Kasandra Larsen’s work has appeared widely in journals, including Best New Poets. Her manuscript CONSTRUCTION was a finalist for the 2016 Four Way Books Intro Prize in Poetry; her chapbook STELLAR TELEGRAM won the 2009 Sheltering Pines Press Chapbook Award. She is a three-time Pushcart nominee who had a miserable high-school experience and wants to tell you: it gets better.
Briana Maley’s fiction has been published in Chaleur Magazine and Literary Mama. She lives in Takoma Park, Maryland with her husband and three children.
August Osterloh is a transgender artist living in California. They create using a variety of mediums, and would say a lot of what they create is influenced by their experience as a trans person. People's responses are not always what you hoped they would be. Some days looking in the mirror is painful. Sometimes it feels like anything good is still so far away. August says that they use art as a way of expressing the harder kinds of feelings. It becomes an outlet for creation, rather than self-destruction.
Amber Richard graduated with her BA in Fine Arts from the University of Minnesota-Duluth and is currently the Art Director for HawaiiCon’s keiki track. While not partial to specific subject matter, she does prefer colored pencils, although she is beginning to break from her traditional techniques to explore the digital side of art. You can view her work at https://www.facebook.com/AmberRichard
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