Zach Murphy is a Hawaii-born writer with a background in cinema. His stories appear in Reed Magazine, The Coachella Review, Maudlin House, Still Point Arts Quarterly, B O D Y, Ruminate, Wilderness House Literary Review, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, and more.
Adrian Bravi’s four short stories are instead teeming with a more homogeneous chorus of protagonists – gangs of children inhabiting poor neighborhoods in a small town in Argentina. The glue that holds together their esprit de corps is a childlike imaginative misreading of and sometimes contempt for the adult world, which leads them to exercise their power as a group by tormenting or further excluding marginalized people in their community.
Ishrat Tania is a poet and writer from Bangladesh. Her literary work revolves around perceptions and thoughts about human relations, despair, dreams, nature, transcendence, society and politics. Her published books in Bengali include Nemeche Ichche Niribili (2016), Beejpurush (2018), Mad Ek Swarnava Shishir (2020), Alaper Amphitheater (2020).
A sceince fiction by Andrew Joron openes up at the world Hurth that does not turn, but is forever divided into Dayside and Nightside. Pastoral tribes wander across the snowy fields of Dayside under a cold blue sun that never changes its position in the sky. By mythic coincidence, all tribes simultaneously arrive at the gates of Lunagrad, an automated city.
Kieran Vaughan is a published poet. Just recently she was an assistant editor for the multiple award-winning literary magazine, Grub Street, at Towson University.
Kenneth M. Kapp was a Professor of Mathematics, a ceramicist, a welder, and an IBMer until downsized in 2000. He lives with his wife and beagle in Shorewood, Wisconsin and writes late at night in his man-cave.
Marco Etheridge is a writer of fiction and CNF, an occasional playwright, and a part-time poet. He lives and writes in Vienna, Austria.
Megan Marie Sullivan graduated from Northwestern University with an MA in Creative Writing in 2012. She currently lives in Chicago and train robots for a living.
Matheus Borges was born in Porto Alegre, southern Brazil. His fiction has been published in a number of magazines, both Brazilian (Subversa, Gueto) and international (Waccamaw, Fiction International, Scoundrel Time), as well as anthologies.
Mojaffor Hossain is a notable fiction writer of contemporary Bangla literature. His signature style is using native realities as his settings, and giving them magic-realistic or surrealistic colours. The story is translated from the Bengali by Shamita Das Dasgupta.
