Malaika King Albrecht, Warsaw, VA
Malaika’s fifth book, The Long Apprenticeship, is forthcoming from Main Street Rag. She served as the inaugural Heart of Pamlico Poet Laureate and is the author of four other poetry books, including most recently The Stumble Fields (Main Street Rag 2020), which was a finalist in the 2021 Eric Hoffer Award.
Tina Barry, High Falls, NY
Tina is the author of I Tell Henrietta (Aim Higher, Inc., 2024) and two other collections of poetry and short fiction. Her writing can be found in Rattle, Verse Daily, ONE ART, SWIMM, and several anthologies, including The Best Short Fictions 2020 and 2016. Tina teaches at the Poetry Barn and Writers.com.
Joan E. Bauer, Pittsburgh, PA
Joan is the author of three full-length poetry collections, Fig Season (Turning Point, 2023), The Camera Artist (Turning Point, 2021), and The Almost Sound of Drowning (Main Street Rag, 2008). She was a teacher and counselor and now divides her time between Venice, CA and Pittsburgh, PA where she co-curates the Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series with Kristofer Collins.
Jan Beatty, Pittsburgh, PA
Jan has been published in the Atlantic, New York Times Magazine, and Best American Poetry. In 2024, her eighth book, Dragstripping, was published by University of Pittsburgh Press. Beatty won the Red Hen Nonfiction Award for American Bastard. She worked as a waitress, abortion counselor, and in maximum security prisons.
Rohan Buettel, Canberra, Australia
Rohan’s home is nestled in the foothills of the Brindabella range beside the Murrumbidgee River on land whose traditional custodians are the Ngunnawal people. His haiku appear in Australian and international journals (including Presence, Cattails and The Heron’s Nest). His longer poetry appears in various journals, including Rattle, Touchstone, Meanjin, Meniscus and Quadrant.
Dia Calhoun, Roy, WA
Dia has published poems and essays in The Nashville Review, The Writer’s Chronicle, EcoTheo Review, Grist Journal, and others. Her poetry manuscript received an Honorable Mention for Green Linden’s Press Wishing Jewel Prize. She won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature; published seven YA novels; co-founded readergirlz, recipient of The National Book Foundation Innovations in Reading Prize. diacalhoun.com.
Kenneth Chamlee, Mills River, NC
His book, The Best Material for the Artist in the World (Stephen F. Austin, 2023), a biography of painter Albert Bierstadt, won the 2024 Outstanding Poetry Book Award from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. He is currently exploring the ironies present in warning labels and the possibilities when extrapolating them out of context. Visit www.kennethchamlee.com.
Kyra Cole, Denver, CO
Kyra is a poet and teacher. She began harnessing the power of words after struggling with dyslexia at an early age. She has since received a masters degree in creative writing and education from Goldsmiths University of London. She is also upcoming in The Write Launch. You can find her on instagram @seeofclouds.
Elisabeth Crago, Pittsburgh, PA
Elisabeth holds degrees in English, nursing and an MFA in poetry. She lives in Pittsburgh and is active in Carlow University’s Madwomen in the Attic program. Her work has appeared in Dreamer’s Creative Writing, OneArt, Dolomite Review, Zest of the Lemon, Shot Glass Journal, and several anthologies, including Love is for All of Us.
Mary Ellen Dahlkemper, Erie, PA
Mary Ellen is writing more in retirement than the decade when her feature articles on local/regional/state leaders were published in Erie & Chautauqua Magazine. In 2023, she authored Origins, a history of NWPA Poets and Spoken Word Artists. Her poems appeared in the 2025 editions of North Coast Voices and Iconic: The Anthology of Erie Poets.
Mary Christine Delea, Oregon City, OR
Mary Christine is the author of one full-length collection, The Skeleton Holding Up the Sky, and three chapbooks. Originally from Long Island, NY, she now lives in Oregon, where, besides writing poetry, she volunteers for various organizations, makes beaded jewelry, leads poetry workshops, and quilts. Find her at mchristinedelea.comSubstack.
Mary Alice Dixon, Charlotte, NC
Mary Alice is the author of Snakeberry Mamas:Words from the Wild, is co-editor of Kakalak, and past winner of the NC Writers’ Network Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition. In Charlotte, she leads hospice grief writing workshops, reads poetry to the dying, and grows sunflower in cow manure. She believes in nature as witness.
M. Scott Douglass, Edinboro, PA
Scott grew up in and around Pittsburgh. His poems have appeared in North American Review, Gargoyle, Salvation South, Kakalak, and others. Living in a Red State Blues (Paycock Press, 2022) is his most recent poetry book. He’s been a bookstore owner, a coach, a construction worker, and a dental technician (among other things). Currently transitioning back to his native climate.
Denise Duhamel Dania Beach, FL
Denise Duhamel’s most recent books of poetry are Pink Lady (Pitt Poetry Series, 2025), Second Story (2021) and Scald (2017). Blowout (2013) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is a distinguished university professor in the MFA program at Florida International University in Miami.
Joanne Durham, Kure Beach, NC
Joanne is the author of Chasing Justice (Shanti Arts 2026) and To Drink from a Wider Bowl, winner of the Sinclair Poetry Prize (Evening Street Press 2022). Her poetry appears widely in journals and anthologies including Cold Mountain Review, Vox Populi, and The Nature of Our Times anthology. She lives on the NC coast. Visit her at https://www.joannedurham.com.
Sara Ries Dziekonski, Gulfport, FL
Sara Ries Dziekonski was Runner-Up for the Press 53 Award for Poetry for her most recent collection, Today’s Specials, which was selected as a finalist for the Woodrow Hall Top Shelf Award. Her poems have appeared in American Life in Poetry, Slipstream, Potomac Review, Mom Egg Review, ONE ART, Jabberwock Review, and elsewhere.
Alan Elyshevitz, East Norriton, PA
Alan is the author of a collection of stories, The Widows and Orphans Fund (SFA Press), a poetry collection, Generous Peril (Cyberwit), and five poetry chapbooks. Winner of the James Hearst Poetry Prize from North American Review, he is a two-time recipient of a fellowship in fiction from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
John Fullinwider, Dallas, TX
A writer and community organizer, Fullinwider is co-founder of Mothers Against Police Brutality and Lumin Education/East Dallas Community School. From 2015-2020, John was a key organizer of the successful movement to take down Confederate statues and monuments in Dallas.
Cynthia Gallaher, Chicago, IL
Cynthia is a Chicago-based author of four poetry collections, three chapbooks, including Drenched from Main Street Rag, and an award-winning nonfiction creativity guide. Her hybrid memoir Match Heads: My Conversations with Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber will be published 2027 by Southern Illinois University Press.
Robert René Galván, Astoria, NY
Born in San Antonio of Indigenous/Mexican heritage, Robert resides in New York City where he works as a professional musician and poet. His collections of poems include Meteors, Undesirable: Race and Remembrance (Somos en Escrito Foundation Press), Standing Stones (Finishing Line Press), and The Shadow of Time (Adelaide Books).
Lynn D. Gilbert, Pflugerville, TX
Lynn’s poems, twice nominated for Pushcart Prizes, have appeared in such journals as After Happy Hour Review, Arboreal, Blue Unicorn, carte blanche, The MacGuffin, Ponder Review, and Sheepshead Review. A founding editor of Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, she lives in an Austin suburb and is a poetry editor for Third Wednesday literary journal.
David A. Goodrum, Corvalis, OR
David is the author of Abrupt Edges (2025), Vitals and Other Signs of Life (2024) and Sparse Poetica (2023). Recent publications have appeared in The Orchards Poetry Journal, Cirque, and Triggerfish Critical Review, among others. David lives in Corvallis, Oregon, and was president of the Oregon Poetry Association for two years. See more at www.davidgoodrum.com.
Roberta Hatcher, Pittsburgh, PA
Roberta’s work has appeared in The Comstock Review, The Main Street Rag, St. Petersburg Review, Storm Cellar, Voices from the Attic, Vox Populi, and Yawp among others. She is the author of the chapbook French Lessons (2016). She lives in Pittsburgh where she is a member of the Porch Poets.
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Tori Hirsh, Pittsburgh, PA
Tori is a writer, multimedia designer, and artist based in Pittsburgh, PA. She graduated with a BA in Media Arts from Carlow University in 2019 and returned to her alma mater in 2024 to pursue an MFA in Creative Writing. She has been published in the Northern Appalachia Review, FLARE Magazine and Exclamation Mark.
Linda Culp Holmes, Oak Ridge, TN
Linda has won poetry awards in Tennessee and California and has had work published in the Amethyst Review, Literary Mama, Talking River Review, Naugatuck River Review, and Red Branch Review, among others. Her non-fiction book, If I Am So Lucky: A Portrait of a Man in Perilous Times, 1862-1865, was published by Heritage Books in 2023.
Catherine Hook, Trinidad, CO
Catherine is an actress with the local theater, Main Street Live. Her publications include poetry in Colorado Life magazine and The New York Quarterly. She received a BA in French from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her past work experience includes, substitute teaching, travel agent, and teacher of English conversation in Japan.
Byron Hoot, Rochester Mills, PA
Born and raised in Morgantown, WV, Hoot now lives in The WILDS of Pennsylvania. Still in Appalachia, where the hills and valleys, streams and lakes, the people formed, and still form him, and give what he writes about. His poems have appeared on Vox Populi, in Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel, Keystone Poetry, The Watershed Journal and other publications.
Marcia L. Hurlow, Lenexa, KS
Marcia’s chapbook of poetry, Dog Physics, was published by Main Street Rag in the fall of 2024. Her newest full-length collection, Practice Rapture, was published in May 2025 by Pine Row Press. She is the editor of Kansas City Review.
Susen James, Evanston, IL
Susen was born, so they say, on a full moon eclipse. She writes poetry & lies because she fears drifting into memoir – truthful but incomplete. When not writing, Susen can be found wandering cemeteries & woodlands or teaching Poetry, Mythology & Fantasy Literature to her fabulous students at Columbia College in Chicago.
Ann Keniston, Reno, NV
Ann Keniston is a poet, essayist, and critic. Her most recent poetry collection is recently, Somatic (Terrapin 2020). Winner of the 2026 Howard Poetry Award from Weber, she has poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Interim, New England Review, Salmagundi, Tampa Review, and elsewhere. A professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, she lives in Reno.
Janet Kozachek, Orangeburg, SC
Janet is an internationally trained artist and writer. She is the author of My Women My Monsters, A Rendering of Soliloquies—Figures Painted in Spots of Time, A Book of Bothersome Cats, and has published in The Colorado Review, Ekphrasis, Porlock, The Heron Anthology, The Poetry Society of South Carolina Yearbook, Kakalak, and The Harpy Hybrid Review.
Zachary Kluckman, Albuquerque, NM
Zachary is an alumnus of the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. He was chosen by Oliver de la Paz for the 2024 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize. His work appears or is forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Muzzle, Crab Orchard Review, Asheville Poetry Review, Arts & Letters, and more.
Michel Steven Krug, St. Louis Park, MN
His poems appeared in Sand Hills, Raven’s Perch, Sierra Nevada Review, Jerry Jazz Musician, Liquid Imagination, Blue Mountain Review, New Verse News, JMWW, Cagibi, Silver Blade, Crack the Spine, Dash, Mikrokosmos, North Dakota Quarterly, Eclectica, Writers Resist, Poets Reading the News, Ginosko and others. His collection, Jazz at the International Festival of Despair, is published by Broadstone Books.
Riot LaRue, Kansas City, KS
Riot LaRue is a nonbinary artist, activist, and all-around problematic creature hailing from the wheatfields of Kansas. When they aren’t writing, they enjoy spending time with their big, scary dogs, creating offensive art, and being the reason that someone clutches their pearls.
Kristin Laurel, Asheville, NC
Kristin owes her passion for poetry to The Loft Literary Center (MPLS) where she completed the Master Track Program. She is the author of Giving Them All away, (Evening Street Press), and Questions About the Ride (Main Street Rag). She currently lives in Asheville, NC with her spouse and two dogs.
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George Longenecker, Pittsburgh, PA
George Longenecker lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and muse, Cynthia Martin. His work has been published in many journals; his book Star Route was published by Main Street Rag. Retired from Vermont State University, he now has time to look for poetry in the paradoxical ways humans repeat their mistakes and reflect nature in their art.
Sara McAulay, Oakland, CA
Sara is a novelist and short fiction writer who received NEA and NJ State Arts Council Fellowships for prose. Recently she has turned to poetry, with nominations for Best of the Net. A chapbook, Ask River, was recently published by Finishing Line Press. A Virginia native, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Kimberly McElhatten, Claysburg, PA
Kimberly’s poems appear in South 85, Red Branch Review, Unlost, and beyond. Winner of Touchstone’s 2026 Spring Poetry Prize, she’s on the editorial teams of Brevity, Fourth River, and Autumn House and directs the WCoNA Book of the Year. Kimberly is a past participant of the Tupelo Press 30/30 Project and Fallingwater’s Nature and Place-Based Writing Residency.
Tony Medina, Hyattsville, MD
Tony is author/editor of twenty-four books for adults and young people. Associate Chair and Director of Creative Writing at Howard University, he won the 2025 Letras Boricuas Fellowship through The Mellon Foundation and the Flamboyán Arts Fund and received the 2025 National Black Writers Conference Nikki Giovanni Award as well as a State of New York Proclamation and Legislative Resolution for literary achievement.
Rekha Mehra, Washington, DC
Rekha is a poet and economist living in Washington, DC, who writes about current events, politics, migration and the environment. Her poems have appeared in Oberon, The HillRag and The Prose Poem and recognized in contests: Bellingham Review (finalist), New Millennium Writings, The Prose Poem, Fish and Bridport. She participated in the Sewanee Writers’ Conference in 2024.
Madelyn Meyers, St. Augustine, FL
Madelyn lives and works under the labels of educator, writer, and wonderer. She has recently published her poetry in Parley Lit, Unleash Lit, Kelp Journal, and Open: Journal of Arts & Letters. Updates on her upcoming works can be found at madelynmeyers.com.
Emily Mohn-Slate, Pittsburgh, PA
Emily is the author of The Falls, winner of the New American Poetry Prize (New American Press), and Feed, winner of the Keystone Chapbook Prize (Seven Kitchens Press). She teaches for the Madwomen in the Attic, writes the Be Where You Are newsletter, and co-hosts the Ass in Chair Collective.
Jed Myers, Seattle, WA
Jed is author of four books of poetry, most recently Can’t Be Far (MoonPath Press, 2026), a finalist for the Sally Albiso Award. Recent honors include Southern Humanities Review’s Auburn Witness Prize. Poems have appeared in Rattle, RHINO, Poetry Northwest, Southern Indiana Review, and elsewhere. Myers lives in Seattle, where he walks local wetlands and edits the journal Bracken.
Deena November, Pittsburgh, PA
Deena authored and edited Mean Mama (Main Street Rag, 2017), Dick Wad (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2012), Nasty Women & Bad Hombres (Lascaux Editions, 2017) and I Just Hope It’s Lethal (Houghton Mifflin Co., 2005). She currently teaches at Robert Morris University, Carlow University, University of Pittsburgh, and CCAC.
Mark S. Osaki, San Jose, CA
Mark has received awards for his poetry from the Academy of American Poets, University of California at Berkeley, San Francisco Arts Commission, Seattle Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts, and is a multiple Pushcart Prize nominee. He is active in domestic violence organizations and animal rescue shelters.
Nina Padolf, Pittsburgh, PA
Nina’s poems, Uprooted (Kelsay Books, 2021) cover her being adopted. Her recent early reader picture book, Samantha the Peanut Butter Detective (Pegasus, 2026) invites the reader to solve the mystery. Retired from instructing college courses, she resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She co-curates Greenhouse Poetry Reading Series. Her poems are published in over 50 journals.
Margery Parsons, Chicago, IL
Margery is a poet and activist. She lives in Chicago, loves the lake and music and film. Her poems have been published in Rag Blog, Poetry Pacific, Calliope, New Verse News, OccuPoetry, Rise Up Review, Madness Muse Press, Haiku Universe, Strukturris, Illinois State Poetry Society, Plate of Pandemic, Dissident Voice and North Coast Voices.
Justine Pechuzal, Seward, AK
Justine is a writer, artist and educator. Wilderness is her muse and creative work the means to explore. Her poetry has appeared in Forum Magazine, Cirque Journal and other publications. She holds an MA in Art Education and is a member of the Drumlins Poetry Group.
Jeannine Marie Pitas, Swissvale, PA
Jeannine is a teacher, writer, and Spanish-English literary translator living in Pittsburgh. She teaches at Saint Vincent College and is on staff at Eulalia Books, a small press publishing experimental Latin American poetry. She is the author of the poetry book Or/And (Paraclete Press 2023) and the translator of thirteen books by Latin American writers.
Louhi Pohjola, Portland, OR
She tends to write poems focused on the intersections of human behavior and the natural world and is an avid fly-fisherwoman and river rock connoisseur. Her chapbook, Cracking Open the Bones, was the 2025 winner of the Elyse Wolf Chapbook Contest from Slate Roof Press.
Bill Ratner, Los Angeles, CA
Bill is a voice actor, 2-time Best of the Net Poetry Nominee, 9-time winner of The Moth StorySLAM, and author of poetry collections Lamenting While Doing Laps in the Lake (Slow Lightning Lit), Fear of Fish (Alien Buddha Press), and To Decorate a Casket (Finishing Line Press). His writing appears in Best Small Fictions 2021 and Missouri Review (audio.)
Jennifer Richards, Pittsburgh, PA
Richards finds inspiration in nature, stillness, travel, and the strange adventure that is the human experience. Her work has appeared in Taproot Literary Review and Literary Kick’s Action Poetry anthology. If you’re looking for her, you can find her in her garden.
Amy Le Ann Richardson, Olive Hill, KY
A writer, educator, and community organizer, she has three poetry collections, including Out of Places, and is founder and director of Bloodroot Young Writers Collective and co-founder of the Appalachian Literary Arts Festival. She is a National Arts Futures Fellow with an MFA from Spalding University.
Elizabeth Robin, Hilton Head Island, SC
Elizabeth has four books with Finishing Line Press, the latest, Notes from the Lagoon, is due March 2027. She created the Hilton Head Poetry Trail to bring poetry into public spaces. Active in Freedom to Read initiatives statewide, she also produces literary programming on the island and for the Poetry Society of South Carolina. More at https://www.elizabethrobin.com/
Greg Roensch, San Francisco, CA
Greg writes flash fiction and poetry, makes poetry-films, and writes and records original songs. His poetry-films have screened at the Ó Bhéal Poetry-Film Competition, the Maldito Festival de Videopoesia, the Another Hole in the Head film festival, and other festivals worldwide. He recently released Howling at the Moons of Saturn, a poetry album featuring original music.
Liz Rosenberg, Binghamton, NY
Liz has published five books of poems and anthologies, including I Just Hope It’s Lethal: Poems of Sadness (HarperCollins), co-edited with Deena November—also novels, biographies, and prize-winning books for children. She teaches at Binghamton University.
Scott Ruescher, Cambridge, MA
Scott is the author of Waiting for the Light to Change (2017, Prolific Press) and Above the Fold (2025, Finishing Line Press). He has new poems in The Ekphrastic Review, Muleskinner Journal, Pangyrus, and Poets Against Racism and Hate, as well as in The Lantern–the online journal of the Colby Museum of Art.
Susan Shaw Sailer, Morgantown, WV
Susan has published five books of poetry: Learning to Count, On the Doorstep, The Distance Beyond Sight, The God of Roundabouts, and Ship of Light, and two chapbooks—Bulletins from a War Zone and COAL.
John Seksay, Augusta, ME
John is from away but has found Maine to feel like home. He is retired from a long career in the medical field. He has had winning poems published in the curated collections of the NFSPS Encore in 2024 and the 2025 Charles Moore Poetry Prize Competition.
Sherry Siddall, Chapel Hill, NC
Sherry’s poetry has appeared in Tar River Poetry, Pine Song, Kakalak, Heron Clan X, and The Southern Poetry Anthology, and has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize. Her most recent book is Transformed and Singing from Main Street Rag.
Alissa Sammarco, Cincinnati, OH
Alissa is an attorney and poet. Her poems capture the extraordinary moments of our everyday lives. A two-time winner of the International Impact Book Award, you can find her work in print and online journals including The Main Street Rag, Sheila-Na-Gig, Quiet Diamonds, Pine Mountain, Sand & Gravel, and elsewhere. Paper Doll (Main Street Rag 2026) is her seventh book.
Janette Schafer, McKees Rocks, PA
Janette is a poet, photographer, playwright, and realtor. She holds an MFA in poetry from Chatham University. She is the author of three poetry collections and the chief editor of two poetry anthologies. Her writing and photographs have appeared in Vox Populi, The Missouri Review, and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She is a winner of the Academy of American Poets Prize.
Carla Schwartz, Carlisle, MA
Her poems have appeared in Rattle, One Art, other journals or anthologies, and in her chapbook, Signs of Marriage. Learn more at https://carlapoet.com, or on all social media @cb99videos. Carla Schwartz received the 2023 New England Poetry Club E.E. Cummings Prize.
Laura Secord, Birmingham, AL
Laura is a poet, storyteller, teaching artist. Her novel-in-poems, An Art, A Craft, A Mystery received the 2024 Award for Poetry by Alabama Library Association and the best Historical Fiction of 2022 by Kirkus Reviews. Her poems appear in Poetry, NELLE, and more. She’s worked as a printer, union organizer, teacher, sex-educator and nurse practitioner in HIV care.
Austin Shuh, Mt. Holly, NJ
Austin is a recent MA graduate from Rowan University, political activist and adjunct professor using poetry and stories to push the world toward progress while educating young adults on how they can do the same. His poetry focuses on the politics of the world today and the troubles of living in the imperial core.
Michael Simms, Pittsburgh, PA
Michael is a poet, novelist and publisher who lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His latest poetry collection is Cities I Can Never Return To (Ragged Sky, 2026). His latest novel is Canticle of Light and Dark (Madville Fantasy, 2027). In 2011, Simms was recognized by the Pennsylvania Legislature for his service to the arts.
Leonora Simonovis, Rochester, NY
Leonora is a Venezuelan American poet, essayist, teaching artist, and the author of Study of the Raft (Colorado Prize for Poetry 2021). She lives, breathes, and thrives best in the in-between spaces of language(s) and culture(s).
Megha Sood, Jersey City, NJ
Megha is an award-winning Asian-American author, poet, editor, and literary activist. Literary Partner with “Life in Quarantine” at Stanford University. Her four poetry collections include the award-winning My Body Lives Like a Threat and Language of the Wound is Love. Her work has been sent to the moon in collaboration with NASA. Link: https://linktr.ee/meghasood
Jeneva Burroughs Stone, Bethesda, MD
Jeneva (she/her)—poet, essayist and advocate—is the author of Monster (Phoenicia Publishing, 2016). Her work has appeared widely in literary journals. Jeneva has received fellowships from MacDowell, Millay Arts and VCCA. Her opinion writing has appeared in The Washington Post and CNN Digital. She and her disabled son Rob advocate for disability rights and rare disease.
Marjorie Tesser, West Nyack, NY
Her debut full-length poetry collection, Unquiet, is forthcoming in 2027 from Cornerstone Press. Her chapbooks are The Important Thing Is, a Firewheel Award winner, and The Magic Feather. The recipient of a prize from Academy of American Poets and a 2026 Poets & Writers GTWO Poetry Fellow, Marjorie is editor-in-chief of MER-Mom Egg Review.
Michel Demetria Tsouris, Pittsburgh, PA
Michel is a painter and writer exploring the cross pollination of art forms. Her works are evocative narratives, rich with iconography. Since 1978, Michel has been actively exhibiting in the U.S. + EU. Representation: Carmel Art Association + AAP. Publications include: Mad Women in the Attic, NAR, Canary, Ravensperch, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize by The Main Street Rag.
Veronica Tucker, Gilford, NH
Veronica is an emergency medicine and addiction medicine physician, writer, and lifelong New Englander. A Pushcart Prize Nominee, her work appears in The Offing, ONE ART, and Rust & Moth, and has been featured in Best Microfiction 2026. Her chapbook, The House as Witness, was published by Quillkeepers Press (2026).
Robert Walicki, White Oak, PA
Robert’s aesthetic speaks to the rich tradition of working-class poetry and the blue-collar sentiment that informs his poetry. His work has appeared in Chiron Review, among others. His most recent collection is Watershed (Broadstone Books, and his latest collection, American Crush is forthcoming from Luchador Press.
Anastasia Walker, Pittsburgh, PA
Anastasia (she/her/hers) is a Maine native, a queer writer and scholar living in Pittsburgh. Her first book of poetry, The Girl Who Wasn’t and Is, was published in 2022. She loves baking, long walks, and swimming in the ocean, and talks to her plants because her landlords won’t let her have a cat.
Eamonn Wall, Webster Groves, MO
Eamonn is the author of Conocimiento: Writing Irish Borderlands (Peter Lang, 2025) and My Aunts at Twilight Poker (Salmon Poetry, 2023) as well as poems, essays, and reviews in journals in the USA, Australia, and Ireland.
Pennie Bisbee Walters, Pittsburgh, PA
Pennie has been a writer for most of her life. She’s part of the Madwomen in the Attic writing community in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and earned her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Carlow University in December 2018. Her work has appeared in Full Grown People, Hole in the Head Review, Silver Birch Press, 3 Sisters, and Third Street Review.
Eric Weil, Raleigh, NC.
Journals in which he’s been published range from American Scholar to Poetry, from Dead Mule to Sow’s Ear, and from Silk Road to Red Planet have published his poems. Three chapbooks: A Horse at the Hirshhorn, Returning from Mars, and Ten Years In. Eric also writes plays. Theatre companies in several states have produced his one-act plays.
Robin M. White, Cochran, GA
Robin started writing poetry in high school. After retiring last year, poetry became her way of processing her thoughts and emotions around this new phase of life. Robin resides in her small hometown in Middle GA. Her dream is to live on the beach at her favorite place in the world, Jekyll Island, GA.
Gerald Yelle, Amherst, MA
Gerald has an MFA from UMASS. He has worked in restaurants, factories, schools and offices. His books include Love Bomb, Evolution for the Hell of It, the bored and The Holyoke Diaries. His chapbooks include No Place I Would Rather Be and A Box of Rooms.
Hiromi Yoshida, Bloomington, IL
Hiromi is the author of four full-length poetry collections and seven poetry chapbooks. She is the Poetry Editor of Flying Island Journal, Chair of the Writers Guild at Bloomington, and curator of the Guild’s Last Sunday Poetry reading series. Her latest poetry book is All Those Pretty Horses (Alien Buddha Press, 2026).
Jason Youngclaus, Haverhill, MA
Jason is the author of Little Planet Raisins (Spartan Press, 2020). His recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in JMWW Literary Journal, Anti-Heroin Chic, Pictura Journal, and Jerry Jazz Musician, among others, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He lives in New England’s Merrimack Valley, where his interests include old diners & acoustic guitars.
