KJ Hannah Greenberg 60 Contributors

WE GATHER by Edward Lee

SOMEWHERE, A PLACE by Edward Lee

CONTRIBUTORS

be a fantastical world or a story about friendship, she has always found herself wanting to share her stories with those around her. You can find her at tabitha.lindstrom on Instagram!

D.W. Davis (he/him) is a native of rural Illinois. His work has appeared in various online and print journals. You can find him at Facebook.com/DanielDavis05, or @dan_davis86 on Twitter.

Bri Eberhart’s (she/her) stories have also been published in the Scarlet Leaf Review, and Neuro Logical Magazine. She has a BA in Cultural Studies with a concentration in Creative Writing and Literature from SUNY Empire State, and was a proofreading intern for Cardigan Press. This upcoming fall, she will be starting her School Librarianship master’s program at the University at Buffalo. You can find her on Twitter @EberhartBri.

Josiah Ikpe is a storyteller who is constantly evolving. He's a book lover, born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria. His works have appeared in Kalahari Review, Nnoko Stories, Lanke Review, Tealight Press, The Crater Library and Publishers, amongst others. He's presently a penultimate Law student at the University of Ibadan. You can find him on Twitter at @josiahikpe."

Iberia Muñoz (she / her) is an author, poet, and essayist from Torreón, Mexico. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Modern English Letters and is currently working on several creative projects as part of the School of Writing at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She was a participant in the Reunion of Mexican Women Poets in 2022, and her work was published in the anthology Novísimas. You can find her online at: @corazonanfibio

Tyler Gebauer (he / him) is submitting the English translation of the short story “Three Bodies and a Pearl” with the author’s permission. Tyler is a freelance literary translator who has worked for organizations and writers based out of Chicago, Mexico City, Madrid, Bolivia, and El Salvador. His literary translations have been published in Modern Literature and Packingtown Review (forthcoming). You can find him online at www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-gebauer-1992n

Edward Lee is an artist and writer from Ireland. His paintings and photography have been exhibited widely, while his poetry, short stories, non-fiction have been published in magazines in Ireland, England and America, including The Stinging Fly, Skylight 47, Acumen and Smiths Knoll. He is currently working on two photography collections: 'Lying Down With The Dead' and 'There Is A Beauty In Broken Things'. He also makes musical noise under the names Ayahuasca Collective, Orson Carroll, Lego Figures Fighting, and Pale Blond Boy. His blog/website can be found at https://edwardmlee.wordpress.com

Theresa Kohlbeck Jakobsen (they/them) is a German creative, who after spending the pandemic on the remote Faroe Islands re-entered the colorful streets of Berlin city. The challenges of living in another country were a propulsion to their creativity. Theresa creates mixed media art and writes multilingual pieces that circle around the theme of human relationships in a digital age. Recently their works got published in Third Iris Zine, Polemical Zine, CERASUS and Moon Cola Zine. Right now Theresa is working for the student magazine STUDENTLIV and finishing their Masters in Nordic Literature at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. You can more of her work from her website: www.pinkudreymawelt.com; Twitter: @pinkudreyma; Instagram: @pinkudreyma.welt; Facebook: pinkudreyma

Phillip Temples is a product of the Midwest but he currently lives in Watertown, Massachusetts. He likes to dabble in mobile photography. He's published several mystery-thriller novels, a novella, and two anthologies in addition to over 180 short stories. You can learn more about Phil at https://temples.com

KJ Hannah Greenberg tilts at social ills and encourages personal evolutions via poetry, prose, and visual art. Her bold, textural, colorful images have appeared in various places, including, but not limited to: Bewildering Stories, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Kissing Dynamite, Les Femmes Folles, Mused, Right Hand Pointing, Stone Coast Review, The Academy of the Heart and Mind, The Front Porch Review, Tuck, and Yellow Mama. Additionally, her art is featured alongside of her poetry in One-Handed Pianist (Hekate Publishing, 2021).

Betsy Packard lives in Lexington, KY with her 2 dogs. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Kentucky. She has had poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction published. Twice she won her university's King Library Press Poetry Broadside Award. Her work has appeared in Atherton Review, Her Limestone Bones, Second Hand Literary Journal, Wax Poetry & Art, and LEO.

Abbie Doll is an eclectic mess of a person who loves exploring the beautiful intricacies of the written word. She resides in Columbus, OH and received her MFA from Lindenwood University; her work has been featured in Cathexis Northwest Press, The Rush, OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L), among others. Follow her @AbbieDollWrites.

Sylvia Schwartz studied literary fiction at The Writers Studio and One Story in New York. Her stories have been published in Bright Flash Literary Review; Ariel Chart International Literary Journal, the Potato Soup Journal; Savant-Garde; The Write Launch; Bold + Italic Magazine; Bull & Cross; Edify Fiction; The Airgonaut; The Vignette Review; and The Rain, Party, & Disaster Society. Her work has been chosen for several anthologies and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Hoboken, NJ, and is an assistant editor at Narrative Magazine. www.sylviaschwartz.com. Twitter: @aivlys99.

Leah Mueller is the author of ten prose and poetry books. Her work appears in Rattle, Midway Journal, Citron Review, The Spectacle, Miracle Monocle, Outlook Springs, Atticus Review, Your Impossible Voice, etc. It has also been featured in trees, shop windows in Scotland, poetry subscription boxes, and literary dispensers throughout the world. Her flash piece, "Land of Eternal Thirst" will appear in the 2022 edition of Sonder Press' "Best Small Fictions" anthology. Visit her website at www.leahmueller.org.

London Chastain (she/they) is a poet and anthropologist at the University of Rochester. She is fascinated by the intersection of poetry and politics; how oppressed narratives are weaponized through the arts. They explore kink, being trans, healing from trauma, and suicidality in their poetry, and always with the intention of stating what her readers never had the words for.

Laura Rockhold a(she/her) is a poet and visual artist. She is working on her first collection of poetry, and a multidisciplinary art exhibition that explores the interconnectedness of environmental and social issues and healing. She lives in Minnesota and holds a B.S. in child psychology from the

University of Minnesota. Her work appears, or is forthcoming in swifts & slows and Quail Bell Magazine.

Jake Villarreal (@JakeVWrites) is a queer, indigenous writer based in the Midwest. His work explores the dynamics between nature and humans, and the emotional potential of objects. He has been published in Abolition Journal, Horse Egg Literary Magazine, and elsewhere. When he is not writing, you can find him training for his next 5k, or playing with his twin cats, Cinnamon and Saffron.

LeAnne Hunt (she/her) grew up in the Midwest and now lives in Orange County, California. She is a regular at the Two Idiots Peddling Poetry reading at the Ugly Mug in Orange. She has poems published in Cultural Weekly, Spillway, Honey & Lime, and Lullaby of Teeth: An Anthology of Southern California Poets. Her Twitter handle is @ennaelpb. She publishes a blog of writing prompts and apologies at leannehunt.com.

Alexander Pérez (he/him/his), gay and Latino, has stories and poems published in Trolley (NYS Writers Institute), Whisky Blot, Defenestration, Flash Fiction Magazine, (mac)ro(mic), and XRAY. He received a James B. Duke Fellowship from Duke University to study Latinx and queer studies. He holds a BA in English from the University at Buffalo and MA in philosophy from the University at Albany. He currently works for the School of Education at the University at Albany. Website: perezpoet.press; Instagram/Twitter: @perezpoet

Bruce Gunther is a retired journalist and writer who lives in Michigan. He's a graduate of Central Michigan University. His poems have appeared in the Comstock Review, Arc Poetry, The Dunes Review, Modern Haiku, and others.

Nancy Machlis Rechtman has had poetry and short stories published in Paper Dragon, The Bluebird Word, Quail Bell, The Bluebird Word, Goat’s Milk, The Writing Disorder, Discretionary Love, and more. She wrote freelance Lifestyle stories for a local newspaper, and she was the copy editor for another paper She writes a blog called Inanities at https://nancywriteon.wordpress.com.

Yuu Ikeda (she/her) is a Japan based poet. She loves writing, drawing, and reading mystery novels. She writes poetry on her website: https://poetryandcoffeedays.wordpress.com/ Her published poems can be found in Selcouth Station Press, New Note Poetry, Remington Review, and more. Her poetry collection, The Palette of Words has been published from Lighted Lake Press. Her Twitter and Instagram: @yuunnnn77

Anthony Salandy is a Black Mixed-Race poet & writer who has spent most of his life in Kuwait jostling between the UK & America. Anthony's work has been published widely internationally. Anthony has 2 published chapbooks titled 'The Great Northern Journey' 2020 (Lazy Adventurer

Publishing) & 'Vultures' 2021 (Roaring Junior Press) as well as a novel 'The Sands of Change' 2021 (Alien Buddha Press). Anthony's Chapbook 'Half Bred' is the Winner of the 2021 'The Poetry Question' Chapbook contest. Anthony is the EIC of Fahmidan Journal & Poetry Editor at Chestnut Review. Twitter/Instagram: @arsalandy https://arsalandywriter.com/

Ibrahim Babátúndé Ibrahim After he was forcibly sent to science-class in high-school, it took Ibrahim 20 years to find his way back to his passion, in 2019, when he left a successful ten-year career in media & entertainment to become a writer. He was a finalist at the Moon City Fiction Prize (2021), also making the longlist of Dzanc Diverse Voices Prize (2020). He was longlisted for the 2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and was commended for the 2022 Laura Kinsella Fellowship. He won 2nd runner-up prize in #GogeAfrica20 Writing Contest (2020), and 4th runner-up prize in Ibua Journal’s Pack Light Series (2020). He has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, as well as the Best of the Net (thrice). Ibrahim's work explores the human experience from an African perspective. He’s @heemthewriter across social media.

Scott Martin, along with coaching soccer, and being an author, has returned to the classroom as a teacher in Central Wisconsin. Wanting to help the advancement of prosthetics and public awareness of amputee abilities rather than disabilities, he has participated in research projects for the University of Washington and Johns Hopkins University. He holds an advanced national coaching license and has spent 25 years coaching soccer at select youth, high school, and college levels. He’s worked with prominent national coaches both here and abroad

Marisa Silva-Dunbar's work has been published in ArLiJo, Chanterelle's Notebook, Pink Plastic House, Sledgehammer Lit, Analogies & Allegories Literary Magazine. She has work forthcoming in The Bitchin' Kitsch. Her second chapbook, "When Goddesses Wake," was released in December, 2021 from Maverick Duck Press. Her first full-length collection, "Allison," was released in May from Querencia Press. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram @thesweetmaris.

Ivan de Monbrison is a French poet and artist living in Paris born in 1969, and affected by various types of mental disorders. He has been published in the past in various venues. https://sites.google.com/view/ivan-de-monbrison/home