Contributors
Mea Andrews is a writer from Georgia who currently resides in Shenzhen. She has just finished her MFA from Lindenwood University and is only recently back on the publication scene. You can find her in Gordon Square Review, Rappahannock Review, Tipton Poetry Journal, Potomac Review, and others. She was a 2022 Pushcart prize nominee, and has a poem currently up for Best of the Net. She has two chapbooks and poetry collections available for publication, should anyone be interested.
Deb Baker lives in New Hampshire and works for a climate justice organization and in a hospital. Since childhood, she has felt connected to her kin in creation, who appear along with her human relatives in many of her poems. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in journals including Bellevue Literary Review, Third Wednesday, Spire, Naugatuck River Review, Hawk & Whippoorwill, Envoi, Radix, humana obscura, and the Penwood Review.
Jude Brigley is Welsh. She has been a teacher, an editor, and a performance poet. She is now writing more for the page. Her writing has appeared in many magazines, including Otherwise Engaged, Ariel Chart, Thimble, Sylvia, and Scissortail.
Vikki C. is a British-born writer & author of The Art of Glass Houses (Alien Buddha Press) and Where Sands Run Finest (DarkWinter Press). Her work appears or is forthcoming in Psaltery & Lyre, The Inflectionist Review, Stone Circle Review, EcoTheo Review, Amethyst Review, Ballast Journal, New Verse Review, Sweet Literary, Ice Floe Press, Harpy Hybrid, Cable Street, Boats Against the Current, ONE ART Poetry, The Hyacinth Review, Dust Poetry Magazine, Black Bough Poetry, DarkWinter Lit, Acropolis Journal & The Belfast Review, among others. Her writing has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Orison Best Spiritual Literature.
Louis Faber is a poet and blogger. His work has appeared in Cantos, The Poet (U.K.), Alchemy Spoon, New Feathers Anthology, Dreich (Scotland), Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Erothanatos (Greece), Defenestration, Atlanta Review, Glimpse, Rattle, Cold Mountain Review, Eureka Literary Magazine, Borderlands: The Texas Poetry Review, Midnight Mind, Pearl, Midstream, European Judaism, The South Carolina Review andWorcester Review, among many others, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. A book of poetry, The Right to Depart, was published by Plain View Press.
Eric Raanan Fischman’s first book, Mordy Gets Enlightened, was published through The Little Door in 2017 and reissued by Turnsol Editions in 2021. His work has appeared in Bombay Gin, Denver Quarterly, Twenty Bellows, Tiny Spoon, Voicemail Poetry, Mid-Atlantic Review, South Broadway Ghost Society, and more. In 2023, he was one of two winners of Denver Quarterly’s poetry broadside vompetition, with sixty copies letterpressed. He has taught workshops for a variety of Colorado-based organizations, including Crestone Poetry Festival, Beyond Academia Free Skool, and the Firehouse Arts Center, and currently curates the Boulder/Denver metro poetry calendar at boulderpoetryscene.com. For more information, visit ericraananfischman.com.
Mark Fleckenstein was born in Chicago, and grew up in Ohio, Michigan, Connecticut, North Carolina, and New Hampshire. He received his B.A. in English from University of North Carolina at Charlotte and his MFA in Writing from Vermont College, after which he moved to Massachusetts.
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 kinds of art forms, from drawing and painting to three-dimensional objects, sculpture, and jewelry.
Joseph Hunter is a fiction writer and poet based in Manchester, UK. His writing has appeared with Fairlight Books, Crocus Books, and Willows Wept Review. He teaches at the University of Manchester, where he is completing a PhD. He is coeditor of The Manchester Review.
Allen Kesten (he/him) is a writer living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He also works in the field of human services. His stories have appeared in Passengers Journal, East by Northeast, The Examined Life Journal, Tiferet, Mount Hope, The Maine Review, The Bitter Oleander, The Sun, and other literary journals.
Tony Kitt is a poet from Dublin, Ireland. His poetry titles include Endurable Infinity (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022), Sky Sailing (Salmon Poetry, 2025; forthcoming), and A Quiet Life in Psychopatria (MadHat Press, 2025; forthcoming). His chapbook, The Magic Phlute, was published by SurVision Books in 2019. His poems appear in multiple magazines and anthologies, including Oxford Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Daily, The North, Cyphers, The Cafe Review, Plume, Matter, The Fortnightly Review, etc. He edited the Contemporary Tangential Surrealist Poetry anthology (SurVision Books, 2023), and the anthology entitled Invasion: Ukrainian Poems about the War (SurVision Books, 2022).
Phyllis Koehler writes under different names and in different languages. She researches and practices gaps, absences, and blanks in prose and poetry.
Nuala McEvoy is a self-taught artist and writer of English/Irish origin. A late starter on her artistic journey, she now paints daily, and her artwork appears in Red Ogre Review, Quibble Lit, Heimat Review, Londemere Lit, Suburban Witchcraft, Underbelly Press, Ink in Thirds, Through Lines and Free Flash Fiction. She has many more pieces upcoming soon in other reviews. She was recently interviewed by The Madrid Review and was the featured artist in Does It Have Pockets?. She has two exhibitions in Münster, Germany. Nuala also enjoys writing and has had some of her poetry and stories published.
Leda Muscatello resides in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Her inspirations include thrift store art and antique keys. Leda never learned to juggle; however, she did spend a summer perfecting fire breathing. Her work can be found most recently published in Sequoia Speaks, Cosmic Daffodil Journal, and Instant Noodles.
Ben Nardolilli is currently an MFA candidate at Long Island University. His work has appeared in Perigee Magazine, Red Fez, Danse Macabre, The 22 Magazine, Quail Bell Magazine, Elimae, The Northampton Review, Local Train Magazine, The Minetta Review, and Yes Poetry. He blogs at mirrorsponge.blogspot.com and is trying to publish his novels.
Don Narkevic: Buckhannon, WV. MFA National University. Poetry appears in The Trillium, MockingOwl Roost, Agape, Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Literature Today, and Spire Light. In 2022, Main Street Rag published a novella of poetry entitled, After the Lynching. In 2024, The Potomac Playmakers produced From Birth, a one-act play.
Wieslawa Nowicka, born in Poland, lives and works in Paris. Her achievements in painting, photography, and installations are supported by research in the history, anthropology, and psychoanalysis of unknown spaces. Focused on the processes related to the artist and desired, dreamed and hazardous gesture, captivated by video art and poetry, she is particularly interested in the relationship of visual art with space.
In her multidisciplinary work, the question of our traces and memories in space and time challenges her. Belonging, territory, place, identity: how to address these questions through artistic work? Inspired by the subjectivity of time and space, she is interested in “existence” and the relationship of our body with space, its traces, feelings, its belonging or its alienation.
Jordan Shea Page is a poet and travel writer, interested in prickly thoughts. Her Substack newsletter, Shade Cactus, explores the aesthetic nuances of life. She writes, reads, and travels a lot.
Horia Pop is an artist living in France, making his living through his art (screenwriting, filming, shooting). His pictures are mostly in black and white, because he loves the purity, the magic, the vintage look about them. All they need is in the shades.
Riya Reddy is a student with a passion for writing and philosophy. She hopes to someday write a Really Good Book.
Rocco Ricca is a poet writing out of his apartment in Brooklyn, NY. You can follow him @MelancholicGem on X or find him aimlessly wandering the city, aesthetically smoking a cigarette as he finds new ways to not get over his exes.
Erin Matheson Ritchie lives in California with her spouse and pet rabbit (Thor, God of Thumper). She earned her master’s degree in education at Stanford University, taught secondary English for seven years, and caught a piranha while fishing at an Amazon River research facility. Her poems appear in Cosmic Daffodil and Dog Teeth.
Beth Sherman’s writing has been published in more than one hundred literary magazines, including Portland Review, Tiny Molecules, 100 Word Story, Fictive Dream, and Bending Genres. Her work is featured in Best Microfiction 2024. She’s also a Pushcart, Best Small Fictions, and multiple Best of the Net nominee. She can be reached at @bsherm36 or https://www.bethsherman.site/
Esther Shipsey was raised in California by a preacher and a bureaucrat just barely not-in-a-cult. Her poetic concerns include contradiction, revelation, delusion, constraint, time, forgiveness, bodies, and choice. Her voice is goofy, worldly, prophetic, lucid, tender, cutthroat, and femme. A neurodivergent woman of transgender experience in recovery from addiction, she chooses to believe in life after survival and the guarantee of neither. Inspired by Buddhists, existentialists, hacktivists, feminists, and abolitionists, she wishes to rip the Band-Aid off of a more beautiful world. She has been published in Plains Paradox, lives in Boulder, Colorado, and wants one of your fries.
Kayann Short, Ph.D., is a writer, farmer, teacher, the author of A Bushel’s Worth: An Ecobiography (Torrey House Press), and a Nautilus Green Living winner. Her work appears in Mud Season Review, Hawk & Handsaw, The Hopper, New Flash Fiction Review, and Burningword, among others, and the anthologies, Dirt: A Love Story and Rooted: The Best New Arboreal Non-Fiction. Dr. Short runs a CSA and organizes community writing events at Stonebridge Farm on Colorado’s Front Range.
Gregory Stenta, poet, teacher, and writer, holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Boston. Part of the inaugural cohort of MFA students at the university, he graduated in June 2010 from the MFA program there. Although he is passionate about reading and writing, life was busy and writing time was exceedingly difficult to come by the past few years due to the pandemic, etc. This is his first publication in a few years. He currently resides in Singapore in Southeast Asia.
William Teets, born in Peekskill, New York, has recently relocated to Southeast Michigan. He misses New York pizza, the Hudson River, and Fran, Remember the Good Times ’68. Mr. Teets’s work has been published in various journals and anthologies, including Ariel Chart, Drunk Monkeys, and Impspired. A collection of his poetry, After the Fall, was published by Cajun Mutt Press in February 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 MoonArc Project by Carnegie Melon University. Her work has also appeared in traveling shows, including for Centre Pompidou, Paris. Her work in the ABAD exhibition is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She also has work in the 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.
Angela Zimmerling is a former journalist who works in poetry and fiction and enjoys exploring mixed media to create images. She is passionate about the environment and animal and human welfare.
Deb Baker lives in New Hampshire and works for a climate justice organization and in a hospital. Since childhood, she has felt connected to her kin in creation, who appear along with her human relatives in many of her poems. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in journals including Bellevue Literary Review, Third Wednesday, Spire, Naugatuck River Review, Hawk & Whippoorwill, Envoi, Radix, humana obscura, and the Penwood Review.
Jude Brigley is Welsh. She has been a teacher, an editor, and a performance poet. She is now writing more for the page. Her writing has appeared in many magazines, including Otherwise Engaged, Ariel Chart, Thimble, Sylvia, and Scissortail.
Vikki C. is a British-born writer & author of The Art of Glass Houses (Alien Buddha Press) and Where Sands Run Finest (DarkWinter Press). Her work appears or is forthcoming in Psaltery & Lyre, The Inflectionist Review, Stone Circle Review, EcoTheo Review, Amethyst Review, Ballast Journal, New Verse Review, Sweet Literary, Ice Floe Press, Harpy Hybrid, Cable Street, Boats Against the Current, ONE ART Poetry, The Hyacinth Review, Dust Poetry Magazine, Black Bough Poetry, DarkWinter Lit, Acropolis Journal & The Belfast Review, among others. Her writing has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Orison Best Spiritual Literature.
Louis Faber is a poet and blogger. His work has appeared in Cantos, The Poet (U.K.), Alchemy Spoon, New Feathers Anthology, Dreich (Scotland), Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Erothanatos (Greece), Defenestration, Atlanta Review, Glimpse, Rattle, Cold Mountain Review, Eureka Literary Magazine, Borderlands: The Texas Poetry Review, Midnight Mind, Pearl, Midstream, European Judaism, The South Carolina Review andWorcester Review, among many others, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. A book of poetry, The Right to Depart, was published by Plain View Press.
Eric Raanan Fischman’s first book, Mordy Gets Enlightened, was published through The Little Door in 2017 and reissued by Turnsol Editions in 2021. His work has appeared in Bombay Gin, Denver Quarterly, Twenty Bellows, Tiny Spoon, Voicemail Poetry, Mid-Atlantic Review, South Broadway Ghost Society, and more. In 2023, he was one of two winners of Denver Quarterly’s poetry broadside vompetition, with sixty copies letterpressed. He has taught workshops for a variety of Colorado-based organizations, including Crestone Poetry Festival, Beyond Academia Free Skool, and the Firehouse Arts Center, and currently curates the Boulder/Denver metro poetry calendar at boulderpoetryscene.com. For more information, visit ericraananfischman.com.
Mark Fleckenstein was born in Chicago, and grew up in Ohio, Michigan, Connecticut, North Carolina, and New Hampshire. He received his B.A. in English from University of North Carolina at Charlotte and his MFA in Writing from Vermont College, after which he moved to Massachusetts.
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 kinds of art forms, from drawing and painting to three-dimensional objects, sculpture, and jewelry.
Joseph Hunter is a fiction writer and poet based in Manchester, UK. His writing has appeared with Fairlight Books, Crocus Books, and Willows Wept Review. He teaches at the University of Manchester, where he is completing a PhD. He is coeditor of The Manchester Review.
Allen Kesten (he/him) is a writer living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He also works in the field of human services. His stories have appeared in Passengers Journal, East by Northeast, The Examined Life Journal, Tiferet, Mount Hope, The Maine Review, The Bitter Oleander, The Sun, and other literary journals.
Tony Kitt is a poet from Dublin, Ireland. His poetry titles include Endurable Infinity (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022), Sky Sailing (Salmon Poetry, 2025; forthcoming), and A Quiet Life in Psychopatria (MadHat Press, 2025; forthcoming). His chapbook, The Magic Phlute, was published by SurVision Books in 2019. His poems appear in multiple magazines and anthologies, including Oxford Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Daily, The North, Cyphers, The Cafe Review, Plume, Matter, The Fortnightly Review, etc. He edited the Contemporary Tangential Surrealist Poetry anthology (SurVision Books, 2023), and the anthology entitled Invasion: Ukrainian Poems about the War (SurVision Books, 2022).
Phyllis Koehler writes under different names and in different languages. She researches and practices gaps, absences, and blanks in prose and poetry.
Nuala McEvoy is a self-taught artist and writer of English/Irish origin. A late starter on her artistic journey, she now paints daily, and her artwork appears in Red Ogre Review, Quibble Lit, Heimat Review, Londemere Lit, Suburban Witchcraft, Underbelly Press, Ink in Thirds, Through Lines and Free Flash Fiction. She has many more pieces upcoming soon in other reviews. She was recently interviewed by The Madrid Review and was the featured artist in Does It Have Pockets?. She has two exhibitions in Münster, Germany. Nuala also enjoys writing and has had some of her poetry and stories published.
Leda Muscatello resides in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Her inspirations include thrift store art and antique keys. Leda never learned to juggle; however, she did spend a summer perfecting fire breathing. Her work can be found most recently published in Sequoia Speaks, Cosmic Daffodil Journal, and Instant Noodles.
Ben Nardolilli is currently an MFA candidate at Long Island University. His work has appeared in Perigee Magazine, Red Fez, Danse Macabre, The 22 Magazine, Quail Bell Magazine, Elimae, The Northampton Review, Local Train Magazine, The Minetta Review, and Yes Poetry. He blogs at mirrorsponge.blogspot.com and is trying to publish his novels.
Don Narkevic: Buckhannon, WV. MFA National University. Poetry appears in The Trillium, MockingOwl Roost, Agape, Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Literature Today, and Spire Light. In 2022, Main Street Rag published a novella of poetry entitled, After the Lynching. In 2024, The Potomac Playmakers produced From Birth, a one-act play.
Wieslawa Nowicka, born in Poland, lives and works in Paris. Her achievements in painting, photography, and installations are supported by research in the history, anthropology, and psychoanalysis of unknown spaces. Focused on the processes related to the artist and desired, dreamed and hazardous gesture, captivated by video art and poetry, she is particularly interested in the relationship of visual art with space.
In her multidisciplinary work, the question of our traces and memories in space and time challenges her. Belonging, territory, place, identity: how to address these questions through artistic work? Inspired by the subjectivity of time and space, she is interested in “existence” and the relationship of our body with space, its traces, feelings, its belonging or its alienation.
Jordan Shea Page is a poet and travel writer, interested in prickly thoughts. Her Substack newsletter, Shade Cactus, explores the aesthetic nuances of life. She writes, reads, and travels a lot.
Horia Pop is an artist living in France, making his living through his art (screenwriting, filming, shooting). His pictures are mostly in black and white, because he loves the purity, the magic, the vintage look about them. All they need is in the shades.
Riya Reddy is a student with a passion for writing and philosophy. She hopes to someday write a Really Good Book.
Rocco Ricca is a poet writing out of his apartment in Brooklyn, NY. You can follow him @MelancholicGem on X or find him aimlessly wandering the city, aesthetically smoking a cigarette as he finds new ways to not get over his exes.
Erin Matheson Ritchie lives in California with her spouse and pet rabbit (Thor, God of Thumper). She earned her master’s degree in education at Stanford University, taught secondary English for seven years, and caught a piranha while fishing at an Amazon River research facility. Her poems appear in Cosmic Daffodil and Dog Teeth.
Beth Sherman’s writing has been published in more than one hundred literary magazines, including Portland Review, Tiny Molecules, 100 Word Story, Fictive Dream, and Bending Genres. Her work is featured in Best Microfiction 2024. She’s also a Pushcart, Best Small Fictions, and multiple Best of the Net nominee. She can be reached at @bsherm36 or https://www.bethsherman.site/
Esther Shipsey was raised in California by a preacher and a bureaucrat just barely not-in-a-cult. Her poetic concerns include contradiction, revelation, delusion, constraint, time, forgiveness, bodies, and choice. Her voice is goofy, worldly, prophetic, lucid, tender, cutthroat, and femme. A neurodivergent woman of transgender experience in recovery from addiction, she chooses to believe in life after survival and the guarantee of neither. Inspired by Buddhists, existentialists, hacktivists, feminists, and abolitionists, she wishes to rip the Band-Aid off of a more beautiful world. She has been published in Plains Paradox, lives in Boulder, Colorado, and wants one of your fries.
Kayann Short, Ph.D., is a writer, farmer, teacher, the author of A Bushel’s Worth: An Ecobiography (Torrey House Press), and a Nautilus Green Living winner. Her work appears in Mud Season Review, Hawk & Handsaw, The Hopper, New Flash Fiction Review, and Burningword, among others, and the anthologies, Dirt: A Love Story and Rooted: The Best New Arboreal Non-Fiction. Dr. Short runs a CSA and organizes community writing events at Stonebridge Farm on Colorado’s Front Range.
Gregory Stenta, poet, teacher, and writer, holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Boston. Part of the inaugural cohort of MFA students at the university, he graduated in June 2010 from the MFA program there. Although he is passionate about reading and writing, life was busy and writing time was exceedingly difficult to come by the past few years due to the pandemic, etc. This is his first publication in a few years. He currently resides in Singapore in Southeast Asia.
William Teets, born in Peekskill, New York, has recently relocated to Southeast Michigan. He misses New York pizza, the Hudson River, and Fran, Remember the Good Times ’68. Mr. Teets’s work has been published in various journals and anthologies, including Ariel Chart, Drunk Monkeys, and Impspired. A collection of his poetry, After the Fall, was published by Cajun Mutt Press in February 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 MoonArc Project by Carnegie Melon University. Her work has also appeared in traveling shows, including for Centre Pompidou, Paris. Her work in the ABAD exhibition is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She also has work in the 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.
Angela Zimmerling is a former journalist who works in poetry and fiction and enjoys exploring mixed media to create images. She is passionate about the environment and animal and human welfare.