Courtney Bambrick serves as poetry editor at Philadelphia Stories. Her poetry is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Pinhole, Landlocked, and Defunkt Magazine. Poems currently appear or previously have appeared at Thimble, SWWIM Everyday, New York Quarterly, Invisible City, The Fanzine, Philadelphia Poets, Apiary, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Mad Poets Review, and Certain Circuits. Her chapbooks have been semifinalist and finalist in contests for Iron Horse and Pavement Saw. She teaches writing at Thomas Jefferson University’s East Falls campus in Philadelphia.
Virginia Barrett is a poet, writer, artist, editor, and educator. She earned her MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco where she was poetry editor of Switchback. Her six books of poetry include Between Looking (Finishing Line Press, 2019) and Crossing Haight—San Francisco Poems (Jambu Press, 2018). Her prose has appeared in The Writer’s Chronicle, The RavensPerch, Awakenings, and elsewhere. Lead designer for Light on the Walls of Life—a tribute anthology to Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Jambu Press, 2022), she is also the editor of four anthologies including RED: a Hue Are You anthology (Jambu Press, 2023). Tristan Beach received his MFA in Poetry from Goddard College. He has taught college writing since 2014 and is currently a PhD student in Rhetoric and Writing Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. His poems have appeared in rawboned, Shantih, and Pitkin Review, and he has supported various journals as an editor and reader over the years. His chapbook of ekphrastic poems, Troubling the Distance, was published in the Lilley Museum of Art’s En Medio | Senses of Migration exhibition catalog. He splits his time between NV and the Salish Sea. Michael Ben was born in Morocco, grew up in Caracas, and has lived in the US since 1989. He has lived in Florida, in an urban commune in Seattle, in the San Francisco Bay area, on an Indian reservation in northern New Mexico, in an earthship in Taos, in Madrid, in Wisconsin, in Chicago, and in Kansas. A bilingual writer, his stories and writings have appeared in the Crossing Lines anthology, as well as in publications as varied as Outside magazine (Colorado), San Antonio Review (Texas), Letralia (Venezuela), Tura Magazine (Mexico), and The RavensPerch (New Jersey), among others. www.readmichaelben.com Laura Wolf Benziker is a parent and small business owner making a messy go of it in Portland, Maine. Her work has appeared in Meat for Tea, Lit 202, and others. She was longlisted for the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize. She can be reached on Instagram @laura_wolf_benziker_ Jocelyn Bermúdez is a queer Nicaraguan-American from sunny South Florida. She received her BFA from Emerson College and is an MFA student at Florida Atlantic University. She currently serves as the Editor in Chief of the Swamp Ape Review. Her short fiction is forthcoming in Quarter After Eight, New Delta Review, and LEON Literary Review. Her flash has also been longlisted in the Smokelong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction. When she isn’t writing, she loves going to the beach and playing fetch with her Boston Terrier, Odysseus. Kendra Boyd studies Poetry, Fiction, and German at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She’s served on The Linden Review as Senior Editor and 13th Floor Magazine as the Nonfiction Editor. Her writing is diverse in form, genre, and topic. Poetry allows her to stretch what can be done with a blank page and fiction grounds her imagination. She has felt only overwhelming support from the Writers Workshop program at UNO, which guides her outlandish endeavors into pieces she feels are necessary. Her poetry can be found in 13th Floor Magazine. Kevin Brown has published two short story collections, Death Roll and Ink On Wood, and has had fiction, non-fiction and poetry published in over 200 literary journals, magazines and anthologies. He has won numerous writing competitions and was nominated for multiple prizes and awards, including three Pushcart Prizes. James Callan is the author of the novel A Transcendental Habit (Queer Space, 2023). His fiction has appeared in Carte Blanche, Bridge Eight, White Wall Review, Mystery Tribune, and elsewhere. He lives on the Kāpiti Coast, Aotearoa (New Zealand.) Find him at jamescallanauthor.com Michael Cannistraci (he/his/him,) formerly a professional actor, currently works as a clinical social worker and psychotherapist. His essays have been published in Entropy Magazine, The Briar Cliff Review, riverSedge, The RavensPerch, Literary Medical Messenger, The Evening Street Review, Bright Flash Literary Review, The Bangalore Review, The Dillydoun Review, Quibble, Levitate, Glacial Hills Review, The Longridge Review and the Bryant Literary Review. He was a finalist in the Pen2Paper Literary Contest, New Millennium Writings and The Good Life Review Literary Contest. Susana H. Case is the award-winning author of nine books of poetry, most recently If This Isn't Love, Broadstone Books, 2023, and co-editor with Margo Taft Stever of I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe, Milk & Cake Press, 2022. The first of her five chapbooks, The Scottish Café, Slapering Hol Press, was re-released in an English-Polish version, Kawiarnia Szkocka by Opole University Press, and is forthcoming as an English-Ukrainian edition. Case is currently a co-editor of Slapering Hol Press. https://www.susanahcase.com Benjamin Curry holds an MFA in poetry from Eastern Washington University. With his wife and children he lives in Joseph, Oregon, where starry skies meet mountain peaks. Tony Curtis graduated from the MFA at Goddard College program in 1981, the only British writer to do so. He became Wales's first Professor of Poetry. He retired from the University of South Wales in 2009. His first novel Darkness in the City of Light was shortlisted for the Society of Authors Paul Torday Prize last year. His eleventh collection of poetry, Leaving the Hills, will be published by Seren Books in 2025. Caroline Dunphy works in watercolor, pen & ink, and oils. She owned Painters Place, her studio and gallery on Center Street, in downtown Northville, Michigan for almost 50 years, where she often painted scenes from her trips to Europe. “Sunflowers in a French Field” is one of these. Her work is currently exhibited in The Northville Gallery on Main Street. Her award-winning work has appeared in many juried shows and is in private collections in North America, Europe, and Asia. Krystle Eilen is a poet who is currently attending university. Her works have been featured in A Thin Slice of Anxiety, BlazeVOX, Hive Avenue Literary Journal, The Orchards Poetry Journal, Poetry Life and Times, and Literary Heist among others. During her spare time, she enjoys reading and making art. Janet Ford lives in the Brushy Mountains of western North Carolina. Her work has been featured in The North Carolina Literary Review Online, Poetry East, Caesura and Poetry in Plain Sight, as well as other publications. The recipient of the 2017 Guy Owen Prize from Southern Poetry Review, she received the 2022 Susan Laughter Meyers Residency Fellowship Award. Trina Gaynon's poems recently appeared in Presence, New Verse News, Tomahawk Creek Review, and Clepsydra. More can be found in Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California, other anthologies, numerous journals, and a chapbook, An Alphabet of Romance from Finishing Line. She received an MFA in Creative Writing at University of San Francisco. A past volunteer for literacy programs in local libraries and WriteGirl in Los Angeles, she currently leads a group of poetry readers and writers at the Senior Studies Institute in Portland. Her book Quince, Rose, Grace of God is forthcoming from Fernwood Press. https://www.amusebouche-poetry.com/ Carmen Germain is a visual artist, poet, and the author of a chapbook and three poetry collections, the latest being Life Drawing (MoonPath Press, 2022). Poems have appeared in various journals, including Poet Lore, The Madison Review, and Fifth Wednesday. While on sabbatical, she was a visiting artist/scholar at the American Academy in Rome. She holds degrees from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the University of British Columbia. She lives on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. Jamisyn Gleeson holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Creative Writing, Publishing and Editing from the University of Melbourne and has had poetry, prose and creative non-fiction published in multiple student anthologies, including Farrago, Judy's Punch and Antithesis, in addition to other publications such as Voiceworks, Room Magazine, and Glimmer Press (upcoming). Jack Granath is a librarian in Kansas. His work explores formal elements of poetry as they intersect with images, ideas, personal experiences, and sometimes stories. Maria James-Thiaw is a poet, playwright, and educator. She graduated from Goddard College in 2009 with an MFA in Creative Writing-Poetry. Maria's work shines light on social justice issues. Her award-winning choreopoems Reclaiming My Time and HairStory: Reclaiming Our Crown were staged plays made up of poetry inspired by oral history interviews. In 2022, Wild Ink Publishing released her fourth poetry collection, Count Each Breath, about her experience with health care discrimination and the pandemic. She teaches creative writing remotely for Southern New Hampshire University and is a staff writer for the popular podcast, Black NewsBeat with Dr. Kemika Campbell. Wayne Karlin is the author of nine novels, a collection of short fiction, and three books of non-fiction. His stories, poems and articles have been published in many literary journals and newspapers. He has received two Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1994 and 2004), the Paterson Prize in Fiction for 1999, the Vietnam Veterans of American Excellence in the Arts Award in 2005, and the 2019 Juniper Prize for Fiction. His new novel, The Genizah, will be published by Publerati in September, 2024. Website: http://wayne-karlin.squarespace.com/ Max Kerwien is a disabled poet and comedian. In 2016, he won the Joan Grayston Poetry Prize. His work has been published in the decomp journal, the DASH Literary Journal, and more. Carol Levin was founding member and Literary Manager of the former "Art Theatre of Puget Sound." She has cotranslated and coproduced Chekhov’s four major plays and a dictionary of Stanislavski terms for theater artists. She's a former Editorial Assistant at Crab Creek Review. Levin has published three full volumes: An Undercurrent of Jitters, (MoonPath Press), Confident Music Would Fly Us to Paradise, (MoonPath Press), Stunned By the Velocity, (Pecan Grove Press) also two chapbooks, Red Rooms & Others (Pecan Grove Press) and Sea Lions Sing Scat (Finishing Line Press.) Synnika Alek-Chizoba Lofton is an award-winning poet, author, and educator. He is the author of more than 35 books and more than 170 spoken word albums, EPs, singles, and digital downloads. He earned both a B.A. with a concentration in creative writing from Goddard College (2004) and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (2006). Lofton teaches literature at Chesapeake Bay Academy and has taught literature and poetry at Norfolk State University and Virginia Wesleyan University. Karina Lutz has worked to agitate, advocate, and organize to secure passage of state-level renewable energy legislation, thwart a proposed mega-port, and restore wetlands. She helped launch a rebranded energy efficiency magazine, a nonprofit green power company, and a permaculture intentional community. With a BA from UCLA and an MSJ from Northwestern University, she has worked as an editor, a reporter, and in nonprofit communications, and has taught writing, sustainability, yoga, and deep ecology. Now, she writes without interruption. Her books are Post-Catholic Midrashim and Preliminary Visions. Other publications are at https://karinalutz.wordpress.com/karina-lutzs-poetry-published-elsewhere/ Dane Lyn (they/them) is a neurospicy, genderqueer, disabled educator, poet, and glitter enthusiast in a love-hate relationship with Los Angeles, where they reside. Dane has an MFA from Lindenwood University, a ridiculous collection of succulents, and four scavenger hunt runner up ribbons. Dane’s work can be seen in Quillkeepers, Gnashing Teeth, Gutslut, and Imposter. Their debut chapbook by Bottlecap Press, bubblegum black, was released in early 2023 to rave reviews from their mom. They are on social media @punkhippypoet, and most of their published work can be seen at www.danelyn.net Kita Mehaffy (MA, MFA) has published poetry, fiction, flash, and dramatic critical analysis. She has worked as a freelance fiction editor as well as a drama editor for Clockhouse. She is an avid playwright with both production and competition credits. When not writing or on the road exploring, she teaches Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). Madeira Miller (she/her) is a writer and poet pursuing a creative writing degree at Missouri State University. Her work has been published in various anthologies, magazines, and literary journals, including ANGLES literary magazine, Arkana literary journal, and Barely South Review. She can be found online at www.instagram.com/madeiramiller. Victor Pambuccian is a Professor of Mathematics at Arizona State University. His poetry translations from Romanian, French, and German have appeared in Words Without Borders, Two Lines, International Poetry Review, Pleiades, and Black Sun Lit. A bilingual anthology of Rumanian avant-garde poetry, with his translations, for which he received a 2017 NEA Translation grant, was published in 2018 as Something is still present and isn’t, of what’s gone, Aracne Editrice, Rome. He was the guest editor of the Fall 2011 issue of International Poetry Review. His poems have appeared in Communion, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Panoplyzine, Lucky Jefferson, O:JA&L, Poetica Review, Apricity, The Dillydoun Review, Red Ogre Review, Havik, and Vermillion. Jennifer Perrine is the author of four books of poetry: Again, The Body Is No Machine, In the Human Zoo, and No Confession, No Mass. Their latest poems and essays appear in Five Minutes, The Maine Review, The Cincinnati Review, Pleiades, Nimrod, New Letters, Poetry Northwest, Orion, Harpur Palate, Oregon Humanities, and Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, and Poetry. Perrine lives in Portland, Oregon, where they cohost the Incite: Queer Writers Read series, teach writing, and work as the equity and racial justice program manager with the local Parks and Nature Department. Bella Poynton (she/her) is a playwright, director, actor, and theater scholar. Her creative work has been published with Samuel French at Concord Theatricals and can be seen in The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2019, The Best American Short Plays 2018-2019, The Weirdest Plays of 2020, and WE-US: Monologues for Gender Minority Characters. Her scholarly work has been published in Comparative Drama, Theatre/Practice, Global Performance Studies, and Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. She holds a MFA from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop and a PhD from the University at Buffalo. Mary Ann Presman found that both women and men relate to her story collection, The Good Dishes, published in 2019. This encouraged her to write library stories that may connect with an even wider audience. She ended up working for the library three different times—always a nurturing experience. "Reference Desk" is part of a collection of short stories, all linked by a fictional public library. Her first job was as a "page" at her local branch library, where she was PAID to shelve books! I.C. Rapoport is a distinguished photographer renowned for his compelling photojournalism work in the 1960s and as a TV and screenwriter since the 1970s. With a career spanning several decades, Rapoport has captured the essence of human experience from intimate portraits to sweeping landscapes. His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and publications, reflecting a profound understanding of light, composition, and the fleeting beauty of everyday moments. He received the 1997 Edgar Allan Poe Mystery Writers’ Award, was nominated for a Writers Guild Award in the same year, and in 2017 earned an Honorary Lifetime Membership in the National Union of Journalists, South Wales, UK for his photojournalist essay on the aftermath of the Aberfan Disaster. He is the author of Sixty Strange Days—US Army Basic Training in Words & Pictures (1966) (out of print) and Aberfan: The Days After: A Journey in Pictures, Parthian Books Cardigan, Wales (2005). He has written for Law & Order, Baywatch, Street Justice, and The Six Million Dollar Man, among others. —Wikimedia Foundation. (2023, July 24). I. C. Rapoport. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._C._Rapoport Christopher Rubio-Goldsmith grew up in Tucson, Arizona and taught English at Tucson High School for 27 years. Much of his work explores growing up near the border, being raised in a biracial/bilingual familia, and teaching in a large urban school where 70% of the students are American/Mexican. A Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, his writings will appear in Drunk Monkeys and Inverted Syntax and have been published in Sky Island Journal, Cool Beans Journal, Discretionary Love, and other places too. His wife, Kelly, sometimes edits his work, and the two cats seem happy. Skylar Ruprecht is a public interest attorney, currently working in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His short fiction has previously appeared in Piker Press and Children, Churches & Daddies Magazine. Heather Rutherford is published in Down in the Dirt, El Portal, Euphony Journal, Literally Stories, The MacGuffin, moonShine Review, riverSedge, SORTES Magazine, and Stirring: A Literary Collection. Heather grew up in upstate New York and earned a Bachelor of Art’s degree in English literature at the University of Richmond. She stuck around Richmond, Virginia, taught yoga and meditation for fourteen years, and writes and edits the yoga center newsletter. Heather has raised two kids and several Labrador retrievers, including two yellows named Huckleberry Finn and Scout Finch. Steven Schutzman is a fiction writer, poet and playwright whose work has appeared in such journals as The Pushcart Prize, Alaska Quarterly Review, Night Picnic, I70 Review, Masque and Spectacle, Painted Bride Quarterly, TriQuarterly, Sand journal, and Gargoyle among many others. He is a seven-time recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant, awarded for creative writing excellence. Jake Shore's short stories have been published in Denver Quarterly, Hobart Pulp, Litro Magazine, and others. In 2017, Shore's play The Devil Is on the Loose with an Axe in Marshalltown was selected as one of Playbill's "13 Shows Not to Miss Off-Broadway." Angela Sucich holds a PhD in Medieval Literature. Her poetry chapbook, Illuminated Creatures (Finishing Line Press, 2023) won the 2022 New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition and other recognitions. She was honorably mentioned for the Pablo Neruda Prize in 2021 and the Francine Ringold Award in 2020. Her poems and prose have appeared in such journals as Nimrod International Journal, Cave Wall, Atlanta Review, and Whale Road Review, and in anthologies From the Waist Down: The Body in Healthcare (Papeachu Press, 2022) and Rooted2: The Best New Arboreal Nonfiction (Outpost19, 2023). Wilson R.M. Taylor is a poet and writer living in New York City. His work appears in an anthology from Wising Up Press, Chronogram, Every Day Fiction, and a number of other journals and magazines. He was a winner of MindPath’s 2021 poetry contest and San Antonio’s 2021 National Poetry Month Ekphrastic Contest, and he is on the shortlist for the 2024 Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize. He is currently seeking representation for his first novel. For more, please visit https://wilsontaylor19.wixsite.com/wilsonrmtaylor Angela Townsend is Development Director at Tabby’s Place: A Cat Sanctuary. She has an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary and B.A. from Vassar College. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Braided Way, Cagibi, Fathom Magazine, LEON Literary Review, and The Razor, among others. Angie has lived with Type 1 diabetes for 33 years, laughs with her mother every morning, and loves life dearly. She lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with two shaggy seraphs disguised as cats. Jonathan Chibuike Ukah lives in London with his family. His poems have been featured or will soon be featured in Strange Horizons, The Fairy Tale Magazine, Atticus Review, The Pierian, Ariel Chart International Press, Boomer Literary Magazine, and others. He is the winner of the Voices of Lincoln Poetry Contest 2022. His poetry collection, Blame the Gods, was among the top six finalist at the African Diaspora Award of Kinsman Quarterly 2023. He has recently been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2024 edition. Cathy Ulrich thinks "bulbous" is a good word. She likes it better than "culpable." Her work has been published in various journals, including Paper Dragon, Washington Square Review, and Reed Magazine. Erich von Neff is a San Francisco longshoreman. He received his Master of Arts degree in philosophy from San Francisco State University and was a graduate research student at the University of Dundee, Scotland. He is well known in both French avant-garde and mainstream literary circles. In France, he has won awards such as Prix 26, given readings at the Cafe Montmartre, and published over 1295 poems and 289 short stories. In 2023, Editions Unicite published his book, 6 Affaires rèsolues par Frieda et Gitta: notre duo de charme de la police parisienne. Grace Ward is passionate about matcha, vintage map collecting, nordic skiing, and mountain biking through her home state of Idaho. Grace holds a BA in Theater Arts and is currently working on her MFA in Writing for Young People. Her debut novel, The Apollo, was released in January 2024. As a playwright, Grace’s work has been produced at the Minnesota Fringe Festival, Connective Theater Co., Surel’s Place and more. Follow her adventures on IG @g.wardyy! Huina Zheng, a Distinction M.A. in English Studies holder, works as a college essay coach. She’s also an Associate Editor at Bewildering Stories. Her stories have been published in Baltimore Review, Variant Literature, Midway Journal, Tint Journal, and others. Her work has received nominations for the Pushcart Prize twice and Best of the Net. She resides in Guangzhou, China with her husband and daughter |