Textual Healing with Mallory Smart

Benjamin Niespodziany is a Chicago-based writer, editor, curator, and folklorist. The author of two books, his writing has appeared in HAD, Fence, Bennington Review, Wigleaf Top 50, X-R-A-Y, and elsewhere. Along with hosting the Neon Night Mic reading series, he recently launched Piżama Press. You can find more at neonpajamas.com.

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Benjamin Niespodziany is a Chicago-based writer, editor, curator, and folklorist. The author of two books, his writing has appeared in HAD, Fence, Bennington Review, Wigleaf Top 50, X-R-A-Y, and elsewhere. Along with hosting the Neon Night Mic reading series, he recently launched Piżama Press. You can find more at neonpajamas.com.

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Josh Denslow is the author of the collectionNot Everyone Is Special (7.13 Books), the novel Super Normal (Stillhouse Press), and the collection Magic Can't Save Us (UNO Press). His most recent short stories have appeared in Electric Literature's The Commuter, The Rumpus, and Short Story, Long, among others. He is the Email Marketing Manager for Bookshop.org, and he has read and edited for SmokeLong Quarterly for over a decade. He c...

Josh Denslow is the author of the collectionNot Everyone Is Special (7.13 Books), the novel Super Normal (Stillhouse Press), and the collection Magic Can't Save Us (UNO Press). His most recent short stories have appeared in Electric Literature's The Commuter, The Rumpus, and Short Story, Long, among others. He is the Email Marketing Manager for Bookshop.org, and he has read and edited for SmokeLong Quarterly for over a decade. He c...

John Patrick Higgins is a writer, illustrator, and filmmaker.

His short fiction has appeared in The Black Dreams, The BHF Book of Horror Stories, Fears: An Anthology of Psychological Terror, and Weird Horror. He is working on a short story collection titled No Light in the Trees.

He is the author of Fine, a tragicomic novel published by Sagging Meniscus Press in November 2024, and Teeth: An Oral History, a memoir released in April ...

John Patrick Higgins is a writer, illustrator, and filmmaker.

His short fiction has appeared in The Black Dreams, The BHF Book of Horror Stories, Fears: An Anthology of Psychological Terror, and Weird Horror. He is working on a short story collection titled No Light in the Trees.

He is the author of Fine, a tragicomic novel published by Sagging Meniscus Press in November 2024, and Teeth: An Oral History, a memoir released in April ...

Kurt Baumeister’s writing has appeared in Salon, Guernica, Electric Literature, Rain Taxi, The Brooklyn Rail, The Rumpus, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Nervous Breakdown, The Weeklings, and other outlets. An acquisitions editor with 7.13 Books, Baumeister holds an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College, and is a member of The National Book Critics Circle and The Authors Guild. Twilight of the Gods is his second novel.

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Kurt Baumeister’s writing has appeared in Salon, Guernica, Electric Literature, Rain Taxi, The Brooklyn Rail, The Rumpus, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Nervous Breakdown, The Weeklings, and other outlets. An acquisitions editor with 7.13 Books, Baumeister holds an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College, and is a member of The National Book Critics Circle and The Authors Guild. Twilight of the Gods is his second novel.

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Jack Skelley is the author of The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker (on Semiotexte), Myth Lab (Far West Press), Interstellar Theme Park (BlazeVox press), Monsters (Little Caesar Press) and Dennis Wilson and Charlie Manson (Fred & Barney Press). Jack is also songwriter and guitarist for psychedelic surf band Lawndale which is on SST Records.

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Jack Skelley is the author of The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker (on Semiotexte), Myth Lab (Far West Press), Interstellar Theme Park (BlazeVox press), Monsters (Little Caesar Press) and Dennis Wilson and Charlie Manson (Fred & Barney Press). Jack is also songwriter and guitarist for psychedelic surf band Lawndale which is on SST Records.

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S. R. Schulz lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, three sons, and two dogs. He’s been traveling to visit family in Croatia since 2010. He currently works as a family physician just outside Portland, Oregon, and is a faculty member at Oregon Health & Science University. His writing has been published online and in print, including McSweeney’s, HAD, Rejection Letters, Maudlin House, Autofocus, and others. Supersymmetry is his...

S. R. Schulz lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, three sons, and two dogs. He’s been traveling to visit family in Croatia since 2010. He currently works as a family physician just outside Portland, Oregon, and is a faculty member at Oregon Health & Science University. His writing has been published online and in print, including McSweeney’s, HAD, Rejection Letters, Maudlin House, Autofocus, and others. Supersymmetry is his...

Diana Oropesa is a writer and performer based in Portland. Her debut book, An Incomplete Catalog of Disappearance (Future Tense Books), is a hybrid collection of flash fiction and poetic nonfiction that explores the quiet, strange ways people fade from our lives. She’s a member of Yelling Choir and holds an MFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art.

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Nick Rees Gardner is the author of Delinquents and Other Escape Attempts (Madrona Books), a gritty, poetic collection of linked stories about addiction, recovery, and resilience in the fictional town of Westinghouse, Ohio. Grab a copy from Madrona Books or Amazon.

He’s also the author of Hurricane Trinity (Unsolicited Press), the poetry collection So Marvelously Far (Crisis Chronicles Press), and the chapbook Decomposed (Cabin Floo...

Nick Rees Gardner is the author of Delinquents and Other Escape Attempts (Madrona Books), a gritty, poetic collection of linked stories about addiction, recovery, and resilience in the fictional town of Westinghouse, Ohio. Grab a copy from Madrona Books or Amazon.

He’s also the author of Hurricane Trinity (Unsolicited Press), the poetry collection So Marvelously Far (Crisis Chronicles Press), and the chapbook Decomposed (Cabin Floo...

Kristen Arnett is a queer fiction writer, essayist, and former librarian based in Orlando, Florida. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Mostly Dead Things, as well as With Teeth and Stop Me If You've Heard This One. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, TIME, The Cut, Vogue, and more. You can find her online at kristenarnettwriter.com.

Her latest novel, Stop Me If You've Heard This One, is available now...

Kristen Arnett is a queer fiction writer, essayist, and former librarian based in Orlando, Florida. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Mostly Dead Things, as well as With Teeth and Stop Me If You've Heard This One. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, TIME, The Cut, Vogue, and more. You can find her online at kristenarnettwriter.com.

Her latest novel, Stop Me If You've Heard This One, is available now...

Victoria Brooks is a queer nonbinary author living in London, UK, and parent to an octopod (2 year old identical twins)—an identity-shifting experience they recently wrote about for  W0rms. Their first queer sci-fi novel, Silicone God, was published by MOIST Books in the UK, and was recently published in the US (House of Vlad Press). They have also published various essays on writing trauma and trauma-writing, time-travel and ethic...

Victoria Brooks is a queer nonbinary author living in London, UK, and parent to an octopod (2 year old identical twins)—an identity-shifting experience they recently wrote about for W0rms. Their first queer sci-fi novel, Silicone God, was published by MOIST Books in the UK, and was recently published in the US (House of Vlad Press). They have also published various essays on writing trauma and trauma-writing, time-travel and ethics...