Kyle Hays was a peer of mine back in 2011 - 13 . He's a fiction writer and has been published in Juked, The Seattle Review. He teaches at Tulsa Community College and we talk shop, Brandon Taylor's book 'Minor Black Figures' and philosophy on community and writing. Enjoy!

Rachel Hyman is a software engineer and also an engineer of communities and is a cool person . Met her through the Zona Motel publication. She once ran Banango Street and Banango Lit.

Which was a huge operation. She's pretty dope and was cool enough to agree to join the show. She's been published by Big Lucks Review as well . She is an iconic Chicago person too.

Gion Davis is a poet and returns to talk about his new poetry book, "Designated Stranger"

Also go see him read at the Publishing Genius reading happening this weekend in Baltimore.

Brian Allen Carr is reading this weekend at the AWP off - site events . He's a badass writer and works for the Zona Motel publication on substack,

Brian is the author of Bad Foundations, Opiod, Indiana, Motherfucking Sharks, Sip, Vampire Conditions, and The Last Horror Novel in the History of the World.

Jillian Luft is an excellent writer and person - author of Scumbag Summer by House of Vlad.

She now works for Zona Motel and writes about Trash TV. She's putting on a reading this week with Alexandra Naughton and Shy Watson down in Baltimore

On today's episode ZH Gill joined the show to discuss all things "Burial Magazine" and his movies and his writings along with comics and graphic novels. Enjoy the show!

Z.H. has been on several readings I've held in the past so it felt cool to just sit down and shoot the shit with him

Jennifer Espinoza comes on the show and we talk about poetry, ghosts and writing and Beachsloth and Erin Taylor, She has five new poems up on lofimag.com

Badass conversation.

Follow her substack - @jenespinoza twitter @sadqueerlife instagram @sadqueerlife

Buy her book - I Don't Want To Be Understood

I've copy/pasted this from the Sabr Tooth Tiger website :

Madeline Blair is the mastermind behind Sabr Tooth Tiger Magazine. A poet, editor, and award-winning filmmaker from Chicago, IL, she received her BA in Creative Writing from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Okay Donkey, Burial Magazine, Luna Luna Magazine, Libre Lit, Raging Opossum Press, Ekphrasis Magazine, Orangepeel Magazine, and more. She was once quoted in The New York Times on her passion for clean air.