Cover art

“Eternity And A Day” by Dominique Elliott
Born in Belgium, Dominique Elliott is a multimedia artist and professor. She holds an M.F.A in visual design from UMass, Dartmouth and is a grant recipient from the Georgia Council for the Arts, and the National Association of Television Program Executives. Her work has been showcased internationally, and her documentary “Flying the Beam” is included in the Eisenhower Presidential Library collection. Much of her work is concerned with various facets of memory, nostalgia and the interplays of word and image. She applies the same ethos to poetry, experimental film, documentary film, painting, mixed media, photography and motion graphics. She lives on a plant farm in Georgia with her husband and their four cats.

Flash Art

“No. 18 No. 13” by Delaney Rose Burke
Delaney Rose Burke is an emerging artist, working in mixed media painting and in copper etching and mixed media printmaking. Currently living in Toms River, she is actively developing her painting and printmaking portfolio. After receiving her BFA from Stockton University, she went on to explore a career in corporate design in Los Angeles. Following her move back to New Jersey in 2019, she became a board member at the John F. Peto Studio Museum, in Island Heights, New Jersey - where she currently volunteers as social media co-chair and as an art committee member. Her work focuses on pushing the traditional and process intensive medium of printmaking into pieces closely resembling the emotional and impulsive nature of abstract expressionist art. She often employs bold colors, textures, and emotive elements in an abstract expressionist or figurative manner in her painted works.

Nonfiction Art

“baiser le sol d'un lieu” by Mike Callaghan
Mike Callaghan’s work focuses on fragmentation, rearrangement and reinterpretation — considering the intimate cycles of self-preservation and mortality — in a moment when frameworks of relationships are at once prominently visible and exhaustively hidden. His work has appeared in exhibitions including at Griffin Museum of Photography, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Soho Photo Gallery, Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Gallery 44, Propeller Gallery, John Aird Gallery, Elysium Gallery and PhotoIreland. Also, his photographs have appeared in a number of publications, including ZYZZYVA, Der Greif, Barzakh, Otoliths, Rhino Poetry, Streetcake Magazine, Critica, and The Shanghai Literary Review. Mike earned an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.

poetry art

“ColorIkoshiexl2024” by Cynthia Yatchman
Cynthia Yatchman is a Seattle based artist and art instructor. She shows extensively in the PaciNic Northwest. Past shows have included Seattle University, the Tacoma and Seattle Convention Centers and the PaciNic Science Center. Her art is housed in numerous public and private collections.

fiction art

“Creature Comforts 6” by MP Vare
MP Vare is a disabled transgender parent living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Lenapehoking. Their artistic life is shaped by becoming a later-in-life parent, the infertility journey that preceded parenthood, and the gender affirmation journey that followed. MP is dazzled by neuroplasticity and the shifting nature of identity; they are actively reparenting themself while raising three children. They are inspired by the process of coming to terms with disenfranchised grief and forgiveness. MP’s poetry and art appear in Opal Age Tribune and Beyond Queer Words.