Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
April 27, 2026

Contributors with Profiles — Page 3

Carl Wade Thompson is a poet, memoirist, and the graduate writing tutor at Texas Wesleyan University.

Bradford Middleton is a writer of poems and stories who lives in Brighton on the UK's south-coast. He's published all over the web and in some zines and journals too as well as five chapbooks of his poetry from three different publishers.

Hongri Yuan, born in China in 1962, is a poet and philosopher interested particularly in creation.

Julian O. Long's poems and essays have appeared under imprints such as "The Sewanee Review," "Pembroke Magazine," "New Texas, New Mexico Magazine," "Horizon," "Green River Press," and "St. Andrews Press," among others.

Ralph Bland is a graduate of Belmont University, married with a daughter and three very spoiled dogs, and on numerous occasions likes disguising himself as a normal person. He is the author of sixteen novels and four story collections.

Robert Earle has published dozens of short stories in literary magazines across the U.S. and Canada, two novels (The Way Home and The Man Clothed in Linen), and two books of nonfiction (Nights in the Pink Motel and Identities in North America.)

Eric Suhem dwells in the Pacific Northwest. When not wandering around in the forest he can be found in the orange hallway. (www.orangehallway.com)

Jerry Guarino is an author and screenwriter. His nearly 100 short stories have been published by magazines in the United States, Canada, Australia and Great Britain. He has published one novel, "The Da Vinci Diamond," a detective story. He is an editor for Flash Fiction Magazine.

John Sweet sends greetings from the rural wastelands of upstate NY. He is a firm believer in writing as catharsis, and in the continuous search for an unattainable and constantly evolving absolute truth.

(1948 - 2025)KK said of himself,"KK writes nonsense short stories, and is attempting to find someone foolish enough to publish his serious novel."

Ann Christine Tabaka lives in Delaware. She is a published poet and artist, and loves gardening and cooking. Chris lives with her husband and two cats.

Nolo Segundo became a published poet in his 8th decade in over 200 literary journals in 16 countries and 3 paperback collections.

Despite loving orchids, dry white wine, and Broadway show tunes, Pete McArdle is married and has three kids in college. When not drilling teeth, he enjoys torturing words, especially adverbs.

Richard Voza has been teaching writing for over 20 years, which is why he hasn't had a novel published. When unemployed a few years ago, he made great progress on his third unpublished novel, "The Curse".

Robin Wyatt Dunn was born in Wyoming in 1979. You can read more of his work at www.robindunn.com

(1958 - 2016) Michael Price received his BA in Theater from the University of Minnesota in 1980 and has been writing fiction, primarily as a source of self entertainment, ever since. He performed his own one-man one-act play at the 2011 Minnesota Fringe Festival to considerable critical acclaim, has had a number of his short stories published in 2012, and recently finished his first novel, "Serpentine."

Peter A. Witt is a Texas Poet and a retired university professor. He also writes family history with a book about his aunt published by the Texas A&M Press. His poetry has been published on various sites including Fleas on the Dog, Inspired, Open Skies Quarterly, Active Muse, New Verse News, and WryTimes.

Patrick "Teech" Devine writes poetry laden with sensuality, drama and fantasy.

Dharm is a Toronto based Author. He mostly writes in Hindi and has five published books -- three collections of satirical essays and two collections of Poetry.

Jon Renaut, a.k.a. The Tejon, contributes photos and articles to the Press, but his true fame is the instigation of the Urinal Cake Thread, now an annual tradition on the NaNoWriMo boards every November, and here at the Press the rest of the year.

Thomas Elson lives in Northern California. He writes of lives that fall with neither safe person nor safe net to catch them.

Dan's hobbies include woodworking and running marathons. At one time, Dan was also a Certified Beer Judge from the American Homebrewers Association. (It's good work if you can find it.)

Hawkelson Rainier is a tradesman in Northeast Ohio. He dabbles in prose and poetry from time to time.

Linda Imbler is the Kansas based author of the published poetry collection “Big Questions, Little Sleep.” Her work has appeared in numerous national and international journals.

Pete Armetta is a writer of Flash Fiction, Poetry, Short Stories and Essays. With a style that's been called accessible and broad, unpredictable and matter-of-fact, Pete is a genuine, self-taught outsider. His stories and poetry fend off conventionality and he's never easy to pigeonhole... He doesn't wanna be.