Contributors
Carolyn Adams’s poetry and art have appeared in Steam Ticket, Cimarron Review, Evening Street Review, Dissident Voice, and Blueline Magazine, among others. She is the editor and publisher of the Oregon Poetry Calendar. Having authored four chapbooks, her full-length volume is forthcoming from Fernwood Press. She has been nominated multiple times for both Best of the Net and a Pushcart prize.
Rebecca Ahn is a Korean American writer who loves all things literary. Their work has been published in The Drabble and Vine Leaves Press, and they’re an editor at Cloudscent Journal. Their dream is to write a novel at a beachside cafe while consuming too much ice cream. They can be found at @toastieghostie.writes on Instagram.
Darwin Bell is a San Francisco–based photographer who specializes in urban street photography/abstracts. He was born in Seattle but considers San Francisco his home and muse and finds inspiration on every street of his chosen city. More of his work can be seen on his Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/darwinbell/
Noah Berlatsky tried being a poet some twenty years back and failed miserably. So he’s trying again. He won an honorable mention in the 2022 Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry contest and had one poem published in the winter 2022 issue of New Feathers. So that’s all encouraging. He tweets too much at @nberlat and scribbles longer at Everything Is Horrible (noahberlatsky.substack.com).
Korina Blazeby is a native Californian, born in the Central Valley farm community of Escalon. She spent much of her life in the Modesto, CA, area, where she raised her children. She has lived in London, San Francisco, and Oakland. She now lives in Berkeley with her partner and two cats. She is a home designer and cook who has begun exploring her photographic talents.
Mukut Borpujari was born on December 25, 1989, in Jorhat, Assam, India. He graduated with a major in English literature from Arya Vidyapeeth College, Guwahati, and completed his masters in Computer Application (MCA) in 2015, from Guru Ghasidas Central University, Bilaspur, CG. He started writing poems and articles when he was still in college, and his early poems were published in various local newspapers and magazines. His other hobbies and interests include computers and the Internet, listening to music, reading, and driving.
Tommy Carns was reared by folksingers on Cape Cod and weaned on a steady diet of folk songs of all sorts, from blues to spirituals from the southern U.S. and work songs, ballads from Ireland and Britain, and sea songs from New England. He formed The Hitchhikers in 1978 at age twelve with student of pop, songwriting singer and guitarist Aaron Spade. At age seventeen, the band made a record produced by Chandler Travis, and a couple years later The Hitchhikers moved to Oakland, California. With a sound likened to the Everly Brothers meets The Jam, The Hitchhikers played up and down California, recorded and toured till Aaron Spade was recruited into hometown band The Incredible Casuals, back in Cape Cod. So, in 1989, Carns moved to Amsterdam to hone his songwriting skills and have a go at busking. Sequestered in an attic room, he filled notebooks by day and played in cafes, restaurants and busked for the next year and a half with Algerian double bass player Lyes Geyes, performing around Northern Europe, including Berlin during the months before and after the fall of the Berlin wall. Carns eventually made it back to the Bay Area, and over the next years toured and recorded with several bands—The Violets, The Mums, and Chicken on a Raft. He joined the Billy Talbot Band in 1997 and its offshoot, boatclub. (always with a lower-case b). Now, residing in Southern California, Carns co-founded The Brother Jonathan with Hide Nakanishi, Michael Hamilton, Ryan Fawley, and Zach Ostgaard in 2017. Their debut album, called Silver Sound, is out now in digital realms everywhere.
Website: https://www.thebrotherjonathan.com
Bandcamp: https://thebrotherjonathan.bandcamp.com
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.
Deborrah Corr lives in Seattle. She is a retired teacher whose work is now the joy and craft of poetry. Her poems have appeared or will appear soon in several journals, including Catamaran, Streetlight Magazine, The Main Street Rag,Crosswinds Poetry Journal, The Halcyon, Sequoia Speaks, Grand Little Things, Amethyst Review, and others.
Holly Day’s writing has recently appeared in Analog SF, The Hong Kong Review, andAppalachian Journal. She currently teaches at the Loft Literary Center in Minnesota, the Richard Hugo House in Washington, and WriterHouse in Virginia.
donnarkevic: Buckhannon, WV. MFA National University. Current work appears in Agape, Bindweed, and Book of Matches. In 2022, Main Street Rag published a novella of poetry entitled After the Lynching.
Jeffrey Dreiblatt is a poet, visual artist, and volunteer firefighter. His work has appeared in The Dillydoun Review, Bindweed Magazine, Bluepepper and Cathexis Northwest Press. He lives in Copake and Brooklyn, New York.
Gabrielle Dufrene is a poet and writer of creative nonfiction; she is currently in the creative writing MA program at University College Cork. She is originally from the American South, and her work often focuses on the interactions between religion, sexuality, place, and acceptance.
S. T. Eleu (they, them) was raised in Vegas then exiled to Chicago. They have been a musician, teacher, and consummate Vulcan. Autism is their default universe, and though sparsely populated, it is a glorious place to escape to, write in, and display an impressive collection of action figures. Their most recent publications were in Reed Magazine, American Diversity Report, Consilience Journal, Aphelion, and Divergents Magazine.
Shelley Fairweather-Vega is a professional translator of Russian and Uzbek in Seattle, Washington, with a special interest in the current prose and poetry of Central Asia.
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. M. Frech has a BFA and MFA from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts in dance, and writes poetry, children’s stories, fiction, nonfiction, screenplays. Her photographs are on Streetlight Magazine’s website. Frech’s chapbook Words from Walls was published in June 2022 by Finishing Line Press and her chapbook Quiet Tree is to be published September 2023 by Finishing Line Press. Both chapbooks contain both her poetry and photography.
Tim Goldstone has roamed widely and currently lives in Wales, disappearing into marshland with a rucksack and a rescue dog. He has been published internationally in journals and anthologies both online and in print, including 11 Mag Berlin, Lothlorien Poetry, Visual Verse, The Friday Poem, The Offing, The Cafe Irreal, Crannóg, Rough Diamond Poetry, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Ekphrasitc Revue, Red Poets, The Daily Drunk, and The Mechanics’ Institute Review Anthology. His poetry was presented on Digging for Wales, and his prose sequence read on stage at The Hay Festival. He also has scriptwriting credits for TV, radio, and theatre. Twitter: @muddygold.
Maria Golosnaya is an artist from Russia and graduated from the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of Ilya Glazunov. She has participated in various cultural festivals, exhibitions, and competitions.
She focuses on evolving ancient Russian painting and explores universal themes that arise from shared human existence in her artwork. The paintings reflect broader questions that confront human beings, drawing inspiration from both ancient Russian painting techniques and Middle Ages European painting techniques to create a body of work that is timeless and relevant to the contemporary world.
She uses tempera as a medium in her works and such medium allows her to achieve picturesque icon painting techniques that the ancient masters used, such as specific extraterrestrial light, local colors, and contour. She rejects chiaroscuro contrast to immerse the viewer in the painting. The technique of tempera painting most characteristically expresses the ideas that the artist wants to convey to the viewer. She pays special attention to details in her works, as each subject plays a certain role in revealing the idea of the work.
Ian Haight’s collection of poetry, Celadon, won Unicorn Press’s First Book Prize. With T’ae-yong Hŏ, he is the co-translator of Red Rain on a Spring Mountain: Complete Poems of Nansŏrhŏn and Homage to Green Tea by the Korean monk, Ch’oŭi, both forthcoming from White Pine Press. Other awards include Ninth Letter’s Literary Award in Translation, and grants from the Daesan Foundation, the Korea Literary Translation Institute, and the Baroboin Buddhist Foundation. Poems, essays, interviews, reviews, microfiction and translations appear in Barrow Street, Writer’s Chronicle, Hyundai Buddhist News, Full Stop,MoonPark Review and The Poetry Review (UK). For more information please visit ianhaight.com.
Veronika Hilská is an artist living and working alternately in Prague and in a secluded cottage in the northeast Bohemian mountains. As a small child, she had believed the cottage dated back to the medieval times. She takes inspiration from both the urban environment and the magical natural surroundings of the rural place. She has worked with different art forms, from drawing and painting to three-dimensional objects, sculpture, and jewelry.
Paul Hostovsky makes his living in Boston as a sign language interpreter. His latest book of poems is Mostly (FutureCycle Press, 2021). He has won a Pushcart Prize, two Best of the Net Awards, and has been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and The Writer’s Almanac. Website: paulhostovsky.com
Heikki Huotari attended a one-room school and spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower. Since retiring from academia/mathematics, he has published poems in numerous journals and in five poetry collections. His manuscript, To Justify the Butterfly, won second prize, and publication, in the 2022 James Tate Chapbook Competition.
Rebecca Klassen is an editor from the Cotswolds. Her work has been featured in publications such as Mslexia Best Short Fiction 2022, The Phare, Superlative, Popshot, The Wild Word, and Shorts Magazine. She has also performed her work at Cheltenham Literature Festival, Stroud Book Festival, and as a guest reader for The Phare. In 2021, she won the London Independent Story Prize for flash fiction.
Alexander Limarev is a freelance artist, mail art artist, poet, visual poet, and curator from Russia/Siberia. He has participated in more than 1,000 international projects and exhibitions. His artworks are part of private and museum collections of seventy-two countries and his art and poetry has been featured in various online publications, including Expoesia Visual Experimental, Undergroundbooks.org, Boek861, Tip of the Knife, Bukowski Erasure Poetry Anthology (Silver Birch Press), Briller Magazine, Brave New Word Magazine, Simulacro, Zoomoozophone Review, Iconic Lit, Caravel Literary Arts Journal, Metazen, Maintenant, The Broken Plate, The Gambler Mag, New Feathers Anthology, Degenerate Literature, Tuck Magazine, Ekphrastic Review, Sonic Boom Journal, Mush/Mum Mag, Utsanga, Bateau IvreE, Killer Whale Journal, Angry Old Man Magazine, and more.
Catherine Rockwood reads and edits for Reckoning Magazine, and reviews books for Strange Horizons. You can find her at www.catherinerockwood.com/about, or elsewhere on the Internet at strawberriesandbacon.wordpress.com
Ellen White Rook (she/her) is a poet and contemplative arts teacher living in upstate New York and southern Maine. Retired from a career in information technology, she now offers writing workshops and leads retreats that merge meditation, movement, and writing. Ellen is a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts program at Lindenwood University. Her work has been published in New Verse News, Black Fork, New Note Poetry, The Banyan Review, Quibble, Trolley, and more. A collection of poems, Suspended, is forthcoming from Cathexis Northwest Press in 2023. Visit her website: ellenwhiterook.com.
Mykyta Ryzhykh is from Ukraine. He is the winner of the international competition Art Against Drugs, a laureate of the literary competition named after Tyutyunnik, and has won many other awards, including the Arkadyi Dragomoshchenko Award. His work has been published in the journals Dzvin, Dnipro, Bukovinian magazine, Polutona, Rechport, Topos, Articulation, Formaslov, Literature Factory, Literary Chernihiv, Tipton Poetry Journal, Stone Poetry Journal, Divot journal, dyst, Superpresent Magazine, Allegro Poetry Magazine, Alternate Route , Better Than Starbucks Poetry & Fiction Journal, Littoral Press , Book of Matches, on the portals Litсenter, Ice Floe Press and Soloneba, the Ukrainian literary newspaper.
Mubarak Said is the third runner up of the poetry category of the 2022 Bill Ward Prize for Emerging Writers. He is a member of Gombe Jewel Writers Association and Hilltop Creative Arts Foundation. His works are forthcoming and published in many literary magazines, local and international, including World Voices Magazine, Icefloe Press, Literary Yard, Beatnik Cowboy, Wellerism, Teen Literary Journal, ILA Magazine, The Yellow Magazine, Pine Cone Review, Doublespeak Magazine, memoryhouse magazine, Synchronized Chaos, Susa Africa, Applied Worldwide, Opinion Nigeria, Today Post, Daily Trust, Daily Companion and elsewhere.
Coral Scherma is most alive when hiking in the forest. Now living in Denver, Colorado , she has resided in DC, Texas, San Francisco, Japan, Korea, the Pacific Northwest, and Santa Fe, and has traveled extensively throughout Asia. Each of those landscapes deeply informs her sense of home and visual rightness. She has been an accidental painter since the beginning of 2022, primarily because people kept asking about her retirement plans.
Nicole Servino is a writer living in Denver.
Vladislav Shapovalov lives in St. Petersburg, Russia. Currently, he is studying cinematography at the St. Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television. These academic practices and his own interpretation of them help him to achieve the required result regardless of the circumstances. Through the mediums of photo and video, he captures the ever-changing world, projecting it through the prism of his vision. His challenge is to see beyond the ordinary and find meanings in small details that are always around us.
Daria Shipukhina is an artist and educator based in London, UK, born in Moscow, Russia. Combining her training in academic drawing and painting with the freedom of pure gestural abstraction, she is a mixed-media artist exploring the boundaries of different mediums, the wide range of techniques and innovative use of new and unusual materials.
The topic of her artistic practice is nature and its transient state. Working with subject matter such as landscapes, plants, and natural forms, she creates artworks rich with textures and multilayered compositions. The fluidity of natural shapes is celebrated by bringing out various viscous qualities of paint and ink. The result is a body of work that documents her confidence in her mark making and style, moving away from the detail of figurative. She creates a new mythology of places, inhabiting them with her own experience and memories.
J. M. Summers was born and lives, still, in the South Wales valleys. Previous publication credits include Another Country from Gomer Press, Borderlines, Blithe Spirit and Presence. The former editor of a number of small press magazines, he has published one book, Niamh, a collection of prose and poetry.
Olga Suvorova (b.1977, USSR) is a visual artist, working in ceramics, with а strong interest in research on earth material. She has a background in computer science, and after having two children, Olga changed her professional path. She began her artistic practice with evening classes at Art Academy and went to the St Petersburg school of Fashion. After graduation, she focused more on ceramic art and research. She exhibited at national exhibitions, including the Ural Triennial of Decorative Arts (2022), Ceramics on the Grass (St. Petersburg, 2021), and a group exhibition at the Artists’ Union (St. Petersburg, 2011, 2022).
Ruth Towne is a graduate of the Stonecoast MFA program. Other poems from Resurrection of the Mannequins are forthcoming from The Decadent Review and Coffin Bell Journal. Her poetry has also appeared in Grim & Gilded, Plainsongs Poetry Magazine, and New Feathers Anthology. She has forthcoming publications in Mantis Poetry Journal.
Ginna Wilkerson has been a choreographer, poet, fiction writer, photographer, and visual artist over the course of an unpredictable sixty-seven years. Her work has been exhibited in Catalonia, Scotland, Florida, West Virginia, and Kentucky, most recently in the Kentucky Capitol Gallery
Cynthia Yatchman is a Seattle-based artist and art instructor. A former ceramicist, she received her B.F.A. in painting (UW). She switched from 3D to 2D and has remained there ever since. She works primarily on paintings, prints, and collages. Her art is housed in numerous public and private collections. She has exhibited on both coasts, extensively in the Northwest, including shows at Seattle University, SPU, Shoreline Community College, the Tacoma and Seattle Convention Centers and the Pacific Science Center. She is an affiliate member of Gallery 110, a member of the Seattle Print Art Association and COCA.
Rena Zhuman is a poet and a Kazakh-to-Russian translator in Kokshetau, Kazakhstan, who has also worked as a journalist and instructor at a conservatory of music. She has published two full collections of poetry and a cycle of twenty sonnets to Shoqan Walihanov.
Rebecca Ahn is a Korean American writer who loves all things literary. Their work has been published in The Drabble and Vine Leaves Press, and they’re an editor at Cloudscent Journal. Their dream is to write a novel at a beachside cafe while consuming too much ice cream. They can be found at @toastieghostie.writes on Instagram.
Darwin Bell is a San Francisco–based photographer who specializes in urban street photography/abstracts. He was born in Seattle but considers San Francisco his home and muse and finds inspiration on every street of his chosen city. More of his work can be seen on his Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/darwinbell/
Noah Berlatsky tried being a poet some twenty years back and failed miserably. So he’s trying again. He won an honorable mention in the 2022 Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry contest and had one poem published in the winter 2022 issue of New Feathers. So that’s all encouraging. He tweets too much at @nberlat and scribbles longer at Everything Is Horrible (noahberlatsky.substack.com).
Korina Blazeby is a native Californian, born in the Central Valley farm community of Escalon. She spent much of her life in the Modesto, CA, area, where she raised her children. She has lived in London, San Francisco, and Oakland. She now lives in Berkeley with her partner and two cats. She is a home designer and cook who has begun exploring her photographic talents.
Mukut Borpujari was born on December 25, 1989, in Jorhat, Assam, India. He graduated with a major in English literature from Arya Vidyapeeth College, Guwahati, and completed his masters in Computer Application (MCA) in 2015, from Guru Ghasidas Central University, Bilaspur, CG. He started writing poems and articles when he was still in college, and his early poems were published in various local newspapers and magazines. His other hobbies and interests include computers and the Internet, listening to music, reading, and driving.
Tommy Carns was reared by folksingers on Cape Cod and weaned on a steady diet of folk songs of all sorts, from blues to spirituals from the southern U.S. and work songs, ballads from Ireland and Britain, and sea songs from New England. He formed The Hitchhikers in 1978 at age twelve with student of pop, songwriting singer and guitarist Aaron Spade. At age seventeen, the band made a record produced by Chandler Travis, and a couple years later The Hitchhikers moved to Oakland, California. With a sound likened to the Everly Brothers meets The Jam, The Hitchhikers played up and down California, recorded and toured till Aaron Spade was recruited into hometown band The Incredible Casuals, back in Cape Cod. So, in 1989, Carns moved to Amsterdam to hone his songwriting skills and have a go at busking. Sequestered in an attic room, he filled notebooks by day and played in cafes, restaurants and busked for the next year and a half with Algerian double bass player Lyes Geyes, performing around Northern Europe, including Berlin during the months before and after the fall of the Berlin wall. Carns eventually made it back to the Bay Area, and over the next years toured and recorded with several bands—The Violets, The Mums, and Chicken on a Raft. He joined the Billy Talbot Band in 1997 and its offshoot, boatclub. (always with a lower-case b). Now, residing in Southern California, Carns co-founded The Brother Jonathan with Hide Nakanishi, Michael Hamilton, Ryan Fawley, and Zach Ostgaard in 2017. Their debut album, called Silver Sound, is out now in digital realms everywhere.
Website: https://www.thebrotherjonathan.com
Bandcamp: https://thebrotherjonathan.bandcamp.com
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.
Deborrah Corr lives in Seattle. She is a retired teacher whose work is now the joy and craft of poetry. Her poems have appeared or will appear soon in several journals, including Catamaran, Streetlight Magazine, The Main Street Rag,Crosswinds Poetry Journal, The Halcyon, Sequoia Speaks, Grand Little Things, Amethyst Review, and others.
Holly Day’s writing has recently appeared in Analog SF, The Hong Kong Review, andAppalachian Journal. She currently teaches at the Loft Literary Center in Minnesota, the Richard Hugo House in Washington, and WriterHouse in Virginia.
donnarkevic: Buckhannon, WV. MFA National University. Current work appears in Agape, Bindweed, and Book of Matches. In 2022, Main Street Rag published a novella of poetry entitled After the Lynching.
Jeffrey Dreiblatt is a poet, visual artist, and volunteer firefighter. His work has appeared in The Dillydoun Review, Bindweed Magazine, Bluepepper and Cathexis Northwest Press. He lives in Copake and Brooklyn, New York.
Gabrielle Dufrene is a poet and writer of creative nonfiction; she is currently in the creative writing MA program at University College Cork. She is originally from the American South, and her work often focuses on the interactions between religion, sexuality, place, and acceptance.
S. T. Eleu (they, them) was raised in Vegas then exiled to Chicago. They have been a musician, teacher, and consummate Vulcan. Autism is their default universe, and though sparsely populated, it is a glorious place to escape to, write in, and display an impressive collection of action figures. Their most recent publications were in Reed Magazine, American Diversity Report, Consilience Journal, Aphelion, and Divergents Magazine.
Shelley Fairweather-Vega is a professional translator of Russian and Uzbek in Seattle, Washington, with a special interest in the current prose and poetry of Central Asia.
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. M. Frech has a BFA and MFA from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts in dance, and writes poetry, children’s stories, fiction, nonfiction, screenplays. Her photographs are on Streetlight Magazine’s website. Frech’s chapbook Words from Walls was published in June 2022 by Finishing Line Press and her chapbook Quiet Tree is to be published September 2023 by Finishing Line Press. Both chapbooks contain both her poetry and photography.
Tim Goldstone has roamed widely and currently lives in Wales, disappearing into marshland with a rucksack and a rescue dog. He has been published internationally in journals and anthologies both online and in print, including 11 Mag Berlin, Lothlorien Poetry, Visual Verse, The Friday Poem, The Offing, The Cafe Irreal, Crannóg, Rough Diamond Poetry, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Ekphrasitc Revue, Red Poets, The Daily Drunk, and The Mechanics’ Institute Review Anthology. His poetry was presented on Digging for Wales, and his prose sequence read on stage at The Hay Festival. He also has scriptwriting credits for TV, radio, and theatre. Twitter: @muddygold.
Maria Golosnaya is an artist from Russia and graduated from the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of Ilya Glazunov. She has participated in various cultural festivals, exhibitions, and competitions.
She focuses on evolving ancient Russian painting and explores universal themes that arise from shared human existence in her artwork. The paintings reflect broader questions that confront human beings, drawing inspiration from both ancient Russian painting techniques and Middle Ages European painting techniques to create a body of work that is timeless and relevant to the contemporary world.
She uses tempera as a medium in her works and such medium allows her to achieve picturesque icon painting techniques that the ancient masters used, such as specific extraterrestrial light, local colors, and contour. She rejects chiaroscuro contrast to immerse the viewer in the painting. The technique of tempera painting most characteristically expresses the ideas that the artist wants to convey to the viewer. She pays special attention to details in her works, as each subject plays a certain role in revealing the idea of the work.
Ian Haight’s collection of poetry, Celadon, won Unicorn Press’s First Book Prize. With T’ae-yong Hŏ, he is the co-translator of Red Rain on a Spring Mountain: Complete Poems of Nansŏrhŏn and Homage to Green Tea by the Korean monk, Ch’oŭi, both forthcoming from White Pine Press. Other awards include Ninth Letter’s Literary Award in Translation, and grants from the Daesan Foundation, the Korea Literary Translation Institute, and the Baroboin Buddhist Foundation. Poems, essays, interviews, reviews, microfiction and translations appear in Barrow Street, Writer’s Chronicle, Hyundai Buddhist News, Full Stop,MoonPark Review and The Poetry Review (UK). For more information please visit ianhaight.com.
Veronika Hilská is an artist living and working alternately in Prague and in a secluded cottage in the northeast Bohemian mountains. As a small child, she had believed the cottage dated back to the medieval times. She takes inspiration from both the urban environment and the magical natural surroundings of the rural place. She has worked with different art forms, from drawing and painting to three-dimensional objects, sculpture, and jewelry.
Paul Hostovsky makes his living in Boston as a sign language interpreter. His latest book of poems is Mostly (FutureCycle Press, 2021). He has won a Pushcart Prize, two Best of the Net Awards, and has been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and The Writer’s Almanac. Website: paulhostovsky.com
Heikki Huotari attended a one-room school and spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower. Since retiring from academia/mathematics, he has published poems in numerous journals and in five poetry collections. His manuscript, To Justify the Butterfly, won second prize, and publication, in the 2022 James Tate Chapbook Competition.
Rebecca Klassen is an editor from the Cotswolds. Her work has been featured in publications such as Mslexia Best Short Fiction 2022, The Phare, Superlative, Popshot, The Wild Word, and Shorts Magazine. She has also performed her work at Cheltenham Literature Festival, Stroud Book Festival, and as a guest reader for The Phare. In 2021, she won the London Independent Story Prize for flash fiction.
Alexander Limarev is a freelance artist, mail art artist, poet, visual poet, and curator from Russia/Siberia. He has participated in more than 1,000 international projects and exhibitions. His artworks are part of private and museum collections of seventy-two countries and his art and poetry has been featured in various online publications, including Expoesia Visual Experimental, Undergroundbooks.org, Boek861, Tip of the Knife, Bukowski Erasure Poetry Anthology (Silver Birch Press), Briller Magazine, Brave New Word Magazine, Simulacro, Zoomoozophone Review, Iconic Lit, Caravel Literary Arts Journal, Metazen, Maintenant, The Broken Plate, The Gambler Mag, New Feathers Anthology, Degenerate Literature, Tuck Magazine, Ekphrastic Review, Sonic Boom Journal, Mush/Mum Mag, Utsanga, Bateau IvreE, Killer Whale Journal, Angry Old Man Magazine, and more.
Catherine Rockwood reads and edits for Reckoning Magazine, and reviews books for Strange Horizons. You can find her at www.catherinerockwood.com/about, or elsewhere on the Internet at strawberriesandbacon.wordpress.com
Ellen White Rook (she/her) is a poet and contemplative arts teacher living in upstate New York and southern Maine. Retired from a career in information technology, she now offers writing workshops and leads retreats that merge meditation, movement, and writing. Ellen is a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts program at Lindenwood University. Her work has been published in New Verse News, Black Fork, New Note Poetry, The Banyan Review, Quibble, Trolley, and more. A collection of poems, Suspended, is forthcoming from Cathexis Northwest Press in 2023. Visit her website: ellenwhiterook.com.
Mykyta Ryzhykh is from Ukraine. He is the winner of the international competition Art Against Drugs, a laureate of the literary competition named after Tyutyunnik, and has won many other awards, including the Arkadyi Dragomoshchenko Award. His work has been published in the journals Dzvin, Dnipro, Bukovinian magazine, Polutona, Rechport, Topos, Articulation, Formaslov, Literature Factory, Literary Chernihiv, Tipton Poetry Journal, Stone Poetry Journal, Divot journal, dyst, Superpresent Magazine, Allegro Poetry Magazine, Alternate Route , Better Than Starbucks Poetry & Fiction Journal, Littoral Press , Book of Matches, on the portals Litсenter, Ice Floe Press and Soloneba, the Ukrainian literary newspaper.
Mubarak Said is the third runner up of the poetry category of the 2022 Bill Ward Prize for Emerging Writers. He is a member of Gombe Jewel Writers Association and Hilltop Creative Arts Foundation. His works are forthcoming and published in many literary magazines, local and international, including World Voices Magazine, Icefloe Press, Literary Yard, Beatnik Cowboy, Wellerism, Teen Literary Journal, ILA Magazine, The Yellow Magazine, Pine Cone Review, Doublespeak Magazine, memoryhouse magazine, Synchronized Chaos, Susa Africa, Applied Worldwide, Opinion Nigeria, Today Post, Daily Trust, Daily Companion and elsewhere.
Coral Scherma is most alive when hiking in the forest. Now living in Denver, Colorado , she has resided in DC, Texas, San Francisco, Japan, Korea, the Pacific Northwest, and Santa Fe, and has traveled extensively throughout Asia. Each of those landscapes deeply informs her sense of home and visual rightness. She has been an accidental painter since the beginning of 2022, primarily because people kept asking about her retirement plans.
Nicole Servino is a writer living in Denver.
Vladislav Shapovalov lives in St. Petersburg, Russia. Currently, he is studying cinematography at the St. Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television. These academic practices and his own interpretation of them help him to achieve the required result regardless of the circumstances. Through the mediums of photo and video, he captures the ever-changing world, projecting it through the prism of his vision. His challenge is to see beyond the ordinary and find meanings in small details that are always around us.
Daria Shipukhina is an artist and educator based in London, UK, born in Moscow, Russia. Combining her training in academic drawing and painting with the freedom of pure gestural abstraction, she is a mixed-media artist exploring the boundaries of different mediums, the wide range of techniques and innovative use of new and unusual materials.
The topic of her artistic practice is nature and its transient state. Working with subject matter such as landscapes, plants, and natural forms, she creates artworks rich with textures and multilayered compositions. The fluidity of natural shapes is celebrated by bringing out various viscous qualities of paint and ink. The result is a body of work that documents her confidence in her mark making and style, moving away from the detail of figurative. She creates a new mythology of places, inhabiting them with her own experience and memories.
J. M. Summers was born and lives, still, in the South Wales valleys. Previous publication credits include Another Country from Gomer Press, Borderlines, Blithe Spirit and Presence. The former editor of a number of small press magazines, he has published one book, Niamh, a collection of prose and poetry.
Olga Suvorova (b.1977, USSR) is a visual artist, working in ceramics, with а strong interest in research on earth material. She has a background in computer science, and after having two children, Olga changed her professional path. She began her artistic practice with evening classes at Art Academy and went to the St Petersburg school of Fashion. After graduation, she focused more on ceramic art and research. She exhibited at national exhibitions, including the Ural Triennial of Decorative Arts (2022), Ceramics on the Grass (St. Petersburg, 2021), and a group exhibition at the Artists’ Union (St. Petersburg, 2011, 2022).
Ruth Towne is a graduate of the Stonecoast MFA program. Other poems from Resurrection of the Mannequins are forthcoming from The Decadent Review and Coffin Bell Journal. Her poetry has also appeared in Grim & Gilded, Plainsongs Poetry Magazine, and New Feathers Anthology. She has forthcoming publications in Mantis Poetry Journal.
Ginna Wilkerson has been a choreographer, poet, fiction writer, photographer, and visual artist over the course of an unpredictable sixty-seven years. Her work has been exhibited in Catalonia, Scotland, Florida, West Virginia, and Kentucky, most recently in the Kentucky Capitol Gallery
Cynthia Yatchman is a Seattle-based artist and art instructor. A former ceramicist, she received her B.F.A. in painting (UW). She switched from 3D to 2D and has remained there ever since. She works primarily on paintings, prints, and collages. Her art is housed in numerous public and private collections. She has exhibited on both coasts, extensively in the Northwest, including shows at Seattle University, SPU, Shoreline Community College, the Tacoma and Seattle Convention Centers and the Pacific Science Center. She is an affiliate member of Gallery 110, a member of the Seattle Print Art Association and COCA.
Rena Zhuman is a poet and a Kazakh-to-Russian translator in Kokshetau, Kazakhstan, who has also worked as a journalist and instructor at a conservatory of music. She has published two full collections of poetry and a cycle of twenty sonnets to Shoqan Walihanov.