Contributors with Profiles — Page 8

Gregory Smith is a retired medical social worker. He is active on social media, including Instagram, Facebook, X and Blue Sky. Greg enjoys oldies music ( especially The Beatles), classic movies, Baseball and Football ( Go Phillies & Eagles), and reading. He is married (Holly) and has two adorable dogs ( Katie & Cocoa).

Jay Passer's poetry and prose has appeared in print and online magazines, periodicals and anthologies since 1988. He is the author of 12 collections, most recently "The Cineaste," from Alien Buddha Press, 2021.

Joseph Carrabis is the author of over a dozen novels and hundreds of short stories, including the Nebula-nominated Cymodoce and the Pushcart nominated The Weight.

Lucius Falkland is the nom de plume of an academic and writer originally from London.

Phillip Donnelly grew up in Dublin and currently lives in Vietnam. He has also lived in Barcelona, China, Moscow, Bangkok, Paris and elsewhere. He hopes to move to another planet at the earliest opportunity.

A PhD from IIT Roorkee, Ankit is an assistant professor of English with the Department of Higher Education, Haryana, India, and is a founding editor at The Hooghly Review.

Ann Privateer grew up in the Midwest and now lives in California. She is a poet, artist, and photographer.

Catherine Arra is the author of "Deer Love," "Her Landscape, Poems Based on the Life of Mileva Maric Einstein," "(Women in Parentheses)," "Writing in the Ether," and three chapbooks. Arra is a native of the Hudson Valley in upstate New York, where she teaches part-time and facilitates local writing groups.

A product of the Appalachian Mountains, Charles Hayes is an American who lives part time in the Philippines and part time in Seattle with his wife.

Connie S. Tettenborn, PhD, began a career as a scientist in biotechnology and then transitioned to scientific editing and art/poetry. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Effie Collins is a writer of horror and speculative short fiction and novels.

I live in Victoria, Canada with my editor and wife Sera. I worked 29 years as a teacher at a Forensic Psychiatric Hospital, and have temporarily lived as a homeless person, commuting to work from my hammock on Burnaby Mountain near Vancouver, Canada, back when it was much safer and less common.

James Rumpel is a retired high school math teacher who enjoys spending some of his free time trying to turn a few of the odd ideas circling his brain into actual stories. He lives in Wisconsin with his wonderful wife, Mary.

After spending a serious career in engineering and banking Ken retired early to do some fun stuff: a bit of acting and voiceovers, landscape painting, writing and global volunteering to help kids and the planet.

Mehreen Ahmed is internationally published, and critically acclaimed.

Michael Adubato is an American poet and journalist living in Slovakia. A retired NATO language testing specialist, he has lived and worked across Europe and has been deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq. His poetry is often inspired by travel, place, memory, and the quiet moments found between destinations.

I am a 7th generation Vermonter, born in Rutland in 1958. Being an artist is in my blood, for I count among my ancestors a great-grandfather, great-great grandfather and a great grandmother who were all artists. My great-great grandfather, Cyril Brunelle Sr., was a member of the famed “Hudson River School of painters in the 19th century.

Shadow, whose roots lie in the deep traditional Urdu poetry and who emerged into the English verse a little while ago after a long silence to capture the tears that dwell in the heart and fall on the paper in the veil of dark, is a 20-year-old writing from Rawalpindi, Pakistan. His works has appeared in Tales from the Moonlit Path, in the "The Wise Owl," in the Yin literary, and in the Piker Press

Born and raised in East Tennessee, I grew up close to nature and related to nearly everyone in the valley...I now try to recapture the flavor of the mountains in everything I write.

Xi Nan (Nancy), contemporary poet, writer, and translator, was born in western Hunan, China. She used to be the lifestyle columnist of the (British) BBC UKChina website, and was nominated for the Zijin Star by People's Literature, China for her debut novel.

A.J. Huffman is a poet and freelance writer in Daytona Beach, Florida. She has previously published her work in literary journals, in the U.K. as well as America.

Ali Ashhar is a poet, short story writer and columnist from Jaunpur, India.

Award-winning California author and poet, Barbara Link, has had three stories aired on KVPR, a National Public Radio Affiliate. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous literary magazines and small presses.

Carol Anne Byrnes is a community college English instructor who has been writing creatively since about third grade. There seems to be something of a family tradition here -- yes, her grandmother's family really DID come from Blarney.

Dan Holt is a singer/songwriter/recording artist, poet and fiction author from a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. He has produced 11 albums of original music along with various singles and eps. His work has been published widely in the online and print small press.