Contributors with Profiles — Page 15

Dr. Chayanika Saikia is a geoscientist by profession working for a national oil company and lives in Noida.

Christian McCulloch is a prolific British writer with a colourful background.

Christopher Allen, a native Tennessean, lives in Germany and writes creative non-fiction, humor and Southern literature. His work has appeared in "Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tough Times, Tough People" and "Gathering: Writers of Williamson County," as well as in the ezines "Metazen," "Ruthless Peoples Magazine" and "The Short Humour Site."

Cora Taylor is a native Ohioan and an aspiring "plant person." Her writing is inspired by the old family tales that are only shared after just the right amount of whiskey has been spilled.

Daginne Aignend likes hard rock music and fantasy books. She is a vegetarian and spends a lot of time with her animals.

Daniel J. Flore III's writings have appeared in many publications. He is the author of 4 books of poetry, all available on Amazon from GenZ Publishing.

Daniel Moreschi is a poet from Neath, South Wales, UK, who experienced a significant turning point when his ongoing battle with severe M.E. upended his life. However, during this period, he also rediscovered his passion for poetry, which had remained dormant since his teenage years.

Darren Sapp is a U.S. Navy veteran, a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary, and holds a Masters of History from Southwestern A/G University. He writes thriller/action fiction and engages various aspects of history for non-fiction.

Dave Lignell lives in Lawrence, Kansas. He enjoys writing flash fiction as a way to escape the stress of day-to-day obligations.

Deborah Blenkhorn is a poet, essayist, and storyteller living in the Pacific Northwest. Her work fuses memoir and imagination, and has been featured in over three dozen literary magazines and anthologies.

Evan Kaiser is a retired physician who practiced primary care medicine in southeastern New England for over twenty-five years. He currently lives with his wife in the Providence, RI area and enjoys painting, reading, cooking, and birding.

Gail Taylor is a new Canadian writer who earned the Certificate in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto in 2009 with Honors and completed the writers' program at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Her fiction was a winner in the Random House Canada student contest in 2007, short listed for the Random House prize in 2008, and short listed for the Marina Nemat award in 2009.

Gary Campanella loves an adventure. He has backpacked across the United States and traveled throughout the world. He has published a handful of poems and stories. He lives in La Crescenta, CA with his wife and two children, his greatest adventure.

Glenn Armstrong draws inspiration from the flotsam and jetsam of the American experience. He was equally at home at both CBGBs and a Buddhist monastery. He lives in San Diego.

Gomathi Sridevi is a budding writer from India. She is a Sociology graduate who is about to pursue Masters in journalism. She would describe herself best as a student who is interested in applying her learnings in Sociology to benefit society.

Ph. D. in Hindi, Hansa teaches the language at the University of Toronto, Mississauga. She is a storyteller and has contributed five collections of short fiction and four novels in Hindi. Her works have appeared in prestigious Hindi journals across the world.

Hossein Hakim was born in Tehran, Iran. He came to the United States in 1976 for his graduate studies in electrical engineering and received a Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1982. He was a professor of electrical engineering for 38 years and retired in 2020.

Jacqueline Chou is a native New Yorker with a master’s degree in French Literature. She is currently working on a collection of short stories.

Jasna Gugić is the Vice-President for public relations of the Association of Artists and Writers of the World SAPS; She is a co-editor of the anthology, Compassion—Save the World, one poem written by 130 world poets.

Jocelyn Mosman was a member of the first ever Northampton Poetry Slam Team and is the recipient of the Gertrude Claytor Award from the Academy of American Poets.

John Mara is a multi-genre writer who tends to converse in the genre he's thinking about and makes better company when it's humor, not horror.

John RC Potter is an international educator from Canada, who lives in Istanbul.

Jon currently resides in Philadelphia where he works as a copy editor in the pharmaceutical industry. He spends his days squinting at drug labels, while searching for a missing period or hyphen, and drinking as much free office coffee as he can.

Jonathan Butcher has been writing poetry for around 15 years. He has had poetry appear in various publications, and is also the editor of the online poetry journal Fixator Press. He was born and lives in Sheffield, England.

Joseph Lewis is a returned Peace Corps volunteer who has spent the past three years living and teaching Western Literature and Film Studies to university students in Dazhou, China. He is also a graduate of the NEOMFA creative writing program at Cleveland State University.