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Mary is a poet, mother, sister, daughter, friend, and novice (but enthusiastic) birder. She is continuously inspired by the natural world and loathes being indoors. She self-published her first collection of nature-focused poetry, "This Wild Heart Inside Me," in the summer of 2024. You can find her on Instagram along with a link to purchase her book—@wordsinwaiting.

Raquel Dionísio Abrantes is a Portuguese poet. She has a Bachelor's Degree and a Master’s Degree in Cinema from Universidade da Beira Interior. Raquel gave a Master Class in Writing of Scripts about Narrative Structure. Her writing has been published by literary journals and magazines.

Indira (she/they) is a Canadian poet and potter, practicing in the field of human rights from 9 to 5. While her ceramic art is known for playful and vibrant motifs, her poetry paints in darker themes, with grief, yearning, and nostalgia. A millennial emo through and through, their casual and melancholy prose is ripe with references, dripping with brain rot. You can follow their bargain bin hero's journey on insta @littledeathpoetry

Emboldened by open skies and raw emotions, Lydia Hack is a poet who has always been in awe of the beauties, intricacies, and patterns of relationships and how they impact our mental health. Over the years Lydia has turned to poetry to express these emotions. She has used the formation of words as a means to heal, as a way to stabilize, and as an outlet for speaking her truth. Lydia is a therapist, a mother of twins, a baker of bread, and has raised her family all over the U.S. In the spring, Lydia and her family are moving back to Sitka, Alaska to live on a yacht and start their own private charter cruise business Elysium Expeditions. You can find her poetry, her travels, and a link to purchase her book Ravished on Instagram @lydia_hack_.

Angelina Aldrich is an Executive Chef, a poet,  and a creativity enthusiast. Her work explores themes of love, loss, sensory experiences and a lifetime spent in Florida where she party prepped for hurricanes, avoided sharks  and drank out of hoses. Her writing appears in the Upon Learning Anthology and the Gather Anthology. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee and when she isn’t writing you can find her on a hike or in a Honky Tonk, listening to some of the worlds finest music.

Will is a South African writer, focuses on building his craft through workshops and writing circles. His work delves deep into the lores of love and identity, often mythologizing the queer experience. The most likely place to find him is in limerence.

James Morehead is Poet Laureate Emeritus of Dublin, California, host of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast, and has several collections of poetry including "The Plague Doctor". “tethered” was transformed into an award-winning animated short film, “Twilight in the Sculpture Forest” won Best Documentary at the Los Angeles Poetry Film Festival,  and “gallery” was set to music for baritone and piano. He has been published in the Ignatian, Beyond Words, Citron Review, Ekphrastic Review, Loud Coffee Press, Havik, and others. James has performed in Patagonia's Poet Laureate Celebration, NPR’s Poetically Yours, and as Guest Poet at the 20th Annual Haiku Festival.

Michelle Windsor is a full-time thinker, part-time writer who writes poems because an essay doesn’t fit on a shower wall. She is the creator of Part-Time Poets, lead author of a poetry anthology, In Which I Try to Save the World, and has been published in Coffee + Crumbs. Other titles in her email signature include: Boy Mom, Sunset Collector, Elder Millennial Entering Her Plant Lady Phase. She sporadically shares her poems on Substack and Instagram.

Sukriti Patny is a writer and poet based in India who’s turned to the words in a flailing attempt to stay sane. She spends her time overthinking everything, writing confessional poems on the gorgeous mess we find in our insides, and exploring the many ways in which nature, unresolved feelings and everyday ordinary things leave her awestruck.

You can find her poetry and personal essays on Instagram @wordsbysu and on Substack: Soul Gazing

Mary Geschwindt writes from NYC. A Pushcart Prize nominee and co-editor of the 2025 Gather Anthology, her poems have been published in the Upon Learning That Anthology, Gather, the Harvard Urban Review, and Rookie Mag. She is a transportation planner by day, poet by night, always looking for poetry in the movement of the city. Connect with Mary on Instagram @poemsasmaps.

Lauren Richkus is a poet from the suburbs of Chicago. She is a social worker in Geriatrics by day. She has always loved writing but has come back home to it in the last few years after a long hiatus. Lauren has found that poetry provides her a safe place to process the world and her emotions as well as a sacred place for her to rest from the never-ending demands of capitalism. She hopes that her art can make others feel seen, loved, or maybe even make you laugh. Lauren aspires to be a life-long unlearner, frequent mistake-maker, and silly goose until the very end. She has dreams of publishing a collection of her poems in the future. You can find her on Instagram @laurenrichwrites.

Sarah Frost is a poet and wanderer who is constantly searching the world for bits of everyday magic. Her poems are often time capsules containing what she’s discovered. Her previous work has been published by Corporeal and Lenticular literary magazines, with upcoming pieces slated for publishing in Palindrome Journal, Beyond Words and Last Leaves magazines.

Stephanie would rather be anywhere but where she is supposed to be, and oftentimes, this is exactly where you will find her. Passionately non-compliant, her devotion to helping others discover what excites them in life may be the only thing that grounds her. An avid reader, she began her poetry writing journey very early on, developing a love for rhythm and rhyme that tends to sneak into everything she writes today. Her current work explores concepts in love, nature and politics. She spends her life trying to make the impossible feel possible, and feels lucky to still live in the Bay Area with her family, between the ocean and the redwoods.

Alina Kalontarov is a teacher of English literature and Humanities in New York City. Whether in the classroom or through her poetry and photography, she hopes to inspire people to find their unique voice and vision in the increasingly myopic noise machine of the world. Her poems have found homes in various literary journals and anthologies including Sky Island Journal, Thimble Literary Magazine, Sand Hills, Prosetrics, Last Leaves, Wild Roof, boats against the current, Querencia Press and others.You can check out more about her relationship to writing in this Scribeworth interview and find some of her work on her instagram @alinakay66.

Amanda Emilio is a musician and poet from Long Island, NY. She is fascinated with and often writes about the strong ties between everyday life and spirituality. Her poems have been published in Amethyst Review, Beyond Words Magazine, The Winged Moon, and elsewhere. She currently serves as a reader for Epiphany and as an editor for The Poetry Lighthouse.

Melia (she/her) is based in San Diego, CA, originally from Maryland. By day, she's a sales director specializing in content marketing services, but she has increasingly made time in her life for creative writing, finally pursuing her childhood dream of being a writer! She is a published playwright of a one-act show for high schools called "Love Is Awkward" and is working on her first novel, slowly. She writes about grief, anxiety, womanhood, her dog, and trying to find beautiful things in the world.