Contributors Anne Akpabio is currently a Junior at Midwestern State university pursuing a degree in Accounting and Economics who tries to balance her passion for literature with her interest in business. She lives in Chicago with my family when she is not in school. She hopes to one day work in the Corporate law Industry. Every major step of her life has been uplifted by her journey with literature. She writes because it gives her life meaning and she hopes that her writing can uplift and inspire people. Sadie Bartels is a high school student with an interest in all varieties of art, from fiction writing, to poetry, to sketching and painting. She’s been a military child all her life, and is only living in Texas for a short while before she finally settle down permanently, someplace warm and sunny with the ocean nearby. Meredith Berend is a May 2021 graduate of Midwestern State University and current graduate student. She earned her BA in English with a concentration in writing. While at MSU, Meredith was active in the Redwine Honors Program, Sigma Tau Delta, and NSCS. She enjoys prose poetry, spooky fiction, embroidery, collecting ceramics, and being a general bore. Jonathan Booker is a senior at Burkburnett High School. Jack Bordnick is an Industrial Design graduate of Pratt Institute in New York. Erika Cooper is a high school student at Burkburnett High School who believes that with the use of rhyme and emotion, beautiful pictures or tragic life stories come alive in an amazing way. Natalie Coufal is a nonfiction and fiction writer from rural Central Texas. She is pursuing her M.F.A. in Creative Writing, Editing, and Publishing at Sam Houston State University where she has received a fellowship. Her work has appeared in Glassworks, 100 Word Story, Passengers Journal and Touchstone Literary Magazine. Harlow Covington, Esq., HCE (they/them), is a lawyer-turned-writer. A proud member of the LGBT community, they seek to connect diverse communities through the power of storytelling. Whenever possible, they try to convince their partner to buy a dog. They are an emerging writer with other pieces appearing in the HASH Journal and parentheses. Chloe Dewberry-Hanssen is a Midwestern State University art student! Chloe attends MSU as a way to grow as an artist.
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