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Emily M. Goldsmith (they/them) is a queer, non-binary Louisiana Creole scholar, educator, and poet originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. They are a fourth-year Ph.D. student in English and Creative Writing at the University of Southern Mississippi. Their research interests include Southern Gothic, Louisiana Creole literature, Caribbean Studies, and Queer Theory. They've presented their work at The International Conference on Narrative, the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, and elsewhere. In 2024, they were awarded the Teaching Assistant of the Year Award and the Innovation Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Research by the University of Southern Mississippi. A Pushcart-nominated poet, their poems and reviews can be found in The Penn Review, LaCréole, Tinderbox, and elsewhere. Their chapbook, Alligator is a Fish, was a 2023 finalist for Two Sylvia's Press and DIAGRAM's Chapbook Prize Contests. 

 

 

Madeleine Toole earned her B.A. in English Literature from the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) and is currently receiving her M.A. in English Literature from the University of Southern Mississippi. Presently, she works as a Graduate Assistant for Ó£ÌÒÊÓƵ’s office of Research Administration but has also been employed by Ó£ÌÒÊÓƵ’s Graduate School office. While there, she acted as a Content, Design, and Layout Editor and the Managing Editor for the 2024 publication of the Graduate School’s ARETE magazine. She enjoys reading and studying environmental literature.  

 

 

Lena Kinder is an MA student in creative writing at the University of Southern Mississippi and acts as the managing editor for Folklore Review. She has previously served as associate editor for the Mississippi Review and Product Magazine. Her works can be found in Prometheus Dreaming, Crow and Cross Keys, and the Sucarnochee Review.  

 

Bella McGill is a creative writing PhD candidate at Ó£ÌÒÊÓƵ. She received her MFA in Popular Fiction and Publishing from Emerson College in 2022 and her bachelor's in English Literature from Ball State University in 2020. Her short story, "The Ones Left Behind," was published in the inaugural edition of Page Turner Magazine, and her novel, Princess and the Pauper, is forthcoming from Wild Ink Publishing in June 2025. 

Arleigh Rodgers is an English master's student who focuses on American literature. She has worked as a reporter and editor in Indiana, Nevada and New York, and she received her bachelor's in English from Ithaca College. Her writing has appeared in The Associated Press, Bright Wall/Dark Room, the Las Vegas Sun, and Stillwater Magazine, and she has presented her work at conferences in Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi.  

 

 

 

 

 

Kathryn McKenzie received her MFA at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Southern Mississippi. She was selected as the runner up of BOOTH's 2024 Flash/Flesh Prize for her poem, "Mummies of St. Michan's Church" judged by Kim Addonizio. Her poetry is published or forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, BOOTH, and Gulf Coast. She was also longlisted for Palette Poetry's 2022 Love and Eros Contest. Kathryn has won the Dr. Jeremy Lespi Memorial English Scholarship Endowment for Poetry, the Joan Johnson Award for Poetry, and the Howard Wilson and Helen V. Bahr Reasearch Scholarship Endowment for her conference presentations at the British Women Writer's Conference (BWWC) and the North American Victorian Studies Association Conference (NAVSA).