CONTRIBUTORS
David Cameron catches stories and poems from scraps of conversations or dreams half-remembered. His works have appeared in the Floyd County Moonshine, Avalon Literary Review, NC Poetry Society Pinesong, Literary Heist, and The Friends Journal among others. After a career as a Presbyterian minister, he now lives in Western NC with his spouse and son.
Robert Paul Cesaretti has published in My Legacy, Poetic Diversity, Plain Brown Wrapper, Gambling the Aisle, SN Review, Dark Matter Magazine,The Atherton Review, Mad Hatters' Review, Commonline Journal, Avatar Review x2,The Zodiac Review, The Writing Disorder, Wilderness House Literary Review, Gloom Cupboard, Blue Lake Review, California Quarterly, Wax Paper, Relief: A Journal of Art & Faith. He is the founding editor of the litzine Ginosko Literary Journal and a native of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Louis Efron is a Pushcart nominated and award-winning writer and poet who has been featured in Forbes, Huffington Post, Chicago Tribune, North Dakota Quarterly, Ginosko, Jasper’s Folly, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, A New Ulster, Flapper Press Poetry Café, PentaCat Press, Words and Whispers, Bourgeon, The Deronda Review, Young Ravens Literary Review, The Ravens Perch, POETiCA REViEW, The Orchards Poetry Journal, Academy of the Heart and Mind, Literary Yard, New Reader Magazine and over 100 other national and global publications. He is also the author of five books, including The Unempty Spaces Between (winner of the 2023 NYC Big Book Award for poetry), How to Find a Job, Career and Life You Love; Purpose Meets Execution; Beyond the Ink; as well as the children’s book What Kind of Bee Can I Be?
Erin Jamieson’s writing has been published in over eighty literary magazines, and her fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her debut novel, Sky of Ashes Land of Dreams, was published by Type Eighteen Books (Nov 2023). Twitter: erin_simmer
Jillian Laux is originally from Slippery Rock, a rural college town north of Pittsburgh, but is currently based in Carlsbad, California where she works as a grant writer for a civic engagement organization. "Supernova" is her first publication.
Mike Lee is a writer and editor at a trade union in New York City. His work appears in or is forthcoming in Blue Lake Review, Panoplyzine, Wallstrait, The Opiate, Roi Faineant, Brilliant Flash Fiction, BULL, Drunk Monkeys, and many others. His story collection, The Northern Line, is available on Amazon.
R. Nikolas Macioci earned a PhD from The Ohio State University, OCTELA, the Ohio Council of Teachers of English, named him the best secondary English teacher in the state of Ohio. He is the author of eighteen books. Cafes of Childhood was submitted for the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. In 2021, he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a Best of the Net award. In 2022, he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He was nominated for a Best of the Net award for 2023, and City of Hammers was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Hundreds of his poems have been published here and abroad in magazines and journals, including Chiron Review, Concho River Review, The Bombay Review, The Raven’s Perch, The Main Street Rag, and West Trade Review.
John B. Mahaffie is a futurist with a love of the past. He writes short fiction and flash, and is at work on a novel. John's fiction is often set in history. He lives and works in Washington, DC.
Rochelle Jewel Shapiro's novel, Miriam The Medium (Simon & Schuster, 2005), was nominated for the Harold U. Ribelow Award. I’ve published essays in NYT (Lives) and Newsweek. Her poetry, short stories, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in many literary magazines such as A Thin Slice of Anxiety, After the Pause, BoomerLitMag, Brief Wilderness, Brushfire, The Courtship of Winds, Figure 1, La Presa, The Midwest Quarterly, Mudfish, Mudlark, Neologism Poetry Journal, O:JA&L; Open: Journal of Arts & Letters, Westview, The Iowa Review, The Doctor TJ Eckleberg Review, Euphony Journal, Stone Path Review, Santa Fe Literary Review, Stand, Inkwell Magazine, Amarillo Bay, Bayou Magazine, Cider Press Review, Poet Lore, Crack the Spine, Compass Rose, Controlled Burn, Cumberland River Review, Cutbank Literary Journal, Doubly Mad, Edison Literary Review, El Portal, Evening Street Review, Flights, The Furious Gazelle, Glint Literary Journal, The Griffin, Los Angeles Review, Reunion: The Dallas Review, Chantwood Magazine, Frontier Poetry, Grub Street, Hey, I’m Alive, I-70 Review, Isacoustic, Rougarou, East Jasmine Review, The MacGuffin, Medicine & Meaning, Memoir (and), Moment, Negative Capability, The Nonconformist, Penumbra, Poetry Super Highway, Carbon Culture Review, The Louisville Review, Amoskeag, Entropy Magazine, The Moth, North American Review, Organs of Vision and Speech Magazine, Pennsylvania English, Rio Grande Review, riverSedge, Rogue Agent, Saint Katherine Review, The Seattle Star, Seven CirclePress: The Lake, A Literary Micropress, The Virginia Normal, Licking River Review, Sierra Nevada Review, Sonora Review, The Spotlong Review, Streetlight Magazine, Swamp Ape Review, Peregrine, Gulf Coast, Existere, Passager, Midway Journal, Moria Literary Magazine, Whistling Shade, Empty Mirror, Sanskrit Magazine, Trampoline, Typishly, The Literary Nest, Underwood Press, Waxing & Waning, Willow Review, Willows Wept Review, Sweet: A Literary Confection, and Wrath-Bearing Tree. Rochelle's poetry has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, and she won the Branden Memorial Literary Award from Negative Capability. Her poetry collection, Death Please Wait, was published by Box Turtle Press. Currently, she teaches writing at UCLA Extension. For more information about Rochelle and her work, please visit https://rochellejshapiro.com/.
John Sheirer (pronounced “shy-er” — he/him/his) lives in Western Massachusetts and is in his 32nd year of teaching at Asnuntuck Community College in Northern Connecticut. His most recent books are Stumbling Through Adulthood: Linked Stories (2021 New England Book Festival Award Winner) and For Now: One Hundred 100-Word Stories (2023 New England Book Festival Award Runner-Up). Find him at JohnSheirer.com.
Anthony Neil Smith is a novelist (Slow Bear, The Drummer, Yellow Medicine, many more), short story writer (HAD, Bull, Cowboy Jamboree, Maudlin House, Bellevue Literary Review, Reckon Review, The Hooghly Review, many more), and professor (Southwest Minnesota State University). One of his pieces was chosen for Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023. He was previously an associate editor with Mississippi Review Web, and is now editor of Revolution John.
David Waters is a retired cardiologist who lives in San Francisco with his wife and Kerry Blue terrier. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming in Cleaver, The MacGuffin, Flash Fiction, Beyond Words, Amarillo Bay, Marrow, Umbrella Factory, 34th Parallel, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Chiron Review, and others. He teaches prose and poetry at The Writers Studio.
