Kitty Hoffman’s essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in journals, magazines, and newspapers including The New Quarterly, Prism, Grain, The Malahat Review, Boulevard, The Common, and The Vancouver Sun. They have been published in anthologies including Fault Lines, Still Dancing, Listening with the Ear of the Heart, and Celebrating Canadian Women.

Kristina Ryan Tate is an Arizona-born creative writer and artist. As the third of nine children, writing for Tate has become not just a mode of expression, but a voice that cuts through the noise. Most of her work sits in the realm of autofiction, a liminal space between what is real and what is made up. She writes into the facts—and the lies memory tells her—to find the story that didn’t happen within the one that did, a Truth that resonates above everything else.

Lee LaBier

Linda Facci, the founder and creative force behind Facci Designs, is a celebrated fiber artist known for her unique and innovative creations. Specializing in needle felting, embroidery and branch weaving, Linda transforms simple fibers into intricate works of art.

Liska Jacobs

Louise Saxton

Mary-Ellen Campbell

Malachy Tallack

Meghan Stanford

Dr. Melinda Luisa de Jesús is Associate Professor of Critical Ethnic Studies and former Chair of Diversity Studies at California College of the Arts. She writes and teaches about Filipinx/American cultural production, girl culture, monsters, and race/ethnicity in the United States. She edited Pinay Power: Peminist Critical Theory, the first collection of Filipina/American feminisms (Routledge 2005); her first collection of poetry, peminology, was published by Paloma Press in 2018.

Merridee Joan Smith

Meryl Baer

Michael Pribich

Montserrat Alsina is a multidisciplinary artist from Valencia, Venezuela, whose work spans art, education, and holistic practices. She holds degrees in Art, Education, and Psychology from Rhodes College and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. As a cultural innovator and collaborator, she co-founded Nahui Ollin: Ceremonial Dances of Mexico, 18th Street Pilsen Open Studios, Colibrí Studio Gallery, and the Arts and Culture Committee of Pilsen in Chicago. Additionally, she is a member of the International Yoga Alliance and divides her time between Chicago and the Dominican Republic.

Nancy Kay Turner

Nessa is a contemporary abstract painter and teacher living in county Wicklow, Ireland. She paints to be in that state where she feels wide eyed with curiosity, a delightful place of freedom.

Pauline Kaldas

Pigsy

Pamela Sneed is the author of Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery, KONG and Other Works, Sweet Dreams and Funeral Diva published by City Lights in Oct 2020. Funeral Diva was featured in the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Lit Hub, Art Net and more. Funeral Diva won the 2021 Lambda Lesbian Poetry Award and recommended by The New York Times alongside Barack Obama’s memoir. Additionally, she has appeared on panels for The David Zwirner Gallery and has spoken at Bard Center for Humanities, The Ford Foundation, The Gordon Parks Foundation, Columbia University, The New School, New York Public Library, The Brooklyn Museum, MOMA, DIA, NYU’s Center for Humanities and The Whitney Museum.

Rene is a Financial Advisor with over 30 years experience helping people manage their wealth. An early part of his career his was helping a bank understand how its lending practices led to a critical level of loan defaults at one of its newest branches. The accumulation of his hands on experiences led him to write a book. Credit, it’s a drug. Cure the addiction for a dollar a day; explores how debt can take a hold of your life, who’s to blame, how it happens for some and not others, and a path to recovery.