CEMETERY RESIDENTS

BARNEY

ANNE BARNEY is the author of three chapbooks of poetry from Pudding House Publications: AFTER THE BARN DOOR OPENED (2007), NOSEGAY (2002) and Pinned to the Corkboard (2000), and STOLEN JOY: HEALING AFTER INFERTILITY AND INFANT LOSS from Icarus Books (1993). She thanks Jack and Jill magazine for first recognizing her poetry with an Honorable Mention when she was nine years old.

BERKMAN

PAM BERKMAN is author of two short story collections: HER INFINITE VARIETY: STORIES OF SHAKESPEARE AND THE WOMEN HE LOVED and THE FALLING NUN, both from Simon & Schuster. Her story “Duty” appears in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s ELA curriculum COLLECTIONS and her story “The Falling Nun” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Berkman is also co-author of the AT THE HEELS OF HISTORY chapter book series (Margaret K. McElderry Books). Her other work has appeared in Faultline and Loud Coffee Press. Berkman holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers.

BERRY

TERRI WATROUS BERRY is a Michigan septuagenarian whose work has appeared over the past thirty-five years in anthologies, journals, magazines, and newspapers.

BURKE

THOMAS BURKE is a retired Army psychiatrist living with his wife of twenty-two years near Ocean City, Maryland. He is sixty-seven years old, writing for love about love.

CANTU

JUAN CANTU is a US Army OIF Combat Veteran. He resides in Mil-ford, Delaware, with his wife and daughter. Cantu is a member of the Mispillion Art League. He is also a member of The Developing Art-ist Collaboration in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Cantu volunteers his time teaching art to veterans and to members of his community. He pioneered “I Love Bad Art,” a movement based on the notion that anyone and everyone can create original artwork. Cantu’s art graces the HALLOWEEN PARTY ’23 anthology.

DAONE

NICOLE MALYJ DAONE can be found sprucing up her historical fiction manuscript and enjoys writing poetry about the weird, crushing elation of motherhood. There are bits of memoir and other nonfiction floating in her purse somewhere, along with short stories about WWII and Ukraine and poems trying to make sense of being a teenager in the late 1990’s. When not writing or learning about the craft of writing, she teaches and practices yoga, meanders, cooks, searches for animals to pet, and researches random things until falling happily into a rabbit hole of contemplation and inevitable composition inspiration.

DAS GUPTA

SARAH DAS GUPTA is a retired English teacher who has worked in UK, India and Tanzania.She now lives near Cambridge, UK.

Das Gupta started writing last October after becoming bored while in hospital, after an accident.Her work has been published in magazines from US, UK, Canada, India, Mauritius and Croatia. She is interested in most subjects except football and computer games- her four grandsons are working on this!

DEPAOLO

ROB DEPAOLO studied philosophy in college but soon discovered that the most profound truths were to be found in poetry. In addition to writing, DePaolo is also a successful photographer. His photography has been featured in numerous international exhibitions and can also be found in the permanent collection of the Columbus Museum of Art.

DePaolo’s poetry seeks to explore the human condition through the uniquely distorted lens of suburban life with an occasional splash of absurdity, just to keep things interesting. His work has been published in FROGPOND and the JOURNAL OF THE HAIKU SOCIETY OF AMERICA (2021).

FINNEY

FRANK WILLIAM FINNEY is a retired university lecturer from Massachusetts. His work has appeared in THE BLUEBIRD WORD, GREEN MOUNTAINS REVIEW, POCKET FICTION, & SPANK THE CARP. His chapbook THE FOLDING OF THE WINGS was published by Finishing Line Press in 2022.

FITZGERALD

JANE H. FITZGERALD is a retired teacher who writes poetry with clarity and insight. Fitzgerald has written four books including, NOTES FROM THE UNDAUNTED.  Her poetry has been featured in, Devil’s Party Press, ISELE QUARTERLY, GREEN INK POETRY, YOUR DAILY POEM, LITTLE OLD LADY COMEDY, and more. Fitzgerald hopes that others will find comfort and a sense of togetherness in her poetry. Find more of Fitzgerald’s poetry, and follow her.

HOLM

JANIS BUTLER HOLM served as Associate Editor for WIDE ANGLE, the film journal, and currently works as a writer and editor in sunny Los Angeles. Her prose, poems, art, and performance pieces have appeared in small-press, national, and international magazines. Her plays have been produced in the U.S., Canada, Russia, and the U.K.

IVES

GARY IVES is a retired sailor who lives in the Ozarks where he grows cherries and writes. Many of his stories appear in various print and electronic fiction publications.

JANICKE 

MARY JANICKE is a gardener and writer living in Houston, Texas. Her work has appeared in THE NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, BLUE LAKE REVIEW, STILL LIFE, VINE LEAVES PRESS, & 50 GIVE OR TAKE.

KELLY

JAMES ROSS KELLY lives in Northern California. AND THE FIRES WE TALKED ABOUT, published by UnCollected Press of Maryland in 2020 is Mr. Kelly’s first book of fiction. UnCollected Press has recently published BLACK ICE & FIRE, Mr. Kelly’s first book of poetry, in February of 2021.

LEHVONEN-SHAWKI 

EMILIA LEHVONEN-SHAWKI is a queer, polyamorous poet. Based in London, Lehvonen-Shawki is living with her wife and their demon cat. Often found writing sad love poems, and things she wishes that her mother will never read.

MARIL

NADJA MARIL’S prose and poetry has appeared in dozens of publications. A previous contributor to INSTANT NOODLES, her work has been featured in DEFUNKT MAGAZINE, PIGEON REVIEW, CHANGE SEVEN, LUNCH TICKET, THE COMPRESSED JOURNAL OF CREATIVE ARTS, and ACROSS THE MARGINS. A former journalist and magazine editor, Nadja has an MFA in Creative Writing from the Stonecoast Program at the University of Southern Maine and is a Contributing Editor to Old Scratch Press. When not writing, she enjoys long walks, inventing new recipes using ingredients from her garden, dancing, and spending time with friends and family. To read more of her work and follow her weekly blog posts, visit Nadjamaril.com. 

MEYER

MICHELLE MEYER, a plus-50 poet, is the author of THE BOOK OF SHE, a full collection of persona poems devoted to and illustrated by women, and THE TROUBLE WITH BEING A CHILDLESS ONLY CHILD forthcoming from Cornerstone Press. Recent work appears or will soon appear in UNDER HER EYE: A BLACKSPOT BOOKS ANTHOLOGY, NEBULOUS, REMINGTON REVIEW, WELTER, & ZOETIC, among many others. In addition, Meyer is a worldwide house and pet sitter who especially loves cats.

OSBORNE

HOWARD M. OSBORNE is a part-time writer of poetry and short stories (and has also completed several scripts). Among the former he has had a few poems published as well as a published author of a non-fiction reference book and several scientific papers many years ago.

Osborne is a UK citizen married to an American and living in UK. He is recently retired and maintains wide interests in writing, playing music, and travel.

SKINNER

BRENT D. SKINNER has been practicing law in Wisconsin for 50 years. He served as Family Court Commissioner in Dunn County Wisconsin for a decade and continues his estate planning and probate practice. Skinner is married and has two adult children and four grandchildren.

SMITH

DEREK R. SMITH (he/him) is a public health professional, Anishinaabe two-spirit, uncle, sibling, partner, friend, who finds it hard to not write poetry. Smith, a long-time writer, commenced the awkward dance of submitting poems to journals in 2023. Smith’s work can now be found in GREAT LAKES REVIEW, ¡PA’LANTE!, EUPHONY, WILLAWAW, INLANDIA, PASSIONFRUIT REVIEW, and LUCKY JEFFERSON. Smith spent several weeks this summer overly enthusiastic, telling every friend and bus driver, about his poem being placed adjacent to a work by the estimable Marge Piercy in SAN PEDRO RIVER REVIEW.

STEVENSON

EUGENE STEVENSON, son of immigrants, father of expatriates, lives in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. Eisenhower Fellow, Pushcart nominee, & author of the chapbook, THE POPULATION OF DREAMS (Finishing Line Press 2022), his poems have appeared in ATLANTA REVIEW, DELTA POETRY REVIEW, GALWAY REVIEW, HUDSON REVIEW, RED OGRE REVIEW, TIPTON POETRY JOURNAL, & WASHINGTON SQUARE REVIEW. More at eugenestevenson.com

SUPRANOWICZ

EDWARD MICHAEL SUPRANOWICZ is the grandson of Irish and Russian/Ukrainian immigrants. He grew up on a small farm in Appalachia. He has a grad. background in painting and printmaking. Some of his artwork has recently or will soon appear in FISH FOOD, STREETLIGHT, ANOTHER CHICAGO MAGAZINE, THE DOOR IS A JAR, & THE PHOENIX. Supranowicz is also a published poet who has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize multiple times.

WARD

CHRISTIAN WARD is a UK-based writer who has recently appeared in RAPPAHANNOCK REVIEW, SOUTH FLORIDA POETRY JOURNAL, THE DEWDROP, DODGING THE RAIN, THE SEVENTH QUARRY, DIPITY LITERARY MAGAZINE, INDIAN PERIODICAL, & STREETCAKE MAGAZINE. His first poetry collection, INTERMISSION, is out now on Amazon.

WALKER

NANCY NORTH WALKER is an award-winning “second act” short fiction writer from Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, who took up creative writing following a long career as a business communications executive in Chicago, New York, and New Jersey. She’s partial to speculative fiction, especially sci-fi, horror, and magical realism, but also dabbles in rom-com and contemporary fiction.  Her short stories have appeared in several mid-Atlantic anthologies and Devil’s Party Press’s (DPP’s) online literary magazine, INSTANT NOODLES. Walker’s first horror story, “Insecticide,”which appeared in DPP’s HALLOWEEN PARTY ’21anthology, won second place for single short stories in the 2022 National Communications Contest sponsored by the National Federation of Press Women. It also won first place in the 2022 Delaware Press Association’s Communications Contest.  Her sci-fi flash fiction story “New Year’s 2044 With George,”which appeared in DPP’s INSTANT NOODLES, won second place in the same contest. Another of her sci-fi stories, “The Companion,” won a Judge’s Award in the 2021 Rehoboth Beach Reads Short Story Contest. It was published along with other contest winners by Cat & Mouse Press in their fall 2021 anthology, BEACH SECRETS.  Walker was a winner of the same short story contest in 2019 and was published in Cat & Mouse Press’s BEACH DREAMS.  Walker is currently working on a provocative sci-fi short story collection about the many unexpected ways advanced technology will change people’s lives in the coming decades. For more information about Walker se nancynorthwalker.com.

WOLD

MELISSA WOLD lives in Mobile Alabama. She is retired from a career in higher education. She writes with a group affiliated with the Mobile Botanical Gardens. She shares her home with two rat terriers, Rocket and Sparkplug.