LOVERS OF ALL THINGS GRAVY:
ARBUSHITES
Arielle Arbushites is a mother, a social worker, and a writer. Her published poetry collection is cracking at the heels , and she also appears on social platforms and in magazines.
BAILEY
Helen Bailey retired from the practice of law after over 35 years. She now spends time catching up on all the things she neglected during those years, even basics, like cooking and baking. She has poems published in several editions of Legal Studies Forum which showcased the literary works of attorneys.
BENNETT
Patty Perreault Bennett is a retired high school math teacher. Her work has appeared in the Cape Gazette newspaper, Delaware Beach Life magazine, Eber & Wein’s Best Poets of 2019, Rehoboth Beach Writers Guild’s two anthologies: Scenes: A Collaboration of Coastal Writers and Artists, and Tasty Morsels. Patty is the author of a chapbook containing 45 poems with a water theme, Water Writes, published in 2021 by Salt Water Media of Berlin, Maryland. She lives in Lewes, Delaware, with her husband, Bill.
BERN
Alan Bern is an editor @ Old Scratch Press, Instant Noodles magazine, and the author of Dreams of the Return Find him.
BROWN
Dustin P. Brown is a Michigan-born, Spain-based author of poetry and prose. He received his BA in Creative Writing from Western Michigan University and currently works as an editor and interpreter. He’s published poetry at dozens of journals including Bacopa Literary and Lit Shark and flash at Falling Star Magazine.
CHOU
Jackie Chou (she/her) is a neurodivergent writer from Southern California who has two collections of poetry, The Sorceress and Finding My Heart in Love and Loss, published by cyberwit. Her poem “Formosa” was a finalist in the Stephen A DiBiase Poetry Prize. She also has poems published in Synchronized Chaos, Ekphrastic Poetry Review, Panoply Zine, Alien Buddha Zine, and Spillwords.
COX
Mary Beth Cox lives in Richmond, VA with her family. She attended the College of William and Mary, UNC Chapel Hill, and is a former Peace Corps volunteer. Find her.
DeBEER
Liz DeBeer is a teacher and writer with Project Write Now, a writing cooperative based in New Jersey. Her latest flash has appeared in BULL, Fictive Dream, Flash Fiction Magazine, and others. She has written essays in various journals including Brevity Blog. She holds degrees from University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University. Find her here, and here.
DIAMOND
Bill Diamond lives in Colorado where the Rocky Mountains are both an inspiration and distraction. He writes to help figure it all out.
DONADON
Elena Donadon is a bilingual ESL teacher based in northern Italy. She studied screenwriting at Scuola Holden in Turin. Her work has been published in Italian literary magazines and blogs.
DOYLE
Anthony Doyle is a misplaced Irishman, author of the novel Hibernaculum, the Jonah’s Map of the Whale (poetry) and two children’s books in Portuguese. He’s a member of Old Scratch Press. Find him.
FABIAN
R. Gerry Fabian lives in Doylestown, PA. He is a published poet and novelist. He has published four books of his published poems, Parallels, Coming Out Of The Atlantic, Electronic Forecasts and Ball On The Mound and four novels : Getting Lucky (The Story), Memphis Masquerade, Seventh Sense and Ghost Girl. Find him.
FITZGERALD
Jane H. Fitzgerald is a retired middle school history teacher, who is now a writer. She has written four books of poetry including, Notes From the Undaunted. She has been featured in many print journals and online sites. A few of these are: Instant Noodles, Your Daily Poem, Isele Quarterly Magazine, Little Old Lady Comedy, and Green Ink Poetry. She hopes that her writing creates a bridge of understanding to others. She loves her family, friends, writing, and working with colors, and enjoys living in Florida. Find her.
FLEMING
Robert Fleming (b. 1963) is a visual poet and digital artist from Lewes, DE. He is an editor @ Old Scratch Press and Instant Noodles magazine. His books are White Noir, an Amazon best seller, and Con-Way in 4 in 1, #4. He is an award-winner: 2025 Massachusetts poetry Olympics silver and bronze medals; 2022 San Gabriel Valley CA-broadside, 2024/2021 Best of Mad Swirl poetry, Delaware Press: poem (third, 2 honorable mentions (HM)), graphic design: 4 HM, photography: 1 HM; nominations: 2025 best of short fiction; 2023 Blood Rag Poet, and 2 Pushcart, and 3 Best of the Net. Follow Robert.
FREY
Carl Frey retired from 41 years working in flavor and fragrance chemistry and moved to Lewes, Delaware, and then Philadelphia. He joined the Rehoboth Beach Writers Guild and published the adventure novels Caldonia Café and Formula for Disaster. Cat & Mouse Press published his short story, “Rehoboth Beach in Crisis” in their anthology Beach Pulp, and his short story “Secret Message” in their anthology Beach Secrets. He volunteers as deckhand and cook on the historic barkentine GAZELA, docked at Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia.
GOLLADAY
Morgan Golladay has been intrigued with words all her life. Her poetry reflects this, and she uses illusion and allusion in her writing. Much of her work focuses on her native Shenandoah Valley, as well as coastal Delaware. Golladay says that poetry originated as an oral form, and she thinks it works best when it is heard. To that end it must be concise, simple, and tight. The poet bears the responsibility to speak old truths in new ways, to encourage the reader/listener to consider ideas from a different point of view. To do this the poet must be vulnerable, must allow their inner thoughts and fears and secrets to surface. This is particularly difficult in a society that doesn’t share its hurts, its fears, its pain. And that poetry, of love, loss, sadness, fear, and joy binds us together in our humanity and give us opportunities to grow.
Golladay has worked with non-profits as a volunteer and staff member, been a librarian, a blood donor recruiter, and a customer service and purchasing agent for a residential water-well wholesaler. Her watercolor and acrylic-collage paintings have won awards, and she is a member of the Mispillion Art League in Milford, Delaware, where she currently lives. An emerging poet, her work has been published in the Broadkill Review, Halloween Party ’21, and Instant Noodles. She has published short stories in HP-21 and Instant Noodles, and is currently editing her first novel. Her short stories have won both state and national awards. The Song of North Mountain, her first book of poetry, was published in May of 2024. Find her, and here too.
GRIMA
Benedicte Grima is an anthropologist with 40 years’ experience in Pashtun culture of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the diaspora, has published academic books (The Performance of Emotion Among Paxtun Women) and historical fiction (Talk Till The Minutes Run Out, and Heirlooms’ Tale). Her collection of fieldwork essays, Secrets From the Field, won her an Eric Hoffer finalist award in 2019. The attached essay is from her current memoir in progress, Photo Memories. Grima lives in PA and enjoys singing sacred oratorio and tutoring private student writers. Find her.
GUPTA
Sarah Das Gupta is an 83 year old, retired English teacher from near Cambridge, UK who has taught in UK, India and Tanzania. She lived in Kolkata for some years. Her interests include, Art and Design, the countryside, Medieval History, parish churches, early music and the supernatural. She has had work published in journals and magazines online and in print, in over twenty-five countries, from New Zealand to Kazakhstan. She has recently been nominated for Best of the Net and a Dwarf Star Award. She Is hoping to publish a poetry collection.
HARVEY
Juley Harvey is a prize-winning poet and former journalist in both California and Colorado. Her work has appeared in more than 45 publications and anthologies. She belongs to 3 writers’ groups and lives with her rescued fur loves maltipoo Angielope and Abyssinian Mr. Pye and with her brother and his girlfriend, their two dogs, cat, and duck, an orchard and a solar greenhouse in California.
HOPSON
Kevin Hopson’s work has appeared in a variety of anthologies, magazines, and e-zines, and he enjoys writing in multiple genres.
JACKSON
James Croal Jackson is a Filipino-American poet working in film production. His latest chapbook is A God You Believed In (Pinhole Poetry, 2023). Recent poems are in ITERANT, Skipjack Review, and The Indianapolis Review. He edits The Mantle Poetry from Nashville, Tennessee.
KNOLL
Tricia Knoll ‘s poetry appears widely in journals as diverse as Kenyon Review and New Verse News as well as nine collections. She is a Contributing Editor to the online journal Verse Virtual. Find her.
KOUDELKA
Aldona Koudelka is an educator and is a new poet. She published in Month to Years Winter 2025 and in the Marin Poetry Center Anthology 2024-2025.
LEE
David Lee is physician and poet in Houston, Texas. His work explores memory, human connection, and the space between perception and reality. He is inspired by literature with imagery and emotios. His poems are forthcoming in Mobius, Euonia Review, and Unbroken Journal. He is developing a collection of original poems examining time, identity, and place.
LEMPRIÈRE
Steven Lemprière’s work appears in Punk Noir Magazine, The Literary Garage, Suddenly and without warning, The Hoolet’s Nook, Flash Fiction Magazine, The Drabble, Friday Flash Fiction, 50-Word Stories, 50 Give or Take, Six Sentences, and Paragraph Planet. A creative writing course undertaken while a patient at an Irish psychiatric hospital, saw him, shortly after his discharge, short-listed for the New Writers Prize at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature. From London, he resides between the West Coast of Ireland and South-West France.
MARIL
Nadja Maril writes prose and poetry that has been published in literary magazines that include, Lunch Ticket, Spry Literary Review and Across the Margin. Her chapbook of poems and memoir, Recipes from My Garden, was published by Old Scratch Press (September 2024) and was a Midwest Review California Book Watch Reviewer’s Choice. She recently published a children’s book—Who IS Santa? A former journalist and editor, Nadja has an MFA from Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine. To read more of her work and follow her weekly blog posts, visit her, and get a copy of her new book!
PARENTEAU
Chad Parenteau lives in Boston, MA. His collections are All’s Well Isn’t You and Cant Republic: Erasures and Blackouts. He hosts Boston’s Stone Soup Poetry online open mic and is an editor of the Oddball Magazine and organizer of the Boston Poetry Marathon. His work is in magazines: Résonancee, Molecule, Ibbetson Street, Pocket Lint, Cape Cod Poetry Review, Tell-Tale Inklings, Off The Coast, The Crossroads, The Skinny Poetry Journal, The Rye Whiskey Review, dadakuku, Nixes Mate Review, The Ugly Monster and anthologies: French Connections, Sounds of Wind, Reimagine America, and The Vagabond Lunar Collection.
PERTESSIS
Susan Pertessis’ work includes her novel An Illusion of Choice, and several short stories published in print and online. Find her.
PETSKA
Darrell Petska is a retired university engineering editor and three-time Pushcart Prize nominee. His work appears in Verse-Virtual, 3rd Wednesday Magazine, The Orchards Poetry Journal, Amethyst Review, and widely elsewhere. Father of five and grandfather of seven, he lives near Madison, Wisconsin, with his wife of more than 50 years. Find him.
ROE
Pat Roe lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and a gray tabby cat. She is retired. Her hobbies are travel, gardening, reading mystery, and boxing her husband, and writing is her passion.
SCHERFLING
Dale Scherfling is a seminar lecturer and instructor in photography and a retired U.S. Navy photojournalist.
SILCOCK
Marcus Silcock teaches high school in Barcelona and co-edits surreal-absurd for Mercurius magazine. His poetry has been translated into Slovak, Turkish, Polish and Danish. His book of microfictions and prose poems, Dream Dust, is available from Broken Sleep Books. Find out more at Never Mind the Beasts.
TURES
John A. Tures began writing for the El Paso Herald-Post in high school. He wrote for his college paper at Trinity University in San Antonio and at Marquette University. He earned his doctorate at Florida State University, analyzed data in Washington DC, is now a Professor at LaGrange College, He writes a weekly column for newspapers and magazines. He has published a number of short story mysteries and thrillers. His book Branded will come out later this year with Huntsville Independent Press (Huntsville Independent Press). He thanks family and friends for listening to his stories.
VERES
Jordan Veres is a Jewish musician/songwriter/composer/lyricist/producer, shutterbug, poet, sculptor, artist, and welder currently residing in the Upstate of South Carolina.
WALKER
Joshua Walker is a poet whose work explores the complexities of human emotion, resilience, and vulnerability. In a short time, his poetry has garnered a significant following on platforms like Bluesky, where his raw, evocative pieces resonate deeply with readers. Walker’s voice is informed by his experience with schizoaffective disorder, which shapes his unflinching exploration of both personal and collective struggles. His work is known for its emotional depth, honesty, and its ability to connect with readers on an intimate level. Walker is emerging as a distinctive and powerful voice in contemporary poetry.
WARWICK
Zofia Warwick writes because it’s better than talking to herself. Hailing from Baltimore, a city of lax attitudes toward pedestrian crossing and a great many hideaway bookstores, arty places, and sneakily ensconced gems, this errant Baltimoron writes mainly horror and speculative fiction spliced with a fair amount of humor.
WEIGEL
Jennifer Weigel (she/her/they/them) lives in Kansas and is a multi-disciplinary mixed media artist. She collects board and role-playing games, junk store thrifting, and mail art. Her kindred animal is the deer and favorite foods are unagi don, broiled calamari steak and frosting with/without cake. She is a repeat contributor to Haunted MTL. Author of Witch Hayzelle’s Recipes for Disaster. Find her.
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