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). With Judith Robinson and Sankar Roy, she co-edited the international anthology Only the Sea Keeps: Poetry of the Tsunami (Bayeux Arts and Rupa & Co, 2005). Recent work has appeared in Paterson Literary Review, Slipstream, and Chiron Review. She divides her time between Venice, CA and Pittsburgh, PA, where she co-curates the Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series with Kristofer Collins.
Ace Boggess is author of six books of poetry, most recently Escape Envy. His writing has appeared in Indiana Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Notre Dame Review, Hanging Loose, and other journals. An ex-con, he lives in Charleston, West Virginia, where he writes and tries to stay out of trouble.
Antonio Cortijo Ocaña is a professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he is the founding director of the Center for Catalan Studies. He is the author of over 50 monographs and editions on Catalan and Spanish literature and history and has translated numerous Catalan classics into English. His translation of Ramon Llull’s A Contemporary Life was awarded the Francesco Saverio Nitti Award (Naples) 2017. He is a member of the Royal Academy of Good Letters (Barcelona).
Joe Del Castillo lives on Long Island, New York and is a member of the Long Island Writers Guild. He has been published in New Pop Lit and Open Door Magazine.
Salvador Espriu maintains the stature of a national poet in Catalonia nearly forty years after his death. He wrote nine books of poetry, six novels, and two plays that have been produced, and won every major award for which Catalan poets were eligible during his lifetime. Writing in the wake of Franco’s subjugation of Catalonia and although fully bilingual in Catalan and Spanish, Espriu chose to write in Catalan, knowing this would significantly curtail the size of his potential readership.
R.G. Evans’s books include Overtipping the Ferryman, The Holy Both, and Imagine Sisyphus Happy. His albums of original songs, Sweet Old Life and Kid Yesterday Calling Tomorrow Man, are available on most streaming platforms. www.rgevanswriter.com
Ken Gosse usually writes humorous rhymed verse using traditional meters. First published in First Literary Review–East in November 2016, he is also in Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Academy of the Heart and Mind, Pure Slush, Home Planet News Online, and other publications. Raised in the Chicago suburbs, now retired, he and his wife have lived in Mesa, AZ, for over 25 years, always with rescue dogs and cats underfoot.
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in New World Writing, North Dakota Quarterly and Lost Pilots. Latest books, Between Two Fires, Covert, and Memory Outside The Head, are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in California Quarterly, Seventh Quarry, La Presa, and Doubly Mad.
J. M. Hall, nominated by the editors of Verdad literary journal for the 16th annual Best of the Net Anthology, has published poems in numerous literary journals, recently including North Dakota Quarterly and Grub Street. With a PhD in Philosophy from Vanderbilt University, he has also published seventy-five peer-reviewed journal articles, two of which have recently been republished in Spanish translation, and coedited Philosophy Imprisoned: The Love of Wisdom in the Age of Mass Incarceration. Finally, he has thirty years’ experience in dance.
Andrew Kaufman’s books include The Cinnamon Bay Sonnets, winner of the Center for Book Arts manuscript competition, Earth’s Ends, winner of the Pearl Poetry Award, Both Sides of the Niger (Spuyten Duyvil Press), The Complete Cinnamon Bay Sonnets (Rain Mountain Press), and The Rwanda Poems: Voices and Visions from the Genocide (New York Quarterly Books). His awards include a grant from National Endowment for the Arts.
Anne Lévesque’s poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in Canadian and international journals and anthologies. Her novel Lucy Cloud was published by Pottersfield Press in 2018. She lives on the west coast of Unama’ki – Cape Breton Island.
Donald Mangum is retired from teaching English and philosophy. He has published a novella, The Roar Beneath (Main Street Rag Publishing Co., 2016), and a number of short stories and poems in The New Yorker, Confrontation, The Mississippi Review, and other periodicals, including Home Planet News.
Bruce McRae, a Canadian musician, is a multiple Pushcart nominee with poems published
in hundreds of magazines, such as Poetry, Rattle, and 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.
Irina Tall (Novikova) graduated from the State Academy of Slavic Cultures with a degree in art and has a bachelor’s degree in design. Her first exhibition “My soul is like a wild hawk” was held at the Maxim Bagdanovich Literary Museum in 2002. In addition, she writes fairy tales and poems and illustrates short stories. Her work has appeared in Gupsophilia, Harpy Hybrid Review, Little Literary Living Room, and other magazines as well as the collections The 50 Best Short Stories and The Wonders of Winter.
William Waters is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Houston Downtown. Along with Sonja Foss, he is coauthor of Destination Dissertation: A Traveler’s Guide to a Done Dissertation.
Christopher Woods is a writer and photographer who lives in Texas. He has published a novel, The Dream Patch, as well as a prose collection, Under a Riverbed Sky. His novella, Hearts in the Dark, was published in an anthology by Running Wild Press in Los Angeles. His monologue show, Twelve from Texas, was performed recently in NYC by Equity Library Theatre. He has received residencies from The Ucross Foundation and the Edward Albee Foundation and a grant from the Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation. https://christopherwoods.zenfolio.com/f861509283
Yuan Changming edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan in Vancouver. Credits include 12 Pushcart nominations for poetry and 2 for fiction besides appearances in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17), BestNewPoemsOnline and many other literary outlets worldwide. A poetry judge for Canada’s 2021 National Magazine Awards, Yuan began writing and publishing fiction in 2022.
Antonio Cortijo Ocaña is a professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he is the founding director of the Center for Catalan Studies. He is the author of over 50 monographs and editions on Catalan and Spanish literature and history and has translated numerous Catalan classics into English. His translation of Ramon Llull’s A Contemporary Life was awarded the Francesco Saverio Nitti Award (Naples) 2017. He is a member of the Royal Academy of Good Letters (Barcelona).
Joe Del Castillo lives on Long Island, New York and is a member of the Long Island Writers Guild. He has been published in New Pop Lit and Open Door Magazine.
Salvador Espriu maintains the stature of a national poet in Catalonia nearly forty years after his death. He wrote nine books of poetry, six novels, and two plays that have been produced, and won every major award for which Catalan poets were eligible during his lifetime. Writing in the wake of Franco’s subjugation of Catalonia and although fully bilingual in Catalan and Spanish, Espriu chose to write in Catalan, knowing this would significantly curtail the size of his potential readership.
R.G. Evans’s books include Overtipping the Ferryman, The Holy Both, and Imagine Sisyphus Happy. His albums of original songs, Sweet Old Life and Kid Yesterday Calling Tomorrow Man, are available on most streaming platforms. www.rgevanswriter.com
Ken Gosse usually writes humorous rhymed verse using traditional meters. First published in First Literary Review–East in November 2016, he is also in Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Academy of the Heart and Mind, Pure Slush, Home Planet News Online, and other publications. Raised in the Chicago suburbs, now retired, he and his wife have lived in Mesa, AZ, for over 25 years, always with rescue dogs and cats underfoot.
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in New World Writing, North Dakota Quarterly and Lost Pilots. Latest books, Between Two Fires, Covert, and Memory Outside The Head, are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in California Quarterly, Seventh Quarry, La Presa, and Doubly Mad.
J. M. Hall, nominated by the editors of Verdad literary journal for the 16th annual Best of the Net Anthology, has published poems in numerous literary journals, recently including North Dakota Quarterly and Grub Street. With a PhD in Philosophy from Vanderbilt University, he has also published seventy-five peer-reviewed journal articles, two of which have recently been republished in Spanish translation, and coedited Philosophy Imprisoned: The Love of Wisdom in the Age of Mass Incarceration. Finally, he has thirty years’ experience in dance.
Andrew Kaufman’s books include The Cinnamon Bay Sonnets, winner of the Center for Book Arts manuscript competition, Earth’s Ends, winner of the Pearl Poetry Award, Both Sides of the Niger (Spuyten Duyvil Press), The Complete Cinnamon Bay Sonnets (Rain Mountain Press), and The Rwanda Poems: Voices and Visions from the Genocide (New York Quarterly Books). His awards include a grant from National Endowment for the Arts.
Anne Lévesque’s poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in Canadian and international journals and anthologies. Her novel Lucy Cloud was published by Pottersfield Press in 2018. She lives on the west coast of Unama’ki – Cape Breton Island.
Donald Mangum is retired from teaching English and philosophy. He has published a novella, The Roar Beneath (Main Street Rag Publishing Co., 2016), and a number of short stories and poems in The New Yorker, Confrontation, The Mississippi Review, and other periodicals, including Home Planet News.
Bruce McRae, a Canadian musician, is a multiple Pushcart nominee with poems published
in hundreds of magazines, such as Poetry, Rattle, and 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.
Irina Tall (Novikova) graduated from the State Academy of Slavic Cultures with a degree in art and has a bachelor’s degree in design. Her first exhibition “My soul is like a wild hawk” was held at the Maxim Bagdanovich Literary Museum in 2002. In addition, she writes fairy tales and poems and illustrates short stories. Her work has appeared in Gupsophilia, Harpy Hybrid Review, Little Literary Living Room, and other magazines as well as the collections The 50 Best Short Stories and The Wonders of Winter.
William Waters is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Houston Downtown. Along with Sonja Foss, he is coauthor of Destination Dissertation: A Traveler’s Guide to a Done Dissertation.
Christopher Woods is a writer and photographer who lives in Texas. He has published a novel, The Dream Patch, as well as a prose collection, Under a Riverbed Sky. His novella, Hearts in the Dark, was published in an anthology by Running Wild Press in Los Angeles. His monologue show, Twelve from Texas, was performed recently in NYC by Equity Library Theatre. He has received residencies from The Ucross Foundation and the Edward Albee Foundation and a grant from the Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation. https://christopherwoods.zenfolio.com/f861509283
Yuan Changming edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan in Vancouver. Credits include 12 Pushcart nominations for poetry and 2 for fiction besides appearances in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17), BestNewPoemsOnline and many other literary outlets worldwide. A poetry judge for Canada’s 2021 National Magazine Awards, Yuan began writing and publishing fiction in 2022.