Virginia Barrett is a poet, writer, artist, editor, and educator. She earned her MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco where she was poetry editor of Switchback. Her six books of poetry include Between Looking (Finishing Line Press, 2019) and Crossing Haight—San Francisco poems (Jambu Press, 2018).
Jackie Chou's work has recently appeared in The Ekphrastic Review, Panoply Zine, Synchronized Chaos, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, and Lee Herrick's Our California project. Her two collections of poems, Finding My Heart in Love and Loss and The Sorceress, published by cyberwit.
Ken Gosse prefers writing metric, rhyming verse. First published in First Literary Review-East in 2016, since then by Pure Slush, Spillwords, Written Tales Magazine, and others. Raised in the Chicago suburbs, now retired, he and his wife have lived in Mesa, AZ, for over twenty-five years, with rescue dogs and cats underfoot.
Rick Davis is a seasoned playwright recently exploring the world of poetry. With six full-length plays, 13 children’s musicals, and 23 one-acts to his name, Davis’s work has been widely performed and awarded, with productions spanning from NYC and LA to theaters across the U.S. and Europe. Ten of his plays have been published, marking ... Read more
Rick Davis is a seasoned playwright recently exploring the world of poetry. With six full-length plays, 13 children’s musicals, and 23 one-acts to his name, Davis’s work has been widely performed and awarded, with productions spanning from NYC and LA to theaters across the U.S. and Europe. Ten of his plays have been published, marking ... Read more
Jackie Chou has published two collections of poems, Finding My Heart in Love and Loss and The Sorceress. Her work has recently appeared in The Ekphrastic Review, Panoply Zine, Synchronized Chaos, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, and Lee Herrick's Our California project.
Thompson Emate spends his leisure time on creative writing, particularly poetry and prose. He has a deep love for nature and the arts. His poems can be seen in Poetry Potion, Poetry Soup, Visual Verse, Writer Space Africa magazine, Lothlorien Poetry Journal and elsewhere. He lives in Lagos, Nigeria.
Andromeda resides in Houston, TX where she works as a Graphic Designer by trade. Exploring different creative avenues has led her to embrace her love of writing poetry. Her poems have appeared in chapbooks and literary magazines such as Written Tales, Quarter Press, Ink Babies, and online presses like D.U.M.B.O Press.
James B. Nicola’s latest of eight full-length poetry collections is Natural Tendencies (2023). His nonfiction book Playing the Audience won a Choice award. His poetry and prose have received a Dana Literary Award, two Willow Review awards, one Best of Net, one Rhysling, and eleven Pushcart nominations—for which he feels both stunned and grateful.
Alexis Santos is a poet from South Florida with a deep love for all things green and boundless. A graduate of SUNY Oswego, Santos holds a degree that has yet to find its calling but remains optimistic about the future. Embracing the uncertainty ahead, Santos finds comfort in the belief that the kindness given to ... Read more
H.L. Dowless is a thirty-year-plus veteran writer who loves traveling, writing, and living life on the edge.
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 Voices of Lincoln Poetry Contest in 2024 and the Streetlight Poetry Prize in 2024.
H.L. Dowless is a thirty year plus writer who loves traveling, writing, and living life on the edge.
H.L. Dowles, a seasoned writer with three decades of experience, brings a passion for travel and adventure to the literary world. Known for crafting narratives that blend insight with intensity, Dowles’s work reflects a life spent exploring the edges of experience.
Mark Ready repairs kitchen equipment and writes in his spare time. His Book The Journey to New Edgarton is available on Amazon. He has a very understanding wife, a brilliant and beautiful daughter, and four dogs.
L.E. Duchin, a scientist with a passion for prose, has published stories in Eucalyptus and Rose, Everyday Fiction, Small Leaf Press, Medical Literary Messenger, and The Mantelpiece. She is also the author of a children's book, My Name Is Chaac, inspired by her research on monkeys. An avid traveler, Duchin finds joy in hiking and ... Read more
Thompson Emate spends his leisure time on creative writing, particularly poetry and prose. He has a deep love for nature and the arts. His poems can be seen in Poetry Potion, Poetry Soup, Visual Verse, Writer Space Africa magazine, ScribesMICRO, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Borderless Journal and elsewhere. He lives in Lagos, Nigeria.
David Andersen is a retired computer systems design engineer. He was the lead designer of the first automated catalog ordering system in Europe, the first commercially successful voice-mail system, and many military and air traffic control projects. His previous chapbook story, A Little Kid Remembers WW2, appeared in Written Tales Chapbook XI Nostalgia.
Karen FitzGerald is a genre-fluid writer whose work has appeared in e-zines and print anthologies. Her debut novel is in progress, and she expects it will grace the slush piles of the best publishers in the business before reaching the light of day. She is an undaunted, smiling, idiot savant.
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.
Sarah Das Gupta is a retired English teacher from Cambridge, UK who also taught in India and Tanzania. She started writing last year after an accident which has limited her walking to using crutches. Her work has been published in over 150 magazines and anthologies from many different countries. She has Best of the Net ... Read more
Manoj Chenn is an engineer by training and an information technologist by profession. Hailing originally from India, Manoj lives in Germany and works as a tech major. Manoj seldom misses the chance to curl up with a good book, and some of his favourite authors are John Steinbeck, Douglas Adams and Walt Whitman.
Daniel Suter lives and writes in Beirut, Lebanon, where he has established several poetry initiatives and a regular poetry open mic event. His poetry has been published or is forthcoming in The Pomegranate London, New Pop Lit, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Love is Moving, and Luxury Literature Magazine.
Sam Hendrian is a lifelong storyteller striving to foster empathy and compassion through art. Originally from the Chicago suburbs, he now resides in Los Angeles, where he primarily works as an independent filmmaker and has just completed his first feature film TERRIFICMAN, a deeply personal ode to the power of human kindness.
An award-winning writer, Karen Pierce Gonzalez’s work has appeared in numerous traditional and digital platforms. Chapbooks include Coyote in the Basket of My Ribs (Kelsay Books), Down River with Li Po (Black Cat Poetry Press) and two hybrid poetic librettos (Mountains of Ocean: 10 Waves, RavenSong Four Feathers Press, and more.
Sarah Das Gupta is a retired English teacher from Cambridge, UK, who taught in India and Tanzania. She started writing last year after an accident which has limited her walking to using crutches. Her work has been published in over 150 magazines and anthologies from many different countries. She has Best of the Net and ... Read more
