Contributors with Profiles — Page 9

Michael McLaughlin lives on the shores of Lake Chapala, Mexico. He has been published in the Ojo Del Lago, The Barfing Frog, The Harrow, and New Graffiti, and currently is with an improvisational comedy troupe called "Spanglish Imposition."

Patti Santucci holds an AA degree and has been published in RePlay Magazine, American River Review and Literally Stories. She recently won first place in Community College Humanities Association (Pacific Northwest Division) for her creative non-fiction work. She lives in California with one cat, one dog and one husband.

Ramzi Albert Rihani is a Lebanese American writer. He is a published music critic, wrote and published a travel book "The Other Color - a Trip Around the World in Six Months" (FMA Press, 1984). He lives in Washington, DC.

Wayne Faust has been a full-time music and comedy performer for over 30 years, performing in 38 states, England, Holland, Scotland, and Mexico. ( www.waynefaust.com). He wrote a full-length non-fiction book about the entertainment business called "Thirty Years Without A Real Job." (Picklehead Music Press - www.picklehead.com).

Aleathia Drehmer is a lover of life who looks to find the small things in the world that people often pass by unnoticed. She is always writing poetry and is currently working on two novels.

Allison Grayhurst is a member of the League of Canadian Poets. She has over 600 poems published in more than 300 international journals.

Arthur Dick is a software developer and poet from Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Barbara A Meier is a writer living in Lincoln, Kansas. She loves all things ancient. She works in a second-grade classroom and in her free time she likes to drive the dirt roads around Lincoln.

Brenton Booth lives in Sydney, Australia. Among other publications, he has two full length collections available from Epic Rites Press.

Bruce Morton divides his time between Montana and Arizona. His poems have appeared in numerous online and print venues. He was formerly dean at the Montana State University library.

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.

Charles Rammelkamp is Prose Editor for BrickHouse Books in Baltimore. A collection of persona poems and dramatic monologues involving burlesque stars, The Trapeze of Your Flesh, was recently published by BlazeVOX Books. His collection, The Tao According to Calvin Coolidge, has just been published by Kelsay Books.

Charlie Robert is a writer and poet living in Silicon Valley. His work is Punchy. Stark. Filled with creatures close to the earth.

Charlotte Cosgrove is a writer and lecturer from Liverpool. She has published two collections of poetry and is the editor of Rough Diamond poetry journal.

Cheryl Heineman graduated in 2017 with a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from San Diego State University. She also has a master’s degree in Jungian Psychology and has published four collections of poetry.

Christopher Fried lives in Richmond, VA and works as an ocean shipping logistics analyst.

Connie Woodring is a retired psychotherapist who writes poetry and short stories. A completed novel and a non-fiction book will hopefully be published soon.

Heavy metal lover and cricket tragic, D.A. Cairns lives on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia where he works as a freelance writer.

Dan Provost's work deals with the darkness of depression, the certainty of death and the internal loneliness he feels daily.

Daniel Ajayi is a Lagos born poet who writes anything not everything from the reading of nature. He enjoys researching, and has been learning about what makes life better.

Darrell Petska is a retired university engineering editor and three-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Father of five and grandfather of seven, he lives near Madison, Wisconsin with his wife of more than 50 years.

Elaine grew up in Cleveland, Ohio where she developed a love for reading and writing in elementary school. At age eighteen she met Allen Ginsberg at a party. He read several of her poems then told her she had a talent for writing, but was rather immature in her views. She has since matured -- to a degree.

Fhen M. is a poet. He was a writing fellow in a creative writing workshop. His poems were published in many poetry anthologies.

Frankie Laufer is an oil painter and writer living in Walla Walla, WA.

Gale Acuff has had hundreds of poems published in a dozen countries and has authored three books of poetry. Gale has taught tertiary English courses in the US, PR China, and Palestine.