Contributors

Contributors

Tobi Alfier is well-published nationally and internationally. Credits include War, Literature and the Arts, The American Journal of Poetry, KGB Bar Lit Mag, Cholla Needles, Galway Review, The Ogham Stone, Permafrost, Gargoyle, Arkansas Review, and others. She is co-editor of San Pedro River Review (www.bluehorsepress.com). Cate Asp has had work accepted into Penultimate Peanut Magazine. She has been writing her whole life, having taken creative writing courses since she was seventeen years old. Now, at twnty-two, Cate is currently looking forward. After graduating with a Bachelor’s in Economics and a Master’s in Public Policy, she plans to switch courses and get her MFA in Creative Writing. David Banks was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1943. He has been living abroad since 1975, for a short time in Iraq and since then in France, where he is now Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale. He lives in the village of Plougonvelin on the western coast of Britanny, not far from the most westerly point of the French mainland. He has been writing and publishing poetry since the early 1970s, and his first published poem appeared in the magazine Ludd’s Mill; his writing incorporates the influence of Basil Bunting, and of Old English poetry. His publications include Celt Seed: Selected Poems (Poetry Salzburg, 2003) and Radicals: Poems 2002-2008, (Poetry Monthly, 2009). His academic publication, The Development of Scientific English: Linguistic Features and Historical Context (Equinox), won the ESSE Language and Linguistics book award 2010. His other interests include choral singing and coastal rowing. Robert Beveridge (he/him) makes noise (xterminal.bandcamp.com) and writes poetry in Akron, Ohio. Recent/upcoming appearances in Eternal Haunted Summer, Pulsebeat, and Corvus Review, among others. Dmitry Blizniuk is an author from Ukraine. His most recent poems have appeared in Poet Lore, The Pinch, Salamander, Willow Springs, Grub Street, Magma Poetry, and many others. A Pushcart Prize nominee, he is also the author of The Red Fоrest (Fowlpox Press, 2018). He lives in Kharkov, Ukraine. Member of PEN America. Poets & Writers Directory: www.pw.org/directory/writers/dmitry_blizniuk. Gaylord Brewer is a professor at Middle Tennessee State University, where he founded and for 20-plus years edited the journal Poems & Plays. The most recent of his 16 books of poetry, fiction, criticism, and cookery are two collections of poems, The Feral Condition (Negative Capability, 2018) and Worship the Pig (Red Hen, 2020). Katley Demetria Brown is the pen name for Carol Marrone, who was born in New York City. She grew up in a housing project in the South Bronx and has lived in a number of places including Minot, North Dakota, Kastellaun, Germany, and Springfield, Massachusetts. She enjoys writing about people, places, nature, and her large tabby cat, Munchie. She watches the “Gloom and Doom” reports every night at 6:30 and visits the chiropractor regularly. Lorraine Caputo is a documentary poet, translator and travel writer. Her works appear in over 250 journals in Canada, the US, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa; and 18 collections of poetry, including On Galápagos Shores (dancing girl press,

2019) and Escape to the Sea (Origami Poems Project, 2021). In 2011, the Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada chose her verse as poem of the month. Caputo has done over 200 literary readings, from Alaska to the Patagonia. She travels through Latin America, listening to the voices of the pueblos and Earth. Follow her travels at: www.facebook.com/lorrainecaputo.wanderer and latinamericawanderer.wordpress.com. R.J. “Bob” Caron is a student at Asnuntuck Community College, taking primarily English/Writing classes. His hometown is Enfield, Connecticut, where he shares a condo with his wife, Kathy, two cats, and four parrots. Bob has always wanted to be an artist; however, he says he can’t draw to save his life. So he uses words to paint pictures. Peter Neil Carroll is currently Poetry Moderator of Portside.org. His latest collections of poetry, Talking to Strangers (Turning Point Press) and This Land, These People: 50 States of the Nation, which has won the Prize Americana, will be published in 2022. Earlier titles include Something is Bound to Break and Fracking Dakota. He is also the author of a memoir, Keeping Time (Georgia). Yuan Changming started to learn the English alphabet in Shanghai at age nineteen and published monographs on translation before leaving China. With a Canadian PhD in English, Yuan currently edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan in Vancouver. Credits include eleven Pushcart nominations besides appearances in the Best of Best Canadian Poetry & BestNewPoemsOnline, among 1,859 others across forty-seven countries. Recently, Yuan published his eleventh chapbook Limerence, and served on the jury for Canada’s 44th National Magazine Awards (poetry category). Mona Lee Clark (St. George, Utah) lives in a desert of red rocks. She edits a nonprofit poetry journal. Roy Conboy is a Latino/Irish/Indigenous writer and teacher whose poetic plays have been seen in the struggling black boxes on the edges of the mainstream theatre in Los Angeles, Santa Ana, San Francisco, San Antonio, Denver, and more; and whose musical plays for young people have toured extensively in California. His poetry has been seen in Green Hills Literary Lantern, Orphic Lute, and Third Estate Art’s Quaranzine. His poetic radio drama “Hue” can be heard online at Barewire Theatre Company. As an educator, he taught for thirty-five years, twenty-nine as the head of the San Francisco State University playwrighting program. Mark Connelly’s fiction has appeared in Indiana Review, Milwaukee Magazine, Cream City Review, The Ledge, The Great American Literary Magazine, Home Planet News, Smoky Blue Arts and Literary Magazine, Change Seven, Light and Dark, 34th Parallel, and Digital Papercut. He received an Editor’s Choice Award in Carve Magazine’s Raymond Carver Short Story Contest in 2014; in 2015 he received Third Place in Red Savina Review’s Albert Camus Prize for Short Fiction. In 2005, Texas Review Press published his novella Fifteen Minutes, which received the Clay Reynolds Prize. Joe Cottonwood has repaired hundreds of houses to support his writing habit in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California. His latest book of poetry is Random Saints. Barbara Daniels’s Talk to the Lioness was published by Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press in 2020. Her poetry has appeared in Lake Effect, Cleaver, Faultline, Small Orange, Meridian,

and elsewhere. She received a 2020 fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

Holly Day’s writing has recently appeared in Analog SF, Earth’s Daughters, and Appalachian Journal, and her recent book publications include Music Composition for Dummies, The Tooth is the Largest Organ in the Human Body, and Bound in Ice. She teaches creative writing at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis and Hugo House in Seattle. RC deWinter’s poetry is widely anthologized, notably in New York City Haiku (NY Times,/2017), Now We Heal: An Anthology of Hope (Wellworth Publishing, 2020) in print: 2River, Event, Gargoyle Magazine, Genre Urban Arts, the minnesota review, Night Picnic Journal, Plainsongs, Prairie Schooner, Southword, The Ogham Stone, Twelve Mile Review, York Literary Review, among many others and appears in numerous online literary journals. She’s also a winner of the 2021 Connecticut Shakespeare Festival Sonnet Contest, with anthology publication forthcoming. Timothy Dodd is from Mink Shoals, West Virginia, and is the author of Fissures, and Other Stories (Bottom Dog Press). His stories have appeared in Yemassee, Broad River Review, Glassworks Magazine, and Anthology of Appalachian Writers; his poetry in The Literary Review, Crab Creek Review, Roanoke Review, and elsewhere. His second collection of stories, Men in Midnight Bloom, is forthcoming (Cowboy Jamboree Press), as are Mortality Birds (with Steve Lambert, Southernmost Books) and his first collection of poetry, Modern Ancient (High Window Press). Find him at timothybdodd.wordpress.com (when it’s finally up and running). William Doreski lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He has taught at Emerson, Goddard, Boston University, and Keene State College. His most recent collection of poetry is Stirring the Soup (2020). He has published three critical studies, including Robert Lowell’s Shifting Colors. His essays, poetry, fiction, and reviews have appeared in many journals. Thomas Elson’s writing has been published in numerous venues, including Ellipsis, Better Than Starbucks, Cabinet of Heed, Flash Frontier, Short Édition, Sandy River Review, Bull, Litro, Journal of Expressive Writing, Dead Mule School, Selkie, New Ulster, Lampeter, and Adelaide. He divides his time between Northern California and Western Kansas.

Georgia Englewood is a writer, cat enthusiast, anarchist, and TV watcher who lives in the Midwest with her cats and her boyfriend. She is working on several short pieces that may or may not ever see the light of day. You can find her on Instagram @georgiaenglewood. Michael Estabrook has been publishing his poetry in the small press since the 1980s. He has published more than twenty collections, a recent one being The Poet’s Curse, A Miscellany (The Poetry Box, 2019). He lives in Acton, Massachusetts. Zdravka Evtimova is a literary translator from English, German, and French, and a fiction writer living in Bulgaria. Her short stories have been published in Bulgaria, the US, France, Germany, Italy, and Greece. Olivia “Liv” Farrar writes in hopes that the unarticulated can take a vacation from her brain. She’s been published in several literary magazines, including Foothills

Magazine. When she’s not writing or editing, she’s usually hammocking and fishing. Check out her website at: livfwrites.journoportfolio.com. Frank William Finney is an American poet who taught in Thailand from 1995 to 2020. Some of his work can be found in The Plentitudes, Slipstream, Stone Poetry Journal, and The Thieving Magpie. His chapbook The Folding of the Wings is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. Taylor Graham is a volunteer search-and-rescue dog handler in the California Sierra and served as inaugural Poet Laureate of El Dorado County. Her poems have appeared in the anthologies Villanelles (Everyman’s Library), California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present (Santa Clara University), and California Fire & Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology. Her latest book is Windows of Time and Place: Poems of El Dorado County (Cold River Press, 2019). RM Grant is a poet and English literature teacher living in Shanghai, China. He moved to China from South Africa, his place of birth, in 2018. His work has been published in A Shanghai Poetry Zine, Literary Shanghai’s Alluvium journal, and The Mignolo Arts Centre’s Pinky Thinker Press. John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Penumbra, Poetry Salzburg Review and Hollins Critic. Latest books, Leaves On Pages and Memory Outside The Head are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Lana Turner and Held. Sheryl Guterl writes from New Mexico and New Hampshire. Retiring to the Southwest after a career as an educator in New Jersey, she appreciates more sunshine, higher mountains, and less winter ice. Her cabin on a lake in wooded New England provides inspiration and refreshment with cooler summers. Elisabeth Haggblade was born in 1942 in Munich, Germany. She immigrated to the United States in 1961. Her academic credentials are, BA in German, MA in Russian, Master’s in Linguistics from the California State University, Fresno; PhD in English Philology from the Free University Berlin. Retired from teaching part-time English and Linguistics at California State Universities and the Free University Berlin, she is currently living in Santa Barbara, California. Jessica Handly is an educator, an avid reader and writer, and mother of a seven-yearold warrior princess. T.R. Healy was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and recent stories have appeared in October Hill and Piker Press. Mary Hickey’s literary fiction has appeared in The Griffin, Happy, Kalliope, Dark Starr, Potato Soup Journal, and other publications. She talks a good game about eating healthy, but sneaks out to the Duncan Donut Express at the gas station at 6 a.m. for a large Midnight Blend and a jelly donut if she’s sure nobody’s looking. Paul Holler is a writer of short stories, poems, articles and interviews with noted authors. His work has appeared in The Freshwater Literary Journal, Flash, The MacGuffin, Eclectica, Ekphrastic Review, Write City Magazine, Bookslut, Critique Magazine, Flash Fiction Podcast, and other journals.

Ruth Holzer is the author of eight chapbooks, most recently, Living in Laconia (Gyroscope Press) and Among the Missing (Kelsay Books). Her poems have appeared previously in Freshwater Literary Journal as well as in Blue Unicorn, Faultline, Slant, Poet Lore, Connecticut River Review and Plainsongs, among others. She has received several Pushcart Prize nominations.

Zebulon Huset is a teacher, writer and photographer. He won the Gulf Stream 2020 Summer Poetry Contest and his writing has appeared in Best New Poets, Freshwater Literary Journal, Meridian, The Southern Review, Fence, Texas Review, and many others. He publishes the prompt blog Notebooking Daily, and edits the journals Coastal Shelf and Sparked. James Croal Jackson (he/him) is a Filipino-American poet who works in film production. He has two chapbooks, Our Past Leaves (Kelsay Books, 2021) and The Frayed Edge of Memory (Writing Knights Press, 2017). He edits The Mantle Poetry from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (jamescroaljackson.com). Soon Jones is a poet and fiction writer from the rural countryside of the American South. Their work has been published or is forthcoming in Westerly, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Moon City Review, and Emerge: Lambda Literary Fellows Anthology. They can be found at soonjones.com. John P. Kneal, pen name for John A. Willoughby, has had over eighty-five poems published in poetry journals, company newsletters, anthologies, and fee-free public web sites. In addition, his first book of poetry, Everyday Poems, was published in late 2017. Samples of his work are also available at www.JohnPKneal.com. Kelli Lage lives in the Midwest countryside. Lage is currently earning her degree in Secondary English Education and works as a substitute teacher. Awards: Special Award for First-time Entrant, Iowa Poetry Association, 2020. Website: www.KelliLage.com. Richard LeDue (he/him) currently lives in Norway House, Manitoba with his wife and son. He is a Best of the Net nominee, and has been published in various places throughout 2021. His first chapbook was released in 2020, and a second chapbook in 2021. As well, his third chapbook, The Kind of Noise Worth Writing Down, is forthcoming in early 2022 from Kelsay Books. Marcia McGreevy Lewis lives in Seattle and is a retired feature writer for a major Washington newspaper. She was the Director of Communications at an independent school where she founded the school’s magazine. Printed in Travel: GO World Travel, ROVA Magazine/ Literary Magazines: F3LL Literary, Life in Lit/ Magazines: Third Act, Preservation Foundation (2 pieces). Books: Blink-It, Wingless Dreamer. Reach her on Facebook, Instagram: marcialewis25, Twitter: @McGreevyLewis and linkedin: Marcia Lewis.

Christopher Locke is the author of twelve books and chapbooks. His new collection of poetry Music for Ghosts (New York Quarterly Books) and memoir Without Saints (Black Lawrence Press) are both due in 2022. He teaches creative writing at North Country Community College and SUNY Plattsburgh, both in the Adirondacks. He can be reached at chrisplocke@hotmail.com.

Lorraine Loiselle began her writing career after retiring from teaching. Her publication credits include several dozen poems, twelve fiction pieces, two memoirs, and two children’s stories.

Katharyn Howd Machan’s most recent publications are A Slow Bottle of Wine (The Comstock Writers, Inc., 2020) and What the Piper Promised (Alexandria Quarterly Press, 2018), both winners in national chapbook competitions. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines, anthologies, and textbooks, including The Bedford Introduction to Literature and Sound and Sense. A professor in the Writing Department at Ithaca College in central New York State, she served as Tompkins County’s first poet laureate. Beverly Magid has been a journalist, publicist, and novelist, having written Flying Out of Brooklyn, Sown in Tears, and Where Do I Go. Her poems have been published in the On the Bus Journal and the newly published Side-Eye on the Apocalypse an anthology of poems and prose from the Los Angeles Poets and Writers Collective. She has been a longtime resident of Los Angeles, but her heart still commutes between LA and New York. DS Maolalai has been nominated nine times for Best of the Net and five times for the Pushcart Prize. His poetry has been released in two collections, Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden (Encircle Press, 2016) and Sad Havoc Among the Birds (Turas Press, 2019). Fabiana Elisa Martínez was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she graduated from the UCA University with a degree of Linguistics and World Literature. She is a linguist, a language teacher, and a writer. She speaks English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Italian. She has lived in Dallas, Texas, for almost twenty years. She is the author of the short story collection 12 Random Words, her first work of fiction, the short story Stupidity, published as an independent book by Pierre Turcotte Editor, and the grammar book Spanish 360 with Fabiana. Other short stories of hers have been published or are forthcoming in Rigorous Magazine, The Closed Eye Open, Ponder Review, Hindsight Magazine, The Good Life Review (UK), The Halcyone, Rhodora Magazine (India), Mediterranean Poetry, Writers and Readers Magazine (UK), Libretto Magazine (Nigeria), Automatic Pilot (Ireland), Lusitania (Buenos Aires), Heartland Society of Women Writers, and the anthologies Writers of Tomorrow and the 2022 Wordrunner Anthology. She is currently working on her first novel.

John Maurer is a 26-year-old writer from Pittsburgh who writes fiction, poetry, and everything in between, but his work always strives to portray that what is true is beautiful. He has been previously published in Claudius Speaks, The Bitchin’ Kitsch, Thought Catalog, and more than sixty others. @JohnPMaurer (johnpmaurer.com) . Derek McMillan lives in Durrington, UK, with his wife, Angela, who is also his editor. He writes for publications in the UK, USA, and Canada, His latest book is the audiobook, Brevity, which is available on eBay. He also runs Worthing Flash, a blog for short stories.

Joan McNerney’s poetry is found in many literary magazines such as Seven Circle Press, Dinner with the Muse, Poet Warriors, Blueline, and Halcyon Days. Four Bright Hills Press Anthologies, several Poppy Road Journals, and numerous Poets’ Espresso Reviews have accepted her work. She has four Best of the Net nominations. Her latest titles are The Muse in Miniature and Love Poems for Michael both available on Amazon.com and Cyberwit.net/

Karla Linn Merrifield, a nine-time Pushcart-Prize nominee and National Park Artistin-Residence, has had 1000+ poems appear in dozens of journals and anthologies. She has 15 books to her credit. Following her 2018 Psyche’s Scroll (Poetry Box Select) is the 2019 full-length book Athabaskan Fractal: Poems of the Far North, from Cirque Press. Her newest poetry collection is My Body the Guitar, inspired by famous guitarists and their guitars, and published in January 2022 by Before Your Quiet Eyes Publications Holograph Series. Her Godwit: Poems of Canada (FootHills Publishing) received the Eiseman Award for Poetry. She is a frequent contributor to The Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, and assistant editor and poetry book reviewer emerita for The Centrifugal Eye. Web site: www.karlalinnmerrifield.org/; blog at karlalinnmerrifeld.wordpress.com; Tweet @LinnMerrifiel; Instagram: karlalinnm; Facebook: karlalinn.merrifield. Heidi Miranda is a Mexican poet and literature student. Her poems appear in numerous online and in print journals. She can be found on Twitter (@blueberrypoet) and Instagram (@weepingblueberry) sharing original photography and quotes from her favorite poets. In her free time, she enjoys learning languages, taking landscape photos, reading prose and poetry, and collecting stationary. Debasish Mishra, a native of Bhawanipatna, Odisha, India, is the recipient of The Bharat Award for Literature in 2019 and The Reuel International Best Upcoming Poet Prize in 2017. His recent poems have appeared in North Dakota Quarterly, Penumbra, trampset, Star*Line, Enchanted Conversation, Spaceports & Spidersilk, and elsewhere. His work is also forthcoming in Amsterdam Quarterly, The Headlight Review, Space & Time, Bez & Co, parABnormal, Penumbric Speculative Magazine, Writer’s Resist, Liquid Imagination, and Quadrant. A former banker with United Bank of India, he is presently engaged as a Senior Research Fellow at National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Bhubaneswar, India. Rosemary Dunn Moeller writes to connect to others, reflect on experiences and hold onto meaningful moments. Her poems have been published in Scurfpea, SD Magazine, Cape Cod Times, Freshwater Literary Journal, The Alembic, The Penman, Aurorean, and many other anthologies. She divides her time between the farm on the prairie and the house on the ocean, both flat rolling expanses with the occasional sail mast or tree, and glorious night skies. Cecil Morris retired after thirty-seven years of teaching high school English, and now he tries writing himself what he spent so many years teaching others to understand and enjoy. He likes ice cream too much and cruciferous vegetables too little. He has had a handful of poems published in 2River View, Cobalt Review, English Journal, The Ekphrastic Review, The Midwest Quarterly, Poem, and other literary magazines. A life-long resident of Connecticut, John Muro is a graduate of Trinity College, Wesleyan University, and the University of Connecticut. His professional career has been dedicated to environmental stewardship and conservation. In the Lilac Hour, his first volume of poems, was published last fall by Antrim House, and it is available on Amazon. John’s poems have appeared in numerous literary journals, including Freshwater Literary Journal, River Heron, Moria, Sheepshead, Third Wednesday, Ekphrastic, and The French Literary Review. Zach Murphy is a Hawaii-born writer with a background in cinema. His stories appear in Reed Magazine, The Coachella Review, Maudlin House, B O D Y, Ruminate, Wilderness House

Literary Review, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, and more. His debut chapbook Tiny Universes (Selcouth Station Press, 2021) is available in paperback and ebook. He lives with his wonderful wife Kelly in St. Paul, Minnesota. Ben Nardolilli currently lives in New York City. His work has appeared in Perigee Magazine, Red Fez, Danse Macabre, The 22 Magazine, Quail Bell Magazine, Elimae, The Northampton Review, Local Train Magazine, The Minetta Review, and Yes Poetry. He blogs at mirrorsponge.blogspot.com and is trying to publish his novels. James B. Nicola’s poetry has garnered two Willow Review awards, a Dana Literary award, eight Pushcart nominations, and one Best of the Net nom. His full-length collections include Manhattan Plaza (2014), Stage to Page: Poems from the Theater (2016), Wind in the Cave (2017), Out of Nothing: Poems of Art and Artists (2018), Quickening: Poems from Before and Beyond (2019), and Fires of Heaven: Poems of Faith and Sense (2021). A Yale grad and returning contributor, he also has enjoyed a career as a stage director, culminating in the nonfiction book Playing the Audience: The Practical Guide to Live Performance, which won a Choice award. Thomas Winfield Marie Nuhfer (he/him and she/her) is a biologist and poet. After growing up in Tucker, Georgia, Thomas moved to Vermont where he received a BA in Biology & History from Marlboro College. Her work has been previously published by Tiny Seed Literary Magazine and is forthcoming in GenControlZ Magazine and River Heron Review.

Jay Nunnery is a writer, teacher, and musician, who calls many places home: Wisconsin, New York, Louisiana, and California. Recently, he completed a collection of interrelated stories, Alms, Louisiana. Currently, he is working on a screenplay called The Circuses when he is not teaching high schoolers or making music. Robert K. Omura calls Calgary, Alberta, Canada home where he lives with his common law wife and three too many cats. He has resigned himself to finding cat fur in everything he eats. His fiction and poetry appears or is forthcoming in journals in the U.S., Canada, and abroad including the New York Quarterly, 34thParallel, barnstorm, Copperfield Review, Brink, and Blues Skies Poetry. He has been nominated for the Pushcarts. Fred Pelka’s non-fiction has appeared in the Boston Globe, the Christian Science Monitor, the Humanist, Poets and Writers, and elsewhere. He is the author of three books of history: The ABC-CLIO Guide to the Disability Rights Movement (ABC-CLIO, 1997); The Civil War Letters of Charles F. Johnson, Invalid Corps (University of Massachusetts Press, 2004); What We Have Done: An Oral History of the Disability Rights Movement (University of Massachusetts Press, 2012) and one book of poetry: A Different Blaze (Hedgerow Books, 2014). His poetry has recently appeared in Triggerfish Critical Review and the Straw Dog Writers Project on COVID. Pelka was a 2004 Guggenheim Fellow. Brenden Pontz is a college student from Connecticut and former attendee of Asnuntuck Community College. He’s a history major, ultramarathon runner, and aspiring novelist who has been published before in Fleas on the Dog magazine. Brenden is a lifelong fan of superhero stories, science fiction, and all things weird. Marjorie Power’s newest poetry collection is Sufficient Emptiness, Deerbrook Editions, 2021. A chapbook, Refuses to Suffocate, appeared in 2019 from Blue Lyra Press. Publications which have taken her work recently include Southern Poetry Review, Barrow Street,

Commonweal, and Main Street Rag. She lives in Rochester, New York, after many years in various western states and can be found at www.marjoriepowerpoet.com. Ken Poyner’s four collections of brief fictions and four collections of poetry can be found at Amazon and most online booksellers. He spent thirty-three years in information system management, is married to a world record holding female power lifter, and has a family of several cats and betta fish. Individual works have appeared in Café Irreal, Analog, Danse Macabre, The Cincinnati Review, and several hundred other places. www.kpoyner.com. Jean Rover’s short fiction has received awards or recognition from Writer’s Digest, Short Story America, Willamette Writers, and Oregon Writers Colony. Her work has appeared in various literary magazines and anthologies, including The Saturday Evening Post’s Great American Fiction Contest Anthology. Other stories were performed at Liars’ League events in London, England, and Portland, Oregon. She had also authored a chapbook, Beneath the Boughs Unseen, featuring holiday stories about society’s invisible people, and her novel manuscript, Ready or Not, was a semi-finalist in Chanticleer’s Mystery and Mayhem International Book Awards contest. She lives and writes in Oregon’s lush Willamette Valley. Seven-time Pushcart Prize nominee Russell Rowland writes from New Hampshire’s Lakes Region, where he has judged high-school Poetry Out Loud competitions. His work appears in Except for Love: New England Poets Inspired by Donald Hall (Encircle Publications), and Covid Spring, Vol. 2 (Hobblebush Books). His latest poetry book, Wooden Nutmegs, is available from Encircle Publications. Kathryn Sadakierski is a 22-year-old writer whose work has been published in anthologies, magazines, and literary journals around the world, including Critical Read, Halfway Down the Stairs, Literature Today, NewPages Blog, Northern New England Review, seashores: an international journal to share the spirit of haiku, Snapdragon: A Journal of Art and Healing, Yellow Arrow Journal, and elsewhere. Her micro-chapbook, Travels through New York was published by Origami Poems Project (2020). She graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. and M.S. from Bay Path University in Longmeadow, Massachusetts. Terry Sanville lives in San Luis Obispo, California with his artist-poet wife (his inhouse editor) and two plump cats (his in-house critics). He writes full time, producing short stories, essays, and novels. His short stories have been accepted more than 450 times by journals, magazines, and anthologies including The Potomac Review, The Bryant Literary Review, and Shenandoah. He was nominated twice for Pushcart Prizes and once for inclusion in Best of the Net anthology. Terry is a retired urban planner and an accomplished jazz and blues guitarist who once played with a symphony orchestra backing up jazz legend George Shearing. Natalie Schriefer often writes about shame, sexuality, and coming of age. She received her MFA from Southern Connecticut State University and works as a freelance writer and editor. Say hi on Twitter @schriefern1! Nancy Schumann is a German writer, based in London, UK. She writes poetry, short stories and novels in English and German. Her works have been published in both languages. Nancy holds a master’s degree in English Literature. Her MA thesis on female vampires through the ages formed the basis to Take A Bite, which traces female

vampire characters in folklore and literature from Lilith to Bella Swan. Various poems have been published in books and magazines, such as the Frankfurter Bibliothek des zeitgenössischen Gedichts, annual German poetry collection from 2000 to present, or Gothic II and III. Short stories include The Hostel published by Hic Dragones in the Impossible Spaces anthology. Visit Nancy on the web at www.bookswithbite.in or on Twitter @TweetsWithBite. Greg Schwartz has held many jobs, from copier repairman to title insurance agent and much in between. Some of his poems have appeared in New York Quarterly, Modern Haiku, and Birmingham Arts Journal. In a pre-fatherhood life, he was the staff cartoonist for SP Quill Magazine and a book/magazine reviewer for Whispers of Wickedness. Nolo Segundo, pen name of L.J. Carber, 74, has in his eighth decade become a published poet with poems and essays in forty-five online/in print literary journals in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Romania, and India; in 2020 a trade publisher released a booklength collection of poems titled The Enormity Of Existence and in 2021 a second book, Of Ether And Earth. His themes are the not so brave new world of aging, the inscrutable emotion called love, and the sense he’s had for fifty years since having a near-death experience whilst almost drowning in a Vermont river that there is a reality both permeating and “beyond” the reality our limited minds comprehend, and we are all actually sharing a long dream with thousands awakening every day as thousands more fall asleep. M.N. Shand is a writer, jiu-jitsu competitor, urban farmer, drummer, anarchist, and hobby ecologist living in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife. He is currently working on a debut fantasy novel. You can find him on Facebook: facebook.com/m.n.shand.writer. Steve Sibra grew up on a small wheat farm in eastern Montana. He has spent most of his adult years in the Pacific Northwest where he has worked as a writer, an editor, and a historian. His poetry and prose have been widely published in the small literary press with recent and forthcoming work from Dead Fern Press, Flint Hills Review, Chiron Review, LILIPOH, Big Sandy Mountaineer, and elsewhere. A book of poetry is forthcoming from Swallow Publishing in 2022. Eli Slover is a poet and student at Missouri State University. His work has appeared in Black Fox, The Albion Review, Page & Spine, Go Anywhere, and elsewhere. He serves as an assistant poetry editor for Moon City Review. Chris A. Smith is a writer in San Francisco. Though trained as a journalist—he’s reported on everything from African acid rock to killer asteroids to revolutionary movements—he also writes fiction and poetry. Find him at chrisasmith.net. Susan Winters Smith was born near Boston, grew up in Vermont and has lived in Connecticut with her husband Stephen for most of her adult life. She has a B.S. in Psychology and an M.A. in education. She has written all her life and has had many published articles in workplace newsletters, newspapers, and genealogy journals, and has had several poems published. She has self-published eight books and continues to write every day. Her website is www.wintersmithbooks.com. Amy Soricelli has been published in numerous publications and anthologies including Remington Review, Corvus Review, The Westchester Review, Deadbeats, Long Island Quarterly, Voice of Eve, Yellow Arrow, Literati Magazine, The Muddy River Poetry Review, Pure Slush,

Glimpse Poetry Magazine. Her books include Carmen has No Umbrella but Went for Cigarettes Anyway (chapbook, Dancing Girl Press) Sail Me Away (chapbook, Dancing Girl Press, 2019). Nominated by Billy Collins for Aspen Words Emerging Writer’s Fellowship 2019 and for Sundress Publications “Best of the Net” 2020, 2013. Recipient of the Grace C. Croff Poetry Award, Herbert H. Lehman College, 1975. Matthew J. Spireng’s 2019 Sinclair Prize-winning book Good Work was published in 2020 by Evening Street Press. An eleven-time Pushcart Prize nominee, he is the author of two other full-length poetry books, What Focus Is and Out of Body, winner of the 2004 Bluestem Poetry Award, and five chapbooks. Geo. Staley is retired from teaching writing and literature at Portland Community College. His poetry has appeared in Literary Accents, Evening Street Review, Cafe Review, Trajectory, Naugatuck River Review, Blue Collar Review, Paddock Review, and others. He has a short story in a recent issue of Plainsongs. Linda Strange is a writer and teacher of English as a Second Language in an innercity public school in Waterbury, Connecticut. She lives in Southbury, Connecticut, with her husband and a silver Himalayan called Quince. Dale Stromberg grew up not far from Sacramento before moving to Tokyo, where he had a brief music career. Now he lives near Kuala Lumpur and makes ends meet as an editor and translator. His work has been published here and there. Steve Straight’s books include Affirmation (Grayson Books, 2022), The Almanac (Curbstone/Northwestern University Press, 2012) The Water Carrier (Curbstone, 2002). He was professor of English and director of the poetry program at Manchester Community College, in Connecticut. John Sweet sends greetings from the rural wastelands of upstate New York. He is a firm believer in writing as catharsis, and in the continuous search for an unattainable and constantly evolving absolute truth. His latest poetry collections include A Flag On Fire is a Song of Hope (2019 Scars Publications) and A Dead Man, Either Way (2020 Kung Fu Treachery Press). Vincent J. Tomeo is a poet who was nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, archivist, historian, and community activist. Vincent is published in the New York Times, Evening Street Review, Comstock Review, Mid-America Poetry Review, Edgz, Spires, Tiger’s Eye, By Line, Mudfish, The Blind Man’s Rainbow, The Neo Victorian/Cochlea, The Latin Staff Review, and Grandmother Earth (VII through XI), etc. To date, Vincent has 991 published poems/essays; winner of 106 awards; 141 public readings. Author of My Cemetery Friends: A Garden of Encounters at Mount Saint Mary in Queens, New York. Doug Van Hooser’s poetry has appeared in Roanoke Review, The Courtship of Winds, After Hours, Wild Roof Journal, and Poetry Quarterly, among other publications. His fiction can be found in Red Earth Review, Flash Fiction Magazine, and Bending Genres Journal. Doug’s plays have received readings at Chicago Dramatist Theatre and Three Cat Productions. More at dougvanhooser.com. Reed Venrick lives in Florida and usually writes poems with nature or nautical themes. Kathleen Wedl has enjoyed a career in health care and increasingly, sees poetry as a vital channel to shared vision and understanding. Look for her work in recent editions

of *82 Review, High Shelf Press, and South 85 Journal. She is a first-place winner in the League of Minnesota Annual Poetry Contest and was selected for the 2021 year-long poetry mentorship at the Loft Literary Center. When not reading, writing, and enjoying nature, you may find her studying the pairings of good food and music, especially in the company of family and friends. Sharon Whitehill is a retired English professor from West Michigan now living in Port Charlotte, Florida. In addition to poems published in various literary magazines, her publications include two biographies, two memoirs, two poetry chapbooks, and a full collection of poems. Francine Witte’s poetry and fiction have appeared in Smokelong Quarterly, Wigleaf, MidAmerican Review, and Passages North. Her latest books are Dressed All Wrong for This (Blue Light Press,) The Way of the Wind (AdHoc fiction,) and The Theory of Flesh (Kelsay Books.) Her chapbook, The Cake, The Smoke, The Moon (flash fiction) was published by ELJ in Fall 2021. She is flash fiction editor for Flash Boulevard and The South Florida Poetry Journal. She lives in New York City. Diana Woodcock is the author of seven chapbooks and four poetry collections, most recently Facing Aridity (a finalist for the 2020 Prism Prize for Climate Literature). Forthcoming in 2023 is Holy Sparks (a finalist for the 2020 Paraclete Press Poetry Award). Recipient of the 2011 Vernice Quebodeaux Pathways Poetry Prize for Women for her debut collection, Swaying on the Elephant’s Shoulders, her work appears in Best New Poets 2008 and has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. Currently teaching at VCUarts Qatar, she holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University, where her research was an inquiry into the role of poetry in the search for an environmental ethic.

James K. Zimmerman’s writing appears in Carolina Quarterly, Chautauqua, Nimrod, Pleiades, Rattle, Salamander, and Vallum, among others. He is author of Little Miracles (Passager, 2015) and Family Cookout (Comstock, 2016), winner of the Jessie Bryce Niles Prize.

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