Contributors
M. M. Adjarian has published her creative work in such journals as the Baltimore Review, South 85, Grub Street, Crack the Spine, North Dakota Quarterly, The Ekphrastic Review, Vast Chasm, and Poetry Flash. Currently, she is revising a memoir and working on her first collection of poetry. She lives in Austin.
Petra F. Bagnardi is a writer, a screenwriter, and a poet. She worked for the Italian TV network, RAI, and her poetry was published by various literary journals and magazines including, Masque & Spectacle Literary Journal, Punk Noir Magazine, Poetica Review, Drawn to the Light Press, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, Quail Bell Magazine, Ginosko Literary Journal, The Sunlight Press, Blydyn Square Review, Knee Brace Press, and more. She was short-listed in the Enfield Poets' 20th Anniversary Poetry Competition and won second place in the Wax Poetry and Art Magazine’s poetry contest. She is a bilingual author, English and Italian.
Ace Boggess is author of seven books of poetry, most recently Tell Us How to Live (Fernwood Press, 2025) and My Pandemic / Gratitude List (Mōtus Audāx Press, 2025). His writing has appeared in Indiana Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Hanging Loose, and other journals. An ex-con, he lives in Charleston, West Virginia, where he writes, watches Criterion films, and tries to stay out of trouble. His first short-story collection, Always One Mistake, is forthcoming from Running Wild Press.
Tamar Brooks is a Wisconsin original who received her Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from the University of Wisconsin – Green Bay in 2013 and joined the Chicago creative scene shortly thereafter as an actor, playwright, and poet. Her writing has been featured in a variety of festivals, online platforms, and gallery exhibitions, including a 5-year tenure at UWWFest. Learn more about her current projects at tamarbrooks.com.
Douglas G. Campbell lives in Portland, Oregon. He is Professor Emeritus of Art at George Fox University where he taught painting, printmaking, drawing and art history courses. His poetry and artworks have been published in numerous periodicals and journals. His artwork is represented in collections such as The Portland Art Museum, Oregon State University, Ashforth Pacific, Inc. and George Fox University. You can see Douglas’ artwork at: http://www.douglascampbellart.com
Allison Carroll got her poem Light published. Carroll's second publication was her creative nonfiction piece. Her story focuses on the night Carroll was abused. She got her poem, Bucha, published. As her third publication, this poem is about Bucha in Ukraine. When Russia attacked the city, many mass graves appeared.
JS Choi is a passionate high school student. Her work has previously been published or is forthcoming in Incandescent Review, Altered Reality Magazine, Academy of Heart and Mind, and Culterate Magazine among others.
Shortlisted twice for the Bridport poetry prize, longlisted for the Orwell Prize in the blog category and for the Bridport novel prize, Paul Connolly’s poems have appeared in Agenda, The Warwick Review, Poetry Salzburg, Stand Magazine, The Reader, Scintilla, Chiron Review (USA), Dawntreader, Takahē (New Zealand), Dream Catcher, Orbis, The Journal, FourXFour, The Seventh Quarry, Sarasvati, Envoi, Obsessed with Pipework, The Bombay Review, The Cannon’s Mouth, Southlight, Foxtrot Uniform, Guttural, The High Window, Nine Muses, Eunoia Review (Singapore), The Honest Ulsterman, Canada Quarterly, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Littoral Magazine, Northampton Poetry Review, London Grip, and Quadrant (Australia). Shortlisted for the Charles Causley Prize, he was highly commended in the Sentinel Quarterly and third in the Magna Carta Competitions.
Sarah Daly is an American writer whose fiction, poetry, and drama have appeared in fifty-five literary journals including New Feathers, Moss Puppy Magazine, Shot Glass Journal, and The Avalon Literary Review, and Autumn Sky Daily. You can find her work at https://sarahdalywrites.wordpress.com/
Holly Day’s writing has recently appeared in Analog SF, Cardinal Sins, and New Plains Review, and her published books include Music Theory for Dummies and Music Composition for Dummies. She currently teaches classes at The Loft Literary Center in Minnesota, Hugo House in Washington, and The Muse Writers Center in Virginia.
Gary DeCoker, a retired college professor, lived in Japan for seven years where he studied Japanese arts. During his career, while publishing his academic research on Japanese traditional arts and culture, he enjoyed writing personal essays, first as a student in the Bennington College MFA program. Since retirement he has been reworking some of these essays and writing new ones. His personal essays and reviews have been published or are forthcoming in Allium, Another Chicago Magazine, Calendula Review, Education about Asia, Glen Arbor Sun, Kyoto Journal, Liberal Education, Minnesota Medicine, Phi Delta Kappan, Pictura Journal, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Mahmoud Maher Eltrawy (TITOXZ) is an Egyptian physician and writer whose work navigates the intersections of clinical detachment, obsessive introspection, and the poetics of ruin. He is drawn to the fragile beauty of decay and the quiet persistence of life within collapse.
George Freek's poem "Enigmatic Variations" was recently nominated for Best of the Net. His poem "Night Thoughts" was also nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Richard Granvold is a retired electronics worker, former U.S. Army soldier, landscape laborer, and city parks employee who lives and writes in Albany, Oregon, where he was born. His poetry has appeared in Bards West, with a new piece forthcoming in JMWW (May 2025). He is the author of two full-length poetry collections published by North Orchard Press. Richard’s work reflects a life grounded in labor, land, and quiet reflection.
Jean Howard has performed her poetry at hundreds of venues nationwide, with such diversity as Chicago’s Big Goddess Powwow, the Guggenheim’s “Art of the Motorcycle Exhibit” at the Field Museum, Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, The Harold Washington Cultural Center, the Salt Lake Arts Festival, Utah Humanities Book Festival, as well as churches, coffee shops, mortuaries, art galleries, pet shops, festivals, biker bars and of course the famous Green Mill where the “Slam” began.
James Croal Jackson is a Filipino-American poet working in film production. His latest chapbook is A God You Believed In (Pinhole Poetry, 2023). Recent poems are in ITERANT, Stirring, and The Indianapolis Review. He edits The Mantle Poetry from Nashville, Tennessee. (jamescroaljackson.com)
Austin Allen James is a Visiting Professor at Texas Southern University, an HBCU located in Houston, TX, where he has taught since the fall of 2012. In 2016, he and his colleagues established a committee to create a “Professional Writing” concentration, which includes five creative writing classes. In addition to his academic pursuits, Austin is also a visual artist and Poetry Editor for Merion West.
Clyde Kessler has been writing and publishing poems for about fifty years, including four books, most recently *Fiddling at Midnight's Farmhouse*, in 2017. He is an associate editor of *Banisteria*, a journal of the Virginia Natural History Society.
Emma Kohut was born and raised under the sun in Los Angeles, California. She studied Communication at Cornell University and got her masters in literary translation from the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. She has worked for Pegasus Books, Garzella International Book Scouting, and reviewed books for Publisher’s Weekly's BookLife Prize. She currently works at a literary agency where she reads and edits Spanish translations. She lives in Madrid with her dachshund Buba and is working on her debut novel.
Erren Geraud Kelly is a Two-Time Pushcart nominated poet from Lynn, Massachusetts . He has been writing for 32 years and has over 300 publications in print and online in such publications as Hiram PoetryReview, Mudfish, Poetry Magazine(online), Ceremony, Cacti Fur, Bitterzoet, Cactus Heart, Similar Peaks, Gloom Cupboard, Poetry Salzburg and other publications. His most recent publication was in Time Of Singing Literary journal; he has also been published in anthologies such as " Fertile Ground," and Beyond The Frontier.” His work can also been seen on Youtube under the " Gallery Cabaret," links. He is also the author of the book, "Disturbing The Peace," on Night Ballet Press. He recieved his B.A. in English-Creative Writing from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He also loves to read and travel, having visited 46 states and Canada and Europe. The themes in his writings vary, but he has always had a soft spot for subjects and people who are not in the mainstream. But he never limits himself to anything, he always tries to keep an open mind.
Debra Lee is a southern writer. Her work was featured most recently as the editor’s pick in *The Missing Slate* and her novel *Pullman*, both released in August 2025. More of her writing can be found at https://www.pullmanbydebralee.com
Caroline Maun is an associate professor of English at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. She teaches creative writing and American literature. She is the editor of The Collected Poetry of Evelyn Scott, and author of Mosaic of Fire: The Work of Lola Ridge, Evelyn Scott, Charlotte Wilder, and Kay Boyle. Her poetry publications include the volumes The Sleeping (Marick Press, 2006), What Remains (Main Street Rag, 2013), and three chapbooks, Cures and Poisons and Greatest Hits, both published by Puddinghouse Press, and Accident, published in 2019 by Alice Greene & Co.
Nuala McEvoy started writing and taught herself to paint approximately seven years ago, at the age of around fifty. Nuala now paints daily using acrylics on canvas. She started submitting her artwork for publication in 2024, and her paintings have since been accepted for publication in many literary magazines and reviews. Her art has been accepted as cover art for several of these reviews. She has had two exhibitions in Münster, Germany and forty pieces of her art, including Autumn Dots, are currently exhibited in Cavendish Venues, 44 Hallam Street, London. Nuala artwork has been nominated four times this year for Best of the Net. Nuala’s writing has also been published in several literary magazines, and she has read her poems on podcasts. She also enjoys getting to grips with new languages when she has free time.
William Miller's ninth collection of poetry, Under Cheaha, was published by Shanti Press in 2025. His poems have appeared in The Penn Review, The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner and West branch. He lives and writes in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
MarkJ. Mitchell has been a working poet for50 years. His latest collection is SomethingTo Be.. A novel, A Book of Lost Songs was recently published byHistria Books. He’s fond of baseball, Louis Aragon, Dante, and his wife,activist Joan Juster. He lives in San Francisco. He can be found on Bluesky @MJMitchellwriter
Frederick Pollack is the author of two book-length narrative poems, THE ADVENTURE and HAPPINESS (Story Line Press; the former reissued 2022 by Red Hen Press), and four collections, A POVERTY OF WORDS (Prolific Press, 2015), LANDSCAPE WITH MUTANT (Smokestack Books, UK, 2018), THE BEAUTIFUL LOSSES (Better Than Starbucks Books, 2023), and THE LIBERATOR (Survision Books, Ireland, 2024). Many other poems in print and online journals. Website: http://www.frederickpollack.com
Annie Przypyszny is a poet from Washington, DC pursuing an MFA in Poetry at the University of Maryland. She is an intern at the DC Writers Room and a reader for Bicoastal Review. A finalist for Smartish Pace’s Beullah Rose Poetry Prize, her poetry is published or forthcoming in Sugar House Review, Tampa Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, The Shore Poetry, and others.
Paul Rabinowitz is a writer, photographer and founder of ARTS By The People. He is the author of 6 books. Rabinowitz’s photography, prose and poetry appear in magazines and journals including The Sun Magazine, New World Writing, Arcturus-Chicago Review Of Books, The Montreal Review, Stone Poetry Quarterly, and elsewhere. Rabinowitz was a featured artist in Nailed Magazine in 2020, Mud Season Review in 2022, Apricity Press in 2023, Rappahannock Review in 2024 and The Woven Tale Press in 2025. Rabinowitz’s poems and fiction are the inspiration for 8 award winning experimental films, including Best Experimental Short at Cannes, Venice Independent Film Festival, Florence Indie Film Festival and Paris Film Festival.
David Sapp, writer and artist, 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.
Lucien R. Starchild is an Indigenous, enigmatic poet/writer and cosmic dreamer, weaving tales that blur the line between reality and the surreal. Born under a wandering star, he draws inspiration from forgotten myths, celestial whispers and the hidden magic of everyday life. He has been published in Ink and Marrow, Necksuap, Third Wednesday. Flash Phantoms. PHIL LIT with many more forthcoming!
Angela Tang is a writer based in Fairfax, VA. She is a trained printmaker and works as a writing tutor. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in the Al Dente Journal, Wicked Shadow Press, Pile Press, and thelunchhour, and elsewhere. She is a first year MFA fiction candidate at George Mason University and a graduate of Williams College in Art History and Practice. Her instagram handle is @tangelaaang.
Doug Tanoury is a Detroit poet who has been writing and publishing poetry all of his adult life. He discovered the unique link between paintings and poems years ago when he first read Willaims’ Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems. Ekphrasis poetry is well suited to his style of clear and well-developed images combined with a lilting lyricism. He explored this form of verse in his chapbooks: Saint Mary’s Art Cloister, Imperfect Venus and Art History. The other area of focus and pre-occupation is the connection between place and poetry. He has always been pre-occupied with this link between a physical place and feelings that can haunt or loiter a particular space. He thinks the chapbooks he haswritten, Detroit Poems, Chicago Poems and Merida Poems, particularly explore this connection.
Jeffery Allen Tobin is a political scientist and researcher based in South Florida. A Pushcart nominee, Jeffery has been writing for more than 30 years. His latest poetry collection "Scars & Fresh Paint" was published in 2024 with Kelsay Books, and his poetry, prose, and essays have been featured in many journals, magazines, and websites.
Guerguan Tsenov is a Bulgarian-born writer and playwright based in New York City. He is the author of four books, including the acclaimed debut story collection At the End the Author Dies, which was shortlisted for Bulgaria’s Helicon Literary Prize. His later works include a collection of plays, a poetry anthology, and a second short story collection, A Portrait of a Man Without a Body or a Soul. A graduate of The Juilliard School with a major in music, he brings a distinct sense of rhythm and form to his prose. “Shakespeare in the Park,” from A Portrait of a Man Without a Body or a Soul, is his first short story to appear in English.
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 Adrienne Fidelin Restored. She is the author of a novel, Fall Love. Her poem, “Lady Bird,” won the Nathan Perry DAR 2023 “Honoring American History” poetry contest. She has lectured about Longfellow and Poe at the Wadsworth Longfellow House in Portland, Maine, and Longfellow House Washington Headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Glenn Wright is a retired teacher living in Anchorage, Alaska with his wife, Dorothy, and their dog, Bethany. Glenn writes poetry to ponder what puzzles him, to celebrate what delights him, and sometimes to keep from putting his fist through the drywall. His poems have recently appeared in Muse, Rumen, The Amethyst Review, Literary Hatchet, and other journals.
