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MEET THE MAKERS

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​Side Glance by Thomas Arnold @asleeperswork

​Thomas Arnold (b. 2002) is a gay, transgender man and Edinburgh-based multidisciplinary artist. He collects emotionally resonant fragments of lived experience - memories, conversations and dreams - as well as stories from neglected queer histories. Through a metaphorical collaging of these fragments, he constructs narratives of queerness, connection, shame, anger, joy, otherness and observation in an effort to make space for others to feel seen. 

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We kiss and by Lavanya Arora @lavaurora

​Lavanya Arora (they/he) dreads the arrival of an early summer. Other than that, they're editing their debut novel and poetry manuscript, and yearning.

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When I go home with a dancer by Brent Allen Miller @brentammm

​Brent is a community educator, doctoral student, drag performer, and author of the forthcoming speculative novel The Stars to Hold, published through Fifth Avenue Press. He lives in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

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Dan  & Preston by amy königbauer @a_space_transformer

​Born queer in Detroit, I became an artist to survive the world around me. I became a teacher to help humanity progress and help young people love to learn how to learn. I became a parent to know what it's like to have another heart that lives outside my body. 

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We fuck in your car on the first date by Charlotte Pace

​I’m a queer, gender nonconforming, multidisciplinary artist based in Cornwall. I also recently won The Kings Trust Young and Talented Award for my poetry. I write constantly, mainly focusing on my experiences as a young LGBTQ+ person.

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The Gospel of Summer Girls by Asia Key @Kno.xerox

​I am a creative who is pushing myself to do the things I am passionate about. Learning to share my talents with others while respecting myself crafts.

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3 Years Later by Victoria Glidden @vcglidden

​Victoria Glidden is a poet and journalist based in Denver, Colorado. She loves music, hiking, books, and joints at sunset. 

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warmed, cooled by Mae Kellert @mae.eli

Mae Kellert is a queer and non-binary writer and visual artist based in Iceland and the New Jersey shore. Their art and writing focuses on nature, identity, and memory. ​

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​Lovers in the Church Garden by Anne Magratten @annemagratten

​Anne Magratten is a graduate of Mills College and received an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Oregon in 2015. She is an Instructor of Painting & Drawing at Linn-Benton Community College. Additionally, she offers college drawing and painting courses within Oregon prisons. Her art practice spans painting, digital drawing, and printmaking. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She has attended residencies in France, Canada, and Mexico. She was a founding member of the Eugene based artist collective Tropical Contemporary which foregrounded support for LGBTQIA+ artists through an artist residency and exhibition opportunities. Anne is the illustrator for Desde Chiquitos, an organization dedicated to the joy of childhood reading, expanding representation, and literacy as a fundamental component of social justice. Other aspects of her art practice can be seen on her website www.annemagratten.com.

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This Poem is About Slugs by Bridget Aldridge @poetinoveralls

​Bridget Aldridge is a Creative Writing student at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. In their entire writing career, Bridget has found great comfort in their queer identity through writing. One of their goals in writing is to produce more queer content for the next generation of writers — as well as LGBTQ+ people in general — to appreciate and find support in.

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Starstruck by Andrew Millward @mammalian.makes

I am a bi artist, living in Hove, who loves surrounding themself with artists and nerds. I moved here in early 2025 and have spent the last year trying to rediscover who I am, what makes me happy, and how I can grow. Most recently this has involved creative activities, including this poem, which is a piece dedicated to all the wonderful people who have helped me to where I am today.

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Summerland by Simi @thereelsimi

Hello there, I’m Simi, a filmmaker, writer, and student of life based in Philadelphia. I hope
my work reaches the people who it’s meant for.

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Butterfly Wings by Caroline James Emerson Branch @cjeb.media

​Caroline James Emerson Branch is an author and creative from Northern Nevada, often writing on love, transition, and becoming in the wild west. They pursue publications of all sorts, but often gravitate towards smaller queer publications, where they feel more loved and seen by the community that receives them. 

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SONNET FOR FERN by Brandi Bird @_birdrights

​Brandi Bird is an Indigiqueer Saulteaux, Cree and Métis writer from Treaty 1 territory. They currently live and learn on the land of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh & Musqueam peoples. Their debut poetry collection, The All + Flesh (Anansi, 2023), won an Indigenous Voices Award and was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert, Raymond Souster and Governor General’s awards. Their new collection  of poetry is called Pitiful (Anansi, April 2026).

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Hot! by Louise Heller @louise.printsandthings

​Louise Heller (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist and writer from the Coast Salish lands known as Seattle, WA. She enjoys smooshing together art mediums and disregarding genre. Find more of their work in Reading into Culture, Allium, Sinister Wisdom, Fruitslice and Jeopardy Magazine.

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What makes a kiss trans and what makes a kiss queer? by Jen Richards @Jen__4eva

Jen Richards (they/them) is connecting to their writing practice by practicing writing. Based in London, they work as a clinical psychologist and are training to be a sexological bodyworker. They are interested in what cultivates aliveness; in people, pleasure and the body. 

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Poem with a Memory of the Sea for N by Julia Paganelli Martin

​Julia Paganelli Marin is a writer and educator in Northwest Arkansas. They are the creator and instructor at Bee Balm Arkansas, a writing community that centers kindness and attention and engages writers of all levels. Bee Balm centers queer perspectives and modes of being, and is open to everyone.

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Pansies by Morgan Hyatt @magpiemohr

​Morgan Hyatt (they/he) is a printmaker and illustrator based in Long Beach, CA. Their work explores the connection between disability, the queer body, and the natural world. They believe print is for the people and that art is always better made in community.

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My Fingers Keep searching for Your Lips by Indra Linderoth @indra_linderoth_art

Indra Linderoth (b. 1984) is a queer actor, performance artist, voice coach, sound artist, and musician; one of the founders of the performance duo OFF HIGHWAY and part of the network Queers Against Fascism. She/They is a multidisciplinary artist working with queer experiences and listening.

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​​Mouth to God by Daniel WK. Lee @strongplum

​Daniel W.K. Lee (李華強) is a third-generation refugee, queer, Cantonese American born in Kuching, Malaysia. He earned his MFA in Creative Writing at The New School, and his debut collection of poetry, Anatomy of Want, was published by Queer Mojo/Rebel Satori Press. He lives in New Orleans with this whippet Camden.

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TREAT ME LIKE A SLUT after Kim Petras by Dom Birch @dominicsbirch

​Dom Birch is a trans writer and educator based in Oxford. Their work explores messy queer friendship, erotic compulsion, and feminine lineage. 

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Trans Magic by Andrew Thornton @humansatsuma

​Full of hope, obsessed with the colour yellow and in love with all my friends. Illustrator, and  Community Minister for Foundation, a radical inclusive church community in Bristol, UK. Poly, trans, AuDHD, chronically ill, etc. 

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Poem Ending on a Line from Heated Rivalry by Kimberly Gibson-Tran @kdawn999

​Kimberly Gibson-Tran holds two degrees in linguistics. Their writings appear in MEMEZINE, t’ART, 2River, Hole in the Head Review, fifth wheel press, Baltimore Review, and elsewhere. Raised in Thailand, she lives in North Texas with her husband and cats.

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Lover by Madi Sizemore

​Madi Sizemore (she/her) is an attorney by day and a poet on her lunch break. She currently lives in Cincinnati with her partners and their five spoiled cats. You can find her other work published in FERAL Poetry as well as on her Substack, Anticipatory Grief. 

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The Cheerleader by Holly Mitchell @hollyrumi

​Holly Mitchell is the author of Mare's Nest (Sarabande Books). Holly's writing has appeared in several journals, most recently SmokeLong Quarterly and the Queer Love Project.

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Your lips on mine by Thyme Uchuya Weiss 현미아 @dokkaebistar

​I am Thyme: an artist, a builder, a dreamer, a performer, a resister, a farmer, and a lover. I am a forest dweller and water floater with fire for soul. I make inspired by nature, my love, and my ancestry. 

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The Odyssey by KO Humphreys

​KO Humphreys is a queer writer and artist based in Seattle, WA. They grew up in Louisiana and have never let go of the weird magic of the swamp. 

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through the bushes and the trees, you’ll find me by Morgan Sears-Williams @morgan__elena

​I am an artist and cultivator based in Vancouver, BC (Canada). I work with analog film in a tactile way, using techniques like developing with organic materials (like plants and coffee), cutting into the image, or burying film in sand to see how this decays/changes the image. My art practice bridges alternative process, experimental film and queer history to trouble traditional approaches to analog film. 

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11:35PM by Rey Duff @reyduff

​Rey Duff is a writer, wanderer and lover. He’s based in Toronto where he spends his time getting lost in urban nature, listening to music too loudly and daydreaming. Rey is interested in writing that touches on community and identity. They have work in flo. Literary Magazine, Intertext Mag, Sumac Magazine and FruitPunch! Zine.

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Kiss by Ravit Yonah Pearlman @ravit.art

​I am a Genderqueer artist who makes work about bodily tension between bodies and within the body.

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Earth Science by Bella Reiss @beereiss

​Bella likes words and women’s sports. She is from (and loves!) Atlanta, Georgia. 

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Soldering by Luz Rivera  @raspberrypawpads

Luz Rivera writes through the trans sensorium, attending to her translingual, transnational, and transsexual experience. She hails from unceded Arapahoe, Ute, and Cheyenne territory (Northern Colorado) and now lives and loves on unceded Lenni-Lenape territory (Brooklyn). You can find more of her work on Instagram and Substack at @raspberrypawpads

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i trust my body by Ash Maielle @ashmaielle

​Ash Maielle is a queer poet, artist, and educator located outside of Washington, D.C. When not writing or teaching, you can find her on the floor of your local thrift store rummaging for unseen treasure. Her work can be found in the fifth wheel press anthology: brainrot, January House Literary Journal, Full House Literary, and upcoming in Phylum Press as well as Bloodlust Magazine. She can also be found on Instagram and Substack at @ashmaielle.

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Girl on Girl by Rosy Gonzalez @leoliterati

​ROSY likes to blur the lines between fiction and reality, whether it’s dissecting her life through autotheory, or distorting it through strange, fairy tale-esque stories about screwball girls and their dead end situations. the stories could be about her, or they could be about you.

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I didn’t come here to make friends by Julian Holt @julenoted

Julian is a gay trans man living in Manchester. He writes a mix of realism, magical realism and speculative fiction in the form of novels, screenplays, short stories and poetry.

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Untitled 1 & 2 by Charlotte Kerridge @char_lalaa

​Charlotte Kerridge (she/her) is a poet based in Stockholm, Sweden, who grew up in Clacton-on-Sea, UK. In poetry, she finds the words that everyday life won't give her.

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Opening Night by Ren Renda @ccreaturistt

Born queer in Detroit, I became an artist to survive the world around me. I became a teacher to help humanity progress and help young people love to learn how to learn. I became a parent to know what it's like to have another heart that lives outside my body. ​

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Liquid Man Syrup by Franki Ayres @FrankiAyres

​Franki Ayres is a trans, disabled, neurodivergent writer with a background in puppetry construction, performance and fine art. His chapter "In the Belly of the Flask" was published in "Will You Read This, Please" (HarperCollins Borough Press) and explores anorexia and gender dysphoria. Since around 2010, he began writing poetry and short stories to explore complex experiences including recovery, identity and love.

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Pout by K. Ann MacNeil @kamacnei

​K. Ann MacNeil lives on the Hudson in northern Manhattan on Lenape land and on the Atlantic in southern Maine on Pennacook Abenaki land.  Her recent work appears in This Assignment is So Gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching; The Still Blue Project: Writing with Working Class Queers in Mind; Love, Always: Partners of Trans People on Intimacy, Challenge, and Resilience; Closet Cases: Queers on What We Wear; Sweeter Voices Still: An LGBTQ Anthology from Middle America; and Gal’s Guide Anthologies (2023 & 2024).  She has two chapbooks, Salt, a mini-collection of micropoems, with Rinky Dink Press and Even, with Bottlecap Press.  She has a piece forthcoming in White Winged Doves.  She is deep-down grateful that her grown daughter visits regularly.

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Ready by Jamie M. @fortheloveofwant

​Jamie is a queer femme in her mid 40s, living in Portland, Oregon, with her wife and daughter. She writes primarily about sex, but also explores ideas of loneliness, connection, and family through a collection of screenplays-in-progress. 

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Things I Found in the Dark by Skye Hoggan @monochromeskye

​Skye Hoggan graduated from Weber State University in 2016 and is a technical writer and poet from Utah. They recently self published a poetry chapbook entitled “Postludes”, which explores their experience leaving a high demand religion as a queer adult. They enjoy quilting, geocaching, playing the cello, and visiting their partner in Ontario, Canada.

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Ondergronds | Underground by Jane Dowd @jane_doe.8.0

​Jané Dowd is a South African poet whose work explores the tension between tenderness and rupture, often drawing on the natural world as witness and counterpart. Her poems move through grief, wonder, and the bewildering work of being human, with a voice that is intimate, reflective, and unafraid of complexity.

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horizontal relationship by Lee Bec @leeeeethal

I am a queer musician, artist, graphic designer, and an experimenter of life. My passion for radical honesty, clear communication, sensual touch, and caring communities fuel and inspire my creations.​

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Multiverse 1 by Kate Schmid @schmidwrites

​Kate Schmid is a writer. Their first book of poems, "Nowhere," was released from the University of New Mexico Press. They've won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Haymarket Books. 

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Queer Kisses - iris & chad by Suza Kanon @hepkatmama

​Suza Hepkat is a conceptual artist who works in mixed media and interactive performance art. They have exhibited at in Dallas Texas at Mighty Fine Arts, Plush Gallery, Kettle Gallery, and elsewhere at Austin Museum of Art at the Jones Center, Art Chicago, AAFNYC, Scope Miami, Lawndale Art Center Houston, and Aurora Dallas. 

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my voice is breaking and so is my heart by AC Quill 

AC Quill writes filth to scratch an itch. Their work has appeared as Circlet Press microfictions, and in anthologies ‘Cunning Linguists’ by the New Smut Project and 'Sucking Face' by t'ART.

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What Our Lips Remember by Rosie Shute @ilovepissinginpublic

​Rosie Shute is a trans-neurodivergent spoken word performer, creative event organiser, writer across many fluid forms, visual artist and creative writing honours student at the University of Melbourne reframing academia as the daily practice of thinking deeply about what it is to be alive with others in the world. They have work published or forthcoming throughout Australia and in England and Singapore, in Westerly, Artery Zine, Eunoia Review, ELA Literary Magazine, Slamtidote Zine, Roundtable Readings, Trans Rag and Stereo Stories. Also, they have stains on almost all their clothes.

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I want to kiss you with my mouth open by Tom Walters @detritivorecore

​Tom Walters is a transgender and disabled poet writing about the sickness, grief, and immense joy to be found in unconventional states of existence. His work has strong aesthetic concerns, using natural imagery in strange and disturbing places that blur the line between body horror and magical realism.

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one brick at a time by Elle Bryant @by.elle.bryant 

Elle Bryant (she/her) is a writer and poet living in London. She is passionate about belonging, identity, and the connection between the natural world and love. Elle publishes her work in literary and poetry journals, both online and in print. ​

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Candy by Diana (Radish) @radish.soupp

​I am an agender bi artist currently working and living in Romania. My illustration practice focuses on showing queer joy and dismantling expected gender norms.

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Halloween | I Dream I am a Man by Aris Keshav @hoveringtulip

​Aris Keshav is a poet and English teacher in Tio’tia:ke (Montreal, Quebec). His writing appears in The New Quarterly, The Malahat Review, Contemporary Verse 2, Plenitude, and two chapbooks. He enjoys gossip and dancing.  

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Kiss #1 by Jinks @Jinkeeeees

​I'm Jinks, a 26 year queer, neurodiverse and disabled person. Yes, I have achieved the trifecta! I am just really starting to put my poetry into the world and finding my feet as a creative/writer so hopefully the world likes me and my silly words! 

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​What I and Gitano talked about by Lê Đức Trọng @trongd.le

Lê Đức Trọng (b. Vietnam) is a Physics PhD student at Georgia Tech. His poetry has been published by Verses from the Underground, Sextet Lit, Sardine Can Collective, and others. His poems are on display at Six Foot Gallery in Glasgow from March 31 to April 21.

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Solace by Bhuvan Venkatesh @bhuvan.venkatesh.33

​Bhuvan is a queer Indian poet currently based in New Zealand. Their work explores the themes of intimacy, religion and identity from a queer lens. To them, tenderness is a form of survival and resistance.

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A story told through femme lips by Shannon Rose @mugwort.and.roses

​Shannon Rose (she/her) is a queer bi-femme of white settler ancestry. Her people are from the lands now known as Poland, Ireland, England, and Germany. She lives on the lands of the Quw'utsun Hwulmuhw next to a creek in a cedar grove where she spends her time building community, dreaming, writing, and working as a counsellor and sex worker. She is a practitioner of animist and earth-based spiritual traditions. www.mugwortandroses.com

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Artwork credit: SH film photography is a queer duo photography team working in 35mm and super 8 film. All of the profit earned in SH shoots are redistributed to Intimate Access, a local mutual aid network for swers on Vancouver Island.

Insta: @sh.film.photography

Bluesky: @sh-photography

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All the things you are by Alecia Jay Davis @alecia.jay.davis

​Alecia Jay Davis (she /her) is a transgender poet living in Denver, Colorado with her wife. Her poems have appeared in Ink In Thirds Magazine. She was accepted into the Tin House 2024 Online Winter Workshop for her poetry. 

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Where would you like to fuck? by Lis Walter @ausgetindert

​I am Lis, 27 years old and a non-binary, multimedia artist specializing in comic/illustration and film from Kassel, Germany. My works mostly cruise around queer relationships, feelings and sex. In my work “Where would you like to fuck?”, I fantasize about the possibilities and ways of lesbian cruising.

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if she is poetry | Thinking about her; by Nitika Sathiya @nitika._.s and @nitikas.writes

​Nitika Sathiya (she/they) is a South Asian American Queer poet, community organizer, and undergraduate student studying Civil Engineering at the University of California, Davis. Their work explores identity, culture, and where they resonate. She is a 2022 Alameda County Co-Youth Poet Laureate and has been published by BART, Chapter 510, Poets Reading The News, The Cloudscent Journal, and more. She loves (making) bad jokes, drinking tea, and running. 

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Metamorphosis by Erin Norton​ @erinsdiary.pdf​

Erin Norton is a professional muse and outspoken lesbian currently based in NYC. With a BFA in creative writing from Emerson College under their belt, they are a blog writer for Dreamworldgirl Zine and freelance prose reviewer for Another Chicago Magazine. You can find her poetry in Ghost City Review and Version(9)Magazine. Semi regularly, she post essays on her Substack: erin’s diary.​​

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