Alina dreamt up Bracken while at an Arvon writing course in the Yorkshire woods. (She should’ve been writing!) She’s a published poet and fiction writer. She now writes for stage and film with her plays being produced on both sides of the Atlantic by Slackline Productions, Nylon Fusion, Kibo Productions, and others. Her short film pressed/bluebells premiered in Cannes in 2022 and another short film, Soot Darlings, is currently in consideration with film festivals. She’s a Dramatist Guild Foundation National Fellowship Finalist (2023-2024) and a quarterfinalist in the ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition 2023. She’s been mentored by Kevin Dyer (winner of Best Play, Writers’ Guild of Great Britain) and Stella Duffy. In 2023, after training with Frantic Assembly in London, she started her own physical theatre company Verbooom. In 2024, she wrote for Dragonslayer, an immersive experience produced by AnA Collaborations, which premiered in Seattle. More at alinarios.com.

A Philadelphia native who’s loved poetry since childhood, Jed studied Creative Writing at Tufts University, then trained in medicine and psychiatry, and has maintained a therapy practice in Seattle for many years. He’s author of Watching the Perseids (Sacramento Poetry Center Book Award), The Marriage of Space and Time (MoonPath Press), and out in 2024, Learning to Hold (Wandering Aengus Press Editors’ Award). Poems have won Southern Indiana Review’s Mary C. Mohr Award, the Prime Number Magazine Award, The Southeast Review’s Gearhart Prize, and The Briar Cliff Review’s Annual Poetry Contest. His work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, Rattle, The American Journal of Poetry, RHINO, Crab Creek Review, The Greensboro Review, many other journals, and several anthologies. https://www.jedmyers.com/                

Kate Deimling
Poetry Editor, Managing Editor

Jayne Marek
Associate Poetry Editor

Jayne’s seventh poetry collection will be Dusk-Voiced (Tebot Bach, 2024). Her writings and photos appear in Rattle, Terrain, Spillway, The New York Times, Bloodroot, Catamaran, One, Salamander, Gulf Stream, Calyx, and elsewhere. She has twice won the Bill Holm Witness Poetry award and has been nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart Prizes. Find more at www.pw.org/content/jayne_marek .    

Ted has lived and worked in Seattle since 1972. Recently retired from a career in pediatrics, he devotes his time to writing, metal sculpture, and percussion. His poems have appeared in The Seattle Review, Chrysanthemum, Manzanita Quarterly, The Journal of the American Medical Association, and elsewhere. Ted’s chapbook, First Fire, was published in 1996, and his full-length collection, The Uses of Imperfection, was published in 2003. He is a former editor of Floating Bridge Press. Ted is married to the photographer Rosanne Olson.

Morgan Brajkovich
Assistant Poetry Editor

Morgan is a poet and writer from Pennsylvania. She is a Kutztown University graduate with a B.A. in Professional Writing, concentration in Culture and Media, and a Literature minor. She has been published through her university’s literary magazines, including Shoofly and Essence. Her debut poetry chapbook, It’s Only Milk, was published by Finishing Line Press. Her poems have been featured in Wishbone Words.