Rebecca Evans writes the difficult, the heart-full, the guidebooks for survivors. Her debut memoir in verse, Tangled by Blood, bridges motherhood and betrayal, untangling wounds and restorying what it means to be a mother. She’s a memoirist, essayist, and poet, infusing her love of empowerment with craft.  She teaches high school teens in the Juvie system through journaling and art projects. Rebecca is also a military veteran, a practicing Jew, a self-taught gardener, and shares space with four Newfoundlands and her sons She specializes in writing workshops for veterans and those diving deep in narrative. She co-hosts Radio Boise’s Writer to Writer show on Stray theater and does her best writing in a hidden cove beneath her stairway. 

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Cc claymore (she/her) is a writer, researcher, freelance editor, and part-time English professor.  She is an emerging poet whose work has been included in the previous five anthologies published by The Cabin, as well as in "The Panorama Project," a pandemic arts segment underwritten by The Idaho Press Tribune and Surel's Place. christy lives in Boise, Idaho where she loves supporting the arts, running in the foothills and raising her two boys. 

Elisabeth Sharp McKetta is the author of thirteen books, including Edit Your Life and The Creative Year: 52 Workshops for Writers. She teaches writing for Harvard and Oxford and is the founder of The Book Year Writer’s Circle. 

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Yazmín Yadira Novelo Montejo received her Master in Sociolinguistics from Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba, Bolivia. She is a graduate in Social Communication from Autonomous University of Yucatán, Mérida, México and formed in Revitalization of Native Languages and Identities from the University of Mondragón in the Basque Country. Previously, she was associate professor at the Autonomous University of Yucatán and the Autonomous University of Mexico, ENES-Yucatán headquarters. She specializes in the revitalization of native languages and identities through cultural production and the media. She is a founding member of Yúuyum Radio and musical projects in the Mayan language. She is currently director of the U Péekbal Waye', a project which works for Mayan language revitalization. She collaborates as a mentor in linguistic revitalization with Endangered Languages Project and also co-directs the Nojolo'on Community Center for Peace in Peto, Yucatán, a space for citizen activation for Peace and NonViolence. 

 Wormwood and Nightshade by Adam Lindsay Gordon 1833-1870. 

Tango recordings from the early 1920s by Alberto Arenas, Enrique Delfino and Armand Vecsey.

Acapella music from the early twentieth century.

Calvin Pineda makes music, poetry, and theater with an eye towards the whimsical, pedestrian, and spiritual. They are from Boise, Idaho, and have studied at The College Of Western Idaho, The Eugene O’Neill National Theater Institute, and Bard College. They are a theological seminary graduate, and a three-time attendee of the American Numismatic Association’s Summer Seminar. Their most recent albums were released on September 8th-- 'And What Shall We Wear,' an undergraduate gender meditation; and 'Zines From The Duplex Nursing Home,' recorded into a discount eBay cassette deck. They perform with their band as Calvin Pineda and The Antacids, and are one-half of the musical-essay-podcast duo Sage Country Fragments. They enjoy cats, roadside attractions, and mint ice cream. 

Pius Akumbu is a senior researcher at Langage, Langues et Cultures d’Afrique (LLACAN), a research unit of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and INaLCO University that specializes in the study of the languages and cultures of Africa. Before joining LLACAN, Pius was a Visiting Professor at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Previously, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Hamburg from 2019 to 2021. Before leaving Cameroon, Pius taught Linguistics courses at the universities of Buea and Bamenda. He received his PhD in Linguistics from the University of Yaoundé 1 in Cameroon. His research focuses on the documentation and description of Grassfields Bantu languages of Cameroon, including his mother tongue, Babanki. Additionally, Pius researches multilingualism in Cameroon as well as language planning and policy in Africa. He is an ELDP grant recipient, and a depositor at the Endangered Languages Archive. Since November 2022, Pius has been one of the Endangered Languages Project’s (ELP) language revitalization mentors.

Excerpt from Frankenstein, by Mary Shelly, published in 1818.