contributors Niko Dolar studies comparative literature at the University of the Philippines Diliman. His poem "Some Bodies" won first place in the Likhaan: University of the Philippines Institute of Creative Writing''s Life UPdates last July 2022. He has two poetry zines, namely in & exits and for quiet boys. When he's not surfing the tides of his readings, he's either finding stray cats to pet or battling an online game addiction. Eric Hansen is Cree & Danish. His poems have been accepted for publication, hear his lyrics on the album Trip Doctor by Sheepskin Sound Reduction or see him read his work at Planet Earth Poetry and The Victoria Poetry Project. He lives in Victoria, Canada. R. W. Haynes is Regents Professor of Humanities at Texas A&M International University, Laredo, Texas, where he teaches early British literature and Shakespeare. His academic degrees include the M. A. (Literature) from the University of Dallas and the B. A. (Classics) from Macalester College. His recent publications include studies of playwright/screenwriter Horton Foote and of Renaissance dialogue. Four collections of his poems, Laredo Light (2019), Let the Whales Escape (2019), Heidegger Looks at the Moon (2021), and The Deadly Shadow of the Wall (2022), have been published, as have many poems in American and international journals. In 2016, Haynes received the SCMLA Poetry prize at the Dallas conference of the South Central Modern Language Association. He also writes plays and fiction. Iris H. Mauricio is a graduate of Brunel University London’s BA Creative Writing degree with a First, and achieved an MA Creative Writing with Distinction degree. She has been mentored by notable writers such as Booker Prize 2019 winner and President of the Royal Society of Literature, Dr. Bernardine Evaristo, British poet and Chair of