Issue 3 - Pushing Back

Em (she/they) is a speculative fiction author from New England with pieces in Ember: A Journal of Luminous Things, Voyage YA, and A Coup of Owls.

Jennifer Peaslee is a chaotic bisexual whose work has appeared in Every Day Fiction, BarBar, Moonday Mag, and on the Kaidankai Podcast. She lives outside Atlanta with her mischievous cat, Trouble, and runs The Bleeding Typewriter, a creative writing advice blog and online community.

Fendy is a writer and creative professional from Malang, Indonesia. With a background in sales coordination and strategic communication, Fendy explores narratives that blend cultural richness with themes of resistance and resilience. His work often delves into the unseen struggles of everyday life, drawing inspiration from Indonesian landscapes and histories.

Nikoline Kaiser (she/they) is a queer author who lives in Denmark; they work with the environment and sustainability by day and by night they moonlight as an author. They've published several pieces in both English and Danish, and they've been long-listed for the Lee Smith Novel Prize.

Patrick Schiefen (he/him) is an American writer who has lived over a decade abroad. His poetry often explores queer identity, including the political self, through its relationship with place and travel. His poetry has been published in Cathexis Northwest Press, Ample Remains, Zenith Lit Mag, Nymphs, High Shelf Press and From Whispers to Roars.

Heather Wiedenhoft is a journalist and freelance writer. Born and raised in Seattle, she is a graduate student in the multimedia journalism program at the University of Oregon. As a member of the LGBTQ community, Heather wrote an investigative piece on the significance of drag king culture in her life and the lives of other queer youth for Oregon Humanities.

Xian Mao is a queer non-binary Chinese American writer and family medicine doctor whose works with Aqueduct Press include poetry in Climbing Lightly Through Forests, an anthology honoring Ursula K. Le Guin, and the novella Apollo Weeps, a 2024 finalist in the novella category for The Subjective Kind of Chaos Award.

Cody Draco is an emerging poet and recent transplant to Bowling Green, Kentucky. His work carves through raw emotional terrain, wielding sharp societal critique, surreal imagery, and language bent to his will. Unflinching yet deeply human, his poetry pushes boundaries while distilling meaning from the void of 21st-century existence.

Odi Welter (they/she/he) is a genderfluid, panromantic, asexual, neurodivergent author with Bachelors in Film and Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. When not writing, they are indulging in their borderline unhealthy obsessions with fairy tales, marine life, superheroes, and botany.

Oël is a British teacher and writer living in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Known on the Amsterdam spoken word scene for her gripping, dreamlike performance style, Oël's other work has appeared under other names in CommuterLit and The Pre-Raphaelite Society Review.

Cree Port, (she/her) is a Minnesota native turned Phoenix transplant. She has a BS in biological sciences from ASU, a musician and teacher of many instruments, a proud pet parent, a person who orders the same coffee drink every time without fail, and a writer/poet.

Glen Loveland is a queer writer. Currently, he works in the Career Management Center at Thunderbird School of Global Management while volunteering with Outright International to monitor global LGBTQ+ rights issues.