Tamara Adelman is a massage therapist, triathlete, and freelance writer living in Santa Monica, California. She has been in Ironman races in Brazil, South Africa, the Canary Islands, and Europe. Her work focuses on travel, fitness, and action sports. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Amarillo Bay, Clackamas Literary Review, Ducts, Folly, Forge, Hospital Drive Magazine, International Walk Review, North Dakota Quarterly, RiverSedge, This I Believe, Toasted Cheese Literary Magazine, Verdad, and Waterski. You can visit her website here.
Stephanie Angel's passion for writing—poetry in particular—was inspired by her dad. Although he passed away in 2010, she plans to continue writing in his memory.
With a M.A. in Community Leadership from Alvernia University, Urlene Boisette understands the concept of leadership resides within a soul that has experienced various complicated life experiences. Notwithstanding, her ability to express her stance on self-expression – via poetry and abstract art- she embraces her Haitian ancestral background (which is demonstrated in the majority of her work).Lelene currently resides in Philadelphia. She is requesting for a chance to be heard and to live out her reality in this format: creativity.
Brenda Bell Brown is a native of Memphis, Tennessee. After receiving a BA in Theater Arts from Brown University, dedication to the study of Black American life and culture led her to pursue a MA in Museum Studies at Hampton University. Brenda received a 2010 Minnesota State Arts Board Cultural Community Partnership Grant and recently completed her second term as a Cultural Liaison to the Minnesota State Arts Board. She had the honor of performing at the first annual Women’s Theatre Festival of Memphis in August 2012. She currently serves as a Minneapolis (MN) Arts Commissioner and music host for free press radio KFAI-FM.
Chanel Brenner received her bachelor of arts in communication studies, with a minor in journalism, at California State University in Sacramento. She took a detour from my passion and worked in the computer industry as a product manager, after which she raised her son. Chanel studied “method writing” with the poet Jack Grapes, and is a member of his Writers and Poets Collective. Several publications—L.K. Thayer’s Poetry Juice Bar, ONTHEBUS, and various others—have published or are in the process of publishing some of her earlier works. Chanel recently won the nationwide Words For Riley Poetry Contest for her poem “What Would Wislawa Szymborska Do?” and, as a result, it was on display at the James Whitcomb Riley Museum in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Lance Calabrese was born and lives in California. He has been published throughout the U.S. and elsewhere. He is self-taught.
Susan Carr is an artist with an MFA from Boston School of The Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts. She is currently painting and doing photography on the side.
Sasha Carter is a frustrated artist who researches Antarctica for his “day job.” He is curious about the subjective nature of reality and memory, often trying to photograph what he sees in his dreams. He has never been under the employment of a supermarket.
Colin Clancy lives in Marquette, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where he teaches composition and runs a small screen printing business. He spends his free time drinking beer and playing outside. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Blue Lake Review, Summerset Review, Word Riot, Border Crossing and various others.
Alicia Cole, a writer an educator, lives in Lawrenceville, GA, with her photographer husband, their cat Hatshepsut and two schools of fish. Her poetry has been previously published in Eclectica Magazine, Abramelin Journal, Clutching at Straws, and This Great Society among other journals.
Max Detrano has been a writer, a bookseller, an independent publishers’ rep, and an art importer. On rainy days he can be found scribbling with friends at coffee shops in Seattle, WA. Max’s stories have twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Learn more here.
Dr. Natalie M. Dorfeld is currently an Assistant Professor of English in the Humanities and Communication Department at the Florida Insititue of Technology. She has taught American literature, creative writing, business writing, public speaking, and ESL classes at Thiel College. Additionally, she works as a freelance writer for Salem Press and serves as an advisory board member for Wadsworth Publishing and Pearson / Allyn & Bacon Publishing.
Jay Duret is a San Francisco based writer. He blogs here.
Gina DeLorenzo is a 50-year old native New Yorker, dog lover and writer.
Regan Dianne is a 17 year old, self taught photographer from the U.S. She takes photos of everything in the world around her, though she finds hands more fascinating and personal than anything else. Eventually she wants to be a journalist or professional photographer.
Jeffrey Elmore is a twenty-six year old forklift operator in Cincinnati, Ohio. Prior to his acceptance into Foliate Oak, he was an unpublished author.
Jacob Euteneuer currently lives in Akron, OH with his wife and son where he is a fiction candidate in the Northeast Ohio MFA.
With the eye of a painter and the heart of a story-teller, Karen Fayeth’s work is colored by her roots in rural New Mexico and an evolving urban aesthetic. Karen now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has published three features in New Mexico Magazine and an essay in Wild Violet.
Ronald Friedman is a retired psychologist living in Scottsdale, Arizona. He's published quite a bit of nonfiction over the years, including two books, but has only been writing fiction for two years, which he considers a short time since he is 72 years old.
Joshua Gage is an ornery curmudgeon from Cleveland, His first full-length collection, Breaths, is available from VanZeno Press. Intrinsic Night, a collaborative project he wrote with J. E. Stanley, was recently published by Sam’s Dot Publishing. He is a graduate of the Low Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Naropa University. He has a penchant for Pendleton shirts, rye whiskey and any poem strong enough to yank the breath out of his lungs. He stomps around Cleveland in a purple bathrobe where he hosts the monthly Deep Cleveland Poetry Hour and enjoys the beer at Fat Head's.
Brad Garber has published poetry in Cream City Review, Alchemy, Fireweed, Uphook Press, Front Range Review, theNewerYork Press, Ray’s Road Review, Flowers & Vortexes, Emerge Literary Journal, Generation Press, Penduline Press, Dead Flowers, New Verse News, The Whirlwind Review, Gambling the Aisle, Dark Matter Journal, Sundog Lit, Diversion Press, Unshod Quills and Mercury. Nominee: 2013 Pushcart Prize for poem, “Where We May Be Found.”
Conor Gearin is pursuing an English B.A. and Biology B.S. at Truman State University in Missouri, and aims for a career as a writer. At Truman, he is Prose Editor at Windfall, the school’s literary magazine, where his poetry and fiction was published before he became an editor.
Greg Girvan grew up in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania and received BA in English from Slippery Rock University. His writing has appeared in The Evansville Review, Wisconsin Review, TPQ Online, Our Stories and a number of other periodicals. He currently works as a freelance writer and editor in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Juniper Green is a writer of novels and short stories, currently based in Edinburgh.
Irving Greenfield has been published in Amarillo Bay, New Works review, the Stone Hobo; the Prime Mincer, The Note and Cooweescoowee. He lives with his wife in Manhattan, and has been everything from a sailor, to a soldier, and even a college professor.
John Grey is an Australian born poet, works as financial systems analyst. He has recently been published in International Poetry Review, Chrysalis and the science fiction anthology, Futuredaze, with work upcoming in Potomac Review, Sanskrit and Osiris.
Alejandra Guerra is a 20 year-old journalism student living in Boca Raton, Florida. When she is not writing articles for her college newspaper, she is scribbling down poems to post to her blog.
Amber Hollinger hopes to contribute something good by sharing her work, which has appeared on PoetrySuperHighway.com, in S/tick, Rose Red Review, and is forthcoming in Emerge Literary Journal. She holds an MA in International Relations. Amber recently completed her first poetry chapbook, (S)urge, and is working on new fiction and non-fiction.
David Howard lives and writes in Rhode Island. He has published fiction in Black Fox Literary Magazine, Crack the Spine, Boston Literary Magazine, Apollo's Lyre and Blue Lake Review.
Loren Kantor is a Los Angeles-based Woodcut Artist and writer. He worked in the film industry for 20 years as a screenwriter and assistant director. He is a huge fan of Classic Cinema and iconoclastic American Writers. He's been carving woodcut images for the past five years.
Sarah Katharina Kayß *1985 in Koblenz (Germany), studied Comparative Religion and Modern History in Germany and Britain. Since autumn 2012 she’s a PhD candidate at King’s College's War Studies Department in London. Her artwork, essays and poetry have appeared in literary magazines, journals and anthologies in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. Sarah is an awardee of the Austrian-VKSÖ Prize (2012) and winner of the manuscript-award of the German Writers Association for her poetry-collection "A Homage to the 21st century" (2013). She edits the bilingual magazine PostPoetry, A Literary Magazine, and lives in London.
Samantha Lemmerman has always included fiction as a part of her life. Inspired by current events, she explored hot button topics. Through her writing she explores issues in a more personal, intimate way.
Brittany Marie Little is new to the writing scene, but considers it an exciting and thrilling journey. She is currently seeking her BFA in Creative Writing for Entertainment. As an author, her goal is to become a Suspense Fiction writer, but she enjoys dabbling in every genre.
Nick Marcantel is a student at Full Sail University in the Creative Writing Program who is looking to tell great stories.
Thomas Miranda is currently studying Creative Writing at the University of Houston.
Denise Mostacci-Sklar began life as a dancer and has recently had the good fortune to discover writing as another way to move through life. She particularly enjoys the stillness ...waiting for words to make an entrance. Some of the journals her work can be found in are Dark Lady Poetry, Wilderness House Literary Review, MFT-The Valley Review, BRICKrhetoric, Haunted Waters Press and in the upcoming issue of Emerge Literary Journal.
Richard Ong's painted artwork, stories, poetry and photos have appeared in several issues of bewilderingstories.com, yesterdaysmagazette.com and The Blotter Magazine. One of these stories has been republished in print as part of an anthology titled, “Toys Remembered” (compiled and edited by Madonna Dries Christensen).
Michael Onofrey is from Los Angeles. Currently he lives in Japan. His stories have appeared in Arroyo, Natural Bridge, Outside Literary & Travel Magazine, and Two Hawks Quarterly, as well as in other fine places.
Minh Pham is currently working towards an M.F.A. in Creative Writing at University of California, Riverside. He was born in Saigon, Vietnam and became a Riverside, CA native at age eight. His poetry has been published in Yes, Poetry, Verdad Magazine, and Mascara Literary Review.
Douglas Polk is a poet living in the wilds of central Nebraska with his wife and two boys, two dogs and four cats.
Nicolas Poynter was a high-school drop out (not quite finishing the tenth grade), that went on to become a chemist, now teaching AP physics. He is also currently involved in an MFA program for creative writing at Oklahoma City University. At the age of seventeen, he won a writing contest and was published, only to discontinue writing for twenty years. Recently, he became a finalist in a national competition, as well as had his work published in the North American Review, Siren, and Citron Review.
James Rash is twenty-one and has been working in the United States Army for the past three years. He is a country boy from Arkansas, born and raised. James doesn't write poetry and isn't a philosopher or anything, but does from time to time have fun playing with words that turn out to be great sayings or poems.
Yinka Reed-Nolan is an MFA candidate at California State University in Fresno where she teaches in the first year writing program. Her essays have recently been published or are forthcoming in Bloom, Niche and The Dying Goose.
Brian Rodan lives in the Pacific Northwest on the wet, west side of the Cascade Mountains. From his window he overlooks a mossy regrade slouch toward Puget Sound.
Jeannette Ronson is an MFA student in Creative & Professional Writing at Western Connecticut State University. She also teaches creative writing and English composition at Southern Connecticut State University and Norwalk Community College.
Alyssa Ross was born in rural Alabama but relocated to the outskirts of D.C. after her parents' divorce. She painted at VCU's art school for a year before changing her artistic focus to writing nonfiction. She now teaches writing at Auburn University while pursuing her PhD.
Jim Ross is city editor and columnist at the Ocala Star-Banner and a journalism instructor at the University of Florida. His journalism and essays have been published or are forthcoming in the Star-Banner, the St. Petersburg Times, the Gainesville Sun, Clockhouse Review and the online component of Little Patuxent Review.
Rachel Sarrett teaches high school English in Oregon while working toward her MFA in Creative Writing through Goddard College. She earned her BA in Creative Writing and Literature from Pacific University.
Nancy Scott's over-600 bylines have appeared in magazines, literary journals, anthologies and newspapers, and as audio commentaries. An essayist and poet, she has published three chapbooks. Recent work appears in Breath and Shadow, Contemporary Haibun Online, and Thema. She won First Prize in the 2009 International Onkyo Braille Essay Contest.
Sam Silva has poetry in print magazines including, but not limited to Samisdat, The ECU Rebel, Sow's Ear, The American Muse, St. Andrews Review, Dog River Review, Third Lung Review, and various others.
Jennifer Stasak is a writer living in Central Florida. Her work has been previously published in Living Waters Review, The Anemone Sidecar, Words, and Epiphany Magazine, among others. She currently serves as an intern for Narrative Magazine, and this marks the fourth literary journal she has served alongside. When she isn't writing, Jennifer works full-time as an Internet content writer/researcher, and also enjoys watching copious amounts of "Doctor Who."
David Swartz is a new-age artist, who shocks his audience with images that defy! Faces wrestle with choice, devoutness, intimacy, fear. The multi-layers of man’s facade, unwrapped with candid imagery, confront the viewer with a self-effacing generosity that risks “discovery”. The presentation is, at times, cemented with bright, contained, contrasting colours: bold, enticing, restless, ready to ignite. The black and white charcoal drawings: gnawed, humorous, anxious, nervous - lace the circuitous unevenness of a chiseled soul. His works are natural, stark, childlike, yet monstrously reflective and mature.
Marcia Szymanski is a member of the Fine Line Poets in Massachusetts. Her poems have been published in The Berkshire Review and Bridges.
Gilmore Tamny has published stories and short essay pieces in Madison Smartt Bell’s Narrative Design, Not A Rose by Heide Hatry, and The Dan Clowes Reader (April 2013). Her ‘zine, WIGLET was reviewed in the Village Voice, USA Today, Magnet and was Sassy’s ‘Zine of the Month. A book of her poems was published in 1997 and she has written songs for three albums, as part of The Yips. She has an MFA from Emerson College.
Steve West teaches at Martin Methodist College in Pulaski, Tennessee. He also recently had his golf clubs stolen. However, he still has a fishing rod.
Harlan Wheeler is an Author, Poet and Inspirational troublemaker, his-books include: The Art and Science of Success volume 3, The Gratitude Journey: from Jellyfish to Bigfoot, Tipping is a City in China.” And “Think more like the mountain not like the climber”
Micheal K. White is one half of the semi-legendary playwriting team Broken Gopher Ink. He spent his youth tooling producers into investing their dirty money in his lurching, lumbering plays. Incredibly this led to forty play productions, including fifteen off-Broadway runs, including his low cholesterol mega monologue play, "My Heart And the Real World", which ran for almost two years in New York City. In 2007, his story “13 Halloweens” was chosen as one of the ten best stories published in 2006 by Story South. In 2010 "My Apartment", a "micro-novel", was published by Blueprint Press. A shy, humble man who lives with the cows in Colorado. Recently, he was unpleasantly surprised to find an extended family of black and yellow snakes living inside the crack between the steps and his house. He found this out the hard way.
Dale Williams has exhibited his work in various venues in and around New York City. His most recent one-person show, “Wrong Moves – Figurations and Word Pictures”, was at the Arthur Berger Gallery, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY. His work has also appeared in print, most notably BOMB magazine’s 30th anniversary issue.
Jana Wright is an adjunct English instructor at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. Her real job is teaching middle school English. She is married to Shawn Wright of Monticello and has a son, Dustin Barnett, and a bonus daughter, Taylor Wright. She loves to read and write both poetry and prose, but her jobs keep her too busy to enjoy both as much as she would like. She still plans to write the Great American Novel one day and retire with her riches.
Changming Yuan, four-time Pushcart nominee and author of Allen Qing Yuan, holds a PhD in English, teaches independently, and edits Poetry Pacific in Vancouver. They are open for submissions here. Yuan's poetry appears in 689 literary publications cross 25 countries, including Asia Literary Review, Best Canadian Poetry, BestNewPoemsOnline, LiNQ, London Magazine and Threepenny Review.
Dane Zeller writes fiction, mainly, though he will make an attempt at writing an opinion piece. Humor can be found throughout most of his writing, including his detective novels, and romance stories. He's been published in Hobo Pancakes, Tuck Magazine, The Kansas City Star, and various other publications. Recently, he has also been attempting serious fiction.
Stephanie Angel's passion for writing—poetry in particular—was inspired by her dad. Although he passed away in 2010, she plans to continue writing in his memory.
With a M.A. in Community Leadership from Alvernia University, Urlene Boisette understands the concept of leadership resides within a soul that has experienced various complicated life experiences. Notwithstanding, her ability to express her stance on self-expression – via poetry and abstract art- she embraces her Haitian ancestral background (which is demonstrated in the majority of her work).Lelene currently resides in Philadelphia. She is requesting for a chance to be heard and to live out her reality in this format: creativity.
Brenda Bell Brown is a native of Memphis, Tennessee. After receiving a BA in Theater Arts from Brown University, dedication to the study of Black American life and culture led her to pursue a MA in Museum Studies at Hampton University. Brenda received a 2010 Minnesota State Arts Board Cultural Community Partnership Grant and recently completed her second term as a Cultural Liaison to the Minnesota State Arts Board. She had the honor of performing at the first annual Women’s Theatre Festival of Memphis in August 2012. She currently serves as a Minneapolis (MN) Arts Commissioner and music host for free press radio KFAI-FM.
Chanel Brenner received her bachelor of arts in communication studies, with a minor in journalism, at California State University in Sacramento. She took a detour from my passion and worked in the computer industry as a product manager, after which she raised her son. Chanel studied “method writing” with the poet Jack Grapes, and is a member of his Writers and Poets Collective. Several publications—L.K. Thayer’s Poetry Juice Bar, ONTHEBUS, and various others—have published or are in the process of publishing some of her earlier works. Chanel recently won the nationwide Words For Riley Poetry Contest for her poem “What Would Wislawa Szymborska Do?” and, as a result, it was on display at the James Whitcomb Riley Museum in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Lance Calabrese was born and lives in California. He has been published throughout the U.S. and elsewhere. He is self-taught.
Susan Carr is an artist with an MFA from Boston School of The Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts. She is currently painting and doing photography on the side.
Sasha Carter is a frustrated artist who researches Antarctica for his “day job.” He is curious about the subjective nature of reality and memory, often trying to photograph what he sees in his dreams. He has never been under the employment of a supermarket.
Colin Clancy lives in Marquette, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where he teaches composition and runs a small screen printing business. He spends his free time drinking beer and playing outside. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Blue Lake Review, Summerset Review, Word Riot, Border Crossing and various others.
Alicia Cole, a writer an educator, lives in Lawrenceville, GA, with her photographer husband, their cat Hatshepsut and two schools of fish. Her poetry has been previously published in Eclectica Magazine, Abramelin Journal, Clutching at Straws, and This Great Society among other journals.
Max Detrano has been a writer, a bookseller, an independent publishers’ rep, and an art importer. On rainy days he can be found scribbling with friends at coffee shops in Seattle, WA. Max’s stories have twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Learn more here.
Dr. Natalie M. Dorfeld is currently an Assistant Professor of English in the Humanities and Communication Department at the Florida Insititue of Technology. She has taught American literature, creative writing, business writing, public speaking, and ESL classes at Thiel College. Additionally, she works as a freelance writer for Salem Press and serves as an advisory board member for Wadsworth Publishing and Pearson / Allyn & Bacon Publishing.
Jay Duret is a San Francisco based writer. He blogs here.
Gina DeLorenzo is a 50-year old native New Yorker, dog lover and writer.
Regan Dianne is a 17 year old, self taught photographer from the U.S. She takes photos of everything in the world around her, though she finds hands more fascinating and personal than anything else. Eventually she wants to be a journalist or professional photographer.
Jeffrey Elmore is a twenty-six year old forklift operator in Cincinnati, Ohio. Prior to his acceptance into Foliate Oak, he was an unpublished author.
Jacob Euteneuer currently lives in Akron, OH with his wife and son where he is a fiction candidate in the Northeast Ohio MFA.
With the eye of a painter and the heart of a story-teller, Karen Fayeth’s work is colored by her roots in rural New Mexico and an evolving urban aesthetic. Karen now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has published three features in New Mexico Magazine and an essay in Wild Violet.
Ronald Friedman is a retired psychologist living in Scottsdale, Arizona. He's published quite a bit of nonfiction over the years, including two books, but has only been writing fiction for two years, which he considers a short time since he is 72 years old.
Joshua Gage is an ornery curmudgeon from Cleveland, His first full-length collection, Breaths, is available from VanZeno Press. Intrinsic Night, a collaborative project he wrote with J. E. Stanley, was recently published by Sam’s Dot Publishing. He is a graduate of the Low Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Naropa University. He has a penchant for Pendleton shirts, rye whiskey and any poem strong enough to yank the breath out of his lungs. He stomps around Cleveland in a purple bathrobe where he hosts the monthly Deep Cleveland Poetry Hour and enjoys the beer at Fat Head's.
Brad Garber has published poetry in Cream City Review, Alchemy, Fireweed, Uphook Press, Front Range Review, theNewerYork Press, Ray’s Road Review, Flowers & Vortexes, Emerge Literary Journal, Generation Press, Penduline Press, Dead Flowers, New Verse News, The Whirlwind Review, Gambling the Aisle, Dark Matter Journal, Sundog Lit, Diversion Press, Unshod Quills and Mercury. Nominee: 2013 Pushcart Prize for poem, “Where We May Be Found.”
Conor Gearin is pursuing an English B.A. and Biology B.S. at Truman State University in Missouri, and aims for a career as a writer. At Truman, he is Prose Editor at Windfall, the school’s literary magazine, where his poetry and fiction was published before he became an editor.
Greg Girvan grew up in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania and received BA in English from Slippery Rock University. His writing has appeared in The Evansville Review, Wisconsin Review, TPQ Online, Our Stories and a number of other periodicals. He currently works as a freelance writer and editor in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Juniper Green is a writer of novels and short stories, currently based in Edinburgh.
Irving Greenfield has been published in Amarillo Bay, New Works review, the Stone Hobo; the Prime Mincer, The Note and Cooweescoowee. He lives with his wife in Manhattan, and has been everything from a sailor, to a soldier, and even a college professor.
John Grey is an Australian born poet, works as financial systems analyst. He has recently been published in International Poetry Review, Chrysalis and the science fiction anthology, Futuredaze, with work upcoming in Potomac Review, Sanskrit and Osiris.
Alejandra Guerra is a 20 year-old journalism student living in Boca Raton, Florida. When she is not writing articles for her college newspaper, she is scribbling down poems to post to her blog.
Amber Hollinger hopes to contribute something good by sharing her work, which has appeared on PoetrySuperHighway.com, in S/tick, Rose Red Review, and is forthcoming in Emerge Literary Journal. She holds an MA in International Relations. Amber recently completed her first poetry chapbook, (S)urge, and is working on new fiction and non-fiction.
David Howard lives and writes in Rhode Island. He has published fiction in Black Fox Literary Magazine, Crack the Spine, Boston Literary Magazine, Apollo's Lyre and Blue Lake Review.
Loren Kantor is a Los Angeles-based Woodcut Artist and writer. He worked in the film industry for 20 years as a screenwriter and assistant director. He is a huge fan of Classic Cinema and iconoclastic American Writers. He's been carving woodcut images for the past five years.
Sarah Katharina Kayß *1985 in Koblenz (Germany), studied Comparative Religion and Modern History in Germany and Britain. Since autumn 2012 she’s a PhD candidate at King’s College's War Studies Department in London. Her artwork, essays and poetry have appeared in literary magazines, journals and anthologies in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. Sarah is an awardee of the Austrian-VKSÖ Prize (2012) and winner of the manuscript-award of the German Writers Association for her poetry-collection "A Homage to the 21st century" (2013). She edits the bilingual magazine PostPoetry, A Literary Magazine, and lives in London.
Samantha Lemmerman has always included fiction as a part of her life. Inspired by current events, she explored hot button topics. Through her writing she explores issues in a more personal, intimate way.
Brittany Marie Little is new to the writing scene, but considers it an exciting and thrilling journey. She is currently seeking her BFA in Creative Writing for Entertainment. As an author, her goal is to become a Suspense Fiction writer, but she enjoys dabbling in every genre.
Nick Marcantel is a student at Full Sail University in the Creative Writing Program who is looking to tell great stories.
Thomas Miranda is currently studying Creative Writing at the University of Houston.
Denise Mostacci-Sklar began life as a dancer and has recently had the good fortune to discover writing as another way to move through life. She particularly enjoys the stillness ...waiting for words to make an entrance. Some of the journals her work can be found in are Dark Lady Poetry, Wilderness House Literary Review, MFT-The Valley Review, BRICKrhetoric, Haunted Waters Press and in the upcoming issue of Emerge Literary Journal.
Richard Ong's painted artwork, stories, poetry and photos have appeared in several issues of bewilderingstories.com, yesterdaysmagazette.com and The Blotter Magazine. One of these stories has been republished in print as part of an anthology titled, “Toys Remembered” (compiled and edited by Madonna Dries Christensen).
Michael Onofrey is from Los Angeles. Currently he lives in Japan. His stories have appeared in Arroyo, Natural Bridge, Outside Literary & Travel Magazine, and Two Hawks Quarterly, as well as in other fine places.
Minh Pham is currently working towards an M.F.A. in Creative Writing at University of California, Riverside. He was born in Saigon, Vietnam and became a Riverside, CA native at age eight. His poetry has been published in Yes, Poetry, Verdad Magazine, and Mascara Literary Review.
Douglas Polk is a poet living in the wilds of central Nebraska with his wife and two boys, two dogs and four cats.
Nicolas Poynter was a high-school drop out (not quite finishing the tenth grade), that went on to become a chemist, now teaching AP physics. He is also currently involved in an MFA program for creative writing at Oklahoma City University. At the age of seventeen, he won a writing contest and was published, only to discontinue writing for twenty years. Recently, he became a finalist in a national competition, as well as had his work published in the North American Review, Siren, and Citron Review.
James Rash is twenty-one and has been working in the United States Army for the past three years. He is a country boy from Arkansas, born and raised. James doesn't write poetry and isn't a philosopher or anything, but does from time to time have fun playing with words that turn out to be great sayings or poems.
Yinka Reed-Nolan is an MFA candidate at California State University in Fresno where she teaches in the first year writing program. Her essays have recently been published or are forthcoming in Bloom, Niche and The Dying Goose.
Brian Rodan lives in the Pacific Northwest on the wet, west side of the Cascade Mountains. From his window he overlooks a mossy regrade slouch toward Puget Sound.
Jeannette Ronson is an MFA student in Creative & Professional Writing at Western Connecticut State University. She also teaches creative writing and English composition at Southern Connecticut State University and Norwalk Community College.
Alyssa Ross was born in rural Alabama but relocated to the outskirts of D.C. after her parents' divorce. She painted at VCU's art school for a year before changing her artistic focus to writing nonfiction. She now teaches writing at Auburn University while pursuing her PhD.
Jim Ross is city editor and columnist at the Ocala Star-Banner and a journalism instructor at the University of Florida. His journalism and essays have been published or are forthcoming in the Star-Banner, the St. Petersburg Times, the Gainesville Sun, Clockhouse Review and the online component of Little Patuxent Review.
Rachel Sarrett teaches high school English in Oregon while working toward her MFA in Creative Writing through Goddard College. She earned her BA in Creative Writing and Literature from Pacific University.
Nancy Scott's over-600 bylines have appeared in magazines, literary journals, anthologies and newspapers, and as audio commentaries. An essayist and poet, she has published three chapbooks. Recent work appears in Breath and Shadow, Contemporary Haibun Online, and Thema. She won First Prize in the 2009 International Onkyo Braille Essay Contest.
Sam Silva has poetry in print magazines including, but not limited to Samisdat, The ECU Rebel, Sow's Ear, The American Muse, St. Andrews Review, Dog River Review, Third Lung Review, and various others.
Jennifer Stasak is a writer living in Central Florida. Her work has been previously published in Living Waters Review, The Anemone Sidecar, Words, and Epiphany Magazine, among others. She currently serves as an intern for Narrative Magazine, and this marks the fourth literary journal she has served alongside. When she isn't writing, Jennifer works full-time as an Internet content writer/researcher, and also enjoys watching copious amounts of "Doctor Who."
David Swartz is a new-age artist, who shocks his audience with images that defy! Faces wrestle with choice, devoutness, intimacy, fear. The multi-layers of man’s facade, unwrapped with candid imagery, confront the viewer with a self-effacing generosity that risks “discovery”. The presentation is, at times, cemented with bright, contained, contrasting colours: bold, enticing, restless, ready to ignite. The black and white charcoal drawings: gnawed, humorous, anxious, nervous - lace the circuitous unevenness of a chiseled soul. His works are natural, stark, childlike, yet monstrously reflective and mature.
Marcia Szymanski is a member of the Fine Line Poets in Massachusetts. Her poems have been published in The Berkshire Review and Bridges.
Gilmore Tamny has published stories and short essay pieces in Madison Smartt Bell’s Narrative Design, Not A Rose by Heide Hatry, and The Dan Clowes Reader (April 2013). Her ‘zine, WIGLET was reviewed in the Village Voice, USA Today, Magnet and was Sassy’s ‘Zine of the Month. A book of her poems was published in 1997 and she has written songs for three albums, as part of The Yips. She has an MFA from Emerson College.
Steve West teaches at Martin Methodist College in Pulaski, Tennessee. He also recently had his golf clubs stolen. However, he still has a fishing rod.
Harlan Wheeler is an Author, Poet and Inspirational troublemaker, his-books include: The Art and Science of Success volume 3, The Gratitude Journey: from Jellyfish to Bigfoot, Tipping is a City in China.” And “Think more like the mountain not like the climber”
Micheal K. White is one half of the semi-legendary playwriting team Broken Gopher Ink. He spent his youth tooling producers into investing their dirty money in his lurching, lumbering plays. Incredibly this led to forty play productions, including fifteen off-Broadway runs, including his low cholesterol mega monologue play, "My Heart And the Real World", which ran for almost two years in New York City. In 2007, his story “13 Halloweens” was chosen as one of the ten best stories published in 2006 by Story South. In 2010 "My Apartment", a "micro-novel", was published by Blueprint Press. A shy, humble man who lives with the cows in Colorado. Recently, he was unpleasantly surprised to find an extended family of black and yellow snakes living inside the crack between the steps and his house. He found this out the hard way.
Dale Williams has exhibited his work in various venues in and around New York City. His most recent one-person show, “Wrong Moves – Figurations and Word Pictures”, was at the Arthur Berger Gallery, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY. His work has also appeared in print, most notably BOMB magazine’s 30th anniversary issue.
Jana Wright is an adjunct English instructor at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. Her real job is teaching middle school English. She is married to Shawn Wright of Monticello and has a son, Dustin Barnett, and a bonus daughter, Taylor Wright. She loves to read and write both poetry and prose, but her jobs keep her too busy to enjoy both as much as she would like. She still plans to write the Great American Novel one day and retire with her riches.
Changming Yuan, four-time Pushcart nominee and author of Allen Qing Yuan, holds a PhD in English, teaches independently, and edits Poetry Pacific in Vancouver. They are open for submissions here. Yuan's poetry appears in 689 literary publications cross 25 countries, including Asia Literary Review, Best Canadian Poetry, BestNewPoemsOnline, LiNQ, London Magazine and Threepenny Review.
Dane Zeller writes fiction, mainly, though he will make an attempt at writing an opinion piece. Humor can be found throughout most of his writing, including his detective novels, and romance stories. He's been published in Hobo Pancakes, Tuck Magazine, The Kansas City Star, and various other publications. Recently, he has also been attempting serious fiction.
