Ben McClure – Western Australia

Ben McClure is a writer and filmmaker. Born and raised in the United States, he now makes his home in Perth, Australia where he works with a Christian missionary society alongside his wife Liesbeth and their three daughters. He enjoys creating stories for work and for fun. He gets excited about science fiction and superheroes, and is deeply interested in matters of faith.

You can follow his WordPress blog.

Michele Mekel – Pennsylvania, USA

Living in Happy Valley, Michele Mekel wears many hats of her choosing: writer and editor; educator and bioethicist; poetess and creatrix; cat herder and chief can opener; witch and woman; and, above all, human. Her work has appeared in various academic and creative publications, including being featured on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac and nominated for Best of the Net. Her poetry has also been translated into Cherokee. She is co-principal investigator for the Viral Imaginations: COVID-19 project.

Michele is co-principal investigator for the Viral Imaginations: COVID-19 project.

John Muro – Connecticut, USA

A resident of Connecticut and a lover of all things chocolate, John Muro has authored two volumes of poems – In the Lilac Hour and Pastoral Suite – in 2020 and 2022, respectively. He is a three-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize, a nominee for the Best of the Net Award and, more recently, he received a 2023 Grantchester Award. John’s work has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including Acumen, Barnstorm, Delmarva, Moria, River Heron, Sky Island and the Valparaiso Review.

You may follow John on Instagram.

Linda Maxwell – South Carolina, USA

Linda Maxwell is a mom, an English teacher, and a writer who has published in Catholic Digest, Southern Women’s Review, Tidelands, GAB News, SC Living, Chicken Soup for the Soil and The Georgetown Times. She completed her B.A. and M.A. at the University of New Mexico and a second M.A. from Eastern Kentucky University. Her teaching experiences have taken her to the Laguna-Acoma Reservation, the U.S. Territory of Guam, a few rural schools and some others in between. She is currently working with a professional athlete to develop his autobiography.

Clare Marsh – Kent, UK

Clare Marsh lives in Kent, UK and is an international adoption social worker. She has won the Sentinel Annual Short Story Competition and the 2020 Olga Sinclair Short Story Prize. Her writing has appeared recently in Mslexia. It has been featured in Ink, Sweat and Tears, Lighthouse, Flash Flood, Places of Poetry, Rebel Talk, Oxford Flash Fiction, Cauldron and Acropolis anthologies. She was awarded M.A. Creative Writing (University of Kent) in 2018 and nominated for a Pushcart Prize for a poem in The Binnacle in 2017.

Find more on Clare on Twitter.

Farida Mijindadi – Nasara State, Nigeria

Farida Mijindadi is a speculative fiction writer who struggles with deadlines, writer’s block, and finding the perfect opening line for her stories. When she isn’t complaining about how hard writing is, and promising to never write again — a promise she always breaks after 12 hours — she is hunting for new songs like a mad woman.

Find Farida on Facebook, Twitter, and her blog.

Jermuel Manarin – Cavite, Philippines

Jermuel Manarin is a Registered National Book Development Board (NBDB) writer from the Philippines, which is dedicated to advancing and nurturing the book industry in the Philippines. He writes stories and poems, and his work has been published in a book called “Kuwento Book: An Anthology of Filipino Stories + Poems ” and will be published in other journals soon. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in English Language Studies at Cavite State University. He’s currently working as Associate Research Writer.

Janet McCann – Texas, USA

Janet McCann, is from College Station, Texas. Journals publishing Janet McCann’s work include Kansas Quarterly, Parnassus, Nimrod, Sou’wester, America, Christian Century, Christianity and Literature, New York Quarterly, Tendril, and others. She has written four poetry books and six chapbooks. Her most recent poetry book: The Crone at The Casino (Lamar University Press, 2014) She taught at Texas A&M for 47 years. She lives with her dogs, Marple and Poirot, and writes copiously about them.