Jeremiah Gilbert Biography Jeremiah Gilbert is an award-winning photographer and travel writer based out of Southern California. His travels have taken him to over a hundred countries and territories spread across six continents. His photography has been published internationally and exhibited worldwide. He is the author of three travel books, including Can’t Get Here from …
Frank William Finney Biography Frank William Finney is a poet from Massachusetts who taught literature in Thailand for 25 years. He is the author of The Folding of the Wings (FLP, 2022), and other collections. His poems have appeared in BarBar, Door is a Jar, Last Leaves Magazine, Slipstream, The Tonic, and elsewhere. Prizes include …
Damian Robb Biography Damian is a writer who works freelance within the television, podcasting, and education industries. He works in development and scripting for the screen, where his work has been shortlisted for the John Hinde screenwriting award and the Blue Sky Drama Initiative, and he has a number of projects currently in development. His …
SR Garrae Biography SR Garrae grew up in Scotland and then worked in international finance in London until her retirement. She lives in the UK with her family, who are somewhat bemused by but supportive of her complete change of career. She always loved books, but didn’t start to write original fiction until after she …
Josephine Cannella Biography Josephine Cannella is a retired English teacher who co-owns a music education business with her third spouse, a man who celebrates her bisexuality. Her poetry has been published in The American Scholar, From Whispers to Roars, Wingless Dreamer, and Ariel Publishing. She has recorded several songs with The Old Guitarist and Carter …
Ana Maria Fores Tamayo Biography Being an academic not paid enough for her trouble, Ana M. Fores Tamayo wanted instead to do something that mattered: work with asylum seekers. She advocates for marginalized refugee families from Mexico, Central America, and most recently, many other countries from which people flee. Working with asylum seekers is heart …
Marisca Pichette Biography Marisca Pichette is a queer author based in Massachusetts, on Pocumtuck and Abenaki land. Her work has appeared in The Razor, Door is a Jar, Room Magazine, Flash Fiction Online, Necessary Fiction, and Plenitude Magazine, among others. She is the flash winner of the 2022 F(r)iction Spring Literary Contest and has been …
Gary Blackwood Biography I sold my first short story at the age of 19, and my first novel at the age of 40. I think I’m up to 36 novels and nonfiction books a this point (it’s hard to keep track), and about a dozen produced/published stage plays, and I’m still going strong–at least in …
Stathis Antoniou Biography Stathis was born in 1982 and currently works in Athens as a scientist. He has taken poetry classes at the Shakespeare and Co. bookshop in Paris and at the Takis Sinopoulos Foundation in Athens. He writes in English and Greek. His poems and short stories have appeared in various journals and books …
Paola Caronni Biography Paola Caronni was born in Italy and has been living in Asia for over twenty years. Paola holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Hong Kong. She works as a translator, interpreter, and Editor-in-Chief of the English edition of the lifestyle, travel and culture magazine, Ciao Magazine (www.ciaomag.com ). …
Janet M. Powers Biography Janet M. Powers, Professor Emerita, Gettysburg College, taught South Asian literature and civilization, women’s studies and peace studies for 49 years. She has published in many small journals, including Chaleur, Earth’s Daughters, The Poeming Pigeon and The Gyroscope Review. Her chapbook, Difficult to Subdue as the Wind, appeared in 2009. This …
Megan Wildhood Biography Megan Wildhood is a writer, editor and writing coach who helps her readers feel seen in her monthly newsletter, poetry chapbook Long Division (Finishing Line Press, 2017), her full-length poetry collection Bowed As If Laden With Snow (Cornerstone Press, May 2023) as well as Mad in America, The Sun and elsewhere. You …
Chad V. Broughman Biography Chad V. Broughman was the recipient of the Rusty Scythe Prize Book award and the Adobe Cottage Writers Retreat honor in New Mexico. As well, Chad was awarded two chapbook contracts for his short story collections––“the forsaken” and “slighted”––both published by Etchings Press. His fiction can be found in journals worldwide, …
Yvonne Fein Biography Yvonne Fein holds a BA (Hons) in Literature from the University of Melbourne, an MA in History from Monash University and a Diploma of Creative Writing from Prahran College. She has had four novels published by traditional publishers and has written for screen and theatre, as well as editing 2 literary journals …
John W. Bebout Biography John W. Bebout was born in Poughkeepsie, New York and received degrees from the University of Florida, SUNY-New Paltz, and the Pennsylvania State University. He is a published poet and the author of four historical novels, including the award-winning ‘Cause of Darkness.’ Dr. Bebout is also a Navy veteran and, in …
Linda Laino Biography Linda Laino is a visual artist and writer who has been making art in one form or another for over 45 years. With an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she received two years of fellowship awards from the Virginia Museum, Laino was influenced by language from a young age, and moves …
Sarika Jaswani Biography Doctor by profession. Sarika Jaswani is a Crochet Artist, Art Tutor, Writer of Children’s Stories. A philanthropist at heart she runs a non-profit by selling her fiberart on Etsy. A published poet who passionately reads & writes poetry. An art Lover, bird lover, she’s a dreamer and blogger. Her poetry has been …
Russell E Willis Biography Russell Willis emerged as a poet in 2019 with the publication of three poems in The Write Launch. Since then, he has published poetry in over thirty online and print journals and twenty print anthologies. Russell won the Sapphire Prize in Poetry in the 2022 Jewels in the Queen’s Crown Contest …
Iain McLean Biography Iain lives in the Guadarrama mountains north of Madrid with his family. Having been blasted by wild love and cancer in his late fifties, the broad theme of Iain’s work is that “passion and joy come through suffering, and that every living person is beautiful and ridiculous”. Iain is a dramatist who …
Virginia Watts Biography Virginia Watts is the author of poetry and stories found in Epiphany, CRAFT, The Florida Review, Reed Magazine, Pithead Chapel, Words & Whispers, Sky Island Journal among others. She has been nominated four times for a Pushcart Prize and four times for Best of the Net. Her debut short story collection Echoes …
Geoffrey Aitken (he/him) Biography Geoffrey Aitken is an awarded South Australian ‘lived experience disability’ poet writing on unceded Kaurna land. Find him at https://poetryfeasting.com/ where you’ll see his poetry credits that include AUS, UK, US, CAN, CN, HR, and Fr. Some notable successes appear in ‘Aesthetica Magazine’, ‘Stepaway Magazine’ (UK) and ‘The Canberra Times’ (AUS). …
D. R. James Biography D. R. James, born in Ohio, raised in Illinois, higher-ed-ed in Michigan and Iowa (and Oregon), is now retired from nearly 40 years of teaching college writing, literature, and peace studies. He lives, writes, and cycles with his psychotherapist wife in and around the woods near Saugatuck, Michigan. His latest of …
