BIOGRAPHIES Ed Ahern resumed writing after forty odd years in foreign intelligence and international sales. He’s had over two hundred fifty stories and poems published so far, and six books. Ed works the other side of writing at Bewildering Stories, where he sits on the review board and manages a posse of six review editors. twitter.com/bottomstripper www.instagram.com/edwardahern1860/ www.facebook.com/EdAhern73/?ref=bookmarks/
Ruth Aylett teaches and researches computing in Edinburgh. She has published widely in magazines and anthologies - including The North, Prole, Interpreter’s House, Agenda, Envoi, Southbank Poetry, Scotoa Extremis and Umbrellas of Edinburgh. Joint author of Handfast (Mother’s Milk 2016), her first single-author pamphlet, Pretty in Pink (4Word), is due out in 2021. For more see http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~ruth/writing.html
Matthew J. Andrews is a private investigator based in Modesto, California. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Sojourners, Red Rock Review, The Dewdrop, Jewish Literary Journal, Amethyst Review, Braided Way Magazine, The North American Anglican, and Spirit Fire Review, among others.
Robert Beveridge (he/him) makes noise (xterminal.bandcamp.com) and writes poetry in Akron, OH. Recent/upcoming appearances in Blood and Thunder, Feral, and Grand Little Things, among others.
Paula Bonnell has a poem nominated for the 2020 Pushcart Prize. Poems appear in APR, The Hudson Review, Rattle, Southern Poetry Review, and in Canada, the U.K., India, Australia, and in four collections: Ciardi Prize book Airs & Voices, Message, and two chapbooks: Before the Alphabet and tales retold. Awards for a sestina from the New England Poetry Club, and Albert Goldbarth’s selection of “Eurydice” for a Poet Lore narrative-poetry publication prize. w: paulabonnell.net @paulabonnell1
Tim Bosley is a fledgling poet from North Shropshire. Despite a rather formal education, he has always taken a philosophical and creative approach to life. A postman for twelve years, now retired, he is known in Market Drayton for his long, brightly-coloured dreadlocks and irreverent sense of humour. Poetry is a recent interest. His poems are intensely personal, sometimes bleak, sometimes humorous, and sometimes both, reflecting the emotional complexities of the human condition.
Olivia Brookfield is still enjoying walks in the countryside, notebook and camera to hand, whilst endeavouring to stay active in body and mind, learning to speak French, and being very grateful for a happy retirement. She is finding it easy to write copious descriptions, but less so to edit her ideas meaningfully. She is an 68
