Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
April 27, 2026

Contributors with Profiles — Page 12

A retired special education teacher and recent octogenarian, Vern Fein has published over 250 poems/prose pieces on over 100 different sites.

Wanda Morrow Clevenger has been writing and publishing since 2007. She graduated from Long Ridge Writers Group in 2009 with 6 months of nonfiction and 3 months of flash fiction instruction. Mid-way through 2011, the year her debut book published, she ventured into poetry and tossed the rearview mirror out the window.

Zhihua Wang received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Arkansas and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Creative Writing at the University of Rhode Island.

A. L. F. Fagan was born and raised in Washington DC and is currently living in suburban Maryland. He has a BA in speech communication. Most of his adult career had been in theater tech. He enjoys reading fantasy, science fiction, and history. His leisure time is spent running, baking, and playing guitar.

Abhishek Ghosh was born in Delhi and raised in Kolkata, India. He lives in Montreal, Canada. Abhishek is a teacher, writer, poet and a scientist.

Amit Parmessur is a Mauritian poet and tea enthusiast whose writing blends island beauty with modern sensibility. When not writing, he is busy investigating his washing machine’s secret sock stash.

A fictional,wandering shaman who writes a fantasy advice column for the Press.

Bekah Steimel is a poet aspiring to be a better poet. She lives in St. Louis and can be found online at bekahsteimel.com and followed on Twitter and Instagram @BekahSteimel.

Betsy Mars is a prize-winning poet, educator, photographer, and recent publisher whose first release, "Unsheathed: 24 Contemporary Poets Take Up the Knife," came out in October 2019.

Bozhidar Pangelov was born in the soft month of October in the city of the chestnut trees, Sofia, Bulgaria, where he lives and works. He likes joking that the only authorship which he acknowledges are his three children and the job-hobby in the sphere of the business services.

Bruce Hodder has been widely published in print and online, most recently in 'Hotel Corona' (Black Rune Press) and 'Helen's House' (Outlaw Chapbooks Press). He lives in Northampton, England with his wife Michelle.

Cord Moreski is a poet from New Jersey.

Daniel Naman is a writer living in New York City. His work appears in and is forthcoming from Eunoia Review and The Piker Press. You can see what he's up to via Instagram @danbo88

Author, photographer, and traveler.

David H. Donaghe lives and works in the high desert of southern California. He has three passions in life: reading, writing, and riding his motorcycle. When not delving into a good book or putting his face in the wind on his motorcycle, David writes short stories and novels. In 1995, David took the First Place prize in the California Writer's Club short story contest with his Western short story, "Blind Justice."

Debarati Sen works in Presidency University Kolkata as a Junior Assistant. Her debut poetry book called 'Blurred Musings' was published in January 2022 and was launched by Literoma at the Newtown Book Fair.

Don Edwards lives and writes in Seattle. He is a founding member of True Gospel Bookstore which creates songs of his poems and streams them everywhere.

Doug Hawley is a little old man who lives with editor Sharon and cat Kitzhaber in Lake Oswego Oregon USA. After he took early retirement from actuarial work, he took up writing in 2014.

F.D. lives in the southeastern U.S., along with her husband and sundry furry family members. She writes about loss/grief and the restorative and transformative power of nature and anything else that piques her interest.

Fiona Sinclair lives in a village in the UK. She is a poet with several collections published by small presses. Fiona has just begun writing short stories especially about subjects that cannot be covered by poetry.

Fred Russell is the pen name of an American-born writer living in Israel. His novels "Rafi's World" and "The Links in the Chain" both appeared in 2014.

"I'm Harshit Sahu and I belong to Indore, India. I'm a young undergraduate and a budding author as well as poetry enthusiast. I consider writing as my hobby and indulge in it whenever I can. I hope you would like my work."

Irish D. Torres is a 23-year old licensed educator, an internationally-published author, and a Christian hedonist. She is currently working as a content editor at a US-affiliate company in the Philippines.

Isabel Galvan was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. With a desire to spread love and inspiration, she uses her passion for writing poetry and short stories as a way to express emotions. She finds great pleasure in being authentically transparent with her life's journey.

Jack Phillips Lowe is a lifelong resident of the Chicago area.