A. A. Kostas

A. A. Kostas is a writer and lawyer based in Singapore. He is a contributing editor to Traces Journal. His writing has appeared in Compact, First Things, Front Porch Republic, Inkwell, Magazine Non Grata, Mere Orthodoxy, Bad Clown Books, and Rialto Books Review among others. He is the author of the poetry chapbook Luminox and the novel The Pilgrims (coming December 2026). He publishes the Substack newsletter Waymarkers and his website is aakostas.com. 

Dabney Baldridge

Dabney Baldridge is a poet, author, and homeschooling mother of four. She studied English and Classical Education at Grove City College and loves sharing her favorite stories and poems with her children. Though she writes in the middle of a full and messy life, she has found that some of her favorite ideas have come to her while washing dishes, kneading dough, or cleaning sticky fingers. Her work has appeared in various online and print publications including Solid Food Press, Calla Press, The Way Back to Ourselves, Dandelion Revolution Press, Heart of Flesh, and Vessels of Light. You can find more of her work on Substack. 

Charlotte Balladine

J. E. Bartel

J.E. Bartel is a writer who has lived in Scotland, Canada, and the United States, leaving her with a complicated national identity and a love for cold weather. Her essays, articles, and short stories have been published in Inkwell, Common Good, and Twin Bird Review. Whether fiction or non, her work is concerned with the theological meaning of suffering alongside the presence of beauty and joy in the everyday. She is working on her first novel. You can find her on Substack.

Peter Biles

Peter Biles is an assistant professor of creative writing and English at Oklahoma Baptist University and the author of several novels and short story collections. His work has appeared in Plough Quarterly, The Dispatch, RealClearBooks & Culture, Literally Stories, Midsummer Dream House, and others. His books include Hillbilly Hymn, Keep, What the Tree Saw, Through the Eye of Old Man Kyle, and Last November. When he’s not writing, he can be found drinking coffee, riding his unicycle, playing the guitar, and spending time with friends and family. He can be found on his author website and his Substack.

Anna Brotherson is a poet and writer from Tasmania, Australia. After completing her studies in Classical Greek, linguistics, and theology, she and her husband moved to a bustling megacity in Indonesia. During their years there, Anna became a Bible storyteller and a birth doula, and published her first picture book, Lewis’s Interesting Life. Now back in Australia, Anna loves looking after her home and three kids, writing (fiction, non-fiction, and poetry), teaching Biblical Greek at Sydney Missionary and Bible College, and trekking around Sydney’s bush and coastline. You can find Anna online at
In Common (a Biblical Greek language blog) and on her author website.

Samuel Buhler

Samuel Buhler is a pastor and writer who believes that stories can awaken wonder and reshape the way we see the world. Whether writing from a biblical worldview, in fantasy, or in poetry, his work invites readers to discover goodness, truth, and beauty. He lives in North Georgia with his wife and their two young boys. You can connect with him on Substack, Instagram, and Youtube.

Amelia Buzzard

Amelia Buzzard is a young Anglican mom in Upstate NY who writes about Christianity, culture, and female embodiment on Substack. Her essays appear in publications such as World Magazine, Plough, and Fairer Disputations. She is currently working on her first novel, a theological space opera in the tradition of C.S. Lewis.

Sandrina de Klerk

Sandrina de Klerk was captivated by adventure novels as a kid and pulled into worlds not her own yet strangely familiar; she fell in love with stories and began to tell them herself. So here we are. She is spending her life pursuing the arts and learning what faith looks like worked out in life. She explores stories of all kinds and forms and aims to craft compelling narratives, whether fiction or non-fiction, that tell of beauty, goodness and truth and that do so in honesty with heart, depth and grit. You can connect with her and her writing on her Substack.

Kevin LaTorre

Kevin LaTorre is a Christian writer and poet in North Carolina. His stories, essays, and poems have appeared in Plough, Solum Literary Journal, Apocrypha, Rialto Review of Books, Clayjar Review, Ad Fontes, Solid Food Press, and elsewhere. He is writing a novel about conservation and belief in the Appalachians, and he writes the newsletter Shadow/Substance.