Contributors
Mikki Aronoff’s work appears in New World Writing, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Flash Boulevard, Bending Genres, Milk Candy Review, Gone Lawn, 100 word story, Atlas and Alice, trampset, The Offing, Midway Journal, and elsewhere. She’s received Pushcart, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, Best American Short Stories, and Best Microfiction nominations.
Ken Been’s poetry has been published or is forthcoming in numerous journals and anthologies. A sampling includes LIT Magazine, Griffel, The RavensPerch, The Metaworker Literary Magazine, The Argyle Poetry Review, Stone Poetry Quarterly, October Hill Magazine, Arlington Literary Journal, The Headlight Review, Plainsongs and Poetica Magazine. He is from Detroit.
Lynn Bey has had short stories and flash fiction published in O:JA&L, Club Plum, The Literarian (nominated for a Pushcart award), Nixes Mate Review, New World Writing, The Binnacle (nominated for a Pushcart award and joint winner of the Eleventh Annual Ultra-Short Competition), Digital Americana, Scribble Magazine, The Brooklyner, Birmingham Arts Journal, and other magazines.
Dom Blanco is from Miami, Florida. He earned a BA in philosophy from DePaul University in Chicago. In June of 2024, he will complete the MFA program at Randolph College in Lynchburg, VA. He is the recipient of generous support from the Nancy Craig Blackburn Program. He lives and works in Chicago.
Jude Brigley is Welsh. She has been a teacher, an editor, and a performance poet. She is now writing more for the page. Her work has appeared in a wide range of magazines, and she has a chapbook, Labours.
Vikki C. is a British-born, award-nominated writer, poet, and musician from London, currently residing/working in Asia. She is the author of the chapbook The Art of Glass Houses (Alien Buddha Press, 2022) and the full collection Where Sands Run Finest (DarkWinter Press, 2024). Vikki’s poetry and fiction are internationally published/forthcoming in Stone Circle Review, EcoTheo Review, ONE ART Poetry, Psaltery & Lyre, The Inflectionist Review, Ballast Journal, Dust Poetry Magazine, Ice Floe Press, Black Bough Poetry, DarkWinter Lit, Acropolis Journal, The Belfast Review, The Winged Moon, Sontag Mag, Boats Against the Current, Nightingale & Sparrow, Origami Poems, Jerry Jazz Musician, Lazuli Literary Group, and numerous other venues.
Cheryl Caesar is an ex-expatriate, having lived in Europe for twenty-five years before returning to her native Michigan. She teaches writing at Michigan State University and serves as president of the Michigan College English Association and secretary of the Lansing Poetry Club. Her chapbook of protest poetry, Flatman, is available from Amazon, and her poems and artwork appear in both volumes of Words Across the Water (Fractal Edge Press). Last summer, she won first prize for prose in the My Secret Lansing contest sponsored by the Lansing Arts Council.
Allison Camp is a Washington State native now living and working in North Carolina. A scientist by training, Allison has a deep affinity for biology and the fascinating details that abound in nature. Her connection to the natural world inspires her creative work. You can find her musings on creativity and science on her Substack: https://allisoncamp.substack.com/
Selyf Davis calls the Pacific Northwest home.
Patrick Dawson is a script reader and writer from London whose work has recently been published in Litro Magazine.
William Doreski lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He has taught at several colleges and universities. His most recent book of poetry is Venus, Jupiter (2023). His essays, poetry, fiction, and reviews have appeared in various journals.
Eric Raanan Fischman is an MFA graduate of Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. He has taught free writing workshops in Nederland, Boulder, and Longmont, and has had work in Bombay Gin, The Boulder Weekly, and Suspect Press, as well as in fundraising anthologies by Punch Drunk Press and South Broadway Ghost Society, benefiting the Mutiny Info Cafe and Denver Food Rescue. His first book, Mordy Gets Enlightened, was published through The Little Door in 2017.
D. Dina Friedman has published in many literary journals, including Salamander, Rattle, The Sun, Mass Poetry, Chautauqua Journal, Crab Orchard Review, Cider Press Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Cold Mountain Review, Lilith, Negative Capability and Rhino and received four Pushcart Prize nominations. She is the author of two books of poetry, Wolf in the Suitcase (Finishing Line Press) and Here in Sanctuary, Whirling (Querencia Press). Dina’s fiction includes the short-story collection Immigrants (Creators Press) and two YA novels, Escaping into the Night (Simon and Schuster) and Playing Dad’s Song (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). To learn more about Dina, visit her website at www.ddinafriedman.com and subscribe to her blog on living a creative life in a creatively challenged universe at ddinafriedman.substack.com.
Carlene M. Gadapee is a poet-teacher, both by vocation and by trade, whose poetry and critical reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in many publications, including English Journal, Waterwheel Review, Gyroscope Review, Smoky Quartz, Think, Allium, Vox Populi, and MicroLit Almanac. Carlene also received a “Best of the Net” nomination in 2023. Her chapbook, What to Keep, will be released by Finishing Line Press in early 2025. Carlene lives and works in northern New Hampshire.
GTimothy Gordon’s Dream Wind was published 2020 (Spirit-of-the-Ram), Ground of This Blue Earth(Mellen), while Everything Speaking Chinese received Riverstone Press Poetry Prize (AZ). Work appears in AGNI, American Literary Review, Cincinnati Review, Mississippi Review, New York Quarterly, RHINO, Sonora Review, Texas Observer, several nominated for Pushcarts, and awarded NEA and NEH Fellowship Residencies. Empty was published January 2024 (Cyberwit Press), Blue Business is in-progress. He divides lives between New Mexico/Texas borderland Chihuahuan Desert Southwest Organ Mountains and Asia.
Shannon Frost Greenstein (She/They) resides in Philadelphia with her children and soulmate. She is the author of The Wendigo of Wall Street, a novella forthcoming with Emerge Literary Press. Shannon is a former Ph.D. candidate in Continental philosophy and a multitime Pushcart Prize nominee. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Pithead Chapel, Bending Genres, and elsewhere. Shannon was recently a finalist for the Ohio State University Press Journal Non/Fiction Prize. Follow her on her website at shannonfrostgreenstein.com or on Twitter at @ShannonFrostGre. Insta: @zarathustra_speaks
Samantha Imperi is a Ph.D. poetry student at Ohio University. She received her MFA from the NEOMFA program at the University of Akron in 2023. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Great Lakes Review, Sixfold, Allium, Pinch, and Canary, among others. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram @simperi08 or visit www.samanthaimperi.net for more information.
Beth Kanell lives in northeastern Vermont among rivers, rocks, and a lot of writers. Her poems seek comfortable seats in small well-lit places, including Lilith Magazine, Gyroscope Review, The Post-Grad Journal, Does It Have Pockets?, Anti-Heroin Chic, Ritualwell, Persimmon Tree, Northwind Treasury, and Rise Up Review, and runner-up poem for the Kowit Prize. Find her memoirs on Medium, and her reviews at the New York Journal of Books and Historical Novels Review. She also writes feature articles, short stories, and novels, recently This Ardent Flame and The Long Shadow.
Nicola Kelly is a self-taught, realist artist from Co. Dublin, now based in Wexford. Primarily painted in oils, there’s an element of delicate translucency in her work, an ethereal style of visual storytelling that has been strongly influenced by her background in contemporary dance training, which helped her develop an innate understanding of form and movement. Kelly felt compelled to begin painting in 2007. She describes painting as a cathartic process of releasing past traumas, which cannot always be articulated or easily conveyed with words. Kelly’s work has been exhibited in the Signal Arts Center Bray, public architect offices, among other local venues. She was also selected as one of one hundred Irish artists asked to design a “What on Earth” globe sculpture, which was exhibited at CHQ buildings Dublin.
Blair Martin grew up on a small farm in Lancaster County, PA. They received their PhD in clinical psychology from Bowling Green State University and teach at Joliet Junior College. Their work has appeared in/is forthcoming in Anti-Heroin Chic, Pictura Journal and Highland Park Poetry’s Summer Muses Gallery/anthology.
Talitha May is an educator and artist whose work examines animal and environmental issues.
Noah Anthony Mezzacappa is a New York–based writer and filmmaker from Knoxville, Tennessee. He has been published in San Pedro River Review and WayWords Literary Journal, and in 2023 he published a chapbook of poems, Count the Dark, through Bottlecap Press. He is a huge fan of hip-hop, Jason Isbell, and 99¢ pizza. You can find more of his work at www.noahmezzacappa.com and @noahmezzacappa on most platforms.
James Miller is a native of the Texas Gulf Coast, now settled in Oklahoma City. His work has appeared in Best Small Fictions (2021), Hopkins Review, Broadkill Review, San Pedro River Review, Heavy Feather Review, The Ilanot Review, The Atlanta Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Psaltery & Lyre, Soundings East, and elsewhere. Follow on Twitter @AndrewM1621. On Bluesky @jandrewm.bsky.social. Website: jamesmillerpoetry.com.
Joseph A. Miller is an associate professor of art at SUNY Buffalo State, where he has taught drawing and painting since 1997. Miller’s work is in numerous public and private collections and has been shown internationally in Finland, China, Poland, and the Czech Republic, as well as across the United States, from Berkeley, California, to Cambridge, Massachusetts. His work is represented by Art Dialogue Gallery in Buffalo, NY, and West End Gallery in Corning, NY. To learn more, go to https://artdesign.buffalostate.edu/directory/joseph-miller
MaryAnn L. Miller holds a B.S. Degree in art education with an English minor from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, a master’s in counseling from the College of New Jersey, and a master’s of fine arts in poetry from Rosemont College. She has been a printmaker, a poet, and a book artist for many years. Her interests have evolved to ecological topics. She recently had an exhibit in her studio space of serigraphs, collage, and linotypes, and she is also a published poet, with four published collections of poetry and three Pushcart nominations. She finds that the language arts and visual arts enhance each other, especially in the production of artist’s books. See her website to learn more: www.maryannlmiller.com
Noel Molloy received a degree in fine art from the Limerick School of Art and Design in 1982. He works in sculpture/mixed media and performance art and has exhibited and performed throughout Ireland, Western and Eastern Europe, and the U.S.A. Molloy is a founder and administrator of Working Artists Roscommon (WAR) and a member of Visual Artists Ireland, and he has organized the Arts Cabaret in Roscommon, Ireland, from 1999 to 2024. Molloy has won numerous awards, including from Arts Council Ireland (1991–2006), Americans for the Arts residency (1998), Cultural Relations Committee Department of Foreign Affairs Travel Award (1993, 2003), VEC (1999–2006), and the Roscommon County Council Arts Office (1999-2024). To learn more about his work, visit his website: www.noelmolloyart.com.
JJ D’Onofrio’s art has been featured in numerous publications, and this summer will be shown in group shows in galleries in Glasgow, Scotland, and the Isle of Crete.
Ann Marie Potter recently graduated from a creative writing PhD program at Oklahoma State University and is enjoying her first year in the beautiful state of Wyoming. Her work has been published in the Muleskinner Journal, The Meadow, Peauxdunque Review, and Literally Stories.
Marina Ramil is a Latine lesbian whose work can be found in Stoneboat, South Florida Poetry Journal, OxMag, Astrolabe, and elsewhere. They live in Miami with the alligators and strangler figs. You can find them on Instagram and Twitter @thesuncomingout.
Sarah Sarai’s poems are in many journals, including Hanging Loose, Sinister Wisdom, New Ohio Review, Barrow Street, Big City Lit, Rat’s Ass Review, as well as her poetry collections, Bright-Eyed (Poets Wear Prada), Geographies of Soul and Taffeta (Indolent Books), and others.
Carl Scharwath has appeared globally in over 175 journals that have selected his writing and art. He has published four poetry books, including his latest book, The World Went Dark, published by Alien Buddha Press. Scharwath has four photography books, published by Praxis and CreatiVingenuitiy. His photography was exhibited in the Mount Dora and Leesburg Centers for the Arts. He is currently an art editor at Glitterati and former editor for Minute Magazine. He was nominated for three Best of the Net Awards (2021–23) and two different 2023 Pushcart nominations for poetry and a short story.
Henry Shorney is a Denver-based writer and frequent student at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop. He is currently the assistant superintendent at Willis Case Golf Course.
Irina Tall (Novikova) is an artist, graphic artist,and illustrator. She graduated from the State Academy of Slavic Cultures with a degree in art, and also has a bachelor's degree in design. Her first personal exhibition, My Soul Is Like a Wild Hawk (2002), was held in the museum of Maxim Bagdanovich. In her works, she raises ecological themes. in 2005, she devoted a series of works to the Chernobyl disaster. She also draws on antiwar topics. The first big series she drew was The Red Book, dedicated to rare and endangered species of animals and birds. She writes fairytales and poems, and illustrates short stories. She draws various fantastic creatures: unicorns, animals with human faces. She especially likes the image of a man–a bird–Siren. In 2020, she took part in Poznań Art Week. Her work has been published in magazines such as Gupsophila, Harpy Hybrid Review, Little Literary Living Room, and others. In 2022, her short story was included in the collection The 50 Best Short Stories, and her poem was published in the collection of poetry The Wonders of Winter.
Anna Ursyn, PhD, professor, University of Northern Colorado, has published twelve books and several book chapters. She has exhibited her work in over fifty single art shows/two hundred fine art exhibitions, including over a dozen times at the ACM SIGGRAPH Art Galleries and at the Louvre, Paris, NTT Museum in Tokyo (five thousand texts and two thousand images representing XX Century), and Virtual Media Network. Since 1987, she has been chair of the Symposium and Digital Art Gallery D-ART: International IEEE Conference on Information Visualisation (iV) London. Her artwork was selected to be sent to the Moon by NASA as a part of the MoonArc Project by Carnegie Melon University. Her work has also appeared in traveling shows, including for Centre Pompidou, Paris. Her work in the ABAD exhibition is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She also has work in the rermanent collection of Museé de la Poste in Paris, France, and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. To learn more, see her website at ursyn.com.
Makayla Wamboldt is a writer and educator living in San Diego. Through her work she hopes to explore place, spirit, and community. She holds a B.A. in English and creative writing from Gonzaga University.
Sean Whalen lives near Pilot Mound, Iowa, and enjoys what life close to home has to offer. Recent works have appeared in Halcyon Days, Last Leaves, Smoky Blue, After Happy Hour, The Ocotillo Review, and Oakwood. Poems are forthcoming in Unbroken and Thimble.
Ken Been’s poetry has been published or is forthcoming in numerous journals and anthologies. A sampling includes LIT Magazine, Griffel, The RavensPerch, The Metaworker Literary Magazine, The Argyle Poetry Review, Stone Poetry Quarterly, October Hill Magazine, Arlington Literary Journal, The Headlight Review, Plainsongs and Poetica Magazine. He is from Detroit.
Lynn Bey has had short stories and flash fiction published in O:JA&L, Club Plum, The Literarian (nominated for a Pushcart award), Nixes Mate Review, New World Writing, The Binnacle (nominated for a Pushcart award and joint winner of the Eleventh Annual Ultra-Short Competition), Digital Americana, Scribble Magazine, The Brooklyner, Birmingham Arts Journal, and other magazines.
Dom Blanco is from Miami, Florida. He earned a BA in philosophy from DePaul University in Chicago. In June of 2024, he will complete the MFA program at Randolph College in Lynchburg, VA. He is the recipient of generous support from the Nancy Craig Blackburn Program. He lives and works in Chicago.
Jude Brigley is Welsh. She has been a teacher, an editor, and a performance poet. She is now writing more for the page. Her work has appeared in a wide range of magazines, and she has a chapbook, Labours.
Vikki C. is a British-born, award-nominated writer, poet, and musician from London, currently residing/working in Asia. She is the author of the chapbook The Art of Glass Houses (Alien Buddha Press, 2022) and the full collection Where Sands Run Finest (DarkWinter Press, 2024). Vikki’s poetry and fiction are internationally published/forthcoming in Stone Circle Review, EcoTheo Review, ONE ART Poetry, Psaltery & Lyre, The Inflectionist Review, Ballast Journal, Dust Poetry Magazine, Ice Floe Press, Black Bough Poetry, DarkWinter Lit, Acropolis Journal, The Belfast Review, The Winged Moon, Sontag Mag, Boats Against the Current, Nightingale & Sparrow, Origami Poems, Jerry Jazz Musician, Lazuli Literary Group, and numerous other venues.
Cheryl Caesar is an ex-expatriate, having lived in Europe for twenty-five years before returning to her native Michigan. She teaches writing at Michigan State University and serves as president of the Michigan College English Association and secretary of the Lansing Poetry Club. Her chapbook of protest poetry, Flatman, is available from Amazon, and her poems and artwork appear in both volumes of Words Across the Water (Fractal Edge Press). Last summer, she won first prize for prose in the My Secret Lansing contest sponsored by the Lansing Arts Council.
Allison Camp is a Washington State native now living and working in North Carolina. A scientist by training, Allison has a deep affinity for biology and the fascinating details that abound in nature. Her connection to the natural world inspires her creative work. You can find her musings on creativity and science on her Substack: https://allisoncamp.substack.com/
Selyf Davis calls the Pacific Northwest home.
Patrick Dawson is a script reader and writer from London whose work has recently been published in Litro Magazine.
William Doreski lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He has taught at several colleges and universities. His most recent book of poetry is Venus, Jupiter (2023). His essays, poetry, fiction, and reviews have appeared in various journals.
Eric Raanan Fischman is an MFA graduate of Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. He has taught free writing workshops in Nederland, Boulder, and Longmont, and has had work in Bombay Gin, The Boulder Weekly, and Suspect Press, as well as in fundraising anthologies by Punch Drunk Press and South Broadway Ghost Society, benefiting the Mutiny Info Cafe and Denver Food Rescue. His first book, Mordy Gets Enlightened, was published through The Little Door in 2017.
D. Dina Friedman has published in many literary journals, including Salamander, Rattle, The Sun, Mass Poetry, Chautauqua Journal, Crab Orchard Review, Cider Press Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Cold Mountain Review, Lilith, Negative Capability and Rhino and received four Pushcart Prize nominations. She is the author of two books of poetry, Wolf in the Suitcase (Finishing Line Press) and Here in Sanctuary, Whirling (Querencia Press). Dina’s fiction includes the short-story collection Immigrants (Creators Press) and two YA novels, Escaping into the Night (Simon and Schuster) and Playing Dad’s Song (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). To learn more about Dina, visit her website at www.ddinafriedman.com and subscribe to her blog on living a creative life in a creatively challenged universe at ddinafriedman.substack.com.
Carlene M. Gadapee is a poet-teacher, both by vocation and by trade, whose poetry and critical reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in many publications, including English Journal, Waterwheel Review, Gyroscope Review, Smoky Quartz, Think, Allium, Vox Populi, and MicroLit Almanac. Carlene also received a “Best of the Net” nomination in 2023. Her chapbook, What to Keep, will be released by Finishing Line Press in early 2025. Carlene lives and works in northern New Hampshire.
GTimothy Gordon’s Dream Wind was published 2020 (Spirit-of-the-Ram), Ground of This Blue Earth(Mellen), while Everything Speaking Chinese received Riverstone Press Poetry Prize (AZ). Work appears in AGNI, American Literary Review, Cincinnati Review, Mississippi Review, New York Quarterly, RHINO, Sonora Review, Texas Observer, several nominated for Pushcarts, and awarded NEA and NEH Fellowship Residencies. Empty was published January 2024 (Cyberwit Press), Blue Business is in-progress. He divides lives between New Mexico/Texas borderland Chihuahuan Desert Southwest Organ Mountains and Asia.
Shannon Frost Greenstein (She/They) resides in Philadelphia with her children and soulmate. She is the author of The Wendigo of Wall Street, a novella forthcoming with Emerge Literary Press. Shannon is a former Ph.D. candidate in Continental philosophy and a multitime Pushcart Prize nominee. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Pithead Chapel, Bending Genres, and elsewhere. Shannon was recently a finalist for the Ohio State University Press Journal Non/Fiction Prize. Follow her on her website at shannonfrostgreenstein.com or on Twitter at @ShannonFrostGre. Insta: @zarathustra_speaks
Samantha Imperi is a Ph.D. poetry student at Ohio University. She received her MFA from the NEOMFA program at the University of Akron in 2023. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Great Lakes Review, Sixfold, Allium, Pinch, and Canary, among others. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram @simperi08 or visit www.samanthaimperi.net for more information.
Beth Kanell lives in northeastern Vermont among rivers, rocks, and a lot of writers. Her poems seek comfortable seats in small well-lit places, including Lilith Magazine, Gyroscope Review, The Post-Grad Journal, Does It Have Pockets?, Anti-Heroin Chic, Ritualwell, Persimmon Tree, Northwind Treasury, and Rise Up Review, and runner-up poem for the Kowit Prize. Find her memoirs on Medium, and her reviews at the New York Journal of Books and Historical Novels Review. She also writes feature articles, short stories, and novels, recently This Ardent Flame and The Long Shadow.
Nicola Kelly is a self-taught, realist artist from Co. Dublin, now based in Wexford. Primarily painted in oils, there’s an element of delicate translucency in her work, an ethereal style of visual storytelling that has been strongly influenced by her background in contemporary dance training, which helped her develop an innate understanding of form and movement. Kelly felt compelled to begin painting in 2007. She describes painting as a cathartic process of releasing past traumas, which cannot always be articulated or easily conveyed with words. Kelly’s work has been exhibited in the Signal Arts Center Bray, public architect offices, among other local venues. She was also selected as one of one hundred Irish artists asked to design a “What on Earth” globe sculpture, which was exhibited at CHQ buildings Dublin.
Blair Martin grew up on a small farm in Lancaster County, PA. They received their PhD in clinical psychology from Bowling Green State University and teach at Joliet Junior College. Their work has appeared in/is forthcoming in Anti-Heroin Chic, Pictura Journal and Highland Park Poetry’s Summer Muses Gallery/anthology.
Talitha May is an educator and artist whose work examines animal and environmental issues.
Noah Anthony Mezzacappa is a New York–based writer and filmmaker from Knoxville, Tennessee. He has been published in San Pedro River Review and WayWords Literary Journal, and in 2023 he published a chapbook of poems, Count the Dark, through Bottlecap Press. He is a huge fan of hip-hop, Jason Isbell, and 99¢ pizza. You can find more of his work at www.noahmezzacappa.com and @noahmezzacappa on most platforms.
James Miller is a native of the Texas Gulf Coast, now settled in Oklahoma City. His work has appeared in Best Small Fictions (2021), Hopkins Review, Broadkill Review, San Pedro River Review, Heavy Feather Review, The Ilanot Review, The Atlanta Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Psaltery & Lyre, Soundings East, and elsewhere. Follow on Twitter @AndrewM1621. On Bluesky @jandrewm.bsky.social. Website: jamesmillerpoetry.com.
Joseph A. Miller is an associate professor of art at SUNY Buffalo State, where he has taught drawing and painting since 1997. Miller’s work is in numerous public and private collections and has been shown internationally in Finland, China, Poland, and the Czech Republic, as well as across the United States, from Berkeley, California, to Cambridge, Massachusetts. His work is represented by Art Dialogue Gallery in Buffalo, NY, and West End Gallery in Corning, NY. To learn more, go to https://artdesign.buffalostate.edu/directory/joseph-miller
MaryAnn L. Miller holds a B.S. Degree in art education with an English minor from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, a master’s in counseling from the College of New Jersey, and a master’s of fine arts in poetry from Rosemont College. She has been a printmaker, a poet, and a book artist for many years. Her interests have evolved to ecological topics. She recently had an exhibit in her studio space of serigraphs, collage, and linotypes, and she is also a published poet, with four published collections of poetry and three Pushcart nominations. She finds that the language arts and visual arts enhance each other, especially in the production of artist’s books. See her website to learn more: www.maryannlmiller.com
Noel Molloy received a degree in fine art from the Limerick School of Art and Design in 1982. He works in sculpture/mixed media and performance art and has exhibited and performed throughout Ireland, Western and Eastern Europe, and the U.S.A. Molloy is a founder and administrator of Working Artists Roscommon (WAR) and a member of Visual Artists Ireland, and he has organized the Arts Cabaret in Roscommon, Ireland, from 1999 to 2024. Molloy has won numerous awards, including from Arts Council Ireland (1991–2006), Americans for the Arts residency (1998), Cultural Relations Committee Department of Foreign Affairs Travel Award (1993, 2003), VEC (1999–2006), and the Roscommon County Council Arts Office (1999-2024). To learn more about his work, visit his website: www.noelmolloyart.com.
JJ D’Onofrio’s art has been featured in numerous publications, and this summer will be shown in group shows in galleries in Glasgow, Scotland, and the Isle of Crete.
Ann Marie Potter recently graduated from a creative writing PhD program at Oklahoma State University and is enjoying her first year in the beautiful state of Wyoming. Her work has been published in the Muleskinner Journal, The Meadow, Peauxdunque Review, and Literally Stories.
Marina Ramil is a Latine lesbian whose work can be found in Stoneboat, South Florida Poetry Journal, OxMag, Astrolabe, and elsewhere. They live in Miami with the alligators and strangler figs. You can find them on Instagram and Twitter @thesuncomingout.
Sarah Sarai’s poems are in many journals, including Hanging Loose, Sinister Wisdom, New Ohio Review, Barrow Street, Big City Lit, Rat’s Ass Review, as well as her poetry collections, Bright-Eyed (Poets Wear Prada), Geographies of Soul and Taffeta (Indolent Books), and others.
Carl Scharwath has appeared globally in over 175 journals that have selected his writing and art. He has published four poetry books, including his latest book, The World Went Dark, published by Alien Buddha Press. Scharwath has four photography books, published by Praxis and CreatiVingenuitiy. His photography was exhibited in the Mount Dora and Leesburg Centers for the Arts. He is currently an art editor at Glitterati and former editor for Minute Magazine. He was nominated for three Best of the Net Awards (2021–23) and two different 2023 Pushcart nominations for poetry and a short story.
Henry Shorney is a Denver-based writer and frequent student at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop. He is currently the assistant superintendent at Willis Case Golf Course.
Irina Tall (Novikova) is an artist, graphic artist,and illustrator. She graduated from the State Academy of Slavic Cultures with a degree in art, and also has a bachelor's degree in design. Her first personal exhibition, My Soul Is Like a Wild Hawk (2002), was held in the museum of Maxim Bagdanovich. In her works, she raises ecological themes. in 2005, she devoted a series of works to the Chernobyl disaster. She also draws on antiwar topics. The first big series she drew was The Red Book, dedicated to rare and endangered species of animals and birds. She writes fairytales and poems, and illustrates short stories. She draws various fantastic creatures: unicorns, animals with human faces. She especially likes the image of a man–a bird–Siren. In 2020, she took part in Poznań Art Week. Her work has been published in magazines such as Gupsophila, Harpy Hybrid Review, Little Literary Living Room, and others. In 2022, her short story was included in the collection The 50 Best Short Stories, and her poem was published in the collection of poetry The Wonders of Winter.
Anna Ursyn, PhD, professor, University of Northern Colorado, has published twelve books and several book chapters. She has exhibited her work in over fifty single art shows/two hundred fine art exhibitions, including over a dozen times at the ACM SIGGRAPH Art Galleries and at the Louvre, Paris, NTT Museum in Tokyo (five thousand texts and two thousand images representing XX Century), and Virtual Media Network. Since 1987, she has been chair of the Symposium and Digital Art Gallery D-ART: International IEEE Conference on Information Visualisation (iV) London. Her artwork was selected to be sent to the Moon by NASA as a part of the MoonArc Project by Carnegie Melon University. Her work has also appeared in traveling shows, including for Centre Pompidou, Paris. Her work in the ABAD exhibition is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She also has work in the rermanent collection of Museé de la Poste in Paris, France, and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. To learn more, see her website at ursyn.com.
Makayla Wamboldt is a writer and educator living in San Diego. Through her work she hopes to explore place, spirit, and community. She holds a B.A. in English and creative writing from Gonzaga University.
Sean Whalen lives near Pilot Mound, Iowa, and enjoys what life close to home has to offer. Recent works have appeared in Halcyon Days, Last Leaves, Smoky Blue, After Happy Hour, The Ocotillo Review, and Oakwood. Poems are forthcoming in Unbroken and Thimble.