Glenn Armocida resides in western Pennsylvania. He was a finalist in the Rash Award in Fiction (2022). His recent work appears in The Broad River Review, Havik, The Watershed Journal, andThe Millvale Writers Group Anthology. In the 1980s, Glenn attended the University of Pittsburgh, Creative Writing Program. He has worked as a cook, radio news anchor, printer, technical/business writer, editor, and the past 32 years as an investment manager.
Ellen Austin-Li’s work has appeared in Artemis, Thimble Literary Magazine, The Maine Review, Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices, Rust + Moth, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, and other places. Finishing Line Press published her two chapbooks—Firefly (2019) and Lockdown: Scenes From Early in the Pandemic (2021). She’s a Best of the Net nominee. Recipient of the Martin B. Bernstein Fellowship, Ellen earned an MFA in Poetry at the Solstice Low-Residency Program. Ellen co-founded the monthly reading series, “Poetry Night at Sitwell’s,” in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she lives with her husband in a newly empty nest. You can find more of her work at www.ellenaustinli.me.
Chrstina Chin is a painter and haiku poet from Malaysia. She is a four-time recipient of top 100 in the mDAC Summit Contests, exhibited at the Palo Alto Art Center, California. She is 1st prize winner of the 34th Annual Cherry Blossom Sakura Festival 2020 Haiku Contest and 1st prize winner in the 8th Setouchi Matsuyama 2019 Photohaiku Contest. She has been published in numerous journals, multilingual journals, and anthologies, including Japan’s prestigious monthly Haikukai Magazine.
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Lauren Endicott is an emerging poet with work published or forthcoming in Ghost City Review, West Trade Review, Burningwood Literary Journal, and others. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in social work in the greater Boston area where she lives with her spouse and two children.
Larissa Monique Hauck is a queer visual artist who graduated from the Alberta University of the Arts in 2014, where she received a BFA with Distinction. Her artwork has been featured in multiple regional and national group exhibitions as well as a growing number of international exhibitions. She has been selected for inclusion in events such as Nextfest 2018 (Edmonton, AB), Nuit Rose 2016 (Toronto, ON), and the 9th Annual New York City Poetry Festival 2019 (New York, US). Her drawings and paintings have also been featured in publications such as Creative Quarterly (US), Wotisart Magazine (UK), Minerva Rising (US), and various others.
James Croal Jackson works in film production. His most recent chapbooks are Count Seeds With Me (Ethel Zine & Micro-Press, 2022) and Our Past Leaves (Kelsay Books, 2021). Recent poems are in Stirring, SAND, and Vilas Avenue. He edits The Mantle Poetry from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (jamescroaljackson.com)
Samantha Matney resides in East Tennessee where she studies English Literature and Creative Writing as an undergraduate student. She currently works as an editorial writer for the East Tennessean where she covers current trends and topics in music and film. Her work can also be found in the upcoming 2023 edition of The Mockingbird. In her spare time, she enjoys practicing yoga and curating her spotify playlists.
Sarah Muir is an emerging poet and communications professional based in Seattle, Washington. She graduated from the University of Washington in 2016 with a Bachelors of Arts in English. Her poetry is published in Bricolage and will be published in forthcoming issues from El Portal and Swim Press.
Ruth Nakamura is from the high desert where she grew up very attuned to nature in the Rio Grande valley. She co-wrote a book of poetry, titled Crow Moon, with her comadre Anna Griego, with whom she has shared poetry and friendship for many years. The book touches on themes of healing, mysticism, and magical realism that are both cultural and universal. In 2021 Ofrenda Magazine published two of Ruth’s pieces, a creative non-fiction short essay titled “Ofrendas for Grandpa” and a poem, “Prayer”. In 2022, Ofrenda Magazine published her short essay titled “Poetry Is My Medicine, Our Healing”. You may find and read these works online here at https://www.ofrendamagazine.com/contributors/ruth-nakamura. Cordella Press published two of her poems, “Grandmother, Hummingbird” and “Fallen Body” in Issue 17, which can be found at www.cordellapress.com The chapbook, Root Women, a collab with Anna Griego and Jerry Martinez, was picked up for publication and is now available at www.bottlecappress.com. You may find Ruth on Instagram @veranotaos and @blackberrybramblebooks for notification of upcoming work. You may purchase a copy of Crow Moon on her lulu page.
Uchechukwu Onyedikam is a Nigerian creative artist based in Lagos, Nigeria. His poems have appeared in Amsterdam Quarterly, Brittle Paper, Poetic Africa, Hood Communists and in print anthologies. Christina Chin and he have co-published Pouring Light on the Hills (2022).
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Bobby Parrott is radioactive, but for how long? In his own words, “The intentions of trees are a form of loneliness we climb like a ladder.” His poems appear or are forthcoming in Tilted House, RHINO, Rumble Fish Quarterly, Atticus Review, The Hopper, Rabid Oak, Exacting Clam, Neologism, Whale Road Review, and elsewhere. Immersed in a forest-spun jacket of toy dirigibles, he dreams himself out of formlessness in the chartreuse meditation capsule known as Fort Collins Colorado, where he lives with his partner Lucien, their top house plant Zebrina, and a flippant hyper-quantum robotic assistant Nordstrom.
Annette Petrusso is a poet and, by profession, a writer/editor based in Austin, Texas. Her poetry is inspired by cinema, art, popular culture, and the unforgettable details of everyday life. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Pomona Valley Review and The Raw Art Review.
Charlotte Amelia Poe (they/them) is an autistic nonbinary author from England. Their first book, How To Be Autistic, was published in 2019. Their debut novel, The Language Of Dead Flowers, was published in September 2022. Their second novel, Ghost Towns, was self published in 2023.
Twitter: @charlottepoe
Instagram: @smallreprieves
Website: charlottepoe.com
ALISSA SAMMARCO is a writer and attorney. She lived in the West and South before coming home to the Ohio River Valley. Through sharp imagery, Alissa captures the feeling of a moment or a memory in her poems. Much of the imagery she uses is drawn from the oceans, rivers and forests of California and the Ohio River Valley. In the recent exhibit at Washington Park Art Gallery, her ekphrastic poems responded to paintings of her mother, Melissa Sammarco. Her work has appeared various online and print journals including Sheila-Na-Gig, Black Moon, Change Seven, Quiet Diamonds, Main Street Rag, Stone Canoe, VIA: Voices in Italian Americana, Ohio Bards, Evening Street Review, Hags on Fire, the 2021 and 2022 Lexington Poetry Month Anthologies and elsewhere. Her debut book, Beyond the Dawn, was released September of 2023. Her second collection, I See Them Now, will be released in January 2024. You can find her work on Amazon or www.AlissaSammarco.com.
Aaron Scobie is a poet and writer originally from lower Alabama. Currently, they hold an MFA from Creighton University in poetry, and is pursuing a second master’s in English from the University of Nebraska-Omaha. Much of their time outside of class is spent caring for their son Fox, who is often found yelling song lyrics as he runs about his home. Aaron has published a variety of work is multiple online journals and magazines. More of their information can be found here at their website: http://theirnameisaaron.wordpress.com.
Fred Tudiver—After 30 years of life in Eastern Canada and the Northeast U.S. Fred Tudiver settled in East Tennessee at the Quillen College of Medicine at ETSU. After years of publishing medical research papers and scientific books on research, he started his first retirement 6 years ago and started an adventure of creative writing from the “other side of the brain”. He holds a BSc from McGill University, and an MD from Memorial University of Newfoundland. He is a new poet and likes to explore the human condition and the natural world. He has published in Black Moon magazine, Tennessee Voices Anthology (in press), and the Canadian Medical Association Journal (essay).