CONTRIBUTORS

Diane Elayne Dees is the author of the chapbooks, Coronary Truth (Kelsay Books), The Last Time I Saw You (Finishing Line Press), and The Wild Parrots of Marigny (Querencia Press). She is also the author of four Origami Poems Project microchaps, and her poetry, short fiction and creative nonfiction have been published in many journals and anthologies. Diane, who lives in Covington, Louisiana, also publishes Women Who Serve, a blog that delivers news and commentary on women’s professional tennis throughout the world. Her author blog is Diane Elayne Dees: Poet and Writer-at-Large.

Richard Dinges, Jr. works on his homestead beside a pond, surrounded by trees and grassland, with his wife, two dogs, two cats, and seventeen chickens. Alembic, Steam Ticket, Toasted Cheese, Queen’s Review, and North Dakota Quarterly most recently accepted his poems for their publications.

​Lawrence F. Farrar is a former American Foreign Service officer. His 30 year diplomatic career involved multiple postings in Japan, as well as assignments in Germany, Norway, and Washington, DC. Short term assignments took him to places as diverse as Beijing and Tehran, Caracas, and Muscat. Including appearances in Blue Lake Review, Farrar's work has appeared in literary magazines more than 100 times https://www.northoakswriter.com. Many of his stories derive from events he experienced and people he encountered during 20 years living outside the United States. Farrar and his wife, Keiko, now live in Minnesota where he is a member of the Loft Literary Center.

Robert Halleck lives and writes in Del Mar, California. Three of his poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His recent work has appeared in The San Diego Poetry Annual, The Lothlorien Review, and Waxing and Waining.

Harrison Kim lives and writes out of Victoria, Canada, retired from many years working as a teacher at a psychiatric hospital. His blogspot with publication credits and music videos can be found here: https://harrisonkim1.blogspot.com.

Cathy Joyce Lee can be found forest bathing by night and paddling by day. Her passion is writing poetry that reflects connections to nature, life and death, however, sometimes resilience is the resonating tone. Cathy hopes that someday, one of her poems will be read out loud by students of creative writing and oral interpretation of literature. This author has previously been published in 7th-Circle Pyrite, Young Ravens Literary Review, Pure Slush, Passager, the dionysian public library, The NightWriter Review/The 805, Moon Flake Press and the Nature of Our Times.

Nancy Lines -- Now that she is no longer working full-time at a law firm and part-time at area colleges teaching composition, Nancy has been slaving away at her computer composing short stories and essays. Several of her writings have been published, the latest in one of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books.

W. T. Paterson is a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of New Hampshire, and is a graduate of Second City Chicago. His work has appeared in over 90 publications worldwide including The Saturday Evening Post, The Forge Literary Magazine, The Dalhousie Review, Brilliant Flash Fiction, and Fresh Ink. A semi-finalist in the Aura Estra short story contest, his work has also received notable accolades from Lycan Valley, North 2 South Press, and Lumberloft. He spends most nights asking his dog, "what's in your mouth? Spit that out! Stop running!" 

Josh Penzone is a Pushcart Fiction Prize nominated author. He's appeared in many literary magazines and is forthcoming in Two Hawks Quarterly. His story collection The Court of Vintage Woods was published by Brown Posey Press (an imprint of Sunbury Press) in 2019. He lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter where he teaches High School English.

Foster Trecost writes stories that are mostly made up. They tend to follow his attention span: sometimes short, sometimes very short. He lives near New Orleans with his wife and dog.