Karris Rae is an MFA/MA student at McNeese State University, located in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Her fiction was awarded the 2025 Robert Olen Butler Prize. In 2024, her chapbook, We Obedient Children, won the Etchings Press Chapbook Contest in prose. Her other short work has appeared or is forthcoming in Tahoma Literary Review, X-R-A-Y Magazine, Fourth Genre Magazine, Mount Hope Magazine, and Gargoyle Online, among others. Learn more at her website, karrisrae.com.
Image Credit: “‘Prayer Hands’ Monotype Print 7 x 9’’ by Kaelos
Kaelos is a lesbian, Angolan-American painter, printmaker, and poet based out of Flagstaff, Arizona. With a background in both creative writing and visual arts, they are interested in the combination of genres, subjects, and materials as a means of investigation and documenting histories, particularly those concerning colonization, queerness, and their intersection with the mundane.Kaelos prints have been exhibited in The Art Center’s National Printmaking Exhibition, as well as Fusion Art’s Colors 2025. They are currently pursuing an MFA in creative writing with the University of Northern Arizona, where they are continuing to explore hybrid genre works and visual storytelling.
