Rick Adang was born in Buffalo, New York and graduated from Indiana University with a BA in Psychology and English and a Creative Writing Honors thesis. He taught English as a foreign language for many years and is currently living in Estonia. He has had poems published in many literary journals and sites, most recently Willawaw Journal, Avalon Literary Review, Eclectica, Big Windows Review and Poetry Breakfast.
Tony Beyer’s recent work has appeared online in UK journals Allegro and Littoral, and in print in New Zealand’s Catalyst and Landfall. He lives and writes in Taranaki, New Zealand.
Mark Connelly's fiction has appeared in The Berlin Review, Bristol Noir, Cerasus Magazine, Indiana Review, Cream City Review, The Ledge, Smoky Blue Arts and Literary Magazine, Change Seven, Light and Dark, 34th Parallel, The Chamber Magazine, Altered Realities, Mobius Blvd., and Digital Papercut. In 2005 Texas Review Press published his novella Fifteen Minutes, which received the Clay Reynolds Prize.
Jim Daniels’ latest fiction book, The Luck of the Fall, was published by Michigan State University Press. Recent poetry collections include The Human Engine at Dawn (Wolfson Press), Gun/Shy (Wayne State University Press), and Comment Card (Carnegie Mellon University Press). His first book of nonfiction, Ignorance of Trees, is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press. A native of Detroit, he currently lives in Pittsburgh and teaches in the Alma College low-residency MFA program.
Cara Diaconoff is the author of a story collection, Unmarriageable Daughters (Lewis-Clark Press, 2008), and two novels, I'll Be a Stranger to You (Outpost19 e-books, 2011), and the recently completed Marian Hall. Her fiction has appeared in Indiana Review, The Adirondack Review, Isele, and elsewhere. She has taught writing and literature as a Peace Corps volunteer in Russia and, currently, at Bellevue College, near Seattle.
Ryan J. Davidson is a poet and scholar. His first book Under What Stars was published in the summer of 2009 by Ampersand Books. Statues Need Stories was published in 2019 by Cyberwit books. He is assistant professor of writing, rhetoric and literature at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco.
John S. Eustis is a retired librarian living in Virginia with his wife, after a long, quiet federal career. His poetry has appeared in Hamilton Stone Review, Atlanta Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Pirene’s Fountain, Slipstream, Tar River Poetry, and elsewhere.
Stephen Gibson has published eight poetry collections: Frida Kahlo in Fort Lauderdale (2024 Able Muse Press); Self-Portrait in a Door-Length Mirror (2017 Miller Williams Prize winner, University of Arkansas Press); The Garden of Earthly Delights Book of Ghazals (Texas Review Press); Rorschach Art Too (2014 Donald Justice Prize winner, Story Line Press; 2021, Story Line Press Legacy Title, Red Hen Press), Paradise (Miller Williams prize finalist, University of Arkansas Press), Frescoes (Lost Horse Press book prize), Masaccio’s Expulsion (MARGIE/IntuiT House book prize), and Rorschach Art (Red Hen Press). His web-site is stephen-gibson.com.
Moriah Hampton teaches in the Writing and Critical Inquiry Program at SUNY-Albany. Her fiction, poetry, and photography have appeared or are forthcoming in The Coachella Review, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Ponder Review, Gargoyle Magazine, Poetry South, and elsewhere. Originally from the southeast, she is of Scottish and English descent and Cherokee Nation citizen who is on the autism spectrum.
George Kalamaras, former Poet Laureate of Indiana (2014–2016), is the author of twenty-four books of poetry (fifteen full-length books and nine chapbooks). One of his recent books, To Sleep in the Horse’s Belly: My Greek Poets and the Aegean Inside Me (Dos Madres Press, 2023), just received the Indiana Poetry Book Award for the two-year period 2022–2023. His poems in this issue are from a forthcoming book, also from Dos Madres Press, The Rain That Doesn’t Reach the Ground. He is Professor Emeritus of English at Purdue University Fort Wayne, where he taught for thirty-two years.
Mary Dean Lee’s debut collection Tidal was published April 2024 by Pine Row Press and is shortlisted for the Quebec Writers’ Federation 2024 A. M. Klein Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared recently in Best Canadian Poetry 2021, The Fiddlehead, Salvation South, Ploughshares,and other journals. She grew up in Milledgeville, Georgia, studied theatre and literature at Duke University and Eckerd College, completed her Ph.D. in organizational behavior at Yale. She lives in Montreal.
Richard Lyons has published four books of poems and three chapbooks. The most recent book is entitled Un Poco Loco (Iris Books, 2016). The two recent chapbook titles are Heart House (Emrys Press, 2019) and Sleep on Needles (Finishing Line Press, 2023). He is a former recipient of the Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets. His work has appeared in many journals.
Josh Mahler lives and writes in Virginia. His poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Tar River Poetry, Quarter After Eight, South Dakota Review, The Louisville Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Potomac Review, The Southern Poetry Anthology, and elsewhere.
Sohana Manzoor is a writer and academic from Bangladesh, with a Ph.D. in English from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Her short stories have appeared in Bellingham Review, Litro, Singapore Unbound, and Best Asian Short Stories 2020. She is the editor of Our Many Longings: Contemporary Short Fiction from Bangladesh, published by Dhauli Books in 2021. Currently, she is pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at UBC, Vancouver.
Eric Maroney's fiction has appeared or will appear in Garfield Lake Review, Superpresent Magazine, Wilderness House Literary Review, Change Seven Magazine, Words & Whispers, The Fredericksburg Review, The Woven Tale Press, trampset, The Tishman Review, Windmill, Lowestoft Chronicle, Per Contra, Bellingham Review, Jewish Fiction, Agave Magazine, Stickman Review, Superstition Review, Forge, pif, Montreal Review, Eclectica Magazine, The Literary Review, Segue, Arch, The MacGuffin and Our Stories. The editors of the Tishman Review have nominated his story, "Sing," for a Pushcart Prize.
Greg McBride is the author of Guest of Time (Pond Road Press, 2023) and Porthole (Briery Creek, 2012). His awards include the Boulevard Emerging Poet prize, the Liam Rector First Book Prize for Poetry for Porthole, and grants in poetry from the Maryland State Arts Council. His work appears in Alaska Quarterly, Bellevue, Boulevard, Gettysburg Review, New Ohio Review, Rhino, River Styx, Salmagundi, and Southern Poetry Review. A Vietnam veteran and lawyer, he edits the Innisfree Poetry Journal.
Ronald Moran's poems have appeared in Commonweal, North American Review, Northwest Review, and Southern Review. New poems are now in, or will soon be in, Tar River Poetry, Naugatuck River Review, and Poem. His latest book is Eye of the World.
Carlos Ramet is the author of two books of literary criticism and interpretation, both on the novelist Ken Follett, as well as the just-published novel, The Quiet Limit of the World. His short stories have been featured in Kola, the Bilingual Review, Red Earth Review, Inlandia, and Main Street Rag, among other publications. He is a recipient of a Michigan Humanities Council grant and The Critic magazine short story award.
Bob Rehm was awarded First Prize in the Seattle Sun's literary competition for his story "Tractor Deaths in Greece," and published in The Duwamish Review prior to the Internet. He continues to develop his craft through the Stanford Continuing Studies Creative Writing Program. He lives near the Potomac in Maryland.
Stan Sanvel Rubin has had poems in US journals including Agni, Georgia Review, and Poetry Northwest, as well as in China, Canada, Belgium, and Ireland. Four full-length collections include There. Here. (Lost Horse Press) and Hidden Sequel (Barrow Street Poetry Book Prize). Retired educator, has lived on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington for over twenty years.
Claire Scott is an award-winning poet who has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work has appeared in the Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, New Ohio Review, and Healing Muse among others. Claire is the author of Waiting to be Called and Until I Couldn’t. She is the co-author of Unfolding in Light: A Sisters’ Journey in Photography and Poetry.
Barry Seiler has published four books of poetry, three of them by University of Akron Press. He appears in the recent anthology New Voices: Contemporary Writers Confronting the Holocaust. He lives on the outskirts of Roxbury NY with his wife Dian and cats Homer and Milton.
Susan Shea in the past year made the full-time transition from school psychologist to poet. Her poems have been accepted by publications that include: Invisible City, Ekstasis, MacQueen's Quinterly, Green Silk Journal, The Write Launch, The Gentian, Across the Margin, October Hill, Litbreak Magazine, Beltway Poetry, Umbrella Factory Magazine, Foreshadow, New English Review and others. Her work was recently nominated for Best of the Net.
J.R. Solonche has been nominated for the National Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Book Award, and nominated three times for the Pulitzer Prize. He is the author of 40 books of poetry and coauthor of another. He lives in the Hudson Valley.
Tim Suermondt’s sixth full-length book of poems A Doughnut and The Great Beauty Of The World came out in 2023 from MadHat Press. New York Quarterly Books will publish his latest collection Spring Training In Paris in 2024. He has published in Poetry, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Georgia Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Stand Magazine, Smartish Pace, Barrow Street, Hamilton Stone Review, Poet Lore and Plume, among many others. He lives in Cambridge (MA) with his wife, the poet Pui Ying Wong.
Sharon Whitehill is a retired English professor from West Michigan now living in Port Charlotte, Florida. In addition to poems in various literary magazines, her publications include two academic biographies, two memoirs, a full collection of poems, and four poetry chapbooks. Her recent chapbook, This Sad and Tender Time (Kelsay Books), appeared in December 2023. Putting the Pieces Together is forthcoming from Fernwood Press in 2025.
