Morgan Kaura
Morgan is a third-year from SoCal, majoring in Education with SOAN and Math Ed minors. He is passionate about all forms of visual and creative art, particularly mixed-media pieces and collages. His work often combines elements of nostalgia and vibrant imagery with topics of grief, relationships, and philosophical ponderings. Art Instagram: @pxledplxntz
Nathaniel Brame
Originally hailing from the Great Lakes region, Nathaniel Brame is a transplant to the Pacific Northwest. He is currently studying English at Southern Oregon University. He tries to write up against the edge of something as close as he can get without touching.
b. h. fein
b. h. fein (they/them) is not fine. they have appeared in a growing number of lit mags. they no longer write cloying classical poetry 😉
Evan Chapin
Evan Chapin is a Junior at Southern Oregon University, majoring in Creative Writing. He graduated from Yoncalla High School and got his Associate of Arts Degree from Umpqua Community College, and has been thrilled by writing his whole life.
Emily Alcaraz
Emily Alcaraz is a student at SOU in criminology and spends free time drawing works of art that mean something to her and those around her. She mostly draws for dear friends and family.
Lindsay Loughin
Lindsay Loughin is a nonbinary bipolar veteran, poet and essayist. They live in Pittsburgh, PA with their two black cats (Nyx and Artemis), collect cassette tapes and N64 games, and have a complicated relationship with the Oxford comma.
Aydin Eliason
Aydin Eliason has lived in Ashland, Oregon for over a decade and is a Creative Writing student at Southern Oregon University. He loves writing both fiction and poetry and embracing the power of linguistic noise. Aydin believes weirdness in writing is secondary in importance only to qualities without which writing would not exist.
Josh Patton
Josh Patt is a hugger, a lover of big bodies and soft voices, the color blue. Masculinity and comfort, connection and slugs are common topics of ponder. Other work can be found in the previous publication of Main Squeeze.
KJ Hannah Greenberg
KJ Hannah Greenberg tilts at social ills and encourages personal evolutions via poetry, prose, and visual art. Her images have appeared as interior art in many places, including Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Les Femmes Folles, Mused, Piker Press, The Academy of the Heart and Mind, The Front Porch Review, and Yellow Mama and has cover art in many places, including Angime, Black Petals, Door is A Jar Literary Magazine [sic], Impspired [sic], Pithead Chapel, Red Flag Poetry, Right Hand Pointing, Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, The Broken City, Torah Tidbits and Yellow Mama. Additionally, some of her digital paintings are featured alongside her poetry in One-Handed Pianist (Hekate Publishing, 2021) and in Subrogation (Seashell Books, 2023).
Thomas Holton
Thomas Holton is a Florida-born writer and poet based in Chicago. He has poems published or forthcoming in Red Ogre Review, hu the zine, Ink in Thirds, and The Rappahannock Review.
Poch Saldana
Poch Saldana is a sociology student currently residing in Portland, OR! They have a strong interest in media preservation and the cultural significance of “play.” Previously published at Pathos Literary Magazine, PRISM International, and HaluHalo Journal.
Rebekah Hopp
Rebekah Hopp is from Whitefish, Montana. She is currently trying to find God in Southern Oregon, but He hasn’t gotten back to her yet. If you’ve seen Him let her know @rebekahwrites_
Nathaniel Krenkel
Nathaniel Krenkel’s most recent work has appeared in The Café Review, Chronogram, Deadlands, Toasted Cheese, The Island Reader, and The Sandy River Review. He is the host of Rhizome Radio at WMPG, runs the indie record label Team Love, and lives in Portland, Maine with his wife and two children.
Guillermo Jaro
Guillermo Jaro is a faker of photography. Based in that part of SoCal no one knows but where the tacos are good and the graffiti is better. He likes taking pictures of ugly things that make him smile. You can find his work on walls and nowhere.
JB Cordez
JB Cordez, originally from the Philippines, is a writer based in the town of Phoenix, Oregon. Along with screenplays and fiction short stories, he writes poetry influenced by bebop jazz, Hip-hop, and the beat poets.
Cathy Ulrich
There are peacocks at the zoo in Cathy Ulrich’s town, but she’s never actually seen a peahen in person. Her work has been published in various journals, including Bluestem, Gastropoda and Reed Magazine.
Sam Veres
Sam Veres is an elementary education major at Southern Oregon University. In her writing, she strives to capture the little forgettable moments of life and frame them in a new light.
Sarah Jade Stokes
Sarah Jade Stokes is alive and viewing the world as it chews and spits us all out
Ollie Ollinghouse
Ollie Ollinghouse’s work titled, “Spider Web” is a concrete poem about events that have changed the author’s perspective regarding life, death, and everything in between. They grew up in the Pacific Northwest before joining the military, where they spent a year evacuating Afghanistan refugees after the Taliban takeover in Kabul. After retiring, they moved back to the PNW and started University.
Lion Leonis
Lion Leonis is a photographer majoring in emerging media and digital arts who enjoys exploring gender, identity & mental health in staged-styled photographs.
MICHAEL CHANG
MICHAEL CHANG (they/them) is the author of SYNTHETIC JUNGLE (Northwestern University Press, 2023), TOY SOLDIERS (Action, Spectacle, 2024) & THE HEARTBREAK ALBUM (Coach House Books, 2025). They edit poetry at Fence.
Joe Kunkel
Joe Kunkel is a scary philosopher from Davis, CA. He spends his time saber fighting and chanting sutras on Mt. Tamalpais while refusing suggestions from rhetoricians in florid hawaiian shirts to enter the ‘persuasion business.’ He’s a sophomore at Southern Oregon University.
Rhiannon Cielos Chavez
Rhiannon Cielos Chavez is a trans masculine whitewashed Mexican from Los Angeles, California. They enjoy chasing deer, drinking beer, and talking to their dead dad. You can find their work in Angel Rust, Club Plum, and zines & things’ recent anthology, Journeys: What We Carry, What We Leave Behind.
Asher Marin
Asher Marin hails from southern Michigan. These days, they’ve betrayed their state and now reside in Ohio, where they study creative writing at Bowling Green State University. They enjoy playing music, cooking, and making their roommates mad.
Jade Harper
Jade Harper is a freshman at SOU majoring in Emerging Media and Digital Art. They love making art and have experimented with various forms including drawing, writing, and theater. Their art ranges from somber to whimsical, and tries to understand the universe and whatever’s beyond it in whatever ways we can.
David Gilbert
David Gilbert has published stories and poetry in the Mississippi Review Online, Blip, New World Writing, First Intensity, In Posse, Caliban, Screens and Tasted Parallels, and other magazines. He has coedited with Karl Roeseler two collections of stories: Here Lies and 2000andWhat? He is the author of four books and eBooks of stories: I Shot the Hairdresser, Overland, A Third Bridge, and Central Casting. He has also authored Five Happiness, an obstruction-driven narrative.
Mags Brown
Mags Brown (any pronouns) is a creative writing student at Southern Oregon University. They are frothing at the mouth.
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