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

Contributors with Profiles — Page 29

Luke Feeney enjoys exploring the strange and surreal in his writing. He spends his free time crafting short stories that blur the lines between reality and the unknown.

LYNDA REES, THE MURDER GURU: This multi-award-winning, multi-genre author brings you the best in history, mystery and suspense with a dash of romance. The free-spirited world-traveler’s diverse background and previous corporate career in marketing and global transportation, bring a rare perspective to her writing.

Madeline McEwen [she/her] has enjoyed publication in a variety of different outlets both online and in traditional print. Her fiction and non-fiction focuses primarily on disabilities [ableism] and humor.

Manoj Mokshendra has a dozen Hindi Books of Poetry, Fiction, Satire and Drama published since 2000A.D, and is widely published in magazines and papers, and web-magazines.

Marc Watson is an author, educator, and father of two residing in Michigan. He spent most of his years in Texas before making a dramatic, life-changing move to Hawaii. There, he taught at an elementary school while simultaneously finding a passion for writing on secluded beaches and in the thick of tropical forests. He became a father and moved once more to Michigan with his growing family, where he now writes under the canopy of maple trees. When his two young children allow him to, of course.

Margaret Eve is a British author of speculative and historic fiction and a regular attendee of the British Fantasy Convention. When not writing, Margaret enjoys good company, crochet, and terrible television.

Mark Barlex began writing fiction in 2021. His stories have appeared in Bandit Fiction, Flash Fiction North, Your Fire Magazine, Scribble, Coalition Works, Litmora, Roi Fainéant, Fireworks and Spank The Carp, accepted for Sci-Fi Lampoon and Streetcake Magazine, and performed at Liars’ League events in London.

Mark Ferguson has written science fiction, fantasy novels and short stories since youth. Outside of writing he performs research in microsystems, nanotechnology and device integration.

Mark Nuzzi lives in New Jersey, enjoying middle age and everything that comes with it. When not in his own universe, he spends time as an aquarium hobbyist, an amateur astronomer, writing stories and feeding the wildlife in the backyard.

Mark R. Vickers is a Florida writer and researcher who has published short fiction, poetry, essays, and the literary fantasy novel "The Tollkeeper." At thetollkeeper.com, he blogs about how ancient myths continue to shape our modern lives.

Marlene Elaine Brasco is an undergraduate student at the College of William & Mary. Her greatest passion is writing and her quest to highlight the magic found within everyday life in her work. Aside from writing, she loves reading, spending time with her family, and playing with her chocolate Labrador.

Marlin Bressi is a horror fiction writer and the author of four nonfiction books, including "Hairy Men in Caves: True Stories of America's Most Colorful Hermits" (Sunbury Press, 2015) and "Pennsylvania Oddities" (Sunbury Press, 2018).

Marsden Lyonwahl lives in his head. A graduate from the University of Washington, he's been published in 7th-Circle Pyrite and Altered Reality Magazine. This is not the last you've heard from him.

Martin Foroz was born in Iran in 1964 and earned BA and MA in English Literature and a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics. He left Iran for Oman in 2014 and has been living there as an expatriate professor of English Language and Literature since then.

For the first 29 years of my life, I grew up with the smells of Eucalyptus trees, and the old Mission churches with their euphoric music.

Mary Ann McGuigan’s short fiction has appeared in many journals. Mary Ann taught English for nearly a decade and was a business and finance editor at Bloomberg L.P. A native of the Bronx, NY, she grew up there and in Jersey City.

Mason Yates is from a small town in the Midwest, but he currently lives in Arizona, where he studied at Arizona State University.

Matt Dennis is an English teacher and part-time author. When he’s not marking essays, he’s writing short stories and putting the finishing touches on a speculative fiction novel.

Matt Grimes grew up in the New York/New Jersey area and now teaches middle school English in suburban Maryland just outside of D.C. He played baseball in college and loves the Yankees. Outside of teaching and trying to write, he spends a lot of time with his dog, reading too much Hemingway or Steinbeck, and wasting money playing terrible golf.

Matt Witt is a writer and photographer in Talent, Oregon. His work may be seen at MattWittPhotography.com.

Matthew Dexter is an American freelance writer living in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

Matthew Chabin is an emerging writer from Portland Oregon. He now lives in Nagano Prefecture of Japan, and is the author of a memoir, 'Equaling Heaven.'

Matthew Mota is a writer from Chicago, Illinois. He went to the University of Illinois for engineering but still makes time to write. Creating unique short stories and poetry are his ways of navigating the universal hardships of life.

Maui Holcomb grew up in the Northwest and currently lives and writes in Burbank, California, toiling in the lower echelons of the film industry attempting to make movies sound good. Previously published in a variety of magazines and journals, he spends his free time cleaning up after his wife and two daughters.

Maurice Forrester is a software developer and writer living in central New York.