Contributors with Profiles — Page 20

Laura Stamps loves to play with words in her fiction and prose poetry. Author of 49 novels, novellas, short story collections, and poetry books.

Liam A. Spinage is a former philosophy student, former archaeology educator and former police clerk who spends most of his spare time on the beach gazing up at the sky and across the sea while his imagination runs riot. Occasionally, this imagination has been known to spill out onto paper.

Linda Lerner's latest poetry collection, "A Dance Around the Cauldron" is a prose work consisting of nine characters during the Salem witch trials brought into our own times.

Marco Etheridge is a writer of prose, an occasional playwright, and a part-time poet. He lives and writes in Vienna, Austria. His work has been featured in over one hundred reviews and journals across Canada, Australia, the UK, and the USA.

Mark Manifesto is a writer, teacher, father, and lover of stories. He’s been writing fiction, essays, articles, and poetry the past seven years.

Martin Grise is an American professor who lives a secret life as an adventure story author.

Mary Jo Rabe writes science fiction, modern fantasy, historical fiction, and crime or mystery stories, generally displaying a preference for what she defines as happy endings.

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 McAyeal is a writer from Portland, Oregon. His short stories have been published by "Bards and Sages Quarterly," "Fantasia Divinity Magazine," "cc&d," "The Fear of Monkeys," "Danse Macabre," "Scarlet Leaf Magazine," "Bewildering Stories," "Tall Tale TV," "Fiction on the Web," "Quail Bell Magazine," "MetaStellar," and "Kaidankai." In 2008, two screenplays he wrote were semi-finalists in the Screenplay Festival.

Michael Adubato is a New Jersey writer and poet currently living in Belgium.

Michael Fowler is a playwright and speculative fiction writer living in Ohio.

Mike Scofield has been publishing stories since the last millennium.

Ngwako C. Maifala is a writer and a high school teacher from South Africa. He teaches English literature, grammar and transactional writing.

Nick Young is a retired award-winning CBS News Correspondent. He lives outside Chicago.

Niles Reddick's novel "Lead Me Home" was a national finalist for a ForeWord Award, a finalist in the Georgia Author of the Year award in the fiction category, and a nominee for an IPPY award. He works for the University of Memphis at Lambuth in Jackson, Tennessee, where he lives with his wife Michelle, two children, Audrey and Nicholas.

Pathik Mitra is a young passionate storyteller who wants to impact people and their lives through his art.

Pramod Rastogi is an Emeritus Professor at EPFL, Switzerland. He is a Poet, academician, researcher, author of nine scientific books, and a former Editor-in-chief (1999-2019) of the international scientific journal “Optics and Lasers in Engineering”.

Rajeshwar Mittapalli is a Professor of English with more than thirty years of teaching experience at universities across Asia, Africa, and Europe. He is also active as a creative writer and translator.

Ralph Benton lives under the blue skies of Florida's Gulf coast, where the weirdness oozes from the ground like a tar spring. So many stories, so many worlds.

Rob Tyler lives in a barn with a cat on 30 acres of scrubland in Upstate New York. His short fiction appears here and there online and in print, and a few of his stories have been produced as podcasts. When he isn’t writing, can be found wrangling his feral cat, pulling up knotweed by the roots, or shooting pool at the local watering hole. More at robwtyler.com.

Robert Feinstein is a retired medical librarian. His short stories have appeared in: Piker Press, Blood Moon Rising, Bewildering Stories, Infinity Wanderers, Ariel Chart, Downtown Brooklyn, Stuck in the Library, Lowestloft Chronicle, New English Review, Literary Yard, and The Forward.

Robert A. Vella is a former computer programmer/analyst who is now pursuing his lifelong passion for writing and storytelling. Science fiction is his primary focus, but he also writes non-fiction essays on political, cultural, historical, and environmental issues. As a product of the idealistic and tumultuous Sixties, his work generally expresses themes of progressivism and secular morality.

Russell Epp-Leppel is always exploring his love of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. With a background in engineering, he enjoys deconstructing narrative systems to see how they work, then reassembling them in new ways.

S.F. Wright lives and teaches in New Jersey.

Salim Yakubu Akko, World Voices Magazine's Nigerian correspondent, is a poet and short story writer and lives in the great city of Gombe state.