W. David Hall teaches English at Valley International Preparatory High School in Chatsworth, CA. Most recently, he retired from a 20-year stint as on-site director of the Kenyon Young Writers Program, but he still keeps tabs on the place. His work can be seen in The Kenyon Review, Callalloo, and After The Pause. "Prince Valiant Works the Black Seam," first published in Callaloo, was also published in The Best African American Fiction 2010. He has also written a textbook for writing called Culture In Context: A Basic Writing Guide with Readings (Pearson, 2003). He is also CEO of BreakBread Literacy Project, a recently created literacy non-profit dedicated to bringing forth high school and college voices that aren't often at the forefront. When not writing or teaching, he lives in the Marvel Universe and is learning the fine art of living every day to its fullest from his wife.

Crystal AC Salas is a Chicanx poet, essayist, educator, and community organizer. Her work has appeared in Chaparral Poetry, The Acentos Review, Inscape Magazine, The Speakeasy Project, YAY! LA Magazine, and others. She is currently pursuing her MFA at UC Riverside where she has the opportunity to provide arts and storytelling outreach as a Gluck fellow and Along the Chaparral fellow, respectively. She also works as a high school English teacher and youth slam poetry coach. She lives in Los Angeles where she writes about the city’s landscapes of grief and remembrance, of its memorialized and un-memorialized spaces.

Jamie Lyn Smith is a writer, editor, and teacher. She earned her BA in English and Theatre from Kenyon College, her Masters in Education from Fordham University, and her MFA in Creative Writing from Ohio State. Jamie Lyn is a founding member of BreakBread Literacy Project and a Consulting Editor for the Kenyon Review. Her work has appeared in The Pinch, The Mississippi Review, The Kenyon Review, American Literary Review, Yemassee, Bayou, and other fine literary magazines. Her short story collection, Township, debuted from Cornerstone Press in January 2022. She is currently writing Hometown, a novel about millennial crises and the rise of white nationalism in the rural Midwest, for which she received a 2020 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award.

Lorena is a writer, editor and translator based in Brazil and proudly latina. As a chronically online millennial, she is always trying to build better online spaces for young creatives. In her free time, she loves to travel, visit museums and sleep in. A city girl forever, she can always be found walking somewhere with audiobooks and podcasts on her earbuds. She thinks (and talks!) a lot about feminism, social justice, art and the importance of crossing borders when thinking of cultural expression. She can be found on instagram at @mementolore, where she aims to create an aesthetic feed.

Phoebe Houser (she/her) is an undergraduate student majoring in English at Kenyon College. She lives in Pennsylvania where she enjoys reading and making excessive amounts of soup. She is currently a volunteer reader for The Common, and her work has appeared in the Blue Marble Review.

Jamie Logan Benner holds a PhD in English (Creative Writing) from the University of Southern Mississippi. She served as Managing Editor at The Pinch, Product, and BreakBread magazines and as Associate Editor for Mississippi Review. Currently, she works in production at Acadian House Publishing and volunteers as Operations Manager at BreakBread Literacy Project. Her writing has appeared in Prairie Schooner, New Ohio Review, Barrelhouse, and elsewhere.

Brenda Delfino is a bilingual poet, writer, editor, and educator based in Riverside. She is passionate about community coalition and creativity for self-determination and healing. Brenda received an MFA in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts from University of California, Riverside (UCR). She is a VONA and Along the Chaparral Fellow. Her works have appeared in World Literature Today, Los Angeles Review of Books, Pacific Review, Spectrum Magazine, and elsewhere. She is a literary liaison and editor at Black Light Arts Collective. Brenda has worked on multiple zines and anthologies and has translated poetry in Spanish and English. She is Poet B and host of the podcast Baby Poet.

Alex Manebur is an artist based in both California and Iowa. She has created four self-illustrated chapbooks and was a finalist for the LA Youth Poet Laureate in 2019. Her work has been accepted by Peach Mag, Vagabond City, Camas, and others.

Raygoza is a graduate from the University of California-Riverside with a degree in Creative Writing. She has found her inspiration as a writer from her mother’s life stories and her own experiences as a daughter. When she’s not writing nonfiction pieces she loves to experiment with poetry. She is currently an Editorial Intern at HerStry and wishes to continue to explore her passion as an editor.

Primm Hague (she/they) is a writer and filmmaker from Chicago, IL. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Film from Kenyon College. Primm first picked up a camera in high school and started making short horror movies around her house with her friends. Over the next few years, she continued to develop her passion as a filmmaker by working on drama, comedy, and documentary pieces. In her final year at Kenyon, Primm returned to the horror genre by writing, directing, and editing HORIZON, a short film excerpted from a feature script they began writing at the same time. When Primm isn’t making (or watching) movies, she is most often spinning records with her cat perched nearby. Check out Primm’s work at primmhague.com.

Susan Grochmal is a poet, electronic music producer, instrument builder, and multimedia artist. She is a graduate of The University of Virginia’s Area Program in Poetry Writing. Susan has released two albums under her musical project, AUTODIVA, and is currently working on the third. She enjoys watching movies and loves water. Her work can be viewed here: https://sgrochmal.wixsite.com/susangrochmal

Carrie Hsu is a writer from New York and an undergraduate student at Harvard University. She is a prose reader for The Adroit Journal and a graduate of the 2019 Iowa Young Writers’ Studio. Her work has appeared in Bridge: The Bluffton University Literary Journal and The Apprentice Writer. Carrie has received recognition from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, National Council of Teachers of English, Ringling College, Regulus Press, and the Goi Peace Foundation.

Chiara Naomi is a recipient of the Hamilton Prize for Creativity at Wesleyan University and a past participant of fiction workshops at the Key West Literary Seminar and Guernica’s inaugural Back Draft Live. Their writing has been published in The Literary Review and shortlisted for The London Magazine's Short Story Prize. Chiara is a fiction reader at Guernica and a fiction editor at BreakBreadLiteracy Project. When she's not reading or writing, Chiara can probably be found petting a dog. 

Sarah Garcia is a speculative fiction writer with a BA from UCLA and an MFA from Mills College. A self-described Chicanx bisexual disaster from Los Angeles, she loves fairytales and writing the weird, horrific, and fantastical. Her writing is featured or forthcoming in Enchanted Conversation, FEM Newsmagazine, and BreakBread Magazine. She’s been awarded the Amanda Davis MFA Thesis in Fiction Prize, the Melody Clarke Teppola Prize, and the Marion Hood Boess Haworth Prize. She has worked as a staff writer at FEM Newsmagazine, a graduate assistant for the Place for Writers, and a managing prose editor for 580 Split.

Jami'L Carter is a director, writer, and poet. She holds a Bachelor's degree in English from Southeastern Louisiana University and is an MFA Film candidate at the University of New Orleans. Her art implores thought and brings awareness to societal issues. Such examples of her work are festival selected films: “Tender Curiosity” and “To Get By”, and published poems: “Void: Generational Wounds” and “Alligatoridae”. Her writing can be found in Passengers Journal, Decolonial Passage, and Free Spirit. She is currently working on her upcoming film, Below the Veil, and poetry book, Indigo 24. A self-described flaneur, she thrives to impact the world the best way she knows how, with her writing.

Sophia Takrouri is a writer from Mount Vernon, Ohio and is a graduate of the Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop. She is passionate about telling stories and helping other people reach their creative goals.

Casey Elizabeth Capsambelis is an undergraduate student at Kenyon College, where she is pursuing a double major in English and Political Science. She has been a creative writer since she first learned to put letters on paper, and she is currently in the process of drafting a children’s series and a young adult novel. Casey is passionate about education policy, reform, and equity, and hopes to dedicate her career to building a public school system that is equipped to support every student. In her free time, Casey enjoys biking, historical costuming, singing, and songwriting.

Olivia is an undergraduate student studying English, Creative Writing, and Gender Studies at Kenyon College. She is a writer who engages with magical realism, often focusing on the raw grit of the feminine experience. Her work has been featured in HIKA Magazine. She currently lives in Connecticut with three spoiled cats.