Isaac Maurice Hoffman is a Florida State University student studying Creative Writing. He enjoys metafiction, slacker rock, and the movies of Christopher Guest.

Kaley Hoppenworth is a junior at Florida State studying social work and English - editing, writing, and media. While she does not identify as a writer, she enjoys telling stories to whomever will listen. She currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Her Campus FSU, an online publication for college women.

Isabella Arielle Albaig is an undergraduate student at FSU pursuing a BA Degree in English (Editing, Writing, and Media) and a BS Degree in Communication and Digital Media Studies. She is passionate about storytelling and crafting language that resonates with, inspires, and entertains people, and therefore, aspires to enter the journalism industry post-graduation. She will be continuing her graduate education at NYU Journalism in their Magazine and Digital Storytelling M.A. Program starting in Fall 2025.

Riley Kartel is a junior creative writing major and amateur artist/animator. I enjoy creating and voicing shorts about various topics and interests.

Hope Fell is a junior majoring in Creative Writing at Florida State University. A sixth-generation Pensacolian, she draws from her Gulf Coast roots to explore cultural and literary critique in her nonfiction essays and the weird-realism of Florida in her fiction. Hope is the Salonnière, founder, and editor-in-chief of the Salon of Fine Arts (SoFA), a student-led initiative designed to engage, elevate, and educate young artists in their craft and community. She is currently partnered with LeMoyne Arts gallery and has been featured several times by FSU English and FSView for her work with SoFA. Learn more at www.salonoffinearts.com.

Amber Bixby is a first-year MA student in rhetoric and composition at Florida State University. Her research interests include public sphere and digital rhetorics, popular culture and nostalgia studies, and poetry. Amber also works as the Editor-in-Chief for the online publication Asterisks & Anomalies and has recently published her poem "Window Cling Art" in (a) river rising's sixth volume Metamorphosis.

Christell Victoria Roach is a doctoral student in the English Literature and Creative Writing PhD program at Florida State University. She is a Miami writer using poetry to build monuments to Blackness, Blueswomen, and the Southern Tropics. Christell is an archival writer producing creative work and theory surrounding her relationship to place, people, and living history. As a descendent of the TransAtlantic Slave trade, of Black Miami, and the Caribbean — her work is a love offering to those who survived so she could live.

Camille Louise Goering is a French-American multi-genre writer currently pursuing her MFA at Florida State University. Her essay, Malum Malus, won the Blue Mesa Review's Spring 2024 Essay Contest, and she is also the first-place recipient of Southword Magazine's 2024 Essay Contest. You can find more of her work at Sixfold, the New Limestone Review, Big Easy Magazine, and CamilleLouise.com.

Camille Louise Goering is a French-American multi-genre writer currently pursuing her MFA at Florida State University. Her essay, Malum Malus, won the Blue Mesa Review's Spring 2024 Essay Contest, and she is also the first-place recipient of Southword Magazine's 2024 Essay Contest. You can find more of her work at Sixfold, the New Limestone Review, Big Easy Magazine, and CamilleLouise.com.

Jade Jemison is a nonfiction writer and a McKnight Doctoral PhD Fellow at FSU. Her work focuses on motherhood, identity, loss, familial themes, and healing.