Jezmina Von Thiele (they/she) is a writer, editor, educator, podcaster, and fortune teller. They write poetry, fiction, and nonfiction published in Prairie Schooner, The Kenyon Review Online, Narrative Magazine, & elsewhere. Jezmina is of mixed heritage and reads tarot, palms, and tea leaves in her Romani family’s tradition, both online and in-person. Jezmina specializes in…

Jennifer Tsuei has studied Writing for Performance at the California Institute of the Arts and is currently a tutor at the CUNY LaGuardia Community College Writing Center. She is grateful to Professor Annette Saddik for the opportunity to read and discuss Tennessee Williams’s late plays in her seminar class on the grotesque at the CUNY…

Greg Herren is the author of over 40 novels, 50 short stories, and has edited over 20 anthologies. He has won several awards for his writing and editing, and has been nominated for a multitude of others, including the Shirley Jackson, the Lefty, the Agatha, and the Anthony. His next novel, Hurricane Season Hustle, will…

Joan Larkin’s sixth book of poems, Old Stranger, was published in August by Alice James Books. Her previous books include Blue Hanuman; Lambda winner Cold River; and My Body: New and Selected Poems, recipient of the Audre Lorde Award. Joan co-founded Out & Out Books during the 1970s feminist literary explosion and co-edited Gay and…

Since Laura Lippman’s debut, she has been recognized as a distinctive voice in mystery fiction and named one of the “essential” crime writers of the last 100 years. Stephen King called her “special, even extraordinary,” and Gillian Flynn wrote, “She is simply a brilliant novelist.” Her books have won most of the major awards in…

Chris Granger is an award-winning photojournalist in New Orleans, where he has been a staff photographer for The Times-Picayune for more than 25 years. He was part of the team of Times-Picayune journalists whose work won two Pulitzer Prizes for coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Chris has spent most of his career documenting…

Desiree Richter is a writer, musician, and educator. She writes about bereavement, post-fundamentalism, and parenting (often the intersection of these three things). It is her belief that loss is the tie that binds us all and that, especially in these times, writing about loss in honest ways can help us to heal. She is also…

Andy Young’s second full-length collection, Museum of the Soon to Depart, was released in October with Carnegie Mellon University Press. She is also the author of All Night It Is Morning (Diálogos Press, 2014) and four chapbooks. She grew up in southern West Virginia and has lived most of her adult life in New Orleans,…

Bernice L. McFadden is an Assistant Professor of English at Tulane University and the author of several critically acclaimed novels, including Sugar, The Warmest December, Loving Donovan, Nowhere Is a Place, Glorious, Gathering of Waters (a New York Times Editors’ Choice and one of the 100 Notable Books of 2012), The Book of Harlan (winner…

Tim Murray can be seen on The Other Two on HBOMax, in the film Swan Song starring Jennifer Coolidge, and all over TikTok (4.4 million likes) with his viral sketch comedy videos, including his popular series, “Every Conversation in LA.” Murray has performed stand-up all over the U.S. and the U.K., including San Francisco  Sketchfest,…