Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
June 15, 2026

Contributors with Profiles — Page 27

Jay D. Falcetti (she/her) is a biracial indigenous writer who enjoys creating a wide range of stories from flash to novels. Jay grew up on a small reservation in northern Arizona and currently resides in Washington with her family. Jay D. Falcetti is a pen name.

Jeanne Burns Kett is a writer and therapist. Her writing celebrates the ways we manage to thrive and falter in relationships. With fierce insight into the human experience, she illuminates the hidden costs and the life-affirming comfort of belonging.

Jeff Gaba is a retired environmental law professor living in Santa Fe, New Mexico with his wife and two dogs. He taught environmental law for many years at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law in Dallas and published extensively on environmental topics, including articles, treatises and casebooks on hazardous waste law.

Jeffrey Wade Gibbs is originally from the swamps of Central Florida, but has lived all over the world, including Japan and Turkey.

Jegadeesh Kumar is a student of eastern philosophy, mathematics teacher, writer, and translator, raised in Southern India, now living in South Carolina, USA.

Jenni Bee is a Vermont cartoonist, artist, activist, and educator, born to Ukrainian/Russian immigrants in Italy. She received her B.A. and art teaching license in Vermont, where she currently works as a literature teacher and contributing comic artist. Jenni’s art has been exhibited nationally, featured in multiple publications, both online and in print, and won two awards.

Jeremiah Minihan lives in Rochester, New Hampshire, USA. He has taught school and worked as a software developer and manager in the insurance and banking industries.

Jeremy Merillat is a writer based in Budapest, Hungary.

Jesse Ofsowitz was born in Germany and now lives in the USA. He has been published in Chapter House, Sojournal, and Bartleby Snopes. In addition to his fiction, he enjoys photography, writes about English usage, and has translated Middle English poetry.

Jill Williams is a versatile writer whose work spans literary realism, satire, and Southern Gothic, often exploring themes of identity and spiritual transformation. She returned to writing after a decades-long hiatus.

Jim Wisneski is an author and poet living in the Lehigh Valley, PA with his wife, his almost one year old son, two cats, a fish, and a hermit crab.

Joe Mackie lives with his family and pets in Michigan and works as a Software Engineer.

Joe Palermo is the author of "No Pianos, Pets or Foreigners! My Life in Japan in the 80s" as well as several magazine articles in Nostalgia Magazine, Reminisce, and others.

Joe Wood is a novice speculative fiction writer. Having graduated from Canisius College with a BS in Psychology and a BA in Creative Writing, he now studies School Psychology at SUNY Oswego. During his free time, Joe enjoys going on hikes and reading Heartstopper over and over.

John Andrew Karr is a speculative fiction writer who dwells near the southern coast of North Carolina.

John Eric Vona first made waves with a controversial editorial in his middle school newspaper (pro-pizza). For years he taught writing at Trump University, most notably his post-doctoral course: “Sophisticated and Subtle Humor.” Reviewers unanimously describe his short fiction as “short.” His latest memoir, detailing his long battle with Zyrtec addiction, is titled “A Million Little Sneezes.”

John Leppik is an English educator currently pursuing a research project with the University of Minnesota to introduce role playing games to high school students.

John Swain lives in Le Perreux-sur-Marne, France. His most recent chapbook, "The Daymark," was published by Origami Poems Project.

At the tender age of seven, I was traumatized by not only bad parenting but an over consumption of sweets, my father running the North American operations of Pez candy. I was born with the proverbial silver spoon in my mouth on Park Avenue and raised by partially suicidal European eccentrics.

Jon is a licensed funeral director, aircraft mechanic, and software developer. A lover of all things strange and horrific, Jon currently lives on the Space Coast of Florida with his wife and daughter, dreaming of weirdness in this universe and beyond it.

When Jonas Knutsson left junior high in 8th grade to pursue a career as a gentleman of leisure, said institution made a note of a great general improvement in morale and academic performance and has yet to request his return.

Joseph Evergreen is a novelist primarily writing science fiction and speculative fiction for both children and adults. He lives in the Pacific Northwest and works in data analytics.

Joseph S. Klapach is an attorney who lives in Los Angeles with his wife, three children, and two dogs. His work has appeared in a joyful medley of publications.

Judy Dercksen is a family physician and pain and PTSD consultant in Quesnel, a rural BC town.

Justin Webb is a London based author specializing in speculative horror, science fiction and magical realism. Justin takes a postmodernist approach to writing and forever embraces the idiosyncratic.