Contributors V
Jennifer Catt McGonigle
Jennifer Catt McGonigle 47 lives in midwest Kansas. Author of My Blue Eyes Picture books (deciding on publisher), Jennifer is a freelance photographer and artist that is honored to share these images she got to capture though the lens with My Blue Eyes. Her work can be found as My Blue Eyes photography group on Facebook and on her website at www.mcgoniglelandscape.wix.com/Jenniferspictures
D. R. James
D. R. James’s latest of nine collections are Flip Requiem (Dos Madres, 2020), Surreal Expulsion (Poetry Box, 2019), and If god were gentle (Dos Madres, 2017), and his micro-chapbook All Her Jazz is free, fun, and printable-for-folding at Origami Poems Project. He lives in the woods near Saugatuck, Michigan. https://www.amazon.com/author/drjamesauthorpage
Roy Duffield
Roy Duffield is a writer, poet, translator, and art and photography editor at Anti-Heroin Chic. He has performed at the annual Beat Poetry Festival in Barcelona and his work has been selected by over 40 journals and anthologies, including Into the Void; The Journal of Wild Culture; The Medley; Ink Sac (Cephalopress); Akitsu; Heliosparrow; Failed Haiku; The Dawntreader and, of course, the world’s oldest and most prestigious publication – his personal Instagram: @drinking_traveller.
Michael Burch
Michael R. Burch’s poems have been published by hundreds of literary journals, taught in high schools and colleges, translated into fourteen languages, and set to music by eleven composers.
Hibah Shabkhez
Hibah Shabkhez is a writer of the half-yo literary tradition, an erratic language-learning enthusiast, and a happily eccentric blogger from Lahore, Pakistan. Her work has previously appeared in Bandit Fiction, Shot Glass Journal, Across The Margin, Panoplyzine, Feral, Literati Magazine, and a number of other literary magazines. Studying life, languages and literature from a comparative perspective across linguistic and cultural boundaries holds a particular fascination for her. Her blog can be found at https://hibahshabkhezxicc.wordpress.com/
Sara Epstein
Sara Epstein is a clinical psychologist from Winchester, Massachusetts, who writes poetry and songs, especially about light and dark places. Her poems are forthcoming or appeared in Mocking Heart Review, Silkworm, Paradise in Limbo, Mom Egg Review, Chest Journal, Literary Mama, and two anthologies: Sacred Waters, and Coming of Age.
Rob Lowe
Rob Lowe's work has been influenced by, amongst others, Edith Sodergran, Nazim Hikmet, Emily Dickinson and Thomas Hardy. He believes poetry has the potential to change the hearts and minds of writers and readers, and thus also the world. He has learned a lot from editors’ responses, and from reading the work of contemporaries, since successfully being published online, in print, and through recorded performance.
Lesley Tarrant Belcourt
Lesley has loved writing since she was a young child in the UK— her first story was entitled “Willy the Worm.” Teachers said “2 pages are enough” when she proffered fifty-page essays on What I Did in the Summer. Despite having several degrees (Bed/DipEd, MA English, LTCL/AMRC Drama/ Speech Arts), she is guided by intuition— something lost in today’s head-centered education system where so many fall through the cracks. “Change” is her middle name.
Suzanne S. Rancourt
Suzanne S. Rancourt is of Abenaki/Huron descent. Billboard in the Clouds, Northwestern UP, won the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas First Book Award. murmurs at the gate, Unsolicited Press, released in 2019. Old Stones, New Roads, Main Street Rag Publishing, is forthcoming Spring 2021. She is a USMC and Army Veteran. Find out more about her and her work at www.expressive-arts.com
Nadia Benjelloun
Nadia Benjelloun is from Tangier, Morocco. She graduated from the American School of Tangier in 2017. As well as freelance writer, she is also an associate editor for Typehouse Literary Magazine. She has been featured in The Literary Yard, Eskimo Pie, In Parenthesis Journal, The Scarlet Leaf Review, DM du Jour at Danse Macabre, The Book Smuggler’s Den, The Sagebrush Review, The Abstract Elephant, and The Trouvaille Review.
Yuan Changming
Yuan Changming hails with Allen Yuan from poetrypacific.blogspot.ca. Credits include eleven Pushcart nominations, eight chapbooks & awards, as well as publications in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008- 17), & BestNewPoemsOnline, among others.
Yash Seyedbagheri
Yash Seyedbagheri is a graduate of Colorado State University's MFA fiction program. His stories, "Soon” and “How To Be A Good Episcopalian,” have been nominated for Pushcarts. Yash’s work has been published in The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Write City Magazine, and Ariel Chart, among others.
C. Cropani
C. Cropani grew up in Massachusetts, but became bi-coastal after attending the University of California, Santa Cruz. She began writing on buses, trains and planes during her travels back and forth across the country. You can find her binding books, making brooms and holding experimental poetry jams at her shop in Salem, MA.
Mark Blickley
Mark Blickley is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and PEN American Center. His videos, Speaking in Bootongue and Widow’s Peek: The Kiss of Death, currently represent the United States in the 2020 year-long international world tour of Time Is Love: Universal Feelings: Myths & Conjunctions, organized by esteemed African curator, Kisito Assangni.
Kathryn Sadakierski
Kathryn Sadakierski is a 21-year-old writer whose work has appeared in Capsule Stories, Critical Read, DoveTales, Halfway Down the Stairs, Literature Today, NewPages Blog, Northern New England Review, Origami Poems Project, seashores: an international journal to share the spirit of haiku, Snapdragon: A Journal of Art and Healing, Songs of Eretz, The BeZine, The Voices Project, Yellow Arrow Journal, and elsewhere. She graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. from Bay Path University, and is pursuing her master’s degree.
Jennifer Catt McGonigle 47 lives in midwest Kansas. Author of My Blue Eyes Picture books (deciding on publisher), Jennifer is a freelance photographer and artist that is honored to share these images she got to capture though the lens with My Blue Eyes. Her work can be found as My Blue Eyes photography group on Facebook and on her website at www.mcgoniglelandscape.wix.com/Jenniferspictures
D. R. James
D. R. James’s latest of nine collections are Flip Requiem (Dos Madres, 2020), Surreal Expulsion (Poetry Box, 2019), and If god were gentle (Dos Madres, 2017), and his micro-chapbook All Her Jazz is free, fun, and printable-for-folding at Origami Poems Project. He lives in the woods near Saugatuck, Michigan. https://www.amazon.com/author/drjamesauthorpage
Roy Duffield
Roy Duffield is a writer, poet, translator, and art and photography editor at Anti-Heroin Chic. He has performed at the annual Beat Poetry Festival in Barcelona and his work has been selected by over 40 journals and anthologies, including Into the Void; The Journal of Wild Culture; The Medley; Ink Sac (Cephalopress); Akitsu; Heliosparrow; Failed Haiku; The Dawntreader and, of course, the world’s oldest and most prestigious publication – his personal Instagram: @drinking_traveller.
Michael Burch
Michael R. Burch’s poems have been published by hundreds of literary journals, taught in high schools and colleges, translated into fourteen languages, and set to music by eleven composers.
Hibah Shabkhez
Hibah Shabkhez is a writer of the half-yo literary tradition, an erratic language-learning enthusiast, and a happily eccentric blogger from Lahore, Pakistan. Her work has previously appeared in Bandit Fiction, Shot Glass Journal, Across The Margin, Panoplyzine, Feral, Literati Magazine, and a number of other literary magazines. Studying life, languages and literature from a comparative perspective across linguistic and cultural boundaries holds a particular fascination for her. Her blog can be found at https://hibahshabkhezxicc.wordpress.com/
Sara Epstein
Sara Epstein is a clinical psychologist from Winchester, Massachusetts, who writes poetry and songs, especially about light and dark places. Her poems are forthcoming or appeared in Mocking Heart Review, Silkworm, Paradise in Limbo, Mom Egg Review, Chest Journal, Literary Mama, and two anthologies: Sacred Waters, and Coming of Age.
Rob Lowe
Rob Lowe's work has been influenced by, amongst others, Edith Sodergran, Nazim Hikmet, Emily Dickinson and Thomas Hardy. He believes poetry has the potential to change the hearts and minds of writers and readers, and thus also the world. He has learned a lot from editors’ responses, and from reading the work of contemporaries, since successfully being published online, in print, and through recorded performance.
Lesley Tarrant Belcourt
Lesley has loved writing since she was a young child in the UK— her first story was entitled “Willy the Worm.” Teachers said “2 pages are enough” when she proffered fifty-page essays on What I Did in the Summer. Despite having several degrees (Bed/DipEd, MA English, LTCL/AMRC Drama/ Speech Arts), she is guided by intuition— something lost in today’s head-centered education system where so many fall through the cracks. “Change” is her middle name.
Suzanne S. Rancourt
Suzanne S. Rancourt is of Abenaki/Huron descent. Billboard in the Clouds, Northwestern UP, won the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas First Book Award. murmurs at the gate, Unsolicited Press, released in 2019. Old Stones, New Roads, Main Street Rag Publishing, is forthcoming Spring 2021. She is a USMC and Army Veteran. Find out more about her and her work at www.expressive-arts.com
Nadia Benjelloun
Nadia Benjelloun is from Tangier, Morocco. She graduated from the American School of Tangier in 2017. As well as freelance writer, she is also an associate editor for Typehouse Literary Magazine. She has been featured in The Literary Yard, Eskimo Pie, In Parenthesis Journal, The Scarlet Leaf Review, DM du Jour at Danse Macabre, The Book Smuggler’s Den, The Sagebrush Review, The Abstract Elephant, and The Trouvaille Review.
Yuan Changming
Yuan Changming hails with Allen Yuan from poetrypacific.blogspot.ca. Credits include eleven Pushcart nominations, eight chapbooks & awards, as well as publications in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008- 17), & BestNewPoemsOnline, among others.
Yash Seyedbagheri
Yash Seyedbagheri is a graduate of Colorado State University's MFA fiction program. His stories, "Soon” and “How To Be A Good Episcopalian,” have been nominated for Pushcarts. Yash’s work has been published in The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Write City Magazine, and Ariel Chart, among others.
C. Cropani
C. Cropani grew up in Massachusetts, but became bi-coastal after attending the University of California, Santa Cruz. She began writing on buses, trains and planes during her travels back and forth across the country. You can find her binding books, making brooms and holding experimental poetry jams at her shop in Salem, MA.
Mark Blickley
Mark Blickley is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and PEN American Center. His videos, Speaking in Bootongue and Widow’s Peek: The Kiss of Death, currently represent the United States in the 2020 year-long international world tour of Time Is Love: Universal Feelings: Myths & Conjunctions, organized by esteemed African curator, Kisito Assangni.
Kathryn Sadakierski
Kathryn Sadakierski is a 21-year-old writer whose work has appeared in Capsule Stories, Critical Read, DoveTales, Halfway Down the Stairs, Literature Today, NewPages Blog, Northern New England Review, Origami Poems Project, seashores: an international journal to share the spirit of haiku, Snapdragon: A Journal of Art and Healing, Songs of Eretz, The BeZine, The Voices Project, Yellow Arrow Journal, and elsewhere. She graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. from Bay Path University, and is pursuing her master’s degree.