Ryan Russell is a professional football player in the NFL and a born poet. He began writing around the age of seven when he lost his stepfather in a motorcycle accident and realized just how little his biological father was truly in his life. Ryan’s mother relocated him from Buffalo, New York to Dallas, Texas where Ryan then fell in love with football. Though his love for football was well known and well celebrated he kept embracing, improving, and exploring his first love of writing. Ryan graduated from the prestigious Purdue University and was drafted to the Dallas Cowboys. He saw most of his success with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and is excited to apply the same hard work and dedication to his writing as well. Ryan’s poetry is a strong collection of memories, emotional trials, and larger than life depictions into the human condition. He hopes to inspire those going through trauma, abuse, abandonment, insecurity, and many afflictions he also struggles with through this poetic adventure. Love and healing are also constant themes that arise, and are portrayed as areas we can always work hard to improve. Ryan also hopes to inspire other boys, and young men, to explore and cultivate their creative sides. We are all more than one talent and one dream. We are multifaceted and phenomenal beings with unlimited capabilities.

Scott Felix is a Lost Boy from the Neverland known as Southern California. A happy little accident to his sixteen year old parents. With his parents divorcing at the age of four, his childhood was full of memories being raised by his single mother alongside his grandparents. Being the eldest of five, he always felt the urge to make them all proud. With a full athletic scholarship, he graduated from the University of Southern California with a BA in Theatre, that propelled him into his artistic adventure.
Mediocre Poet. Sloppy Painter. Average Actor. Decent Director. Scott is a blue-collar artist that has decided to make beautiful things even if nobody cares. Writing only from his beloved typewriter named Circe, he refuses to be boxed in as having one style. His readers will be taken on a rollercoaster through the museum of his mind, never knowing what will be on the next page. Felix firmly believes that every writer from Bukowski to Edgar Allen Poe have an infinite portal that opens in their soul offering divine art for only mere seconds, which must be acted upon immediately to capture it. Always traveling with his typewriter, Felix lives by a quote from one of his artistic ancestors Vincent Van Gogh.
“Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.”

Myself Gilu Joseph. Hailing from a village named Kumily in south India. Written three poetry books in native language (Malayalam). Acted in 15 Indian movies. Written songs in 8 Malayalam movies. Worked as a cabin crew in Dubai for 8 years. Right now focusing more on movies , travelling and modelling. Family has two elder sisters and mother. Father passed away two years back. Loves writing, travelling and photography.

My name is Kari. I live in a city of artists, dreamers and make believers. I earn a living posing in front of cameras and looking “pretty”. A clothes hanger, a living mannequin, a model. This career has given me so many opportunities and experiences which I am endlessly grateful for. Despite all of the glamour and all of the money that comes with being a model, I have always known deep down at the core of soul that I was destined to do more. To feel more. To be more. 
Pretty is not my purpose. 
I want to be a voice for those who know they have more to offer than what meets the eye. Who feel suppressed by their image. Who are trying to fill up a box that society told them they should. Who want more than to pose for a photo, sing a song,appear on a screen, they want to make people feel something.  When you are watched by followers and consumers of media they are quick to make assumptions about who you may be as a person. You appear a certain way therefore you must be a certain way and possess a specific set of characteristics.
The most important thing I want anybody reading this to know- Every. Single. Person. Has thoughts nobody has heard, and never will. WE ALL have dreams, fantasies, feelings, sadness, anger, pleasure and secrets that make us who we are. You never know anybody’s soul. That is okay... it’s about being aware that others have one and about understanding that their soul is just as vast and yearning as your own. Be willing to learn more about others. Be flexible in your opinions. Be kind, be open, be love.

Rachel Clift is a writer & photographer based in the mountains of East Tennessee. She is known in the writing world as R. Clift and ‘the constellation poet’ for her way of stringing words together like stars in the night sky— to make something more.She can often be found in a local coffee shop scribbling in one of her journals or typing up poems for strangers in front of her favorite book store. More than anything, she longs to inspire people— in some way, somehow, to love who they are and live life courageously.Bursting at the seams with dreams of flying again, it’s only a matter of time before she takes off the experience even more of the world.She is a firm believer that traveling with only a backpack and little to no plans is the most marvelous thing one can do and no matter how many time a heart may break— it will always keep beating.