CONTRIBUTORS: ISSUE 24 Nicole Baute, Barcelona on a Saturday, grew up in rural Ontario and currently lives in New Delhi, India. She recently won the 2018 Pinch Literary Prize for Fiction and came in third in Wigleaf’s Mythic Picnic Prize. Her short stories and essays have been published in Joyland, River Teeth, carte blanche, and elsewhere. Nicole teaches creative writing online at Sarah Selecky Writing School and is pursuing her MFA at the University of British Columbia. Christopher Blackman, Pax Romana, is a poet and educator from Columbus, Ohio. He received his MFA in poetry from Columbia University and his poems have been published in the Atlas Review, Typo Magazine, EuropeNow, and Muse/A Journal. He has been an instructor at the Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop and currently lives in New York. Giovanni Casadei, Inspired to See, was born and raised in Rome, Italy where he studied at the Scuola Libera del Nudo and at the Academy … chop! chop! read more!