Contributors

Mona Angéline is an unapologetically vulnerable new writer, artist, athlete, scientist. She honors the creatively unconventional, the authentically "other". She shares her emotions because the world tends to hide theirs. Her work was accepted in Flash Fiction Magazine, Grand Dame Literary, Down in the Dirt, Viridian Door, and Academy of Mind and Heart. She's a regular guest editor for scientific journals. Learn about her musings at creativerunnings.com.

Qetsiah Joachim-Baggott is a young autistic poet who writes about and for themself and their sister. They have previously been shortlisted for the #merkybooks new writers prize. When they aren't writing, you will find them reading fairytales to their snake.

Ennis Bashe is an Elgin Award-nominated poet and Lesfic Bard Award-winning romance novelist whose work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Cricket, and Liminality Magazine. Their most recent chapbook, Beautiful Malady, is available through Interstellar Flight Press. You can find more of their writing at https://linktr.ee/ennisrookbashe. 

Jaskier Benner (He/They) is an English Creative Writing major at Arcadia University. He proudly identifies as disabled, gay, and transgender, naming himself after the bard from The Witcher. He considers creating art of all types to be his purpose in life and chose the name of a bard to encapsulate who he is as a person in one word. Jaskier has autism, ADHD, bi-polar disorder, Tourette's, and chronic pain. Some of his special interests are the band Muse and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. He plans to move to Germany one day and live with his best friend. 

Audrey T. Carroll is the author of What Blooms in the Dark (ELJ Editions, 2024), Parts of Speech: A Disabled Dictionary (Alien Buddha Press, 2023), and In My Next Queer Life, I Want to Be (kith books, 2023). Her writing has appeared in Lost Balloon, CRAFT, JMWW, Bending Genres, and others. She is a bi/queer/genderqueer and disabled/chronically ill writer. She serves as a Diversity & Inclusion Editor for the Journal of Creative Writing Studies, and as a Fiction Editor for Chaotic Merge Magazine. She can be found at http://AudreyTCarrollWrites.weebly.com and @AudreyTCarroll on Twitter/Instagram. 

Thomas K. is a transgender and hard-of-hearing college student studying speech and hearing sciences, with plans to go to grad school for audiology. He's been writing since he was young, and he mostly writes queer fantasy or dystopian stories. When he's not writing, he's likely either babysitting, teaching soccer, yelling about his favorite characters, or crocheting. He has one cat, who's a gremlin he loves dearly, and he's also quite fond of turtles. 

Belle Manetta is not technically a writer, but she sure loves to do it, so she likes to say she is. She has frequently written for Loco Mag in the past and writes anything from funny stuff to more serious pieces. She has bad joints and has an even worse attention span. 

Stevie Orion is an illustrator, designer and storyteller who's work focuses on combining the fantastical with humanity and experiences that connect us. 

Charlotte Amelia Poe (they/them) is an autistic nonbinary author from England. Their first book, How To Be Autistic, was published in 2019. Their debut novel, The Language Of Dead Flowers, was published in September 2022. Their second novel, Ghost Towns, was self published in 2023. Their second memoir, Conversations With Monsters, will be published in 2024. Their poetry has been published internationally.  Twitter: @charlottepoe Instagram: @smallreprieves Website: charlottepoe.com 

Jocelyn Royal is a senior at Arcadia University majoring in Biology with a minor in Creative Writing. When they're not working in the lab or around campus, they usually are writing or talking about writing or thinking about writing. They've previously been published in Phantasm and Arcadia's campus lit mag, Quiddity.