Contributors
Joan E. Bauer is the author of three full-length poetry collections, Fig Season (Turning Point, 2023), The Camera Artist (Turning Point, 2021) and The Almost Sound of Drowning (Main Street Rag, 2008). For some years, she worked as a teacher and counselor. Recent work has appeared in Chiron Review, Paterson Literary Review and Slipstream. She divides her time between Venice, CA and Pittsburgh, PA where she co-hosts and curates the Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series with Kristofer Collins.
Don Bertschman earned an M.A. at the University of Georgia, where he studied with Coleman Barks and published an essay in Langston Hughes Review. He has edited two books on organizational culture and currently manages a digital magazine for a national health organization. Creative highlights include: two one-act plays selected and produced by festivals; publishing an interview with artist Michel Tsouris in Main Street Rag; performing musical accompaniment with poet Leslie Anne Mcilroy; and aiding and abetting HEArt Online, a journal dedicated to artists promoting social justice. Songwriting has been the creative constant across several decades.
Julie Brandon is a poet, playwright and lyricist. Her work has been published in Corner Bar Magazine, Awakenings Review, Bewildering Stories, Poetica Magazine, Shemom, Mini Plays Review, Love’s Last Chance and Am Yisrael Chai, vol. 1 & 2. Several plays have been produced and published. Julie lives in a Chicago suburb.
From Listowel, Ireland, Neil Brosnan’s short stories have appeared in magazines, print anthologies, and in digital format in Ireland, Britain, Europe, Australia, and the USA. A current Pushcart nominee, he is a winner of The Bryan MacMahon, The Maurice Walsh (five times), and The Ireland’s Own (twice), short story awards, he has published two short story collections: Fresh Water & other stories (Original Writing, 2010) and Neap Tide & other stories (New Binary Press, 2013)
Michael Loyd Gray is the author of more than 40 published stories and six published novels. He is the winner of the 2005 Alligator Juniper Fiction Prize and 2005 The Writers Place Award for Fiction. He earned an MFA from Western Michigan University and lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with two cats and a dozen electric guitars.
Tim Kahl [http://www.timkahl.com] [https://soundcloud.com/tnklbnny] is the author of five books of poems, most recently Omnishambles (Bald Trickster, 2019), California Sijo (Bald Trickster, 2022) and Drips, Spills, Bursts, Tangles and Washes (Cold River Press 2024). He is also an editor of Clade Song [http://www.cladesong.com]. He builds flutes, plays them and plays guitars, ukuleles, charangos and cavaquinhos as well. He currently teaches at California State University, Sacramento, where he sings lieder while walking on campus between classes.
David Larsen is a writer who lives in El Paso, Texas. His stories have appeared in more than thirty literary journals and magazines including Cholla Needles, Floyd County Moonshine, Aethlon, The Heartland Review, Oakwood, Change Seven, The Raven Review and Canyon Voices.
Donald Mangum is retired from teaching English and philosophy. He has published a novella, Beneath the Roar (Main Street Rag Publishing Co., 2016) and a number of short stories and poems in The New Yorker, Confrontation, The Mississippi Review, and elsewhere.
Blissfully retired in Clackamas, Oregon, Carolyn Martin is a lover of gardening and snorkeling, feral cats and backyard birds, writing and photography. Her poems have appeared in more than 200 journals throughout North America, Australia, and the UK. Find out more at www.carolynmartinpoet.com.
George Moore’s recent collections are Children’s Drawings of the Universe (Salmon Poetry 2015) and Saint Agnes Outside the Walls (FutureCycle 2016). His poetry has been published by The Atlantic, Poetry, Valparaiso, Stand, Orbis, and the Colorado Review. He taught literature and writing for years with the University of Colorado, and presently lives with his wife, a Canadian poet, on the south shore of Nova Scotia.
John Popielaski is the author of a novel, The Hollow Middle (Unsolicited Press), as well as several collections of poetry, including the chapbook Isn’t It Romantic? (Texas Review Press). His writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Clade Song, Poetrybay, Roanoke Review, and Wilderness House Literary Review.
Dan Sicoli, of Niagara Falls, NY, is the author of two poetry chapbooks from Pudding House Publications, Pagan Supper and the allegories. A three-time Pushcart nominee, his verse has appeared in numerous litmags and anthologies. He is also an editor with Slipstream.
Eva Skrande’s third book, The Boat that Brought Sadness into the World, is due out next June from Finishing Line Press. Her publications also include My Mother’s Cuba (River City Publishing Poetry Series) and Bone Argot (Spuyten Duyvil). Most recently her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Collidescope, SuperPresent, Survision, Another Chicago Magazine, I-70 Review, Plant Quarterly, and elsewhere. She lives in Houston where she tutors for Houston Community College and continues to occasionally teach for Writers in the Schools.
Riley A. Vann was born in New Mexico and grew up in Texas. Studying English at Texas A&M, the University of Florida, and West Virginia University, he went on to teach college writing and literature for fifteen years. After studying and teaching the stories we tell ourselves and how those stories identify us, he became interested in the ways we mark ourselves outside of words. Inspired by photographers like William Eggleston and Stephen Shore, he uses his camera to capture the visual signs and symbols that also tell our stories, that which literally makes our culture visible.
George Wallace is writer in residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace, author of 40 chapbooks of poetry, and a co-editor at Great Weather for Media in New York City. George shares his work and has been honored internationally for his poetry.
Lehman Weichselbaum is a longtime contributor to Home Planet News.
A.D. Winans is an award-winning San Francisco poet and writer and the former editor and publisher of Second Coming Press whose archives are housed at Brown University. His work has been published widely and translated into thirteen languages. A poem of his was set to music by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer William Bolom and performed at Alice Tully Hall in NYC. His latest book cityscapes: a quilt of poetry was published by Cold River Press.
Eve Young is a writer from West Yorkshire. Her poetry has been published, or is forthcoming, in New Feathers Anthology, BRUISER, Epiphany, and The Journal, and longlisted for the AUB International Poetry Prize.