S. T. Brant is a teacher from Las Vegas.
Pubs in/coming from Honest Ulsterman, EcoTheo, Timber, Door is a Jar, Santa Clara Review, Rain Taxi, New South, Green Mountains Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Ekstasis, 8 Poems, a few others.
You can find him on Twitter @terriblebinth or Instagram @shanelemagne.
Eric Abalajon is currently a lecturer at the University of the Philippines Visayas, Iloilo. Some of his works have appeared in Revolt Magazine, Loch Raven Review, Ani, Katitikan, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, The Tiger Moth Review, Marias at Sampaguitas, Tint Journal, and elsewhere. Under the pen name Jacob Laneria, his chapbook of short fiction Mga Migranteng Sandali (Kasingkasing Press, 2020) was included in CNN Philippines’ best Filipino books of 2020. He lives near Iloilo City.
Lana Hechtman Ayers makes her home in an Oregon coastal town of more cows than people. As managing editor at three small presses, she has shepherded over eighty poetry collections into print. She holds MFAs in Poetry and in Writing Popular Fiction, as well as degrees in Mathematics and Psychology. Her work appears in numerous print and online literary journals such as Rattle, The MacGuffin, The London Reader, Pushing Out the Books, and Peregrine, as well as in her nine poetry collections and a romantic time travel novel. Visit her online at LanaAyers.com.
Raised on a rice and catfish farm in eastern Arkansas, CL Bledsoe is the author of thirty books, including his newest poetry collection, The Bottle Episode, and his latest novel The Saviors. Bledsoe co-writes the humor blog How to Even, with Michael Gushue: https://medium.com/@howtoeven Bledsoe lives in northern Virginia with his daughter.
Howard S. Carman, Jr. grew up in Memphis, TN. He moved to Texas after high school and received degrees in chemistry from Texas Christian University (B.S.) and Rice University (M.A. and Ph.D.). He enjoyed a 30-year career as a research and development chemist and retired in 2018. Trained and widely published in technical writing during his career, he first developed interest in reading and writing poetry later in life. He self-published his first poetry collection (But Now I See: Rhymes and Reflections) in 2017. Since then, his poetry has won awards from the Poetry Society of Tennessee and the National Federation of State Poetry Societies. His poetry has appear in multiple volumes of the Tennessee Voices Anthology and in We Were Not Alone: A Community Building Artworks Anthology. Howard lives in East Tennessee with his wife, Karen.
Andy Demczuk was born in Oceanside, California. He studied at the Musician’s Institute in Hollywood concentrating on guitar performance. He then moved to the French Alps, where he led international volunteers in art and music workshops facilitating intercultural collaborations. He writes fiction, poetry, and music, in addition to working in the visual arts. His mediums range from acrylic, watercolor, pastel, pencil, to multimedia, video, and sound design. In 2022, he earned his MA in English from ETSU–Johnson City, TN and is currently an MFA in Studio Arts candidate at the University of Cincinnati, OH. Andy is represented by Good Naked Gallery, New York, New York.
Pamela Brothers Denyes award-winning poems are published in several Virginia writers’ journals, Wingless Dreamer, Barstow & Grand V, several international collections by The Poet Magazine, Vallum Poetry and more. Her first two poetry books, The Right Mistakes and The Widow’s Lovers, will be published in 2022 by Kelsay Books.
Pamela’s career-based writing included contract nonfiction, developmental editing, and online/print writing. Now retired, she’s harvesting forty years of personal journals to create new works—and fun!
Gary Duehr has taught creative writing for institutions including Boston University, Lesley University, and Tufts University. His MFA is from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. In 2001 he received an NEA Fellowship, and he has also received grants and fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the LEF Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Journals in which his writing has appeared include Agni, American Literary Review, Chiron Review, Cottonwood, Hawaii Review, Hotel Amerika, Iowa Review, North American Review, and Southern Poetry Review.
His books include Winter Light (Four Way Books) and Where Everyone Is Going To (St. Andrews College Press).
Maria Duran is a researcher and writer from Lisbon, Portugal. She writes poetry and prose, enjoys visiting old places and outdoors photography in urban areas. Her work has been published with Erato Magazine, Third Iris Magazine and Vagabond City Magazine.
Catelyn Errington (she/her/hers) is a fifth-year student at Northwestern State University of Louisiana pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts and a Master’s degree in English Literature. She is from Luling, LA, and has been published in NSU’s literary magazine, Argus, and Moss Puppy Magazine.
R. Gerry Fabian is a published poet and novelist.
He has published four books of his published poems, Parallels, Coming Out Of The Atlantic, Electronic Forecasts and Ball On The Mound.
In addition, he has published four novels : Getting Lucky (The Story), Memphis Masquerade, Seventh Sense and Ghost Girl.
His web page is https://rgerryfabian.wordpress.com
Twitter @GerryFabian2
Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerry-fabian-91353a131/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010099476497
He lives in Doylestown, PA
LE Francis is a recovering arts journalist writing poetry & fiction of varying length from the rainshadow of the Washington Cascades. Find her online at nocturnical.com.
Keith Good lives in Ohio. A writer, library professional and father, he spends most of his time pretending to know more than he actually does. His fiction, drama and essays have appeared across a number of venues, most recently The SNES Omnibus, Vol.2, The Chamber Magazine and Anotherealm.
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Sheepshead Review, Stand, Poetry Salzburg Review and Hollins Critic. Latest books, Leaves On Pages, Memory Outside The Head, and Guest Of Myself are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Ellipsis, Blueline and International Poetry Review.
Mary Ann Honaker is the author of Becoming Persephone (Third Lung Press, 2019), and the chapbooks It Will Happen Like This (YesNo Press, 2015) and Gwen and the Big Nothing (The Orchard Street Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared in Bear Review, JMWW, Juked, Little Patuxent Review, Rattle.com, Sweet Tree Review, and elsewhere. Mary Ann holds an MFA from Lesley University. She currently lives in Beaver, West Virginia.
Larry Pike lives with his wife, Carol, in Glasgow, Kentucky. His writing has been published in a variety of publications, and he was a 2021 Best of the Net nominee. He is also a playwright.
Finishing Line Press published his debut poetry collection, Even in the Slums of Providence, in October 2021.
Krista Sanford graduated from Ball State University with her BA in Creative Writing and Literature. She is the author of fatboy: a collection, published by Alien Buddha Press. She is currently the HR and Media Manager for a marketing firm in Indianapolis, IN. You can find her on Twitter at @k_leesan and at her website, www.kleesan.com.
You can find me on Twitter at @k_leesan and at my website, www.kleesan.com.
Rikki Santer‘s poems have appeared in various publications including Ms. Magazine, Poetry East, Heavy Feather Review, Slab, Slipstream, [PANK], Crab Orchard Review, RHINO, Grimm, Hotel Amerika and The Main Street Rag. My work has received many honors including six Pushcart and three Ohioana and Ohio Poet book award nominations as well as a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.My eleventh poetry collection, Stopover, which is in conversation with the original Twilight Zone series was recently published by Luchador Press.
Julia Knox‘s writing has been published in several print and online publications, including Passengers Journal, The Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library: So It Goes Literary Journal, The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Thought, and The Healing Muse: A Journal of Literary and Visual Arts. SUNY Upstate Department of Medical Ethics and Humanities.
Mario Loprete
“Painting for is the first love. An important, pure love. Creating a painting, starting from the spasmodic research of a concept with which I want to send a message to transmit my message, it’s the base of my painting. The sculpture is my lover, my artistic betrayal to the painting. That voluptous and sensual lover that gives me different emotions, that touches prohibited cords…”
Alyse Sammarco is a writer and attorney who was drawn home to the Ohio River Valley after years in both the West and the South. She frequents the greater Cincinnati’s open mic scene and has had poems published in Sheila Na Gig Online, Black Moon Magazine, Change Seven, Lexington Poetry Month Anthology, the online arts journal, AEQAI, and elsewhere. Work is anticipated to be published in Orchard Street Press’ Quiet Diamonds, and Evening Street Review.
Abigail Sims daylights as a content-wrangler for a technology company in the great city of Austin, Texas, and spends her free time playing with snails or swords, depending on the day. Her work has previously appeared at Beyond Words, Sand Hills, and Gris-Gris. You can find links to all of the above (and more) on her website, abigailesims.com.
Betty Stanton (she/her) is a writer who lives and works in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in various journals and collections and has been included in anthologies from Dos Gatos Press and Picaroon Poetry Press. She received her MFA from The University of Texas – El Paso.
Max Stone is going into his third year as an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Nevada, Reno. He received his BA in English with a minor in Book Arts and Publication from UNR in 2019. He is originally from Reno, but has lived in many other places since including, most recently, New York City. His poetry has been published in Sandpiper Review, Night Coffee Lit, Caustic Frolic, KCB Mag, and elsewhere. He is also a book artist and retired college soccer player.
Ron Tobey grew up in north New Hampshire, USA, and attended the University of New Hampshire, Durham. He and his wife live in West Virginia, where they raise cattle and keep goats and horses. He is an imagist poet, expressing experiences and moods in concrete descriptions in haiku, storytelling, recorded poetry, and in filmic interpretation. He occasionally uses the pseudonym, Turin Shroudedindoubt, for literary and artistic work. He has published in over 40 different digital and print literary magazines.
Allison Thorpe‘s latest book is Restless Pilgrims (Broadstone Books). Her work has appeared in such journals as Pleiades, Tipton Poetry Journal, Hamilton Stone Review, So To Speak, Split Rock Review, Roanoke Review, and Appalachian Review. Twice nominated for a Pushcart, she lives in Lexington, KY.