Contributors
Matthew J. Andrews is a private investigator and writer whose poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Orange Blossom Review, Funicular Magazine, and EcoTheo Review, among others. His debut chapbook, I Close My Eyes and I Almost Remember, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. He can be contacted at matthewjandrews.com.
Kendall J. Aufmuth is currently a master’s student at the University at Buffalo, completing her MA in English, and an alumna of the University at Albany, where she obtained her BA in English and political science through the honors program. She intends on pursuing her Ph.D. in English upon completion of her master’s. Kendall has a particular interest and concentration in psychoanalytic theory in literature, as well as an affinity for creative writing with an emphasis on poetry; she also focuses her research within the literary field on the psychotherapeutic benefits of the mental illness narrative, which she wrote her honors thesis on during her time at the University at Albany.
Paul Bartels graduated from Regis University’s Mile-High MFA program. He currently lives near his hometown in Oregon’s Rogue River Valley. While working in the yard, he frequently visits with a Western Scrub-Jay named Marty.
Maria Berardi’s poems have appeared online, in print, in university literary journals, meditation magazines, and at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, in collaboration with fabric artist Bonnie Ferrill Roman. Her first book, Cassandra Gifts, was published in 2013 by Turkey Buzzard Press, and she is currently at work on her second, Pagan. She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. Her process is one of listening for transmissions and trying to catch them on paper before they dissipate: the glimpse, the complicated knowledge.
Karen Boissonneault-Gauthier is an Indigenous visual artist, writer, and photographer. Most recently she’s been a cover artist for Arachne Press, Pretty Owl Poetry, Wild Musette, Existere Journal, Vine Leaves Literary Journal, Gigantic Sequins, Ottawa Arts Journal, and more. When she’s not walking her husky, she’s also designing with Art of Where and sometimes writing poetry or essays. Karen now uses some of her artwork on nonmedical face masks, hoping to be a better global citizen. See www.kcbgphoto.com to find out more.
Stevie Cornell is a singer/songwriter and recent transplant to Sonoma County. He was a veteran of the early SF punk scene in the seventies and went on to form the popular Bay Area Americana band the Movie Stars, which morphed into the retro-country band Red Meat in the early nineties. After moving to rural Vermont to raise a family early in the century, he is back in California and launching a belated solo career. His website is at steviecornell.com. Also look for music on his Bandcamp site at https://steviecornell.bandcamp.com.
Susan Darlington’s poetry regularly explores the female experience through nature-based symbolism and stories of transformation. It has been published in Fragmented Voices, Algebra of Owls, Dreams Walking, and Anti-Heroin Chic, among others. Her debut collection, Under The Devil’s Moon, was published by Penniless Press Publications (2015). Follow her @S_sanDarlington.
Nicolas Gattig has published poetry and short fiction in numerous magazines, including Asia Literary Review, Foreign Literary Journal, and Essential: An Anthology. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he is currently looking for agency representation for his short story collection A Bus to America.
Jane Ellen Glasser’s poetry has appeared in numerous national journals, such as Hudson Review, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Georgia Review. In the past, she reviewed poetry books for the Virginian-Pilot, edited poetry for the Ghent Quarterly and Lady Jane’s Miscellany, and co-founded the nonprofit arts organization and journal New Virginia Review. She won the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry 2005 for her collection Light Persists, and The Long Life won the Poetica Publishing Company Chapbook Contest in 2011. Her most recent collections, In the Shadow of Paradise (2017) and Jane Ellen Glasser: Selected Poems (2019) are available from FutureCycle Press and Amazon. To preview her work and access her books, visit the website www.janeellenglasser.com.
Ira Joel Haber was born and lives in Brooklyn. He is a sculptor, painter, writer, book dealer, photographer, and teacher. His work has been seen in numerous group shows both in the USA and Europe, and he has had nine one-man shows, including several retrospectives of his sculpture. His work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York University, the Guggenheim Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, and the Allen Memorial Art Museum. Since 2006, his paintings, drawings, photographs and collages have been published in over 250 online and print magazines. He has received three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, two Creative Artists Public Service Grant (CAPS) two Pollock-Krasner grants, two Adolph Gottlieb Foundation grants, and, in 2010, he received a grant from Artists’ Fellowship Inc. In 2017 and 2018 he received the Brooklyn Arts Council SU-CASA artist-in-residence grant.
Hiba Heba is a Pakistan-based writer and poet who is also a graduate student of English literature and linguistics. Some of her poems have appeared in Daily Times, Terror House Magazine, Scarlet Leaf Review, Literary Yard, Visual Verse, Feminist Voices Anthology: Volume II, OpenDoor Magazine, the Raconteur Review, theWild Word, and Ofi Press Magazine. Hiba can be found on Facebook as Hiba Heba, on Instagram as Hiba.Heba_ and on Twitter as @HibaHeba_.
Kelly A. Hegi has recently had poems accepted in the Showbear Family Circus, Plainsongs, Heron Clan, Plants & Poetry, and Haikuniverse.
Richard Helmling is a teacher and writer living and working in El Paso, Texas. His work has been featured in Corner Club Press, Black Heart Magazine, Arsenic Lobster, Rio Grande Review, The Drabble, and Fiction Brigade. Visit him at www.helmling.com.
Christian Hennie is a visual artist from Oslo, Norway, working in many media: video, drawing, painting, sculpture, performance and so on. He is focusing more on videos these days, making art music videos, this year, together with sound artist Thor Viggo Fauske. Works from this project can be found on the YouTube channel MultiKemosabi. To see new and old work from Christian, visit his web page: http://christianhennie.com.
Peter Huggins is the author of seven books of poems, including the forthcoming Small Mercies. South and Audubon’s Engraver were shortlisted for the International Rubery Book Award. He’s also published three books of fiction for children; Trosclair and the Alligator appeared on the PBS show Between the Lions. A recipient of a Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, he taught for thirty-one years in the English department at Auburn University.
Robert S. King serves on the board of FutureCycle Press. His poems appear widely, including Chariton Review, Kenyon Review, Midwest Quarterly, and Southern Poetry Review. He has published eight poetry collections, most recently Developing a Photograph of God (Glass Lyre Press, 2014) and Messages from Multiverses (Duck Lake Books, 2020).
Edward Lee is an artist and writer from Ireland. His paintings and photography have been exhibited widely, while his poetry, short stories, and nonfiction have been published in magazines in Ireland, England and America, including The Stinging Fly, Skylight 47, Acumen, New Feathers, The Blue Nib 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
Traci McMickle is a bi/pan/queer poet. She lives in Montana, where she’s a criminal justice reporter for her local newspaper. Traci graduated from the MFA program at the University of New Orleans. She currently manages social media for Hot Redhead Media, a small press. Hot Redhead Media has an anthology in the works titled Audacious Women, for which Traci will be poetry editor. Find out more at www.hotredheadmedia.com.
Mark Millicent is a UK writer and illustrator based in the USA. He works in the advertising and film world of Los Angeles, living by a lake in the Santa Monica Mountains with his wife and family, a cat and a peacock.
Juan Pablo Mobili was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and adopted by New York later. His poems have appeared in The American Journal of Poetry, Mason Street Review, Thimble Magazine, New Feathers Anthology, The Red Wheelbarrow Review, and The Worcester Review, among others. His work has received an honorable mention from the International Human Rights Art Festival, as well as Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net nominations. In addition to this, he published a chapbook of poems in collaboration with Madalasa Mobili, Three Unknown Poets, published by Seranam Press.
Cameron Morse is senior reviews editor at Harbor Review, a poetry editor at Harbor Editions, and the author of six collections of poetry. His first, Fall Risk, won Glass Lyre Press’s 2018 Best Book Award. His latest is Far Other (Woodley Press, 2020). He holds an MFA from the University of Kansas City–Missouri and lives in Independence, Missouri, with his wife Lili and two children. For more information, check out his Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/cameronmorsepoems) or website (https://cameronmorsepoems.wordpress.com/).
nGn (pronounced “engine”) is the first artist coming out of the independent music collective INJIMI. Not a very public artist, he prefers to keep his identity unknown, presenting himself as an animated character in his music videos. He pours himself out through his music, creating songs that flow as organically and randomly as his own thoughts. Or as he would sum it up: my music does the talking.
Lisa Panepinto is poetry editor for Cabildo Quarterly and author of where i come from the fish have souls, On This Borrowed Bike, and the chapbook Island Dreams. Visit her online at https://wavesturntosongs.wordpress.com/
Diane Payne’s most recent and forthcoming publications include Another Chicago Magazine, Cutleaf Journal, Pine Hills Review, Tiny Spoon, Ellipsis, Bending Genres, New York Times, Unlikely Stories, Hot Flash Fiction, The Blue Nib, Anti-Heroin Chic, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Oyster Review, Novus, Notre Dame Review, Obra/Artifact, Reservoir, Southern Fugitives, Spry Literary Journal, Watershed Review, Superstition Review, Windmill, Tishman Review, Whiskey Island, Fourth River, Lunch Ticket, Split Lip Magazine, The Offing, Elke: A Little Journal, Punctuate, Outpost19, McNeese Review, The Meadow, Burnt Pine, storySouth, and Five:2:One.
Kenneth Pobo is the author of twenty-one chapbooks and nine full-length collections. Recent books include Bend of Quiet (Blue Light Press), Loplop in a Red City (Circling Rivers), Dindi Expecting Snow (Duck Lake Books), Wingbuds (cyberwit.net), and Uneven Steven (Assure Press). In addition to poetry, he also writes fiction and essays. For the past thirty-plus years, he taught at Widener University and retired in 2020.
Ann Privateer is a poet, artist, and photographer. Some of her recent work has appeared in Third Wednesday and Entering, to name a few.
Carl Scharwath has appeared globally in over seventy-five journals that have selected his art photography. His first photography book was published by Praxis. His photography was also exhibited in the Mount Dora Center for the Arts gallery and their exhibition Be A Part of It. Recently his photography was accepted by the Leesburg Center for the Arts for their three-month storefront exhibition. Six global poets have also selected his photography to grace the covers of their published books. Carl is the art editor for both Minute Magazine (USA) and A Too Powerful Word (Serbia) and is a competitive runner.
Donald Seahill teaches writing at the University of California. His poetry will soon appear in Porcupine Literary, and he has also published articles in Breaking Boundaries: New Perspectives on Women’s Regional Fiction and in the journal Science-Fiction Studies on the topics of masculinity, regional fiction, and Native American writing.
Oindri Sengupta is a poet based out of Kolkata, India. Her works have appeared in a few online and print journals, like Muse India, Kritya, Ethos Literary Journal, Istanbul Literary Review, Chiron Review, A Hudson View, Poetry Quarterly, Contemporary Literary Review India, Decanto, Penwood Review, Life and Legends, Trouvaille Review, and in a couple of poetry anthologies. Apart from writing poetry, she also teaches English in a government school in Kolkata.
Judith Skillman is the recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets and Artist Trust. Her recent collection is Came Home to Winter (Deerbrook Editions, 2019). Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Iowa Review, The Southern Review, Zyzzyva, and other journals. Visit www.judithskillman.com.
Doug Tanoury is a Detroit poet who has been published widely in print and on the Internet. He has written a number of chapbooks, including Detroit Poems, Merida Poems, Getting Religion, and Tolstoy’s Ghost.
Bill Vernon studied English literature, then taught it. Writing is his therapy, along with exercising outdoors and doing international folk dances. Five Star Mysteries published his novel Old Town, and his poems, stories, and nonfiction occasionally appear in a variety of magazines and anthologies.
Jamie Wendt is the author of the poetry collection Fruit of the Earth, which won the 2019 National Federation of Press Women Book Award poetry. Her poems, essays, and book reviews have been published in various literary journals and anthologies, including Feminine Rising, Lilith, Literary Mama, the Forward, Third Wednesday, and Saranac Review. She holds an MFA from the University of Nebraska–Omaha. She teaches and lives in Chicago with her family. See her website at https://jamiewendt.wordpress.com/
Ron Wolff, in retirement, devotes himself primarily to photography and writing. His short stories have been published in eight literary journals. His photographs have been published in two journals and exhibited in galleries and shows in California, Colorado, and Virginia. Portraits and scenics are his favorite genres. View more of his work at https://ronwolffphotography.weebly.com. He is currently working on a young adult novel.
Angela Zimmerling has been writing and creating images from the time she was able to hold a crayon. She works primarily in pastel, ink, and pencil crayon. Her work tends to the whimsical and seeks to connect with the wild child within all of us. She is passionately involved with the environmental movements in her home province of British Columbia.
Kendall J. Aufmuth is currently a master’s student at the University at Buffalo, completing her MA in English, and an alumna of the University at Albany, where she obtained her BA in English and political science through the honors program. She intends on pursuing her Ph.D. in English upon completion of her master’s. Kendall has a particular interest and concentration in psychoanalytic theory in literature, as well as an affinity for creative writing with an emphasis on poetry; she also focuses her research within the literary field on the psychotherapeutic benefits of the mental illness narrative, which she wrote her honors thesis on during her time at the University at Albany.
Paul Bartels graduated from Regis University’s Mile-High MFA program. He currently lives near his hometown in Oregon’s Rogue River Valley. While working in the yard, he frequently visits with a Western Scrub-Jay named Marty.
Maria Berardi’s poems have appeared online, in print, in university literary journals, meditation magazines, and at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, in collaboration with fabric artist Bonnie Ferrill Roman. Her first book, Cassandra Gifts, was published in 2013 by Turkey Buzzard Press, and she is currently at work on her second, Pagan. She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. Her process is one of listening for transmissions and trying to catch them on paper before they dissipate: the glimpse, the complicated knowledge.
Karen Boissonneault-Gauthier is an Indigenous visual artist, writer, and photographer. Most recently she’s been a cover artist for Arachne Press, Pretty Owl Poetry, Wild Musette, Existere Journal, Vine Leaves Literary Journal, Gigantic Sequins, Ottawa Arts Journal, and more. When she’s not walking her husky, she’s also designing with Art of Where and sometimes writing poetry or essays. Karen now uses some of her artwork on nonmedical face masks, hoping to be a better global citizen. See www.kcbgphoto.com to find out more.
Stevie Cornell is a singer/songwriter and recent transplant to Sonoma County. He was a veteran of the early SF punk scene in the seventies and went on to form the popular Bay Area Americana band the Movie Stars, which morphed into the retro-country band Red Meat in the early nineties. After moving to rural Vermont to raise a family early in the century, he is back in California and launching a belated solo career. His website is at steviecornell.com. Also look for music on his Bandcamp site at https://steviecornell.bandcamp.com.
Susan Darlington’s poetry regularly explores the female experience through nature-based symbolism and stories of transformation. It has been published in Fragmented Voices, Algebra of Owls, Dreams Walking, and Anti-Heroin Chic, among others. Her debut collection, Under The Devil’s Moon, was published by Penniless Press Publications (2015). Follow her @S_sanDarlington.
Nicolas Gattig has published poetry and short fiction in numerous magazines, including Asia Literary Review, Foreign Literary Journal, and Essential: An Anthology. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he is currently looking for agency representation for his short story collection A Bus to America.
Jane Ellen Glasser’s poetry has appeared in numerous national journals, such as Hudson Review, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Georgia Review. In the past, she reviewed poetry books for the Virginian-Pilot, edited poetry for the Ghent Quarterly and Lady Jane’s Miscellany, and co-founded the nonprofit arts organization and journal New Virginia Review. She won the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry 2005 for her collection Light Persists, and The Long Life won the Poetica Publishing Company Chapbook Contest in 2011. Her most recent collections, In the Shadow of Paradise (2017) and Jane Ellen Glasser: Selected Poems (2019) are available from FutureCycle Press and Amazon. To preview her work and access her books, visit the website www.janeellenglasser.com.
Ira Joel Haber was born and lives in Brooklyn. He is a sculptor, painter, writer, book dealer, photographer, and teacher. His work has been seen in numerous group shows both in the USA and Europe, and he has had nine one-man shows, including several retrospectives of his sculpture. His work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York University, the Guggenheim Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, and the Allen Memorial Art Museum. Since 2006, his paintings, drawings, photographs and collages have been published in over 250 online and print magazines. He has received three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, two Creative Artists Public Service Grant (CAPS) two Pollock-Krasner grants, two Adolph Gottlieb Foundation grants, and, in 2010, he received a grant from Artists’ Fellowship Inc. In 2017 and 2018 he received the Brooklyn Arts Council SU-CASA artist-in-residence grant.
Hiba Heba is a Pakistan-based writer and poet who is also a graduate student of English literature and linguistics. Some of her poems have appeared in Daily Times, Terror House Magazine, Scarlet Leaf Review, Literary Yard, Visual Verse, Feminist Voices Anthology: Volume II, OpenDoor Magazine, the Raconteur Review, theWild Word, and Ofi Press Magazine. Hiba can be found on Facebook as Hiba Heba, on Instagram as Hiba.Heba_ and on Twitter as @HibaHeba_.
Kelly A. Hegi has recently had poems accepted in the Showbear Family Circus, Plainsongs, Heron Clan, Plants & Poetry, and Haikuniverse.
Richard Helmling is a teacher and writer living and working in El Paso, Texas. His work has been featured in Corner Club Press, Black Heart Magazine, Arsenic Lobster, Rio Grande Review, The Drabble, and Fiction Brigade. Visit him at www.helmling.com.
Christian Hennie is a visual artist from Oslo, Norway, working in many media: video, drawing, painting, sculpture, performance and so on. He is focusing more on videos these days, making art music videos, this year, together with sound artist Thor Viggo Fauske. Works from this project can be found on the YouTube channel MultiKemosabi. To see new and old work from Christian, visit his web page: http://christianhennie.com.
Peter Huggins is the author of seven books of poems, including the forthcoming Small Mercies. South and Audubon’s Engraver were shortlisted for the International Rubery Book Award. He’s also published three books of fiction for children; Trosclair and the Alligator appeared on the PBS show Between the Lions. A recipient of a Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, he taught for thirty-one years in the English department at Auburn University.
Robert S. King serves on the board of FutureCycle Press. His poems appear widely, including Chariton Review, Kenyon Review, Midwest Quarterly, and Southern Poetry Review. He has published eight poetry collections, most recently Developing a Photograph of God (Glass Lyre Press, 2014) and Messages from Multiverses (Duck Lake Books, 2020).
Edward Lee is an artist and writer from Ireland. His paintings and photography have been exhibited widely, while his poetry, short stories, and nonfiction have been published in magazines in Ireland, England and America, including The Stinging Fly, Skylight 47, Acumen, New Feathers, The Blue Nib 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
Traci McMickle is a bi/pan/queer poet. She lives in Montana, where she’s a criminal justice reporter for her local newspaper. Traci graduated from the MFA program at the University of New Orleans. She currently manages social media for Hot Redhead Media, a small press. Hot Redhead Media has an anthology in the works titled Audacious Women, for which Traci will be poetry editor. Find out more at www.hotredheadmedia.com.
Mark Millicent is a UK writer and illustrator based in the USA. He works in the advertising and film world of Los Angeles, living by a lake in the Santa Monica Mountains with his wife and family, a cat and a peacock.
Juan Pablo Mobili was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and adopted by New York later. His poems have appeared in The American Journal of Poetry, Mason Street Review, Thimble Magazine, New Feathers Anthology, The Red Wheelbarrow Review, and The Worcester Review, among others. His work has received an honorable mention from the International Human Rights Art Festival, as well as Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net nominations. In addition to this, he published a chapbook of poems in collaboration with Madalasa Mobili, Three Unknown Poets, published by Seranam Press.
Cameron Morse is senior reviews editor at Harbor Review, a poetry editor at Harbor Editions, and the author of six collections of poetry. His first, Fall Risk, won Glass Lyre Press’s 2018 Best Book Award. His latest is Far Other (Woodley Press, 2020). He holds an MFA from the University of Kansas City–Missouri and lives in Independence, Missouri, with his wife Lili and two children. For more information, check out his Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/cameronmorsepoems) or website (https://cameronmorsepoems.wordpress.com/).
nGn (pronounced “engine”) is the first artist coming out of the independent music collective INJIMI. Not a very public artist, he prefers to keep his identity unknown, presenting himself as an animated character in his music videos. He pours himself out through his music, creating songs that flow as organically and randomly as his own thoughts. Or as he would sum it up: my music does the talking.
Lisa Panepinto is poetry editor for Cabildo Quarterly and author of where i come from the fish have souls, On This Borrowed Bike, and the chapbook Island Dreams. Visit her online at https://wavesturntosongs.wordpress.com/
Diane Payne’s most recent and forthcoming publications include Another Chicago Magazine, Cutleaf Journal, Pine Hills Review, Tiny Spoon, Ellipsis, Bending Genres, New York Times, Unlikely Stories, Hot Flash Fiction, The Blue Nib, Anti-Heroin Chic, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Oyster Review, Novus, Notre Dame Review, Obra/Artifact, Reservoir, Southern Fugitives, Spry Literary Journal, Watershed Review, Superstition Review, Windmill, Tishman Review, Whiskey Island, Fourth River, Lunch Ticket, Split Lip Magazine, The Offing, Elke: A Little Journal, Punctuate, Outpost19, McNeese Review, The Meadow, Burnt Pine, storySouth, and Five:2:One.
Kenneth Pobo is the author of twenty-one chapbooks and nine full-length collections. Recent books include Bend of Quiet (Blue Light Press), Loplop in a Red City (Circling Rivers), Dindi Expecting Snow (Duck Lake Books), Wingbuds (cyberwit.net), and Uneven Steven (Assure Press). In addition to poetry, he also writes fiction and essays. For the past thirty-plus years, he taught at Widener University and retired in 2020.
Ann Privateer is a poet, artist, and photographer. Some of her recent work has appeared in Third Wednesday and Entering, to name a few.
Carl Scharwath has appeared globally in over seventy-five journals that have selected his art photography. His first photography book was published by Praxis. His photography was also exhibited in the Mount Dora Center for the Arts gallery and their exhibition Be A Part of It. Recently his photography was accepted by the Leesburg Center for the Arts for their three-month storefront exhibition. Six global poets have also selected his photography to grace the covers of their published books. Carl is the art editor for both Minute Magazine (USA) and A Too Powerful Word (Serbia) and is a competitive runner.
Donald Seahill teaches writing at the University of California. His poetry will soon appear in Porcupine Literary, and he has also published articles in Breaking Boundaries: New Perspectives on Women’s Regional Fiction and in the journal Science-Fiction Studies on the topics of masculinity, regional fiction, and Native American writing.
Oindri Sengupta is a poet based out of Kolkata, India. Her works have appeared in a few online and print journals, like Muse India, Kritya, Ethos Literary Journal, Istanbul Literary Review, Chiron Review, A Hudson View, Poetry Quarterly, Contemporary Literary Review India, Decanto, Penwood Review, Life and Legends, Trouvaille Review, and in a couple of poetry anthologies. Apart from writing poetry, she also teaches English in a government school in Kolkata.
Judith Skillman is the recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets and Artist Trust. Her recent collection is Came Home to Winter (Deerbrook Editions, 2019). Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Iowa Review, The Southern Review, Zyzzyva, and other journals. Visit www.judithskillman.com.
Doug Tanoury is a Detroit poet who has been published widely in print and on the Internet. He has written a number of chapbooks, including Detroit Poems, Merida Poems, Getting Religion, and Tolstoy’s Ghost.
Bill Vernon studied English literature, then taught it. Writing is his therapy, along with exercising outdoors and doing international folk dances. Five Star Mysteries published his novel Old Town, and his poems, stories, and nonfiction occasionally appear in a variety of magazines and anthologies.
Jamie Wendt is the author of the poetry collection Fruit of the Earth, which won the 2019 National Federation of Press Women Book Award poetry. Her poems, essays, and book reviews have been published in various literary journals and anthologies, including Feminine Rising, Lilith, Literary Mama, the Forward, Third Wednesday, and Saranac Review. She holds an MFA from the University of Nebraska–Omaha. She teaches and lives in Chicago with her family. See her website at https://jamiewendt.wordpress.com/
Ron Wolff, in retirement, devotes himself primarily to photography and writing. His short stories have been published in eight literary journals. His photographs have been published in two journals and exhibited in galleries and shows in California, Colorado, and Virginia. Portraits and scenics are his favorite genres. View more of his work at https://ronwolffphotography.weebly.com. He is currently working on a young adult novel.
Angela Zimmerling has been writing and creating images from the time she was able to hold a crayon. She works primarily in pastel, ink, and pencil crayon. Her work tends to the whimsical and seeks to connect with the wild child within all of us. She is passionately involved with the environmental movements in her home province of British Columbia.