Contributing Authors

Alexandra Ameel is a full-time writing student, soon to have a BA from Oakland University. She lives with her cat in New Baltimore, Michigan.

Deborah Brown is a sophomore at Berea College, where she is majoring in Psychology and Sociology. She also works as a writing consultant for her college. When she’s not writing or studying, she can be found hiking, playing guitar, going to concerts, and reading poetry.

Delaney Coldren is a German Studies and Creative Writing student at Converse University. Her work can also be found in the Concept Literary Journal, The Louisville Review, and The Battering Ram.

In all writerly environments, Kyra Jee hopes for joy, vulnerability, and the em dash. She is an editor at Calliope Art & Literary Magazine and a student at Chapman University. Her work has appeared in The Blue Route, Calliope Art & Literary Magazine, VOYA Magazine, Sapere Aude, and The Wildcat Review.

Brooke Kenney was born and raised in California and is a graduating senior at Chico State University. “a poem not for my mother” is Brooke’s frst published poem.

Chaidie Petris is a Greek-American poet and sophomore at Stanford University. Their work has previously been published in Mud Pie and Leland Quarterly literary magazines, and served as co-editor-inchief of the West Sound Globe in 2020. Their love for the Beat Generation has led them to ride public transportation around the country last

summer to meet some fellow artist classmates and visit some of the spots frequented by Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Bob Dylan among others in order to connect with that existential tradition of artistic connection. Their love for the Beats and Greek resistance poetry has inspired some of the themes of their writing, which center around political injustice, disillusionment, mental health, and fnding authenticity and happiness in a capitalistic social system.

Jef Thomas is a senior at Oakland University. Majoring in Creative Writing with double minors in Journalism and English, he is a frm believer in the power of the written word. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Oakland University’s independent student newspaper The Oakland Post, and as Poetry Editor of undergraduate literary journal The Oakland Arts Review.