Lauren Connell Johnson attributes her upbringing in Florida, America’s weirdest state to her interest in the ecological and surreal. Her writing has appeared in the Swamp Ape Review, the Racket Journal, The Critical Flame, Pacifica Literary Review, Museum of Science Fiction, Oracle Fine Arts Review, and others. She earned her MFA in creative writing at American University and lives in San Francisco, where she is a co-host of Babylon Salon, a quarterly Bay Area reading series. @laurencjohnson
Matt Carney is a Latinx writer and musician residing in San Francisco. He holds an MA and MFA from SFSU. His fiction and poetry have appeared in A cappella Zoo, Inkwell, Red Light Lit, Writing Without Walls, sPARKLE & bLINK, Entropy, Anti-Heroin Chic, Tilted House and in readings at seedy bars across California. His short story ‘On Becoming’ was a finalist in the 2017 Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Contest. Find his musical project N! on Bandcamp and Spotify.
@ruddagerrustin
