetry New Voices finalist, they were a 2021 runner-up for Spoon River Poetry Review‘s Editor’s Prize and finalist for Palette Poetry’s Sappho Prize. donia’s work has appeared in Mizna/AAWW’s I WANT SKY, Swim Pony’s TrailOff project, Anomaly, SRPR, and Sukoon magazine. An herbalism apprentice of Karen Rose of Sacred Vibes Apothecary, their MFA in Interdisciplinary Art is from Goddard College. @dancinghathor
Emilio Trejo Infante is a Los Angeles based playwright. His writing investigates issues relating to environmental racism, the Chicano experience, and the excavation of the queer within the quotidian. Through work that centers minority voices, Infante’s plays aim to decolonize theatre spaces, challenge environmentally unsustainable theatrical conventions, and provide a point of entry for those for whom the theatre has historically been inaccessible.
Elliot Wren Phillips is a writer and editor living in Boston, Massachusetts. They have an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Emerson College, and their essay “Filler Text” can be found in DIAGRAM. They have an enduring fascination with psychology and trauma, particularly as those interests intersect within marginalized communities. They have a special fondness for writing complicated trans characters (particularly ones who spend too much time online.) They enjoy organizing and playing tabletop roleplaying games. You can find them at @trannifesto on Twitter.
Ely Kreimendahl is a Brooklyn-based queer writer, comedian, creative arts therapist and Mom. She’s been featured in Funny or Die, is a contributor for satire publication Humor Darling, and performs stand up in NYC. Ely was a RADAR Lab fellow for queer emerging writers, and their pilot “Magical Thinking” was a semi-finalist in Screencraft’s Comedy TV Pilot Competition. While extremely and painfully pregnant, Ely was a 2021 resident artist at Ars Nova Theater in NYC, where they spent 6 months developing, writing and performing a solo comedy show called “How Does That Make You Feel,” exploring queer pregnancy and motherhood, and navigating being both an artist and a psychotherapist. Ely regularly posts on twitter and Instagram @elykreimendahl, with content about mental health, parenting, sobriety, queerness and existential angst. Ely’s jokes go viral more often than is good for them, to be honest.
Erin Jin Mei O’Malley is a queer Asian adoptee writer who is based in New York. They have received nominations for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets, and their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Muzzle Magazine, The Nashville Review, The Margins, and others. They can be found @ebxydreambxy on Twitter.
Francesca Aisha d’Ath is an artist, performer, writer, & designer, coming from dance, choreography, a bit of sex work, a queer trans femme immigrant, multiethnic and Muslim-ish, living in Berlin via Australia, Aotearoa, Canada, and South Africa.
She is a practitioner and theorist of physically active ‘bodies’, relating selfhood to and against dominant gendered, racialised cultural defaults. Selfhood (personal, collective, historical), training, discipline, physical labour, endurance, suffering and injury form the background to her work.
She writes fiction and non-fiction, emphasising feminine and trans people’s selfhoods, particularly those with multiethnic, migration and Muslim heritage.
Freda Epum (FREE-DUH EYY-POOM) is a Nigerian-American writer and artist from Tucson, AZ. She is the author of Entryways into memories that might assemble me (selected for the Iron Horse Literary Review Chapbook Prize by Lacy M. Johnson). Her work has been published in The Rumpus, Electric Literature, Vol 1. Brooklyn, Entropy, Heavy Feather Review, Nat.Brut, Third Coast, Rogue Agent, the 2020 Bending Genres Anthology, and elsewhere. She received her MFA from Miami University in Oxford, OH. A 2018 Voices of Our Nation/VONA fellow, her work has also been supported by the Tin House Writers Workshop, the Ragdale Foundation, the Anderson Center at Tower View residency, and the Jordan Goodman Prize.
