Contributors
Gale Acuff has had poetry published in Ascent, Reed, Journal of Black Mountain College Studies, The Font, Chiron Review, Poem, Adirondack Review, Florida Review, Slant, Arkansas Review, South Dakota Review, Roanoke Review, and many other journals in a dozen countries. He has authored three books of poetry: Buffalo Nickel, The Weight of the World, and The Story of My Lives. Besides his writing he has taught university English courses in the US, China, and Palestine.
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.
Oisín Breen, Dublin-born, is a poet, part-time academic in narratological complexity, and financial journalist. Breen has been published in a number of journals, including About Place, The Blue Nib, Books Ireland, The Seattle Star, Modern Literature, La Piccioletta Barca, the Bosphorus Review of Books, The Kleksograph, In Parentheses, The Madrigal, and Dreich Magazine. His widely reviewed debut collection, Flowers, All Sorts in Blossom, Figs, Berries, and Fruits, Forgotten, was released March 2020. Find it at the following link: https://hybriddreich.co.uk/product/oisin-breen-book-flowers/
Jeff Burt lives in Santa Cruz County, California, with his wife and a July abundance of plums. He has contributed to Williwaw Journal, Red Wolf Journal, ucity review, Rat's Ass, and others. He won the 2017 Cold Mountain Review Poetry Prize.
Jennifer Clark is the author of three full-length poetry collections, most recently A Beginner's Guide to Heaven (Unsolicited Press), and the children's book What Do You See in Room 21C? (Celery City Books). Her newest collection, Kissing the World Goodbye (slated for a March 2022 release by Unsolicited Press), ventures into the world of memoir, braiding family tales with recipes. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her website is jenniferclarkkzoo.com.
Kate Copeland started absorbing stories when just a little lass. Her love for words led her to teaching & translating some sweet languages; her love for art, writing & water led her to poetry. The subsequent writing waves have sealed some publications @ The Ekphrastic Review, Hedgehog Press, the Poetry Barn’s Poetry Distillery, The Spirit Fire Review, First Literary Review-East, Grand Little Things & The Metaworker. She works together with her poet hero Lisa Freedman on freewrite workshops. Kate was born in Rotterdam some fifty-two ages ago and adores housesitting in the UK, USA, and in Spain.
Stevie Cornell is a singer/songwriter and recent transplant to Sonoma County. He was a veteran of the early SF punk scene in the seventies and went on to form the popular Bay Area Americana band the Movie Stars, which morphed into the retro-country band Red Meat in the early nineties. After moving to rural Vermont to raise a family early in the century, he is back in California and launching a belated solo career. His website is at steviecornell.com. Also look for music on his Bandcamp site at https://steviecornell.bandcamp.com.
Brian Dickson, when not teaching at the Community College of Denver, can be found in his garden with kids in tow.
Alan Elyshevitz is the author of a collection of stories, The Widows and Orphans Fund (SFA Press), a full-length poetry collection, Generous Peril (Cyberwit), and four poetry chapbooks, most recently Mortal Hours (SurVision). Winner of the James Hearst Poetry Prize from North American Review, he is a two-time recipient of a fellowship in fiction writing from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
Andreea Finichiu is an emerging writer from Ploiești, Romania. She has completed a BA in philology and is currently a graduate student in the Anglo-American studies master’s program at the Faculty of Letters, Ovidius University of Constanța. She has a passion for haiku and all things Japanese, and her English work has appeared in the British Presence journal, Word Weaving: A Word Craft Journal of Syllabic Verse, The Amphibian Literary Journal, and cattails.
Nicolas Gattig, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, has published short stories and poetry in numerous magazines, including Asia Literary Review and Foreign Literary Journal. He lived in Tokyo for several years and is a contributing writer at Japan Times. “A Bus to America” is the title story of his upcoming story collection. Some of his works can be found at https://www.facebook.com/babbopanino
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Sheepshead Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, and the Hollins Critic. His latest books, Leaves on Pages and Memory Outside the Head, are available through Amazon, and he has work upcoming in Lana Turner and International Poetry Review.
Miles Hitchcock is a writer, teacher, bush regenerator, and musician living in Perth, West Australia, on Noongar land. He is a previous winner of the Melbourne Age Short Story Award and the Curtin Fiction Prize. His poetry and fiction has been published in online magazines and print anthologies. His novel The Meeting Ground is currently out on submission.
Maryam Khamesi is an online English and writing tutor. She also writes short stories and lyrics that explore topics such as suppressed desires, mental illnesses, and death. In her spare time, she enjoys singing and watching random videos on YouTube.
Edward Lee's poetry, short stories, nonfiction, and photography have been published in magazines in Ireland, England, and America, including The Stinging Fly, Skylight 47, Acumen, The Blue Nib and Poetry Wales. He is currently working on a novel.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.
Kate Maxwell is a Sydney writer and teacher. She’s been published and awarded in Australian and international literary magazines for many years. She is currently working on a short story anthology. Kate’s interests include film, wine, and sleeping. Her poetry anthology, Never Good at Maths, is published with Interactive Publications, Brisbane. Find her at https://kateswritingplace.com/
Carol Mikoda, adjusted to retirement after years in classrooms at various levels, is deep into her art, music, and writing. The natural images that fill her poems are gifts she receives from her surroundings in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York.
Kristy Nielsen has published fiction, poetry, and nonfiction in many journals, including Mid-American Review, Poet & Critic, The Prose Poem: An International Journal, Kalliope, ACM, The Madison Review, Alembic, and Spoon River Poetry Review, in which she was a featured writer. A collection of her prose poems, Two Girls, was published by Thorngate Road. Last year, a poem published in Hubbub received the Vi Gale Award. She is a past recipient of the AWP Intro Award and the Amelia Prose Poem Award. Three editors have nominated her poems for the Pushcart Prize. She received honorable mention in Literal Latte’s short story and poetry contests. In addition, she has cowritten a screenplay based on two of her short stories. The resulting feature film, A Measure of the Sin, won several awards at Indy film festivals and is now available as video on demand.
Berna Özlem Özcan, born in 1969, graduated from the Bilkent University graphic design department in 1993. She completed her master’s degree in communication design at Long Island University School of Visual and Performing Arts, NY, USA, in 1998. She received a doctorate degree from Hacettepe University Faculty of Fine Arts, department of graphics, in 2005. She is currently working as an associate professor at Mustafa Kemal University, graphic design department. She has participated in many international and national exhibitions and opened five solo exhibitions. Her works are in art museums, galleries, and private collections in countries such as Germany, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Romania, China, Switzerland, Kyrgyzstan, Bulgaria, and South Korea.
Diane Payne’s most recent and forthcoming publications include Another Chicago Magazine, Cutleaf Journal, Pine Hills Review, Tiny Spoon, Ellipsis, Bending Genres, New York Times, Unlikely Stories, Hot Flash Fiction, The Blue Nib, Anti-Heroin Chic, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Oyster Review, Novus, Notre Dame Review, Obra/Artifact, Reservoir, Southern Fugitives, Spry Literary Journal, Watershed Review, Superstition Review, Windmill, Tishman Review, Whiskey Island, Fourth River, Lunch Ticket, Split Lip Magazine, The Offing, Elke: A Little Journal, Punctuate, Outpost19, McNeese Review, The Meadow, Burnt Pine, storySouth, and Five:2:One.
Kenneth Pobo has had poetry published in Ascent, Reed, Journal of Black Mountain College Studies, The Font, Chiron Review, Poem, Adirondack Review, Florida Review, Slant, Arkansas Review, South Dakota Review, Roanoke Review, and many other journals in a dozen countries. He has authored three books of poetry: Buffalo Nickel, The Weight of the World, and The Story of My Lives.
A.G. Prummer is a physician assistant, wife, mother, and third-culture kid who loves writing suspenseful stories influenced by her childhood in Cameroon. She is a member of Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, Colorado.
Carl Scharwath has appeared globally, with over 170 journals selecting his poetry, prose, interviews, essays, plays, or art. He has published two poetry books: Journey to Become Forgotten (Kind of a Hurricane Press) and Abandoned (Scars Publications). His new book, The Playground of Destiny (Impspired Press), features prose, poems, and photography. His first photography book was published by Praxis in Africa. His photography was also exhibited in the Mount Dora and Leesburg Center for the Arts galleries. Carl is the art editor for Minute Magazine (USA), a competitive runner, and a second-degree black belt in taekwondo. Carl was recently nominated for a Best of the Net 2021 award.
Mark Simpson lives on Whidbey Island WA, traditional home of Coast Salish Native Americans, including the Snohomish, Swinomish, and Lower Skagit peoples. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Sleet (Pushcart Prize nominee), Broad River Review (Rash Award Finalist), Columbia Journal (Online), Third Wednesday, and Cold Mountain Review.
Vivian Wagner’s work has appeared in Slice Magazine, Muse/A Journal, Forage Poetry Journal, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Gone Lawn, The Atlantic, Narratively, The Ilanot Review, Silk Road Review, Zone 3, Bending Genres, and other publications. She’s the author of a memoir, Fiddle: One Woman, Four Strings, and 8,000 Miles of Music (Citadel-Kensington); a full-length poetry collection, Raising (Clare Songbirds Publishing House); and four poetry chapbooks: The Village (Aldrich Press-Kelsay Books), Making (Origami Poems Project), Curiosities(Unsolicited Press), and Spells of the Apocalypse (Thirty West Publishing House).
David Weinstock lives, writes, and teaches in Middlebury, Vermont. His poem “Floaters,” about the strange shapes that float through your eyeballs appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Recently he has published poems in Zig Zag Lit Mag and flash fiction in Califragile.
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.
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.
Oisín Breen, Dublin-born, is a poet, part-time academic in narratological complexity, and financial journalist. Breen has been published in a number of journals, including About Place, The Blue Nib, Books Ireland, The Seattle Star, Modern Literature, La Piccioletta Barca, the Bosphorus Review of Books, The Kleksograph, In Parentheses, The Madrigal, and Dreich Magazine. His widely reviewed debut collection, Flowers, All Sorts in Blossom, Figs, Berries, and Fruits, Forgotten, was released March 2020. Find it at the following link: https://hybriddreich.co.uk/product/oisin-breen-book-flowers/
Jeff Burt lives in Santa Cruz County, California, with his wife and a July abundance of plums. He has contributed to Williwaw Journal, Red Wolf Journal, ucity review, Rat's Ass, and others. He won the 2017 Cold Mountain Review Poetry Prize.
Jennifer Clark is the author of three full-length poetry collections, most recently A Beginner's Guide to Heaven (Unsolicited Press), and the children's book What Do You See in Room 21C? (Celery City Books). Her newest collection, Kissing the World Goodbye (slated for a March 2022 release by Unsolicited Press), ventures into the world of memoir, braiding family tales with recipes. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her website is jenniferclarkkzoo.com.
Kate Copeland started absorbing stories when just a little lass. Her love for words led her to teaching & translating some sweet languages; her love for art, writing & water led her to poetry. The subsequent writing waves have sealed some publications @ The Ekphrastic Review, Hedgehog Press, the Poetry Barn’s Poetry Distillery, The Spirit Fire Review, First Literary Review-East, Grand Little Things & The Metaworker. She works together with her poet hero Lisa Freedman on freewrite workshops. Kate was born in Rotterdam some fifty-two ages ago and adores housesitting in the UK, USA, and in Spain.
Stevie Cornell is a singer/songwriter and recent transplant to Sonoma County. He was a veteran of the early SF punk scene in the seventies and went on to form the popular Bay Area Americana band the Movie Stars, which morphed into the retro-country band Red Meat in the early nineties. After moving to rural Vermont to raise a family early in the century, he is back in California and launching a belated solo career. His website is at steviecornell.com. Also look for music on his Bandcamp site at https://steviecornell.bandcamp.com.
Brian Dickson, when not teaching at the Community College of Denver, can be found in his garden with kids in tow.
Alan Elyshevitz is the author of a collection of stories, The Widows and Orphans Fund (SFA Press), a full-length poetry collection, Generous Peril (Cyberwit), and four poetry chapbooks, most recently Mortal Hours (SurVision). Winner of the James Hearst Poetry Prize from North American Review, he is a two-time recipient of a fellowship in fiction writing from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
Andreea Finichiu is an emerging writer from Ploiești, Romania. She has completed a BA in philology and is currently a graduate student in the Anglo-American studies master’s program at the Faculty of Letters, Ovidius University of Constanța. She has a passion for haiku and all things Japanese, and her English work has appeared in the British Presence journal, Word Weaving: A Word Craft Journal of Syllabic Verse, The Amphibian Literary Journal, and cattails.
Nicolas Gattig, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, has published short stories and poetry in numerous magazines, including Asia Literary Review and Foreign Literary Journal. He lived in Tokyo for several years and is a contributing writer at Japan Times. “A Bus to America” is the title story of his upcoming story collection. Some of his works can be found at https://www.facebook.com/babbopanino
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Sheepshead Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, and the Hollins Critic. His latest books, Leaves on Pages and Memory Outside the Head, are available through Amazon, and he has work upcoming in Lana Turner and International Poetry Review.
Miles Hitchcock is a writer, teacher, bush regenerator, and musician living in Perth, West Australia, on Noongar land. He is a previous winner of the Melbourne Age Short Story Award and the Curtin Fiction Prize. His poetry and fiction has been published in online magazines and print anthologies. His novel The Meeting Ground is currently out on submission.
Maryam Khamesi is an online English and writing tutor. She also writes short stories and lyrics that explore topics such as suppressed desires, mental illnesses, and death. In her spare time, she enjoys singing and watching random videos on YouTube.
Edward Lee's poetry, short stories, nonfiction, and photography have been published in magazines in Ireland, England, and America, including The Stinging Fly, Skylight 47, Acumen, The Blue Nib and Poetry Wales. He is currently working on a novel.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.
Kate Maxwell is a Sydney writer and teacher. She’s been published and awarded in Australian and international literary magazines for many years. She is currently working on a short story anthology. Kate’s interests include film, wine, and sleeping. Her poetry anthology, Never Good at Maths, is published with Interactive Publications, Brisbane. Find her at https://kateswritingplace.com/
Carol Mikoda, adjusted to retirement after years in classrooms at various levels, is deep into her art, music, and writing. The natural images that fill her poems are gifts she receives from her surroundings in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York.
Kristy Nielsen has published fiction, poetry, and nonfiction in many journals, including Mid-American Review, Poet & Critic, The Prose Poem: An International Journal, Kalliope, ACM, The Madison Review, Alembic, and Spoon River Poetry Review, in which she was a featured writer. A collection of her prose poems, Two Girls, was published by Thorngate Road. Last year, a poem published in Hubbub received the Vi Gale Award. She is a past recipient of the AWP Intro Award and the Amelia Prose Poem Award. Three editors have nominated her poems for the Pushcart Prize. She received honorable mention in Literal Latte’s short story and poetry contests. In addition, she has cowritten a screenplay based on two of her short stories. The resulting feature film, A Measure of the Sin, won several awards at Indy film festivals and is now available as video on demand.
Berna Özlem Özcan, born in 1969, graduated from the Bilkent University graphic design department in 1993. She completed her master’s degree in communication design at Long Island University School of Visual and Performing Arts, NY, USA, in 1998. She received a doctorate degree from Hacettepe University Faculty of Fine Arts, department of graphics, in 2005. She is currently working as an associate professor at Mustafa Kemal University, graphic design department. She has participated in many international and national exhibitions and opened five solo exhibitions. Her works are in art museums, galleries, and private collections in countries such as Germany, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Romania, China, Switzerland, Kyrgyzstan, Bulgaria, and South Korea.
Diane Payne’s most recent and forthcoming publications include Another Chicago Magazine, Cutleaf Journal, Pine Hills Review, Tiny Spoon, Ellipsis, Bending Genres, New York Times, Unlikely Stories, Hot Flash Fiction, The Blue Nib, Anti-Heroin Chic, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Oyster Review, Novus, Notre Dame Review, Obra/Artifact, Reservoir, Southern Fugitives, Spry Literary Journal, Watershed Review, Superstition Review, Windmill, Tishman Review, Whiskey Island, Fourth River, Lunch Ticket, Split Lip Magazine, The Offing, Elke: A Little Journal, Punctuate, Outpost19, McNeese Review, The Meadow, Burnt Pine, storySouth, and Five:2:One.
Kenneth Pobo has had poetry published in Ascent, Reed, Journal of Black Mountain College Studies, The Font, Chiron Review, Poem, Adirondack Review, Florida Review, Slant, Arkansas Review, South Dakota Review, Roanoke Review, and many other journals in a dozen countries. He has authored three books of poetry: Buffalo Nickel, The Weight of the World, and The Story of My Lives.
A.G. Prummer is a physician assistant, wife, mother, and third-culture kid who loves writing suspenseful stories influenced by her childhood in Cameroon. She is a member of Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, Colorado.
Carl Scharwath has appeared globally, with over 170 journals selecting his poetry, prose, interviews, essays, plays, or art. He has published two poetry books: Journey to Become Forgotten (Kind of a Hurricane Press) and Abandoned (Scars Publications). His new book, The Playground of Destiny (Impspired Press), features prose, poems, and photography. His first photography book was published by Praxis in Africa. His photography was also exhibited in the Mount Dora and Leesburg Center for the Arts galleries. Carl is the art editor for Minute Magazine (USA), a competitive runner, and a second-degree black belt in taekwondo. Carl was recently nominated for a Best of the Net 2021 award.
Mark Simpson lives on Whidbey Island WA, traditional home of Coast Salish Native Americans, including the Snohomish, Swinomish, and Lower Skagit peoples. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Sleet (Pushcart Prize nominee), Broad River Review (Rash Award Finalist), Columbia Journal (Online), Third Wednesday, and Cold Mountain Review.
Vivian Wagner’s work has appeared in Slice Magazine, Muse/A Journal, Forage Poetry Journal, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Gone Lawn, The Atlantic, Narratively, The Ilanot Review, Silk Road Review, Zone 3, Bending Genres, and other publications. She’s the author of a memoir, Fiddle: One Woman, Four Strings, and 8,000 Miles of Music (Citadel-Kensington); a full-length poetry collection, Raising (Clare Songbirds Publishing House); and four poetry chapbooks: The Village (Aldrich Press-Kelsay Books), Making (Origami Poems Project), Curiosities(Unsolicited Press), and Spells of the Apocalypse (Thirty West Publishing House).
David Weinstock lives, writes, and teaches in Middlebury, Vermont. His poem “Floaters,” about the strange shapes that float through your eyeballs appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Recently he has published poems in Zig Zag Lit Mag and flash fiction in Califragile.
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.