David Ohle is an American writer, novelist, and a lecturer at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. After receiving his M.A. from KU, he taught at the University of Texas at Austin from 1975 to 1984. In 2002 he began teaching fiction writing and screenwriting as a part-time lecturer at the University of Kansas. His short fiction has appeared in Esquire, the Transatlantic Review, Paris Review, and Harper's, among other magazines. While it remained out of print for over thirty years, his first novel Motorman (initially published in 1972) gathered a quiet cult following, was circulated through photocopies, and went on to become an influence to a generation of American writers such as Shelley Jackson and Ben Marcus. His subsequent novels The Age of Sinatra (2004), The Pisstown Chaos (2008) and The Old Reactor (2013) take place in the same dystopian setting as Motorman. Ohle's fiction is often described as weird, surreal and experimental. His own influences include Leonora Carrington, Philip K. Dick, Flann O'Brien, and Raymond Roussel.

For the last several years M Sarki has maintained a literary blog called The Rogue Literary Society which can be found at https://rogueliterarysociety.com/ where he publishes his critical views on subjects and books read, photographs and nude art collaborations with his wife, as well as periodical attempts at creating poetic artifacts. Since 2000 Sarki has produced four collections of poetry and four books of prose. M Sarki has also written, directed, and produced four short art films titled Gnoman's Bois de Rose, Biscuits and Striola, The Tools of Migrant Hunters, My Father's Kitchen, and he is the author of the feature film screenplay, Alphonso Bow. — m sarki mewlhouse@gmail.com

Juliet Cook's first full-length poetry collection—HORRIFIC CONFECTION—is available as a free BlazeVOX ebook! HORRIFIC CONFECTION She also has oodles of print and online poetry chapbooks published in a variety of sources. In addition to being a poet, she is the editor of a one-woman indie press, Blood Pudding Press, which specializes in poetry and artsy little misfit offerings. She also edits Blood Pudding Press' spooky little sister in the form of an online literary publication called Thirteen Myna Birds. Find out more Juliet stuff at The Poetic Pursuit of Juliet Cook

Megan Martin is the author of a collection of tiny stories, NEVERS (Caketrain Journal and Press 2014) and a book of prose, Sparrow & Other Eulogies (Gold Wake 2011). Her work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, The Offing, The Collagist, Hobart, MAKE: a Chicago Literary Magazine, >kill author, The Offending Adam, The Ampersand Review, Caketrain, Tarpaulin Sky, and WebConjunctions, among others. She lives in Cincinnati, a place of weird, wonderful, and disappointing energies, with her boyfriend and 3 cats.

Nick Ripatrazone is the author of Longing for an Absent God: Faith and Doubt in Great American Fiction (Fortress Press 2020) and Wild Belief: Faith in the Wilderness (Fortress Press 2021). He is the Culture Editor for Image Journal, a Contributing Editor at The Millions, and a columnist for Literary Hub. He has written for Rolling Stone, GQ, The Atlantic, Esquire, America, Commonweal, Christianity Today, The Sewanee Review, The Christian Century, Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, and elsewhere.