Sophia Ross Eckert is a prose writer and editor from Ontario, Canada. She holds an MFA in fiction from George Mason University, where she served as Editor-in-Chief for phoebe. Her fiction has been shortlisted in several literary contests, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Santa Clara Review, West Trade Review, and Salt Hill. She has been awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and Banff Centre for the Arts. When she isn't at her desk reading or writing, her favorite place to be is in the woods with her dog, Winona, searching for the perfect stick.

Susan Muth is a Best of the Net and Pushcart-nominated writer from Virginia. She recently earned her MFA in poetry from George Mason University. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Ocean State Review, Pinch, West Trade Review, Breakwater Review, Chaotic Merge Magazine, Ucity Review, Rejection Letters, The Northern Virginia Review, and others. She is the former poetry editor for phoebe and immediately looks up the IMDB page of any film she is watching.

Nicole Brate is a graphic designer with a decade of experience in digital imaging, layout design, and brand management. Her work has garnered 15+ publication awards, and her expertise is complemented by a Bachelor's in Fine Arts from Iowa State University. Outside of work, Nicole finds balance through swimming, exploring fantasy literature, and crocheting blankets for NICU infants.

Originally from the Eastern Shore, Taylor Schaefer lives and writes in Maryland. Her poems and essays have been published in The Pinch, Hawai'i Pacific Review, The Shore, Stonecoast Review, Runestone and others. Taylor is looking forward to continuing her work with Stillhouse Press as Editorial Director and their first Graduate Publishing Fellow. She is currently at work on her first collection of essays about American mythos and gun culture.

Bodie Fox (he/him) is a writer from GA who teaches in VA. He received his MFA from George Mason University.

Victoria Jean Reynolds was born in 1993 during the storm of the century in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She holds an MFA in poetry from George Mason University. Her work is recently featured or forthcoming in Salt Hill, SCR, Raleigh Review, Pinch, and Muzzle. She currently serves as the Poetry Editor for Stillhouse Press.

Thomas Eckert is a software developer from Ontario, Canada. He earned his Masters in Physics at the University of Rochester, then went on to a career in software at Microsoft, HashiCorp, and Redpanda Data. He likes to paint watercolors and listen to history podcasts while walking his dog.