CONTRIBUTORS
Scott Bolendz is a writer, award-winning fine art photographer and photography educator living in Bradenton, Florida. His writing has recently appeared in Flash Fiction Magazine.
Oisín Breen -- Irish poet, doctoral candidate, and journalist, Oisín Breen, a multiple Best of the Net nominee and Erbacce Prize finalist, is published in 121 journals in 22 countries, including in Agenda, North Dakota Quarterly, Books Ireland, Door is a Jar, Northern Gravy, Quadrant, Southword, and The Tahoma Literary Review. Breen has two collections, the widely reviewed and highly praised Lilies on the Deathbed of Étaín, a Scotsman poetry book-of-the-year, 2023, (Downingfield), and his well received debut, Flowers, All Sorts, in Blossom, Figs, Berries, and Fruits Forgotten (Dreich, 2020). Breen’s third collection, The Kergyma, is slated for 2025 (Salmon).
John Brooks IV currently works for his family’s propane company. He loves working with his hands and enjoys many outdoor activities, hunting being his favorite pastime. He lives on a large farm in a house that was built with lumber harvested and milled right on the farm over sixty years ago. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in DASH Literary Magazine, Hedge Apple, Hawaii Pacific Review, Pencil Box Press, Ignatian Literary Review, Loch Raven Review, Cobalt Review, Critical Pass Review, Stirring: A Literary Collection, The Loch Raven, Review, The Penmen Review and Writer’s Workshop Review. John is also a member of the Missouri Writers’ Guild.
Bonnie Brewer-Kraus is a former architect who lives and writes in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, in sight of Lake Erie, the great lake with the largest number of shipwrecks. Her work has been published in River and South Review, CommuterLit, Coffin Bell, and Potato Soup, among others.
Bubba Henson is a poet and teacher living in Sarasota, FL. After getting his MFA from Columbia University in Creative Writing in Poetry, Bubba worked for MTV Networks, USA Network, and SyFy Network and wrote for World Wrestling Entertainment, Golden Books, and Early Years Magazine before becoming an English teacher. His poetry and short stories have appeared in The Raven’s Perch, Nifty Lit, Magazine1, The Laughing Unicorn magazines, and the upcoming Florida Bards Poetry Anthology 2024. He is seeking first-hand experience with the people, places, and events that shape the telling and retelling of this great story.
David Henson and his wife have lived in Brussels and Hong Kong and now reside in Illinois. His work has been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes, Best of the Net and two Best Small Fictions and has appeared in various journals including Blue Lake Review, Literally Stories, Pithead Chapel, Gone Lawn and Moonpark Review. His website is http://writings217.wordpress.com. His Twitter is @annalou8.
Sue Mellins is a 93-year-old writer who is completing her first collection of short stories. She studied literature and creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was an editor at The Carolina Quarterly. Early in her career she published fiction in Seventeen, and is now sending her stories out to literary magazines. Sue has written a children’s book, and lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Bill Ratner, author of the full-length poetry collection Fear of Fish (Alien Buddha Press) and the chapbook To Decorate a Casket (Finishing Line Press) is a Best of the Net Poetry Nominee (Lascaux Review). His work appears in Best Small Fictions 2021 (Sonder Press), Missouri Review (audio), Baltimore Review, Chiron Review, Feminine Collective, and other journals. Bill is a 9-time winner of the Moth StorySLAM, a certified grief counselor, an officer in his union SAG-AFTRA, and earns his living as a voice actor.
D.D Shipp has written poetry since the sixth grade and lives in Davenport, Iowa.
Alex Stolis lives in Minneapolis; he has had poems published in numerous journals. Two full length collections Pop. 1280, and John Berryman Died Here were released by Cyberwit and available on Amazon. His work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Piker’s Press, Jasper's Folly Poetry Journal, One Art Poetry, Black Moon Magazine, and Star 82 Review. His chapbook, Postcards from the Knife-Thrower's Wife is forthcoming from Louisiana Literature Press in 2024. He has been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize.
Robert Wexelblatt is a professor of humanities at Boston University’s College of General Studies. He has published twelve collections of short stories; two books of essays; two short novels; three books of poems; stories, essays, and poems in a variety of journals, and a novel awarded the Indie Book Awards first prize for fiction.