Jessi is currently pursuing their MFA in Popular Fiction and Publishing at Emerson College. They previously completed their Master’s in English and Creative Writing at Southern New Hampshire University, where they discovered a penchant for writing weird, mildly macabre fiction that unites queer and country themes—they are “quntry” if you will. Under their pen name, █████ ██████, their work has been published in 2024 Kentucky Visions Short Story Contest Finalists: Bluegrass Writers Coalition Inc., MicroLit Almanac, Monstrous Femme, Chill Mag, Squirm Books, Vial of Bones, Haunted Words Press, and Moonday Mag. They enjoy reading fever dream sequences with a tongue-in-cheek voice, a strong sense of narrative, and silly, if not deranged, characters.

Suzanne completed her MFA in Creative Writing at Southern New Hampshire University. Her work can be found in MicroLit Almanac, Monstrous Femme, Chill Mag, Vial of Bones, and The Solitude Diaries. Her piece, “The Color Wheel of You,” was nominated for Best Microfiction 2024. She often loses herself in intricate character work for her sapphic leads and constructing fantasy worlds one spell at a time. A lover of anything speculative, she’s on the lookout for stories with a strong sense of voice and worlds she can dwell in—preferably rent-free.