CONTRIBUTORS
Abbie Langmead
Abbie Langmead (she/they) is the neglected herb garden on your windowsill. First planted in Boston, Massachusetts, they’d try to set roots in Dublin, Ireland but there’s not enough light. Recent cuttings have been planted in Dyke Affair, FERAL: A Journal of Poetry and Art, Trace Fossil Review, and many others. She wants your leftover pasta water, and for her leaves to be included in your future works.
Adam Amjadi
Adam Amjadi is a graduate student of Creative Writing who works in a variety of genres including short fiction and poetry. In addition to his writing, he is also a musician and a singer-songwriter who makes music under the name Sound Spiral. Instagram: @adamamjadi and @sound_spiral_music Website: adamamjadi.com
Angel Ventura Avelar
Angel Ventura Avelar is a Bay Area writer. He recently received his bachelor’s degree in English and he hopes to find the figurative wherever his career lands. In his free time, Angel can be found doomscrolling or gin-ga-ing on the beach. His poems are forthcoming in 30North.
Ashleigh Morris
Ashleigh Morris is a junior at the University of Miami majoring in Microbiology & Immunology along with a minor in English Literature. They love all things sci-fi and horror. Outside of academics, they are a decorated martial artist, often seen with a sword in hand.
Daisy G. Deaton
Daisy G. Deaton is an aspiring actor and poet in West Virginia. She currently attends West Liberty University, where she studies Theatre Performance and was recently awarded the Excellence in Poetry Award. When not writing, she enjoys reading scripts and playing the guitar.
Edward Duran
Edward Duran is a fourth year English major on the single subject track at Sonoma State University. He enjoys exploring darker themes and grotesque imagery in his poetry, and is most likely to be found
writing at a coffee shop or loitering at a bookstore.
Ella Keenan
Ella Keenan is a creative writing and graphic design student at Colorado State, University. She currently works as a poetry editor for The Greyrock Review. Her focus as an author is on general and speculative fiction, varying between long and short form.
Ellery Liverseed
Ellery Liverseed is a queer writer and artist from the Midwest. Their work has been previously published in Sink Hollow and is forthcoming in new words {press}. They drive with windows down in all seasons. Contact them at: elleryliverseedwrites@proton.me
Elliot Mevissen
Elliot Mevissen is an undergraduate Creative Writing, English, and Studio Art Major at St. Olaf College. They are fascinated with human relationships and the sky. Their work has appeared in The Quarry, Ice Lolly Review, and Cathartic Youth Lit. When not writing, you can find them figure skating, reading comics, and knitting.
Finnley Kneller
Finnley Kneller is a queer British-Canadian poet and free-verse enthusiast, having been published in Minyan Magazine and participating in local competitions. When he’s not writing, Kneller enjoys weekly fantasy role-play sessions, hosting a radio show, collecting ties and studying Egyptology.
F.S. Yousaf
F.S. Yousaf lives in New Jersey and is currently an MFA student at William Paterson University. He has six poetry books published—Serenity, Oaths, Prayers of My Youth, Notes on Love (Andrew McMeels Publishing)—Euphoria, and Sincerely, (Central Avenue Publishing). His work has appeared in Rowayat and South Dakota Review.
Gerardo Juacindes
Gerardo Juacindes composes out of Vallejo, CA. Holding an AA in English, a Philosophy minor, and a BA in Creative Writing, he’s striving to continue studying the bard’s tongue through an MFA one day. A proud Sonoma State alumnus, he loves his familia and looking up at the stars at night.
Greta Wu's
Greta Wu’s work has appeared in Two Hawks Quarterly, Dipity, Third Street Review, The Banyan Review and others. When not writing she enjoys baking bread and watching blazing sunsets with her family and dog. She is working towards her MFA in Poetry at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Humayra Noor
Humayra Noor, from New York, is Bengali. Most of their work is inspired by the rhythmic and imagery-filled poetry of Bengali poets. Humayra tries to bridge culture and emotion, which reflects their heritage in their contemporary verses.
Jack Anderson
Jack Anderson (pronouns he/him) is an MFA Candidate in Poetry at Wichita State University. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Door=Jar, Unleash Lit, and Suburban Witchcraft. He was a finalist for the 16th Annual Naugatuck River Review Narrative Poetry Contest. He loves travelling, putting his feet up, and watching The Simpsons or studying Abraham Lincoln. Instagram: @jack.anders0n
Yucheng (Jack) Tao
Yucheng (Jack) Tao is a Chinese poet living in Los Angeles. His works have appeared in Wild Court, The Lake, Strange Horizons, Spectral Realms, NonBinary Review.
Joanna Wheeldin
Joanna Wheeldin, multi-media powerhouse, studies 2-D Studio Art. Her artwork explores cross-cultural exchange, influenced by her intersectionality as a queer, black, mixed race woman. She is an art business owner (joannasprintsandposters.com) and President of SSU’s Entrepreneurship Club. Joanna also builds community with improvscience Freedom Festival, a local grassroots movement.
John Pring
John Pring is a poet and author based in the UK, where he is an MFA candidate at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has poems published or upcoming in The Comstock Review, Epiphany, The Gramercy Review, Poetics, B O D Y, Meniscus, The Passionfruit Review, and others.
Joseph Hastings
Joseph Hastings is a junior undergraduate studying English and Philosophy with a minor in Creative Writing at NYU, though he was raised for most of his life in Nashville, Tennessee. He enjoys reading, writing, and playing Bananagrams.
Kaia Carter
Kaia Carter is a poet and designer from Minneapolis, Minnesota. They explore themes of growth and decay in their works, as well as investigating the fragile boundaries of human hunger and its imitation.
Nathaniel Kenny
Nathaniel Kenny is an English and Philosophy major at SUNY New Paltz. He’s been published or has work forthcoming in Stonesthrow Review, Echo Review, Albion Review, and Crossroads Review. He loves reading, writing, and watching just about anything as long as it’s done near someone he loves.
Poliento
Poliento Is a Poet and Playwright from Napa studying English, American Multicultural Studies, and Theatre at SSU. His work focuses on the liberation and equity of all people. His play A Love Letter To Loss can be found at New Play Exchange. insta@trissteh
Róisín Feely
Róisín Feely has always been a creative person and enjoys dabbling in all things artsy. This will be her first time publishing work. These two stories are her first short stories and she’s very excited they’ve been accepted to Zaum.
Sean Brown
Sean Brown is a poet and an MA student at Northern Illinois University, where he studies literature, rhetoric, and writing. He lives and works in the suburbs of Chicago.
Sophia MacAller
Sophia MacAller is an English major with a Minor in Women’s and Gender Studies. Due to the nature of her study, she is a voracious reader who reads by and for women. When dabbling in poetry not her own, she enjoys the work of Sylvia Plath and Joy Harjo.
Veronica Sirotic
Veronica Sirotic is a writer living in Queens, New York. She is a first year MFA student at New York University studying Creative Nonfiction as a Goldwater Fellow. Her poetry has been published in Lullaby Machine.
Willoughby Sinn
Willoughby Sinn is a queer artist based in Flagstaff, Arizona where they currently attend Northern Arizona University as a full-time student. Their artwork flirts with fitting life into narratives, intrinsically motivated as both a perpetrator and victim of romanticization.
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Shane Allison (no bio given)
Quynh Nguyen
Quynh Nguyen was born and raised in Vietnam. She is currently completing a bachelor’s degree in Photojournalism with a minor in Creative Writing at the University of Central Oklahoma, Oklahoma.
Denver Boxleitner
Denver Boxleitner is a university fine arts student whose drawings, paintings, poems and short stories have been published.
Annabelle Young (no bio given)
Grace Balzer
Grace Balzer is an artist from Santa Rosa and has been doing art since she was young. She started taking art more seriously in 2020 with digital art. She also enjoys other mediums like acrylic, oil pastel, and gouache.