Contributors with Profiles — Page 16

Julianne Couch is a writer and author who tells complicated stories in simple ways, and simple stories in complicated ways. Narrative non-fiction, fiction, and poetry are her primary languages.

Kathryn Long is an author of mystery and suspense novels and short stories.

Kavan P. Stafford is a 26-year-old author and poet based in Glasgow, Scotland. He works as an Information Officer Glasgow's Mitchell Library and writes in his spare time. You can read more of his work, most of which is set in his native Scotland, in Writer's Forum, The Common Breath, The Sock Drawer, Beir Bua, Unpublishable and Cobra Milk.

Keith Hoerner (BS, MFA, PhD candidate) is founding editor of the Webby Award recognized Dribble Drabble Review, an online literary ezine and print anthology series of all things "little-ature."

Kimmy Larson is an autistic horror writer and watercolor painter living in Belgium. She spends her free time volunteering at a wild animal rescue, bird watching, and caring for her own pets.

Madhu Gangopadhyay hails from India. Her passion for writing began when she was in school. She loves to pen down her musings at random moments. She is fiercely passionate about poetry and short stories, and her penchant for mythology can be seen in her works.

Marianne Szlyk is a professor at Montgomery College. She and her husband, the writer Ethan Goffman, live with their black cat Tyler who sometimes likes to hang out with them while they write or grade papers.

Marshall J. Pierce is an author, producer and songwriter living in San Francisco. His writing has appeared in newspapers, online magazines, literary mags, tv commercials, corporate videos, LitQuake, box packaging, his Mom's Facebook page, radio theatre and countless emails.

Born in Cuba, Matias Travieso-Diaz migrated to the United States as a young man. He became an engineer and lawyer and practiced for nearly fifty years. After retirement, he took up creative writing.

Matthew Borczon is a poet and Navy sailor from Erie, Pa his latest book "Ghost Highway Blues" just came out through Alien Buddha Press. He publishes extensively in the small press.

Michael Braswell taught ethics, human relations and peacemaking at East Tennessee State University. Before that he was a prison psychologist. He has published books on justice issues and the spiritual journey as well as four short story collections and two novels.

Michael Ceraolo is a 65-year-old retired firefighter/paramedic and active poet.

Michael Moreth is a recovering Chicagoan living in the rural, micropolitan City of Sterling, the Paris of Northwest Illinois.

Micki makes friends wherever she goes; she loves to talk. She writes so she can share her personal experiences through fiction, non-fiction and essays with unsuspecting victims.

Moinak Dutta is presently engaged as a teacher of English in a government sponsored institution. Many of his poems and stories are published in national and international anthologies and magazines.

Nayma Chamchoun is a British Moroccan writer, poet and performance poet. Her writing is influenced by her cultural duality. She is interested in female voices in the diaspora community, the challenges they face within both communities and the taboos around mental health within their ancestral communities.

Nancy Tomich is a retired journalist living in San Diego. In addition to her reportorial work she has had pieces published in The Toast, the Washington Post, U.S. Boat and The Decameron Project.

Nisha Raviprasad is a poet and avid reader based in Cochin, Kerala. Her work, often centered on memory, nature, and emotion, has appeared in various literary journals. A quiet observer of life and language, she continues to explore the beauty of the everyday through poetry.

Nishi Pulugurtha is an academic and writer based in Kolkata.

Pandel Collaros has taught at Bethany College (WV), Ohio State, and the University of Kansas. In addition to writing, he performs and produces music in Nashville.

Patrick Sweeney lives in New York City with his wife, Nora. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in numerous publications.

Peter is a speculative fiction writer, most notably the author of the award winning supernatural thriller, "The Grandmaster." He is also the Founder and Managing Editor of Ex Machina Press, a publishing company based in Los Angeles, which was named 2007 PUBLISHER OF THE YEAR by the DIY Book Festival in Los Angeles.

Peter lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he's worked in the magical realms of libraries, human resources, and word processing departments.

Probal Basak, from India, started his career as a journalist working with Press Trust of India, Business Standard, covering mostly socio-political issues.

"As a teenager in the 80's, I listened to a lot of rock music and was inspired to write song lyrics in case I was ever invited to join a band; I wasn't, but that didn't stop me from continuing to write."