Rachel Attias is a writer, educator, and editor from the Hudson River Valley of New York, though she now calls Portland home. Her writing has appeared in n+1, Porter House Review, Portland Review, Columbia Journal, and more, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Small Fictions. She holds an MFA from Oregon State University. Her writing and her heart are concerned with relationships both present and ancestral, our changing natural world, memory, time, and everyday absurdity. Learn more: www.rachelattias.com.

Colleen Burner is a writer, editor, and artist whose short fiction has appeared most recently in Annulet and Buckman Journal. They are a co-editor of surely magazine, and their debut novella, Sister Golden Calf, was published by Split/Lip Press in 2023.

Melia Jacquot is born and raised Floridian but is now a Portland based writer whose work has appeared in The Fine Print, Prairie, and elsewhere.

Ed Komenda is a writer based in Tacoma, Washington. His stories have appeared in 3:AM, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Farewell Transmission, and BULL. His debut chapbook, SIX STORIES, is out now with Sand & Gravel Press. Find him: @edboywrites / edboywrites@proton.me