Howard S. Carman, Jr. grew up in Memphis, TN. He received degrees in chemistry from Texas Christian University (B.S.) and Rice University (M.A. and Ph.D.). He enjoyed a 30-year career as a research and development chemist and retired in 2018. Trained and widely published in technical writing, he first developed interest in reading and writing poetry later in life. He self-published his first poetry collection (But Now I See: Rhymes and Reflections) in 2017. Since then, his poetry has won awards from the Poetry Society of Tennessee and the National Federation of State Poetry Societies. His poetry has appear in multiple volumes of the Tennessee Voices Anthology, in We Were Not Alone: A Community Building Artworks Anthology, and in Black Moon Magazine. Howard lives in East Tennessee with his wife, Karen.
Lori D’Angelo‘s work has appeared in various literary journals including The Bakery, Drunken Boat, Gargoyle, Gravel, Hawaii Pacific Review, Literary Mama, Potomac Review, and Word Riot. She is a fellow at Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, a grant recipient from the Elizabeth George Foundation, and an alumna of the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley.
Bri Gonzalez is a queer, Chicana/e poet from San Antonio, Texas. They’re currently in Colorado receiving their MFA from and teaching at the University of Colorado Boulder. More of Bri’s work can be found or forthcoming in Crow & Cross Keys, Coffin Bell, Brazos River Review, Not Deer Magazine, Bear Creek Gazette, and others. In her free time, she smothers her void cat, Dahlia, plays excessive amounts of D&D, and swoons over fictional characters. Check Bri out at bgwriting.org or @bg_writing on Twitter.
‘The White Pages’ is written by Lisa van Hees (24), an unpublished writer from the Netherlands who writes short stories, novels and scripts. She graduated in Audiovisual Media from the University of the Arts Utrecht, The Netherlands, in 2018. She continued her studies at the University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom, where she graduated in Film Industries and Creative Writing in 2021 with a First Class Honours degree. She works in the Dutch book industry and enjoys her free time writing. A common theme in her work is playing with subtext, meaning and allusion. Drawing inspiration from history and mythology always resurfaces in her work. She especially likes to experiment with form and story techniques. She uses mixed media to strengthen her stories. Books like Illuminae and The House of Leaves have inspired her to experiment more. Lisa dabbles in the genres: coming of age, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism and horror. She is also currently working on a novel.
A.J. Huffman is a poet and freelance writer in Daytona Beach, Florida. She has published 27 collections and chapbooks of poetry. In addition, she has published her work in numerous national and international literary journals. She is currently the editor for Kind of a Hurricane Press literary journals ( www.kindofahurricanepress.com ).
Laurinda Lind lives in New York’s North Country, close to Canada. Some of her poems are in Blue Earth Review, Great Lakes Review, New American Writing, and Spillway. She is a Keats-Shelley Prize winner, and a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee.
Stephen Guy Mallett was born in MD and he lives in QC. He is the author of Disparate Logoi (ABP) and Markov Chainmail (forthcoming from Cactus Press). He holds philosophy from Concordia University, manuscripts for Atticus Review, and poetry for Sepia Quarterly.
Abby Moeller (she/her) is a writer based in WNY who explores her writing in forms varying from poetry to dramatic monologues to epic fantasy stories. Currently, she lives with her growing zoo of pets and endlessly teetering piles of books. She can be found rambling on Twitter at @abbym823.
Nancy L. Meyer, Pushcart nominee, avid cyclist, grandmother of 5. Publications include: Laurel Review, Colorado Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Sugar House Review, Gyroscope, New Note Poetry, BeZine, Book of Matches, among others. Forthcoming: Outcast, International Human Rights Arts Festival, DeColonial Passage, Kind of a Hurricane Press. In 8 anthologies, including by Ageless Authors and Wising Up Press.
Rotimi Osiyoye is the founder of a media agency that sources for talents that are interested in media, content creation, and entertainment in general. Rotimi is presently working at training over 50 undergraduates on new media and content creation. He has produced over 100 contents and has published on YouTube and other social media platforms.
Rotimi is also the author of a book titled Digital Affection: New Frontiers for Relationships.
Olayioye Paul Bamidele is a writer, an actor, and a student of mass communication. He writes poems, plays, stories, and articles. His works have appeared or forthcoming in Lunaris, Artlounge, Afreecan, WSA, Ninshar Art, Kissing Dynamite and elsewhere.
Alyse Sammarco is a writer and attorney who was drawn home to the Ohio River Valley after years in both the West and the South. She frequents the greater Cincinnati’s open mic scene and has had poems published in Sheila Na Gig Online, Black Moon Magazine, Change Seven, Lexington Poetry Month Anthology, the online arts journal, AEQAI, and elsewhere. Work is anticipated to be published in Orchard Street Press’ Quiet Diamonds, and Evening Street Review.
Beatriz Seelaender is a Brazilian author from São Paulo. Her fiction has appeared in Cagibi, AZURE, Psychopomp, among many others, and essays can be found at websites such as The Collapsar and Guesthouse. Her novellas have earned her both the Sandy Run and the Bottom Drawer Prizes. Seelaender’s poetry has been published by Inflections Magazine, VERSON [9], etc. Canon Familiaris, a chapbook in which she turns canonical poems into poems about her shih tzu, Uli, will be released by Really Serious Literature in 2023.
Ann Christine Tabaka was nominated for the 2017 Pushcart Prize in Poetry. She is the winner of Spillwords Press 2020 Publication of the Year, her bio is featured in the “Who’s Who of Emerging Writers 2020 and 2021,” published by Sweetycat Press. She is the author of 15 poetry books, and 1 short story book. She lives in Delaware, USA. She loves gardening and cooking. Chris lives with her husband and four cats. Her most recent credits are: Eclipse Lit, Carolina Muse, Sparks of Calliope; The Closed Eye Open, North Dakota Quarterly, Tangled Locks Journal, Wild Roof Journal, The American Writers Review, Burningword Literary Journal, Muddy River Poetry Review, The Silver Blade, Pomona Valley Review, West Texas Literary
Review, The Hungry Chimera, Sheila-Na-Gig, Fourth & Sycamore.
*(a complete list of publications is available upon request)
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 (poetry) and the Canadian Medical Association Journal (essay).
Gerald Wagoner‘s childhood was divided between Eastern Oregon and Montana where he was raised under the doctrine of benign neglect. With a BA in Creative Writing, Gerald pursued the art of sculpture, and eventually landed in Brooklyn, NY 1982. Gerald exhibited regularly and taught Art and English for the NYC Department of Education. Currently he is a devotee of the art of poetry. Publications (selected): Right Hand Pointing, Ocotillo Review, BigCityLit, The Lake, Coffin Bell. J-Journal, Blue Mountain Review, Night Heron Barks, the Maryland Literary Review, October Hill Magazine, Shot Glass, The Umbrella Factory, The Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Cathexis Northwest Pres.
—2018: Visiting Poet Residency: Brooklyn Navy Yard. 2019: Installation and poetry reading event, The Tides Of Time, Gowanus Dredgers Boathouse. 2021/2022: Curates and hosted the summer outdoor poetry reading series: A Persistence of Cormorants
Richard Weaver hopes to one day again volunteer with the Maryland Book Bank and return as writer-in-residence at the James Joyce Pub. A few recent pubs include Mad Swirl, Misfit, & Spank the carp. He’s the author of The Stars Undone (Duende Press, 1992). He also provided the libretto for a symphony, Of Sea and Stars, performed 4 times to date. He remains one of the founders and former Poetry Editor of the Black Warrior Review.
