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Jia-Li YANG is a Chinese born Australia poet and micro story writer. She blogs and publishes under the pseudonym Cassa Bassa.

Bassa writes out a multiverse of eclectic compelling stories that describe her own experiences and her understanding of others, with a curiosity of humanity and what makes us really tick. Her poetry is bold, honest, and authentic.

Gabriela Marie Milton is an Amazon bestselling and award winning poet, and an internationally published author. She is the author of the #1 best-selling poetry collection Woman: Splendor and Sorrow: | Love Poems and Poetic Prose, and the author of Passions: Love Poems and Other Writings. She edited and curated the #1 bestselling anthologies Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women (EIF, 2022) and Hidden in Childhood: A Poetry Anthology (Literary Revelations, 2023).

Gabriela is the former editor of MasicadoresUSA. Her poetry and short prose have appeared in various magazines and anthologies. Under the pen name Gabriela M she was awarded 2019 Author of the Year at Spillwords Press (NYC). Her piece "If I say I love you" was nominated for 2020 Spillwords Press Publication of the Year (Poetic). On July 6, 2021, Gabriela was featured in New York Glamour Magazine. You can read her interview here: https://nyglamour.net/keep-going-greatness-always-encounters-resistance-gabriela-marie-milton/

Ingrid is the owner and editor of the publishing house Experiments in Fiction, which takes its name from her popular blog. She has been writing poetry since childhood, and more recently has launched her passion for writing into a career.

A featured contributor at MasticadoresUSA, and bartender at dVerse Poets’ Pub, Ingrid has had her writing published in many online publications and print journals. In July 2021, she published 'The Anthropocene Hymnal,' a poetry anthology representing a response to the climate and ecological crisis. She published her first solo poetry collection, 40 Poems at 40, via EIF in February 2022.

You can find her on Twitter @Experimentsinfc and Instagram @Experimentsinfiction.

Cynthia Padilla is a lawyer and content designer from Los Angeles, California. She enjoys writing poetry as a creative outlet for her busy life. Cynthia has been published in several anthologies and maintains a poetry account on Instagram: @cynthiapadillajd_poetry. A lover of music, she is also an avid vinyl record collector.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cynthiampadilla/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/cynmariancyblib

Susi Bocks, writer/author/poet, has self-published two books - Feeling Human and Every Day I Pause. She is the Editor of The Short of It which has produced two volumes to date - The Sound of Brilliance and Reflections & Revelations. Bocks' has works published in the anthologies Through The Looking Glass - Reflecting on Madness and Chaos Within, As The World Burns, SMITTEN: This Is What Love Looks Like: Poetry by Women for Women and in VitaBrevis, Spillwords, Literary Yard, and other literary magazines. She was a Pushcart Prize Nominee in 2021 for her piece "Sweet Embrace" featured in Heart Beats - Publisher - Prolific Pulse. You can find her work at IWriteHer.com or follow on Twitter or Facebook.

C.X.Turner is a poet and registered social care professional living and working in the UK. Her long and short-form poetry including haiku, senryu, tanka, haibun and haiga featuring original artwork, have been published internationally in over 100 Journals and Anthologies. Her short-form poetry has been Touchstone prize-nominated in 2022 and 2023. She is Co-Editor of the Wales Haiku Journal and author of anemones (Yavanika Press, 2023), climbing frozen water (Origami poems project, 2023) and Building Sandcastles, co-authored with James Welsh (Literary Revelations, 2023).

Joni Karen Caggiano is an internationally published author, poet, and photographer. She is a 2022 Pushcart Nominee for her poem, “Old News is Not Old News,” published by “The Short of It Publishing.” She was privileged to write the Forward for the Best Seller, “I Am In Itself Poetry In The Dark,” by the five-time Amazon Best Selling Author Michelle Ayon Navajas. On SpillWords Press NYC, Joni won Publication of the Month in November 2022 and Co-Winner of Socialite of the Year 2023. Joni was a Co-Author of both # 1 Amazon Bestselling books, Hidden In Childhood and Wounds I Healed. She is also in five additional Poetry Anthologies. Her first book of poetry, “One Petal at a Time,” will be released by Prolific Pulse Press, LLC in 2024, featuring Valencian artist Francisco Bravo Cabrera. Joni is also proud to be included in the upcoming Poetry Anthology, “A Safe and Brave Space,” published by, “Garden of Neuro Publishing, to be released in the Spring of 2024. She is currently a writer for Hotel Masticadores. Joni formerly contributed four combined pieces a month for one year to Masticadores India and Masticadores USA.