Benjamin Roesch has an MFA from Lesley University and is a writer, musician, podcaster, and award-winning essayist. For twelve glorious, exhausting years, he was a high school English teacher, and is now a full-time writer based in Burlington, VT, where he lives with his family. Oh, and his name is pronounced “Rush,” like the band from Canada.

Follow Benjamin online:

• Website: benjaminroesch.com
• IG: @benjaminroeschwrites
• Twitter: @bbroesch

Jordan was born and raised in Australia and loves queer stories of all sorts. When he's not writing or reading, he's out in nature or parenting his overactive dog Misty.

Jordan's been published in print with Currency Press and online in numerous publications such as SBS Voices, We Are Explorers, Buzzfeed, Time Out, YMCA Australia, and elsewhere. He’s also performed his work at the Australian storytelling event Queerstories, as well as the National Young Writers’ Festival.

Being a passionate member of the LGBTQ+ community, he believes it’s important to have raw, relatable, and positive queer representation in the stories we read.

E.J. is an avid gamer, reader and comic book movie fan, who belongs to more fandoms than can be counted. When they’re not geeking out over the newest Marvel movie they can be found writing one of their many stories, in the case of Fairy War one that has been planned since university.

Conner Steel is a former political journalist turned writer. After following British politics for a number of years, he concluded it was filled with a bunch of blood sucking, wealth hoarding monsters – the perfect inspiration for Invisi_Gir1.

Website: https://www.invisigir1.com/
Twitter: @SteelConner

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Jacyn Gormish (they/them) is a queer Jewish nonbinary disabled superhuman. They enjoy writing, metalsmithing, and weaving. They live in the Twin Cities with their wife, their cat, their service dog, and a whole bunch of medication.

Twitter: @JacynGormish

Website: http://www.jacyngormish.com

By day I’m a humble physical therapist…and by day I’m also a writer of sweet & saucy boyslove stories (18+). I sleep at night as an old fart like me should. I’m both self-published and traditionally published. Other than that, I live with my partner and two cats and live my best life.

Website: http://konblackeboyslovewriter.com

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/blackekon

I am a gay fiction author of sweet romance, young adult, asexual, and inspirational. My heroes always have their beautiful happily-ever-after, but a happy-for-now works in some cases.

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Colt Oakley is an old butch cowboy with six goats and a soft spot for romance stories where everyone gets exactly what they want in the end.

Maxwell Bauman is Editor-In-Chief of Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine. He is a contributor for Chicken Soup for the Soul. His short story collection, The Anarchist Kosher Cookbook (2017) and novella The Mummy of Canaan (2019) were published by CLASH Books. He has two novellas forthcoming at the end 2021; House of Blood and Teeth from Nictitating Books, and The Giant Robots of Babel from Aggadah Try It, an imprint of Madness Heart Press.

When not writing, Maxwell makes LEGO art, some of which has been exhibited at the Blue Door Art Center in Yonkers, NY, and published in the Association for Jewish Studies: Perspectives; The Protest Issue (June 2021).

You can find out more about Maxwell's writing and art on his website maxwellbauman.com and follow him on Twitter @maxwellbauman

Charli Mac writes Erotic Romance, often with a Fantasy or Science-Fiction twist. Originally from Scotland – yes, she still has the accent – she now lives in sunny Colorado where she dreams of meeting a hot Alpha werewolf hiking in the Rocky mountains. No, it hasn’t happened yet. She also likes running and wine and cake.

Website: www.charlimacwrites.com

Twitter: @charlimac2