About the Authors

6 AM (Cover Photo): Ashley Wagner is a queer writer, reader, and roller-skater living in Baltimore. She is the poetry editor for Ligeia Magazine, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Whale Road Review, FOLIO, Door is a Jar, and others.

The 662: Sarah Davies, based in London, UK, is an arts grant writer by day, and a fiction writer by night. She was recently accepted onto the Birkbeck (University of London) Creative Writing MA program, starting autumn 2021. Her work often explores the unsaid - what people try to say but can’t, how they behave online - and the social power dynamics that obscure the perspectives of overlooked people.

Lifeguards: Jon Serri lives in New York City with his wife and two daughters, but occasionally escapes with his family to Saratoga Springs, NY. He teaches high school English and avoids complaining about his students. His short fiction has been featured in Corvus Review and Eunoia Review.

Sealed: Gregory T. Janetka is a writer from Chicago who runs the history site, One Hundred False Starts. His work has been featured in Glass Mountain, Gravel, The Phoenix, and other publications. More of his writings can be found at gregorytjanetka.com.

Shooting Rabbits: Lisa K. Harris is a photographer and Pushcart Prize-nominated author who writes about growing-up, outdoor adventure, and coping with speed bumps. Her work has appeared in the Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Roanoke Review, Passages North, Black Fox Literary Review, Highlights for Children, among others. She also co-authored an environmental policy book (Krausman and Harris, Cumulative Effects, CRC Press, 2011). Lisa lives in Tucson with two daughters, five cats, nine desert tortoises, a scruffy terrier, and a blind herding dog named Noelle. She works as an environmental consultant and is in search of an agent for her latest novel. For a complete publication list, see lisakharris.com.

Cradled: Lisa Johnson Mitchell's work has appeared in Fictive Dream, Cleaver, and Litro Online, among others. One of her stories placed in the Top 10 of the 2020 Columbia Journal Short Fiction Contest. Another received an Honorable Mention from Glimmer Train and was a Semi-Finalist in the ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Contest. She was a resident at the Vermont Studio Center and holds an MFA from Bennington College.