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

Contributors with Profiles — Page 25

Dominy Clements studied composition and flute at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1983 to 1987. After graduating he came to The Netherlands in 1987 to study composition with Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatoire, also studying with Gilius van Bergeijk and Frederic Rzewski.

Donna Gum wrote nonfiction including several published articles and ghostwriting. Unable to resist the call of fiction, she enjoys writing flash fiction in the Appalachian Mountains.

E.B. Sommer has been writing her whole life, but as with many writers she has only recently been willing to submit her work. She’s an insurance agent by trade and a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, having served for 27 months in Rwanda. She likes to invent stories on her porch, especially if there is a caffeinated beverage at hand.

Author of the debut novel Twelfth House (Seaburn Classics), and Shaded Pergola (Tropaeum Press), a collection of haiku and short poetry featuring her original illustrations, E.C. Traganas enjoys a professional career as a Juilliard-trained concert pianist and composer, and has held over 40 national exhibitions of her artwork.

E.P. Lande was born in Montreal, but has lived most of his life in the south of France and Vermont, where he now lives with his partner, writing and caring for more than 100 animals, many of which are rescues.

Ed Nobody is an up and coming writer from Ireland who wants to break the barriers of fiction and write engaging stories not constricted by genre convention. He has written two full novels, one of which may see light next year, pending the grace of Xenu.

Returning to writing after having spent most of a lifetime doing other things. Original wife, two children, five grandchildren. Have matriculated through almost all of my earlier vices and sins (if it's other than hard drugs, I've probably attempted it). A pleasantly haphazard life.

Dr. Elizabeth V.Koshy is a Professor in English Literature at Dr.A.B.Telang Senior College, Pune, India.

Ella Torres is a Brazilian writer and translator and a graduate of Barnard College, where she earned a degree in English and Creative Writing. She writes editorials, fiction, and poetry, and is currently pursuing an MFA in fiction at The New School.

Luis Borges dreamed that he was an ineffective storyteller named Emile Ansers: a Colombian socialist enamored with Emersonian ethics and Nietzschean humor. The real Emile Ansers was born on June 6th, 1996, and since the age of twelve, he has been chasing after his original dreamer without success.

Emily McQuiggan is a writer, artist, and librarian living in Pennsylvania with her family.

Emma Burnett is a researcher and writer. She has had stories in Utopia Magazine, MetaStellar, Milk Candy Review, Elegant Literature, The Stygian Lepus, Roi Fainéant, and others.

Emma Louise Gill (she/her) is a British-Australian speculative fiction writer and consumer of vast amounts of coffee. Scientist, educator, and cat mum. Brought up on a diet of English lit, she rebelled and now spends her time writing explosive space opera and other fantastical things in beach cafes.

Eric Roberson is an emerging writer. He is an alumnus of the Writers Guild Foundation - Veterans Writing Project in Los Angeles and he earned an MFA in creative writing from Augsburg University in 2020. He and his wife and old hound dog, Blue, live in Southern Nevada near their four grown children, and a crazy and eclectic family of friends and creatives.

Eric Wampler lives in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. He writes dark fantasy and science fiction.

Erik Buchanan is a writer based in Pennsylvania. He works night shift security which gives him plenty of time to scribble up stories.

Esther Mubawa is a Zimbabwe woman, single mother. She lives and works in Cape Town as a maid. When she has time, she goes for walks on the beach, reads, and writes about her life and the lives of other Shona women.

Ethan is a writer from West Virginia. He writes mostly short fiction and poetry and he has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Philosophy.

Eva Schultz lives in Aurora, Illinois, where she is a business writer by day and a fiction writer by night. Her work has appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Theme of Absence, and Writer's Digest. She lives with a big orange cat named Gus and enjoys drawing, painting, and collecting typewriters.

Evan Guilford-Blake's prose and poems have appeared in numerous print and online journals, as well as in several anthologies, winning 19 awards. His plays have been produced internationally and won 42 competitions. Thirty are published. He and his wife (and inspiration) Roxanna, a healthcare writer and jewelry designer, live in the southeastern US.

Fay L. Loomis, member of the Stone Ridge Library Writers and Rats Ass Review Workshop, lives a quiet life in the woods in upstate New York.

Floyd Largent is a former archaeologist who never woke a sleeping god or unearthed an ancient evil (alas). In the past year, he has published or had accepted for publication six poems and 30 short stories.

Frances Gaudiano currently resides in Cornwall, England. After earning a MA in Dramatic Literature, she went on to qualify as a veterinary nurse and divides her time between writing and caring for animals.

FRED HILARY, a writer of mythic fiction and fairy tale, lives in Greece. His website can be found at Fred Hilary's Fiction Pages.

G. V. Silva was born in São Paulo, Brazil. He holds a bachelors and a masters degree in philosophy from the State University of Campinas and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the Technical University of Berlin.