Fiction Contributor
Iona Murphy is s a feminist, mental health advocate, and spends most of her time engrossed in the works of Sylvia Plath. She describes her work as “straddling the fine line between poetry and oversharing.” She has writing published with Black Bough, Teen Belle, 3 Moon, Re-Side, The Fruit Tree, Fevers of the Mind, Forty-Two Books, The New Southern Fugatives, Ayaskala, Ang(st) Zine, and Brave Voices.
Poetry Contributor
Hunter Blackwell is a graduate of the College of William and Mary. Her work has appeared in Rose Quartz Magazine, The Write Launch, Twist in Time Literary Magazine, Ink & Nebula, Mid-Heaven Magazine, The Athena Review, Barren Magazine, and Crêpe & Penn. She is a Black and Native bisexual author and poet. When not writing, she’s obsessing over the latest Marvel movie. She is a novice crock-pot user and cosplayer.
3 A.M. is the Perfect Time For a Lost Lover
Poetry Contributor
Maya is an English tutor from Manchester, England. When she’s not writing or teaching, she spends her time reading books on her balcony. Music was always playing in the background when she was growing up, and this she believes inspired her love of language and poetry.
Poetry Contributor
Rebecca is a Singaporean student who loves museums and rainy days. She is also one of Nightingale and Sparrow’s poetry editors. She likes to collect postcards and enamel pins.
Fiction Contributor
Sasha Ockenden studied French & German literature at the University of Oxford, where one of his stories was published in the Failed Novelists Society’s ‘Failed Anthology’ and he won an international DAAD prize for creative writing in German. In the last year, his flash fiction pieces have appeared in (mic)ro(mic), Flash Flood, Bending Genres, Riggwelter, and Writers Resist. He is currently based in Berlin and still working on becoming a failed novelist.
You can read his stories at: sashaockenden.wixsite.com/home
Poetry Contributor
Previously PR to a politician and PA to a rock star, Clare now lives noisily in Scotland, writing her first novel, Light Switch. Publication credits include Mslexia, The London Reader, Lunate, Rhythm & Bones Press, Cabinet of Heed, Northwords Now, Spelk, The Emma Press, and Hedgehog Poetry.
Poetry Contributor
Athena Melliar is a feminist poet. She has earned herself a degree in Philosophy and Psychology. Her work has appeared in The Menteur, Dark Marrow, LEVELER, So to Speak: a feminist journal of language & arts, Moonchild Magazine, and other literary publications. She has been profiled in Maudlin House. (she/her)
Poetry Contributor
Yasmine Rukia is a Lebanese-American performing poet, short story writer & uncontested meme-queen of metro-detroit. Her work exploring Arabesque-America, diaspora blues, the internet and womxnhood has appeared in Cliterature, The Porter Gulch Review, Mizna, Tinderbox Poetry Journal and elsewhere. She has two sons and a mean caffeine addiction follow her on facebook for hot-takes if nothing else.
Self-Portrait as my most repeated song
Creative Nonfiction Contributor
Brad Shurmantine lives in Napa, Ca. He spends time writing, reading, tending three gardens (sand, water, vegetable), keeping bees, taking care of chickens and cats, and working on that husband thing. His poetry has been published in Oddball Magazine, Jam and Sand, Mom Egg, and Ariel Chart. He backpacks in the Sierras and travels when he can, and has a serious passion for George Eliot.
Poetry Contributor
Richard LeDue (he/him) currently lives in Norway House, Manitoba. He is a Best of the Net nominee. He is the author of three chapbooks and two full length poetry collections. His latest collection, “Dollar Store Blues and Other Cheap Words,” was released in March 2022 from Alien Buddha Press.
What’s Left in the Cooler
Fallen