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Anna K. Dalton is a mother, and teacher of all things atypical in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She spends her days helping others find their own inner voice on the yoga mat, or stretch their creative limbs at the pottery wheel, and in front of a sewing machine. Anna uses writing as a personal outlet; a small escape from the busyness of everyday life, and the inevitable chaos that comes from living with a six-year-old. This is her first published work.

Stephanie Johnson’s poetry has appeared in numerous publications including Witty Partition, Sink Hollow, Forum Literary Magazine, and others. She is an Associate Editor at Novel Slices, a new literary magazine based solely on novel excerpts, and has spent most of her adult life teaching English literature, ESL and Spanish in several countries around the world. Her writing often focuses on the slightly uncomfortable space of the expatriation/ repatriation experience. She is currently based in Sydney, Australia.

Ritwika Maity (she/her) is from a crowded metropolitan city where you can barely see the stars at night. She writes to paint constellations on her night sky. She became a poet at the age of 8 when a teacher asked Ritwika to read a poem she wrote for an assignment in front of the class. The teacher said she really enjoyed it and encouraged Ritwika to keep writing. Her grandfather gifted me a notebook later that month, and she has never stopped writing poetry since. A few years later, when her grandfather passed away, writing poetry made Ritwika feel closer to him and helped her to deal with the grief.

Elsie has always had a love of the written word, spending many hours reading the marvellous works of inspiring authors. She has been writing since elementary school and recently has been putting work out for others to see. She has had work published in two online magazines, now joining others in print with this COVID anthology.

Lydia Price is a Kentucky poet who is currently in love with the world at large. She is a sophomore at Taylor University where she is majoring in creative writing and minoring in professional writing. She has been published in Taylor University’s literary magazine, Parnassus, and she continues to seek out other publishing opportunities on her own. She is in the process of putting together her very first poetry collection and looks forward to sharing her work with the world.

Emmanuella Hristova was born in Oakland, California and grew up in the Bay Area. She is the third daughter to Bulgarian parents who immigrated to California shortly before she was born. She began drawing at the ripe age of four, and studied the fine arts for five years in high school. There, she received many art accolades including a Congressional award for her piece Boy in Red in 2009. In 2015, she received her Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley. She began writing poetry at age twenty-four when she was in graduate school.

Shaylee is pursuing a PhD in Biochemistry in Galway, Ireland. Poetry keeps her sane. She uses it throughout her day in the lab, reading and writing during incubation times. Science poetry makes up a large part of her personal writing and has also spurred an involvement in the online poetry journal Consilience, which publishes peer-reviewed science poetry.

Rachel Jeffcoat is a poet, writer and editor. She has had work published in Dear Damsels, Fourth Trimester Magazine and Huff Post. She lives in an old house in the South-East of England, with her family and approximately ten thousand books.

Kaci Skiles Laws is a closet cat-lady and creative writer who reads and writes voraciously in the quiet moments between motherhood and managing Crohn's Disease. She grew up on a small farm in a Texas town alongside many furry friends, two sisters, and a brother. She has known tragic loss too well, and her writing is a reflection of the shadows lurking in her psyche.

Devon Bohm received her BA from Smith College and earned her MFA with a dual concentration in Poetry and Fiction from Fairfield University. After serving as Mason Road’s Editor-in-Chief, she worked as an adjunct professor of English. She was awarded the 2011 Hatfield Prize for Best Short Story, received an honorable mention in the 2020 L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest, and was long-listed for Wigleaf’s Top Very Short Fictions 2021.

Amanda Roth (she/her) is poet, photographer, and former clinical social worker. She is the author of the full-length poetry collection, A Mother's Hunger (2021), and has been published in Rag Mag Revival. After nearly two decades in the Pacific Northwest, she now lives in Central Texas with her husband and two sons. Find her on Instagram @amandarothpoetry

Maggie Doyle is a poet and digital content designer working in various story contexts including written word, film, web, theatre, and transmedia storytelling. Maggie has a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and works as a story consultant through her business, What Is Your Story. Maggie is currently working on a collection of poems about her walks by a river during the pandemic which chart the emotional tributaries of life in lockdown.

adam Shove is an Estonian English poet, who writes poems laden with cryptic metaphors and pop culture references; doused in vodka and thrift shop ideas. Inspired by RZA, Frank Ocean, secondhand clothes, models, tattoos and expensive cars.

Caitlin Upshall is a British-American author from Washington State. Her work has been published by the tiny journal, OyeDrum, The Sweet Tree Review, Entropy Magazine, and others. In her spare time, she enjoys most things dinosaur-related, trivia nights, and reading scholarly articles on the Great Emu War.