CONTRIBUTORS
Despy Boutris is published or forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, Colorado Review, The Adroit Journal, Prairie Schooner, Palette Poetry, Third Coast, Raleigh Review, Diode, The Indianapolis Review, and elsewhere. Currently, she teaches at the University of Houston and serves as Assistant Poetry Editor for Gulf Coast.
Tom Crowley published many scientific papers and book chapters before retiring from his medical-school position as a Professor of Psychiatry. Since then he has published fictional short stories in Dodging the Rain and Bewildering Stories. He lives in the foothills of the Rockies near Denver with his wife, the poet and painter Erica Hollander, and with Tabitha, The World’s Foremost Dog.
Holly Day’s poetry has recently appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Grain, and Harvard Review. Her newest poetry collections are In This Place, She Is Her Own (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press), A Wall to Protect Your Eyes (Pski’s Porch Publishing), Folios of Dried Flowers and Pressed Birds (Cyberwit.net), Where We Went Wrong (Clare Songbirds Publishing), Into the Cracks (Golden Antelope Press), and Cross Referencing a Book of Summer (Silver Bow Publishing), while her newest nonfiction books are Music Theory for Dummies and Tattoo FAQ.
Anne Goodwin’s debut novel, Sugar and Snails, about a woman who has kept her past identity a secret for thirty years, was shortlisted for the 2016 Polari First Book Prize. Her second novel, Underneath, about a man who keeps a woman captive in his cellar, was published in May 2017. Her short story collection, Becoming Someone, on the theme of identity, was published in November 2018. A former clinical psychologist, Anne is also a book blogger with a special interest in fictional therapists.
Harrison Kim lives and writes in Victoria, Canada, and he's had short stories published here and there. His blog spot is here: https://harrisonkim1.blogspot.com
R. Nikolas Macioci earned a PhD from The Ohio State University. OCTELA, the Ohio Council of Teachers of English, named Nik Macioci the best secondary English teacher in the state of Ohio. Nik is
the author of two chapbooks as well as six books: More than two hundred of his poems have been published here and abroad, including
The SOCIETY OF CLASSICAL POETS Journal, Chiron, The
Comstock Review, Concho River Review, and Blue Unicorn. Forthcoming books are Rough and Rustle Rustle Thump Thump.
Chariklia Martalas is a Philosophy, Politics, English and History graduate from the University of the Witswatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her work has been featured in Rigwelter Press, Isacoustic, The Raw Art Review, Loch Raven Review, Bending Genres, Drunk Monkeys and the undergraduate literary journal The Foundationalist, among others. Her work is forthcoming in Dear Damsels, Bewildering Stories and Sabr Literary Magazine.
Rachel Dyar McKenzie has long been a writer and poet in secret only. This is her first foray into the world of publishing. She enjoys her 1911 home in Birmingham, AL with her husband Mike, and cat Wikileak (because she talks too much). She calls her writing style "creative reality."
Joe Mills is a faculty member at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, who has published six collections of poetry, most recently Exit, pursued by a bear which consists of poems triggered by stage directions in Shakespeare. His book This Miraculous Turning was awarded the North Carolina Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry for its exploration of race and family.
W.A. Schwartz is a physician (pediatric psychiatrist) in active practice in Northern California. W.A. was educated in biochemistry, philosophy, and medicine at the University of California and LSU, spent six years living in Louisiana, working as a medical director in the most underserved rural parishes outside New Orleans, and studied literature at UC Davis and novel writing via Stanford with Caroline Leavitt.
Mason Yates is from a small town in the Midwest and now lives in Arizona, where he is attending Arizona State University. His work has been published in Dark Dossier, Schlock!, The Creativity Webzine, and The Theme of Absence.
Despy Boutris is published or forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, Colorado Review, The Adroit Journal, Prairie Schooner, Palette Poetry, Third Coast, Raleigh Review, Diode, The Indianapolis Review, and elsewhere. Currently, she teaches at the University of Houston and serves as Assistant Poetry Editor for Gulf Coast.
Tom Crowley published many scientific papers and book chapters before retiring from his medical-school position as a Professor of Psychiatry. Since then he has published fictional short stories in Dodging the Rain and Bewildering Stories. He lives in the foothills of the Rockies near Denver with his wife, the poet and painter Erica Hollander, and with Tabitha, The World’s Foremost Dog.
Holly Day’s poetry has recently appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Grain, and Harvard Review. Her newest poetry collections are In This Place, She Is Her Own (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press), A Wall to Protect Your Eyes (Pski’s Porch Publishing), Folios of Dried Flowers and Pressed Birds (Cyberwit.net), Where We Went Wrong (Clare Songbirds Publishing), Into the Cracks (Golden Antelope Press), and Cross Referencing a Book of Summer (Silver Bow Publishing), while her newest nonfiction books are Music Theory for Dummies and Tattoo FAQ.
Anne Goodwin’s debut novel, Sugar and Snails, about a woman who has kept her past identity a secret for thirty years, was shortlisted for the 2016 Polari First Book Prize. Her second novel, Underneath, about a man who keeps a woman captive in his cellar, was published in May 2017. Her short story collection, Becoming Someone, on the theme of identity, was published in November 2018. A former clinical psychologist, Anne is also a book blogger with a special interest in fictional therapists.
Harrison Kim lives and writes in Victoria, Canada, and he's had short stories published here and there. His blog spot is here: https://harrisonkim1.blogspot.com
R. Nikolas Macioci earned a PhD from The Ohio State University. OCTELA, the Ohio Council of Teachers of English, named Nik Macioci the best secondary English teacher in the state of Ohio. Nik is
the author of two chapbooks as well as six books: More than two hundred of his poems have been published here and abroad, including
The SOCIETY OF CLASSICAL POETS Journal, Chiron, The
Comstock Review, Concho River Review, and Blue Unicorn. Forthcoming books are Rough and Rustle Rustle Thump Thump.
Chariklia Martalas is a Philosophy, Politics, English and History graduate from the University of the Witswatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her work has been featured in Rigwelter Press, Isacoustic, The Raw Art Review, Loch Raven Review, Bending Genres, Drunk Monkeys and the undergraduate literary journal The Foundationalist, among others. Her work is forthcoming in Dear Damsels, Bewildering Stories and Sabr Literary Magazine.
Rachel Dyar McKenzie has long been a writer and poet in secret only. This is her first foray into the world of publishing. She enjoys her 1911 home in Birmingham, AL with her husband Mike, and cat Wikileak (because she talks too much). She calls her writing style "creative reality."
Joe Mills is a faculty member at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, who has published six collections of poetry, most recently Exit, pursued by a bear which consists of poems triggered by stage directions in Shakespeare. His book This Miraculous Turning was awarded the North Carolina Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry for its exploration of race and family.
W.A. Schwartz is a physician (pediatric psychiatrist) in active practice in Northern California. W.A. was educated in biochemistry, philosophy, and medicine at the University of California and LSU, spent six years living in Louisiana, working as a medical director in the most underserved rural parishes outside New Orleans, and studied literature at UC Davis and novel writing via Stanford with Caroline Leavitt.
Mason Yates is from a small town in the Midwest and now lives in Arizona, where he is attending Arizona State University. His work has been published in Dark Dossier, Schlock!, The Creativity Webzine, and The Theme of Absence.
