Colleen Burner (they/them) is a graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute (creative writing/painting, 2010) and the MFA writing program at Portland State University (fiction, 2014), and an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship recipient. Their short fiction has appeared in Fecund, Old Pal, Black Candies: Gross and Unlikeable, Permafrost, and Quaint. They are a coeditor of surely magazine. Their debut novella, Sister Golden Calf, was published by Split/Lip Press in September 2023. They live in Portland, Oregon.
Benjamin Kessler is the author of the story collection Of This World (Game Over Books, 2023). He is a Goldenberg Prize for Fiction recipient and former Editor-in-Chief of Portland Review. His work appears in Bellevue Literary Review, DIAGRAM, Entropy, Hobart, and Pithead Chapel, among others. He teaches writing at Portland State University.
Born and raised on the east side of Oʻahu, Charity E. Yoro now occupies the traditional territory of the Atfalati, Clatskanie, and Kalapuya (Oregon) with her wild, loving family. A poet with a strong background in community-building and workshop facilitation, Charity's writing has received Pushcart Prize and Orison Anthology nominations and can be found on poets.org, in the New York Times, The Rumpus, Tupelo Quarterly, PRISM International, 14 Hills, West Trestle Review, Ruminate Magazine, and elsewhere. ten-cent flower & other territories is her debut poetry collection (First Matter Press, 2023).