Contributor Biographies

Duane Anderson currently lives in La Vista, Nebraska, and volunteers with a non-profit organization as a Donor Ambassador on their blood drives. He has had poems published in The Pangolin Review, Fine Lines, The Sea Letter, Cholla Needles, Tipton Poetry Journal, Adelaide Literary Magazine and several other publications.

Pama Lee Bennett is a retired speech pathologist living in Sioux City, Iowa, who received a BA in English and an MA in speech pathology from the University of Iowa. She plays in a Renaissance recorder ensemble, and volunteers as an English teacher in Poland. She has previously been published in Bogg, Evening Street Review, and Dash.

L. Annette Binder was born in Germany and immigrated to the US as a child. Poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Stone, Town Creek Poetry, and JMWW. She lives in New Hampshire with her family.

Poems by Jonathan Bracker have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Northwest, Southern Poetry Review, and other periodicals, and in eight collections, the latest of which, from Seven Kitchens Press, is Attending Junior High. He lives in San Francisco.

Rose Bromberg is the author of two poetry chapbooks whose themes span the world of nature and the field of medicine: The Language of Seasons (Finishing Line Press, 2018) and Poemedica (Finishing Line Press, 2011), which was a finalist in FLP’s Poetry Chapbook Competition. Rose is a Pushcart Prize nominee and her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies such as RUNE (The MIT Journal of Arts and Letters), Medscape J Med., Bridges, Southern Indiana Review, Tipton Poetry Journal, rock & sling and elsewhere. She lives in Florida.

S.D. Dillon has been published in the Detroit Free Press, FIELD, The South Carolina Review, the Hawai’i Pacific Review, and The RavensPerch, and is forthcoming in Walloon Writers Review. I have an AB from Princeton and an MFA from Notre Dame, where he was Managing Editor of The Bend in 2004. I subsequently worked for three years in the editorial departments of a boutique literary agency and Carroll & Graf Publishers, where he acquired and edited a handful of titles. He lives in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.

Will Dolben lives in Santa Barbara, California and holds a master's degree in writing from the University of Southern California's MPW program, now known as the MFA in Writing and Publishing at Vermont College of Fine Arts. He was a quarterfinalist in the prestigious Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences international screenwriting competition. His poetry has appeared in journals including Pioneertown, High Shelf and Triggerfish Critical Review.

Michael Estabrook has been publishing his poetry in the small press since the 1980s. He has published over 20 collections, a recent one being The Poet’s Curse, A Miscellany (The Poetry Box, 2019). He lives in Acton, Massachusetts.

Aubrey Farelli is a student at Erie Community College who lives in Depew, New York. She is a new and emerging writer.

Nettie Farris is the author of four chapbooks of poetry: The Alice Poems (dancing girl press, 2022), The Wendy Bird Poems (dancing girl press, 2022), Fat Crayons (Finishing Line Press, 2015) and Communion (Accents Publishing, 2013). Her reviews have appeared in Blue Lyra Review and North American Review. Her flash lyric essays have appeared in Miracle Monocole. She lives in Floyds Knobs, Indiana.

Oleg Feoktistov is a teacher at a local high school in Odesa, Ukraine. Oleg teaches English language and literature. His class is a special place where thirty kids learn, play, and get ready for life.

George Fish is a self-described Punk Rock Poet and extensively published prose writer who lives in Indianapolis. His poetry has been previously published in Tipton Poetry Journal, Flying Island, the literary anthology And Then, the socialist website New Politics, Poems 4 Palestine, and elsewhere. He may be reached at georgefish666@yahoo.com.

Joe Gianotti has taught English at Lowell High School in Northwest Indiana for twentyfive years. He is from Whiting, a small, blue collar, industrial town just outside Chicago. He studied English, history, and education at the University of Indianapolis and Purdue University. His poetry has been published or is forthcoming in This, Literary Magazine, The Chaffey Review, Steam Ticket, The Tipton Poetry Journal, and other places, as well as collected in the second volume of This is Poetry: The Midwest Poets.

Marjie Giffin is a Midwestern writer who has authored four regional histories and whose poetry has appeared in Snapdragon, Poetry Quarterly, Flying Island, The Kurt Vonnegut Literary Journal, Saint Katherine Review, Northwest Indiana Literary Journal, Blue Heron Review, Tipton Poetry Journal, Agape Review and the anthologies The Lives We Have Live(d) and What Was and What Will Be, Leave them Something, and Reflections on Little Eagle Creek. Her work was recently featured online by the Heartland Society of Women Writers and her first chapbook, Touring, was published in 2021. She lives in Indianapolis and is active in the Indiana Writers’ Center and has taught both college writing and gifted education.

Peter Grandbois is the author of thirteen books, the most recent of which is the Snyder prize-winning, Last Night I Aged a Hundred Years (Ashland Poetry Press 2021). His poems, stories, and essays have appeared in over one hundred and fifty journals. His plays have been nominated for several New York Innovative Theatre Awards and have been performed in St. Louis, Columbus, Los Angeles, and New York. He is poetry editor at Boulevard Magazine and teaches at Denison University in Ohio. You can find him at www.petergrandbois.com

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident now living in Rhode Island, recently published in Sheepshead Review, Stand, Poetry Salzburg Review and Hollins Critic. Latest books, Leaves On Pages Memory Outside The Head and Guest Of Myself are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Ellipsis, Blueline International Poetry Review.

Carol Hamilton has retired from teaching 2nd grade through graduate school in Connecticut, Indiana and Oklahoma, from storytelling and volunteer medical translating. She is a former Poet Laureate of Oklahoma and has published 19 books and chapbooks:children's novels, legends and poetry. She has been nominated ten times for a Pushcart Prize. She has won a Southwest Book Award, Oklahoma Book Award, David Ray Poetry Prize, Byline Magazine literary awards in both short story and poetry, Warren Keith Poetry Award, Pegasus Award and a Chiron Review Chapbook Award. 64

Stephanie L. Harper lives and writes in Indianapolis, where she earned her MFA from Butler University. Harper’s poem “Cassowary” was selected by Mark Doty as a finalist in the 2021 Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in the Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine, Neologism Poetry, Tipton Poetry Journal, Narrative Northeast, Vox Populi, The Night Heron Barks, Foothill Journal, and elsewhere.

Juliet Hinton graduated from William Carey University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in 1999 and MBA in 2000. Certified Tumor Registrar managerial and strategic planning service at Forrest General Hospital in Hattiesburg, Mississippi for over twenty years. She partners with the American Cancer Society to offer events and grants to fulfill the needs of the Pine Belt community and collaborates with the FGH Foundation on projects to improve care, and with other groups to improve the cancer patient’s journey at FGH and in the community. She received a Pushcart Nomination for her poem “Calvary Baptist Church”. She is currently working on more Perry County and landscape poems, and a new project on oncology cancer care, and research and informatics.

C.L. Hoang was born and raised in Vietnam during the war and came to America in the 1970's. He graduated from Ohio University and the University of California, Berkeley and earns his living in San Diego as an engineer, but dabbles in the pleasure of writing every chance he gets.

Diane Kendig’s latest book is Woman with a Fan. Her writing has appeared in J Journal, Wordgathering, Valparaiso Review, and other journals. She ran a prison writing workshop in Ohio for 18 years, and now curates the Cuyahoga County (Ohio) Public Library weblog, Read + Write. Her website is dianekendig.com .

Norbert Krapf, former Indiana Poet Laureate, will have his fifteenth poetry collection, Spirit Sister Dance, and his Homecomings: A Writer's Memoir, published this year. He received the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, received a Creative Renewal Fellowship from the Indy Arts Council to combine poetry and the blues, and has a poem in stained-glass at the Indy International Airport. For more, see http://www.krapfpoetry.net/.

Mary Hills Kuck has retired from teaching English and German in the US and Jamaica and now lives in Massachusetts with her family. She has received a Pushcart Prize nomination and has published in a number of journals, including the Connecticut River Review, SLANT, Tipton Poetry Journal, Burningword Literary Journal, From the Depths, Splash, Poetry Quarterly, Main Street Rag, and others. Her chapbook, Intermittent Sacraments, was published in June, 2021, by Finishing Line Press.

John T. Leonard is an award-winning writer, English teacher, and poetry editor for Twyckenham Notes. He holds an M.A. in English from Indiana University. His previous works have appeared in Chiron Review, December Magazine, North Dakota Review, Ethel Zine, Louisiana Literature, Jelly Bucket, Mud Season Review, Nimrod International Journal, The Indianapolis Review, Genre: Urban Arts, and Trailer Park Quarterly among others. He lives in Elkhart, Indiana with his wife, three cats, and two dogs. You can follow him on Twitter at @jotyleon and @TwyckenhamNotes.

Martha McCollough is a writer living in Amherst, Massachusetts. She has an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Bear Review, Tammy, Pangyrus, Barrelhouse, Crab Creek Review, and Salamander, among others. Her chapbook, Grandmother Mountain was published by Blue Lyra Press. Martha's poetry collection, Wolf Hat Iron Shoes, is available from Lily Poetry Review Books.

Cameron Morse is Senior Reviews editor at Harbor Review and the author of eight collections of poetry. His first collection, Fall Risk, won Glass Lyre Press’s 2018 Best Book Award. His latest is The Thing Is (Briar Creek Press, 2021). He holds an MFA from the University of Kansas City-Missouri and lives in Independence, Missouri, with his wife Lili and three children. For more information, check out his Facebook page or website.

Elaine Fowler Palencia lives in Illinois and has published four poetry chapbooks, most recently, How to Prepare Escargots (Main Street Rag Press, 2020). Her poetry and fiction have received seven Pushcart Prize nominations, one from Tipton Poetry Journal. She is also the author of two short story collections and a nonfiction, historical work about her great-great grandfather, On Rising Ground: The Life and Civil War Letters of John M. Douthit, 52nd Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment (Mercer U. Press, 2021).

Amy Suzanne Parker is a PhD candidate at Binghamton University in New York, where she studies English and Creative Writing. Her work has appeared in Juked, Hobart, DIAGRAM, Pithead Chapel, Burrow Press Review. Originally from the Tampa Bay Area, she loves a good storm.

Born in the Caribbean and raised in the U.S., Tia Paul-Louis began writing songs at age 11, then experimented with poetry during high school. She earned a BA in English/Creative Writing from the University of South Florida along with a M.F.A in Creative Writing from National University in California. Her works have appeared in literary magazines such as The Voices Project, Ethos Literary Journal, and Rabbit Catastrophe Review. Some of her favorite authors and poets include Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou and Edgar Allan Poe. Apart from writing, Paul-Louis enjoys music, photography, acting and cooking, though she mostly finds herself and others through poetry.

Akshaya Pawaskar is a doctor practicing in India and poetry is her passion. Her poems have been published in Tipton Poetry Journal, Shards, The Blue Nib, North of Oxford, Indian Rumination, Rock and Slingamong many others. She won the Craven Arts Council ekphrastic poetry competition in 2020 and was placed second in The Blue Nib chapbook contest in 2018. Her first solo poetry chapbook,The falling in and the falling out, was published by Alien Buddha Press in January 2021.

Nancy Kay Peterson’s poetry has appeared in print and online in numerous publications, most recently in Dash Literary Journal, HerWords, Last Stanza Poetry Journal, One Sentence Poems, Spank the Carp, Steam Ticket, Tipton Poetry Journal and Three Line Poetry. From 2004-2009, she co-edited and co-published Main Channel Voices: A Dam Fine Literary Magazine (Winona, Minnesota). Finishing Line Press published her two poetry chapbooks, Belated Remembrance (2010) and Selling the Family (2021). For more information, see www.nancykaypeterson.com

Thomas Piekarski is a former editor of the California State Poetry Quarterly. His poetry has appeared in such publications as Poetry Quarterly, Literature Today, Poetry Salzburg, South African Literary Journal, Modern Literature, and others. His books of poetry are Ballad of Billy the Kid, Monterey Bay Adventures, Mercurial World, and Aurora California.

Recent work by Bruce Robinson appears or is forthcoming in Tar River Poetry, Spoon River, Rattle, Oddball, New World Writing, Parliament, and the Loud Coffee Press Flower-Shaped Bullet anthology. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Henry, unfortunately, died toward the end of April, after a short illness.

Mykyta Ryzhykh lives in Ukraine and is the winner of the international competition “Art Against Drugs,” bronze medalist of the festival Chestnut House, laureate of the literary competition named after Tutyunnik. Mykyta has been published in the journals Dzvin, Ring A, Polutona, Rechport, Topos, Articulation, Formaslov, Colon, Literature Factory, and Literary Chernihiv.

Terry Savoie lives in Iowa. Beyond a previous appearance in Tipton Poetry Journal, more than four hundred poems have been published in journals both here and abroad. These include APR, Ploughshares, America, Prairie Schooner, The Minnesota Review, The Montana Review, North American Review, Sonora Review and The Iowa Review.

T. Dallas Saylor is a PhD candidate at Florida State University and holds an MFA from the University of Houston. His work meditates on the body, especially gender and sexuality, against physical, spiritual, and digital landscapes. He lives in Houston, Texas. He is on Twitter: @dallas_saylor.

Nolo Segundo, pen name of L. J. Carber, became a published poet in his 70's in over 80 literary journals in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Romania, India, and in 2 trade book collections: The Enormity of Existence [2020] and Of Ether and Earth [2021]. Both titles reflect the awareness he's had for over 50 years since having an NDE whilst almost drowning in a Vermont river: that he has--is--a consciousness that predates birth and survives death, what poets once called a soul. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2022, he's a retired teacher [America, Japan, Taiwan, Cambodia] who's been married 42 years to a smart and beautiful Taiwanese woman.

Ellen Skilton was born in Tipton, Iowa, went to college in Indiana and now lives in Philadelphia.

Betty Stanton is a writer who lives and works in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in various journals and collections and has been included in anthologies from Dos Gatos Press and Picaroon Poetry Press. She received her MFA from The University of Texas at El Paso.

Michael E. Strosahl is a midwestern river-born poet, originally from Moline, Illinois, now living in Jefferson City, Missouri. Besides several appearances in the Tipton Poetry Journal, Maik’s work has appeared in Flying Island, Bards Against Hunger projects, on buses, in museums and online at indianavoicejournal, poetrysuperhighway and projectagentorange. Maik also has a weekly poetry column at the online blog Moristotle & Company.

Jeffrey S. Thompson was raised in Fargo, North Dakota, and educated at the University of Iowa and Cornell Law School. He lives and works in Phoenix, Arizona. At Iowa he participated in undergraduate poetry workshops and had a couple poems published in small journals. He pursued a career in public interest law, but recently decided to start sharing his work again. Thompson was named a finalist for the 2021 Iowa Review Poetry Award, and has been published or accepted at Neologism Poetry Journal, North Dakota Quarterly, The Main Street Rag, and Passengers Journal.

Gene Twaronite is the author of four collections of poetry as well as the rhyming picture book How to Eat Breakfast. His first poetry book Trash Picker on Mars, published by Kelsay Books, was the winner of the 2017 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Arizona poetry. His newest poetry collection Shopping Cart Dreams will be published by Kelsay Books in 2022. Gene’s poems have been described as: “ranging from edgy to whimsical to inscrutable … playfully haunting and hauntingly playful.” A former New Englander, Gene now lives in Tucson. Follow more of his poetry at genetwaronite.poet.com or https://www.instagram.com/genetwaronitepoetry/.

Hardarshan Singh Valia is an earth scientist by profession living in Highland, Indiana. His poems have appeared in Wards Literary Journal, Northwest Indiana Literary Journal, Poetic Medicine, Who Writes Short Shorts, Dove Tales – Writing for Peace- an anthology, Pages Penned in Pandemic – A Collective, Caesura, Sage-ing, Literary Veganism, Right Hand Pointing, COVID tales journal, Poetry and Covid, and Nightingale & Sparrow.

David Vancil is retired from the faculty of Indiana State University. His work has appeared in small periodicals, critical reviews, and a few anthologies. As well, he is the author of four poetry collections. War and Its Discontents, a collection of military poems centered on family service and his own time in the U.S. Army, will be published by Angelina River Press sometime in 2022. He is at work on a collection of new and selected poems, which he hopes to publish no later than 2023. David lives in Terre Haute, Indiana, with his wife, three cats, and a dog.