Contributors with Profiles — Page 18

Arshi Mortuza is a Bangladeshi poet based in Toronto. Her confessional, satirical work often explores themes of identity and loss. Her second book of poetry, "Pressed Flower," is forthcoming in early 2026.

Arthur Davis is a management consultant who has been quoted in The New York Times and in Crain’s New York Business, taught at The New School and interviewed on New York TV News Channel 1.

Author/Attorney B Shawn Clark now devotes most of his time to creative authorship, and his spare time, such that it is, to practicing law, rather than the other way around.

B. Jeyamohan is a Tamil writer and literary critic based in Nagercoil, India. One of India's finest authors writing today, he has traveled the length and breadth of the Indian subcontinent, and his work examines and reinterprets India’s rich literary and classical traditions.

Ben wrote his first poems in Texas where he grew up. He then moved to Berkeley, Boston, Philadelphia and finally Northeast Ohio.

Caitlin Sinead Jennings has a master's degree in writing from Johns Hopkins University. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia with her husband and tweets about writing, reading, and whatnot at @CaitlinSineadJ.

Cameron Walker is a writer from the north of England. He has contributed fiction pieces to "Lovecraftiana Magazine", as well as biographical articles for the national media relating to his health journey.

Chaitali is a published writer, translator, language teacher, and volunteer journalist from the Netherlands. Her first prose poem collection "Cross- Stitched words" (Setu publication, Pittsburgh, USA) was published in 2021.

Chitra Gopalakrishnan uses her ardor for writing, wing to wing, to break firewalls between nonfiction and fiction, narratology and psychoanalysis, marginalia and manuscript and tree-ism and capitalism.

I grew up in central Iowa, where the writing bug infested my impressionable brain in my teens. Insecure Pisces that I am, many of my stories and characters remained imprisoned in a shoe box until I moved to Mississippi in 2001...

Christine Seery works as a caregiver to the elderly and collects masquerade ball masks. Her poetry has been published in Down in the Dirt magazine, Wolff Poetry Literary Journal, and Piker Press. She lives in Ohio with her husband, young daughter, and dog.

Chuck Weikert is a retired park ranger who spent most of his career at Virgin Islands National Park. Seduced by coral reef ecosystems, he continues to visit and write about fishy friends in far flung destinations around the world.

Claudia Kessel works as a grant writer in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Clive Oseman is a spoken word artist, comedian and storyteller with a liking for the surreal and absurd, from Birmingham in the UK.

Corey Villas, born and raised in North Carolina, is a graduate of Auburn University.

Cynthia Sharp has been published and broadcast internationally. Her work has appeared in many anthologies and literary journals.

Dan A. Cardoza has an MS Degree in Psychology and Counseling. His poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in over 300 publications.

Daniel Davis was born and raised in Central Illinois. His work has appeared in various online and print journals. You can find him at Dumpster Chicken Music.

I have been writing for several years now. My grown up job is being a funeral director in Ventura County, CA. I have also written an unpublished novel, "Funeral On The Beach" and am currently working on another novel as well as another short story. Funeral directing is a third career; I had toiled in Television Animation for 16 years, working for studios such as Disney, Warner Brothers, Sony and Knowledge Adventure.

David Rich holds two engineering degrees from MIT and lives in the Boston area with his wife and daughters. His short fiction has been featured over the last several years in numerous literary journals.

Dianne Post is an attorney who worked for twenty years representing battered women and children in family courts. Since 1998 she has been doing international human rights work focused primarily on gender-based violence. Her writings include articles, columns, law review articles, and short stories for which she has won several prizes.

Diya Baral has completed her Masters in English language and literature (2025). Nowadays, she is currently pursuing another Masters in English Language Teaching as her special interest. She loves to write poems and articles and she is passionate in her creative writings.

Elaine Lennon is a film historian. She is the author of CHINATOWNE: The Screenplays of Robert Towne and other books about cinema. She is widely published in several international journals. She writes novels and short stories.

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.

Gary Duehr has taught creative writing for institutions including Boston University, Lesley University, and Tufts University.