Chris M. Arnone
The son of a librarian, Chris M. Arnone’s love of books was as inevitable as gravity. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Missouri – Kansas City. His cyberpunk series, The Jayu City Chronicles, is available everywhere books are sold. He’s always writing more books and poetry, talking about being intersex, and acting. See his latest at chrisarnone.com.
Marcia L. Hurlow
Marcia L. Hurlow’s seventh poetry collection, a chapbook, Dog Physics, was published by Main Street Rag in 2024. Her full-length collection, Practice Rapture, will appear in 2025 from Pine Row Press. Her poems, short stories and cnf have appeared in Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Nimrod, Bloomsbury Review, Baltimore Review, Chicago Review, Malahat Review, Louisville Review, Chiron, and Ginosko, among others. A Pushcart nominee, she is co-editor of Kansas City Review and vice-president of Whispering Prairie Press.
Marianne Kunkel
Marianne Kunkel is the author of Hillary, Made Up (Stephen F. Austin State University Press) and The Laughing Game (Finishing Line Press), two anthologies, and many poems, including one in Best American Poetry 2025. She is Associate Professor of English at Johnson County Community College and co-editor of Kansas City Review and president of Whispering Prairie Press. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Florida and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she was managing editor of Prairie Schooner.
Ben Lee
A graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute, Ben Lee has a career in Marketing and Advertising spanning over 20 years. Currently Ben currently freelances graphic design and illustration services for business big and small. In addition, he self-publishes comic books and accessories through his Big Head Productions banner.
Benjamin Rosenthal
Benjamin Rosenthal’s work has been exhibited internationally in such venues/festivals as the Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Cairo Video Festival, SIMULTAN Festival, FILE Electronic Language International Festival, Locomoción Festival de Animacion, LINOLEUM Festival of Contemporary Animation and Media Art, and the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, among others. His work across media explores what he theorizes as queer “technosexuality” and challenges the supremacy of physical contact in a technocultural age. Rosenthal is Associate Professor of Expanded Media in the Department of Visual Art at the University of Kansas.
Tom Sullivan
After completing graduate studies at University of Missouri—Columbia, Tom Sullivan volunteered with the US Peace Corps and was sent to Mongolia, where he taught English as a Foreign Language in Darkhan. He now provides writing and editorial services at Sullivan Wordsmithing https://www.sullivanwordsmithing.com/. He is managing editor of Kansas City Review, as well as treasurer and senior member of the Board at Whispering Prairie Press.