A former Poet Laureate of Alabama (2017-2021), Jennifer Horne is also the author of three collections of poems, Bottle Tree, Little Wanderer, and Borrowed Light, In addition to poetry, she is the author a collection of short stories, Tell the World You’re a Wildflower and a biography of the writer Sara Mayfield, Odyssey of a Wandering Mind: The Strange […]
Blair Lee Lunn
August 2, 2026 by Leave a Comment
Blair Lee Lunn is a writer and educator from North Carolina and the author of Emergence (Bottlecap Press). Her interests in reading and study include the craft of writing, speculative fiction, and queer and multicultural American literature. Among other places, her writing has appeared in American Short Fiction, The Sun, and The Masters Review Anthology. […]
Trillium Meeks
July 12, 2026 by Leave a Comment
Trillium Meeks has loved stories – whether in books, on the screen, or in song form – for as long as she can remember. She defines the epochs of her life by what she was obsessively reading as much as by where she was living. She graduated from Auburn University with a degree in English […]
Jesse Breite
June 15, 2026 by Leave a Comment
Jesse Breite’s recent poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Tinderbox, Poetry Northwest, Terrain, and Rhino. His first full-length poetry collection is forthcoming from Fernwood Press. Jesse teaches high school in Atlanta, Georgia, where he lives with his wife and two kids. More at jessebreite.com.
Zanna Swann
May 18, 2026 by Leave a Comment
From as early as she could talk, getting to the who, what, when, where, why, and how were the goals of Zanna Swann – much to her family’s chagrin at times. Because was never an answer, in fact, it then became a challenge. As a distraction, her mom would flip the script and ask Zanna […]
Hilary Vidalakis
April 29, 2026 by Leave a Comment
Hilary Vidalakis is a former journalist, park ranger, and prescribed fire technician who now writes and edits from her home in the Bronx, NY, overlooking the Mahicantuck (Hudson) River. She is mom to two wild girls. Her favorite reads include nature writing, poetry, memoir, and children’s literature.