Court Ludwick is the author of These Strange Bodies (ELJ Editions, 2024) and the founding editor-in-chief of Broken Antler Magazine. Her writing has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize, and can be found in EPOCH, Denver Quarterly, Stonecoast Review, Oxford Magazine, Full House Literary, West Trade Review, and elsewhere. Court’s art has shown at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, and she has visual work in Zaum Magazine, Bleating Thing Magazine, and body fluids. She is the recipient of a 2024 Sioux Falls Arts Council Artist Grant, and she has taught workshops on hybrid writing and experimental form, most recently for The Dakota Writing Project and Vermillion Literacy Project. Court has an MA from Texas Tech University and is a current PhD student at the University of South Dakota, where she teaches literature and composition. She is currently at work on her second book, a creative-critical project about bones, memory, and mommy issues.

www.courtlud.com

Instagram/Twitter @courtludwick

BAM Wishlist: Surreal prose poems, experimental and hybrid work (!!!), LGBTQIA+ horror, eco-horror, visual poetry, anything about the body!

Riah Hopkins is a PhD student in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of South Dakota, as well as an instructor at the University of Sioux Falls. Her fiction has been published in Pulp, Exposed Bone, and elsewhere. She is also South Dakota Review’s Circulations Manager. Currently, Riah is at work on her first novel.

Instagram @riah_0_hop

BAM Wishlist: Weird fiction, stories about cults, stories about monsters with feelings (!), murderous rock bands, work set to the aesthetic of a 1997 Smashing Pumpkins music video (whatever that means)

Amelia Skinner Saint is a writer, teacher, and PhD student whose interests include comics, sci-fi, trashy thrillers, and absurd humor. Her aesthetic vibe can best be described as dark whimsy, preferably featuring animals or monsters. She is the former fiction editor of the recently defunct Briar Cliff Review, and is excited to work in a more experimental medium.

Instagram @skinnerorsaint

BAM Wishlist: Art made from those bones you found in the woods (& she is not joking—she has literally made art like this and wants to see more)

Bekah Bahn is a Creative Writing master's student at the University of South Dakota. She received her B.A. in English-Creative Writing with a minor in Vocal Music and certifications in both Professional Writing and Digital Marketing. She graduated with a Summa Cum Laude distinction. Her creative interests include dystopian, fantasy, hybrid works, and climate fiction.

Instagram @bekah_bahn

BAM Wishlist: Eco-horror, Weird fiction, stories showing the real in the unreal, the fantastical & uncanny in the seemingly ordinary