About the Authors

Escape (Cover Art): Mario Loprete is a painter and sculptor based in Italy. Painting is Mario's first love - an important, pure love. Creating a painting - starting from the spasmodic research of a concept with which he wants to transmit his message - is the foundation of painting for Mario. The sculpture is his lover; his artistic betrayal to the painting - a voluptuous and sensual lover that inspires different emotions and strikes prohibited chords.

Inside Voices: Virginia Hogan is a satire writer who has written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, McSweeney's, Cosmopolitan, and The New York Times. She's also the author of "Toxic Femininity in the Workplace," published by HarperCollins in 2019.

Go My Way: Sarah Clayville's work has appeared both online and in print in several dozen journals including The Threepenny Review, StoryChord, and Literary Orphans. She's a high school English teacher and freelance editor at work on her first novel.

Relationship Re-enactment: Robert J. Patteson is an author/screenwriter from Toronto. You can find his stories in X-R-A-Y Magazine, Ghost Parachute, Schuylkill Valley Journal, and other places. He tweets @rjpatteson.

Chamomile Flower: Noelle Shoemate has taken writing classes at NYU, Gotham, Catapult, and the New School. She holds a master’s degree in clinical counseling and has worked as a psychotherapist with an emphasis on treating both women and girls. Her therapeutic background informs her writing, which focuses on issues of sexuality, relationships, and trauma.

Stay: Ann Fisher is Fiction Editor for the Mud Season Review. Her work has appeared in The Sonder Review, Heartwood Literary Magazine, MacQueen’s Quinterly, The Green Mountain Club News, and elsewhere.