Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
September 21, 2026

Contributors with Profiles — Page 19

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.

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 I have also written an unpublished novel, "Funeral On The Beach" and am currently working on another novel as well as another short story.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

Floyd Largent is a former archaeologist who never woke a sleeping god or unearthed an ancient evil (alas). In the past year, he has published or had accepted for publication six poems and 30 short stories.

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.