Susi Bocks - writer/author/poet, has self-published two books - Feeling Human and Every Day I Pause. You can find her work at IWriteHer.com or follow her on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MyHumanityInWrittenForm/, where she invites you to read her thoughts and get to know her. She is also the editor of The Short of It. Her online magazine recently published the anthology - The Sound of Brilliance. Bocks' work has been published in the anthologies As the World Burns: Writers and Artists Reflect on a World Gone Mad, SMITTEN: This Is What Love Looks Like: Poetry by Women for Women and in Scarlet Leaf Review, VitaBrevis, Spillwords, Literary Yard, as well as other literary magazines.

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Cynthia Padilla is a lawyer and content designer from Los Angeles, California. She enjoys writing poetry as a creative outlet for her busy life. Cynthia has been published in several anthologies and maintains a poetry account on Instagram: @cynthiapadillajd_poetry. A lover of music, she is also an avid vinyl record collector.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cynthiampadilla/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/cynmariancyblib

Ingrid is the owner and editor of the publishing house Experiments in Fiction, which takes its name from her popular blog. She has been writing poetry since childhood, and more recently has launched her passion for writing into a career.

A featured contributor at MasticadoresUSA, and bartender at dVerse Poets’ Pub, Ingrid has had her writing published in many online publications and print journals. In July 2021, she published 'The Anthropocene Hymnal,' a poetry anthology representing a response to the climate and ecological crisis. She published her first solo poetry collection, 40 Poems at 40, via EIF in February 2022.

You can find her on Twitter @Experimentsinfc and Instagram @Experimentsinfiction.

C.X.Turner, known to friends as Luci (she/her) is a poet and registered social care professional living and working in the UK. She has published long and short-form poetry including haiku and senryu internationally, including in cattails, Failed Haiku, Presence and the British Society’s members’ anthology. Nominated for a Touchstone Prize in 2022. She is working on a debut poetry collection.

Gabriela Marie Milton is an Amazon bestselling poet and an internationally published author. She is the author of the #1 best-selling poetry collection Woman: Splendor and Sorrow: | Love Poems and Poetic Prose, and the author of Passions: Love Poems and Other Writings. She edited and curated the anthology Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women.

Gabriela is also the editor of MasicadoresUSA. Her poetry and short prose have appeared in various magazines and anthologies. Under the pen name Gabriela M she was awarded 2019 Author of the Year at Spillwords Press (NYC). Her piece "If I say I love you" was nominated for 2020 Spillwords Press Publication of the Year (Poetic). On July 6, 2021, Gabriela was featured in New York Glamour Magazine. You can read her interview here: https://nyglamour.net/keep-going-greatness-always-encounters-resistance-gabriela-marie-milton/