Contributors
After retiring from a career teaching philosophy, Vincent Barry returned to his first love, fiction. His stories have appeared in numerous publications in the U.S. and abroad, including: The Saint Ann’s Review, The Bitchin’ Kitsch, The Broken City, Abstract: Contemporary Expressions, Kairos, Caveat Lector, Terror House,The Fem, BlogNostics, The Writing Disorder, whimperbang, The Disappointed Housewife, The Collidescope, Anti-Heroin Chic, Beakful, Bombfire, Fleas on the Dog, Potato Soup Journal, Pigeon Review, and Chrome Baby. Barry lives in Santa Barbara, California.
Joel Best is a poet and artist living in upstate New York. His work has appeared in venues such as Common Ground Review, JMWW, Glassworks and Apeiron Review. His website can be found at joelbestpoetry.com.
Steve Brisendine lives, works and remains unbeaten against the New York Times crosswords in Mission, KS. A 2024 Pushcart Prize nominee, he has appeared in Modern Haiku, Flint Hills Review, I-70 Review and other publications and anthologies. He has no degrees, one tattoo and an unironic fondness for strip-mall Chinese restaurants. Write to him at steve.brisendine@live.com.
Michael Brockley is a retired school psychologist who lives in Muncie, Indiana. His poems have appeared in Alien Buddha, The Parliament Literary Journal, and Prole. Poems are forthcoming in Ryder Magazine, Punk Noir Magazine, and Stormwash: Environmental Poems.
Joe Ducato lives in Utica, New York. His work has appeared in Santa Barbara Literary Journal, The Metaworker, Modern Literature and The Thieving Magpie, among others.
Jeff Hoffman’s first book of poems, Journal of American Foreign Policy, won the New Issues Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the California Book Award in poetry. His poems have appeared in The New Republic, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and elsewhere.
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 Beaver, West Virginia.
John Martino is a writer, photographer, educator, and avid traveler currently residing in Hong Kong. For 16 intense years (1998-2013), he made “street style” black & white 35mm film photographs. His approach since is more casual, snapping found and orchestrated images during his many travels with nothing more than a smartphone. Martino’s photographs have been exhibited at numerous venues, including the Museum of Fine Arts—Boston, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Black Box Gallery (Portland, OR), and 1650 Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), and have appeared in such publications as The Boston Globe, F-Stop, Artist Portfolio Magazine, and The Advocate.
Bruce McRae, a Canadian musician, is a multiple Pushcart nominee with poems published
in hundreds of magazines such as Poetry, Rattle and the North American Review. The winner
of the 2020 Libretto prize and author of four poetry collections and seven chapbooks, his poems
have been broadcast and performed globally.
Tom Norman has been playing music since the age of 8. He’s played in bands since his teenage years and has been a songwriter and poet since his 20s. He has published two books of poetry. He lives in West Virginia and entertains his grandson with his songs.
Kushal Poddar, the author of Postmarked Quarantine, has eight books to his credit. He is a journalist, father, and the editor of Words Surfacing. His works have been translated into twelve languages, published across the globe. Twitter- https://twitter.com/Kushalpoe
Pepper Trail’s poetry has appeared in Rattle, Atlanta Review, Catamaran, Ascent and other publications, and has been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net Awards. His collection Cascade-Siskiyou: Poems was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award in Poetry. He writes and explores the world from his home in Ashland, Oregon.
Michael Tyler writes from a shack overlooking the ocean just south of the edge of the world. He has been published in several literary magazines and plans a short story collection sometime before the Andromeda Galaxy collides with ours and . . .
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.
Gerald Yelle’s books include The Holyoke Diaries, Mark My Word and the New World Order, and Dreaming Alone and with Others. His chapbooks include No Place I Would Rather Be and A Box of Rooms. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts and is a member of the Florence Poets Society.
Elizabeth Zelvin is the author of two books of poetry, I Am the Daughter (1981) and Gifts and
Secrets (1999), and recipient of a CAPS award from the New York State Council on the Arts.
During the Second Wave of the women’s movement, her work was widely published in feminist
and left journals. Recent poems have appeared in ezines and anthologies. Liz also writes both
novels and short mystery and Jewish historical fiction. Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine has
called her “one of our genre’s most celebrated short story writers.”
Joel Best is a poet and artist living in upstate New York. His work has appeared in venues such as Common Ground Review, JMWW, Glassworks and Apeiron Review. His website can be found at joelbestpoetry.com.
Steve Brisendine lives, works and remains unbeaten against the New York Times crosswords in Mission, KS. A 2024 Pushcart Prize nominee, he has appeared in Modern Haiku, Flint Hills Review, I-70 Review and other publications and anthologies. He has no degrees, one tattoo and an unironic fondness for strip-mall Chinese restaurants. Write to him at steve.brisendine@live.com.
Michael Brockley is a retired school psychologist who lives in Muncie, Indiana. His poems have appeared in Alien Buddha, The Parliament Literary Journal, and Prole. Poems are forthcoming in Ryder Magazine, Punk Noir Magazine, and Stormwash: Environmental Poems.
Joe Ducato lives in Utica, New York. His work has appeared in Santa Barbara Literary Journal, The Metaworker, Modern Literature and The Thieving Magpie, among others.
Jeff Hoffman’s first book of poems, Journal of American Foreign Policy, won the New Issues Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the California Book Award in poetry. His poems have appeared in The New Republic, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and elsewhere.
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 Beaver, West Virginia.
John Martino is a writer, photographer, educator, and avid traveler currently residing in Hong Kong. For 16 intense years (1998-2013), he made “street style” black & white 35mm film photographs. His approach since is more casual, snapping found and orchestrated images during his many travels with nothing more than a smartphone. Martino’s photographs have been exhibited at numerous venues, including the Museum of Fine Arts—Boston, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Black Box Gallery (Portland, OR), and 1650 Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), and have appeared in such publications as The Boston Globe, F-Stop, Artist Portfolio Magazine, and The Advocate.
Bruce McRae, a Canadian musician, is a multiple Pushcart nominee with poems published
in hundreds of magazines such as Poetry, Rattle and the North American Review. The winner
of the 2020 Libretto prize and author of four poetry collections and seven chapbooks, his poems
have been broadcast and performed globally.
Tom Norman has been playing music since the age of 8. He’s played in bands since his teenage years and has been a songwriter and poet since his 20s. He has published two books of poetry. He lives in West Virginia and entertains his grandson with his songs.
Kushal Poddar, the author of Postmarked Quarantine, has eight books to his credit. He is a journalist, father, and the editor of Words Surfacing. His works have been translated into twelve languages, published across the globe. Twitter- https://twitter.com/Kushalpoe
Pepper Trail’s poetry has appeared in Rattle, Atlanta Review, Catamaran, Ascent and other publications, and has been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net Awards. His collection Cascade-Siskiyou: Poems was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award in Poetry. He writes and explores the world from his home in Ashland, Oregon.
Michael Tyler writes from a shack overlooking the ocean just south of the edge of the world. He has been published in several literary magazines and plans a short story collection sometime before the Andromeda Galaxy collides with ours and . . .
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.
Gerald Yelle’s books include The Holyoke Diaries, Mark My Word and the New World Order, and Dreaming Alone and with Others. His chapbooks include No Place I Would Rather Be and A Box of Rooms. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts and is a member of the Florence Poets Society.
Elizabeth Zelvin is the author of two books of poetry, I Am the Daughter (1981) and Gifts and
Secrets (1999), and recipient of a CAPS award from the New York State Council on the Arts.
During the Second Wave of the women’s movement, her work was widely published in feminist
and left journals. Recent poems have appeared in ezines and anthologies. Liz also writes both
novels and short mystery and Jewish historical fiction. Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine has
called her “one of our genre’s most celebrated short story writers.”