Contributors with Profiles — Page 20

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.

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.

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.

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 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”.