F.M Papaz is an emerging Greek-Australian poet from Melbourne, who believes that there is space at the literary table for everyone and is excitedly setting up your cutlery. She loves to collaborate with creatives so do not be afraid to make contact via her website fmpapaz.com or her Instagram @fmpapaz. Papaz has also been published in The Pocketry Almanack and The Victorian Writer, but is most proud of being published in Mantissa, and will be joining as an Editor for Issue #3.

Sam Morley has been published in a number of journals including Cordite, Red Room Poetry, The Australian, Overland, Westerly, Southerly, Plumwood Mountain and has been shortlisted in the ACU Poetry Prize. He was the 2022 recipient of the Tina Kane Emergent Writer Award at the Mildura Writer's Festival. His debut collection, Earshot, is out now through Puncher and Wattmann.

Ruby Davis (she/her) is a Naarm based writer. She graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2019 with a BFA Screenwriting. Her work has been featured in Demure Mag, TV Blackbox and Mantissa Poetry Review. In 2022, she was selected for Express Media’s Toolkits: Poetry Program. She is the current editor of online poetry journal Sour Cherry Mag. Ruby was the 2019 recipient of the Australian Writers’ Guild Mentorship Award.

You can find her at www.rubidavis.com and @rvbydavis on instagram.

Guido Melo is an Afro-Brazilian-Latinx Research Student at Victoria University in Naarm (Melbourne). He is a Multilingual author, and his words can be found in Overland Magazine, Africa is a Country magazine, Meanjin Quarterly, Kill Your Darlings, Peril, Colournary, Mantissa Poetry, Ascension Magazine, SBS Voices, SBS Portuguese, Cordite Poetry Review, Voz Limpia, Alma Preta Jornalismo, and Guia Negro News. Guido is a member of the Sweatshop Literacy Movement, a columnist for Negrê, and a contributor to Growing Up African in Australia (Black Inc., 2019), Racism: Stories on Fear, Hate & Bigotry (Sweatshop, 2021) and Resilience: A celebration of poetry, fiction, and essays from Mascara Literary Review (Ultimo Press, 2022), The Routledge Handbook of Media Education Futures Post-Pandemic (Routledge, 2022).

Josie/Jocelyn Suzanne is a freelance editor/writer/programmer. Their work has appeared in Cordite, Southerly, Rabbit Journal and Overland, among others. They were shortlisted for the 2022 Val Vallis award, and were the recipient of the 2021 Harri Jones memorial prize, as well as being one of the 2021 Ultimo prize recipients. They were one of the 2021 Next Chapter recipients. They are a genderqueer trans femme and live on unceded Wurundjeri land in Naarm.