Allow me to introduce the contributors to FEED THE HOLY.
The entries are alphabetized by first names.
I am so grateful to each contributor for building a diverse community
of love, kindness, and understanding.
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Ajanta Paul
Ajanta Paul is a widely published poet, short story writer, and literary critic. He was a former Principal of Women's Christian College, Kolkata. A Pushcart nominee, Ajanta has been published in scholarly journals including Capella Biannual Journal, Offcourse, The Statesman, The Wild Word, Atticus Review, and Spadina Literary Review.
Alex Stolis
Alex Stolis has had poems published in numerous journals. Two full-length collections, Pop. 1280 and John Berryman Died Here, were released by Cyberwit and are available on Amazon. His work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Piker’s Press, Ekphrastic Review, Louisiana Literature Review, Burningwood Literary Journal, and Star 82 Review. His chapbooks include Postcards from the Knife-Thrower's Wife (released by Louisiana Literature Press in 2024), RIP Winston Smith (released by Alien Buddha Press in 2024), and The Hum of Geometry; The Music of Spheres (released by Bottlecap Press in 2024). He lives in upstate New York with his partner, poet Catherine Arra.
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Andrew Wilson still works part-time as a factory manager in Bradford, West Yorkshire, and when not working, writes for pleasure. He has been a signwriter, painter, architectural draughtsman, as well as a restaurateur and other food management roles. Working in many roles is a source of inspiration, and as an early adopter of reinvention every few years, his philosophy is use it or lose it.
Angela Kosta
Angela Kosta was born in Elbasan, Albania, and lives in Italy. She is a writer, poet, translator, journalist, and cultural promoter. A member of numerous international academies and associations, she has represented Albanian literature at various festivals and competitions. Her work has been translated into 45 languages and published in many countries. In 2024 alone, her works appeared in over 170 international magazines and newspapers. She has received significant awards, such as "Best Translator" from OBELISK magazine for translating poems by Giosuè Carducci and the title of "Important Figure" from the Moroccan newspaper Akhbar7 (2023). She was also listed among the 100 most prominent figures in Arabic literature by Al-Rowad News in 2024. Angela is an active member of academies in Italy, the USA, China, Greece, Poland, and other countries. Her work promotes dialogue between cultures through the written word, building literary bridges worldwide.
| Angela Townsend
Angela Townsend writes for a cat sanctuary, where she bears witness to mercy for all beings. She is a five-time Pushcart Prize nominee and seven-time Best of the Net nominee. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Arts & Letters, Chautauqua, Pleiades, SmokeLong, and West Trade Review, among others.
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Anjetta (Anjie) Williams-Brown, is a Tennessee State University retiree after 22 years of service. She self-published her first poetry book in 2022. She hosts three (3) open mic poetry programs, one (1) author/artist spotlight program, and one (1) talk show. She has poems in anthologies and magazines.
 | Ann E. Michael
Ann E. Michael lives in eastern Pennsylvania. Her latest poetry collection (2024) is Abundance/Diminishment. Her work has appeared in Ninth Letter, One Art, Ekphrasis Review, and many others, as well as in numerous anthologies. She chronicles her writing, reading, and garden on a long-running blog at www.annemichael.blog.
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Anne Anthony credits her steady diet of comic books for her ardent belief in superpowers. She has most recently been published in Flash Boulevard, Flash Fiction Magazine, Levitate Magazine, and elsewhere. Her micro-fiction, It’s a Mother Thing, was nominated for Best Microfiction 2024 by Cleaver Magazine. Find more here: https://linktr.ee/anchalastudio.
 | | Barbara Anna Gaiardoni |
Barbara Anna Gaiardoni’s Japanese–style poetry has been published in 220 international journals and translated into 12 languages. She received two nominations for The Touchstone Award and was recognized on the Haiku Euro Top 100 list and The Mainichi’s Haiku in English Best list for 2023. |
 | Bart Edelman
Bart Edelman’s poetry collections include Crossing the Hackensack, Under Damaris’ Dress, The Alphabet of Love, The Gentle Man, The Last Mojito, The Geographer’s Wife, Whistling to Trick the Wind, and This Body Is Never at Rest: New and Selected Poems 1993 – 2023. He lives in Pasadena, California. |
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Bill Vernon spends time writing, hiking, folk dancing, and babysitting. His novel OLD TOWN (Five Star Mysteries, Thomson-Gale) connects the expulsion of the original inhabitants of southern Ohio to its residents today. Shorter fiction of his has appeared in Synkroniciti Magazine, Northwest Indiana Literary Journal, and New Feathers Anthology.
 | Bonnie Demerjian
Bonnie Demerjian writes from her home in the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska, a place that nourishes her writing. Her poetry has appeared in Tidal Echoes, Alaska Women Speak, and Blue Heron Review, among others. She has also written four books on the area’s human and natural history. |
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Darrell Petska, a retired university engineering editor and Wisconsin poet, collaborates with Brent Skinner, a Minnesota artist who also has an estate planning and probate law practice in Wisconsin. Skinner's passion is creating works of art. A serendipitous encounter reunited poet and artist after their lives diverged more than 50 years ago. See The Ekphrastic Review, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, and Collaborature for other examples of their work.
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Carl Scharwath has appeared globally in 175+ journals, selecting his writing or art. Carl has published four poetry and photography books. He was nominated for four Best of the Net Awards (2021-24) and two different 2023 Pushcart Nominations for poetry and a short story.
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Carol Barrett has published three volumes of poetry, most recently READING WIND, and one of creative nonfiction, PANSIES. An NEA Fellow in Poetry, Carol supervises creative dissertations for both Antioch and Saybrook Universities.
Catherine Zickgraf
Two lifetimes ago, Catherine performed her poetry in Madrid. Now her main jobs are to write and hang out with her family. You can find her work in Pank, Deep Water Literary Journal, and 7th-Circle Pyrite. Her chapbook, Soul Full of Eye, is published through Kelsay Books. Find her socially in the Bluesky and watch/read more at www.caththegreat.blogspot.com |
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Carol Anne Johnson is in her mid-40s. She is blind and was diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder and complex PTSD. She is also a survivor of child abuse. She enjoys writing poetry and reading, walking, and volunteering. You can follow her on her blog, http://therapybits.com/.
 | | Carolyn S. Mahnke |
Carolyn S. Mahnke is a registered nurse and retired Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist, living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She loves gardening, mothering, “grand mothering”, quilting, walking, swimming, and writing. She has written and published four poetry books: Howl at the Moon and Tell Outrageous Truth, Howl from the Center of Being, Howling from Senior Moments, and Second Story View. She enters her 80th decade with energy and enthusiasm, nourished and encouraged by friends and family, especially by Nadia Colburn’s online writing community.
 | Cheryl Snell
Cheryl Snell’s books include several poetry collections and novels. Her most recent writing has appeared in Anti Heroin Chic, 100 Word Story, Blue Unicorn, and other journals. This year, her work has been nominated for inclusion in Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions, and BOTN anthologies. She lives in Maryland.
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 | Chris Cottom
Chris Cottom lives near Macclesfield, UK. He has work published or forthcoming in 100 Word Story, Eastern Iowa Review, Flash 500, Flash Frontier, Free Flash Fiction, Leon Literary Review, NFFD NZ, NFFD UK, Oxford Flash Fiction, Oyster River Pages, Roi Fainéant, Streetcake, The Lascaux Review, The Phare, and others.
 | Christopher Woods
Christopher Woods is a writer and photographer who lives in Texas. His monologue show, Twelve from Texas, was performed in NYC by Equity Library Theatre. His poetry collection, Maybe Birds Would Carry It Away, is published by Kelsay Books. His Gallery - https://christopherwoods.zenfolio.com/f861509283
 | | Chyrel J. Jackson |
Chyrel J. Jackson is a literary supernova and ranked #1 best-selling Amazon author. She was reared and raised in the south suburbs outside Chicago. Black literature influences her writing. Chyrel Jackson writes in the spirit of her past great literary ancestors.
Previously published works: Sisters Roc’N’Rhyme Presents Poems in the Key of Life, Mirrored Images, and Different Sides of the Same Coin. Her writings appear in multiple poetry anthologies, literary Journals, and international magazines.
 | | Claudia Wysocky |
Claudia Wysocky, a Polish writer and poet based in New York, is known for her diverse literary creations, including fiction and poetry. Claudia also shares her personal journey and love for writing on her own blog, and she expresses her literary talent as an immigrant raised in post-communist Poland.
 | | Cynthia Cady Stanton |
Cynthia Cady Stanton is a woman with a deepening awareness of life and spirit and a desire to share her spiritual understandings as a way to be a helpful and healing presence for others. She lives in the roles of mom, wife, friend, sister, and grief counselor. Cynthia is what she describes as "an accidental poet." She discovered her poetic voice four years ago while writing in a coffee shop. Since then, she has published hundreds of poems on her blog. Her voice is one of reassurance and higher understanding. She offers her writings as a means to promote love, grace, mindfulness, and healing. Cynthia has been a featured contributor several times on Phoebe.com and has had a poem nominated for poem of the month on Spillwords.com. You can find her poems here: becomingandbeholding.com.
Daniel P. Stokes has published poetry widely in literary magazines in Ireland, Britain, the U.S.A., Canada, and Asia, and has won several poetry prizes. He has written three stage plays which have been professionally produced in Dublin, London, and at the Edinburgh Festival. |
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| Daniel P. Barbare |
Danny P. Barbare resides in Greenville, SC. He grew up with the same magnolia tree and pecan. He has been mainly writing in free verse for 43 years and has been published over 1500 times, give or take a few.
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Daniel Romo
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Daniel Romo is the author of American Manscape (Moon Tide Press 2026), Bum Knees and Grieving Sunsets (FlowerSong Press 2023), Moonlighting as an Avalanche (Tebot Bach 2021), and other books. His work can be found in The Los Angeles Review, MAYDAY, Yemassee, and elsewhere. He received an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte, and he lives, writes, and rides his bikes in Long Beach, CA. More at danieljromo.com.
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Daniel Skach-Mills |
Daniel Skach-Mills’ poetry has appeared in Braided Way, Sojourners, Sufi (Featured Poet), and Kosmos Journal. His book, The Hut Beneath the Pine: Tea Poems, was a 2012 Oregon Book Award finalist. A former Trappist monk, Daniel lives in Portland, Oregon, where he served fifteen years as a docent for Lan Su Chinese Garden.
Danijela Ćuk
Danijela Ćuk was born on 25.05.1989 in Vukovar and lives in Čavle (Croatia). She writes poetry and prose, has published three independent collections so far, and participated in about 30 joint collections of poetry. Her poetry has been published in international magazines and portals, and she has received numerous awards and diplomas. All proceeds from the author's collections sold went to humanitarian causes. In addition to writing, Danijela also volunteers.
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| Darrell Petska |
Darrell Petska, a retired university engineering editor and Wisconsin poet, collaborates with Brent Skinner, a Minnesota artist who also has an estate planning and probate law practice in Wisconsin. Skinner's passion is creating works of art. A serendipitous encounter reunited poet and artist after their lives diverged more than 50 years ago. See The Ekphrastic Review, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, and Collaborature for other examples of their work.
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| David Henson |
David Henson and his wife have lived in Brussels and Hong Kong and now reside in Illinois, USA. His work has been nominated for four Pushcart prizes and has appeared in numerous journals. His X handle is @annalou8. His website is http://writings217.wordpress.com.
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Dawn Pisturino
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Dawn Pisturino is a retired registered nurse in Arizona whose international publishing credits include poems, short stories, and articles. She has published five poetry collections, including her most recent release, Ancient Voices: Poems About Ancient Egypt, which achieved #1 Amazon New Release status in African Poetry and History of Egypt.
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| Debra J. White |
Debra's social work career ended suddenly on 1/6/94 due to brain trauma from a pedestrian-car accident. At the end of a long recovery that included an extended hospital stay, she moved from upstate NY to Phoenix in 1997. In AZ, she found a new life in creative writing and volunteer work. Her newest book, All Shook Up, was recently released. Her webpage is: www.debrawhite.org
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Devayani Anvekar
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Devayani Anvekar is an illustrator and caricaturist of social and domestic issues. She lives in Goa, India. She writes poetry, fiction, and non-fiction prose when drawing fails to help her grasp human struggle. Her written work has appeared in 50-Word Stories, The Metaworker, and is forthcoming in The Genre Society and Witcraft.
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| Diana Raab |
Diana Raab, MFA, PhD, is a memoirist, poet, speaker, and award-winning author of fourteen books of poetry and nonfiction. Her writings have been published and anthologized worldwide. Her latest book is HUMMINGBIRD: MESSAGES FROM MY ANCESTORS. (Modern History Press, January 2024). She writes for Psychology Today, The Wisdom Daily, and Thrive Global and is a guest writer for many others. Visit her at: dianaraab.com.
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| Diane Allerdyce |
Diane is a poet, professor, parent, partner, grandmother, musician, yogi, and caregiver for whom poetry is a balm for the soul. Her poems have appeared in TheGroundUp, Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping, the chapbook Whatever It Is I was Giving Up, and the collection of prose and poetry House of Aching Beauty.
Her story “The Gift” appeared in the North American Review (Fall 2019: 304.4: 43-50). (It was inspired, in part, by Wallace Stegner’s “Goin’ to Town”; an interview about her process appears at https://northamericanreview.org/open-space/conversation-diane-allerdyce-discusses-her-story-gift-her-partner-rory-spearing ). Diane’s short story “Kochma” appeared in Stories that Need to be Told 2022: A TulipTree Anthology; it was also the first-place winner in the UK-based National Association of Writers and Groups (NAWG)’s 2022 Open Competition for Fiction and was republished with permission in their 2022 Anthology of Award-Winning Writing.
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DK Jammin’
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DK Jammin’ is 73 years old and lives in Colorado. He graduated from Yale University, raised a daughter, and worked at the Texas Legislative Council in Austin. His poetry has been published in Macrame Literary Journal, The Accendo Review, Soul Poetry, Metapsychosis Journal, Synchronized Chaos, and in the Men’s Poetry Journal, “Enkidu.”
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| Duane L. Herrmann |
With degrees in Education and History, Duane L. Herrmann has work published in print and online, in fifty-plus anthologies, over one hundred other publications (Gonzo Press, Tiny Seed Literary Journal, Page and Spine, etc), plus a sci fi novel, eight collections of poetry, a local history, stories for children, a book on fasting and other works, despite an abusive childhood with dyslexia, ADHD, cyclothymia, an anxiety disorder, a form of Mutism, and now, PTSD.
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Ed Davis
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Ed Davis has immersed himself in writing and contemplative practices since retiring from college teaching. Time of the Light, a poetry collection, was released by Main Street Rag Press in 2013. His novel The Psalms of Israel Jones (West Virginia University Press, 2014) won the Hackney Award for an unpublished novel in 2010. Many of his stories, essays, and poems have appeared in anthologies and journals such as Write Launch, The Plenitudes, Slippery Elm, Hawaii Pacific Review, and Bacopa Literary Review. He lives with his wife in the village of Yellow Springs, Ohio.
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Edilson A. Ferreira
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Edilson A. Ferreira, 81, is a Brazilian poet who writes in English rather than Portuguese. Has launched two Poetry books, ‘Lonely Sailor’ and ‘Joie de Vivre’, and has published 300 works in various international Literary Journals. Has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He began writing at the age of 67 after retiring from a bank.
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| Etya Krichmar |
Etya was born in Kazakhstan, a former republic of the Soviet Union. In 1977, she, together with her husband and a two-year-old daughter, claimed religious discrimination to escape antisemitism and the clutches of the oppressive totalitarian regime. Etya is retired and lives in Port Saint Lucie, Florida. The Orlando Sentinel and TC Palm newspapers have published her commentaries. She is a Treasured Contributor to MasticadoresUSA. Spillwords Press nominated her story Oh, Mother! for a Publication of the Month in July 2023. Her work appeared in the White Rose, Unleashed Creative, and The Write Launch magazines. Her story, Unconditional Love, is part of the Turning Point Anthology. Knocked Sideways Anthology is releasing Not All Jews are Created Equal in the United Kingdom in April 2024. Etya draws inspiration for her stories from her experiences behind the Iron Curtain. She is a Reiki practitioner and an active member of the Florida Writers Association, Life Writers, Memoir Writing Ink, Alumni Café, Pitch to Published, and Athena Sisterhood online Writing Groups. Her website, Etya Writes, can be found on www.etyawrites.com.
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Fay L.Loomis
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Fay L. Loomis leads a quiet life in the woods in Kerhonkson, New York. Her poetry and prose appear in numerous publications, including five poetry anthologies. Fay’s first chapbook, Sunlit Wildness (Origami Poems Project) was published in 2024. She is a nominee for the Pushcart Prize.
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| Gabriella Garofalo |
Born in Italy some decades ago, Gabriella Garofalo fell in love with the English language at six, started writing poems (in Italian) at six and is the author of these books “Lo sguardo di Orfeo”; “L’inverno di vetro”; “Di altre stelle polari”; “Casa di erba”; “Blue Branches”; “ A Blue Soul”, “After The Blue Rush”.
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Gillian Lionberger
Gillian Lionberger studies in the heart of her Appalachian culture at Hollins University’s MFA program. Her inspiration for little objects that lovely-clutter hearts, tapping into the concreteness of languages, and coffee spreads across both prose, poetry, and non-fiction. She also enjoys fencing, Persona games, and playing with her two dogs.
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Gregg Norman lives and writes in a lakeside cottage in Manitoba, Canada, with his wife and a small dog who runs the joint. His poetry has been placed in journals and literary magazines in Canada, the USA, the UK, Australia, Europe, and India. He is a 2024 Best of the Net nominee.
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Howard Richard Debs is a recipient of the 2015 Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Awards. His essays, fiction, and poetry appear internationally; his photography will be found in select publications, including Rattle online as “Ekphrastic Challenge” artist and guest editor. His book Gallery: A Collection of Pictures and Words is a recipient of the 2017 Best Book Awards and the 2018 Book Excellence Awards. His chapbook Political is the 2021 American Writing Awards winner in poetry. He is co-editor of New Voices: Contemporary Writers Confronting the Holocaust, a winner of the 2023 International Book Awards. He is listed in the Poets & Writers Directory. author website.
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Ian C Smith’s work has been published in BBC Radio 4 Sounds, Cable Street, Griffith Review, Honest Ulsterman, North of Oxford, Rundelania, Stand, & Westerly. His seventh book is Wonder, Sadness, Madness, Joy, Ginninderra (Port Adelaide). He writes in the Gippsland Lakes area of Victoria and on Flinders Island.
 | | Irma Kurti |
Irma Kurti is an Albanian poet, writer, lyricist, journalist, and translator. She is a naturalized Italian and lives in Bergamo, Italy. She has published more than 100 works, including poetry, fiction, and translations, and has written approximately 200 song lyrics. Her books have been translated and published in 18 countries.
 | | Ivars Balkits |
A dual citizen of Latvia and the USA since 2016, Ivars Balkits lives part of the year in Ohio but mainly in a small mountain village in Crete, Greece. His poems and prose have been most recently published online by Poetose, The Palisades Review, ephemeras, and Vernacular Journal.  | Jack D. Harvey
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Jack D. Harvey’s poetry has appeared here, there, and elsewhere on the internet and in print. The author has been writing poetry since he was sixteen and lives in a small town near Albany, New York.
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Jake Sheff is a pediatrician and US Air Force veteran. He’s published a full-length collection of formal poetry, “A Kiss to Betray the Universe” (White Violet Press), along with three chapbooks: “Looting Versailles” (Alabaster Leaves Publishing), “The Rites of Tires” (SurVision), and “The Seagull’s First One Hundred Seguidillas” (Alien Buddha Press).
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Jason Ray Carney is a Senior Lecturer in Literature at Christopher Newport University. He is the author of Weird Tales of Modernity (McFarland, 2019) and a contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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Jean Varda gave her first poetry reading in 1971 at Stone Soup Gallery in Boston, Mass. This was followed by performances on street corners, prisons, and churches with her mentor and storyteller, Brother Blue. She has led poetry workshops and open mics across the county. She has self-published six chapbooks of her poetry. She presently resides in Concord, Massachusetts.
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Jeff Burt lives in Santa Cruz County, California, with his wife and Labrador that dreams of being a plow horse. He has contributed to Williwaw Journal, Sheila-Na-Gig, Red Wolf Editions, and many others. He has two chapbooks available and a book of poetry due out in October. More can be found at http://www.jeff-burt.com.
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Johanna lives in Maine, surrounded by the state's natural beauty and the creativity it inspires. In her free time, she enjoys hiking and sipping tea at the local apothecary. Her work has been published by Moonstone Arts Center and featured at an event hosted by the Maine Women Writers Collection.
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John Doriot is an award-winning author and poet. He has authored fifteen books and won six Georgia Independent Author of the Year Awards, of which two were for poetry collections. He has contributed poetry to WestWard Quarterly and Poems for Tomorrow.
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 | John A. Tures
John A. Tures is a regular newspaper columnist and magazine writer for several news magazines and newspapers across the USA (https://muckrack.com/john-tures) and scholarly journals (https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C11&q=%22John+A.+Tures%22&btnG=). He has published several short stories in various journals and literary reviews.
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In a career spanning more than 50 years as a working writer, John Yamrus has published 39 books. He has also had more than 3,000 poems published in magazines and anthologies around the world. A number of his books and poems are taught in college and university courses. He is widely considered to be a master of minimalism and the neo-noir in modern poetry.
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Joshua St. Claire is an accountant from a small town in Pennsylvania who works as a financial director for a non-profit. His haiku and related poetry have been published broadly, including in Frogpond, Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, and Mayfly.
 | | Julie A. Dickson |
Julie A. Dickson is a long-time poet whose work has appeared in over 75 journals. She has served as a guest editor and a past poetry board member. Her full-length works are available on Amazon. Dickson advocates for captive elephants and shares her home with two rescued cats, Cam and Jojo.
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Karen A. VandenBos was born on a warm July morning in Kalamazoo, MI. A PhD course in shamanism taught her to travel between two worlds. A Best of the Net nominee, her writing has been published in Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Blue Heron Review, Moss Piglet, and others.
 | | Kelly Doheney |
Kelly Doheney is an emerging author of poetry, flash fiction, and short stories. Her work can be seen on Spillwords, Academy of the Heart, Agape Review, and Feed the Holy.
Ken Pobo
Kenneth Pobo (he/him) is the author of twenty-one chapbooks and nine full-length collections. Recent books include Bend of Quiet (Blue Light Press) and Loplop in a Red City (Circling Rivers). His work has appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Amsterdam Quarterly, Nimrod, Mudfish, Hawaii Review, and elsewhere.
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Ken Tomaro is a writer living in Cleveland, Ohio, whose work reflects everyday life with depression. His poetry has appeared in several online and print journals, exploring the common themes we all experience in life. Sometimes blunt, often dark, but always grounded in reality.
Kevin Daniel Scheepers is a 28-year-old man from South Africa. He completed an MSc in Biotechnology in 2023, but always maintained a personal interest in the written arts. His work has previously been published in Audience Askew and Harrow House Journal, and is soon to be published in Brittle Paper and Emergent Literary. |
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| Kirsty Mac Dougall |
When writing poetry, Kirsty follows a stream-of-consciousness process to make sense of the world—and herself. She also uses poetry to wallow in her daydreams. Her work has appeared in Free the Verse, WordSwell, KUDU, and elsewhere. You’ll find her with her cat, Dream, in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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| Kristi Jones |
Kristi Jones is an emerging poet who lives, works, plays, and writes in Madison, WI. Her poems have been published in KFF Health News. She loves spending time in her community garden plot, even when it involves non-stop weeding. She holds a BA from St Olaf College.
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| Kristin-Luana Baumann |
Kristin-Luana Baumann is a public theologian, pastor, and teacher who lives in the Pacific Northwest. Her guiding principle: Love God, self, neighbor, and the world. If in doubt, follow the Golden Rule and treat others as you wish to be treated.
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Kushal Poddar
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Kushal Poddar has authored ten books, the latest being A White Can For The Blind Lane, and his works have been translated into twelve languages. He is a co-editor for Outlook Magazine and the editor of Words Surfacing. He does illustrations and sketches for various magazines.
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Pushcart Prize winner Laura Rodley's latest books are Turn Left at Normal by Big Table Press, Counter Point by Prolific Press, and Ribbons and Moths Poems for Children, winner of the Children's Nonfiction International Book Award and medalist for the Moonbeam Book Award for Children's Poetry.
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 | Laurie Kuntz
Laurie Kuntz is a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee and two-time Best of the Net Nominee. In 2024, she won a Pushcart Prize. She published six books of poetry. Her latest book, That Infinite Roar, was published by Gyroscope Press. Her themes come from working with Southeast Asian refugees, living as an expatriate in Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, and Brazil, and raising a husband and son.
 | | Leah Mueller |
Leah Mueller's work is published in Rattle, NonBinary Review, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Citron Review, New Flash Fiction Review, Does It Have Pockets, Outlook Springs, Your Impossible Voice, etc. One of her short stories appears in the 2022 edition of Best Small Fictions. Website: http://www.leahmueller.org.
Lee Robinson
Lee Robison is retired from Federal service. He lives with his wife in Montana on a sliver of the ranch he grew up on, a couple of mountain valleys west of The Paradise. Lee currently works as a potter, poet, and storyteller. His collection of poems, entitled Have, was published by David Robert Books in 2019.
LeeAnn Pickrell’s debut collection is Gathering the Pieces of Days from Unsolicited Press. Her chapbook Punctuated was published in 2024 by Bottlecap Press, and her book Tsunami is forthcoming in 2026, also from Unsolicited Press. She lives in Richmond, California. See more at www.leeannpickrell.com.
 Native New Yorker and award-winner, LindaAnn LoSchiavo is a member of the British Fantasy Society, HWA, SFPA, and the Dramatists Guild. Titles published in 2024: “Always Haunted: Hallowe’en Poems” [Wild Ink], “Apprenticed to the Night” [UniVerse Press], and “Felones de Se: Poems about Suicide” [Ukiyoto]. Forthcoming: “Cancer Courts My Mother” [Prolific Pulse Press, 2025]. Book accolades earned: Elgin Award for “A Route Obscure and Lonely” and Chrysalis BREW Project’s Award for Excellence for “Always Haunted: Hallowe’en Poems.”
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Linette Rabsatt is a Virgin Islands poet with roots in the British Virgin Islands and the United States Virgin Islands. She began writing in 1996. Her work is available in her Kindle book, Be Inspired: Poems by Linette Rabsatt, and on her blog, Words of Ribbon. Linette writes to inspire the world with her words.
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Lisa Tomey-Zonneveld is the founder and manager of Prolific Pulse Press LLC and a widely published poet and writer. She is the editor of numerous anthologies and is an editor for Fine Lines Journal. Tomey-Zonneveld is Poet Laureate Emeritus of Garden of Neuro Institute and resides in North Carolina. You can follow her at ProlificPulse.blog |
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Loralee Clark
Loralee Clark resides in Virginia; her website is sites.google.com/view/loraleeclark. She has a book forthcoming this year, Solemnity Rites, with Prolific Pulse Press LLC, and has been published most recently in Periwinkle Pelican, White Stag Journal, Chewers by Masticadores, Nude Bruce Review, Lucky Leaves, Everscribe, The Rockford Review, and Soul Poetry, Prose and Art Magazine.
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Lorraine Caputo
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Poet-translator Lorraine Caputo’s works appear internationally in over 500 journals and 23 collections of poetry – including In the Jaguar Valley (Dancing Girl Press, 2023). She is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee. She journeys through Latin America, listening to the voices of the pueblos and Earth.
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| Luanne Castle |
Luanne Castle’s stories and poems have been nominated for Pushcart, Best of the Net, and Best Small Fictions. She has published four award-winning poetry collections. Her hybrid memoir-in-flash will be published by ELJ Editions in December 2026. Currently, she lives with four cats.
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Lulu Logan
Lulu and her three 4-legged children live happily together, cozily nestled every morning within the piles of pillows and blankets, welcoming the sunrise in Winter Garden, Florida.
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Lynn White lives in North Wales. Her work is influenced by issues of social justice and events, places, and people she has known or imagined. She has been nominated for Pushcarts, Best of the Net, and a Rhysling Award. https://lynnwhitepoetry.blogspot.com and https://www.facebook.com/Lynn-White-Poetry-1603675983213077/
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Mark D. Stucky has degrees in religious studies and communications. After being a pastor, he became a technical and freelance writer for three decades. During his day job, he documented diverse technology products. In free time, he’s written articles, stories, and poems on many (usually spiritual) topics. For more writings, see cinemaspirit.info.
Maria Giura PhD is the author of Celibate: A Memoir and What My Father Taught Me; her third book is forthcoming from Bordighera Press. An Academy of American Poets winner, Giura has been published in several journals and magazines. She teaches writing workshops for Casa Belvedere Cultural Foundation. Mariagiura.com |
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| Mary Bone |
Mary Bone has been writing poetry and short stories since childhood. She has written two books of poetry. Some of her poetry has been published at Masticadores USA, Poetry Catalog, Literary Yard, Spillwords, The Oklahoma Today Magazine, Literary Revelations, Blaze Vox Spring 2025 Issue online, and other places. Recent poetry is upcoming at eMerge Magazine and Zest of the Lemon.
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| Mary Ann Honaker |
Mary Ann Honaker is the author of Becoming Persephone (Third Lung Press, 2019), and Whichever Way the Moon (Main Street Rag, 2023). Her poems have appeared in Bear Review, JMWW, Juked, Little Patuxent Review, Rattle.com, Solstice, Sweet Tree Review, and elsewhere. She currently lives in Beckley, West Virginia.
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Mary Kipps
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Mary Kipps enjoys composing in traditional forms as well as in free verse. A former Pushcart Prize nominee, her poems have appeared regularly in journals and anthologies across the U.S. and abroad since 2005.
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| Matthew James Friday |
Matthew James Friday is a British-born writer and teacher. He has had many poems published in US and international journals. His first chapbook, ‘The Residents,’ was published by Finishing Line Press in the summer of 2024. His second chapbook, ‘The Be-All and the End-All,’ was published by Bottlecap Press in autumn 2024. He has published numerous micro-chapbooks with the Origami Poems Project. Matthew is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet. Visit his website at http://matthewfriday.weebly.com
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Melissa Lemay
Melissa Lemay lives in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with her children, cats, and dog. She writes about God, addiction, trauma, healing, motherhood, and many other things. She enjoys spending time with family, drinking good coffee, and being outdoors. She loves animals. Her poem, “Ephemeral”, was chosen as Poetic Publication of the Year for 2023 at Spillwords Press; she was Author of the Month for July 2024 and Author of the Year for 2024. Find her at melissalemay.wordpress, collaborature.blogspot, and at dVerse Poets Pub.
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| Meridawn Duckler |
Merridawn Duckler is a writer and visual artist from Oregon and author of INTERSTATE (dancing girl press), IDIOM (Washburn Prize, Harbor Review), MISSPENT YOUTH (rinky dink press), and ARRANGEMENT (Southernmost Books). She won the Beullah Rose Poetry Contest from Smartish Pace. Work in Seneca Review, Interim, Posit, Plume, Massachusetts Review, and Ninth Letter.
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Michael Braswell
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Michael Braswell has published books on ethics, justice issues, and the spiritual journey, as well as four short story collections. His poems and stories have appeared in several publications, including Foreshadow, Mobius, and Literary Heist. His most recent books are When Jesus Came to the Cracker Barrel (2024) and Gracious Plenty (2025).
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Michael Brockley
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Michael Brockley is a retired school psychologist who lives in Muncie, Indiana. His prose poems have appeared in The Prose Poem, Doublespeak Mag, and Keeping the Flame Alive. In addition, Brockley's prose poems are forthcoming in Bay to Ocean Journal, Unlikely Stories Mark VI, and Stormwash: Environmental Poems, Volume II.
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| Micki Findlay |
Vancouver Island author, Micki Findlay, has been published in various anthologies, poetry books and magazines. She believes that by sharing her personal story through poetry and prose, others might find encouragement, recognize their self-worth, and realize they are not alone in their struggles.
IG: @mickifindlay
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| Mike Wilson |
Mike Wilson’s work has appeared in many magazines and in Mike’s book, Arranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic. His awards include the League of Minnesota Poets Award, the Maine Poets Society Award, and the Chaffin/Kash Prize of the Kentucky State Poetry Society. He lives in Lexington, Kentucky.
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| Mike Turner |
Mike Turner was named 2025 Poet of the Year by the Alabama State Poetry Society. He has more than 475 poems published in over 100 curated journals and anthologies. Mike’s poetry collection, Visions and Memories, is available on Amazon.
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Mykyta Ryzhykh
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Mykyta Ryzhykh, an author from Ukraine, now lives in Tromsø, Norway. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2023 and 2024. He’s published in many literary magazines іn Ukrainian and English: Tipton Poetry Journal, Stone Poetry Journal, Neologism Poetry Journal, Shot Glass Journal, QLRS, The Crank, Chronogram, The Antonym, Monterey Poetry Review, Five Fleas Itchy Poetry and many others.
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| Myrtle Thomas |
Myrtle Thomas lives in the USA, residing in rural Southeast Indiana. She is retired from a large manufacturing company, which gives her time to write. Myrtle has been published in a large variety of poetry journals and has self-published her own poetry books.
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Nancy Bevilaqua
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Nancy Bevilaqua is a poet who has also worked as a caseworker for people with AIDS and as a travel writer. Her poems have been published in West Branch, Whiskey Island, Juked, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Prelude, and other publications. She now lives in Hoboken, NJ, where she is finally realizing her 50-year-old dream of learning to play drums.
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Nancy Machlis Rechtman
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Nancy Machlis Rechtman has had poetry and stories published in Writing In A Woman’s Voice, miniMAG, Discretionary Love, Young Ravens, and more. Nancy has had poetry, essays, and plays published in various anthologies. She wrote Lifestyle stories for a local newspaper and served as the copy editor for another paper.
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| Nattie O'Sheggzy |
Nattie O'Sheggzy is a poet and writer known for his imaginative work. He has published two poetry books, Random Imaginations, and Sounds of the Wooden Gong, available on Amazon. He enjoys reading, trekking, and walking his dog, Xhale. His writing explores life, nature, and human experiences. Nattie's unique voice and style blend modern and contemporary traditions with amazing imagery, symbolism, and experimentation. He is working on his third poetry collection to inspire readers through his passion for storytelling and the written word.
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Noelle Sterne
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Noelle Sterne, PhD (Columbia University), has published academic, personal, and spiritual essays and poems in print and online venues. Her handbook for struggling doctoral candidates stems from her professional editorial practice: Challenges in Writing Your Dissertation. Her spiritual self-help book, Trust Your Life, supports readers in reaching their lifelong yearnings.
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Nolcha Fox
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Nolcha Fox’s poems have been curated in print and online journals. A best-selling author, her poetry books are available on Amazon and Dancing Girl Press. Nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize multiple times. Editor of Chewers by Masticadores and Poetry Bookshelf on LatinosUSA.
Websites: https://writingaddiction2.wordpress.com/
and https://nolchafox2.wixsite.com/nolcha-s-written-wor/blog
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nolcha.fox/
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Nolo Segundo
Segundo, pen name of retired teacher L.J. Carber, became published in his 70s in 220+ literary journals in 18 countries and 3 poetry books published in softcover by Cyberwit.net, the latest titled 'Soul Songs'. And the reality of his soul, his endless consciousness, is what he discovered as he was drowning in a Vermont river over 50 years ago. |
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Patricia McCue
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Patricia McCue is a retired teacher of middle school science. Her poems have appeared in Woods Reader, Poetry Breakfast, Nature of Our Times, and various anthologies. In her free time, she studies and plays Traditional Irish Music on the violin.
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Paul Hostovsky
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Paul Hostovsky’s poems and essays appear widely online and in print. He has won a Pushcart Prize, two Best of the Net Awards, and has been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and The Writer’s Almanac. He makes his living in Boston as a sign language interpreter.
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| Peter Mladinic |
Peter Mladinic's most recent book of poems, Maiden Rock, is available from Uncollected Press. An animal rights advocate, he lives in Hobbs, New Mexico, United States.
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Peter Schwartz has had poetry featured in Pank, The Columbia Review, Diagram, and many other cool places. He is the author of the poetry collection 'Old Men, Girls and Monsters' as well as four other chapbooks. You can check out his art any time you want to at:
the-art-of-peter-schwartz.jimdosite.com.
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| Peter A. Witt |
Peter A. Witt is a Texas poet and a recovering academic who lost his adjectives in the doldrums of academic writing. Poetry has helped him recover his ability to see and describe the inner and outer world he inhabits. His work has been twice nominated for Best of the Net. He also writes family history and is an avid birder and wildlife photographer.
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Pieter Verasdonck is a retired planner and published writer on sustainability issues in Australia and UK, degreed in business (EU) and philosophy (US), who helped build resilience, forward planning capacity and income generation in organisations, villages, cities, regions, LGA’s, states and industries working with communities, large and small enterprises, in Australia, the Pacific and Africa, including a decade with NSW Government as Community Economic Development Manager.
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| Pulkita Anand |
Pulkita Anand is an avid reader of poetry. Author of two children’s e-books, her recent eco-poetry collection is We Were Not Born to Be Erased. Various publications include Tint Journal, Origami Press, New Verse News, Green Verse: An anthology of poems for our planet (Saraband Publication), Comparative Women, Origami Press, Asiatic, Inanna Publication, Bronze Bird Books, SAGE Magazine, The Sunlight Press, and elsewhere.
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Ray Whitaker
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Ray has four books published and two chapbooks. His work has been published in eleven different countries. Ray was a Delegate to the 2024 Writers’ International Panorama Festival. He participates regularly in several Zoom poetic events worldwide. Among them, he has been spotlighted on a US National Poetry broadcast from Quintessential Listening Poetry Online Radio in 2024, and also an International Poetry Recital hosted by The Fertile Minds out of India. In July 2025, he was the featured poet in David Leo Sirois’
Spoken World Online, which is associated with Spoken Word Paris.
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| Rhonda Melanson |
A graduate of Queen’s University Artist In The Community Education Program, Rhonda Melanson has been published in several print and online magazines and is a recent recipient of the Ted Plantos Memorial Award in Ontario, Canada. She is the author of two chapbooks: Gracenotes (Beret Days Press) and My Name is Mary (Alien Buddha Press). She also co-edits a literary blog, Uproar.
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Rich Boucher
Rich Boucher resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Rich’s poems have appeared in The Nervous Breakdown, Eighteen Seventy, and The Rye Whiskey Review, among others, and he has work forthcoming in Pulp Literary Magazine and Eunoia Review. He is the author of All of This Candy Belongs to Me.
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| Richard M. Ankers |
Richard M. Ankers is the English author of The Eternals Series, Britannia Unleashed and co-author of The Poetry of Pronouns Books 1 & 2. Richard has featured in Daily Science Fiction, Love Letters To Poe, Starspun Lit, and feels privileged to have appeared in many more. Richard lives to write.
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Richard Lehan
Richard Lehan is a fiction writer living in Massachusetts. Most recently, his one-act play "Conflagration" appeared in the Autumn 2024 edition of Rushing Thru the Dark magazine. Previously, his short story "Ambulatory" appeared in the Spring 2024 edition of Coneflower Cafe magazine; another story of his "Ambulatory" appeared in Story Sanctum in December 2023 and was included in their year-end anthology Tales from the Vault. His flash fiction "State Forest" also appeared in the 2024 edition of Stolen Shoes Literary & Art Magazine.
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| Robbie Cheadle |
Award-winning, bestselling author Robbie Cheadle has published thirteen children’s books and three poetry books. Her work has also appeared in poetry and short story anthologies. Robbie also has two novels published under the name of Roberta Eaton Cheadle and has horror, paranormal, and fantasy short stories featured in several anthologies under this name. The ten Sir Chocolate children’s picture books, co-authored by Robbie and Michael Cheadle, are written in sweet, short rhymes which are easy for young children to follow and are illustrated with pictures of delicious cakes and cake decorations. Each book also includes simple recipes or biscuit art directions, which children can make under adult supervision. Robbie’s blog includes recipes, fondant and cake artwork, poetry, and book reviews. https://robbiesinspiration.wordpress.com/. Robbie Cheadle’s books are available here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Robbie-Cheadle/author/
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Robert Okaji
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Two years ago, Robert Okaji was diagnosed with late-stage metastatic lung cancer, which he found annoying. But thanks to modern science, he's still living in Indianapolis with his wife—poet Stephanie L. Harper—stepson, cat, and dog. Recent publications include Our Loveliest Bruises (3: A Taos Press, 2025) and His Windblown Self (Broadstone Books, 2025).
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| Rose Anna Higashi
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Rose Anna Higashi is a retired professor of English Literature, Japanese Literature, and Poetry who lives in Honolulu with her husband, Wayne. She writes a haiku every day and publishes a monthly blog, “Tea and Travels” on her website, myteaplanner.com. Her poems appear in a variety of online and print media, including Poets Online, whose editors nominated her for the Pushcart Prize. Kelsay Books is scheduled to publish her third volume of poetry, Searching in Circles, in 2025.
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Sam Moe
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Sam Moe is the author of six books of poetry. Her most recent collection, RED HALCYON, is forthcoming from Querencia Press in 2026. Her debut short story collection, I MIGHT TRUST YOU, is forthcoming from Experiments in Fiction in Spring 2025. She has attended the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and received fellowships from the Longleaf Writers’ Conference and the Key West Literary Seminar. Sam has also received writing residencies from The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow and Château d’Orquevau.
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| Santosh Bakaya |
Internationally acclaimed for her poetic biography of Mahatma Gandhi, Ballad of Bapu, Dr Santosh Bakaya is an academic, poet, novelist, essayist, creative writing mentor, and TEDx speaker with more than thirty well-received books to her credit. She writes a weekly column, Morning Meanderings in Learning and Creativity.com, and her TEDx talk on The Myth of Writer’s Block is very popular in creative writing circles.
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| Sarah Das Gupta |
Sarah Das Gupta is an 82-year-old, handicapped poet from Cambridge, UK. She started writing poetry in 2022 after an accident that has prevented her from walking more than a few metres. Her work has been published in over twenty countries. Writing has enabled her to travel and communicate with many people through words.
Selma Martin is a retired English teacher with 20 years of experience teaching children ESL. She believes in people’s goodness and in finding balance in simple living. She lives in Japan with her husband of 35 years. In 2018, Selma participated in a networking course whose final lesson was to publish a story on Amazon. She completed the course and self-published her short story, Wanted: Husband/Handyman, in 2019, and later, collaborating with peers from that course, she published Wanted: Husband/Handyman in Once Upon A Story: A Short Fiction Anthology. Selma has published stories on Medium for many years, in MasticadoresUSA, The Poetorium At Starlight, Short Fiction Break, Lit eZine, and Spillwords. In July 2023, she published her debut poetry collection, In the Shadow of Rainbows (Experiments in Fiction). You can find Selma as selmawrites on Instagram and Twitter, and on her website, selmamartin.com.
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| Sharon SingingMoon |
Sharon SingingMoon is a poet, award-winning visual artist, and host of a monthly reading series, SPOKEN. Sharon lives on the unceded ancestral lands of the Kickapoo, Shawnee, Ioway, Otoe, Delaware & Osage in what is now mid-Missouri. She has been published widely in the US, the UK, and Europe. Her recent poetry collections are Random Seed (Compass Flower Press) and The Weight of One Hummingbird Feather (Spartan Press). She co-edited, with Jason Ryberg, Rough-Cut Elegies, An Anthology of Missouri Poets. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net 2025, a 2025 Pushcart Prize, and an Eric Hoffer Book Award.
Shaun R. Pankoski (she/her) is a poet, most recently from Volcano, Hawaii. A retired county worker and two-time breast cancer survivor, she has been an artist’s model, modern dancer, massage therapist, and an honorably discharged Air Force veteran. A 2024 Pushcart Prize nominee, her poems have appeared in ONE ART, Quartet, SWIMM, Thimble, Mackinaw Journal, and MockingHeart Review, among others.
She was selected as a finalist by Lefty Blondie Press for her chapbook manuscript, Tipping the Maids in Chocolate: Observations of Japan, and as a first runner-up for their Editors' Choice Broadside Series for her poem, Lupine.
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| Shirani Rajapakse |
Shirani Rajapakse is an internationally published, award-winning poet and short story writer. The author of four collections of short stories and three collections of poetry, her work appears in many literary journals and anthologies. It has been translated into Spanish, Farsi, French, and Chinese. She has travelled widely, but calls Sri Lanka home.
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| Smitha Vishwanath |
Smitha Vishwanath’s poems are found in several International online publications, including Thieving Magpies, Spillwords Press, MasticadoresUSA, Silverbirch Press, Borderless Journal, and other noteworthy anthologies. She has received many awards and honors from Spillwords, and has been nominated for Best of the Net. She received the Reuel International Prize in 2022. Smitha is the author of Coming Home (2023). She co-authored a book of poems, ROADS : A Journey with Verses (2019). You can follow Smitha on her blog: https://smithavpennings.com.
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Snigdha Agrawal
Snigdha Agrawal (nee Banerjee), has an MBA in Marketing and Corporate work experience of over two decades. She enjoys writing all genres of poetry, prose, short stories, and travel diaries. Educated in Loreto Institutions, run by the Irish Nuns, and brought up in a cosmopolitan environment, she has learned the best of the East and West. She is a published author of four books. Her works have appeared in several anthologies and e-journals, published in India and overseas. She has recently been nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2024 for poetry.
Sterling Warner
Washington-based author, poet, and educator, Sterling Warner’s works have appeared in such magazines, journals, and anthologies as Verse-Virtual, Ekphrastic Review. Warner’s poetry/fiction includes Rags and Feathers, Without Wheels, ShadowCat, Edges, Memento Mori, Serpent’s Tooth, Flytraps: Poems, Cracks of Light: Pandemic Poetry & Fiction, Halcyon Days: Collected Fibonacci, Abraxas: Poems, Gunilla’s Garden: Poems (2025)—as well as Masques: Flash Fiction & Short Stories. He currently writes, hosts “virtual” poetry/fiction readings, and enjoys fishing along the Hood Canal.
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Susan P. Blevins was born in England and subsequently spent all but the first twenty years of her life in Italy and the USA. She had a weekly column in an international newspaper while living in Rome, and now publishes her writing in various literary publications worldwide.
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Susan Shea’s poetry has been accepted by Chiron Review, Ekstasis, Loch Raven Review, LitBreak, Foreshadow, The Gentian, and others. Within the past few months, one of her poems was nominated for Best of the Net by Cosmic Daffodil and three poems were nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Umbrella Factory Magazine.
 | Sushant Thapa
Sushant Thapa is a Nepalese poet. He has published seven books of English poems and one book of flash fiction and short stories. He holds an MA in English from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India. Sushant teaches English Language and Literature to MA and BBA students in Biratnagar, Nepal.
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Sylvia Clare came into writing later in life as a result of her journey to find out who she was, having struggled with mental health herself for most of her life, and wanting to help others, too. She mainly writes memoirs and poetry, or essays about mindfulness, mental health, and living well. She cares passionately about kindness in the world, developing compassion and caring for the environment. She is a profoundly spiritual free thinker and does not adhere to any single religion, but believes everyone should seek to explore their own deeper spiritual natures and find their own truths. She lives with her soulmate and spends much of her time gardening organically, growing her own food, and writing. My books can be found on Amazon here: Amazon.com: Sylvia Clare: books, biography, latest update. |
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Terry Allen
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Terry Allen is an Emeritus Professor of Theatre Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where he taught acting, directing and playwriting. He is the author of five poetry collections: Monsters in the Rain, Art Work, Waiting on the Last Train, Rubber Time, and Preserving the Past for the Present.
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| Terry Jude Miller |
Terry Jude Miller lives in Houston, working in academia. His poems have received multiple Pushcart nominations. In 2024, his work was published in Sontag Mag, Encore, Equinox, Trigger Warning Magazine, Exomorphosis, Ars Sententia, The Nature of Things, The Bayou Review, Boundless, the Poetry At Round Top Anthology, and several other literary publications. Miller is the former 1st Vice Chancellor of the National Federation of States Poetry Societies. https://www.terryjudemiller.com
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Terry Savoie
Terry Savoie’s poetry has been included in over two hundred literary journals such as APR, Poetry (Chicago), Ploughshares, North American Review, Commonweal, American Journal of Poetry, and The Iowa Review, as well as in recent numbers of North Dakota Quarterly, One, and America, among others.
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| Tina Hudak |
Tina Hudak is a writer-artist in the Washington, D.C. area. She has works included in The Library of Congress and Harvard Art Library, and with small press publications in the U.S. and overseas. Visit TinaOpines and A Blue Bunny Studio on Wordpress.
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| Todd Matson |
Todd Matson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in North Carolina, United States. His poetry has been published in Salvation South, Agape Review, San Antonio Review, The Brussels Review, and featured in Poetry for Mental Health. He has also written lyrics for songs recorded by several contemporary Christian music artists.
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Thomas Zimmerman
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Thomas Zimmerman (he/him/his) teaches English, directs the Writing Center, and edits The Big Windows Review https://thebigwindowsreview.com/ at Washtenaw Community College, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His latest poetry book is My Night to Cook (Cyberwit, 2024). Website: https:/thomaszimmerman.wordpress.com Twitter: @bwr_tom Instagram: tzman2012
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Tony Ashenden
Through a series of life-changing events, Tony began to practise as a medium and healer, founding a charity to train people to understand their psychic and spiritual selves. He created a Body-Mind philosophy, which provides self-discovery of meditative forms of development. An advocate of complementary and alternative medicine and a believer in the unification of body, soul, and spirit, he dedicates his writing to the harmonious development of Man. “Life is real only then when I am.” Please visit his blog, Mine Quick Voice of Aquarius, to see some of his work. His book “Tales of Bellerophon -On the Banks of the Shalimar” is available on Amazon.
 | Toyer Fahie
Toyer Fahie is a wife and mother of three beautiful children. She was born and raised in the Virgin Islands with Antiguan roots. Working for a financial institution is what she does for a living, but writing poems gives her life.
 | | Vandana Kumar |
Vandana Kumar is a French teacher and multiple award-winning poet from New Delhi, India. Her poems have been published in national and international websites and anthologies of repute. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee for 2023, and her poetry collection ‘Mannequin of Our Times’ has also won several awards.
 | | William Cass |
William Cass has had over 350 short stories appear in literary magazines and anthologies. A nominee for Best Small Fictions and Best of the Net, he’s also had six Pushcart nominations. He’s published two short story collections with Wising Up Press and has another scheduled for release early next year. |
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| Yongbo Ma |
Yongbo Ma was born in 1964. He has a PhD and is a translator, editor, and leading scholar of postmodern poetry. He has authored or translated more than 80 published books. Ma is a professor in the Faculty of Arts and Literature at Nanjing University of Science and Technology. His translations from English include works by Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, W.C.Williams, John Ashbery, Herman Melville, and others. You can follow him on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093276516900.
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