ARANYI
László Aranyi (Frater Azmon) is a poet, anarchist, occultist from Hungary. Earlier books: (szellem)válaszok, A Nap és Holderok egyensúlya . New: Kiterített rókabor. Known spiritualist mediums, art and explores the relationship between magic. https://www.facebook.com/laszlo.aranyi.3
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BERN
Alan Bern is a retired children’s librarian who received an MA in Creative Writing from Boston University where he studied with poet Anne Sexton and classicist Donald Carne-Ross. Bern is a Pushcart nominee and has published three books of poetry and a hybrid fictionalized memoir, IN THE PACE OF THE PATH, UnCollected Press, 2023. Bern has a chapbook, because lack, forthcoming from back room poetry in June 2024, https://backroompoetry.co.uk. Recent awards include: Longlist, The Bedford Competition (2023); Winner, Saw Palm Poetry Contest (2022). Recent/upcoming writing and photo work include: Third Street Review, EcoTheo Review, Thanatos, The Hyacinth Review, DarkWinter, Feral, Porridge Magazine, and Mercurius. Bern performs with dancer/choreographer Lucinda Weaver as PACES: dance & poetry fit to the space, is a published/exhibited photographer, and runs a fine press/publisher with artist/printer Robert Woods, Lines & Faces: linesandfaces.com.
BRUNER
Pixie Bruner is a poet, editor, and cancer survivor. Bruner lives in Atlanta Georgia with her doppelgänger and some weird cats. Bruner’s debut book The Body as Haunted (Authortunities Press) was published 4/4/2024. Nature Triumphs: A Charity Anthology of Dark Speculative Fiction (Dark Moon Rising Publications) blooms September 3, 2024. Her words are published/forthcoming in Space & Time Magazine, Whispers from Beyond (Crystal Lake Publishing), Star*Line, Angry Gable Press, Dreams & Nightmares, and more. Bruner wrote for White Wolf Gaming Studio. HWA and SFPA Member. https://pixiebruner.substack.com/
CONOVER
Amanda Conover is a queer poet based in Raleigh, NC and Peoria, IL who often engages with themes of existentialism, spirituality, social justice, and mental health. She is the poetry editor for Carolina Muse Literary and Arts Magazine and is a recent MFA graduate from Arcadia University. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in the lickety~split, Atlanta Review, Sad Girl Diaries,The Elevation Review, and elsewhere. Find her at amandaconover.com.
CROWLEY
Peter F. Crowley, a prolific author from the Boston area, writes in various forms, including short fiction, op-eds, poetry and academic essays. His writing can be found in 34th Parallel, Pif Magazine, Galway Review, New Verse News, Digging the Fat, Adelaide’s Short Story and Poetry Award anthologies (finalist in both) and The Opiate. He is the author of the poetry books Those Who Hold Up the Earth and Empire’s End, and the short fiction collection That Night and Other Stories.
CURTIS
Nicole Marie Curtis writes poetry, fiction, and material for live performance. Over the last decade, her creative work has appeared in: Impressions; Turk’s Head Review & Turk’s Head Review Best of; NAILED Magazine; Santanero Zine; Hoosier Lit; Trampset; Heimat Review, and onstage at STAGEStheatre and California State University, Fullerton in Fullerton, California. Visit her at nmcvortex.com or on Instagram @cheeversghost.
DAS GUPTA
Sarah Das Gupta is an English teacher who has taught in UK, India and Tanzania. She lived in Kolkata for some years. Her interests include equestrian sports, the countryside, Medieval History and early music. She has had work published in journals and magazines online and in print, in 20 countries, including US, UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland, India, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Germany, Croatia and Romania.
DAVIDSON
Jennifer Davidson began her career writing and editing children’s non-fiction books. Since then, she has written, edited, and produced many published media and digital projects. Recently, she completed her PhD in scriptwriting by creating a five-part comedy-drama series about the emergence of alternative comedy. Currently, she is publishing her first political literary fiction novel. Find her: https://jenniferdavidson.substack.com/publish/home
DE CANIO
Frank De Canio was born and bred in New Jersey, worked for many years in New York City. He loves music from Bach to Amy Winehouse, Olivia Rodrig, Shaira, et al.. Shakespeare is his consolation, writing his hobby. As poets, He likes Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, and Sylvia Plath. He also attends a Café Philo in Lower Manhattan every other week.
DELOS-SANTOS
Caleb Delos-Santos (he/him) is an English graduate student and teaching assistant at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Delos-Santos has published poetry with over twenty literary magazines, including North Dakota Quarterly and Madison Journal of Literary Criticism, and released four collections: When Will You Water Me? (2024), Leftover Poetry (2023), Once One Discovers Love (2023), and A Poet’s Perspective (2022). Delos-Santos also won the 2022 Esselstrom Prize for Creative Writing, the West Wind Literary Magazine’s 2023 Best in Genre Award for his nonfiction, and the 2024 William Carlin Slattery Award in Poetry. When not writing, Delos-Santos watches TV with his wife.
EVENSON
Kriston Evenson has a sharp eye for the darkness in life, a sharp knife, and a sharpie in the breast pocket of his chef’s coat. He is a father, an ally, and full-time butler to the dog who followed him home one night. Evenson’s work is published or forthcoming in Udolpho, Unorthodox Stories, Creepy Podcast, and elsewhere. Find him on Reddit, Discord, or contact him through his website.
FINDLAY
Hugh Findlay’s writing and photography have been published worldwide. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2020 for poetry, and the Best Microfiction Anthology 2024, he is in the third trimester of life and hopes y’all like his stuff. Instagram: @hughmanfindlay. Portfolio
FLEMING
Robert Fleming lives in Lewes, Delaware. He retired from writing television comedy and game shows to literary writing. Fleming’s twists bring the reader to the limit to find truth. Listeners heard Robert reading his Beat-Poetry in May at They-Call-Me-Mitch, an online reading series in San Francisco, California; in April his play the 8th wonder had a casted reading at the Playwright’s Collective; and he co-hosts a local artist share at the Lewes, Delaware library. Readers read his writing in publications in United States, Canada, and Australia. Fleming is a repeat contributor to Local Gems Press, Radical Fairy Diary, Devil’s Party Press, Failed-Haiku, Rehoboth Beach Writer’s Guild, Spilled-Ink Virginia, and Camp Rehoboth art shows. His poetry and word-art will be in Ethel Zine and Failbetter. Follow Robert. See his new book White Noir.
FULCHER
R. David Fulcher is an author of horror, science fiction, fantasy, and poetry. Major literary influences include H.P. Lovecraft, Dean Koontz, Edgar Allen Poe, Fritz Lieber, and Stephen King. Fulcher’s first novel, a historical drama set in World War II, Trains to Nowhere, and his second novel, a collection of fantasy and science fiction short stories, Blood Spiders and Dark Moon, are both available from authorhouse.com and Amazon. David’s work has appeared in numerous small press publications including Lovecraft’s Mystery Magazine, Black Satellite, The Martian Wave, Burning Sky, Shadowlands, Twilight Showcase, Heliocentric Net, Gateways, Weird Times, Freaky Frights and the anthologies Dimensions and Silken Ropes. David’s work can also be found in the DPP collection Halloween Party 2019. A passion for the written word has also inspired David to edit and publish the literary magazine, Samsara, which has showcased writers and poets for over a decade. Fulcher resides in Ashburn, Virginia, with his wife Lisa, and their rambunctious cats. Fulcher’s short story collection, The Pumpkin King and Other Tales of Terror, is also availabe Stateside on Kindle Vella where the first episodes are free! Fulcher’s new horror collection Asteriod 6 releases fall 2024 from Gravelight Press.
GILLIAM
Gabby Gilliam is a writer, a teacher, and a mom. She lives in the DC metro area with her husband and son. She is a founding member of the Old Scratch Short Form Collective. Her first chapbook, No Ocean Spit Me Out, was released in June 2024 from Old Scratch Press. Her novella duology, Drumming for the Dead: Trouble in Tomsk and Drumming for the Dead: Chasing a Cure were released from Black Hare Press. Her poetry and fiction has appeared online and in multiple anthologies. You can find her online at gabbygilliam.com.lives in the DC metro area with her husband and son. Her poetry has most recently appeared in One Art, Plant-Human Quarterly, The Ekphrastic Review, Pure Slush,Deep Overstock, Vermillion, MacQueen’s Quinterly, and Anti-Heroin Chic.
GOODRIDGE
James Goodridge lives in the Yorkville section of Manhattan. Hi collection of occult detective short stories, Terror By Night: The Supernatural Affairs of Madison Cavendish and Sue SunMountain releases in October 2024 from Gravelight Press. Goodridge has been published in six anthologies (horror and erotica) and is currently in a circus crime noir anthology. Find Goodridge here, and here.
HUNTER
Valerie Hunter teaches high school English and has an MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her stories and poems have appeared in publications including Sonder, Paper Lanterns, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Room, and Capsule Stories.
KARPINSKA
Janina Aza Karpinska (she/her) has an eye for visual poetry and narrative-anecdotes. Her framed work was shown at the International Photographic Exhibition, Ark-T Centre, Oxford; and, as an ‘Artist Book’, at Picture House, Leicester. Her work has featured on the covers of: Heart of Flesh Literary Journal; Chichester Magazine, The Hovarian; and in: Voices de la Luna; Superfroot; Literary Cocktail; Months to Years; Last Leaves, and Kelp Journal (with interview). She lives on the south coast of England. [Arts Review blo https://pickingthebonesclean.blogspot.com/]
LACANILAO
Ryan Lacanilao is a Kapampangan-Canadian living on Treaty 6 Territory. Selected by the Writers’ Guild of Alberta for the 2024 Horizons Writers Circle, he’s writing a book that’s a letter to his 3-year-old son. His writing has been featured in Hungry Zine, The Polyglot, Writerly Magazine, and Book of Matches. Lacanilao also practices the art of storytelling as a co-producer and co-host of What’s the Tsismis? on CJSR, which won a national award for Best in Podcasting in 2021. Follow him on Instagram: @ooakosiryan .
LEE
Jan Lee is based in Hong Kong, and a prize winner in Green Stories and Writers of the Future, as well as a Pushcart Prize nominee. Lee is the editor of literary magazine The Apostrophe and the co-author of Fairhaven – A Novel of Climate Optimism (Habitat Press UK : 2024). Jan’s stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, and are collected in Route One and Other Stories. Find her: https://janchu.substack.com/
LOVEGREN
Deidra Whitt Lovegren has written over a hundred short stories and regularly competes in international writing contests. Her novels include The Medicine Girl, The Medicine Woman, 21 Conversations, and The Lady of the Match, a collection of her works translated into Arabic that premiered at the 2024 Cairo International Book Fair. Lovegren has taught scores of English and writing classes from preschool to college. Currently, she is a humanities instructor at a private high school. She lives in Central Virginia with her husband of 30 years, three sons, and her three rescue cats, General Sherman, Cinna(mon Girl), and Marty. Read more of Lovegren’s work here: https://deidrawhittlovegren.com/
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, is scheduled for publication by Old Scratch Press in September (2024). She recently published a children’s book. 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 Nadjamaril.com, and get a copy of her new book!
McCANN
Janet McCann is an old Texas poet. She taught at Texas A&M for 47 years.
McSHAN
Whitney McShan is a Texas native who currently lives outside of Austin with her beautiful wife and son. Her work has been featured in Southern Gothic Creations. She is endlessly fascinated with the weird and what a societies monsters reflect.
MEAD
Brandon Mead is a Best of the Net nominated bathtub writer, intermittent poet, and cat dad who calls the Pacific Northwest home after living his whole Nomi Malone fantasy in Las Vegas, Nevada. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in publications such as Taco Bell Quarterly, Skeleton Flowers, 86 Logic, and Oh Yeah Bear Poetry. Follow him on Instagram: @fiercestorytelling. Website: fiercestorytelling.com
de MONBRISON
Ivan de Monbrison is a poet, writer and artist living in Paris, and born in 1969. He has studied oriental languages there after high school, not with great success. Ivan has autistic and schizophrenic tendencies that he has been trying to cop with through art, in the past twenty years of his life. His writing and art reflect maybe also the feeling of the decadence of today’s society, centered on its own vacuity and its lack of real purpose. He has been published in literary magazines globally.
REID
Jennifer Reid is a writer, educator and psychiatrist, exploring a variety of methods for self-expression. Reid writes on Substack at A Mind of Her Own and is a regular contributor to Psychology Today with her blog, Think Like a Shrink. She is also the creator and host of The Reflective Mind Podcast and a contributorto Giddy, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Doximity and Kevin MD. Her upcoming book, focusing on the burden of guilt faced by women in modern times, will be published by Penguin Life in Fall 2025.
SCHWEI
Stephen Schwei is a Pushcart-nominated Houston poet with Wisconsin roots, published in Wax Poetry & Art, RFD Magazine, GetOutMag.com, Hidden Constellation, Borfski Press, and Table//Feast and is the winner of the 2023 Kenan Ince Memorial Prize in Poetry. He has published one volume of poetry, Bluebonnet Whispers. A gay man with three grown children and four wonderful grandchildren, who worked in Information Technology most of his life, he can be a mass of contradictions. Poetry helps to sort all of this out. http://www.stephenschwei.com @steveschwei
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, and other journals. Supranowicz is also a published poet who has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize multiple times.
THEROUX
Michael Theroux writes from his home in Northern California. His career has spanned botanist, environmental health specialist, green energy developer and resource recovery web site editor. Entering the public-side of the creative writing field late in life, at 73, Michael is now seeking publication of his cache of art writings which may be found, or will soon be seen, in Down in the Dirt, Ariel Chart, 50WS, CafeLit, Poetry Pacific, Last Leaves, Backwards Trajectory, Small Wonders, Academy of the Heart and Mind, Cerasus, The Acedian Review, the Lothlorien Poetry, City Key, Wild Word, and Fixator Press, among others.
WESTWIND
Sue Westwind lives in the prairie woodlands of northeast Kansas, and is the author of Lunacy Lost: A Memoir of Green Mental Health (KDP, 2012); The Land Erotic: Acres and Ecstasy (Say Yes Quickly Books, 2022); and Man Dies, Leaves Widow on Earth: A Cycle of Poems on Intimacy, Nature & Grief (2024). Her blessays can be found at http://www.suewestwind.com.
WOOD
Annie Wood is a Hollywood-born, neurodiverse TV/Film actor, author, Internationally exhibited mixed-media artist and poet. Her work has been published in several places, including The Huffington Post, Tiny Buddha, El Portal Literary Journal, P.S. I Love You, Radar Poetry,Smith and Kraus & Speaking Volumes. For weekly stories and art, sign up for her Substack, How to Love the World: https://anniewood.substack.com/subscribeanniewood.com IG: @anniewoodworld and @artisanniewood
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