May 2026
Kara Hodo has been creating with words from an early age. Currently, her writing includes several finished novels (and numerous unfinished ones!), short stories, novellas, poems, essays, and flash fiction. Her genres of interest are as varied, ranging from ghost stories/horror to fantasy, mystery, thriller, and Christian speculative fiction. Kara has been published in the student journals of two separate universities and has self-published on Amazon. She is always looking for ways to get her work out there.
March 2026
Iris Aloe greatly enjoys writing and sharing what she creates. She has been writing since she was 12 and contemporarily writes poetry, songs, lyrics, musicals, screenplays, plays, and more. She has been published in the North Carolina Bards 2025 Anthology, in Issue 2: Voltage, from Navy Pen Digital Literary Magazine, in Issue 5 of Summur Magazine, and on forwritten.com. @irisalo3
September 2025
Baylor Bishop, is 21 years old, he is originally from Broken Bow, Oklahoma and attends East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma. He started writing his sophomore year of college and has wanted to tell this story since high school, it all started when he and five of his friends had a movie idea. That idea stuck with him, and he brought it to life with his script. He hopes you enjoy.
August 2025
Zachariah Hobia is a student at East Central University. He likes learning any and everything and likes to communicate these learnings through poetry.
April 2025
Joshua Grasso is a Professor of English at East Central University (OK), where he teaches classes in everything from Batman to Beowulf. He has a Ph.D. from Miami University in 18th/19th.c British Literature and an MA from the University of Tulsa. He has published stories in speculative fiction magazines such as Metaphorosis, Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores, Daily Science Fiction, JAKE, On Spec, Speculative North, and Tales to Terrify, among others. He has four indie fantasy novels set in the same world (and with many of the same characters) as Let Sleeping Gods Lie, including The Count of the Living-Death, The Astrologer’s Portrait, The Winged Turban, and Thieves of the Middle-Dark.
February 2025
Lauren George is currently in college studying Graphic Design, but she has also always had a passion for creative writing. Over the years, her writing has progressed from ambitiously imaginative stories in elementary school scribbled down wildly in a notebook, to screenplays in high school, to where she is now. She enjoy experimenting with different genres and is always looking for ways to improve!
Some of her interests include doing activities with her church, playing vigorous rounds of Just Dance, watching terrible B-movies, listening to CDs, thrift shopping, and hanging out with friends (and making new friends).