Contributors with Profiles — Page 23

Anna Stolley Persky is pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at George Mason University.

Antonio Hopson has published short stories in The Harrow Magazine, The Subterranean Quarterly, Poor Mojo's Almanac and also NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu's Exquisite Corpse Magazine.

Aritra Basak is a physics student based in Kolkata, India. His work explores authorship, estrangement, and bodily unease through compressed, image-driven prose.

Arón Reinhold is a Texan who reads and writes. He studied English Literature at the University of North Texas until 2014. Afterwards, He took a long break from writing due to an intense focus on social justice activism.

Ashwini Shenoy is an Indian author best known for her debut novel, Shikhandini - Warrior Princess of the Mahabharata (Leadstart, 2019) which received critical acclaim worldwide, with its Tamil version released by Swasam in 2024.

Austin Arnold is the author of works no one has ever heard of, nor much care to. He spends his time manifesting an outlandish imagination that is overdue for therapeutic intervention. With any luck, one day his imagination will capture even just one reader’s heart the way countless others have captured his.

Ayush is a writer of low-key romances and slice-of-life fiction. A speculative theorist at heart, he can often be spotted at conventional nooks of isolation around the city—atop library shelves and behind coffee spoons.

Benjamin Wilson currently lives in central Texas, is a recent college graduate, and may or may not actually exist. He tends to write weird speculative fiction with a focus in horror.

Beth Miller lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she spends her time reading and writing.

Bevy Daniel has been composing short stories and working on plays for quite a while, with a particular draw to sci-fi and speculative fiction. She lives in Chicago, IL where she spends as much time as possible taking long walks, reading, community organizing, and spending time with the people she loves.

Bill Diamond lives in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado where he writes to try and figure it all out.

Billy Forshaw lives and works in London. He was a police officer for several years before deciding he had exacerbated his fair share of emergencies, and now teaches English (excitedly) to Secondary School students.

Blake Wickham is a Technical Writer from the Chicagoland area. He writes horror and science fiction in the company of his wife and their two cats.

Brady Ellis is a writer from Appalachia, Ohio, graduate of The Ohio State University, and the associate of multiple infamous cats. When not writing he can generally be found fueling an expensive caffeine addiction or wandering through the nearest woods.

Bryan Costales wrote the very successful "Sendmail" (bat book) for O'Reilly Media. His most recent credits are short stories published in The Banyon Review, Romance Magazine, Piker Press, and the Riptide Journal.

Bud Pharo is a disabled veteran who writes flash fiction and short stories.

C. David Ray is an author and attorney living in Richmond, Virginia. His work has appeared in the Piker Press, with forthcoming work to appear in the Freedom Fiction Journal this fall.

C.J. Arellano is a writer and filmmaker. During the day, he works as a video editor at the Second City comedy theatre in Chicago. Sift through his video and writing stuff at CJArellano.com.

Callan Preece is a writer and trainee teacher from Birmingham, England interested in telling small stories about people.

Carl "Papa" Palmer of Old Mill Road in Ridgeway, Virginia, lives in University Place, Washington. He is retired from the military and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) enjoying life as "Papa" to his grand descendants and being a Franciscan Hospice volunteer.

Carlos Castillo is a writer from Sylmar, California. He writes short stories about random ideas which pop into his head, and sometimes, he even goes back and edits them. These ideas can be science fiction, fantasy, horror, or something that doesn't fit any genre cleanly.

Carly Kapusinsky is a recent SUNY New Paltz graduate of the English program whose works can be found in the Sublunary Review, CBR and offMetro.

Caroline Taylor writes short stories, novels, and nonfiction. She's clueless about the purpose of social media, but she can imagine where it might be heading.

Casey Richards-Bradt (they/them) is a third-year creative writing student at Emerson College. They love rewatching Friday the 13th movies and writing haikus in hammocks. You can find their work right here on The Piker Press.

Cathy Adams' first novel, "This Is What It Smells Like," was published by New Libri Press, Washington.