Contributors
Kate Copeland was born in Harbour City and adores housesitting in the world. Her love for languages led her to linguistics and teaching, her love for art and water to poetry. She is curator-editor for The Ekphrastic Review and runs linguistic-poetry workshops for several writing groups; she recently started hosting for the Rebecca Swift Foundation. Find her poems @ https://www.instagram.com/kate.copeland.poems or @TER, WildfireWords, Gleam, Metphrastics, Hedgehog Press.
Cat Crochunis-Brown is a writer based in Philadelphia. In her writing, she uses form and experimentation to explore the subconscious and the complexity of relationships. Her poetry has been published in Superpresent Magazine, Zeniada Magazine, and Moonstone Arts Center’s 2023 New Voices Anthology.
Cathy Day is married and lives in Cornwall, United Kingdom. She started acrylic fluid art in 2022 after buying a picture created by her artist friend Marie-Louise Rolfe, who encouraged her to try it. She fell in love with the medium. Marie-Louise runs workshops and her work can be found on Marie-Louise Art on Facebook and YouTube. When she isn’t painting, Cathy writes multigenre short stories highlighting injustice, social issues, and the frailty of humanity. She also sings in a local all-female acappella chorus and volunteers at the local food bank.
ash good is the author of us clumsy gods (What Books Press, 2022) and four previous books of poetry. They are cofounding editor of First Matter Press, recipient of Literary Arts’s 2024 Oregon Literary Fellowship for publishers, where they uplift first-time publishing poets and genre-expanding writers. Their poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net and appears in Faultline, Cimarron Review, 45th Parallel and others. www.ashgood.com.
Emily Graf is a poet, writer, and editor living in Boulder, Colorado. She received her BA in English with a concentration in creative writing from Kenyon College. She is editor at the nonfiction publishing house Sentient Publications. Her poetry can be found in Bombay Gin, Sixfold, Right Hand Pointing, and elsewhere. She also publishes on Substack: mostly lyric essays, self-disclosure, and odes to trees.
Maria Hardin enjoys creating these perfect little soap bubbles of stories and releasing them into the world. She has been published in Bath Flash Fiction and The Main Street Rag. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her boyfriend and dog.
Stephanie L. Harper is an autistic poet, mother, and former Oregonian now living with the world’s most adorable husband, son, cat, and puppy in Indianapolis, Indiana, where she completed her MFA at Butler University. She is the author of three poetry chapbooks, including We Have Seen the Corn (Kelsay Books, June 2025). Her poems appear in The Dodge, The Iowa Review, Neologism Poetry Journal, The Night Heron Barks, Pleiades, Salamander Magazine, Taos Journal of Poetry, and elsewhere.
Ellen Harrold (she/her) is an Irish artist, writer, and editor-in-chief of Metachrosis Literary. She uses painting, drawing, text, and textiles to explore anatomy and physics through creative abstraction. She has exhibited her art with the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Earth Rising, 2024), Lido Stores Margate (If Heaven Falls, 2025), and An Stiúideo (Soilsiú, 2025). She has also recently published art in The Storms, An Áitiúil, and Orion. She has published poetry in English and Irish in magazines such as Shearsman, The Pomegranate, and Channel. She has a website: ellenharrold.art, an Instagram: @ellenharroldart, and a Bluesky: @ellenharrold
Shara K. Johnson is a nonfiction writer and photographer living in the Colorado Rockies. Her photography has been featured in many online travel and literary magazines, and has been displayed along the Front Range of Colorado. She maintains a narrative travel blog of her off-the-beaten-path experiences around the globe at https://SKJtravel.net.
Alexander Limarev–freelance artist, mail art artist, poet, visual poet and curator from Russia/Siberia–has participated in more than a thousand international projects and exhibitions. His artworks are part of private and museum collections of seventy-eight countries and have been featured in various online publications, including Maintenant, New Feathers Anthology, and more.
Nuala McEvoy started writing and taught herself to paint approximately seven years ago, aged fifty. Nuala paints daily using acrylics on canvas. She started submitting her artwork for publication in 2024, and her paintings have been accepted for publication in many literary magazines. Her art has been accepted as cover art for several of these reviews, most recently for Cutbank Literary Magazine 103. She has had two exhibitions in Germany and currently has an exhibition of forty pieces in The Cavendish Centre, 44 Hallam Street, London. Nuala has been nominated three times for the 2026 Best of the Net award.
Talitha May is an artist and educator whose works focus on the environment.
Joseph A. Miller is an associate professor of art at S.U.N.Y. Buffalo State University, 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.
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.
Stelios Mormoris, a native of Vouliagmeni, Greece, and Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, is CEO of Scent Beauty, Inc. His work has been widely published, including such journals as Agni, Crab Creek Review, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Eunoia Review, Good Life Review, Midwest Poetry Review, Narrative, Plainsongs, Spillway, Sugar House Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and Verse. Stelios’s debut book of poetry, titled The Oculus, was published last year by Tupelo Press, and his second volume, Perishable, in April, 2025.
Michael O’Connor was born in Broadhead Manor and grew up in the Ingram, Sheraden, McKees Rocks areas of Pittsburgh. He has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and graduated there in the mid-eighties. While there, he tutored in the writing workshop for two years. He is a former kickboxer, hunter, traveler, and grandfather of six.
Hanna Plotnikava was born in Vitsebsk, Belarus, in 1996. She studied painting in the Minsk State Art College named after Glebov (2011–2015) and monumental and decorative art at the Belarusian State Academy of Arts (2015–2021) where she also pursued a master’s degree in art history (2021–2023). She now lives and works in Minsk, Belarus, as an artist and illustrator.
E. Robert Pugh is a writer based in Redlands, California. Often found wearing a Dodgers hat, he graduated from Cal Poly Humboldt with a degree in journalism, and works as the senior quality assurance specialist for a software company.
Patrick G. Roland is a writer and educator living with cystic fibrosis. He explores life’s experiences through poetry and storytelling, seeking to inspire others in the classroom and through writing. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and appears in journals such as Rattle, Hobart, Sky Island, Emerge Literary, Wild Roof Journal, and others. Twitter: @pg_roland
Betty Stanton (she/her) is a Puschart-nominated writer who lives and works in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in various journals and collections and has been included in various anthologies. She received her MFA from the University of Texas–El Paso and holds a doctorate in educational leadership. She is currently on the editorial board of Ivo Review. @fadingbetty.bsky.social
Stasha Strange is a poet and homeless advocate whose work lingers at the edges of beauty and danger. Her poems often summon birds as spell, omen, and memory, weaving mystical imagery with visceral truth. She writes into thresholds where the luminous turns haunting and the ordinary becomes uncanny. You can find her at www.stashastrange.com.
J. M. Summers was born and still lives in South Wales. Previous publication credits include Another Country from Gomer Press and various magazines/anthologies. The former editor of a number of small press magazines, he is currently working on his first collection.
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. Olga exhibited at national exhibitions, including a group exhibition at the Artists’ Union (St. Petersburg, 2011, 2022, 2023).
Christian Torres is a writer currently based near Portland, Oregon. His work will appear in the forthcoming issue of 1922 Review.
Jonathan Chibuike Ukah is a Pushcart Prize–nominated poet from the UK. His poems have been featured in the Atticus Review, San Antonio Review, The Ephemeral Literary Review, Strange Horizons, The Pierian, The Unleash Lit and elsewhere. He is the winner of the Alexander Pope Poetry Award 2023 and the second runner-up of the Wingless Dreamer Publishing Poetry Prize 2023.
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 MoonArk Project by Carnegie Mellon 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 permanent collection of Museé de la Poste in Paris, France, and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. To learn more, see her website at ursyn.com.
James Reade Venable was born in Manhattan, New York. He has been published in Black + White Photography, Dodho, F-Stop and many more. He is a two time London Photo Festival Monthly Competition Winner and was on the shortlist for the storytelling category in this year’s 500px Global Photography Awards and was a finalist for the 2023 Monochromatic Awards by Dodo. He is also an actor and is currently Henry Dorris in the BBC series Hidden Assets. He lives for his wife and daughter. He is currently living in Paris and studying photography at Paris College of Art.
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.
Renee Williams is a retired English instructor who has written for Guitar Digest, Alien Buddha Press, and Fevers of the Mind.
Aliesa Zoecklein, author of the chapbook At Each Moment, Air (YellowJacket Press), has published poems in Thimble Magazine, River Heron Review, About Place, Seventh Wave, and elsewhere. She taught writing at Santa Fe College in Gainesville, Florida, for twenty-five years. She lives with her wife in Gainesville, where she writes, gardens, and studies Spanish.
Cat Crochunis-Brown is a writer based in Philadelphia. In her writing, she uses form and experimentation to explore the subconscious and the complexity of relationships. Her poetry has been published in Superpresent Magazine, Zeniada Magazine, and Moonstone Arts Center’s 2023 New Voices Anthology.
Cathy Day is married and lives in Cornwall, United Kingdom. She started acrylic fluid art in 2022 after buying a picture created by her artist friend Marie-Louise Rolfe, who encouraged her to try it. She fell in love with the medium. Marie-Louise runs workshops and her work can be found on Marie-Louise Art on Facebook and YouTube. When she isn’t painting, Cathy writes multigenre short stories highlighting injustice, social issues, and the frailty of humanity. She also sings in a local all-female acappella chorus and volunteers at the local food bank.
ash good is the author of us clumsy gods (What Books Press, 2022) and four previous books of poetry. They are cofounding editor of First Matter Press, recipient of Literary Arts’s 2024 Oregon Literary Fellowship for publishers, where they uplift first-time publishing poets and genre-expanding writers. Their poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net and appears in Faultline, Cimarron Review, 45th Parallel and others. www.ashgood.com.
Emily Graf is a poet, writer, and editor living in Boulder, Colorado. She received her BA in English with a concentration in creative writing from Kenyon College. She is editor at the nonfiction publishing house Sentient Publications. Her poetry can be found in Bombay Gin, Sixfold, Right Hand Pointing, and elsewhere. She also publishes on Substack: mostly lyric essays, self-disclosure, and odes to trees.
Maria Hardin enjoys creating these perfect little soap bubbles of stories and releasing them into the world. She has been published in Bath Flash Fiction and The Main Street Rag. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her boyfriend and dog.
Stephanie L. Harper is an autistic poet, mother, and former Oregonian now living with the world’s most adorable husband, son, cat, and puppy in Indianapolis, Indiana, where she completed her MFA at Butler University. She is the author of three poetry chapbooks, including We Have Seen the Corn (Kelsay Books, June 2025). Her poems appear in The Dodge, The Iowa Review, Neologism Poetry Journal, The Night Heron Barks, Pleiades, Salamander Magazine, Taos Journal of Poetry, and elsewhere.
Ellen Harrold (she/her) is an Irish artist, writer, and editor-in-chief of Metachrosis Literary. She uses painting, drawing, text, and textiles to explore anatomy and physics through creative abstraction. She has exhibited her art with the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Earth Rising, 2024), Lido Stores Margate (If Heaven Falls, 2025), and An Stiúideo (Soilsiú, 2025). She has also recently published art in The Storms, An Áitiúil, and Orion. She has published poetry in English and Irish in magazines such as Shearsman, The Pomegranate, and Channel. She has a website: ellenharrold.art, an Instagram: @ellenharroldart, and a Bluesky: @ellenharrold
Shara K. Johnson is a nonfiction writer and photographer living in the Colorado Rockies. Her photography has been featured in many online travel and literary magazines, and has been displayed along the Front Range of Colorado. She maintains a narrative travel blog of her off-the-beaten-path experiences around the globe at https://SKJtravel.net.
Alexander Limarev–freelance artist, mail art artist, poet, visual poet and curator from Russia/Siberia–has participated in more than a thousand international projects and exhibitions. His artworks are part of private and museum collections of seventy-eight countries and have been featured in various online publications, including Maintenant, New Feathers Anthology, and more.
Nuala McEvoy started writing and taught herself to paint approximately seven years ago, aged fifty. Nuala paints daily using acrylics on canvas. She started submitting her artwork for publication in 2024, and her paintings have been accepted for publication in many literary magazines. Her art has been accepted as cover art for several of these reviews, most recently for Cutbank Literary Magazine 103. She has had two exhibitions in Germany and currently has an exhibition of forty pieces in The Cavendish Centre, 44 Hallam Street, London. Nuala has been nominated three times for the 2026 Best of the Net award.
Talitha May is an artist and educator whose works focus on the environment.
Joseph A. Miller is an associate professor of art at S.U.N.Y. Buffalo State University, 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.
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.
Stelios Mormoris, a native of Vouliagmeni, Greece, and Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, is CEO of Scent Beauty, Inc. His work has been widely published, including such journals as Agni, Crab Creek Review, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Eunoia Review, Good Life Review, Midwest Poetry Review, Narrative, Plainsongs, Spillway, Sugar House Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and Verse. Stelios’s debut book of poetry, titled The Oculus, was published last year by Tupelo Press, and his second volume, Perishable, in April, 2025.
Michael O’Connor was born in Broadhead Manor and grew up in the Ingram, Sheraden, McKees Rocks areas of Pittsburgh. He has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and graduated there in the mid-eighties. While there, he tutored in the writing workshop for two years. He is a former kickboxer, hunter, traveler, and grandfather of six.
Hanna Plotnikava was born in Vitsebsk, Belarus, in 1996. She studied painting in the Minsk State Art College named after Glebov (2011–2015) and monumental and decorative art at the Belarusian State Academy of Arts (2015–2021) where she also pursued a master’s degree in art history (2021–2023). She now lives and works in Minsk, Belarus, as an artist and illustrator.
E. Robert Pugh is a writer based in Redlands, California. Often found wearing a Dodgers hat, he graduated from Cal Poly Humboldt with a degree in journalism, and works as the senior quality assurance specialist for a software company.
Patrick G. Roland is a writer and educator living with cystic fibrosis. He explores life’s experiences through poetry and storytelling, seeking to inspire others in the classroom and through writing. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and appears in journals such as Rattle, Hobart, Sky Island, Emerge Literary, Wild Roof Journal, and others. Twitter: @pg_roland
Betty Stanton (she/her) is a Puschart-nominated writer who lives and works in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in various journals and collections and has been included in various anthologies. She received her MFA from the University of Texas–El Paso and holds a doctorate in educational leadership. She is currently on the editorial board of Ivo Review. @fadingbetty.bsky.social
Stasha Strange is a poet and homeless advocate whose work lingers at the edges of beauty and danger. Her poems often summon birds as spell, omen, and memory, weaving mystical imagery with visceral truth. She writes into thresholds where the luminous turns haunting and the ordinary becomes uncanny. You can find her at www.stashastrange.com.
J. M. Summers was born and still lives in South Wales. Previous publication credits include Another Country from Gomer Press and various magazines/anthologies. The former editor of a number of small press magazines, he is currently working on his first collection.
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. Olga exhibited at national exhibitions, including a group exhibition at the Artists’ Union (St. Petersburg, 2011, 2022, 2023).
Christian Torres is a writer currently based near Portland, Oregon. His work will appear in the forthcoming issue of 1922 Review.
Jonathan Chibuike Ukah is a Pushcart Prize–nominated poet from the UK. His poems have been featured in the Atticus Review, San Antonio Review, The Ephemeral Literary Review, Strange Horizons, The Pierian, The Unleash Lit and elsewhere. He is the winner of the Alexander Pope Poetry Award 2023 and the second runner-up of the Wingless Dreamer Publishing Poetry Prize 2023.
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 MoonArk Project by Carnegie Mellon 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 permanent collection of Museé de la Poste in Paris, France, and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. To learn more, see her website at ursyn.com.
James Reade Venable was born in Manhattan, New York. He has been published in Black + White Photography, Dodho, F-Stop and many more. He is a two time London Photo Festival Monthly Competition Winner and was on the shortlist for the storytelling category in this year’s 500px Global Photography Awards and was a finalist for the 2023 Monochromatic Awards by Dodo. He is also an actor and is currently Henry Dorris in the BBC series Hidden Assets. He lives for his wife and daughter. He is currently living in Paris and studying photography at Paris College of Art.
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.
Renee Williams is a retired English instructor who has written for Guitar Digest, Alien Buddha Press, and Fevers of the Mind.
Aliesa Zoecklein, author of the chapbook At Each Moment, Air (YellowJacket Press), has published poems in Thimble Magazine, River Heron Review, About Place, Seventh Wave, and elsewhere. She taught writing at Santa Fe College in Gainesville, Florida, for twenty-five years. She lives with her wife in Gainesville, where she writes, gardens, and studies Spanish.