Alison Roman is a New York-based cook, writer, and author of the cookbook, Something from Nothing as well as the New York Times best-selling cookbooks Sweet Enough, Nothing Fancy and Dining In.

Alissa Tu (she/her) is a Vietnamese American writer, dancer, and passenger princess. Born and raised in Olympia, Washington, she received her MFA in Writing from the University of California San Diego. Her debut memoir Confessions of a Modern Day Kumiho (2023) was published with Blue Cactus Press, and her work can be found in Fruitslice Zine, Honey Literary, The Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and diaCRITICs. . You can find her at alissatu.com or on Instagram as heyalissa.

Allyson Roche is a writer, collage artist, and actor based in NYC. Her writing has appeared in Mister Magazine, Inside Voice, The Cry Lounge, and Neologism. She's a UCLA graduate with a B.A. in English, and her Honors Research Thesis, "'Between Gloom and Laughter': Female Longing, Unhappiness, and Structures of Absence in the Works of Virginia Woolf" won UCLA's 2023 Thompson Prize for Best Honors Thesis. She is currently researching aesthetics of unfinishedness in modernist women's writing. 

Ausma Palmer is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor currently earning her M.A. at the CUNY Grad Center. 

Avery Trufelman is a podcaster and radio producer. She is best known for her work on 99% Invisible (2013–2020) and its spin-off, Articles of Interest (2018–present).

Brandon Vosika is a self taught Canadian American painter, sculptor, and voice artist living and working in Seattle, WA. From his haunted downtown studio, Brandon creates ethereal works on canvas, small colorful sculptures, publishes small press book editions, operates a friendly art focused mail club and practices amateur tap dancing.

Brandon has participated in over 100 group and solo art shows with galleries and museums in Seattle, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. His work was featured on the cover of Seattle’s The Stranger Magazine and has been published in print and online in The New York Times, Architectural Digest, The Seattle Times, Vogue, Hi Fructose Magazine and Juxtapoz Magazine.”

Bridey Elliott graduated from the National Theater Institute where she studied acting and playwriting. After moving to New York City, she became a regular at Upright Citizens Brigade and starred in the SXSW Grand Jury Prize winning indie, Fort Tilden, in 2014. After relocating to Los Angeles, she began directing. Her first short film, “Affections”, went to the Sundance Film Festival in 2016 and went on to have an international theatrical run as part of the Sundance Shorts Tour. In 2018, Bridey’s dark comedy, Clara’s Ghost, went to Sundance and was released theatrically by MGM Orion. In 2020,“The Starr Sisters”, Bridey’s first documentary she co-directed, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. “The Starr Sisters” was awarded the Audience Pick from Palm Springs ShortFest and the Special Jury Prize from Aspen Shortsfest. She is the creator and host of  the variety show, HOLLYWEIRD, which takes places in Los Angeles at The Philosophical Research Society. 

Emily Ann Hoffman is an award-winning filmmaker and animator whose work explores sexuality, gender and intimacy through poignant comedy. Her films have screened at festivals such as Sundance, SXSW and Slamdance, and her work has been supported by the likes of Warner Bros, Sundance Institute, Film at Lincoln Center, Gotham, and more.

When she isn’t creating her own work, she’s supporting the next generation of auteurs as an Assistant Professor of Animation at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. As an animation director, her work has been featured on Netflix, HBO, and Hulu to name a few, and her work as a multidisciplinary fine artist and painter has been featured in international exhibits and publications like Architectural Digest and It’s Nice That. She holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and previously taught at Parsons, The New School and School of Visual Arts.

Fran Hoepfner is a writer for Vulture. Her writing has also appeared in Gawker and Bright Wall/Dark Room. She lives in New York.

Isabel has been performing in local film, theatre and making short films in the PNW for most of her life. She’s been engaged in the Olympia’s arts scene since 2022, serving on the board of the Olympia Film Collective—a 501(c)(3) supporting local short films—from 2022 to 2024.

In 2023, she ran away with Circus Smirkus to cook for a troupe of clowns and roustabouts, which sparked her personal explorations in contortion and trapeze.

Currently, Isabel is in Torino, Italia, studying Physical Theater.

Joshua H. Chang is a photographer, musician, and barista living in New York City. He has photographed and published photos for numerous bands and artists such as Allegra Krieger, The Big Net and Lamplight. Joshua released his EP “Bushwick Diaries” in 2024, blending country, indie, and folk in songs related to queerness, the quotidian, dancing, and death. His day-to-day is spent as a barista at Ninth Street Espresso in Brooklyn, and jumping rope and improving his pull-ups in Chinatown.

Kate does data management in the entertainment industry, having arrived at this juncture on a train with stops at studio archives, academic libraries, a linguistics B.A., and contemporary and classical dance training. These days, she is an avid practitioner of yoga, which she balances with an equally robust anxiety practice. She lives in Burbank, CA, with her husband and their two very handsome cats.

Mary Anne Carter is a Seattle-based artist and curator. She works in a wide range of materials including textiles, printmaking, and glass to create vibrant immersive installations and functional art objects. Her recent installation, STÖR, was named one of the best shows of 2024 by The Seattle Times. 

Her work has appeared in galleries and museums including The Frye, AMcE Gallery, J. Rinehart, The Bellevue Art Museum, Museum of Museums, The Factory, Forest For the Trees, King Street Station, Junior High LA, Get Nice Gallery, Mount Analogue, Vermillion, The Seattle Design Festival, Seattle Art Fair and more. 

Megan Hattie Stahl is an Oregon-born documentarian, sound artist and educator living in Brooklyn, New York. Her creative practice explores musical histories and cultures through audio walks, sound collage and archival multimedia performance. Her award-winning audio projects include the “Albina Soul Walk” soundwalk in Portland, Oregon (2021) and the multisensory wine tasting audio documentary “Sounds of Unknowing” (2024). Megan holds an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College and teaches new media production at Marymount Manhattan College. She loves biking around Brooklyn, reviewing whoopie pies and wearing velvet jumpsuits. 

Molly Lambert is a writer and creator of the podcasts JENNAWORLD: Jenna Jameson, Vivid Video & The Valley and HEIDIWORLD: The Heidi Fleiss Story 

Natalie Walker is a performer and writer. Stage: The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse (New Group), The Big Gay Jamboree (Orpheum, Lucille Lortel Award Nominee, Drama Desk Aware Nominee), White Girl in Danger (Second Stage), Alice By Heart (MCC), Dogfight concert (Second Stage), Cabaret (Secret), Last of the Red Hot Lovers (Hangar). Screen: Search Party, BoJack Horseman, The Other Two, The Hamlet Factory. Writing featured in Bookforum and New York Magazine.

Sam Miller is a nationally touring comedian from Olympia, Washington. He is 6 foot 6, 360 pounds, and has two kids (one of them is on purpose). He's been married for 13 years, and has been clean and sober for 15 years. Sam likes to make jokes about what it's like to be a sober parent. He also likes to make jokes about what jail is like in Yakima.

Sam is a recurring guest and has been heard by an estimated 2.5 million listeners on the nationally syndicated "Bob & Tom Radio Show." He has written for Newsweek. He was the runner-up in the 2021 Seattle International Comedy Competition and won the Comedy on Trial Competition in 2017. He has headlined multiple major comedy clubs including The Laugh Factory in Chicago. He's also performed with the Addicts Comedy Tour and at NA and AA conventions all over the country. For three consecutive years, he won awards in "The Best of Olympia" issue of the Weekly Volcano.