Kathryn Kruse is the director of Residency on the Farm, an interdisciplinary artists’ residency program. In February her collection of short stories, To Receive My Services You Must Be Dying and Alone, is debuting from Jackleg Press. Her work has...  read

Faisal Mohyuddin is the author of Elsewhere: An Elegy (Next Page Press, 2024), The Displaced Children of Displaced Children, (Eyewear, 2018), and the chapbook The Riddle of Longing (Backbone Press, 2017). His recent work appears in Poetry, The Poetry Review...  read

Laaura Goldstein's first collection of poetry, loaded arc, was released by Trembling Pillow Press in 2013 and their second collection, awesome camera was published by Make Now Press in 2014. They have also published several chapbooks with vibrant small presses...  read

PJ Gray has been seen storytelling at 2nd Story, Nestor Gomez's 80 Minutes Around the World, Sidetrack's Outspoken, Drinkers with Writing Problems, and Serving the Sentence to name a few. His varied writing career has included cookbook publishing, television writing...  read

Steve Bellinger was born and raised on the West Side of Chicago by a single mom who worked nights for a printing company. She would bring home books and magazines to encourage him to read. This is how he discovered...  read

Writer. Poet. Bicyclist. New Englander by Trade. Sondra Morin is an alumna of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and the Juniper Writing Institute. She is published in The Rumpus, vis a tergo, SIMILAR : PEAKS ::, Curbside Splendor, among others, and...  read

Hallie Palladino is playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and original co-founder of Tuesday Funk in 2008. She has written plays about everything from fraudulent tech start-ups to a fictionalized account of the Cambridge Analytica data heist. Her most recent play The Cleanup,...  read

Kate Harding is the author of Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and co-editor with Samhita Mukhopadhyay of Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America. She has both an MFA and a PhD she’s not...  read

Kemi Alabi is the author of Against Heaven (Graywolf Press, 2022), selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award. The collection was a Kate Tufts Discovery Award finalist, Chicago Review of Books Award...  read

Ryan Varadi is a midwestern poet living in Chicago, where he writes on the train on the way to work his retail job. He holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and a BA in...  read