I write what I feel: mind and heart. What specifically do I write, you might wonder? I write various kinds of youthful romance stories, both young adult and new adult, featuring transgender and cisgender female protagonists. Whether it’s contemporary or paranormal, my characters have stories to live through and then tell.
Joe Baumann’s fiction and essays have appeared in Passages North, Third Coast, Electric Literature, and many other journals. His debut short story collection, Sing With Me at the Edge of Paradise, was chosen as the inaugural winner of the Iron Horse/Texas Tech University Press First Book Award. He possesses a PhD in English from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette and lives outside St. Louis, Missouri. He can be reached at joebaumann.wordpress.com.
A.K. Adler lives in a Buddhist community in the middle of nowhere. They walk in the woods every day, and would probably be happy never to go into a city again (as long as they have access to WiFi, of course). They are the author of The Order of the White Raven series. Dreamwalker is their first Young Adult novel.
TreVaughn Malik Roach-Carter is a Queer Black writer born in Modesto, California. He is a novelist and Fiction Editor with The Ana Literary Magazine. He holds an MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University. His work has been featured in Ramblr Magazine, Tayo Magazine’s special issue: SOFT, Transfer Magazine, BAD EGG Magazine, Borderless Magazine, The Ana Magazine, Stellium Magazine, and Querencia Press. He is a recipient of the Leo Litwalk Literature Award, a Browning Society Award, and a finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. He is the author of the Young Adult novel The Aziza Chronicles: Awakening, and the autofiction short story collection Her Daughters.
Mark Kelly is an avid gamer, wannabe model, and occasional podcaster. He has been writing novels since he was five years old, but most of them are not exactly publishable. After receiving a BFA in Creative Writing from Bowling Green State University, he’s tried his best to actually make it worth the money he spent on it. Originally from Cincinnati, he currently lives in Atlanta with his husband, Matt.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Maxwell Bauman is Owner/ Editor-In-Chief of Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine. He is a contributor to Chicken Soup for the Soul. He is Lead Editor of Aggadah Try It, an imprint of Madness Heart Press. They published his books, "The Revised Anarchist's Kosher Cookbook," "The Mummy of Canaan —Author Preferred Edition," and "The Giant Robots of Babel." Maxwell earned his MA / MFA in Fiction and Publishing from Wilkes University. His horror novella, "House of Blood and Teeth" was published by Nictitating Press and his YA Bisexual Romance novel "Gerald Ribbon and the Bird in His Brain" is published by Deep Hearts YA. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association and the Young Jewish Professionals, and is an associate member of the Jewish Art Salon, and makes LEGO art that has appeared in museums. You can follow Maxwell on Twitter (X) and Instagram or visit his website maxwellbauman.com.
