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Sheikha A. is from Pakistan and United Arab Emirates. Over 300 of her poems appear in a variety of literary venues, both print and online, including several anthologies by different presses. More about her can be found at sheikha82.wordpress.com
Gale Acuff has published poetry in Ascent, Ohio Journal, Descant, Adirondack Review, Concho River Review, Worcester Review, Maryland Poetry Review, Florida Review, South Carolina Review, Arkansas Review, Carolina Quarterly, Poem, South Dakota Review, Santa Barbara Review, Sequential Art Narrative in Education, and many other journals. He's authored three books of poetry: Buffalo Nickel (BrickHouse Press, 2004), The Weight of the World (BrickHouse, 2006), and The Story of My Lives (BrickHouse, 2008).
Hannah Allen lives in Boulder, Colorado, where she studies humanities with emphases in linguistics, comparative literature, and creative writing. She has been employed as a ghostwriter, producing chapters for a thriller novel, and also as a music journalist. Her fiction has appeared in the periodicals Crack the Spine, Progenitor, American Athenaeum, the Molotov Cocktail, the Rufous City Review, and Full of Crow Quarterly. A short story of hers was a finalist in a contest hosted at Tethered by Letters, and a poem and an essay were published in the 2014 CU Honors Journal.
William L. Alton was born November 5, 1969 and started writing in the Eighties while incarcerated in a psychiatric prison. Since then his work has appeared in Main Channel Voices, World Audience and Breadcrumb Scabs among others. In 2010, he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He has published one book titled Heroes of Silence. He earned both his BA and MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, where he continues to live. You can find him at williamlalton.com
Aaron Anstett's work recently appears or is forthcoming in Fence, Lumn, trnsfr, and Upstairs at Duroc, among others. His collections are Sustenance, No Accident, and Each Place the Body's. He has a couple chapbooks forthcoming this year and a full-length collection next.
Matthew Antonio lives and works in Fort Collins, Colorado, is associate editor at em: A Review of Text and Image, and can be found at Little Machines. His fiction and poetry has appeared in publications such as and/or, Dogzplot, and L’Allure des Mots.
Sacha Archer is an ESL instructor, childcare provider, and writer, as well as being the editor of Simulacrum Press (simulacrumpress.ca). His work has appeared in journals such as filling Station, h&, Politics/Letters, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, NōD, Timglaset, Utsanga, Matrix, Uut Poetry, and Otoliths. Archer’s first full-length collection of poetry, Detour, was recently published by gradient books (2017), followed by Zoning Cycle (Simulacrum Press, 2017). His most recent chapbooks are 2068, and Philosophy (both Simulacrum Press, 2018), The Insistence of Momentum (The Blasted Tree, 2017), and upROUTE (above/ground press, 2017). He has a chapbook of visual poems forthcoming from Inspiritus Press entitled TSK oomph. He reviews, interviews and writes what he pleases at sachaarcher.wordpress.com. Archer lives in Burlington, Ontario.
Rey Armenteros is a Los Angeles-based painter and writer who has had his writing appear in numerous literary journals and art magazines, including The Nasiona, Lunch Ticket, Umbrella Factory Magazine, and Still Point Arts Quarterly.
Glen Armstrong's recent work has appeared in Conduit, Digital Americana and Cloudbank. He holds an MFA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and teaches writing at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. He also edits a poetry journal called Cruel Garters.
Marcia Arrieta is a poet, artist, and teacher. Her work appears in Web Conjunctions, So to Speak, Ellipsis, Cold Mountain Review, Eratio, Catch & Release, BlazeVOX, Melusine, The Blue Hour, Counterexample Poetics, and The Last VISPO Anthology, among others. The author of one poetry book, triskelion, tiger moth, tangram, thyme (Otoliths), and two chapbooks, experimental: (Potes & Poets ) and the curve against the linear (Toadlily Press’s Quartet Series—An Uncommon Accord), she has an MFA from Vermont College. She edits and publishes Indefinite Space, a poetry /art journal.
Jody Azzouni writes all the time: short stories, poetry, philosophy, novels. Some of this stuff he succeeds in publishing. Short stories, for example, in The Journal, The Literary Review, The Chariton Review, Alaska Quarterly Review. Poems in, for example, The Worcester Review, Cimarron Review, California Quarterly, Cider Press Review. And philosophy of language, most recently, Semantic Perception: How the illusion of a public language arises and persists, with Oxford University Press, 2013. Some of his previously published fiction and poetry is on Azzouni.com. Excerpts from The Vampire’s Guide to an Ethical Life, is a genuine excerpt from his unpublished novel, The Chameleon Artist.
Jeff Bagato produces poetry and prose as well as electronic music and glitch video. His books include And the Trillions and Computing Angels. A blog about his writing and publishing efforts can be found at http://jeffbagato.com
Joe Balaz writes in Hawaiian Islands Pidgin (Hawai’i Creole English) and American English. He is the author of Pidgin Eye, a book of poetry. The book was featured in 2019 by NBC News for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, as one of the best new books to be written by a Pacific Islander. In July, 2020, he was given the Elliot Cades Award for Literature as an Established Writer. It is the most prestigious literary award given in Hawai’i. Balaz presently lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
Devon Balwit is a teacher/poet living in Portland, OR. She has four chapbooks--How the Blessed Travel (Maverick Duck Press), Forms Most Marvelous (forthcoming with dancing girl press), In Front of the Elements, and Where You Were Going Never Was (both forthcoming with Grey Borders Books). Her recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Non-Binary Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Almagre Review, The Stillwater Review, The Tule Review, Red Earth Review, The Free State Review, Front Porch, Cease Cows, Concis, and Eunoia Review.
Christopher Barnes lives in Newcastle, England. He has won a Northern Arts writers award and has published a collection, LOVEBITES, with Chanticleer Press. Barnes co-edits the poetry magazine Interpoetry. Each year he reads for Proudwords lesbian and gay writing festival.
Denis Bell is a mathematics professor residing in Jacksonville, Florida. He was born in London, England, a while back. In addition to writing fiction, his hobbies include listening to music, watching Premier League soccer, and surfing (the web, that is). His writing has appeared, or is forthcoming in Bewildering Stories, Bareback Magazine, The Rusty Nail, Literary Juice, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, Calliope, EWR, Hirschworth, Enhance Magazine, and Foliate Oak.
A three-time Pushcart Prize & Bettering American Poetry nominee, Lana Bella is an author of three chapbooks, Under My Dark (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2016), Adagio (Finishing Line Press, 2016), and Dear Suki: Letters (Platypus 2412 Mini Chapbook Series, 2016), has had poetry and fiction featured with over 380 journals, including 2River, Acentos Review, California Quarterly, Comstock Review, Expound, Grey Sparrow, Ilanot Review, Notre Dame Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, San Pedro River Review, Waccamaw, Word/For Word, among others, and work to appear in Aeolian Harp Anthology, Volume 3.
Bella resides in the US and the coastal town of Nha Trang, Vietnam, where she is a mom of two far-too-clever-frolicsome imps.
Bella resides in the US and the coastal town of Nha Trang, Vietnam, where she is a mom of two far-too-clever-frolicsome imps.
Eleanor Leonne Bennett is an internationally award winning photographer and visual artist. She is the CIWEM Young Environmental Photographer of The Year 2013 and has also won first places with National Geographic, The World Photography Organisation, Nature's Best Photography and The National Trust to name but a few. Eleanor's photography has been published in the Telegraph, The Guardian, The British Journal of Psychiatry, Life Force Magazine, British Vogue, and as the cover of books and magazines extensively throughout the world. Her art is globally exhibited, having been shown in New York, Paris, London, Rome, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Copenhagen, Washington, Canada, Spain, Japan, and Australia amongst many other locations. She was also the only person from the UK to have her work displayed in the National Geographic and Airbus run "See The Bigger Picture" global exhibition tour with the United Nations International Year Of Biodiversity 2010. In 2012 her work received coverage on ABC Television.
Lawrence Berggoetz will have poems published in the upcoming spring editions of Bitter Oleander and Blue Heron. He has also been published in periodicals such as Moria, Skidrow Penthouse, and Brussels Sprouts.
F.J. Bergmann edits poetry for Star*Line, the journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association (sfpoetry.com) and Mobius: The Journal of Social Change (mobiusmagazine.com), and imagines tragedies on or near exoplanets.
Stephen Bett’s father took him to sit, age 15 and starting out in poetry, at the feet of his father’s friend P.K. Page, the doyenne of Canadian poetry, who later revived the "glosa" in Canada. Bett’s new book, his 25th, in a sense brings it all back home. Broken Glosa takes the “glosa,” a Renaissance Spanish Court form, and breaks it down to its contemporary essentials―fractured forms for fractured times―riffing on postmodernist and post-avant poets in ways that are as surprising and inventive as they are richly textured. This book plays out Stephen Bett’s lifetime in North American avant-garde poetry, taking the measure of 70 postmodernist poets.
Sheila e. Black has been teaching English at Tulsa
Community College in Oklahoma for the past fifteen years. She also teaches creative writing workshops for the elderly and writes a blog on creativity and mental illness called Cultural Blanket. She has been published in Big Bridge,
Sawbuck Journal Online, The Texas Observer, BigCityLit, The Living Arts Press,
Otoliths, Truck, Haggard and Halloo, and most recently, in Caleb Puckett & Friends: In Mixed
Company (mgv2>publishing). For the past ten years, Sheila has frequently participated
in and organized poetry readings in Tulsa.
This year she was the curator for the annual Oklahoma Avant Garde show at the
Living Arts Center.
Annie Blake has been published or is forthcoming in Cat on a Leash Review, 45th Parallel, Communion Arts Journal, Borrowed Solace, Gambling the Aisle, The RavensPerch, West Texas Literary Review, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Riggwelter, Lady Blue Literary Arts Journal, The Hunger, The Slag Review, Sky Island Journal, Trampset, Anomaly Literary Journal, Haikuniverse, North of Oxford, Blue Heron Review, Mascara Literary Review, Red Savina Review, Antipodes, Uneven Floor, The Voices Project, Into the Void, Southerly, Hello Horror, Verity La, GFT Press, About Place Journal, Gravel, Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite Poetry Review, and elsewhere
Mark Blickley is a widely published author of fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry. His most recent book is Sacred Misfits (Red Hen Press) and his latest play, Beauty Knows No Pain, opens in November at NYC's 13th Street Rep Theater. He is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and PEN American Center.
William C. Blome is a writer of short fiction and poetry, as well as a master’s degree graduate of the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars. His work has previously seen the light of day in such fine little mags as Amarillo Bay, Prism International, Laurel Review, The Oyez Review, Salted Feathers and The California Quarterly. He lives in-between Baltimore and Washington, DC.
Stephanie Bolaños is a native of Costa Rica but has resided in the San Francisco Bay Area for most of her life. Her short stories have appeared in The Bangalore Review, The Literary Nest, The 3Elements Review, and bosque.
Carl Boon lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey. Recent or forthcoming poems appear in Neat, Jet Fuel Review, Blast Furnace, Kentucky Review, and many other magazines.
Miriam Borgstrom has appeared online at Cosmonauts Avenue and E.Ratio and in print at Dancing Girl Press
Elena Botts grew up in the DC area and currently studies at Bard College Berlin. She's been published in fifty literary magazines over the past few years. She is the winner of four poetry contests, including Word Works Young Poets. Her poetry has been exhibited at the Greater Reston Art Center and at Arterie Fine Art Gallery. Check out her poetry books, we'll beachcomb for their broken bones (Red Ochre Press, 2014), a little luminescence (Allbook-Books, 2011) and the reason for rain (Coffeetown Press, expected publication in fall 2015). Her visual art has won her several awards. Go to o-mourning-dove.tumblr.com to see her latest artwork.
Marcus Benjamin Ray Bradley grew up in Perryville and now lives in Versailles, KY, with his wife and daughters. Other work can be found in the pages of Chiron Review, Five 2 One magazine, Vine Leaves Literary Journal, Ink in Thirds, Beechwood Review, and Poetry Quarterly, as well as online at the Kentucky Arts Council and Fifty Word Stories websites.
Tom Brami taught at Monash University in Victoria, Australia last year. This year, he travels. His poetry has recently been published in of/with and Otoliths.
Alan Britt has published over 3,000 poems nationally and internationally in such places as Agni, Bitter Oleander, Bloomsbury Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Christian Science Monitor, Confrontation, English Journal, Epoch, Flint Hills Review, Gallerie International (India), Kansas Quarterly, Letras (Chile), Magyar Naplo (Hungary), Minnesota Review, Missouri Review, New Letters, Northwest Review, Osiris, Pedrada Zurda (Ecuador), Poet’s Market, Queen’s Quarterly (Canada), Revista/Review Interamericana (Puerto Rico), Revista Solar (Mexico), Roanoke Review, Steaua (Romania), Sunstone, Tulane Review, Wasafiri (UK), and The Writer’s Journal. His interview at The Library of Congress for The Poet and the Poem aired on Pacifica Radio, January 2013. He has published 16 books of poetry. He teaches English/Creative Writing at Towson University.
Anne Britting Oleson has been published widely in North America, Europe and Asia. She earned her MFA at the Stonecoast program of USM. She has published two chapbooks, The Church of St. Materiana (2007) and The Beauty of It (2010). Another book, Counting the Days, is scheduled for release in 2014.
Heath Brougher is the poetry editor of Five 2 One Magazine and co-poetry editor of Into the Void Magazine. He has published three chapbooks, A Curmudgeon Is Born (Yellow Chair Press 2016), Digging for Fire and Your Noisy Eyes (both by Stay Weird and Keep Writing Press 2016). He is a Best of the Net Nominee and his work has been translated into Albanian. He was the judge of Into the Void Magazine's 2016 Poetry Competition and edited the anthology Luminous Echoes, the sales of which will be donated to help with the prevention of suicide. His work has appeared in Of/with, Chiron Review, X-Peri, Main Street Rag, Blue Mountain Review, Calliope, Gold Dust, Otoliths, Clockwise Cat, Third Wednesday, Full of Crow, Cruel Garters, Gloom Cupboard, BlazeVOX, W.I.S.H., and elsewhere. When not writing he helps with the charity Paws Soup Kitchen which gives out free dog/cat food to low income families with pets.
Joseph Buehler has published over fifty poems in journals like Unbroken, The Stray Branch, Serving House Journal, River Poets Signature Poems Anthology and ArLiJo. He also has a poem upcoming in Sentinel Literary Quarterly in the U.K. in 2017. Buehler lives in Georgia with his wife, Trish.
Ron Burch's short stories have been published, in print and online, in Mississippi Review, The Saint Ann’s Review, Eleven Eleven, Pank and others. He's been nominated for a Pushcart. His first novel, Bliss Inc., was published by BlazeVOX Books; Aqueous Books is publishing his flash-fiction collection, Menagerie, in 2015. Please visit www.ronburch.net and http://lifesbitchslap.blogspot.com/.
Sean Burn's third full poetry collection is that a bruise or a tattoo? is still available from Shearsman Press.
Sally Burnette is a senior at Eckerd College majoring in Creative Writing and Literature. Her work has appeared in journals such as Poetica, Eunoia Review, London Literary Project, Crack the Spine, Bop Dead City, Deep South Magazine, and The Eckerd Review. She will begin her Master of Fine Arts in Poetry at Emerson College this fall.
Colin Campbell Robinson is an Australian writer and photographer currently living and working in the Celtic extremity of Kernow. He has contributed to Otoliths, e-ratio, BlazeVox, Ink, Sweat and Tears, and Blythe Spirit, among others. Knives Forks and Spoons Press will publish his collection Blue Solitude in January 2017.
Billy Cancel's writing has recently appeared in Barzakh, Horseless Review and Counterexample Poetics. His latest body of work, Headless Multi Vs. Perpetual Interface, was published in April 2013 by Hidden House Press. Sound poems, visual shorts and other aberrations can be found at www.billycancelpoetry.com
Valentina Cano is a student of classical singing who spends whatever free time either writing or reading. Her works have appeared in Exercise Bowler, Blinking Cursor, Theory Train, Cartier Street Press, Berg Gasse 19, Precious Metals, A Handful of Dust, The Scarlet Sound, The Adroit Journal, Perceptions Literary Magazine, Welcome to Wherever, The Corner Club Press, Death Rattle, Danse Macabre, Subliminal Interiors, Generations Literary Journal, A Narrow Fellow, Super Poetry Highway, Stream Press, Stone Telling, Popshot, Golden Sparrow Literary Review, Rem Magazine, Structo, The 22 Magazine, The Black Fox Literary Magazine, Niteblade, Tuck Magazine, Ontologica, and Congruent Spaces Magazine Her poetry has been nominated for Best of the Web and the Pushcart Prize. You can find her online at Carabosse's Library.
John Caperton is a graduate of Spalding University’s MFA in Writing program and has a BA
from Brown University as well as a MFA in photography from the San Francisco
Art Institute. Currently, he's employed as an instructor at The Academy of Art
University. Also, he recently spent two years working as an associate editor for
Narrative Magazine. Glimmer
Train recognized two of his stories, one as deserving honorable mention in their
April 08 Family Matters contest and the other as a finalist in their June 08
Fiction Open.
Laura Carter lives, writes, and teaches in Atlanta, Georgia, where she earned her M.F.A. in 2007. Recent work has appeared in many journals, including The Berkeley Poetry Review, Whiskey Island, Columbia, Hambone, TYPO, and on-line at Tarpaulin Sky. Her most recent chapbook is Midheaven Leo (Dancing Girl, 2011), and a new chapbook, Chaos Provisions, is forthcoming from Dancing Girl in 2014. She was a finalist for the 2012 Coconut Books Prize for a First Book of Poetry and for the 2013 Noemi Book Award for Poetry. She frequently writes reviews for publications like The Fanzine and Atticus Review. She has given readings in Atlanta, New York, Chicago, Boone, NC, and Athens, GA. She lives on the east side of the city with her dog and two cats.
Marc Carver has no idea why he writes, social commentary, a feeling of doing something worthwhile in the world and strangely other times he has no doubts at all why he writes. In a way, he feels complete when he finds something to write about which is new or demands a certain truth to it or an irony. Or maybe, the truth is, he has to.
Kevin Casey is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and received his graduate degree at the University of Connecticut. His work has been accepted by Stickman Review, Crosscut Magazine, and Tule Review. He currently teaches literature at a small university in Maine, where he enjoys fishing, snowshoeing and hiking.
Joel Chace has published work in print and electronic magazines such as The Tip of the Knife, Counterexample Poetics, OR, Country Music, Infinity's Kitchen, and Jacket. Most recent collections include Sharpsburg (Cy Gist Press), Blake's Tree (Blue & Yellow Dog Press), Whole Cloth (Avantacular Press), Red Power (Quarter After Press), Kansoz (Knives, Forks, and Spoons Press), and Web Too (Tonerworks).
Genelle Chaconas is nonbinary gendered, queer, an abuse survivor, has mood disorders, and feels proud. They earned a BA in Creative Writing from CSUS in 2009, an MFA in Writing & Poetics from Naropa University in 2015, and 50k of debt. They never learned to ‘photograph’ but take photos. They've been published lots but don't namedrop. Their chapbooks include Fallout, Saints and Dirty Pictures (little m press, 2011) and Yet Wave (the Lune, 2017). They serve as head editor for HockSpitSlurp Literary Magazine. They enjoy scifi and gangster flix, drone/noise/industrial music, and long walks off short piers.
Maryam Chahine is an American Muslim woman from Wisconsin. She is of Black, Palestinian and Native American heritage. Her work has appeared in Free Verse, Damazine, A Hudson View, Projected Letters, and others. She lives in Jordan where she works as an instructional designer for a publishing company. She is currently at work on her first novel about an Iraqi war veteran and his daughter.
Yuan Changming, 9-time Pushcart nominee and author of 7 chapbooks (including Wordscaping [2016]), published monographs on translation before moving out of China. With a PhD in English, Yuan currently edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan in Vancouver, and has poetry appearing in Best Canadian Poetry, BestNewPoemsOnline, Threepenny Review, and 1179 others across 38 countries
Jude Conlee's publication credits include work in online and print publications such as Breath & Shadow, Emerge Literary Journal, Nazar Look, and Otoliths. His poetry was also featured in the Romanian poetry anthology Metric Conversions.
Gloria Creed-Dikeogu was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and worked there as a teacher and public librarian until age 26. She now lives in Lawrence, Kansas, with her family and serves at the Director of Ottawa University's library. Creed-Dikeogu recently published her first collection of poetry, Cape Town Station: A Poetic Journey from Cape Town to Kansas (Short on Time Books, 2013).
Gareth Culshaw lives in Wales. His first collection will be out in 2018 and published by Futurecycle.
Mark Cunningham has a new chapbook, Alphabetical Basho, out on the Beard of Bees site. Among his books are 80 Beetles and Helicotremors (both from Otoliths). 71 Leaves, an e-book from BlazeVOX, is free to anyone curious enough to Google it.
Dah’s fourth poetry collection is The Translator from Transcendent Zero Press, and his poetry has been published by editors from the US, UK, Ireland, Canada, China, Spain, Australia, Africa, Philippines and India. His poems have recently appeared in Straylight Magazine, Otoliths, The Cape Rock, Acumen Journal, Sandy River Review, Indian River Review, The Linnet’s Wings, and Junto Magazine. Dah lives in Berkeley, California, where he is working on his fifth poetry book. Harbinger Asylum Magazine has nominated Dah’s poem “Some god” for the 2017 Pushcart Prize. He is the chief editor of The Lounge, a poetry critique group and a full-time Yoga Teacher.
Barrie Darke has a track record as a scriptwriter, but thinks prose is the main thing. He lives and writes in the north east of England, and teaches Creative Writing in a basement. He has also worked in a prison, where he learnt more than the students.
He has been published in the UK by Byker Books, New Writing North, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, The Delinquent, Theurgy, Horrified Press, Writer’s Muse, and The Metric; in Australia by Otoliths; and in the US by Menda City Review, Nossa Morte, Demon Minds, Infinite Windows, Underground Voices, Big Pulp, Pseudopod, Inwood Indiana, Bastards and Whores, Onomatopoeia, Orion Headless, Xenith, All Due Respect, Fiction365, Scissors and Spackle, Fear and Trembling, Drunk Monkeys, The April Reader, Big Stupid Review, Dark Moon, Writing Tomorrow, Otis Nebula, and The Misfit (pending)
He has been published in the UK by Byker Books, New Writing North, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, The Delinquent, Theurgy, Horrified Press, Writer’s Muse, and The Metric; in Australia by Otoliths; and in the US by Menda City Review, Nossa Morte, Demon Minds, Infinite Windows, Underground Voices, Big Pulp, Pseudopod, Inwood Indiana, Bastards and Whores, Onomatopoeia, Orion Headless, Xenith, All Due Respect, Fiction365, Scissors and Spackle, Fear and Trembling, Drunk Monkeys, The April Reader, Big Stupid Review, Dark Moon, Writing Tomorrow, Otis Nebula, and The Misfit (pending)
Boona Daroom's work has recently appeared in LIT, Softblow and Monday Night, among other places. He lives in Brooklyn.
P.T. Davidson is originally from Christchurch, New Zealand, although he has spent the past 24 years living abroad in Japan, the UK, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates. His current posting is at Zayed University in Dubai. His poetry has appeared in Otoliths, BlazeVOX, streetcake, After the Pause, Sein und Werden, Snorkel, Clockwise Cat, Tip of the Knife, foam:e, and Your One Phone Call. His first book of poetry, seven, is due out soon.
Born in Lubbock, Texas in 1984, AG Davis is a sound poet, performance artist and composer who resides in Jacksonville, Florida. AG Davis has written two hypermodernist novels, Bathory and Glass, both published by Abstract Editions.
Jim Davis Jr. is a graduate of Knox College and an MFA candidate at Northwestern University. Jim lives, writes, and paints in Chicago, where he reads for TriQuarterly and edits North Chicago Review. His work has received Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations, and has appeared in Seneca Review, Adirondack Review, The Midwest Quarterly, and Columbia College Literary Review, among hundreds of others. In addition to the arts, Jim is a teacher, coach, and international semi-professional football player.
Holly Day has taught writing classes at the Loft Literary Center in Minnesota since 2000. Her poetry has recently appeared in
Tampa Review, SLAB, and Gargoyle, and her published books include Walking Twin Cities, Music Theory for Dummies, and Ugly Girl.
Tampa Review, SLAB, and Gargoyle, and her published books include Walking Twin Cities, Music Theory for Dummies, and Ugly Girl.
Bill DeArmond is Professor of Mass Communication and Film at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas.
Dareen Demaree's poems have appeared, or are scheduled to appear in numerous magazines/journals, including South Dakota Review, Meridian, The Louisville Review, Grist, and the Colorado Review. He is the author of As We Refer To Our Bodies (8th House, 2013), Temporary Champions (Main Street Rag, 2014), and Not For Art Nor Prayer (8th House, 2015). He is the managing editor of the Best of the Net Anthology.
Salvatore Difalco lives in Toronto. His work has appeared in a variety of online and print journals.
Djuric has published a critically acclaimed collection of short stories, a book read like the gospel by his Yugoslav peers, The Metaphysical Stories. Winner of the 2014 Cardinal Sins’ Nonfiction Contest, Djuric’s stories have been published in Hobart, The Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, The Fat City Review, BareBack Magazine, Gloom Cupboard, Danse Macabre, Euphony, South Jersey Underground, The Intentional, Former People Journal, Empty Mirror, and Mad Hatter’s Review.
George Djuric flew through rally racing, street fighting, chess, and anti-psychiatry as if they weren’t there. In the aftermath, all that was left was writing. Djuric is infatuated with the fictional alchemy that is thick as amber and capable of indelibly inscribing on the face of the 21st century. He lives in the desert near Palm Springs, CA.
Colin Dodds is the author of Another Broken Wizard, WINDFALL and The Last Bad Job, which Norman Mailer touted as showing “something that very few writers have; a species of inner talent that owes very little to other people.” His writing has appeared in more than two hundred publications, and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net Anthology. Poet and songwriter David Berman (Silver Jews, Actual Air) said of Dodds’ work: “These are very good poems. For moments I could even feel the old feelings when I read them.” Colin’s book-length poem That Happy Captive was a finalist for the Trio House Press Louise Bogan Award as well as the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award in 2015. And his screenplay, Refreshment, was named a semi-finalist in the 2010 American Zoetrope Contest. Colin lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and daughter. See more of his work at thecolindodds.com
Lara Dolphin holds a B.A. in English from The University of Notre Dame and a J.D. from The Dickinson School of Law. Dolphin divides her time between looking for lost pacifiers and breaking up pool noodle related combat. Though if startled in her sleep, she may recite Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. She serves on the staff of Every Day Fiction.
Richard Donnelly lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but wishes he lived in Portland, Oregon, where everyone wishes they lived in Minneapolis. Something isn't right here. His first book, The Melancholy MBA is published by Brick Road Press in Georgia.
Eddie Donoghue’s poetry has appeared in Long Island Quarterly, Frogpond, and The Long Islander.
William Doreski lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire, and teaches at Keene State College. His most recent books of poetry are City of Palms and June Snow Dance, both 2012. He has published three critical studies, including Robert Lowell’s Shifting Colors. His essays, poetry, fiction, and reviews have appeared in many journals, including Massachusetts Review, Atlanta Review, Notre Dame Review, The Alembic, New England Quarterly, Worcester Review, Harvard Review, Modern Philology, Antioch Review, and Natural Bridge.
Whether John Dorroh taught any high school science is still up for grabs; however, he managed to show up at 6:45 every morning for a couple of decades with at least two lesson plans. His poetry has appeared in Red Fez, Message in a Bottle, Ret Dirt Press, Indigent Press, North Dakota Quarterly, Setu, Dime Show Review, and several others. He also writes short fiction and the occasional rant.
Doug Draime’s most recent book is More Than The Alley, a full-length collection of poems from Interior Noise Press. Also available are four chapbooks: Dusk With Carol (Kendra Steiner Editions), Los Angeles Terminal: Poems 1971-1980 (Covert Press), Rock ‘n Roll Jizz (Propaganda Press), and an online chapbook, Speed of Light (Right Hand Pointing). He was awarded PEN grants in 1987, 1991, and 1992 and has been nominated for several Pushcart Prize awards. He lives on the outskirts of Medford, Oregon.
Mark DuCharme is the author of The Unfinished: Books I-VI (BlazeVOX, 2013). Among his other recent volumes of poetry are Answer (2011) and The Sensory Cabinet (2007), also from BlazeVOX, as well as The Found Titles Project, published electronically in 2009 by Ahadada Books, and The Crowd Poems (Potato Clock Editions, 2007). His work appears in recent or forthcoming anthologies, including Water, Water Everywhere: Paean to a Vanishing Resource (Baksun Books & Arts, 2014), Litscapes: Collected US Writings (Steerage Press, 2015), and Poets for Living Waters: An International Response to the BP Oil Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico (BlazeVOX, 2015). Other parts of Defacement have appeared in Moss Trill, Noon, On Barcelona, Otoliths and Pallaksh Pallaksh. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Alan Elyshevitz is the author of a collection of stories, The Widows and Orphans Fund (SFA Press), and three poetry chapbooks, most recently Imaginary Planet (Cervena Barva). His poems have appeared in River Styx, Nimrod International Journal, and Water ̴ Stone Review, among many others. Winner of the James Hearst Poetry Prize from North American Review, he is also a two-time recipient of a fellowship in fiction writing from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. For further information, visit https://aelyshevitz.ink.
Patrick Theron Erickson, a resident of Garland, Texas, a Tree City, just south of Duck Creek, is a retired parish pastor put out to pasture himself. His work has appeared in Former People, Cobalt Review, Literati Quarterly, Burningword Literary Journal, and Grey Sparrow Journal, among other publications, and more recently in Right Hand Pointing, The Penwood Review, Tipton Poetry Journal, Wilderness House Literary Review and Danse Macabre.
Craig Evenson was raised among humans. He was eventually able to become a third grade teacher in 1984. He still is one. He suddenly started writing poems in 2007. He divides his time among children, books, and animals.
Kim Farleigh has worked for aid agencies in three conflicts: Kosovo, Iraq and Palestine. He takes risks to get the experience required for writing. His stories have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Whiskey Island, Southerly, Island, Mudjob, Write From Wrong, Sleet, Negative Suck, The Red Fez, Red Ochre Lit, Haggard & Halloo, Down in the Dirt, The Camel Saloon, Feathertale, Descant, The Houston Literary Review, The Sand Journal, Full of Crow, and Unlikely Stories.
Dion Farquhar is a poet and prose fiction writer with recent poems in BlazeVOX, Hamilton Stone Review, Right Hand Pointing, Shifter, Fifteen Project, City Works, SLAB, Epiphany, etc. Her chapbook, "Cleaving", won first prize at Poets Corner Press in 2007, and her first poetry book, Feet First, was published by Evening Street Press in 2010.
Raymond Farr is author of Ecstatic/.of facts (Otoliths 2011), Writing What For? across the Mourning Sky (Blue & Yellow Dog 2012), Poetry in the Age of Zero Grav (Blue & Yellow Dog 2015), and two e-chapbooks, Eating the Word NOISE! (White Knuckle Chaps 2015) and A Journey of Haphazard Miles (ALT POETICS 2016). Farr is editor of Blue & Yellow Dog and publisher/editor of a new poetry blog, The Helios Mss.
David Felix is an English visual poet who lives in Denmark. For over fifty years his writing has taken on a variety of forms, in collage, three dimensions, in galleries, festival performances and video and in over thirty publications worldwide, both in
print and online. Born into a family of artists, magicians and tailors he is more than comfortable with willow charcoal, the invisible pencil and dressmaking chalk.
print and online. Born into a family of artists, magicians and tailors he is more than comfortable with willow charcoal, the invisible pencil and dressmaking chalk.
Natalia Fernandez is Fulbright scholar from Uruguay, currently living in Los Angeles. Her work will appear this year in Dislocate, and has in the past appeared in Pimba! and in the book El desencanto y la promesa: nueva/joven narrativa uruguaya
Jonathan Fischer is an emerging poet and short story writer from New Jersey. He currently attends Raritan Valley Community College as an English major. Fischer writes short stories, poetry, nonfiction, and dabbles in other forms of literary experimentation.
Texas Fontanella is a philosophy student at the University of Sydney. His work has previously appeared.
Born in Canada and bred in the U.S., Allen Forrest has worked in many mediums: computer graphics, theater, digital music, film, video, drawing and painting. Allen studied acting in the Columbia Pictures Talent Program in Los Angeles and digital media in art and design at Bellevue College (receiving degrees in Web Multimedia Authoring and Digital Video Production.) He currently works in the Vancouver, Canada, as a graphic artist and painter. He is the winner of the Leslie Jacoby Honor for Art at San Jose State University's Reed Magazine and his Bel Red painting series is part of the Bellevue College Foundation's permanent art collection. Forrest's expressive drawing and painting style is a mix of avant-garde expressionism and post-Impressionist elements reminiscent of van Gogh, creating emotion on canvas.
Lee Foust studied in San Francisco State's famed creative writing program of the 1980s and has a PhD in Comparative Literature from NYU. He has been an active writer/performer of his own fiction, poetry and music for many years, and has published short stories, novel excerpts, poetry, scholarly and journalistic articles, and prose poems in small literary magazines and weekly newspapers. Foust co-edited the nationally distributed literary magazine resister (1996/7) and was also a frequent contributor to Jill Stauffer’s printed and on-line literary/philosophical review H2SO4. He is the author of Sojourner, a collection of fiction and poetry about the mystery of place.
James Fowler's teaches literature at the University of Central Arkansas. His literary essays have appeared in ANQ, Children’s Literature, POMPA, and The Classical Outlook; his personal essays in Southern Cultures, Cadillac Cicatrix, Quirk, and Under the Sun; his short stories in such journals as The Labletter, Anterior Review, Little Patuxent Review, Best Indie Lit New England, Line Zero, The Chariton Review, the Southern Review, Riding Light Review, and Elder Mountain; and his poems in such journals as Futures Trading Magazine, Aji Magazine, Cantos, Dash, Lullwater Review, Sheila-Na-Gig, Common Ground Review, Angry Old Man Magazine, and Cave Region Review.
Nigel Ford works as a writer, visual artist, dramatist, journalist, copywriter and translator. He is English and lives in Sweden.
Vernon Frazer’s most recent books of poetry include T(exto)-V(isual) Poetry and Unsettled Music. Enigmatic Ink has published Frazer’s new novel, Field Reporting. Frazer maintains a personal website and a blog at Bellicose Warbling. His work, including the longpoem IMPROVISATIONS, may be viewed at Scribd. In addition to writing poetry and fiction, Frazer also performs his poetry, incorporating text and recitation with animation and musical accompaniment on YouTube. Frazer is married.
Mitchell Garrard is from Seattle, Washington, and graduated from The Evergreen State College. His most recent work has appeared in experiential-experimental-literature.
Donald E. Gasperson earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and a Master of Arts degree in Clinical Psychology. He has worked in various positions as a Psychiatric Rehabilitation Counselor. He poetry has been published or accepted for publication in Poetry Pacific, Quail Bell Magazine, Big Windows Review and Tipton Poetry Journal among others
Britton Gildersleeve was the director of a federal non-profit, Oklahoma State University Writing Project, at OSU, where she also taught for 12 years. A native of Tulsa, Gildersleeve spent her childhood and adolescence in Southeast Asia, and the years following her marriage in the Middle East. She thinks this explains a lot. Currently she serves on the Board of Trustees for the Oklahoma Humanities Council. Her award-winning work has appeared in New Millenium Writings, Nimrod, Passager, Spoon River, Atlas Poetica, among other publications. Pudding House Publications published her first two chapbooks; her third is forthcoming from Kattywompus Press. She blogs at Beginner's Heart.
Liz Glodek lives and works in the Midwest. Her work has appeared in several journals including The Greensboro Review, Lumina, North American Review (finalist for the James Hearst Poetry Prize), The North, and Janus Head. Her book Birds of Mississippi is available from Finishing Line Press. She received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College where she also founded the SLC Poetry Festival. She works in management consulting and is an instructor at Simpson College.
Howie Good is the author of The Loser's Guide to Street Fighting, winner of the 2017 Lorien Prize from ThoughtCrime Press, and Dangerous Acts Starring Unstable Elements, winner of the 2015 Press Americana Prize for Poetry.
Giles Goodland has had several books published over the last 20 years, most recently from Salt and Shearsman.
Eric D. Goodman is a full-time writer and award-winning author of literary fiction. His novel in stories, Tracks (Atticus Books 2011), won the Gold Award for Best Fiction in the Mid-Atlantic Region from the Independent Publishers Book Awards. His next novel, Womb, is being released by Merge Publishing in fall 2016. He’s also author of the children’s storybook, Flightless Goose.
Goodman’s short fiction and travel stories have been published in dozens of periodicals, including The Baltimore Review, The Pedestal Magazine, The Potomac, JMWW, Barrelhouse, Scribble, Grub Street, Syndic, and New Lines from the Old Line State: An Anthology of Maryland Writers. Goodman reads regularly from his fiction on Baltimore's NPR station, WYPR, at book festivals and events, and he curates and hosts the popular Lit and Art Reading Series at the Watermark Gallery. Learn more about Goodman and his writing at http://www.tracksnovel.com, where you can listen to radio readings, read excerpts and stories, and mo
Goodman’s short fiction and travel stories have been published in dozens of periodicals, including The Baltimore Review, The Pedestal Magazine, The Potomac, JMWW, Barrelhouse, Scribble, Grub Street, Syndic, and New Lines from the Old Line State: An Anthology of Maryland Writers. Goodman reads regularly from his fiction on Baltimore's NPR station, WYPR, at book festivals and events, and he curates and hosts the popular Lit and Art Reading Series at the Watermark Gallery. Learn more about Goodman and his writing at http://www.tracksnovel.com, where you can listen to radio readings, read excerpts and stories, and mo
Mitchell Grabois has had over seven hundred of his poems and fictions appear in literary magazines in the U.S. and abroad. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize for work published in 2012, 2013, and 2014. His novel, Two-Headed Dog, based on his work as a clinical psychologist in a state hospital, is available for Kindle and Nook, or as a print edition. He lives in Denver.
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident. He has recently published in Midwest Quarterly, Poetry East and North Dakota Quarterly, with work upcoming in South Florida Poetry Journal, Hawaii Review and the Dunes Review.
Jared Hall is a native of the Chicago area and currently lives in Washington, DC. Hall's work has previously appeared in the Christian Science Monitor and the Chicago Tribune. He is a former Jeopardy! champion and holds degrees from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and the University of Texas at Austin.
Mark Halpern has published pieces in Grey Borders Magazine, Evening Street Review, Gravel, Blank Spaces, Lowestoft Chronicle, Fleas on the Dog, BoomerLitMag, Tigershark Magazine, STORGY, Spadina Literary Review, and the UC Review.
Nels Hanson grew up on a small farm in the San Joaquin Valley of California and has worked as a farmer, teacher and contract writer/editor. His fiction received the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award and Pushcart nominations in 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2016. His poems received a 2014 Pushcart nomination, Sharkpack Review’s 2014 Prospero Prize, and 2015 and 2016 Best of the Net nominations.
Daniel Y. Harris is the author of The Rapture of Eddy Daemon (BlazeVOX, 2016), The Underworld of Lesser Degrees (NYQ Books, 2015), Esophagus Writ (with Rupert M. Loydell, The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2014), Hyperlinks of Anxiety (Červená Barva Press, 2013), The New Arcana (with John Amen, New York Quarterly Books, 2012), Paul Celan and the Messiah’s Broken Levered Tongue (with Adam Shechter, Červená Barva Press, 2010; picked by The Jewish Forward as one of the 5 most important Jewish poetry books of 2010), and Unio Mystica (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2009). BlazeVOX will be publishing The Tryst of Thetica Zorg upon its completion in mid-2018, as well as the yet unnamed Volume III, anticipated in 2020. Some of his poetry, experimental writing, art, and essays have been published in BlazeVOX, Denver Quarterly, E·ratio, European Judaism, Exquisite Corpse, The New York Quarterly, Notre Dame Review, In Posse Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Poetry Magazine, Poetry Salzburg Review, and Stride. He is the Editor-in-Chief of X-Peri.
William Ogden Haynes is a poet and author of short fiction from Alabama who was born in Michigan. He has published six collections of poetry--Points of Interest; Uncommon Pursuits, Remnants, Stories in Stained Glass, Carvings, and Going South--and one book of short stories--Youthful Indiscretions--all available on Amazon.com. Over 150 of his poems and short stories have appeared in literary journals, and his work is frequently anthologized.
Kyle Hemmings is the author of several chapbooks of poetry and prose: Avenue C, Cat People, and Anime Junkie (Scars Publications), and Tokyo Girls in Science Fiction (NAP). His latest e-books are You Never Die in Wholes from Good Story Press and The Truth about Onions from Good Samaritan. His latest collection of prose/poetry is Void & Sky from Outskirt Press.
Woodrow Hightower is a native of West Point, California. He is a poet currently producing a first book of verse to be titled So Low. A self-described “word muralist,” his work has recently been accepted by a multitude of literary zines including IthacaLit, Olentangy Review and The American Aesthetic. Hightower resides in Sacramento’s Midtown District with photographer Twyla Wyoming and their two Tibetan spaniels.
Zachary M. Hodson is a multi-genre artist based out of Kansas City, MO. Holding a B.S of Psychology with a minor in Creative Writing from the University of Central Missouri, he has spent the last decade focused equally on poetry, music and music/sports journalism. His writing has been featured in numerous print and online outlets, including Skidrow Penthouse, Iconoclast, Royals Blue, and The Deli Magazine.
Michael Paul Hogan is a poet and journalist whose work has appeared extensively in USA, UK, India, and China. He currently lives in NE China, where he is the Features Editor of an English-language monthly magazine.
A.J. Huffman has published twelve solo chapbooks and one joint chapbook through various small presses. Her new poetry collections, Another Blood Jet (Eldritch Press), A Few Bullets Short of Home (mgv2>publishing), Butchery of the Innocent (Scars Publications), and Degeneration (Pink Girl Ink) are now available from their respective publishers and amazon.com. She has an additional poetry collection forthcoming: A Bizarre Burning of Bees (Transcendent Zero Press). She is a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, a two-time Best of Net nominee, and has published over 2,400 poems in various national and international journals, including Labletter, The James Dickey Review, Bone Orchard, EgoPHobia, and Kritya. She is also the founding editor of Kind of a Hurricane Press.
In a past century Heikki Huotari attended a one-room school and spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower. They are a retired math professor, have won two poetry chapbook prizes and published two collections. Another collection is in press.
Patrick Hurley taught writing and literature at various colleges for almost 20 years. He is now a full-time poet and bartender.
Glenn Ingersoll works for the Berkeley Public Library where he hosts the Clearly Meant reading series. He maintains the blog Dare I Read? and has two chapbooks, City Walks (Broken Boulder) and Fact (Avantacular). He blogs about books (mostly) at Dare I Read.
M.A. Istvan Jr., an animal dealer based out of Austin TX, has spearheaded a campaign to display zoo creatures in “unnatural” settings. According to Istvan, displaying animals in unnatural settings brings the animal itself into stark relief. “We go to zoos to see animals,” Istvan says. “The problem is that, when placed in replicas of their natural habitat, animals have a tendency to fade into the background—sometimes in the most literal sense. But the days of kids wondering where the lion is are numbered.” Istvan thinks that his new approach will help stimulate a zoo industry whose dwindling over the last decade has meant dwindling resources for animal conservation. “I do not call for a return of the bear back to the cramped cage of the Victorian menagerie,” Istvan insists against detractors. “I envision walruses, for example, in replicas of office mailrooms. Minimal adornment on the animal itself. Perhaps only a bowtie in the case of the walrus.”
Rich Ives has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Trust, Seattle Arts Commission and the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines for his work in poetry, fiction, editing, publishing, translation and photography. His writing has appeared in Verse, North American Review, Massachusetts Review, Northwest Review, Quarterly West, Iowa Review, Poetry Northwest, Virginia Quarterly Review, Fiction Daily and many more. He is the 2009 winner of the Francis Locke Memorial Poetry Award from Bitter Oleander. He has been nominated seven times for the Pushcart Prize. He is the 2012 winner of the Thin Air Creative Nonfiction Award. His books include Light from a Small Brown Bird (Bitter Oleander Press--poetry), Sharpen (The Newer York—fiction chapbook), The Ballooon Containing the Water Containing the Narrative Begins Leaking—What Books) and Tunneling to the Moon (Silenced Press--hybrid).
j4 is a collective of four persons, all given names beginning with j, who are compelled to explore transindividual composition.
Lowell Jaeger (Montana Poet Laureate 2017-2019) is founding editor of Many Voices Press, author of seven collections of poems, recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Montana Arts Council, and winner of the Grolier Poetry Peace Prize. Most recently Jaeger was awarded the Montana Governor’s Humanities Award for his work in promoting thoughtful civic discourse.
Grant Matthew Jenkins teaches contemporary literature and creative writing at the University of Tulsa. He has published two books of poetry, Joy of God and Other Series (Blackbird, 2003) and in collaboration with Cheryl Pallant, Morphs (Cracked Slab, 2009). His poems appear in Birddog, Cannibal, used Cat., Source Material, Sugar Mule, Syntax, Action Yes, and Big Bridge. Other creative projects include work with digital flash poetry, image, and sound and can be found online at Turbulence and YouTube.
B.T. Joy is a Scottish poet living and working in Glasgow. He has published poetry in journals, magazines, anthologies and podcasts worldwide; including in Forward Poetry, Poetry Quarterly, Presence, Bottle Rockets, Frogpond and The Newtowner. After receiving his honours degree in Creative Writing and Film Studies in 2009 he went on, in 2012, to receive a PGDE from Strathclyde University and has since taught as a High School English teacher. He is also the author of two volumes of haiku In The Arms Of The Wind (2010) and The Reeds That Tilt The Sky (2011). His haiga have appeared with the World Haiku Association, Haiga Online and Daily Haiga. He was one of six writers nominated for The Ravenglass Poetry Press Competition of 2012; judged by Don Paterson. For further information on writing and publications, please visit his website: http://btj0005uk.wix.com/btjoypoet
Monty Jones is a writer in Austin, Texas. His book of poems Cracks in the Earth was published in 2018 by Cat Shadow Press of Austin.
Mike Jurkovic's poems and
music criticism have appeared/are forthcoming in over four hundred national and
international literary magazines, as well as in the anthologies WaterWrites & Riverine
(Codhill Press, 2009, 2007) and Will Work For Peace
(Zeropanik, 1999). Since 2003, he has been the co-director of Calling All Poets
in Beacon, NY. He is also the producer of CAPSCAST, live readings from the
Calling All Poets Series. His CD reviews appear in Elmore
Magazine, Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange& the Van Wyck
Gazzette. His first chapbook, Purgatory Road, was published by Pudding House Press in 2010.
Tim Kahl is the author of Possessing Yourself (CW Books, 2009) and The Century of Travel (CW Books, 2012). His work has been published in Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, Ninth Letter, Notre Dame Review, The Journal, Parthenon West Review, and many other journals in the U.S. He appears as Victor Schnickelfritz at the poetry and poetics blog The Great American Pinup and the poetry video blog Linebreak Studios. He is also editor of Bald Trickster Press and Clade Song. He is the vice president and events coordinator of The Sacramento Poetry Center. He also has public installations in Nevada City and in Sacramento (In Scarcity We Bare The Teeth). He currently houses his father's literary estate—one volume: Robert Gerstmann's book of photos of Chile, 1932).
Peycho Kanev is the author of four poetry collections and two chapbooks. He has won several European awards for his poetry and he’s nominated for the Pushcart Award and Best of the Net. Translations of his books will be published soon in Italy, Poland and Russia. His poems have appeared in more than 1000 literary magazines, such as: Poetry Quarterly, Evergreen Review, Hawaii Review, Cordite Poetry Review, Sheepshead Review, Off the Coast, The Adirondack Review, The Coachella Review, Two Thirds North, Sierra Nevada Review, The Cleveland Review, and many others.
Loren Kantor is a Los Angeles-based woodcut artist and writer. He worked in the film industry for 20 years as a screenwriter and assistant director. He is a fan of iconoclastic American writers and classic cinema. He's been carving woodcuts for the past five years.
Xandra Kaste graduated from the University of Tulsa with a degree in Creative Writing. Her work has appeared in This Land Press and the Underground Journal.
Marina Kazakova (b. Gorky, Russia, 1983) is a Russian-born Belgium-based poet. Her literature works deal to a large degree with confrontation with the past and explore the challenges posed both by memory and grief. Published internationally in magazines and journals (Three Rooms Press Maintenant, Great Weather for Media, Crannog, Duck Lake Books, Writing in a Woman's Voice), Kazakova is a frequent performer, she has been shortlisted at various international poetry festivals and art events.
Kazakova holds Master's degrees in Public Relations and Transmedia. Currently, she is the Communications Officer at Victim Support Europe (Brussels) and working on her practice-based PhD in Arts at Luca School of Arts (KULeuven).
Kazakova holds Master's degrees in Public Relations and Transmedia. Currently, she is the Communications Officer at Victim Support Europe (Brussels) and working on her practice-based PhD in Arts at Luca School of Arts (KULeuven).
Tim Keane's poetry has appeared in Streetcake, Structo, Gobbet, Otoliths, and Vanitas.
Aaron Kent is a poet from Cornwall, whose experimental-verse-novella (Subsequent Death) was released through zimZalla in June 2017. He has a pamphlet (Tertiary Colours) due out with Knives, Forks, and Spoons Press in Mid-2018, and a collaborative book (The Last Hundred) with photographer William Arnold due out with Guillemot late 2018. He is currently working on his first novel, and has just finished editing his debut full-length poetry collection. The Kenyon Review called Aaron 'a British force', and said 'his new work is a novel-in-verse that doubles as typographic melisma of mood and structure'
He lives with his wife in the middle of nowhere, and they welcomed their daughter into this world in July.
He lives with his wife in the middle of nowhere, and they welcomed their daughter into this world in July.
Jim Kincaid has published lots of academic books, five novels, several short story collections, and a play. He taught for a long time at Southern Cal and is now at Pitt.
Gabor Kiraly is a Hungarian poet whose work has been translated into English by Daniel Danyi.
Matthew Kirshman lives in Seattle, Washington, with his wife and two daughters. He is an English teacher, but before that he had a varied career--telephone repairman, bartender, and cook, to name a few. Writing since the early 1980s, his publication credits include: Charter Oak Poets, Dirigible: Journal of Language Arts, Helix, Indefinite Space, Key Satch(el), Mad Hatters’ Review, Phoebe: The George Mason Review, posthumous papers (Nothing New Press), Vangarde Magazine, Xenarts.com, and Z-Composition.
Robert Klein Engler lives in Omaha, Nebraska, and sometimes New Orleans. Many of his poems, stories, paintings and photographs are set in the Crescent City. His long poem, The Accomplishment of Metaphor and the Necessity of Suffering, set partially in New Orleans, is published by Headwaters Press, Medusa, New York, 2004. He has received an Illinois Arts Council award for his "Three Poems for Kabbalah." If you Google his name, then you may find his work on the Internet. Link with him at Facebook to see examples of his recent paintings and photographs. Some of his books are available at Lulu and Amazon.
Irene Koronas is the author of Turtle Grass (Muddy River Books, 2014), Emily Dickinson (Propaganda Press, 2010), Pentakomo Cyprus (Červená Press, 2009), Zero Boundaries (Červená Press, 2008), and Self Portrait Drawn From Many (Ibbetson Street Press, 2007). Some of her poetry, experimental writing and visual art have been published in Clarion, Counterexample Poetics, Divine Dirt, E·ratio, Free Verse, Haiku Hut, Index Poetry, Lynx, Lummox, Pop Art, Posey, Right Hand Pointing, Presa, Spreadhead, Stride, and Unblog. She has exhibited her visual art at the Tokyo Art Museum Japan, the Henri IV Gallery, the Ponce Art Gallery, the Gallery at Bentley College, and the M & M Gallery. She is the Managing Editor at X-Peri.
Entries on Richard Kostelanetz’s work appear in various editions of Readers Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers, Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature, Contemporary Poets, Contemporary Novelists, Postmodern Fiction, Webster's Dictionary of American Writers, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Directory of American Scholars, Who's Who in America, NNDB, Wikipedia, and Britannica, among other distinguished directories.
Kristin LaFollette received her BA and MA in English and creative writing from Indiana University. Her poems have been featured in Crack the Spine Magazine, Dead Flowers: A Poetry Rag, 2River View, and FIVE2ONE Magazine. She teaches English composition and humanities courses to college students and lives with her husband in northern Indiana.
Natan Last is an immigration policy and refugee resettlement researcher in New York, and a crossword writer for the New Yorker, the New York Times, and other outlets. His poetry seeks to inject emotion in the best of puzzles and even policy papers—a view of words as physical material to construct with, a view of our world as something to construct with more kindness than is currently on offer.
Mercedes Lawry has published poetry in such journals as Poetry, Natural Bridge, Prairie Schooner, Rhino, Nimrod, Poetry East, The Saint Ann’s Review, and others. Lawry is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee and a finalist for the 2017 Airlie Press Prize and the 2017 Wheelbarrow Book Prize. She recently won the Vachel Lindsay Poetry Prize from Twelve Winters Press, and her manuscript, Small Measures, will be published in 2018. She's received honors from the Seattle Arts Commission, Jack Straw Foundation, Artist Trust, and Richard Hugo House. Lawry has also published short fiction as well as stories and poems for children.
Hart L'Ecuyer's poems have been published in Sisyphus and Gadfly and are forthcoming in the Blue Lyra Review and PARAGRAGHITI. In 2011, he self-published a poem called "A White Cross," which he spoke about on a Washington University radio show and read at the Ethical Society of St. Louis. While at Loyola University Chicago in 2011, he served as an editor of the literary magazines Diminuendo and Cadence. In June of 2013, he attended the New York University Writers in New York poetry workshop and this past August he read a selection of poems as part of the River Styx "Hungry Young Poets" reading series at the Tavern of Fine Arts. In October of 2013, he joined several local poets who read at the Webster Groves "Art on the Town" festival. L'Ecuyer is currently an English major at Webster University, a member of the speech and debate team, and the founding editor of the Phizzog Review.
Heller Levinson lives in New York where he studies animal behavior. He has published half a dozen books and his work has appeared in over a hundred journals. His publication Smelling Mary (Howling Dog Press, 2008) was nominated for both the Pulitzer Prize and the Griffin Prize. Black Widow Press published his from stone this running in 2012. Hinge Trio was published by La Alameda Press in 2012. Wrack Lariat is newly released from Black Widow Press. He is the originator of Hinge Theory.
Chatham Lovette is a Ph.D. student at Stony Brook University pursuing a degree in philosophy and feminist theory. She finds the relationship between academic discourse and poetic semiotics to be mutually generative, de/resconstructive, and most of all, an ongoing learning experience. Lovette has a poem in the forthcoming edition of Peach Fuzz Magazine in Austin, TX.
John Lowther co-founded the Atlanta Poets Group in 1997 and quit in 2012. The University of New Orleans Press published The Lattice Inside: An Atlanta Poets Group Anthology in 2012. Forthcoming from Lavender Ink is John and Dana Lisa Young’s book Held to the Letter. He edits 3rdness Press. His poetry has been published in many little magazines since the late 90s, including Antenym, Afgabe, Gestalten, The Journal of Artists Books, and Otoliths. He is writing his dissertation on the intersections of Lacanian psychoanalysis and queer theory with issues raised for these by transgender and intersex people. For the moment, he lives in North Carolina.
Rupert Loydell is Senior Lecturer in English with Creative Writing at Falmouth University, the editor of Stride and With magazines, and a contributing editor to International Times. He is the author of many collections of poetry, including The Return of the Man Who Has Everything, Wildlife and Ballads of the Alone, all published by Shearsman Books. An artist’s book-in-a-box, The Tower of Babel, was published by Like This Press; and Encouraging Signs, a book of essays, articles and interviews by Shearsman. He edited Smartarse and co-edited Yesterday’s Music Today for Knives Forks & Spoons Press, From Hepworth’s Garden Out: poems about painters and St. Ives for Shearsman, and Troubles Swapped for Something Fresh, an anthology of manifestos and unmanifestos, for Salt. He lives in a Creekside Village with his family and far too many CDs and books.
Ernst Luchs has lived in the Chicago area his entire life, and has written poetry and humor for a variety of publications, as well as for stage and radio. He has no outstanding warrants.
Douglas Luman is the book reviews editor at the Found Poetry Review, an intern at the Chicago School of Poetics, and an MFA candidate at George Mason University. He is currently falling through a tab space somewhere in Northern Virginia.
J.S. MacLean is an independent poet who has been published in a variety of journals in Canada, USA, UK, India, and Australia. He is not sure what “independent poet” should mean, but he does know that he resists the center of the steam, tending to doddle on the edges of puddles and making them muddy. In his spare time he works.
P.D. Mallamo has published in Barcelona Review, Granta, Lana Turner, Sukoon and Don't Do It, among many others. He is a MacDowell Colony fellow, and has degrees from BYU and the University of Kansas.
Dave Malone lives in the Missouri Ozarks. His most recent work appears in Yonder Mountain: An Ozarks Anthology (University of Arkansas Press, 2013).
Tennae Maki is the audio archivist for an arts radio station, which is based out of Brooklyn, New York. She restores and transfers audio from original reel to reel tapes to digital formats. The themes in her writing have been greatly inspired by the speakers featured in the audio segments that she recovers. Her work has been published in numerous print and digital journals, including 491, Spillway, and Pure Francis.
Mark Mansfield’s work has appeared in numerous publications, including The Adirondack Review, Bayou, Blue Mesa Review, Concho River Review, The Evansville Review, Fourteen Hills, Front Range Review, Gargoyle, Good Foot, The Ledge, Magma, Orbis, Salt Hill, Scrivener Creative Review, Tulane Review, and Unsplendid. He holds an M.A. in Writing from Johns Hopkins. Currently, he lives in upstate New York where he teaches.
DS Maolalai is a poet from Ireland who has been writing and publishing poetry for almost 10 years. His first collection, Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden, was published in 2016 by the Encircle Press, with Sad Havoc Among the Birds forthcoming from Turas Press in 2019. He has been nominated for Best of the Web and twice for the Pushcart Prize.
M; Margo is a person who writes and resides in Cleveland, Ohio. Ver most recent books are pink maggit (Ghost City Press, 2019) and road road road road road (ma press, 2019). Ve has a website (translucent-snapdragons.gq) and a Twitter (@wigglytuff_pink)
J.W. Mark is a poet living in Ohio. Publications to include his work include The Ampersand Review, Eunoia Review, The Midwest Literary Magazine, flashquake, and The North Chicago Review. He is the author of a novel, entitled Artifice, as well as a book of poems entitled Patched Collective. He can be contacted at jwmarkmail AT gmail.com
Jeremy Nathan Marks is writer and an independent educator living in London, Ontario, Canada. He is currently completing his PhD in history at Western University.
After retirement John Marvin earned a Ph.D. in English and began work as a poet and scholar. His poetry has appeared in numerous journals. He has literary criticism in recent issues of James Joyce Quarterly, Hypermedia Joyce Studies and other journals. Marvin's poetic stance reflects an experimental approach to breaking free of the Romantic lyric that has dominated poetry for more than two centuries.
Nate Maxson is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently The Age Of Jive from Red Dashboard Press. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Ewa Mazierska is historian of film and popular music, who writes short stories in her spare time. She published over thirty of them in The Longshot Island, The Adelaide Magazine, The Fiction Pool, Literally Stories, Ragazine, BlazeVox, Red Fez, Away, The Bangalore Review, Shark Reef, and Mystery Tribune, among others. Mazierska is a Pushcart nominee and her stories were shortlisted in several competitions. She was born in Poland, but lives in Lancashire, UK.
Jim Meirose's short work has appeared in numerous venues, and his published novels include Understanding Franklin Thompson (JEF pubs), Sunday Dinner with Father Dwyer (Optional books) and The Box (Scarlet Leaf Press).
Though born in Ohio (1933), John N. Miller grew up in Hawai’i (1937-1951), retired in 1997 from teaching literature and writing at Denison University (Granville, OH), and now lives with his wife Ilse in a retirement community in Lexington, VA.
Bruce McRae, a Canadian musician, is a Pushcart nominee with over a thousand poems published internationally in magazines such as Poetry, Rattle and the North American Review. His latest book out now, An Unbecoming Fit Of Frenzy is available on Amazon and through Cawing Crow Press, while in September of this year, another book of poems, Like As If, will be published by Pskis Porch. His poems on video can be viewed on YouTube’s ‘BruceMcRaePoetry’
Stephen C. Middleton is a writer working in London, England. He has had five books published, including A Brave Light (Stride) and Worlds of Pain / Shades of Grace (Poetry Salzburg). He has been in several anthologies, among them Paging Doctor Jazz (Shoestring), From Hepworth’s Garden Out (Shearsman), and Yesterday's Music Today (Knives, Forks and Spoons Press). For many years he was editor of Ostinato, a magazine of jazz and jazz inspired poetry, and The Tenormen Press. He has been in many magazines worldwide. Current projects (prose and poetry) relate to jazz, blues, politics, outsider (folk) art, mountain environments, and long-term illness.
Joseph Victor Milford is a Professor of English and a Georgia writer. His first collection of poems, Cracked Altimeter, was published by BlazeVox Press in 2010. He is the host of The Joe Milford Poetry Show, a co-founder of Backlash Press, and the editor of RASPUTIN: A Poetry Thread (a literary journal of poetry).
Karl Miller lives in Coral Springs, FL. His fiction and poetry have appeared in various periodicals over the last few years; his play, A Night in Ruins, was produced Off Off Broadway in 2013.
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg is the
Poet Laureate of Kansas, and the author or editor of 16 books, including a
novel, The Divorce Girl (Ice Cube Books); a non-fiction book, Needle
in the Bone: How a Holocaust Survivor and Polish Resistance Fighter Beat the
Odds and Found Each Other (Potomac Books); The Sky Begins At Your Feet:
A Memoir on Cancer, Community & Coming Home to the Body (Ice Cube
Books); the anthologies An Endless Skyway: Poetry from the State
Poets Laureate (co-editor, Ice Cube Books) and Begin Again: 150 Kansas
Poems (editor, Woodley Press); and
four poetry collections. Founder of Transformative Language Arts—a master's
program in social and personal transformation through the written, spoken and
sung word—at Goddard College where she teaches, Mirriam-Goldberg also leads
writing workshops widely, and with singer Kelley Hunt, writing and singing
retreats. You can find out more about Mirriam-Goldberg and follow her work on her website.
Mark J. Mitchell's work has appeared in the anthologies Good Poems, American Places (Viking/Penguin), Line Drives (Southern Illinois University Press), Sport Literate (Aethlon Press) Hunger Enough (Puddinghouse Press) Retail Woes (Local Gems Press) and Zeus Seduces the Wicked Stepmother in the Saloon of the Gingerbread House (Winterhawk Press). A full length collection of his poems, Lent 1999, is coming soon from Leaf Garden Press. His chapbook, Three Visitors, won the 2010 Negative Capability Press International Chapbook competition and is currently available. Fowlpox Press published his Fishing in the Knife Drawer chapbook last year and his novel, Knight Prisoner, was just published by Vagabondage Press. Folded Word Press will publish his Artifacts and Relics chapbook in 2014.
J.D. Mitchell-Lumsden co-edits Cricket Online Review. He lives in Iowa.
Greg Moglia's work has appeared in over 200 journals in the U.S., Canada, England, India, Australia, Sweden, and Austria, as well as five anthologies. His poems have been featured in Peregrine, Southern Humanities Review, Rattle, English Journal, South Carolina Review, and Tampa Review.
Tom Montag is most recently the author of In This Place: Selected Poems 1982-2013 and This Wrecked World. He is a contributing editor at Verse-Virtual. In 2015 he was the featured poet at Atticus Review (April) and Contemporary American Voices (August) and at year's end received Pushcart Prize nominations from Provo Canyon Review and Blue Heron Review. Other poems will be found at Hamilton Stone Review, The Homestead Review, Little Patuxent Review, Mud Season Review, Poetry Quarterly, Third Wednesday, and elsewhere.
Cameron Morse lives with his wife Lili and two children in Independence, Missouri. His poems have been published in numerous magazines, including New Letters, Bridge Eight, Portland Review and South Dakota Review. His first collection, Fall Risk, won Glass Lyre Press’s 2018 Best Book Award. His latest is Baldy (Spartan Press, 2020). He holds and MFA from the University of Kansas City—Missouri and serves as Senior Reviews editor at Harbor Review and Poetry Editor at Harbor Editions. For more information, check out his Facebook page or website.
Robin J. Morrison is an undergraduate currently living in Iowa City with his wife and two children. He has had poems published in Aesthetica, Poets and Artists, and Pank, as well as in numerous others across many countries. His novels are widely available in print, as well as in e-book format through Smashwords (all free of charge). His work Other Cruel Things (2009), a collection of poetry, is also available online.
Cameron Morse been published in numerous magazines, including New Letters, South Dakota Review, TYPO, and Bridge Eight. His first collection, Fall Risk, won Glass Lyre Press’s 2018 Best Book Award. My second, Father Me Again, is available from Spartan Press. My chapbook Coming Home with Cancer belongs to Blue Lyra Press’s Delphi Poetry Series
Tamer Mostafa's work has been featured in California Quarterly, The Rag Literary Magazine, Poets Espresso Review, Confrontation Literary Magazine, Stone Highway Review, and No Infinite. He was the recipient of the first place 2011 CSU Sacramento Bazzanella Literary Award in Creative Non-Fiction and the 2013 Lois Ann Latin Rosenburg Prize for Poetry
Christopher Mulrooney has published poems in Red Branch Journal, The Germ, Auchumpkee Creek Review, Or, and The Cannon's Mouth.
Edwin Murillo is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Penn State University-Berks. Most of his work focuses on Latin American Existentialism and his writing aims to reconsider Latin America’s contribution and subordinated position in the Existentialism canon. His articles have appeared in Divergencias, Neophilologus, and Hispanófila. His poetry has appeared in Marcapasos and in Líneas desde el golfo, edited Edna Ochoa and published by LACASA.
Christina Murphy lives and writes in a 100 year-old Arts and Crafts style house along the Ohio River. Her poetry is an exploration of consciousness as subjective experience, and her most recent work appears in PANK, La Fovea, Pear Noir! and The Neglected Ratio. Her work has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and for the 2012 Best of the Net Anthology.
Rich Murphy's first book, The Apple in the Monkey Tree, was published in 2007 (Codhill Press) and his second book, Voyeur, was published in 2009. In 2013, his book-length manuscript of poems, Americana, was selected as the winner in the Prize Americana by The Institute for American Studies and Creative Writing. His chapbooks include Family Secret (Finishing Line Press), Hunting and Pecking (Ahadada Books), Phoems for Mobile Vices (BlazeVox), Rescue Lines (Right Hand Pointing), and Great Grandfather (Pudding House Publications). He has two chapbooks coming out this spring: Paideia from Aldrich Publications and Oops! from Finishing Line Press.
Some of his recent poetry may be found in The Transnational–A Literary Magazine, Pennsylvania Review, Former People, Fjord Review, E.ratio, Literati Quarterly, Otoliths, Euphony, The Straddler, James Dickey Review, Red Savina, Review, Big Bridge, Blast Furnace, Blue Fifth Review: Blue Five Notebook, and featured in Syzygy Poetry Journal.
Some of his recent poetry may be found in The Transnational–A Literary Magazine, Pennsylvania Review, Former People, Fjord Review, E.ratio, Literati Quarterly, Otoliths, Euphony, The Straddler, James Dickey Review, Red Savina, Review, Big Bridge, Blast Furnace, Blue Fifth Review: Blue Five Notebook, and featured in Syzygy Poetry Journal.
Ben Nardolilli currently lives in Arlington, Virginia. His work has appeared in Perigee Magazine, Red Fez, Danse Macabre, The 22 Magazine, Quail Bell Magazine, Elimae, fwriction, THEMA, Pear Noir, The Minetta Review, and Yes Poetry. He has a chapbook Common Symptoms of an Enduring Chill Explained from Folded Word Press. He blogs at Mirrors Sponge and is looking to publish his first novel.
J.D. Nelson experiments with words in his subterranean laboratory. More than 1,500 of his poems have appeared in many small press publications, in print and online. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Cinderella City (The Red Ceilings Press, 2012). Visit www.MadVerse.com for more information and links to his published work. Nelson lives in Colorado.
John Nyman’s verse, visual, and conceptual poems and poetics have appeared in a variety of print and online publications including Rampike, (parenthetical), Cordite Poetry Review, and Hamilton Arts and Letters. His first full-length collection, Players, will be released with Palimpsest Press in spring 2016. Originally from Toronto, John is currently completing a PhD in Theory and Criticism at Western University in London, Canada.
Philip Byron Oakes is a poet living in Austin, Texas. His work has appeared in Blackbox Manifold, gobbet, Cordite Poetry Review, among other journals. His third volume of poetry, ptyx and stone (white sky ebooks), was released in 2013. More on his work can be found at http://philipbyronoakes.blogspot.com/
Bryan O'Connell is a life-long resident of the Pacific Northwest. In 2012, he completed his B.A. in English with honors at Portland State University. He has previously been published in Vine Leaves Literary Journal.
Karen Ohnesorge has lived mostly in Kansas since 1986, having grown up near Oak Ridge, Tennessee—the Atomic City. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The Spoon River Quarterly, Mudfish, Antioch Review, and Chain; her work has also appeared in two anthologies: Begin Again: 150 Kansas Poems, and To the Stars through Difficulties: A Kansas Renga in 150 Voices, Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, editor. Karen currently works as Dean of Instruction and Associate Professor of English at Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas.
Luiza Oleszczuk is a Polish-born writer and journalist currently living in New York City. Her poetry has previously appeared in the Apple Valley Review. Her reporting has been published by The Economist, Intelligent Life, Forbes, Globalization Today, The Outsourcing Magazine, Fox Nation, The Christian Post, and others. Oleszczuk holds a master’s degree in creative writing from University of St. Andrews (Scotland).
Matt Olive is a poet and student living outside of Nashville and going to school at MTSU. His poems can be found or are forthcoming in Epigraph Magazine, Of/with, and After the Pause.
Sergio A. Ortiz is a two-time Pushcart nominee, a four-time Best of the Web nominee, and 2016 Best of the Net nominee. 2nd place in the 2016 Ramón Ataz Annual Poetry Competition sponsored by Alaire publishing house. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in FRIGG, Tipton Poetry Journal, Drunk Monkeys, and Bitterzeot Magazine. He is currently working on his first full-length collection of poems, Elephant Graveyard.
John Pannill is from Southern Virginia. His passions are travel, adventure, and writing. He's lived all over the world, including Spain and Peru, and has spent time hiking in the Andes, the Appalachians and many places out West. He spends his free time hiking and practicing photography. Pannill is an ambassador for the mobile app Yonder and proud of it. He is currently applying for MFA programs in order to grow as a writer.
Mark Parsons' poems have been published in Chariton Review, Contemporary Verse 2, Iodine Poetry Journal, subTerrain, Emerge, Mad Hat Lit, Wisconsin Review, and elsewhere.
Martin Pedersen, originally from San Francisco, has lived for over 35 years in eastern Sicily where he teaches English at the local university. His poetry has appeared in The James Dickey Review, Ink in Thirds, Mused, Oddville, Former People, The Bitchin’ Kitsch and others. Pedersen is an alum of the SquawValley Community of Writers.
Scott Penney's writing has appeared on Artful Dodge, basalt, Faultline, Fugue, Salon (VT), BlazeVox, and other journals. In 2014, he was a resident of the MacDowell Colony.
Mark G. Pennington was born 1985 and lives and writes in UK. He has four poems in TL;DR , two poems accepted in Poetry Pacific and one in The Oddville Press. Previous to this, publications are under the name J. Rose in magazines such as Dear Sir, The Journal UK, Broken Wine, Clockwise Cat, and others. Rose has also published a first book in 2012, titled Lithium Clockwork.
Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The Nation, Poetry, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. His most recent collection is Almost Rain, published by River Otter Press (2013). For more information, including free e-books, his essay titled “Magic, Illusion and Other Realities” please visit his website.
Richard King Perkins II is a state-sponsored advocate for residents in long-term care facilities. His work has appeared in hundreds of publications, including Prime Mincer, Sheepshead Review, Sierra Nevada Review, Fox Cry, Two Thirds North, and The Red Cedar Review. He has poems forthcoming in Bluestem, Poetry Salzburg Review and The William and Mary Review.
Tom Pescatore grew up outside Philadelphia dreaming of the endless road ahead, carrying the idea of the fabled West in his heart. He maintains a poetry blog: amagicalmistake.blogspot.com. His work has been published in literary magazines both nationally and internationally but he'd rather have them carved on the Walt Whitman bridge or on the sidewalks of Philadelphia's old Skid Row. His chapbooks Trapped in the Night, Shave and A Magical Mistake are forthcoming.
Thomas Piekarski is a former editor of the California State Poetry Quarterly. His poetry and interviews have appeared widely in literary journals in the U.S., India, Canada, Austria, and the U.K., including Nimrod, Portland Review, Mandala Journal, Cream City Review, Poetry Salzburg, Boston Poetry Magazine, The Journal, and Poetry Quarterly. He has published a travel book, Best Choices In Northern California, and Time Lines, a book of poems.
Kenneth Pobo has a new book out from Blue Light Press called Bend Of Quiet. His work has appeared in Weber: The Contemporary West, Indiana Review, Mudfish, Floating Bridge, and elsewhere.
Fred Pollack is the author of two book-length narrative poems, The Adventure and Happiness, both published by Story Line Press. He also has a collection of shorter poems, A Poverty of Words from Prolific Press, and another collection, Landscape with a Mutant, to be published by Smokestack Books (UK) in 2018. Pollack has appeared in Hudson Review, Salmagundi, Poetry Salzburg Review, Die Gazette (Munich), The Fish Anthology (Ireland), Representations, Magma (UK), Iota (UK), Bateau, Main Street Rag, Fulcrum, etc. Online, poems have appeared in Big Bridge, Allegro, Hamilton Stone Review, Diagram, BlazeVox, The New Hampshire Review, Mudlark, Occupoetry, Faircloth Review, Triggerfish, and Thunderdome, etc. He works as an adjunct professor of creative writing George Washington University.
Matthew Porubsky lives in Topeka, Kansas and works as a freight conductor for the Union Pacific Railroad. He has four collections of poetry, voyeur poems, Fire Mobile (The Pregnancy Sonnets,) Ruled by Pluto and John. His poetry has been featured in RHINO, Quiditty, The Journal (UK,) {HOOT} and elimae. Visit mppoetry.com for more information.
Perry L. Powell is a systems analyst who lives near Atlanta, Georgia. His work has appeared in a number of venues, including Atavic Poetry, Frogpond, Haiku Presence, Lucid Rhythms, The Blue Hour, The Camel Saloon, The Heron's Nest, The Innisfree Poetry Journal, The Lyric, and Wolf Willow Journal.
Carson Pytell is a poet and short fiction writer living in a very small town in upstate New York. His work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in such publications as Vita Brevis Press, Literary Yard, Leaves of Ink, Revolution John, Corvus Review, Gideon Poetry Review, and Poetry Pacific.
Rehan Qayoom is a poet, editor and translator from London. He writes poetry in both English and Urdu and his works have appeared in numerous literary publications and anthologies
Kevin Rabas co-directs the creative writing program at Emporia State University and edits Flint Hills Review. He is also the Poet Laureate of Kansas. Rabas has four books available: Bird’s Horn, Lisa’s Flying Electric Piano, a Kansas Notable Book and Nelson Poetry Book Award winner, Sonny Kenner’s Red Guitar, and Spider Face: stories.
AE Reiff is a fictional persona of the Artist’s Collective at the New Ibsen Canal near Catwalk. There is no known way of contact except weekends in the bakery. Once identified persons of the same name intend no disrespect to them or others. Periodic updates at Encouragements for Such.
Robin Reiss is a twentysomething from Massachusetts who graduated from Westfield State University with a degree in English literature. She is relatively unpublished, with a few poems appearing in her alma mater’s literary magazine and a critical essay featured in The Sigma Tau Delta Review. She works at Clark University and is currently accepting suggestions for what to do with the rest of her life.
Martina Reisz Newberry is the author of several books of poetry. Her most recent book is Never Completely Awake from Deerbrook Editions. Her work has appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies in the U.S. and abroad.Passionate in her love for Los Angeles, Martina currently lives there with her husband, Brian, a Media Creative.
William Repass is a recent graduate from Hendrix College and a Writer in the Field for Film International Magazine. He has been published in A-Minor Magazine, Counterexample Poetics, The Light Ekphrastic, Gone Lawn, and elsewhere, with upcoming publications in Sugar Mule, and Connotation Press.
Michael Rerick lives and teaches in Portland, OR. His work has recently appeared in Coconut, Cosmonauts Avenue, H_NGM_N, Indefinite Space, MadHat, Marsh Hawk Review, Ping Pong, and Tarpaulin Sky. Rerick is also the author of In Ways Impossible to Fold, morefrom, The Kingdom of Blizzards, and X-Ray.
Jon Riccio studied viola performance at Oberlin College and the Cleveland Institute of Music. An MFA candidate at the University of Arizona, his work has appeared in Qwerty, Paper Nautilus, The Writing Disorder, Redivider, and White Whale Review, among others. A 2014 Pushcart nominee, he serves as the poetry editor at Fairy Tale Review.
Tony Rickaby has produced hypertext animations for Drunken Boat, Locus Novus and Toad; visual poems for Altered Scale, Counterexample Poetics, Cricket, InStereo Press, 20×20, Otoliths and Suss; prose for Anderbo, Athregeum, Aspidistra, Dark Sky, Litro, The Whistling Fire, and Word Riot; poetry for Camel Saloon, Ditch, Message in a Bottle and Sugar Mule. He lives in London.
Elliot Robinson is a vegetable gardener and groundskeeper at a performing arts high school in New Orleans, Louisiana, whose poetry has appeared in Shoppinghour. Last year he published Why I Wear a Wire, a crime novel in photographs set in his hometown of Indianapolis.
Judith Roitman lives in Lawrence, KS. Books and chapbooks include No Face (First Intensity), Slackline (Hank’s Loose Gravel Press), Furnace Mountain Poems (Omertà), and Ku: a thumb book (Airfoil). Recent poems can be found in Talisman, YEW, Horse Less Review, Otoliths, and Eleven Eleven.
Heather Rounds lives in Baltimore. Her writing has most recently appeared in such places as Smokelong Quarterly, Seltzer, Big Lucks, Marco Polo Art Magazine, PANK, and elsewhere. Her novel, THERE, won the 2011 International Book Award through Emergency Press and was published this past October.
Walter Ruhlmann works as an English teacher, edits Urtica and Beakful. His latest collections are Crossing Puddles (Robocup Press, 2015) and Civilisé (Urtica, 2017). He blogs at The Night Orchid.
Jackson Sabbagh studies poetry at Sarah Lawrence College, and studied it during a year abroad at Oxford University. His poems have been published in Sarah Lawrence College Literary Review, The Narrator and Assaracus. One of his poems was the 2012 recipient of the Academy of American Poets College Prize at Sarah Lawrence College.
Michael Salcman is the editor of Poetry in Medicine, an anthology of classic and contemporary poems on doctors, patients, illness and healing (Persea Books, 2015), and the author of four chapbooks and three collections: The Clock Made of Confetti (Orchises), nominated for The Poet’s Prize, The Enemy of Good Is Better (Orchises) and A Prague Spring, Before & After (2016), winner of the 2015 Sinclair Poetry Prize from Evening Street Press.
Gerard Sarnat is the author of two critically acclaimed poetry collections, 2010’s Homeless Chronicles from Abraham to Burning Man and 2012’s Disputes. His pieces have appeared or are forthcoming in seventy or so journals and anthologies. Harvard and Stanford educated, Sarnat's been a physician who’s set up and staffed clinics for the disenfranchised, a CEO of health care organizations, and a Stanford professor. For The Huffington Post review of his work and more, visit GerardSarnat.com.
M. A. Schaffner has work recently published or forthcoming in The Hollins Critic, Magma, Tulane Review, Gargoyle, and The Delinquent. His other writings include the poetry collection The Good Opinion of Squirrels and the novel War Boys. Schaffner spends most days in Arlington, Virginia, or the 19th century.
Alex Schillinger has been published in scissors and spackle, Black Words on White Paper, In Gilded Frame, and others.
Benjamin Schmitt’s poetry has been published in Solo Novo, The Monarch Review, Blue Lyra Review, Otis Nebula, The Pacific Review, and elsewhere. His first book was published in 2013 by Kelsay Books. It is entitled The global conspiracy to get you in bed. He currently lives in Seattle with his wife where he teaches workshops to both children and adults.
E.M. Schorb’s prose poems have appeared in The Carolina Quarterly, Quick Fiction, The Mississippi Review, Illuninations, The Chariton Review, Mudfish, The Asheville Poetry Review, Slant, The Potomac Review, Gulf Coast, The New Laurel Review, The North American Review, and Gargoyle, among others.
Aldrich Press recently published a collection of Schorb’s prose poems called Manhattan Spleen. Before that, Argonne House Press published a chapbook of his prose poems, A Fable. In reviewing Manhattan Spleen, X.J. Kennedy wrote: “Manhattan Spleen is mighty cool, I think, and if anyone writes better prose poems these days I don’t know who they are.”
Aldrich Press recently published a collection of Schorb’s prose poems called Manhattan Spleen. Before that, Argonne House Press published a chapbook of his prose poems, A Fable. In reviewing Manhattan Spleen, X.J. Kennedy wrote: “Manhattan Spleen is mighty cool, I think, and if anyone writes better prose poems these days I don’t know who they are.”
Margarita Serafimova’s first collection of poetry, Animals and Other Gods, in the Bulgarian (Sofia University Press) was published in 2016. Her second book, Demons and World, also in the Bulgarian, is forthcoming in May 2017 (Black Flamingo Publishing, Sofia). In English, pieces of hers are forthcoming in Agenda, Trafika Europe, London Grip New Poetry, Obra/ Artifact, A-Minor, Dark Matter Journal, The Birds We Piled Loosely, Ginosko Literary Journal, Misty Mountains Review, and appear in Cent Magazine, Noble/ Gas Quarterly, Window Quarterly/ Patient Sounds, MockingHeart Review, The Renegade Rant and Rave, Tales From The Forest, Peacock Journal, In Between Hangovers, Anti-Heroin Chic, and elsewhere.
Sanjeev Sethi is published in over thirty countries. He has more than 1400 poems printed or posted in literary venues around the world. Wrappings in Bespoke is joint-winner of Full Fat Collection Competition-Deux organized by the Hedgehog Poetry Press UK. It is his fourth full-length collection. It will be launched in 2021. Recent credits: NOON | journal of the short poem, Mad Swirl, The Big Windows Review, Pomona Valley Review, Lummox Poetry Anthology # 9, Dreich Magazine, and elsewhere. He lives in Mumbai, India.
Samy Sfoggia was born in 1984. She has a bachelor’s degree in History (2007)
and studied Art, Body and Education, post-graduating in 2009. Since 2006, she's been an undergraduate photography student. Sfoggia has participated in group and solo
exhibitions in Brazil (Novo Hamburgo/RS; Porto Alegre/RS; Recife/PE; São
Paulo/SP). Her work has been published on several websites and
in international magazines, including Lost At E Minor, Powerscourt Gallery, International Times, Trend Hunter, and Empty
Mirror Arts & Literary Magazine.
Mike Sheedy's stories have appeared in various magazines. His novel The Living, the Dead, and the Double-Dead and his story collection Now is th Tim can be found at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Jake Sheff is a captain in the USAF currently training as a pediatrics resident physician. He's married with a baby daughter and several rescue pets. His poems have been published widely online and in print, including at Pirene's Fountain and Danse Macabre. His first chapbook, Looting Versailles, was recently released by Alabaster Leaves Publishing, and can be purchased on the publisher's website or Amazon.com.
Stephanie Sheir is a high-school student, who has loved reading and writing all her life. In her younger years, she dabbled in anything from sci-fi fantasy to informative handbooks, but only recently has begun writing again, in light of a growing passion for literature. She lives in Hong Kong.
Jon Shifrin is a State Department official and founder of the popular web magazine, The Daily Dissident. His work has appeared in The Baltimore Sun, The Hill, and Reunion: The Dallas Review.
Raymond Shih is a Canadian writer. His first published story, "Uncle Bernie's House," recently appeared in the Bangalore Review. Shih is also a regular contributor to entrepreneurship and innovation blogs.
Carol Shillibeer lives in western Canada. Her publication list can be found at carolshillibeer.com.
Paul Shumaker’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Deluge, Mannequin Haus, M58 and Word For/Word. He is an MFA candidate at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Ron Singer’s poetry has appeared in numerous publications. His books are A Voice for My Grandmother, The Second Kingdom, The Rented Pet, Look to Mountains, Look to Sea, and Uhuru Revisited: Interviews with Pro-democracy Leaders (Africa World Press/Red Sea Press, 2013). His serial thriller, Geistmann, is available at jukepopserials.com.
Joshua Smith studied English Literature at Hunter College. He's currently in his first year at Harvard Law School.
Michael T. Smith is an Assistant Professor of the Polytechnic Institute at Purdue University, where he received his PhD in English. He teaches cross-disciplinary courses that blend humanities with other areas. He has published over 30 poems in the last year in over 10 different journals (including Bitterzoet, Visitant, Tau Poetry Journal, Eunoia Review, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Bitchin Kitsch, and Taj Mahal Poetry Journal among others). He also has critical work recently published in Symbolism and Cinematic.
Willie Smith is deeply ashamed of being human. He was born in Greenbelt, MD, sometime in the last century and is a long-time resident of Seattle, WA. His writing has appeared in Poetry Motel, Thieves Jargon, The American Drivel Review, Cherry Bleeds, Bewildering Stories, Litvision, The Ragged Edge, Lost and Found Times, Raven Chronicles, Libido, Word Riot, and Zygote in My Coffee. His most recent book is Nothing Doing (Honest Publishing, 2012).
Felino A. Soriano is a poet documenting coöccurrences. His poetic language stems from exterior motivation of jazz and the belief in language’s unconstrained devotion to broaden understanding. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net anthologies. Recent poetry collections include sparse anatomies of single antecedents (gradient books, 2015), Forms, migrating (Fowlpox Press, 2015), Of isolated limning (Fowlpox Press, 2014, and Mathematics Nostrovia! Poetry, 2014). He edits the online journal, Of/with: journal of immanent renditions. He lives in California with his wife and family and is a director of supported living and independent living programs providing supports to adults with developmental disabilities. Visit felinoasoriano.info for more information.
Barry Spacks has taught writing and literature for many years at M.I.T. and U.C.S.B. He’s published individual poems widely, plus stories, two novels, eleven poetry collections, and three CDs of selected work. His first novel, The Sophomore, has recently been brought back into print in the Faber & Faber Finds series. His most recent poetry collection, A Bounty of 84s (Cherry Grove, 2012), presents a selection from ten years of e-mail exchanges with his friend Lawrence E. Leone. The 84 in the work's title refers to stanzas limited exactly to 84 characters, echoing the traditional notion that the Buddha left us 84,000 different teachings because humans have so many different needs.
Joel Streicker is a writer, poet, and literary translator living in San Francisco. His fiction has been published in Hanging Loose, The Opiate, Great Lakes Review, Burningword, and Kestrel. Another story of his was a finalist in Epiphany’s spring fiction contest in 2016. Streicker's English-language poetry appeared in the fall 2016 issue of California Quarterly, and his Spanish-language poetry was recently featured in El otro páramo (Bogotá, Colombia). Común Presencia (also located in Bogotá) published a book of his Spanish-language poetry, El amor en los tiempos de Belisario, in 2014.
In 2011, Streicker won a PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant for his work with Argentine writer (and Man Booker International Prize nominee) Samanta Schweblin, and in 2012 he was a translator in residence at Omi Translation Lab. His translations of Latin American fiction have appeared in numerous journals, including A Public Space, McSweeney’s, and Words Without Borders. His translation of a story by the Argentine writer Mariana Enríquez is in the latest Freeman’s. Streicker's essays and book reviews have appeared in The Forward, Moment, and Shofar, among other publications.
In 2011, Streicker won a PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant for his work with Argentine writer (and Man Booker International Prize nominee) Samanta Schweblin, and in 2012 he was a translator in residence at Omi Translation Lab. His translations of Latin American fiction have appeared in numerous journals, including A Public Space, McSweeney’s, and Words Without Borders. His translation of a story by the Argentine writer Mariana Enríquez is in the latest Freeman’s. Streicker's essays and book reviews have appeared in The Forward, Moment, and Shofar, among other publications.
Brendan Sullivan is a lifelong beach bum who has turned from acting to poetry, as he finds it a more remarkable and at times, reliable muse. He also enjoys surfing, sailing and diving. His work has been published at Wordsmiths, The Missing Slate, Every Writer's Resource, Gutter Eloquence, A Sharp Piece of Awesome, After Tournier, Bareback Magazine, and Bare Hands.
Marius Surleac is from Bucharest, Romania. He's published poetry in Pif Magazine, MadHat Lit, Literary Orphans, Prick of the Spindle, and other magazines.
Anders M. Svenning lives in South Florida. His work has appeared in Forge Journal, Grey Sparrow Journal, and many more. His work is forthcoming in Bahamut Journal and an anthology by Horrified Press.
Eileen R. Tabios loves books and has released about 30 collections of poetry, fiction, essays, and experimental biographies from publishers in nine countries and cyberspace. Her most recent is INVENT(ST)ORY: Selected Catalog Poems and New (1996-1915). Forthcoming is THE CONNOISSEUR OF ALLEYS (Marsh Hawk Press) in Spring 2016. She maintains a biblioliphic blog, Eileen Verbs Books; edits Galatea Resurrects, a popular poetry review; steers the literary and arts publisher Meritage Press; and frequently curates thematic online poetry projects including LinkedIn Poetry Recommendations (a recommended list of contemporary poetry books). More information is available at http://eileenrtabios.com
Richard Thomas is a poet from Plymouth, UK, with work appearing in journals internationally, including Orbis, Fire, Weyfarers, Neon Highway and Notes from the Gean. Having just completed a degree in English and Creative Writing, Thomas is about take an MA of the same title. Thomas was shortlisted for the National Poetry Competition 2011 and his first full collection of poems The Strangest Thankyou was published by Cultured Llama in 2012. Previously editor of the poetry e-zine Symmetry Pebbles, Thomas is now the creative writing editor for Tribe. These poems are taken from his collection Zygote Poems, which is currently seeking publication.
Dan Thomas-Glass is the author of The Great American Beatjack Volume I (Perfect Lovers Press), Kate & Sonia (in the months before our second daughter's birth) (Little Red Leaves' Textile Series), Seaming (Furniture Press), and 880 (Deep Oakland Editions). He works as a middle school teacher and administrator, and lives with his wife Kate and their daughters Sonia and Alma in California.
Scott Thomas Outlar spends the hours flowing and fluxing with the ever changing currents of the Tao River while laughing at and/or weeping over life's existential nature. His words have appeared recently in venues such as Dissident Voice, Yellow Chair Review, Clockwise Cat, Harbinger Asylum, and Nazar Look. Links to his published work can be found at 17numa.wordpress.com.
Steve Timm has published three books of poems--This's That (There Press, 2016) and, from BlazeVox Books, Un storia (2010) and Disparity (2006).
Augusto Anselm Todoele is the name we call our self when we have outlived that knowledge that the former soul believed true as the best writing that makes us wait and seek for more.
Hugh Tribbey’s experimental verse has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in Jazz Cigarette, Malpais Review, Experiential-Experimental Literature, and Truck. He is the author of eight collections of poetry. His most recent is Wrinkle and Mechanism published by White Sky E-Books.
Tribbey holds a Ph.D. in English from Oklahoma State University and teaches literature and creative writing at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma.
Tribbey holds a Ph.D. in English from Oklahoma State University and teaches literature and creative writing at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma.
Jake Tringali was born in Boston. He has lived up and down the East Coast, and then up and down the West Coast, and currently in lives Los Angeles. He runs rad restaurants and thrives in a habitat of bars, punk rock shows, and a sprinkling of burlesque performers.
Since July 2014, publications include The Manhattanville Review, Oddball Magazine, Rio Grande Review, The Commonline Journal, Apeiron Review, Catch & Release, Boston Poetry Magazine, and others.
Since July 2014, publications include The Manhattanville Review, Oddball Magazine, Rio Grande Review, The Commonline Journal, Apeiron Review, Catch & Release, Boston Poetry Magazine, and others.
David Tuvell graduated from Kennesaw University with a Bachelor’s of Arts in English in 2016.
Lawrence Upton is a poet and graphic and sound artist. His publications include wrack (2012), Memory Fictions (2012), Unframed Pictures (2011), and Some commentaries on Bob Cobbing (2013). He co-edited Word Score Utterance Choreography in Verbal and Visual Poetry (1998) with Bob Cobbing, with whom he also made Domestic Ambient Noise, spanning 300 pamphlets totalling more than 1800 pages (1994-2000). He also made 20 + text-sound compositions with John Levack Drever. Upton convenes the Writers Forum Workshop (since Cobbing's death in 2002) and serves as an academic member Athens Institute for Education and Research.
James Valvis is the author of How to Say Goodbye (Aortic Books, 2011). His poems or stories have appeared in journals such as Anderbo, Arts & Letters, Barrow Street, Hanging Loose, LA Review, Nimrod, Rattle, River Styx, Vestal Review, and many others. His poetry has been featured in Verse Daily and the Best American Poetry website. His fiction was chosen for the 2013 Sundress Best of the Net. A former US Army soldier, he lives near Seattle.
Matthew Walker graduated this last May with an Interdisciplinary Arts degree from Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, FL, with creative writing (namely poetry) as a concentration.
Bryce Warnes lives on Vancouver Island. His fiction has appeared in Joyland and his poetry in The Mall. He has also done some writing for The Globe & Mail's university life website, as well as Weird Canada,
Stephen Watt is a Scottish poet and the author of the poetry collection Spit. Stephen has won several slams, including Poetry Rivals, StAnza Digital slam, and the Hughie Healy award, as well as produced work that has been published in the UK, Germany, New York, and Mexico.
J. Marcus Weekley, born in Chattanooga, TN, has lived in many states, countries, and imaginary lands, though he is currently flying over Mississippi. His writing is forthcoming (or newly published) in Across the Margin, bottle rockets, and Chrysanthemum, among others. Marcus has a collection of ekphrastic prose poems, Singing in the Merman Cemetery, forthcoming in 2018 from CW Books (preorders for fifteen bucks). Marcus also paints, photographs, and writes screenplays: www.flickr.com/photos/whynottryitagain2.
Stan Lee Werlin's short stories and poetry have appeared in Southern Humanities Review, Los Angeles Review, Sheepshead Review, Prime Number, Glassworks, Soundings East, Saranac Review, Five on the Fifth, Futures Trading, Bacopa Literary Review, Zone 3, Gargoyle and Roanoke Review. His humorous children's poetry has been published in numerous children’s magazines and anthologies. Stan was a Harvard undergrad and holds an MBA from UPenn (Wharton). Reach him on Twitter @natsnilrew
Robert Wexelblatt is professor of humanities at Boston University’s College of General Studies. He has published essays, stories, and poems in a variety of journals, the story collections, Life in the Temperate Zone and The Decline of Our Neighborhood, a book of essays, Professors at Play, and two short novels, Losses and The Derangement of Jules Torquemal. His novel, Zublinka Among Women, won the Indie Book Awards First Prize for Fiction. His most recent book is The Artist Wears Rough Clothing.
Charles Wilkinson’s work includes The Pain Tree and Other Stories (London Magazine Editions). His poems have been in Poetry Wales, Poetry Salzburg (Austria), Shearsman ,New Walk, Magma, Under the Radar, Tears in the Fence, Scintilla, Envoi, Stand, Snow lit rev and other journals. A pamphlet, Ag & Au, came out from Flarestack Poets in 2013. He has two collections of weird fiction and strange tales, both from Egaeus Press: A Twist in the Eye (2016) and Splendid in Ash (2018). His full-length poetry collection, The Glazier’s Choice, appeared from Eyewear in 2019; it has been nominated for a Forward Prize. He lives in Powys, Wales, where he is heavily outnumbered by members of the ovine community. More information about his work can be found at his website: http://charleswilkinonauthor.com
Maggie Wilson lives in Seattle, Washington.
Benjamin Winkler lives and writes in Philadelphia, PA. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in LIES/ISLE, Makeout Creek, and RHINO. You can find him online at benjaminwinkler.com.
O. Howard Winn's writing, both fiction and poetry, has been published by such journals as Dalhousie Review, Galway Review (Ireland), Descant (Canada), Break The Spine, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, New York Quarterly, Southern Humanities Review, Raven Chronicles, Borderlands, , Xavier Review, and Toyon. He's presently working on a novel dealing with Tom Brokaw’s “Greatest Generation.” Winn has a B. A. from Vassar College, an M.A. in Creative Writing from Stanford University, and has done additional graduate work at the University of California San Francisco. His doctoral work was done at N. Y. U. Winn has been a social worker in California and is currently a Professor of English at SUNY.
Guinotte Wise lives on a farm in Resume Speed, Kansas. His short story collection (Night Train, Cold Beer) won publication by a university press and not much acclaim. Two more books since. His wife has an honest job in the city and drives 100 miles a day to keep it.
Scott Wordsman is an MFA candidate at William Paterson University. He is an editorial assistant for Map Literary and his poems have been published or are forthcoming in The Puritan, Main Street Rag, Slipstream Press, The Quotable, Diverse Voices Quarterly, and others. He lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Mark Wyatt has been photographing people in cities around the world since around 1980. A selection of his work appears on his Street Photos site.
Barry Yeoman was educated at Bowling Green State University, The University of Cincinnati, and The McGregor School of Antioch University. Yeoman is originally from Springfield, Ohio, and lives in London, Ohio.
Mark Young's most recent books are Old Rhumba & Art Informel, both published by gradient books of Finland; The Comedians from Stale Objects de Press; & turning to drones, from Concrete Mist Press.
Jeffrey Zable is a teacher and conga drummer who plays Afro Cuban folkloric music for dance classes
and Rumbas around the San Francisco Bay Area. Recent poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in Weirderary, Ex Fic,
Uppagus, Houseboat (featured poet), After The Pause, Serving House Journal, The Vein, Abbreviate Journal,
Flint Hills Review, Third Wednesday, 2015 Rhysling Anthology, Brazenhead, Robocup Press: Revenge Anthology, and many others.
and Rumbas around the San Francisco Bay Area. Recent poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in Weirderary, Ex Fic,
Uppagus, Houseboat (featured poet), After The Pause, Serving House Journal, The Vein, Abbreviate Journal,
Flint Hills Review, Third Wednesday, 2015 Rhysling Anthology, Brazenhead, Robocup Press: Revenge Anthology, and many others.
Jim Zola has worked in a warehouse, as a security guard, in a bookstore, as a teacher for deaf children, as a toy designer for Fisher Price, and currently as a children's librarian. Published in many journals through the years, his publications include a chapbook--The One Hundred Bones of Weather (Blue Pitcher Press)--and a full length poetry collection--What Glorious Possibilities (Aldrich Press). He currently lives in Greensboro, NC.