Sharon Scholl, a retired college teacher, leads a poetry critique group and manages a website that offers her original music compositions as resources for small, progressive churches. Her poetry chapbooks—Seasons, Remains, and Evensong—are available through online bookstores, and her poems appear in publications such as Changes Seven and The Taborian.
Katie Fitzgerald is a short story writer from Maryland. She writes mainly contemporary romance and mystery, but also occasionally dabbles in literary fiction, humor, and fantasy. Her work can be found online at Spark Flash Fiction, Little Free Lit Mag, Micromance Magazine, Syncopation Literary Journal, and in various print anthologies.
Thomas Harrison Humphreys, with a BS from the University of Lynchburg, is a history teacher in a small village who loves to talk to his students of literature. Thomas has been published in Westward Quarterly, Poetry Quarterly, Writers and Readers Magazine, Copperfield Review Quarterly, Written Tales and Mystic Publishers.
Haley Hodge is a poet from the Blue Ridge Mountain region who now calls the Seacoast of New Hampshire home. Haley is the art editor for Barnstorm Journal, a literary journal housed by the University of New Hampshire’s MFA program.
Writing under a different professional name, Tomas Zandir is a full-time ghostwriter of non-fiction books for private clients. Zandir’s short stories have appeared in literary magazines such as The Chicago Story Press (Sept. 2024), The Missouri Review, Armchair Aesthete, The Bitter Oleander, and The MacGuffin. A graduate of Tufts University, Tomas brings a unique narrative voice to ... Read more
Lucie de Gentile is a recent University of Oxford graduate and is the recent winner of the 2024 University of Oxford, University College Poetry Prize. Her poetry has been published in the Oxford Blue, Hypaethral Magazine, the minority magazine Roots and their branches, Original Sin and How2bBad.
Tom Misuraca studied Writing, Publishing and Literature at Emerson College in his home town of Boston before moving to Los Angeles. Over 130 of his short stories and two novels have been published. His story, Giving Up The Ghosts, was published in Constellations Journal, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2021.
Constanza Baeza Valdenegro was born in 1985. She lives in the Chilean countryside. She likes languages, flavoured tea and learning new things every day.
Sophia Martinez is a high school junior from New York with a passion for writing that she’s still exploring. Though uncertain about her professional path, she knows she has a fire for expression. Her poems are deeply diaristic, and she hopes that readers will feel the warmth of their own inner fire through her words.
Jonathan Chibuike Ukah is a Pushcart-nominated poet living in the United Kingdom. His poems have been featured in Unleash Lit, The Pierian, Propel Magazine, Atticus Review, The Journal of Undiscovered Poets and elsewhere. He won the third Prize in the Voices of Lincoln Poetry Contest in 2024 and the Alexander Pope Poetry Award in 2023.
Lucie de Gentile is a recent University of Oxford graduate and is the recent winner of the 2024 University of Oxford, University College Poetry Prize. Her poetry has been published in the Oxford Blue, Hypaethral Magazine, the minority magazine Roots and their branches, Original Sin and How2bBad.
W Roger Carlisle is a 79-year-old, semi-retired physician. He currently volunteers and works in a free medical clinic for patients living in poverty. He is on a journey of returning home to better understand himself through poetry. He hopes he is becoming more humble in the process.
