Brian C. Billings is a professor of drama and English at Texas A&M University-Texarkana, where he teaches creative writing and children’s literature.  He also serves as the Editor-in-Chief for Aquila Review, the university’s literary journal.  His work has appeared in such journals as Abandoned Mine, Ancient Paths, The Bluebird Word, Confrontation, Evening Street Review, Rushing Thru the Dark, and The Woven Tale Press.  Publishers for his scripts include Eldridge Publishing and Heuer Publishing. 

Born and raised in Atchison County last century, Roger Heineken calls Emporia home today. He retired from a career in the Emporia State Student Affairs Division. Heineken values local history and serves as a step-on guide for Emporia history tours. In recent years, he has focused on writing CNF. His work has appeared in seven editions of 105 Meadowlark Reader: A Kansas Journal of Creative Nonfiction and has been recognized in Kansas Authors Club contests. 

Linda M. Crate (she/her) is a Pennsylvanian writer whose poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews have been published in a myriad of magazines both online and in print. She has twelve published chapbooks the latest being: Searching Stained Glass Windows For An Answer (Alien Buddha Publishing, December 2022). 

Creighton Fox is a writer and journalist from Eastern Iowa. Although he's written poems and plays, his primary focus is mastering the art of a good short story. When he's not writing, he enjoys spending time with family and coaching. Creighton received his B.A. in English from Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Amy Lerman, by way of Florida, Illinois, England, and Kansas, lives with her husband and very spoiled cats in the Arizona desert where she is residential English Faculty at Mesa Community College. Her chapbook, Orbital Debris,  won the 2022 Jonathan Holden Poetry Chapbook Contest, she has been a Pushcart nominee, and her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Passengers Journal, Atticus Review, Muleskinner, The Madison Review, Radar Poetry, Slippery Elm, Rattle, Smartish Pace, and other publications.

Linette Rabsatt is a Virgin Islands poet with roots in the BVI and USVI who began writing in 1996. You can find her work in her Kindle book, "Be Inspired: Poems by Linette Rabsatt," in Pulse Poetry Magazine, on her blog, Words of Ribbon, and on the Visual Verse and Micromance Magazine websites. Her poems have been published in various journals, magazines, and anthologies. She won the 2024 Read Yuh Ting TOO Virtual Caribbean Poetry Contest and placed second in the 2025 Tell Yuh Story Contest. 

Joshua Heffner grew up on a small farm in Kansas, but he grew up to become a college history professor. He still lives in rural Kansas, and still loves dogs.

Izzy Lippincott is a semi-retired college professor who unwinds from teaching by driving the backroads of Kansas to take photos. She enjoys writing stories about growing up in Kansas.