Paul David Adkins served in the US Army from 1991-2013. He holds a MA in Writing and Oral Tradition from The Graduate Institute, Bethany, CT. He counsels soldiers and teaches students in a correctional facility. Publications include River Styx, Pleiades, Longleaf Review, Connecticut River Review, Baltimore Review, and Whiskey Island.
Asha Anderson, born in the USA, currently living in Portugal, given to wandering. "Her lean output belies her hefty impact. How many atoms are in a nuclear bomb?"
Allen Ashley is the President Elect of the British Fantasy Society. He has twice been guest editor on "Sein und Werden". He is the founder of the advanced science fiction group Clockhouse London Writers. His latest book is a poetry collection - "Echoes from an Expired Earth" (Demain Publishing, 2020).
Joseph Baron-Pravda's multimedia (should it be hyphenated, he mused) work's been paged (plasma/print/braille, pending), framed (exhibited, some would say exhibitionist, he/printed in fine journals, not to be confused with fine print), screened (video, filmic...pretty word, that) & staged (not unlike a flash mob, from The Kennedy Center, yes, that one, to Minneapolis's teatrodelpueblo to Times Square....video of his dreamer play in the latter venue @ angrysponge.com, 'Marshall Law').
Robert Beveridge (he/him) makes noise (xterminal.bandcamp.com) and writes poetry in Akron, OH. Recent/upcoming appearances in Red Coyote Review, Deep South Magazine, and Aromatica Poetica, among others.
Julie Blankenship received an MFA and later taught at the San Francisco Art Institute. As leader of Visual Aid, an arts/social justice organization, she opened Visual Aid Gallery, and curated many exhibitions. Her work has been exhibited widely, including Amsterdam Center for Photography, Amsterdam; American Institute of Architects, San Francisco; and CICA Museum, Seoul. Publications include London Reader, Punt Volat and Blood Bath magazines; and the cover of Egaeus Press' Of One Free Will. She lives and works in San Francisco, California.
Iain Britton is an Aotearoa New Zealand poet and author of several collections of poetry. Poems have been published or are forthcoming in Harvard Review, Poetry (Chicago), The New York Times, Poet Lore, Wild Court, New Humanist, The Scores Poetry Journal, the Birmingham Literary Journal. Stand, Agenda, The Fortnightly Review and Poetry Wales. THE INTAGLIO POEMS was published by Hesterglock Press (UK) 2017. https://www.facebook.com/iainbrittonpoet/
Jane Brooke is 23, a stick gay UK blonde, a child dyslexic autistic artist savage, kind verbage for saying she is insane. Plays piano, guitar, a welding, gold, silver artist, photographer, works the Paris, London runways to keep the coin coming in. 13 acid etched, violent, sexual HER generation novels over 100 Film/Noir/erotica stories published, her mantra is. If your not offended, repulsed, entertained and wakened from your coma by her work, well she's failed as a writer. Her new novel VEGAS SAVAGES just dropped.
Cecelia Chapman, ceceliachapman.com/
B. Drew Collier studies relativistic temporal cartography (purely as a hobby), but insists on using paper and pens rather than quantum-locked satellite data, and is usually quite lost.
Juliet Cook is brimming with black, grey, silver, purple, and dark red explosions. She is drawn to poetry, abstract visual art, and other forms of expression. Her poetry has appeared in a peculiar multitude of literary publications. You can find out more at www.JulietCook.weebly.com.
Mary Cresswell is from Los Angeles and lives on New Zealand's Kāpiti Coast. Two of her recent books are Fish Stories: Ghazals and glosas (Canterbury University Press, 2015) and Field Notes: A satirical miscellany (Mākaro Press, Wellington, 2017). See also: www.read-nz.org/writer/cresswell-mary/
Jeff Crouch, Texas, nothingandinsight.blogspot.com/
Risa Denenberg lives on the Olympic peninsula in Washington state where she works as a nurse practitioner. She is a co-founder and editor at Headmistress Press; curator at The Poetry Café; and has published three full length collections of poetry, most recently, "slight faith" (MoonPath Press, 2018).
John Dishwasher lives and writes in Southern California. More of his works can be read at www.johndishwasher.org
Alexis Rhone Fancher is published in Best American Poetry, Rattle, Hobart, Verse Daily, Plume, Cleaver, Diode, Duende, Flock, Poetry East, Pedestal Magazine and elsewhere. She's authored five poetry collections, most recently, Junkie Wife (Moon Tide Press, 2018), and The Dead Kid Poems (KYSO Flash Press, 2019). Her sixth collection, EROTIC: New & Selected, publishes in Fall, 2020 from New York Quarterly. A multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, Alexis is poetry editor of Cultural Weekly.
Gene Farmer lives and occasionally writes stories somewhere near London. Some of his other work has appeared in Open Pen, Burning House Press, Flash Fiction Magazine, Tapes & Tales and Glove Magazine, among others.Twitter: @genedfarmer
Blog: https://genefarmer.wordpress.com/
Kyle Ferguson was born in a small town in Saskatchewan and spent his formative years in Central Alberta Canada. He worked at a family medicine residency for over 6 years. He now works in tribal medicine on a reservation in Washington State. He has published numerous works of nonfiction including journal articles, book chapters, and five books. Among others, his poems appear in the magazines, Quills, The Delinquent, Chimera, & Orbis. He has also published a smattering of short fiction.
Nigel Ford works as a translator, writer, visual artist and dramatist. He is English and lives in UK and Sweden. His stories, poems, flash fiction and essays have appeared in literary magazines in the USA, UK, Norway and India.
Kristin Fouquet photographs and writes from lovely New Orleans. Her photography has been widely published in both online journals and in print: magazines, chapbook and book covers, and CDs. Her preferences are conceptual photography, street photography, and the occasional traditional portrait. When not behind the camera, Kristin writes short literary fiction. She is the author of five books. You are invited to visit her humble virtual abode, Le Salon, at the web address https://kristin.fouquet.cc/
Steve Fried has taught writing fifty-three years in New York's topheavy, tottering, soon-to-be-toppling public university system. For updates to his ongoing poem "Surreal Numbers," email swfried@gmail.com
Daniel Galef is one of those good-for-nothing millennials you keep reading articles about. His short stories have appeared in Juked, Rivet, Bewildering Stories, Defenestration, and Bards and Sages Quarterly, and he also writes poems and plays. Despite everything, he is still looking forward to beginning his fiction MFA this fall at Florida State University. His flash fiction "Break Blow Burn" was just awarded a spot in the upcoming 2020 Best Small Fictions Anthology.
Boris Glikman is a writer, poet and philosopher from Melbourne, Australia. He says: "Writing for me is a spiritual activity of the highest degree. Writing gives me the conduit to a world that is unreachable by any other means, a world that is populated by Eternal Truths, Ineffable Questions and Infinite Beauty. It is my hope that these stories of mine will allow the reader to also catch a glimpse of this universe."
John Greiner is a writer and visual artist living in Queens, NY. His work has appeared in Antiphon, Sein und Werden, Sensitive Skin, Unarmed, Street Value, Horla and numerous other magazines. His books include Turnstile Burlesque (Crisis Chronicles Press), Bodega Roses (Good Cop/Bad Cop Press) and Shooting Side Glances (ISMs Press). His collaborative work with photographer Carrie Crow has appeared at the Tate Liverpool, the Queens Museum and in galleries in New York, Los Angeles, Venice, Paris, Berlin and Hamburg.
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident. Recently published in Sin Fronteras, Dalhousie Review and Qwerty with work upcoming in Plainsongs, Willard and Maple and Connecticut River Review.
Terry Grimwood teaches, plays harmonica, sings a bit, reviews, acts, Directs and writes. He has three novels, a clutch of novellas and two short story collections to his name, with more due to appear in the coming months. His latest novella, JOE, inspired by true events, is available from Demain Press, his most recent collection, THERE IS A WAY TO LIVE FOREVER is published by Black Shuck Books. Check out his website and his EXAGGERATEDpress at http://www.terrypgrimwood.com/
Martin Heavisides exists. He has even been published, in magazines as diverse as Frigg, Mad Hatter's Review, Oddball, Danse Macabre and The Linnet's Wings, and had staged readings of many of his efforts for the stage. Much of this is in the public record. Attempts to prove Martin Heavisides doesn't exist have persistently failed, and will fail at least until he ceases to.
Tom Holmes is the founding editor of Redactions: Poetry& Poetics, and author of three full-length collections of poetry, most recently The Cave, which won The Bitter Oleander Press Library of Poetry Book Award for 2013, as well as four chapbooks. His writings about wine, poetry book reviews, and poetry can be found at his blog, The Line Break: thelinebreak.wordpress.com/. Follow him on Twitter: @TheLineBreak
Paul Hostovsky's poems appear and disappear simultaneously: Voila! He has no life and spends it with his poems, trying to perfect their perfect disappearances, which is the working title of his new collection, which is looking for a publisher and for itself. He is the recipient of such rebukes as You Never Want To DO Anything and All You Care About Are Your Stupid Clever Poems. Website: paulhostovsky.com/
In a past century Heikki Huotari attended a one-room school and spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower. He's a retired math professor, has won two poetry chapbook prizes and published three collections, the most recent being The Dog's Meow, Uncollected Press, 2019.
N. A. Jackson can't tell the difference between fiction and reality these days and can't decide whether to laugh or cry most of the time, can anyone? He spends quite a bit of time looking at small insects with a hand lens. This seems a good way of maintaining a broad view of the world. Sometimes he imagines what it would be like to be a gigantic praying mantis stalking the corridors of power in search of an easy meal.
Jessie Janeshek's full-length collections are MADCAP (Stalking Horse Press, 2019), The Shaky Phase (Stalking Horse Press, 2017), and Invisible Mink (Iris Press, 2010). Her chapbooks include Spanish Donkey/Pear of Anguish (Grey Book Press, 2016), Rah-Rah Nostalgia (dancing girl press, 2016), Supernoir (Grey Book Press, 2017), Auto-Harlow (Shirt Pocket Press, 2018), and Channel U (Grey Book Press, 2020). Read more at jessiejaneshek.net
Marc Joan: Publishing credits include: Lighthouse Literary Journal, Structo, Smokelong Quarterly, STORGY, Literary Orphans and Unsung Stories. Anthology contributions: 'Mirror in the Mirror' (Comma) and 'Ghost Stories for Starless Nights' (DBND). Competition results: Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2017/18 (finalist); Ink Tears Short Story Competition (Runner Up 2017/18); Galley Beggar Short Story Competition 2017/18 (Special Mention); Brighton Prize 2017 (long-listed); last 60 (of ~1,000 entries) in 2018 BBC National Short Story Award; last 20 (of ~400 entries) in 2020 William van Dyke Prize.
Mark Howard Jones was born in a town where it once rained fish. He was, is and will always be Welsh. His plan for the next decade is to survive it.
Paul Kavanagh wrote iceberg.
Mark Kirkbride is the author of two novels, Game Changers of the Apocalypse (a semi-finalist in the Kindle Book Awards 2019) and Satan's Fan Club, both published by Omnium Gatherum. His short stories can be found in Under the Bed, Sci Phi Journal, Disclaimer Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine and So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library. His poetry has appeared in the Big Issue, the Morning Star, the Daily Mirror and HWA chapbooks.
markkirkbride.com/
Marie C Lecrivain is a poet, publisher of poeticdiversity: the litzine of Los Angeles, and ordained priestess in the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, the ecclesiastical arm of Ordo Templi Orientis. Her work has been published in Nonbinary Review, Orbis, Pirene's Fountain, and many other journals. She's the author of several books of poetry and fiction, and editor of Gondal Heights: A Bronte Tribute Anthology (copyright 2019 Sybaritic Press, www.sybpress.com.
Simon Lee-Price hails from Liverpool and lives and writes in the UK. His fiction has appeared in Prole, Prose and Poetry; Interpreter's House; Five:2:One; The Caribbean Writer, and in horror and speculative fiction anthologies.
Ellaraine Lockie is widely published and awarded as a poet, nonfiction book author and essayist. Her fourteenth chapbook, Sex and Other Slapsticks, was recently released from Presa Press. Earlier collections have won Poetry Forum's Chapbook Contest Prize, San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival Chapbook Competition, Encircle Publications Chapbook Contest, Best Individual Poetry Collection Award from Purple Patch magazine in England, and The Aurorean's Chapbook Choice Award. She also teaches writing workshops and serves as Poetry Editor for the lifestyles magazine, LILIPOH.
J. MacBain-Stephens went to NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and now lives in Iowa. She is the author of four full length poetry collections and twelve chapbooks. Recent work can be seen at or is forthcoming from The Pinch, Prelude, Cleaver, Yalobusha Review, Zone 3, and Grist.
Diana Magallón designs for the arts, industry, commerce and for science and technology.
Gotham Mamik's short stories have appeared in literary magazines in the USA & UK and he currently serves as a contributing editor for an online magazine.
Rich Murphy's latest poetry collection is Practitioner Joy (2020 Wipf and Stock). His collection of essays is Prophetic Voice Now (2020). His poetry collections have won two national book awards: Gival Press Poetry Prize 2008 for Voyeur and in 2013 the Press Americana Poetry Prize for Americana. Other collections included Asylum Seeker (2018); Body Politic (2017); Americana (2013); The Apple in the Monkey Tree (2007); Great Grandfather; Family Secret; Hunting and Pecking; Phoems for Mobile Vices; and Paideia.
Peter O'Brien lives in Toronto. He has published extensively on writing and art, and has written or edited seven books, including Cleopatra at the Breakfast Table: Why I Studied Latin With My Teenager and How I Discovered the Daughterland (Quattro).
James G Piatt, a Best of Web nominee and three time Pushcart nominee, had had four collections of poetry; "Solace Between the Lines," "Light," "Ancient Rhythms," and "The Silent Pond," as well 1450 poems, five novels, and 35 short stories published worldwide. He earned his BS and MA from California State Polytechnic University, and his doctorate from BYU.
Two of Ken Poyner's poetry collections and four of his short fiction collections are widely available. He lives with his power-lifter wife, various cats and betta fish in the southeastern corner of Virginia. He spent thirty-three years in information security, moonlighting as a writer. Now, he writes dangerously full-time.
Rachel Rodman is the author of the food-themed collection, Exotic Meats and Inedible Objects(Madness Heart Press). Her work has appeared in Fireside, Analog, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, and elsewhere.
Sean Ruane lives in Baltimore, Maryland. He likes coffee, beer, and Boolean algebra.
David Rushmer's artworks and writings have appeared in a number of magazines and online journals since the late 1980s, including: Angel Exhaust, Archive of the Now, BlazeVOX, E.ratio, Great Works, Molly Bloom, Shearsman, and 10th Muse. His first full length poetry collection, Remains to Be Seen was published by Shearsman (2018). His website is dar4353.wixsite.com/davidrushmer
George Sandison is a publisher and writer living in London, UK. He runs the multiple-award-winning independent press Unsung Stories, specialising in literary and ambitious genre fiction. He is also Managing Editor for Titan Books, doing much the same but for more money. His short stories can be found in Unthology 11, The Lonely Crowd, Unofficial Britain, KZine, Fairlight Books, Pornokitsch, BFS Horizons and more. All the photos named in the story are real; stock photography libraries are a deeply strange places.
W. Jack Savage is a retired broadcaster and educator. He is the author of seven books including Imagination: The Art of W. Jack Savage (wjacksavage.com). To date, more than a hundred short stories and over a thousand of his paintings and drawings have been published worldwide. Jack and his wife Kathy live in Monrovia, California.
Douglas Thompson's fiction and poetry has appeared in a range of magazines and anthologies. He has published 14 novels and collections since 2009, in Britain, Europe and America. His 14th book, 'Barking Circus' is out this year from Zagava. douglasthompson.wordpress.com/
Mark Wartenberg is an author and actor currently residing in Berlin. He holds a BA and MSt from Cambridge and Oxford and has authored numerous science articles, along with over a dozen e-books. He is currently working on a self-penned series of theatre monologues, the "Asshole Monologues", which he plans on performing in.
Terry Wright is an artist and writer whose art has been featured widely in print and digital venues, including "Angry Old Man," "Chaleur," 'Club Plum,' "Full Bleed," "Glassworks," 'Neon Garden,' "Riddled with Arrows," and others. Exhibitions include the 57th Annual Delta Exhibition.
Jeffrey Zable is a teacher and conga drummer who plays Afro-Cuban folkloric music for dance classes and Rumbas around the San Francisco Bay Area. His poetry, fiction, and non-fiction have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines and anthologies. Recent writing in Hypnopomp, Ink In Thirds, The Stray Branch, The Mark, After The Pause, Third Wednesday, Brushfire, Smoky Blue, Alba, Greensilk, Corvus, and many others. In 2017 he was nominated for both The Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize.