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Deck of Cards

Monica Botross is a second year medical student at the Burnett School of Medicine at Texas Christian University. In 2021, she graduated from the University of California, Irvine, with a Bachelor of Science in Neurobiology and a minor in Art History. In her spare time she enjoys writing, baking, and visiting local museums.

Have You Ever Wondered How the Brain Cleans Itself?

Dr. Mandel left clinical pediatrics and haw been researching and teaching the connections between mind and body medicine for over 13 years.

Her passion is teaching individuals (especially teens and their families) to look for the answers they are seeking on the INSIDE, where all the answers lie.

I Am Neither Surgical

Hadara Bar-Nadav is an NEA fellow and author of several award-winning books of poetry, among them The Singing Pills (forthcoming), The New Nudity, Lullaby (with Exit Sign), The Frame Called Ruin, and A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight, as well as the chapbooks Fountain and Furnace and Show Me Yours. She is also co-author with Michelle Boisseau of the best-selling textbook Writing Poems, 8th ed. Hadara is a Professor of English and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Forgive

Michael Foran is from Ware, Massachusetts, and teaches literature classes at Holyoke Community College. His most recent poems have appeared in Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Driftwood Press, Ocotillo Review, Rumble Fish Quarterly and Blood Tree Literature