Contributors
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.
Lorraine Caputo is a documentary poet, translator, and travel writer. Her works appear in over three hundred journals on six continents, and twenty collections of poetry–including On Galápagos Shores (dancing girl press, 2019) and Caribbean Interludes (Origami Poems Project, 2022). She also authors travel narratives, articles, and guidebooks. Her writing has been honored by the Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada (2011) and nominated for the Best of the Net. Caputo has done literary readings from Alaska to the Patagonia. She journeys through Latin America, listening to the voices of the pueblos and Earth.
Jan Darrow grew up in the rural Midwest and is a graduate of the University of Michigan. She loves ghost stories and finds abandoned places utterly beautiful. Her collections of poetry and flash fiction are available on Amazon.
Brian Dickson, when not teaching at the Community College of Denver, avoids driving as much as possible, to traipse around the Front Range region by foot, bike, bus or train. Past publications include two chapbooks, In a Heart’s Rut (High Five Press), Maybe This Is How Tides Work (Finishing Line Press), and one book, All Points Radiant (Cherry Grove Editions) and various journals.
Bruce Louis Dodson is an American living in Borlänge, Sweden, where he writes fiction and poetry. His work has appeared in Foreign and Far Away: Writers Abroad Anthology, Narrative, Pirene’s Fountain, Tic Toc Anthology (Kind of a Hurricane Press), Litro Magazine, Vine Leaves, Cordite Poetry Review, Buffalo Almanac, mgversion2>datura, So It Goes (Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library), Smoky Blue Literature and Arts, Maintenant vols 13, 14, 15, Permafrost, Poetry Pacific, Canary, Vallum, Bangalore Review, Workers Write, NGY Review, and Whitefish Review, Infection House, Pandemic Magazine, Pure Slush, Local Gems–Beat Generation Poems.
Thomas Elson’s stories appear, or are forthcoming, in numerous venues, including Ellipsis, Better Than Starbucks, Bull, Cabinet of Heed, Flash Frontier, Ginosko, Short Édition, Litro, Journal of Expressive Writing, Dead Mule School, Selkie, New Ulster, Lampeter, and Adelaide. He divides his time between Northern California and Western Kansas.
Mark Fleckenstein graduated from University of North Carolina in Charlotte (B.A. in English), Vermont College of Fine Arts (MFA in writing), and after finishing his MFA, settled in Massachusetts. Then marriage, two amazing daughters, divorce, four addresses, and three cats later, after not trying to publish for several decades, he published his first full-length collection of poetry: Making Up the World (Editions Dedicaces, 2018), followed by God Box (Clare Songbirds Publishing House, 2019), and A Name for Everything (Cervena Barva Press, 2020), Lowercase God (Unsolicited Press, 2022), and three chapbooks, The Memory of Stars, (Sticks Press, 1995), I Was I, Drowning Knee Deep, an online chapbook, (Sticks Press, 2007), and Memoir as Conversation (Unsolicited Press, 2019).
Laurie Freitag is a self-taught digital photographer making pictures with her iPhone, based in Los Angeles, California. Her early years, spent in the Bronx, Coney Island, and Far Rockaway, influence her work, with themes of family, childhood, memory, and home. For more info: go to www.lauriefreitag.com. Or check out her Instagram page: @lauriefreitagphotography
Ena Gilih was born in Zagreb in 1993. She has been living in Osijek since birth, where in 2012 she finished gymnasium. In 2013 she enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Osijek. During her studies, she participated in various public art projects and exhibitions. She spent two semesters at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk (Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Gdańsku). In 2019, she completed the University graduate study “Art Culture” module Painting at the Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek. The diploma thesis, entitled "Corpus Anima," was realized under the mentorship of Assoc. Dr. Art. Ines Matijević Cakić (Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek) and Prof. Dr. Art. Piotr Józefowicz (Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk). Gilih has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad. In 2021, she became a member of Croatian Society of Fine Artists Osijek.
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
Howie Good is the author of Failed Haiku, a poetry collection that is the co-winner of the 2021 Grey Book Press Chapbook Contest and scheduled for publication in summer 2022.
Amelia Gorman is a recent transplant to Eureka, California. She enjoys exploring the redwoods and coasts with her dogs and foster dogs. Some of her recent poetry has appeared in Penumbric, Vastarien, and The Deadlands, and her first chapbook, Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota, is available from Interstellar Flight Press. Her fiction appears in the Nightscript series, Nox Pareidolia from Nightscape Press, and She Walks in Shadows from Innsmouth Free Press.
Aimée Keeble earned her Master of Letters in creative writing from the University of Glasgow and is represented by Ayla Zuraw-Friedland at the Frances Goldin Agency. Aimée lives in North Carolina with her dog Cowboy and is working on her first novel. She is the grandniece of Beat writer and poet Alexander Trocchi. Her previously published work is here: www.aimeekeeble.com.
Edward Lee is an artist and writer from Ireland. His paintings and photography have been exhibited widely, while his poetry, short stories, nonfiction have been published in magazines in Ireland, England, and America, including The Stinging Fly, Skylight 47, Acumen and Smiths Knoll. He is currently working on two photography collections: Lying Down with the Dead and There Is a Beauty in Broken Things. He also makes musical noise under the names Ayahuasca Collective, Orson Carroll, Lego Figures Fighting, and Pale Blond Boy. His blog/website can be found at https://edwardmlee.wordpress.com.
Paul Lojeski was born and raised in Lakewood, Ohio. His poetry has appeared online and in print. He lives in Port Jefferson, NY.
Steven Mayoff was born and raised in Montreal and moved to Prince Edward Island, Canada, in 2001. His fiction and poetry have appeared in literary journals across Canada, the U.S. and abroad. His books include the story collection Fatted Calf Blues (Turnstone Press, 2009), the novel Our Lady of Steerage (Bunim & Bannigan, 2015), the poetry chapbook Leonard’s Flat (Grey Borders Books, 2018), and the poetry collection Swinging Between Water and Stone (Guernica Editions, 2019).
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 and the author of eight collections of poetry. His first collection, Fall Risk, won Glass Lyre Press’s 2018 Best Book Award. His latest is The Thing Is (Briar Creek Press, 2021). He holds an MFA from the University of Kansas City–Missouri and lives in Independence, Missouri, with his wife Lili and (soon, three) children. For more information, check out his Facebook page or website.
Lisa Panepinto is author of where i come from the fish have souls (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019) and On This Borrowed Bike (Three Rooms Press, 2014). Her writing has appeared in newspapers, journals, and anthologies, including the Glassblock, Maintenant, Pittsburgh City Paper, Visiting Bob, and Yes Poetry.
Niles Reddick is author of a novel, Drifting Too Far from the Shore, two short story collections, Reading the Coffee Grounds and Road Kill Art and Other Oddities, and a novella, Lead Me Home. His work has been featured in twenty-one anthologies in over four hundred and fifty publications, including The Saturday Evening Post, PIF, BlazeVox, New Reader Magazine, Forth Magazine, Citron Review, and The Boston Literary Magazine. Learn more at his website: http://nilesreddick.com/
Johnny Redway is a writer and former English/creative writing teacher, a co-creator and judge of the Denver Writing Project’s Colorado Young Writers Contest, and a member of the Mile High Writers’ Workshop. He is also the father and agent to a budding rap star. An excerpt from his debut novel, The Cost of Living, and other pieces of both fiction and nonfiction can be found at www.johnnyredway.com.
Cliff Saunders is the author of several poetry chapbooks, including Mapping the Asphalt Meadows(Slipstream Publications) and This Candescent World (Runaway Spoon Press). His poem “Penikese Island Triptych” has just been published in the anthology From the Farther Shore: Cape Cod & the Islands Through Poetry (Bass River Press). Other recent appearances include The Midwest Quarterly, Nine Mile Magazine, Monterey Poetry Review, Blue Unicorn, and Progenitor Art & Literary Journal.
Lesley Sieger-Walls holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Currently, she lives in St. Louis, Missouri, where she teaches college writing classes and conducts walking tours for the Missouri Historical Society. A Kansas native, her poetic focus is typically rooted in the landscapes of the Great Plains and the Midwest. Her poetry has been published in Written Tales Magazine and RockPaperPoem.
Melanie Walker is a writer born and raised in Boston. She received her MFA in fiction from the University of South Carolina, where she now teaches.
Marilyn Wegner lives in San Diego, California. She enjoys the act of creating and considers herself an intuitive mixed media artist. She likes to let her art build on itself and take her to unexpected places.
Christopher Woods is a writer and photographer who lives in Chappell Hill, Texas. His photographs can be seen in his galleries on his website https://christopherwoods.zenfolio.com/f861509283 or on Instagram.
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.
Lorraine Caputo is a documentary poet, translator, and travel writer. Her works appear in over three hundred journals on six continents, and twenty collections of poetry–including On Galápagos Shores (dancing girl press, 2019) and Caribbean Interludes (Origami Poems Project, 2022). She also authors travel narratives, articles, and guidebooks. Her writing has been honored by the Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada (2011) and nominated for the Best of the Net. Caputo has done literary readings from Alaska to the Patagonia. She journeys through Latin America, listening to the voices of the pueblos and Earth.
Jan Darrow grew up in the rural Midwest and is a graduate of the University of Michigan. She loves ghost stories and finds abandoned places utterly beautiful. Her collections of poetry and flash fiction are available on Amazon.
Brian Dickson, when not teaching at the Community College of Denver, avoids driving as much as possible, to traipse around the Front Range region by foot, bike, bus or train. Past publications include two chapbooks, In a Heart’s Rut (High Five Press), Maybe This Is How Tides Work (Finishing Line Press), and one book, All Points Radiant (Cherry Grove Editions) and various journals.
Bruce Louis Dodson is an American living in Borlänge, Sweden, where he writes fiction and poetry. His work has appeared in Foreign and Far Away: Writers Abroad Anthology, Narrative, Pirene’s Fountain, Tic Toc Anthology (Kind of a Hurricane Press), Litro Magazine, Vine Leaves, Cordite Poetry Review, Buffalo Almanac, mgversion2>datura, So It Goes (Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library), Smoky Blue Literature and Arts, Maintenant vols 13, 14, 15, Permafrost, Poetry Pacific, Canary, Vallum, Bangalore Review, Workers Write, NGY Review, and Whitefish Review, Infection House, Pandemic Magazine, Pure Slush, Local Gems–Beat Generation Poems.
Thomas Elson’s stories appear, or are forthcoming, in numerous venues, including Ellipsis, Better Than Starbucks, Bull, Cabinet of Heed, Flash Frontier, Ginosko, Short Édition, Litro, Journal of Expressive Writing, Dead Mule School, Selkie, New Ulster, Lampeter, and Adelaide. He divides his time between Northern California and Western Kansas.
Mark Fleckenstein graduated from University of North Carolina in Charlotte (B.A. in English), Vermont College of Fine Arts (MFA in writing), and after finishing his MFA, settled in Massachusetts. Then marriage, two amazing daughters, divorce, four addresses, and three cats later, after not trying to publish for several decades, he published his first full-length collection of poetry: Making Up the World (Editions Dedicaces, 2018), followed by God Box (Clare Songbirds Publishing House, 2019), and A Name for Everything (Cervena Barva Press, 2020), Lowercase God (Unsolicited Press, 2022), and three chapbooks, The Memory of Stars, (Sticks Press, 1995), I Was I, Drowning Knee Deep, an online chapbook, (Sticks Press, 2007), and Memoir as Conversation (Unsolicited Press, 2019).
Laurie Freitag is a self-taught digital photographer making pictures with her iPhone, based in Los Angeles, California. Her early years, spent in the Bronx, Coney Island, and Far Rockaway, influence her work, with themes of family, childhood, memory, and home. For more info: go to www.lauriefreitag.com. Or check out her Instagram page: @lauriefreitagphotography
Ena Gilih was born in Zagreb in 1993. She has been living in Osijek since birth, where in 2012 she finished gymnasium. In 2013 she enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Osijek. During her studies, she participated in various public art projects and exhibitions. She spent two semesters at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk (Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Gdańsku). In 2019, she completed the University graduate study “Art Culture” module Painting at the Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek. The diploma thesis, entitled "Corpus Anima," was realized under the mentorship of Assoc. Dr. Art. Ines Matijević Cakić (Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek) and Prof. Dr. Art. Piotr Józefowicz (Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk). Gilih has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad. In 2021, she became a member of Croatian Society of Fine Artists Osijek.
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
Howie Good is the author of Failed Haiku, a poetry collection that is the co-winner of the 2021 Grey Book Press Chapbook Contest and scheduled for publication in summer 2022.
Amelia Gorman is a recent transplant to Eureka, California. She enjoys exploring the redwoods and coasts with her dogs and foster dogs. Some of her recent poetry has appeared in Penumbric, Vastarien, and The Deadlands, and her first chapbook, Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota, is available from Interstellar Flight Press. Her fiction appears in the Nightscript series, Nox Pareidolia from Nightscape Press, and She Walks in Shadows from Innsmouth Free Press.
Aimée Keeble earned her Master of Letters in creative writing from the University of Glasgow and is represented by Ayla Zuraw-Friedland at the Frances Goldin Agency. Aimée lives in North Carolina with her dog Cowboy and is working on her first novel. She is the grandniece of Beat writer and poet Alexander Trocchi. Her previously published work is here: www.aimeekeeble.com.
Edward Lee is an artist and writer from Ireland. His paintings and photography have been exhibited widely, while his poetry, short stories, nonfiction have been published in magazines in Ireland, England, and America, including The Stinging Fly, Skylight 47, Acumen and Smiths Knoll. He is currently working on two photography collections: Lying Down with the Dead and There Is a Beauty in Broken Things. He also makes musical noise under the names Ayahuasca Collective, Orson Carroll, Lego Figures Fighting, and Pale Blond Boy. His blog/website can be found at https://edwardmlee.wordpress.com.
Paul Lojeski was born and raised in Lakewood, Ohio. His poetry has appeared online and in print. He lives in Port Jefferson, NY.
Steven Mayoff was born and raised in Montreal and moved to Prince Edward Island, Canada, in 2001. His fiction and poetry have appeared in literary journals across Canada, the U.S. and abroad. His books include the story collection Fatted Calf Blues (Turnstone Press, 2009), the novel Our Lady of Steerage (Bunim & Bannigan, 2015), the poetry chapbook Leonard’s Flat (Grey Borders Books, 2018), and the poetry collection Swinging Between Water and Stone (Guernica Editions, 2019).
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 and the author of eight collections of poetry. His first collection, Fall Risk, won Glass Lyre Press’s 2018 Best Book Award. His latest is The Thing Is (Briar Creek Press, 2021). He holds an MFA from the University of Kansas City–Missouri and lives in Independence, Missouri, with his wife Lili and (soon, three) children. For more information, check out his Facebook page or website.
Lisa Panepinto is author of where i come from the fish have souls (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019) and On This Borrowed Bike (Three Rooms Press, 2014). Her writing has appeared in newspapers, journals, and anthologies, including the Glassblock, Maintenant, Pittsburgh City Paper, Visiting Bob, and Yes Poetry.
Niles Reddick is author of a novel, Drifting Too Far from the Shore, two short story collections, Reading the Coffee Grounds and Road Kill Art and Other Oddities, and a novella, Lead Me Home. His work has been featured in twenty-one anthologies in over four hundred and fifty publications, including The Saturday Evening Post, PIF, BlazeVox, New Reader Magazine, Forth Magazine, Citron Review, and The Boston Literary Magazine. Learn more at his website: http://nilesreddick.com/
Johnny Redway is a writer and former English/creative writing teacher, a co-creator and judge of the Denver Writing Project’s Colorado Young Writers Contest, and a member of the Mile High Writers’ Workshop. He is also the father and agent to a budding rap star. An excerpt from his debut novel, The Cost of Living, and other pieces of both fiction and nonfiction can be found at www.johnnyredway.com.
Cliff Saunders is the author of several poetry chapbooks, including Mapping the Asphalt Meadows(Slipstream Publications) and This Candescent World (Runaway Spoon Press). His poem “Penikese Island Triptych” has just been published in the anthology From the Farther Shore: Cape Cod & the Islands Through Poetry (Bass River Press). Other recent appearances include The Midwest Quarterly, Nine Mile Magazine, Monterey Poetry Review, Blue Unicorn, and Progenitor Art & Literary Journal.
Lesley Sieger-Walls holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Currently, she lives in St. Louis, Missouri, where she teaches college writing classes and conducts walking tours for the Missouri Historical Society. A Kansas native, her poetic focus is typically rooted in the landscapes of the Great Plains and the Midwest. Her poetry has been published in Written Tales Magazine and RockPaperPoem.
Melanie Walker is a writer born and raised in Boston. She received her MFA in fiction from the University of South Carolina, where she now teaches.
Marilyn Wegner lives in San Diego, California. She enjoys the act of creating and considers herself an intuitive mixed media artist. She likes to let her art build on itself and take her to unexpected places.
Christopher Woods is a writer and photographer who lives in Chappell Hill, Texas. His photographs can be seen in his galleries on his website https://christopherwoods.zenfolio.com/f861509283 or on Instagram.
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.