
Mountain Torrent With Stars / Judy Kaber








Rowan MacDonald’s short fiction has been awarded the Kenan Ince Memorial Prize (2023) and nominated for Best of the Net (2025). His words have appeared in publications around the world, including most recently New Writing Scotland, Bright Flash Literary Review, Sans. PRESS, Rock Salt Journal and Coffin Bell Journal. He lives in Tasmania with his dog, Rosie, who sits beside him for each word he writes.

Michelle Li has been nationally recognized by Scholastic Art and Writing and the Rising Voices Awards. She is an alumna of the Kenyon Review Young Writer’s Workshop and her work has been published in Blue Marble, Masque and Spectacle, and Lumina Journal. In addition, she plays violin and piano and loves Rachmaninoff and Sylvia Plath.