Contributors
Cate Adler is a writer in Ontario, Canada. Their work has been featured in Queer Toronto Literary Magazine and Shot Glass Journal.
Duane Anderson currently lives in La Vista, NE. He has had poems published in Fine Lines, Cholla Needles, and several other publications. He is the author of ‘On the Corner of Walk and Don’t Walk,’ ‘Conquer the Mountains,’ ‘Family Portraits,’ and ‘The Life of an Ordinary Man.’
Richard Atwood Born in Baltimore, Rick has lived in Denver and Los Angeles, currently in Wichita, Kansas. He has published three books of poetry and been published in several literary journals. He has also authored 3 screenplays, 2 large stage plays; plus an m/m erotic-romantic fantasy, with a GOT ambiance... no supernatural jazz, and a strong moral thread throughout (Chronicles of the Mighty and the Fallen, under the name of Richard McHenry). Rick is retired from the health-care field and remains alone, with two poetry mss. in varied stages of submission.
Kharan Badri is a poet and native Austinite. His work appears or is forthcoming in San Antonio Review, Wayfarer, riverSedge, ArLiJo, Bryant Literary Review, and Scarlet. Kharan lives in Texas with his cats, Freyja and Helios, where he writes poetry, prose, and comedy on his website, badwriter.net.
Rachael Bae is an emerging writer and a student pursuing a degree in English at Chapman University. A lifelong reader, Rachael aspires to spark imagination and stir emotion through her stories, just as so many books have done for her. Her writing often explores the complexities of family, love, and grief. She also strives to express the quieter beauties of human connection, as reflected in her self-published children’s book, The Little Boat. Rachael’s dream is to become a bestselling author and to teach creative writing at the university level.
Linda Boroff graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a degree in English. She has published about fifty short stories and won several awards and fellowships, including nomination for two Pushcart Prizes. Her work has been anthologized and a short story is optioned to Sony. Her dystopian sci-fi medical thriller, TwistedFate, was published in 2022. It was showcased pre-publication in The Write Launch. Linda's Young Adult novel, The Dressmaker’s Daughter, about a teen partisan in WWII Romania, was also published in 2022 by Santa Monica Press. Her supernatural suspense novella, The Remnant came out in 2024. Here is a link to Linda's personal website https://lindaboroffauthor.com/ And a link to her published short stories https://lindaboroffauthor.com/the-writing-life. She has written one produced feature thriller that played in theaters, and she is currently working on a crime/legal miniseries with Ellen Brown Furman (who wrote The Infiltrator starring Bryan Cranston). She is also working on several new feature screenplays and placed in several competitions in 2024.
Sam Culotta is retired and living in Southern California. He is the author of two books of personal essays: Sleeping With Lumbago, and Clueless In Paradise, as well as James Dean Is Dead, New And Collected Poems. His prose and poems have appeared in various publications including The Write Place at the Write Time, Avalon Literary Review, Rockvale Review, Cathexis Northwest and AS It Ought To Be.
Rachel Davey is a writer and English teacher currently living in Spain. Along with writing, she enjoys playing basketball, reading, and traveling. Next year, she’ll be attending Trinity College as a candidate for an MPhil in creative writing.
Richard Dinges, Jr. works on his homestead beside a pond, surrounded by trees and grassland, with his wife, two dogs, two cats, and five chickens. Writer’s Block, Route 7 Review, Inscape, Nebo, and Young Ravens Literary Review most recently accepted his poems for their publications.
A Pushcart Prize nominee, Thomas Elson’s stories have appeared in New Writing Scotland, Short Édition, New Ulster, Lampeter, Moria, Mad Swirl, Blink-Ink, and Adelaide.
Alexander Etheridge has been developing his poems and translations since1998. His poems have been featured in The Potomac Review, Museum of Americana, Ink Sac, Welter Journal, The Cafe Review, The Madrigal, Abridged Magazine, Susurrus Magazine, The Journal, Roi Faineant Press, and many others. He was the winner of the Struck Match Poetry Prize in 1999, and a finalist for the Kingdoms in the Wild Poetry Prize in 2022. He is the author of God Said Fire and Snowfire and Home.
Mohammadreza Fayaz used to write fiction in Farsi and has a novel published in Iran, which was shortlisted for two prestigious literary awards. However, his second novel was banned by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance in Iran due to censorship. After this experience, he decided to start writing in English, and his fictions have been published in BigCityLit magazine and Books ‘N Pieces magazine. Originally from Iran, Mohammadreza immigrated to Canada in 2009 to complete his PhD in environmental engineering. He currently resides in Charleston, South Carolina, and is a member of the South Carolina Writers Association.
Melinda Giordano is from Los Angeles. Her pieces have appeared in Scheherazade’s Bequest, The Rabbit Hole, Lazuli Literary Group, Vine Leaves Literary Journal and After The Art among others; she was also twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She speculates on remarkable things – the secret lives of the natural world.
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in New World Writing, North Dakota Quarterly and Lost Pilots. Latest books, ”Between Two Fires”, “Covert” and “Memory Outside The Head” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in California Quarterly, Birmingham Arts Journal, La Presa and Shot Glass Journal.
Patrick Hart is a lawyer from Beach Park, Illinois, who has previously published seven short stories: “The Exploding Car” in the Muse Portfolio;“ King of the Dock” in The Storyteller; “Coffee with Vodka” in the Pennsylvania Literary Journal; “To the End of the Ravine” in the Caribbean Writer; “Search for Glory” in October Hill Magazine; “The Wheels of Justice“ in Adelaide Literary Magazine; and “The Day of the Vikings” in Rundelania. His non-fiction publications include various articles on tax law, which have appeared in legal journals, as well as letters to the editor printed on the Chicago Tribune editorial page.
Harvey Huddleston's short fiction has appeared in The Ravens Perch and Mystery Tribune, among many others.
Mark Jacobs has published more than 200 stories in magazines including The Hudson Review, The Atlantic, Playboy, The Baffler, and The Iowa Review. His sixth book, a novel called Silent Light, was recently pubilished by OR Books/Evergreen Review Books. His website can be found at http://www.markjacobsauthor.com.
Sevde Kaldiroglu is a creative writer and marketer from Istanbul. She holds a BA in English and a minor in Psychology from Stanford University. Her recent prose has appeared in Idle Ink, The River, The Coachella Review, and The Rising Phoenix Review, and her short story was a finalist for the Pleiades 2021 Kinder/Crump Award. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Bereket Writers, a global writing organization centering marginalized writers.
Molly Likovich (she/her) is a third generation Slovenian American who hails from the distant land of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. She’s half literary poet and half spicy romance author. In 2023 her monster romance novella ‘Riding The Headless Horseman’ was a #1 Bestseller on Amazon and her individual poetry and short stories have appeared in Rust + Moth, Shore Poetry, and Love Letters to Poe Vol 3 among many others. In 2022 she won Silver Honorable Mention in the L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Contest and in 2023 she won Second Place in the Auvert Magazine Orange Skies Poetry Contest. When she’s not writing she’s busy making hours long video deep dives on YouTube about whatever piece of fiction she’s currently fixating on. Learn more at mollylikovich.com
Jolie Lisenby is a native Houstonian who writes poetry, short stories, and occasional song lyrics. Her work has appeared in Laurels Magazine, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Angels and Miracles Anthology, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Angels and Miracles Adult Coloring Books, Sea to Sky Review, and several Poets Choice Anthologies. She is also a 2021 and 2025 winner of the Sidewalk Poetry Art Contest of Santa Clarita where her poetry is stamped into area sidewalks as part of a citywide beautification project. Jolie is a guest editor for Palette Poetry and lives with her husband and daughter in Tomball, Texas.
L Lois lives in an urban hermitage where trauma-informed themes flow during walks by the ocean. She is pivoting through her grandmother-era, figuring out why her bevy of adult children don’t have babies. Her poems have appeared in Alchemy Magazine, Poetry Breakfast, Open: JA&L, Fictional Cafe, Washington Square Review, Sparks of Calliope, and other literary publications. Links to her published work can be found on her website (https://poeting.my.canva.site).
Anne Mikusinski has always been in love with words. She’s been writing poems and short stories since she was seven. Her influences range from Robert Frost and Dylan Thomas to David Byrne and Nick Cave. She hopes that one day, some of her writing will impress others the way these writers have had an impact on her.
Eric Morlock is a 72-year-old prose writer and playwright from the Seattle area. He has published four short stories and two essays over the past year. Eric is an avid cyclist, volunteers as a driver and companion for fellow elders, and greatly enjoys his quiet writerly life on cool and beautiful Puget Sound.
Larena Nellies-Ortiz is a writer and photographer based in California. Her creative work often explores themes of memory, migration, and the quiet moments of everyday life. Her photography and writing have been featured in The Sun Magazine, Barren Magazine, The Ilanot Review and Stonecoast Review, among others.
Harry Palacio is a U.S born celebrity: numerous award-winning author,
fine artist and musician. He reached number #1 top of charts in Luxembourg and performed with Grammy winners and Grammy nominated artists. An award winning fine artist he exhibited at School of Visual Arts, Mt Kisco Arts Council, Peekskill Open Studios, Crossover XO, Hermosa, Robeson Gallery and H-Art. His art appears in Bitchin’ Kitsch, Personaland, International Voices, Photoclosing, Suburban Witchcraft, Inside Voice, Bellevue Review and the cover of Blotter.
Carissa Pallander is an undergraduate student studying English with a concentration in Creative Writing at Elon University in North Carolina, US. Her poem "Pompeiian (an ekphrastic elegy)" has been published in the on-campus literary magazine, Colonnades. Her other poems "with the lights off" and "Abecedarian about a 20-year-old kiss virgin" have received honorable mentions in a campus-wide poetry competition.
Rebecca Pyle is published as an artist in Blood Orange Review and New England Review; as a fiction writer in Pangyrus and Eclectica and Post Road Magazine; as an essayist in Cagibi and Common Ground Review; and as a poet in Anacapa Review and The Chattahoochee Review and Kestrel. She was named for the phenomenal British character Rebecca of the novel and film of the same name. American, over the past year and a half she has been living in Europe. See rebeccapyleartist.com.
Charles Rammelkamp is Prose Editor for BrickHouse Books in Baltimore. A collection of persona poems and dramatic monologues involving burlesque stars, The Trapeze of Your Flesh, was recently published by BlazeVOX Books. His collection, The Tao According to Calvin Coolidge has been accepted by Kelsay Books.
Stephen Reilly’s poems appeared in Charon, Wraparound South, Albatross, Main Street Rag, Broad River Review, Cape Rock, Poetry South, and other publications. One of my his poems appears in the anthology Florida in Poetry: A History of the Imagination (edited by Jane Anderson Jones and Maurice O’Sullivan, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Fla. 1995). Reilly retired in 2023 after working 30 years as a staff writer for the Englewood Sun, a daily Florida newspaper with circulation in south Sarasota County, Charlotte and DeSoto counties.
Zack Rogow is the author, editor, or translator of more than twenty books or plays. His memoir, Hugging My Father’s Ghost, was released by Spuyten Duyvil Publishing. Zack’s ninth book of poems, Irreverent Litanies, was published by Regal House. His play Colette Uncensored had its first staged reading at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, and ran in London, Indonesia, Catalonia, San Francisco, and Portland. Zack’s blog, Advice for Writers, features 300 posts on topics of interest to writers. www.zackrogow.com
David Rosenheim is an executive coach and professional songwriter and poet who lives in a solar-powered house by the ocean with his wife and two boys. The Weather Band, Hugh, and Winchester Revival have released his songs on seven critically lauded records, and his poetry has been published in dozens of journals including the Midwest Quarterly and the California Quarterly. His first collection of poems, OWL, was published in August 2024. He is a graduate of San Francisco State and Oxford universities.
David Sapp, writer, artist, and professor, lives along the southern shore of Lake Erie in North America. A Pushcart nominee, he was awarded Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Grants for poetry and the visual arts. His poetry and prose appear widely in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. His publications include articles in the Journal of Creative Behavior, chapbooks Close to Home and Two Buddha, a novel Flying Over Erie, and a book of poems and drawings titled Drawing Nirvana.
Tom Schmidt is a retired humanities professor who lives in rural Vermont. More than sixty of his poems have appeared in literary journals, and he has published four collections, most recently Rowing with Either Oar (Solum Literary Press, 2024) and Stranger in Parodies (Kelsay Books, 2025).
Margaret D. Stetz is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware, as well as a widely published poet.
Caroline Sutphin is a poet currently living and writing in Boston. She grew up on a farm in Appalachia, and this experience informs much of her work. She received her MFA from Western Kentucky University and today works for a nonprofit while maintaining a YouTube channel (@CarolineSutphin) on all things literary. Her work has appeared in Prism Review, Rappahannock Review, Mount Hope, and Kind Writers, among other publications.
Jeremy Szuder is a chef by night and a multidisciplinary artist by day—working in poetry, illustration, and sound. A former drummer and vocalist with 15 years in the music scene, he’s also a veteran graphic designer for clothing and skateboard brands, and a longtime zine-maker with over 25 years of self-publishing. His fine art has been shown in underground spaces throughout L.A.. His illustrations and poetry have appeared in more than a dozen literary and art publications across the U.S. and Canada, including Heartworm Reader, Cholla Needles, and Harbinger Asylum. Jeremy currently lives and creates in Glendale, California.
Diane Webster's work has appeared in Old Red Kimono, North Dakota Quarterly, New English Review, Studio One and other literary magazines. She had micro-chaps published by Origami Poetry Press in 2022, 2023 and 2024. Diane has been nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart. Diane retired in 2022 after 40 years in the newspaper industry. She was a featured writer in Macrame Literary Journal and WestWard Quarterly. Her website is:www.dianewebster.com
Anne Whitehouse is the author of poetry collections: The Surveyor’s Hand, Blessings and Curses, The Refrain, Meteor Shower, Outside from the Inside, and Steady, as well as the art chapbooks, Surrealist Muse (about Leonora Carrington), Escaping Lee Miller, Frida, Being Ruth Asawa, and the forthcoming Adrienne Fidelin Restored. She is the author of a novel, Fall Love.
Geoff Wyss' “Amherst” is part of a work-in-progress called I Felt Two Things Powerfully, other chapters of which have been published by Gettysburg Review, Colorado Review, Tusculum Review, and The Turnip Truck(s). His collection of stories, How, won the Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction. His fiction has appeared in Ecotone, Glimmer Train, Tin House, and Image, and has been reprinted in New Stories from the South and the Bedford Introduction to Literature. He lives and teaches in New Orleans.
