Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
August 03, 2026

Contributors with Profiles — Page 21

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.

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'.

Snehaprava Das, Prof. of English is a writer and translator from Bhubaneswar, (Odisha) India with three collections of stories, six of poems, and thirteen texts of translation of Odia texts in English.

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.

Dr. Sutanuka Ghosh Roy is Assistant Professor and Head Department of English in Tarakeswar Degree College, The University of Burdwan, WB, India.

"Living for over 30 years in the Ozarks I have seen the Gods many times in the sky above the mountains, the result of my passion for Mythology both Greek and Roman."

Thomas Broderick is the author of over 25 published short stories and an active member of SFWA. Read more of Thomas's fiction on http://BroderickWriter.com.

Austrian writer Thomas Kodnar, born in 1992, has a thing for horror. He has published short stories and novellas, and written for the stage. He studied philosophy at the University of Vienna. He enjoys black coffee and vegan cake.

Tim Henderson is a freelance writer who currently resides in Asheville, NC. He holds an M.A. in Communication Studies, spent several years teaching English in Japan and traveling around Asia, and is finishing up a collection of short stories based on his adventures in the Far East.

Tim Hobbs is a former tenured professor and writer. His current work is speculative fiction exploring computational consciousness, ethics of human-AI relations, and moral obligations owed to minds unlike our own.

Tom Larsen lives in Lambertville, New Jersey with Andree and her pets. His work has appeared in Newsday, New Millennium Writings, Antietam Review and Puerto del Sol.

Tristen Eason is a horror author from Memphis Tennessee. In his free time he likes to create webnovels for fun.

Umar Hussaina Garba is a young Nigerian Poet and a storyteller. She has written over 20+ poems, some published by online magazines and others featured in anthologies. She's known for her beauty use of imagery in her poems and her undying exposure of culture.

Vandana Kumar is a Middle School French teacher in New Delhi, India. An educator with over 20 years of experience, she is also a French translator and recruitment consultant. Her poems have been published in various national and international journals and websites.

Víctor Parra Avellaneda (Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico 1998). He has studied Biology at the CUCBA of the University of Guadalajara. He writes speculative fiction, especially science fiction and climate fiction.

Will Willoughby’s short stories often feature characters facing absurd, funny/sad situations. He earned his English degree from the University of New Hampshire and now lives in southern Maine with his wife, his daughter, and his potato-colored dog, Charlie.

Bill Schwarz is a writer, designer, and engineer from Austin, Texas.

Yahuza Usman [Crawling Writer], the Secretary of Taraba State branch of Hilltop Creative Arts Foundation, is a Nigerian award-winning author, essayist, spoken word artiste, book reviewer, Wikimedian, typist, graphic designer, short-story writer, and a versatile poet who has many of his works featured in many literary magazines.