Contributors with Profiles — Page 20

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 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 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”.

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.

Sarang Bhand is an entrepreneur working in the clean-tech space. When he is not troubleshooting projects, he likes to spend time writing over the weekends. He is a keen student of the Japanese poetry forms.

Scott C. Holstad has authored, edited & contributed to 75+ books & 800+ magazines & is a 32-year member of The Authors Guild. He holds degrees from the University of Tennessee, California State University Long Beach, UCLA & Queens University of Charlotte. He’s moved 35+ times, lives in the Gettysburg PA area and loves geopolitics, good vinyl and hockey.

Sean MacKendrick splits his time between Colorado and Texas. When not writing he works as a data engineer.

Shailendra Ahangama is an aspiring writer from Sri Lanka, currently studying a degree in Economics and Management. He has published a collection of poetry in 2019 titled 'The Beauty Of Becoming'.

Indian writer and poet, born in Suburban Kolkata, Sonali completed her Post Graduation from Burdwan University in English Literature and Language, with her Special Paper on Figure Of Speech.

Steven is based out of the Ozarks and has a BA in English with an emphasis in creative writing from Missouri State University. His fiction can be found in Bewildering Stories , Midwest Literary Magazine, Aurora Wolf, Yellow Mamma and is available for purchase in Winter Canons and A href="http://www.amazon.com/Aurora-Rising-Literary-Journal-Science/dp/1456479083">Aurora Rising.

Sudeep Adhikari, from Kathmandu, Nepal, is professionally a PhD in Structural-Engineering. His poetry has found place in many online/print literary journals/magazines.