Contributors with Profiles — Page 19

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 I have also written an unpublished novel, "Funeral On The Beach" and am currently working on another novel as well as another short story.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.

Gayle Jansen Beede has published a collection of poetry, "You Can Practically See Cattle Dancing." Some of her work has appeared in magazines such as Negative Capability, Zone 3, Louisiana Literature, Cumberland Poetry Review, Poet & Critic, Northeast Journal, Eclipse, Karamu. She lives a stone's throw from San Francisco.

Geosi Gyasi is a librarian, book blogger, reader, writer, and interviewer.

Gregg Norman lives and writes in a lakeside cottage in Manitoba, Canada, with his wife and a small dog who runs the joint. His poetry has been placed in journals and literary magazines in Canada, USA, UK, Australia and India.

Graduated as a mathematician but a full-time professional entertainer most of his adult life, Harlan's repeated attempts to escape the entertainment industry have brought work as a librarian, physics teacher, syndicated newspaper columnist, and city planner. Harlan divides his time between Australia and Bhutan.

Hua Ai (Nikolina) is an MA student in Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London, and holds a BA in English Literature from King’s College London.Her work often explores spiritual animality, intersectional feminism, sensuality, and sisterhood.

Huina Zheng, a Distinction M.A. in English Studies holder, works as a college essay coach. She’s also an editor at Bewildering Stories. She resides in Guangzhou, China with her husband and daughter.

J.J. Green is a British freelance science writer currently living in Taipei, Taiwan, where she writes on the natural environment and imaginary worlds.

Expat New Yorker James Penha (he/him) has lived for the past three decades in Indonesia.

James W. Morris is a graduate of LaSalle University in Philadelphia, where he was awarded a scholarship for creative writing. He has published dozens of short stories, humor pieces, essays, and poems in various literary magazines, and worked for a time as a joke writer for Jay Leno.

Jay Sizemore has found a day job to be the enemy of imagination, but poverty is the cruelest of muses. He writes poems and stories while his wife sleeps and the cats try to figure out how to open doors.

Jim Wright (he/him) lives in central New York State, USA. He writes short stories when he can and works as a school psychologist when he must. He is a past member of the Downtown Writer’s Center in Syracuse, NY.

A writer and programmer, John Haymaker currently writes as an American expat in Portugal.

Jon Wesick has written over a million words in poems, short stories, and novels. He is a regional editor of the San Diego Poetry Annual and host of the Gelato East Fiction Open Mic. He lives in Manchester, New Hampshire and longs for gene editing to bring giant wombats back from extinction.

K.G. Munro is an author and poet residing in the mountains. When she isn't writing she does yoga.

Born and raised in Scotland, Kathleen Gray left home at 18 for London, The Hague, then Paris, which became home. Her writing has been published in "Reflex Fiction," "Pharos," and "New Feathers Anthology."

Kevin LeCompte is a high school English teacher who loves stories of all genres, though he tends to lean towards horror because he grew up in the 80's and was sneaking out of bed to watch scary movies way before he should have been.

Kirk Wareham is a father of six, a grandfather of six, a lover of nature, and an avid reader. His passion for reading led him to a love of writing.

Larry Borger, internationally unknown and unacclaimed writer, resides in the high-desert country of Southern Arizona along the Mexico border.