Sand is currently Managing Editor for the Piker Press and has been producing artwork, fiction, nonfiction and novel-length writings for the Press since the very first issue.

Lydia Manx (1961 - 2024) wrote poetry, travelogues, essays and the popular vampire fiction series, Dark Whispers and Night Time.

Editor Emeritus Alexandra Queen is the original editor of the Piker Press. She is also a freelance writer/cartoonist with numerous print credits and her own weekly humor column in print. But no novels. Yet. Dammit.

Wendy and Caribou do canine search and rescue in California. Wendy works with a therapeutic horseback riding center for the disabled and is a licensed Physical Therapist. She also writes poignant fiction and compelling nonfiction.

Ndaba Sibanda is a Bulawayo-born poet, novelist, and nonfiction writer who has a passion for themes and topics around conservation, nature, development and justice.

At some point in his life, Dan Mulhollen realized that writing was the one thing he did with any degree of perfectionism. An incurable dabbler, Dan's hobbies include songwriting, computer and board gaming, photography, tarot reading, and collections of various sorts.

Mel Trent lives and works in North Carolina. Occasionally, she writes something that's not half bad. She has written poetry, fiction and anime reviews for the Press.

Pranab Ghosh is a journalist, poet, author and translator.

In addition to reviews, Bernie has written humorous sci-fi shorts about a priest assigned to a backwater planet, and the serialized novel Stained Glass, a sensitive tale of a woman who must reconcile her love for another woman with her faith.

Josh lives in Missouri where he chainsmokes cigarettes, micro-analyzes Joss Whedon, and suffers frequent heartburn. His accomplishments include co-parenting the brainchild known as the Piker Press, participating in NaNoWriMo, and coaching writers.

Cheryl is the Assistant Editor in charge of poetry at the Piker Press. She also contributes reviews, humor, poetry, and photography to the Piker Press.

Bruce Memblatt is a native New Yorker and has studied Business Administration at Pace University. In addition to writing he runs a website devoted to theater composer Stephen Sondheim, which he's lovingly maintained since 1996. Bruce writes short stories mainly in the horror genre in a mad search to one day create the definitive short story. He hates clowns and soy milk.

Frederick Foote is a retired State of California worker and community college instructor. He lives in Sacramento, California and writes plays and short stories.

Ron Singer (www.ronsinger.net) has published twenty-one books, with another one due out in 2026. "Consolacam" shares with several of Singer’s recent books, and with his current WIP, the themes of exile and unlikely alliances.

Sanjeev Sethi has authored eight books of poetry. Over thirty-five countries have published his poetry. His poems have found a home in more than 500 journals, anthologies, and online literary venues. He lives in Mumbai, India.

Terry Petersen writes with positive thinking in mind. Her motto: Dive through the muck of real life, but surface with a gem. She can be found at her web page http://terrypetersen.wordpress.com and has had poems published in a local anthology, "For A Better World 2011, 2012, and 2013." She will have a short story published in "Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel," an Appalachian literary anthology, in March of 2014.

Wayne F. Burke's poetry has appeared in a wide variety of publications (including Piker Press). He has published six full-length poetry collections, most recently DIFLUCAN (BareBack Press, 2019). He lives in the central Vermont area, USA.

Charles Cicirella currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio and does a radio show he posts online called Radio Ether.

Abigail George was raised in the northern areas of Gqeberha, a coastal city in South Africa. She is a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net nominated writer, a longlisted and shortlisted poetry practitioner.

Luis has published poems online and in print at Blue Collar Review, Guerrilla Poetics Project, Mad Swirl, Unlikely Stories, and Yellow Mama Magazine.

Katrina Stonoff is a former journalist gone to the dark side to write fiction. A five-time Nanowrimo winner, she is finishing her third novel and outlining a fourth.

I've made my day-job career in computer servicing and technician work, but I still rise early every work day to spend and hour or so at the artboard before getting on the road.

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Soundings East, Dalhousie Review and Connecticut River Review. Latest books are available through Amazon.

Michael Lee Johnson lived ten years in Canada, Vietnam era. Today he is a poet in the greater Chicagoland area, Illinois.

Hailing from the Czech Republic, Jerry writes short stories, nonfiction, software, and novels. Not necessarily in that order.

Lynn White lives in north Wales. Her work is influenced by issues of social justice and events, places and people she has known or imagined. She is especially interested in exploring the boundaries of dream, fantasy and reality.

Chalmers "Chas" Wallace lives in the NYC area pretending to be a Product Manager for a small internet startup while spending his free time writing and trying to get published.

Harvey Silverman is a retired physician living in Manchester, NH. He writes primarily for his own enjoyment.

Ed is a born storyteller who hails from Texas. NASCAR, motorcycles, and body piercings are some of the more memorable topics of his fiction and non-fiction, but he is also known to discuss fatherhood, romance, and the love of a good dog.

Gopal Lahiri is a bilingual poet, critic, editor, writer and translator with 30 books published, including eight solo/jointly edited books.

Poussin teaches French and English at a university in Georgia, USA. His work in poetry and photography has appeared in Kestrel, Symposium, The Chimes, and many other publications worldwide.  

Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author residing in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many bears that rifle through his garbage.

Tedi Trindle has written humor, "Teditorials", investigative reports, and an assortment of other things.

Eric's poetry, short stories and photography have been featured by publications throughout the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia and India.

Scott Thomas Outlar originally hails from Atlanta, Georgia. He now resides and writes in Frederick, Maryland. His work has been nominated multiple times for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.

Richard LeDue currently lives and teaches in Norway House, Manitoba. His poems have appeared in various publications throughout 2020 and 2021, including a chapbook, "The Loneliest Age," released from Kelsay Books.

Born in a city minutes from the Quebec border, Carrie grew up in the Adirondack mountains just outside the famous Lake Placid, and now lives in eastern North Carolina. She's a mother and a wife who enjoys writing all forms of fiction and nonfiction. She especially enjoys writing stories that has supernatural themes.

Kellie is a reference librarian and writer. She has published numerous articles in professional journals, a book that has gone into its second printing, and has landed another book deal, on which she is working currently.

Tyler Willson has been a lot of places, and done a lot of things. Raised on a dirt farm in a town called Elmo, Utah (population: 312 - including dogs and cattle...)

JH Mae is a feature journalist and short fiction writer based in rural northern New York.

John Patrick Robbins is a Southern Gothic writer and his work is often dark and always unfiltered.

Rp Verlaine lives in New York City. and has an MFA in creative writing from City College.

Cartoonist and columnist, John's work is predominantly political humor of an unabashedly inflammatory nature.

John has written articles on British car maintenance and repair, flight simulator technology, and ham radio operation. For the Piker Press he has written articles on science, fantastic fables, and serialized his 2002 NaNoWriMo novel, "Victory Highway".

Ken Allan Dronsfield is a disabled veteran and prize winning poet from New Hampshire, now residing in Oklahoma.

Mike Zone is the author of A Farewell to Big Ideas, Void Beneath the Skin, Better than the Movie: 4 Screenplays and Fellow Passengers: Public Transit Poetry, Meditations and Musings. A contributing poet to Mad Swirl and contributing writer to the graphic novel series American Anti-hero by Alien Buddha Press.

Ahmad Al-Khatat was born in Baghdad, Iraq. His work has appeared in print and online journals globally and has poems translated into several languages.

Basil D. writes the Meanderings column, a series of essays that are frequently funny and often insightful.

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

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

Jim is an award-winning author who lives in a small town in Minnesota. He loves to write! His stories and poems have appeared in nearly five hundred online and print publications. He has also authored twenty two books the most recent of which is “The Stargazer and Other Stories” available through traditional outlets. Additional stories can be found on his blog: www.theviewfromlonglake.wordpress.com.

Stephen Kingsnorth (Cambridge M.A., English & Religious Studies), retired to Wales, UK, from ministry in the Methodist Church due to Parkinson's Disease, has had pieces published by on-line poetry sites, printed journals and anthologies.

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.

George Gad Economou has a Master’s degree in Philosophy of Science, currently works as a freelance writer, and has published three novels and two poetry collections.

Ralph Bland is a Manager/ Bookkeeper for one of the last remaining small independent grocery stores in Nashville. A graduate of Belmont University, he is married with a daughter and three very spoiled dogs, and on some occasions he likes to disguise himself as a normal person. He is the author of three novels (Once In Love With Amy, Where Or When, Past Perfect), all of the comic Southern Fiction genre.

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.)

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.

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.

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

Eric Suhem lives in California and enjoys the qualities of his vegetable juicer. He can be found in the orange hallway. (www.orangehallway.com)

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Andrea Damic, born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, lives and works in Sydney, Australia. She's a writer and artist.

Charlie Brice won the 2020 Field Guide Poetry Magazine Poetry Contest and placed third in the 2021 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize. His sixth full-length poetry collection is Pinnacles of Hope (Impspired Books, 2022).

John Tustin's poetry has appeared in many disparate literary journals in the las dozen years. fritzware.com/johntustinpoetry contains links to his published poetry online.

Hailing from the quiet, itchy back woods of Pennsylvania, Paula Patruzzi has this to say about herself:"I've been a paper carrier, punch-press operator, 'sales associate', and pipefitters'/welders' helper. Now I'm a writer, which is a lot more fun than the other ones."

Christine is a Canadian First Nations journalist and writer who hails from Peguis First Nation, one of Manitoba's largest reserves. "I write about issues that are close to my heart -- issues that will hopefully bring about awareness of what is happening with Canadian First Nations, because knowing your story, your truth and following it is something that can make us all better."

JD DeHart is a writer and teacher. DeHart has two collections, The Truth About Snails, published by Red Dashboard and A Five Year Journey, published by Dreaming Big Publications.

Ronald lives in Charleston, South Carolina where he spends his days running, reading, writing, and trying not to get on the nerves of his wife of 39 1/2 years. Gleefully retired from an unremarkable career in financial and social services, Ronald spends his hard won free time writing short stories with a southern theme and setting. His wife, mother, and daughter are his biggest fans because, well, they have to be.

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.

Sci-fi, fantasy and romance fill Missouri-born Anna Parrish's tales.

Beate Sigriddaughter, www.sigriddaughter.net, lives in Silver City, New Mexico (Land of Enchantment), where she was poet laureate from 2017 to 2019.

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

Gary Glauber is a poet, fiction writer, teacher, and former music journalist. His works have received multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations. He champions the underdog to the melodic rhythms of obscure power pop.

Jonathan D. Scott is the owner of a small advertising and graphic design firm in the Southeast. Two of his novels are available from amazon and middletonbooks. com. He is married with two daughters and is a very ordinary person, or at least appears so to the casual observer.

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.

Nolcha Fox's poems have been curated in print and online journals. Her poetry books are available on Amazon and Dancing Girl Press. Nominee for 2023 Best of The Net. Editor for Open Arts Forum, Chewers & Masticadores, Garden of Neuro. Accidental interviewer. Fake news faker.

Anna Sykora writes for the joy from Hanover, Germany, where she resides with her patient husband and three enormous Norwegian Forest Cats. Editors seem to prefer her humor, horror and animal tales.

Barbara Rendall is a Canadian writer living in Beijing. She has published short fiction in Redbook and Chatelaine, and her poetry has appeared in various Canadian and U.S. publications.

Barry has been a ghostwriter, a speechwriter and a copywriter. His work has appeared in newspapers, trade magazines and on the Internet. He has an excessive reliance on spell check.

Beverly Pauley lives in Alderson, West Virginia, with her husband, Curtis, and dacshund, Quentin -- named for Quentin Collins, werewolf in the television show "Dark Shadows." Pauley is a long-time fan of Edgar Allen Poe and all things Gothic.

Rick Hartwell is a retired middle school teacher (remember the hormonally-challenged?) who just moved to northern Illinois with his wife of fifty years, Sally Ann (upon whom he is emotionally, physically, and spiritually dependent), one grown daughter, and ten cats! Like Blake, Emerson, Thoreau, and Merton, he believes that the instant contains eternity.

Brian Rihlmann was born in NJ, and currently lives in Reno, NV. He writes mostly semi autobiographical, confessional free verse. Folk poetry...for folks.

Jeffrey Carl Jefferis is a thirty-year-old freedom fighter. He has been pushing the envelope of word power for so long that his fingers are permanently stuck to the sealing glue

Amy Probst hails from Michigan. She's a published newspaper columnist and tech writer, and a talented photographer. For more Amy, go to www.amyprobst.com.

Ethan Goffman is co-founder of It Takes a Community, a Montgomery College initiative bringing poetry to students and local residents. He is also founder and producer of the "Poetry & Planet" podcast on EarthTalk.org.

Hillary Peak is a recovering idealist. She became a lawyer to change the world and is still somewhat shocked that didn't occur. Now, her goal is to retire from practicing law and write novels that people love. She is currently a practicing attorney in the District of Columbia. She lives with her family in Alexandria, VA.

Joan McNerney's poetry has been included in numerous literary magazines such as Seven Circle Press, Dinner with the Muse, Moonlight Dreamers of Yellow Haze, Blueline, and Halcyon Days.

Robert Paul Allen is the father of four and has a home in the woods in Orland, Maine. He works in the medical field and has seen the gamut of human trials and tribulations which inspires much of his poetry.

Barry Kirwan works in air traffic and nuclear power safety, and found non-fiction a lot easier to get published than fiction, but finally has his science fiction novel (The Eden Paradox) coming out as an ebook in Feb 2011 with publisher Ampichellis. The short story "Writerholics Anonymous" summarises what he wishes he'd known when starting out in fiction...

(1943 - 2025) "I practised as a Solicitor/Lawyer/Attorney in a small English market town until 1989 when the family and I moved to Provence, France. I became wholesale distributor of English, German and Dutch books to French retail outlets. I have since retired."

Ian C. Smith writes in the Gippsland Lakes area of Victoria, and on Flinders Island, Tasmania.

Judith Alexander Brice is a retired Pittsburgh psychiatrist whose love of nature and acquaintance with illness inform much of her work.

Michael H. Brownstein's latest volumes of poetry, "A Slipknot to Somewhere Else" (2018) and "How Do We Create Love" (2019) were both published by Cholla Needles Press.

Gypsy writes how-to and nonfiction articles for magazines. Her other projects include travelogue, history pieces, and a stint as a regular columnist for the Press in 2004.

Kevin writes ultra-short science fiction pieces. His style is influenced by his work in television news, where brevity and impact are emphasized.

Peter Mladinic is professor emeritus at New Mexico Junior College, a former president of the Lea County Humane Society, and an advocate for animals in need. A native of New Jersey, he lives in Hobbs, New Mexico with his partner and their six rescue dogs.

Sunil Sharma loves to listen to the symphonies of the birds, winds, oceans, rivers and watch the sky and stars for their ethereal beauty.

Taylor Dibbert is author of the Peace Corps memoir “Fiesta of Sunset,” and the forthcoming poetry collection “Home Again.”

Amrita Valan is a writer from India with a published book of 50 poems on love and loss titled "Arrivederci" and a collection of 17 short stories titled "In Between Pauses."

Ian Mullins ships out from Liverpool, England, where he is a full-time Carer to his elderly parents. He dreams of one day leaving the house.

Mark is the father of twins and a jack-of-all trades, master of some, but has yet to figure out what he has mastered! He lives in SE Michigan and writes whenever he can for whatever he can as often as he can.

Sailor Jim writes as he has lived: weird, wild, funny, with unexpected twists and not infrequent incidences of explosions and sex.

Dabbling in poetry, fiction and nonfiction, Terri Edwards (Terrifried) holds down a job as an English teacher in Japan, where she has lived since 1988.

Ferris E Jones is an internationally published poet and screenwriter who lives in Puyallup, Washington.

Kushal Poddar, author of 'Postmarked Quarantine' and 'How To Burn Memories Using a Pocket Torch' has nine books to his credit. He is a journalist, father of a four-year-old, illustrator, and an editor. His works have been translated into twelve languages and published across the globe.

Mitchell Waldman's fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in numerous publications. He is also the author of the novel, A FACE IN THE MOON, was co-editor with Diana May-Waldman of WOUNDS OF WAR: POETS FOR PEACE, and is Fiction Editor for Blue Lake Review.

Snigdha Agrawal (nee Banerjee) has an MBA in Marketing and Corporate work experience of over two decades. She is a published author of four books of poetry and short stories.   She is widely published in online journals and magazines globally. A septuagenarian, next to writing is her passion for travel.  Her travel diaries can be accessed on her WordPress blog https//randomramblings52. She lives in Bangalore (India).

Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director and worked as an art dealer when he couldn't earn a living in the theater. His chapbook 'Remembrance' was published by Origami Condom Press and 'The Conquest of Somalia' was published by Cervena Barva Press.

I have returned to my homeland of mountains with woods thick as hair and rivers choked pink with spawning salmon. Every waking minute in this fertile land is an inspiration to capture its essence.

Jeff Burt lives in Santa Cruz County, California. He has contributed to Rabid Oak, Willows Wept Review, Williwaw Journal, and Gold Man's Review, among others.

Donna Dallas studied Creative Writing and Philosophy at NYU's Gallatin School and was lucky enough to study under William Packard, founder and editor of the New York Quarterly. She has just published her novel, "Death Sisters," with Alien Buddha Press, and currently serves on the editorial team for Red Fez.

Frank De Canio was born and bred in New Jersey, He worked for many years in New York City. He loves music from Bach to Shakira to Amy Winehouse.

John Paulits is a former New York City teacher. You are invited to visit his website www.johnpaulits.com for more information on his twelve children's novels and five adult novels.

Sam Gridley's fiction and satire have appeared in numerous magazines in print and online. His novel "The Big Happiness" is available for download at his website, Gridleyville. A new novel, "The Shame of What We Are," is forthcoming from New Door Books.

Alexis Rhone Fancher is published in Best American Poetry 2016, Rattle, Hobart, and elsewhere. Her photographs are published worldwide. She is poetry editor of Cultural Weekly.

Aneek Chatterjee is a poet and academic from Kolkata, India. He has been published in reputed literary magazines and poetry anthologies across the globe.

April has been writing for almost five years, getting inspiration from various experiences seen by the eyes of a thinker. The purpose of her creativity is urging people to see beyond the bounds, to be themselves, to speak their minds loud, not to be afraid to differ from the crowd. She creates to destroy. To destroy the naive beliefs. To destroy the stereotypes.

Cody L. Stanford lives in Overland Park, Kansas. He attended the University of Missouri at Kansas City and is fascinated by the arts, history, politics, mythology, and other elements that shape the forces and foibles of human nature. His stories have appeared in "The New Orphic Review", "The Circle", and "Eyes". When not writing, he often spends time working with tigers and other exotic cats at a nearby feline conservation park.

D. Marie Fitzgerald is the author of five books. She hosts a monthly authors series in Palm Springs, California featuring local authors. She is a retired English and creative writing instructor and lives in Palm Springs, California.

Giovanni Mangiante is a poet from Lima, Peru. He has work published in Newington Blue Press, Rusty Truck, The Daily Drunk, Anti-Heroin Chic, Heroin Love Songs, Rat's Ass Review, Three Rooms Press, Fearsome Critters, and more. In writing, he found a way to cope with BPD.

The author is a thirty-five-year veteran writer. He enjoys traveling and living life on the edge.

Jack Henry lives in seclusion in the high desert of SE California amongst the tumbleweeds and creosote plants. During short breaks from drinking, camping, hiking, working, dreaming, sweating, chasing, and sleeping he writes the occasion poem.

Jason Ryberg is the author of fourteen books of poetry and is currently an artist-in-residence at both The Prospero Institute of Disquieted P/o/e/t/i/c/s and the Osage Arts Community.

Jerome Berglund graduated from the University of Southern California’s Cinema-Television Production program and spent a picaresque decade in the entertainment industry before returning to the midwest where he was born and raised.

John Dorroh taught writing based science for several decades. He required his students to use their imagination...a lot. Many of them thanked him later (with beers) for helping them think out of the box.

Grochalski currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, where the garbage can smell like roses if you wish on it hard enough.

Linda M. Crate's works have been published widely in magazines and anthologies both online and in print.

Milton P. Ehrlich Ph.D. is a 90-year-old psychologist and a veteran of the Korean War. He has published many poems in periodicals such as the London Grip, Arc Poetry Magazine, Descant Literary Magazine, Wisconsin Review, Red Wheelbarrow, Christian Science Monitor, and the New York Times.

Dr. Paramita Mukherjee Mullick lives in Mumbai, India. She is a scientist, a globally loved, award winning poet; author, editor and literary curator.

Tanner earns minimum wage and writes about it. Help. Help him, for ffs.

R.M. Engelhardt is an American poet and writer who is the author of several books over the last two decades. He is the Editor of Dead Man's Press Ink and currently lives and writes in Upstate NY.

Salvatore Difalco is a Sicilian Canadian poet and short story writer.

An award-winning author, poet, and Evergreen Valley College English Professor, Sterling Warner’s works have appeared many literary magazines, journals, and anthologies.

Strider Marcus Jones is a poet, law graduate and ex-civil servant from Salford, England with proud Celtic roots in Ireland and Wales. A member of The Poetry Society, his five published books of poetry reveal a maverick, moving between cities, playing his saxophone in smoky rooms.

A few years ago, I retired from a thirty-five year career in hospice counseling, when I began writing poetry. My poems are influenced by my patients’ journeys, the compelling beauty of nature, and the human condition.

Tohm Bakelas is a social worker in a psychiatric hospital. He was born in New Jersey, resides there, and will die there.

Van Lee studied history at the University of Southern MS and has spent the last seven years doing independent research on military history. He's currently working on his second book.

April Mae M. Berza is the author of poems and short stories appearing in numerous publications in America, France, Canada, Belgium, Romania, India, Japan, Great Britain, and the Philippines. She currently resides in Taguig, Philippines.

Carl Nord writes short fiction and humor, and lives and works in the Seattle area.

David Painter is a Northeast Ohio poet and photographer. His aim is to capture his point of view on the world through nature, culture, architecture and history.

Donna Pucciani, a Chicago-based writer, was born in Washington D.C. and grew up in the New York City area. She earned a Ph.D. in Humanities, with a specialty in Music, from New York University, and taught in secondary schools and colleges in the East and Midwest for several decades before retiring to write full-time.

James Croal Jackson is a Filipino-American poet who works in film production.

Paweł Markiewicz was born 1983 in Siemiatycze in Poland. He is poet who lives in Bielsk Podlaski and writes tender poems, haiku as well as long poems. Paweł has published his poetries in many magazines. He writes in English and German.

Prithvijeet Sinha, a proud resident of the cultural epicenter that is Lucknow. His prolific published credits encompass poetry, musings on the city, cinema, anthologies, journals of national and international repertoire as well as a blog.

Steve Carr lived in Richmond, Va., and began his writing career as a military journalist. He had over 220 short stories published internationally in print and online magazines, literary journals and anthologies since June, 2016.

Timothy B. Barner grew up in upstate NY and now lives in Southwest Ohio with his two sons. He publishes novels when he can, but more often writes short stories, plays, and musings from an interesting life. He hopes, of course, that others find his life interesting as well.

Chris Miller is editor of the Cold Lake Sun, a print newspaper. He has a degree in journalism and writes short fiction for a number of publications.

Dessy Tsvetkova (born 1970 in Sofia, Bulgaria), has worked as a reporter for Darik Radio, newspapers Woman, News, Women kingdom and has published poetry in Mother tongue speech, Literary Academy and Flame and Sea magazines.

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.

Pete Barbour has been writing stories for over 30 years. He is a retired physician and now full-time author and illustrator.

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.

Sushant Thapa is an M.A. in English Literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is a Nepalese poet who has appeared in print and online platforms in Nepal, India, Bangladesh and the USA. He lives in Biratnagar,Nepal.

Ursula is an Oregon poet. Published poems can be seen hard copy in The Avocet, online at Academy of the Heart, Piker Press, Ron Horton's Nature Writing.com and the Oregon Poetry Association.

Amanda Niamh Dawson was raised in London, Boston, and Washington, DC. She worked in art and publishing in New York and now lives in Northern California.

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.

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.

Eric Burbridge's retirement is the best thing that ever happened to him, and he's been writing short fiction ever since.

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.

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.

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.

Ankit Raj Ojha has been living between lives since he left his hometown in Bihar, India. A former software engineer and rock band frontman, he has a PhD in literature from IIT Roorkee and is an assistant professor of English with the Department of Higher Education, Haryana.

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.

Fred Skolnik is the author of 4 novels: The Other Shore(Aqueous Books, 2011) and Death (Spuyten Duyvil, 2015) under his own name and Rafi's World and The Links in the Chain (both in 2014) under his Fred Russell pen name.

J. C. Miller is an author and corporate lawyer for a Fortune 100 company. He lives in Michigan with several children and menagerie of pets.

Jacob Greb resides in Ontario, Canada with his wife. His stories reflect the chaos in his mind, struggles with mental illness, and his life experiences.

Kelly Jackson is a native Texan who has opinions on every little thing, and although she might not know a lot, she knows a little about a lot, so essays seem perfect for her to let'er rip, then RUN!

Lamont A. Turner is a New Orleans area author whose work has appeared in numerous print and online venues.

Mehreen Ahmed is internationally published, and critically acclaimed.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

DS Maolalaí has been described by one editor as "a cosmopolitan poet" and another as "prolific, bordering on incontinent."

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.

This author lives in northern Minnesota with her husband alongside the wolves, bears, and bobcats. When not writing she enjoys painting, walking, and volunteering at local thrift store.

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.

Grant Shimmin is a South African-born poet resident in New Zealand since 2001. He counts humanity, the natural world, and the relationship between them as poetic passions.

Guna Moran is an international poet and book reviewer. His poems are published in more than 150 international magazines, journals, webzines, newspapers, anthologies and have been translated into thirty languages around the world. He has three poetry books to his credit. He lives in Assam, India.

Hugh Blanton combs poems out of his hair during those moments he can steal away from his employer's loading dock. He has appeared in The American Journal of Poetry, The Rye Whiskey Review, and other places. He lives in San Diego, California.

J.R. Barner is a writer, teacher, and musician living in Athens, Georgia, USA.

Jackie Chou is a writer from Southern California who has two collections of poetry, "The Sorceress" and "Finding My Heart in Love and Loss," published by cyberwit.

Jan Wiezorek writes from Michigan. He taught writing at St. Augustine College, Chicago, and wrote the ebook "Awesome Art Projects That Spark Super Writing" (Scholastic, 2011). He holds a master’s degree in English Composition/Writing from Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago.

Jeannie E. Roberts has authored six books, including "The Wingspan of Things" (Dancing Girl Press), "Romp and Ceremony" (Finishing Line Press), "Beyond Bulrush" (Lit Fest Press), and "Nature of it All" (Finishing Line Press). She is poetry editor of the online literary magazine Halfway Down the Stairs.

Jeff Dosser is an ex-police officer and current software developer living in the wilds of central Oklahoma. Besides winning Oklahoma Writer's Federation best new horror of 2018 and 2019 with his novels, "Neverland," and "Shattered," he also received an honorable mention in L.R Hubbard's Writers of the Future contest.

Jeffrey Zable is a teacher, conga drummer/percussionist who plays Afro-Cuban folkloric music for dance classes and rumbas around the San Francisco Bay Area, and a writer of poetry, flash fiction, and non-fiction.

Jim Murdoch has been writing poetry for fifty years and has graced the pages of many now-defunct magazines and a few that are still hanging on in there. For ten years he ran the literary blog "The Truth About Lies" but now lives quietly in Scotland with his wife and (increasingly) next door’s cat.

Joe Baldwin is a History graduate who writes fiction, poetry and essays on a wide variety of topics. He lives in Southampton in the United Kingdom. He has been published in a number of journals and is currently writing a novel and a poetry collection.

John Drudge is a social worker working in the field of disability management and holds degrees in social work, rehabilitation services, and psychology. He is the author of four books of poetry.

John Sara is a writer from Parma, Ohio. He received his BFA in Creative Writing from Bowling Green State University and is currently pursuing his MFA at Ashland University.

Joseph McKinley is an English teacher in southern China, where he has lived for the past three years.

Kathy (Moorehead) Sherban resides in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, she is a poet and author featured in several global anthologies and international literary magazines.

Ken Kakareka is an American writer. His latest novel "Summer of Irresponsibility" is published with Alien Buddha Press (2023).

Dr. Ketaki Datta is an Associate Professor of English with Bidhannagar Govt. College, Kolkata.

I have loved writing and reading ever since I was a child. Aside from 'Paradoxica,' I am the author of the recently released novel, Climbing Through Windows. When I'm not writing, I can be found at work or spending time with my friends and family

Kimutai Kemboi Allan is a Kenyan writer residing in Nairobi.

Linnet Phoenix is a poet born in Scotland, raised in Sussex and currently resides in a village in North Somerset, UK. Her work has been published in ImpSpired Magazine, New Verse News, Newington Blue Press. Her chapbook 'Rusty Stars' is published by Between Shadows Press. Her first full collection 'Urban Mustang' published by ImpSpired is coming soon.

Malkam is an aspiring author living in Three Oaks, MI, brewing beer by day and writing novels by night. Born and raised in Kalamazoo, Malkam is proud to be a child of deaf adults (CODA), and a graduate of Western Michigan University with a Bachelor in Fine Arts.

Marjorie Pezzoli is a silk painter for 25+ years, a page poet who will pick up a microphone at various San Diego open mics. Her writings deal with grief, hope, cosmic wonders, and stuff that catches her eye.

Mark Anthony Pearce lives and works as a Receptionist in Bristol, South West England.

Mark J. Mitchell has been a working poet for 50 years. He lives in San Francisco where he points out pretty things.

Matthew Johnson is the author of Shadow Folks and Soul Songs”(Kelsay Books) and Far from New York State (NYQ Press). His work has appeared in Front Porch Review, Roanoke Review, Northern New England Review, Third Wednesday, and elsewhere. Recipient of Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominations, he’s the managing editor of The Portrait of New England and poetry editor of The Twin Bill. Website: matthewjohnsonpoetry.com

Mike Wilson’s work has appeared in magazines including "The Gravity of the Thing," "Mud Season Review," "The Pettigru Review," "Still: The Journal," and in Mike’s book, "Arranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic," political poetry for a post-truth world.

Mikel K is a poet and memoirist living in Mableton, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta, with his photographer-artist partner Just Joan, and their three dogs, two cats, two turtles, and bird.

Mykyta Ryzhykh is winner of the international competition Art Against Drugs and Ukrainian contests. Nominated for Pushcart Prize.

Paul Marshall has co-written two plays broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and been short-listed for the BBC Opening Lines short story competition. His work has been published widely in literary magazines and anthologies.

Peter Kaczmarczyk was raised in New England and has lived the last 30 years in Southern Indiana. His works are inspired by his life, loves, travels, and experiences. He is co-creator of the Captain Janeway Statue in Bloomington, Indiana.

Peycho Kanev is the author of 12 poetry collections and three chapbooks, published in the USA and Europe.

Phillip Larrea is the author of We the People (Cold River Press) and Our Patch (Writing Knights Press). Since 2012, his poems have appeared in over 60 journals, anthologies and magazines in the U.S., Ireland, Canada and Asia. He is the winner of the 2013 New Frontier Prize for poetry, and has been nominated twice for the 2014 Pushcart Prize.

Robert Bach is a Doctor Emeritus, retired Palliative Care Physician at Northern Light, Eastern Maine Medical Center, previously a general and thoracic surgeon. He received a Masters of Divinity degree from Bangor Theological Seminary in 2007.

Roger Mayer is a 60-year-old pilot and abstract artist who draws inspiration from his global travels. With a passion for exploring the world and capturing its essence through dynamic techniques, Roger transforms his experiences into vibrant, thought-provoking abstract art.

Dr. Santosh Bakaya is a poet, novelist, essayist, biographer ,TEDx speaker, internationally acclaimed for her poetic biography of Mahtama Gandhi, "Ballad of Bapu," and runs a weekly column, Morning Meanderings in Learning and Creativity. Com.

Two-time NaNo winner Schizophrenic Chick writes short stories and poems for the Press.

Shailja Sharma (Ph.D.), USA, is a mental health provider and a multilingual author.

Sparsh Paul is a poet, writer and bedroom musician based in New Delhi, India. He actively immerses himself in the practice of shinrin-yoku, and is a hobbyist bird photographer.

Stephen Jarrell Williams writes at night, enthused, and waiting for the Coming Good Dawn. He can be found on Twitter at papapoet.

Susan Shea is a retired school psychologist who was raised in New York City, and is now living in a forest in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania.

Tabish teaches Environmental Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay. He has published a short-story collection Opening Clouds, Fermented Rain (Hawakal, 2020).

Tali Cohen Shabtai, is a poet, she was born in Jerusalem, Israel. She began writing poetry at the age of six, she has been an excellent student of literature.

Tejaswinee Roychowdhury is a Bengali-Indian lawyer, writer, and poet. She currently edits fiction for The Storyteller's Refrain and tweets at @TejaswineeRC.

Tim Heerdink's poems appear in various journals and anthologies. He is the President of Midwest Writers Guild of Evansville, Indiana.

Tim Law is from a little town in southern Australia called Murray Bridge. Working there as part of the local library team, he is regularly inspired to write interesting tales.

A retired special education teacher and recent octogenarian, Vern Fein has published over 250 poems/prose pieces on over 100 different sites.

Wanda Morrow Clevenger has been writing and publishing since 2007. She graduated from Long Ridge Writers Group in 2009 with 6 months of nonfiction and 3 months of flash fiction instruction. Mid-way through 2011, the year her debut book published, she ventured into poetry and tossed the rearview mirror out the window.

Zhihua Wang received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Arkansas and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Creative Writing at the University of Rhode Island.

A. L. F. Fagan was born and raised in Washington DC and is currently living in suburban Maryland. He has a BA in speech communication. Most of his adult career had been in theater tech. He enjoys reading fantasy, science fiction, and history. His leisure time is spent running, baking, and playing guitar.

Abhishek Ghosh was born in Delhi and raised in Kolkata, India. He lives in Montreal, Canada. Abhishek is a teacher, writer, poet and a scientist.

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

A fictional,wandering shaman who writes a fantasy advice column for the Press.

Bekah Steimel is a poet aspiring to be a better poet. She lives in St. Louis and can be found online at bekahsteimel.com and followed on Twitter and Instagram @BekahSteimel.

Betsy Mars is a prize-winning poet, educator, photographer, and recent publisher whose first release, "Unsheathed: 24 Contemporary Poets Take Up the Knife," came out in October 2019.

Bozhidar Pangelov was born in the soft month of October in the city of the chestnut trees, Sofia, Bulgaria, where he lives and works. He likes joking that the only authorship which he acknowledges are his three children and the job-hobby in the sphere of the business services.

Bruce Hodder has been widely published in print and online, most recently in 'Hotel Corona' (Black Rune Press) and 'Helen's House' (Outlaw Chapbooks Press). He lives in Northampton, England with his wife Michelle.

Cord Moreski is a poet from New Jersey.

Daniel Naman is a writer living in New York City. His work appears in and is forthcoming from Eunoia Review and The Piker Press. You can see what he's up to via Instagram @danbo88

David H. Donaghe lives and works in the high desert of southern California. He has three passions in life: reading, writing, and riding his motorcycle. When not delving into a good book or putting his face in the wind on his motorcycle, David writes short stories and novels. In 1995, David took the First Place prize in the California Writer's Club short story contest with his Western short story, "Blind Justice."

Debarati Sen works in Presidency University Kolkata as a Junior Assistant. Her debut poetry book called 'Blurred Musings' was published in January 2022 and was launched by Literoma at the Newtown Book Fair.

Doug Hawley is a little old man who lives with editor Sharon and cat Kitzhaber in Lake Oswego Oregon USA. After he took early retirement from actuarial work, he took up writing in 2014.

F.D. lives in the southeastern U.S., along with her husband and sundry furry family members. She writes about loss/grief and the restorative and transformative power of nature and anything else that piques her interest.

Fred Russell is the pen name of an American-born writer living in Israel. His novels "Rafi's World" and "The Links in the Chain" both appeared in 2014.

"I'm Harshit Sahu and I belong to Indore, India. I'm a young undergraduate and a budding author as well as poetry enthusiast. I consider writing as my hobby and indulge in it whenever I can. I hope you would like my work."

Irish D. Torres is a 23-year old licensed educator, an internationally-published author, and a Christian hedonist. She is currently working as a content editor at a US-affiliate company in the Philippines.

Isabel Galvan was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. With a desire to spread love and inspiration, she uses her passion for writing poetry and short stories as a way to express emotions. She finds great pleasure in being authentically transparent with her life's journey.

Joel Bush reads things. He also writes things. Well, sometimes he reads the things he writes. That tends to help.

John Maurer is a 27-year-old writer from Pittsburgh that writes fiction, poetry, and everything in-between, but their work always strives to portray that what is true is beautiful.

M. Benjamin Thorne is an Associate Professor of Modern European History at Wingate University. Possessed of a lifelong love of history and poetry, he is interested in exploring the synergy between the two.

Mark Lyons has published stories in several literary magazines, including Whetstone (JP McGrath Memorial Award), Bucks County Writer, Sensations, and the Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts.

Mather Schneider was a taxi driver for many years in Tucson and finally escaped. He now lives in Mexico, barely scraping by and writing poems and stories. He has 4 books of poetry available and his first book of prose, "6 to 6," which was recently published.

Mihaela Melnic lives and writes in Rome, Italy where her prose and poetry evolve and take different shapes with every new life experience

Navratra is a young artist from Jaipur, India. Her passion for writing began when she was in school. She loves to pen down her musings at random moments.

Patricia Saunders teaches Vedic philosophy at Maharishi International University in Iowa. She has published many poems in online journals, an interview with her was published in the Summer 2022 edition of Mulberry Review, and a poem of hers is included in the Remington Review 2022 Anthology. Patricia’s nonfiction book, "An Antidote to Violence: Evaluating the Evidence", was published in 2020 and is a bestselling book for Changemakers Books.

Paul has lived all over the country before settling in Appalachia over fifteen years ago with his wife Leslie and their son. He also has two adult children living in his native Pennsylvania. He is the author of two horror comedy novels, with a third one on the way from Madness Heart Press.

Paulette Calasibetta, a retired interior designer has been writing poetry for seven years. Living in a pastoral village in New Jersey, inspired by the landscape, reflecting on extraordinary places and extraordinary people that shape ordinary life.

Peter is currently working towards an MFA in Creative Writing, having journeyed across the country to do so. He has work forthcoming in Writers' Bloc.

Born and brought up in Kolkata, Raja Chakraborty is a bilingual poet. He has published four books of Bengali rhymes and two books of English poems. His forte is humor and punning. He also sketches and doodles.

Robert Bires writes in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He has published most recently in Sky Island Journal, The Centrifictionist, Third Wednesday, and JAKE.

Robert’s short stories have been published widely in magazines, and he writes a humorous newspaper column in the Herald Express. He performs comedy poetry all over the UK at fringes, festivals and TV, and had one of the funniest one-liners of the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe.

Rocio Iglesias is a queer Cuban-American poet. Her work has appeared in various print and electronic publications and can most recently be found in Firmament Magazine and Brave Voices Magazine. She lives, breathes, and works in Minneapolis, MN.

It wasn't until 2003 that Sandra Widner Burch picked up a pen to write poetry. For her, writing poetry was a means to release a whirlwind of emotions, immeasurable heartache, and to shed light on the often misunderstood Battered Spouse Syndrome.

Sanket Mhatre has been featured at Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, Jaipur Literature Festival and Glass House Poetry Festival. His first book of cross-translated poems, "The Coordinates Of Us" won the prestigious Raza Foundation Grant after been shortlisted at iWrite2020 at Jaipur Literature Festival.

Shamik Banerjee is a poet from Assam, India where he lives with his parents. His home is surrounded by a beautiful hill.

Sheikha A. is from Pakistan and United Arab Emirates. Her poems have appeared in over 80 literary venues so far, both print and online including several anthologies by various presses.

Shelly Norris ripened in the wild west on a farm in Wyoming. She hails from a long line of post-Civil War migrants, pioneers, scofflaws, and illegitimates; wherever there is a "bastard" break in the lineage, that's her line of people.

Steve Hood is an attorney and political activist. His work won an award from the Pacific Northwest Writers' Association and has been published in many places including Crack the Spine, Maudlin House, and the anthology Noisy Water. His chapbook From Here To Astronomy was published by Pudding House.

Terence Kuch is a consultant, avid hiker, and world traveler. His publications and acceptances include Ante Review, Clockwise Cat, Colored Chalk, Foliate Oak, Foundling Review, Marginalia, North American Review, and many others. He has studied at the Writers Center, Bethesda, Maryland, and the Mid-American Review Summer Fiction Workshop.

Tim Frank is an upcoming writer specialising in the comic and the surreal. He has written a semi-autobiographical novel, 'Devil in my Veins,' and is currently writing a sci-fi thriller novel.

Uday Shankar Ojha is a professor of English at Jai Prakash University, Chapra, Bihar, India.

Walt Shulits is a retired bond market professional and lifelong paddling fanatic -- canoe, sea kayak, outrigger canoe and surf ski -- who stumbled upon writing poetry while searching for a non-sport activity that would give him the same sense of living in the moment as paddling.

Yasmin Hemmat is an English literature student and part-time teacher with a passion for reading poetry. She has been published in Literary Hatchet Journal.

Afra Ahmad is a writer, poet, artist and calligrapher. Based in Taiwan, she holds a Bachelor's degree in English Literature.

Alex Stolis lives in Minneapolis.

Alex Z. Salinas is the author of two full-length poetry collections: WARBLES and DREAMT, or The Lingering Phantoms of Equinox. He is also the author of a book of stories: City Lights From the Upside Down. He holds an M.A. in English Literature and Language from St. Mary's University. He lives in San Antonio, Texas.

Alyssa Trivett is a wandering soul from the U.S. When not working two jobs, she listens to music and scrawls lines on the back of gas station receipts.

Ashwini Gangal is a clinical psychologist by training, media journalist by profession, and storyteller at heart.

Bruce McRae, a Canadian musician, is a multiple Pushcart nominee with over 1,400 poems published internationally in magazines such as Poetry, Rattle and the North American Review.

Two lifetimes ago, Catherine performed her poetry in Madrid. Now her main jobs are to write and hang out with her family.

Charlie Lomas was born in Manchester. His communist family rose and declined with the fortunes of world communism. He has history degrees from Leeds and London universities. He has lived in a Cevennes village for thirty-two years, working as a translator.

Dr. Chayanika Saikia is a geoscientist by profession working for a national oil company and lives in Noida.

Christian McCulloch is a prolific British writer with a colourful background.

Christopher Allen, a native Tennessean, lives in Germany and writes creative non-fiction, humor and Southern literature. His work has appeared in "Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tough Times, Tough People" and "Gathering: Writers of Williamson County," as well as in the ezines "Metazen," "Ruthless Peoples Magazine" and "The Short Humour Site."

Cora Taylor is a native Ohioan and an aspiring "plant person." Her writing is inspired by the old family tales that are only shared after just the right amount of whiskey has been spilled.

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.

Daginne Aignend likes hard rock music and fantasy books. She is a vegetarian and spends a lot of time with her animals.

Daniel J. Flore III's writings have appeared in many publications. He is the author of 4 books of poetry, all available on Amazon from GenZ Publishing.

Daniel Moreschi is a poet from Neath, South Wales, UK, who experienced a significant turning point when his ongoing battle with severe M.E. upended his life. However, during this period, he also rediscovered his passion for poetry, which had remained dormant since his teenage years.

Author, photographer, and traveler.

Dave Lignell lives in Lawrence, Kansas. He enjoys writing flash fiction as a way to escape the stress of day-to-day obligations.

Gail Taylor is a new Canadian writer who earned the Certificate in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto in 2009 with Honors and completed the writers' program at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Her fiction was a winner in the Random House Canada student contest in 2007, short listed for the Random House prize in 2008, and short listed for the Marina Nemat award in 2009.

Gary Campanella loves an adventure. He has backpacked across the United States and traveled throughout the world. He has published a handful of poems and stories. He lives in La Crescenta, CA with his wife and two children, his greatest adventure.

Glenn Armstrong draws inspiration from the flotsam and jetsam of the American experience. He was equally at home at both CBGBs and a Buddhist monastery. He lives in San Diego.

Gomathi Sridevi is a budding writer from India. She is a Sociology graduate who is about to pursue Masters in journalism. She would describe herself best as a student who is interested in applying her learnings in Sociology to benefit society.

Ph. D. in Hindi, Hansa teaches the language at the University of Toronto, Mississauga. She is a storyteller and has contributed five collections of short fiction and four novels in Hindi. Her works have appeared in prestigious Hindi journals across the world.

Hossein Hakim was born in Tehran, Iran. He came to the United States in 1976 for his graduate studies in electrical engineering and received a Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1982. He was a professor of electrical engineering for 38 years and retired in 2020.

Jasna Gugić is the Vice-President for public relations of the Association of Artists and Writers of the World SAPS; She is a co-editor of the anthology, Compassion—Save the World, one poem written by 130 world poets.

Jocelyn Mosman was a member of the first ever Northampton Poetry Slam Team and is the recipient of the Gertrude Claytor Award from the Academy of American Poets.

John Mara is a multi-genre writer who tends to converse in the genre he's thinking about and makes better company when it's humor, not horror.

John RC Potter is an international educator from Canada, who lives in Istanbul.

Jon currently resides in Philadelphia where he works as a copy editor in the pharmaceutical industry. He spends his days squinting at drug labels, while searching for a missing period or hyphen, and drinking as much free office coffee as he can.

Jonathan Butcher has been writing poetry for around 15 years. He has had poetry appear in various publications, and is also the editor of the online poetry journal Fixator Press. He was born and lives in Sheffield, England.

Joseph Lewis is a returned Peace Corps volunteer who has spent the past three years living and teaching Western Literature and Film Studies to university students in Dazhou, China. He is also a graduate of the NEOMFA creative writing program at Cleveland State University.

Julianne Couch is a writer and author who tells complicated stories in simple ways, and simple stories in complicated ways. Narrative non-fiction, fiction, and poetry are her primary languages.

Kathryn Long is an author of mystery and suspense novels and short stories.

Kavan P. Stafford is a 26-year-old author and poet based in Glasgow, Scotland. He works as an Information Officer Glasgow's Mitchell Library and writes in his spare time. You can read more of his work, most of which is set in his native Scotland, in Writer's Forum, The Common Breath, The Sock Drawer, Beir Bua, Unpublishable and Cobra Milk.

Keith Hoerner (BS, MFA, PhD candidate) is founding editor of the Webby Award recognized Dribble Drabble Review, an online literary ezine and print anthology series of all things "little-ature."

Kimmy Larson is an autistic horror writer and watercolor painter living in Belgium. She spends her free time volunteering at a wild animal rescue, bird watching, and caring for her own pets.

Madhu Gangopadhyay hails from India. Her passion for writing began when she was in school. She loves to pen down her musings at random moments. She is fiercely passionate about poetry and short stories, and her penchant for mythology can be seen in her works.

Marshall J. Pierce is an author, producer and songwriter living in San Francisco. His writing has appeared in newspapers, online magazines, literary mags, tv commercials, corporate videos, LitQuake, box packaging, his Mom's Facebook page, radio theatre and countless emails.

Matthew Borczon is a poet and Navy sailor from Erie, Pa his latest book "Ghost Highway Blues" just came out through Alien Buddha Press. He publishes extensively in the small press.

Michael Ceraolo is a 65-year-old retired firefighter/paramedic and active poet.

Michael Moreth is a recovering Chicagoan living in the rural, micropolitan City of Sterling, the Paris of Northwest Illinois.

Micki makes friends wherever she goes; she loves to talk. She writes so she can share her personal experiences through fiction, non-fiction and essays with unsuspecting victims.

Moinak Dutta is presently engaged as a teacher of English in a government sponsored institution. Many of his poems and stories are published in national and international anthologies and magazines.

Nishi Pulugurtha is an academic and writer based in Kolkata.

Patrick Sweeney lives in New York City with his wife, Nora. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in numerous publications.

Peter is a speculative fiction writer, most notably the author of the award winning supernatural thriller, "The Grandmaster." He is also the Founder and Managing Editor of Ex Machina Press, a publishing company based in Los Angeles, which was named 2007 PUBLISHER OF THE YEAR by the DIY Book Festival in Los Angeles.

Peter lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he's worked in the magical realms of libraries, human resources, and word processing departments.

"As a teenager in the 80's, I listened to a lot of rock music and was inspired to write song lyrics in case I was ever invited to join a band; I wasn't, but that didn't stop me from continuing to write."

Richard D. Houff was the former editor of Heeltap Magazine and Pariah Press Books, from 1986 until 2010.

Ambivert. One of the ten percent world southpaws. Writing evolves from thought, and so, Ridwanullah is a thinker. He is a virtuous indigene of Osun state, Nigeria.

In 1984, Robert L. Penick ran a half-marathon in ninety minutes flat; it's all been downhill from there. His website is http://www.theartofmercy.net

S. A. Gerber is a native and resident again of Los Angeles, CA. after having spent twenty-four years in a neighboring "city of sin" in the Silver State of Nevada.

SAHELI MITRA is a journalist, author and poet based in India. Her debut romantic novel Lost Words was internationally launched by Penguin Partridge USA.

Sayani Mukherjee is a poet hailing from Chandannagar, a former French colony in West Bengal. She received her post graduation degree in English literature from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. She likes to engage her leisure in photography, cinema and arts.

Sonnet Mondal is the founder of The Enchanting Verses Literary Review. He has authored eight books of poetry.

Steve Klepetar's work has received several nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. His latest collection is My Son Writes a Report on the Warsaw Ghetto (Flutter Press).

Susan C. Waters has an advanced degree from the writing program at George Mason University and is currently Professor Emeritus at New Mexico Junior College. Ms. Waters started out as a journalist covering hard news in upstate New York.

Tim Miller would like to be considered an emerging writer, but alas, he is afraid of swamps. He lives in San Marcos, CA with his wife and three daughters, all of whom own Chicago Bears clothing.

Tlalane Manciya writes poetry, short stories and romance novels. Her writing vision is to write inspiring poems and stories that not only feed the soul but the mind as well, reaching audiences on the global stage.

Todd Matson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in North Carolina, United States.

Todd Sullivan currently lives in Taipei, Taiwan, where he teaches English as a Second Language. He hosts a YouTube Channel that interviews writers across the publishing spectrum.

Tom Hamilton's work has appeared in over seventy publications including 'Bathtub Gin' 'The Rockford Review' and the 'Old Crow Review' among many others.

Umar Yogiza Jr. is a Writer, Poet and Builder based in Abuja, Nigeria. He is the author of "Instrument of Immortality" and "Singing In A Bonfire."

Vicki Iorio is the author of "Poems from the Dirty Couch," Local Gems Press and the chapbooks "Send Me a Letter," dancinggirlpress and "Something Fishy," Finishing Line Press. Her poetry has appeared in numerous print and on-line journals including The Painted Bride Quarterly, Rattle, poets respond on line, and The Fem Lit Magazine., The American Journal of Poetry.

When not working on her essays, short stories, and novel-in-progress, Victoria and her husband are riding their Vespas, exploring the wine regions of California, befriending dogs, and raising insect assassins -- also known as praying mantises.

Wayne Russell is or has been many things in his time upon this planet; he has been a creative writer, world traveler, graphic designer, former soldier, and former sailor.

Wendy Taylor lives in rural New Zealand with her family and a variety of animals.

William Taylor Jr. lives and writes in San Francisco. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, and a volume of fiction. His work has been published widely in journals across the globe, including Rattle, The New York Quarterly, and The Chiron Review.

A. Frank Bower took early retirement from mental health work in 2006 to write, study writing and spend time with his wife Carol. He workshopped with Dan Pope and Sari Rosenblatt at CT Wesleyan, but credits his local writers group Poplar Writers -- Geof Fowler, Carol Parker and Lynn Wilcox -- with helping him most. He has published 16 short stories, 4 memoirs and 4 poems to date.

Shaikh started writing at the age of eight and has since written over two hundred poems. He writes in English and Urdu, and his poems have been featured in international publications.

Akintoye Akinsola is an Accountant and Poet from Nigeria who loves movies and music and appreciates the simple things of life. He also enjoys writing on and reading different genres of books.

Alberto Quero, poet and narrator, holds a BA in Literature and Linguistics, a Masters in Venezuelan literature and a Doctorate in Humanities by the University of Zulia, Venezuela.

Twenty three year old English writer currently studying film in Cornwall, the South of England. Mainly interested in short stories and poetry. Influences (lots of Americans) : Charles Bukowski, Ernest Hemingway, Truman Capote, Raymond Carver, Jack Kerouac

Amanda is a married mother of three girls and resides near Charleston, WV. She enjoys writing horror, thriller and satire and loves all work by Daphne du Maurier.

Anne Eyries left the UK last century to work in France, lives in Arles and is a member of the Poetry Society’s Stanza in France.

Antony King is an internationally published writer/ poet from Eastern Kentucky. His love of the classics guided him to poetry and fueled his passion for writing.

Author/Attorney B Shawn Clark now devotes most of his time to creative authorship, and his spare time, such that it is, to practicing law, rather than the other way around.

B. Jeyamohan is a Tamil writer and literary critic based in Nagercoil, India. One of India's finest authors writing today, he has traveled the length and breadth of the Indian subcontinent, and his work examines and reinterprets India’s rich literary and classical traditions.

Ben wrote his first poems in Texas where he grew up. He then moved to Berkeley, Boston, Philadelphia and finally Northeast Ohio.

Caitlin Sinead Jennings has a master's degree in writing from Johns Hopkins University. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia with her husband and tweets about writing, reading, and whatnot at @CaitlinSineadJ.

Cameron Walker is a writer from the north of England. He has contributed fiction pieces to "Lovecraftiana Magazine", as well as biographical articles for the national media relating to his health journey.

Chaitali is a published writer, translator, language teacher, and volunteer journalist from the Netherlands. Her first prose poem collection "Cross- Stitched words" (Setu publication, Pittsburgh, USA) was published in 2021.

I grew up in central Iowa, where the writing bug infested my impressionable brain in my teens. Insecure Pisces that I am, many of my stories and characters remained imprisoned in a shoe box until I moved to Mississippi in 2001...

Christine Seery works as a caregiver to the elderly and collects masquerade ball masks. Her poetry has been published in Down in the Dirt magazine, Wolff Poetry Literary Journal, and Piker Press. She lives in Ohio with her husband, young daughter, and dog.

Chuck Weikert is a retired park ranger who spent most of his career at Virgin Islands National Park. Seduced by coral reef ecosystems, he continues to visit and write about fishy friends in far flung destinations around the world.

Corey Villas, born and raised in North Carolina, is a graduate of Auburn University.

Cynthia Sharp has been published and broadcast internationally. Her work has appeared in many anthologies and literary journals.

Dan A. Cardoza has an MS Degree in Psychology and Counseling. His poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in over 300 publications.

Daniel Davis was born and raised in Central Illinois. His work has appeared in various online and print journals. You can find him at Dumpster Chicken Music.

Darren Sapp is a U.S. Navy veteran, a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary, and holds a Masters of History from Southwestern A/G University. He writes thriller/action fiction and engages various aspects of history for non-fiction.

I have been writing for several years now. My grown up job is being a funeral director in Ventura County, CA. I have also written an unpublished novel, "Funeral On The Beach" and am currently working on another novel as well as another short story. Funeral directing is a third career; I had toiled in Television Animation for 16 years, working for studios such as Disney, Warner Brothers, Sony and Knowledge Adventure.

Dianne Post is an attorney who worked for twenty years representing battered women and children in family courts. Since 1998 she has been doing international human rights work focused primarily on gender-based violence. Her writings include articles, columns, law review articles, and short stories for which she has won several prizes.

Fiona Sinclair lives in a village in the UK. She is a poet with several collections published by small presses. Fiona has just begun writing short stories especially about subjects that cannot be covered by poetry.

Gary Duehr has taught creative writing for institutions including Boston University, Lesley University, and Tufts University.

Gayle Jansen Beede has published a collection of poetry, "You Can Practically See Cattle Dancing." Some of her work has appeared in magazines such as Negative Capability, Zone 3, Louisiana Literature, Cumberland Poetry Review, Poet & Critic, Northeast Journal, Eclipse, Karamu. She lives a stone's throw from San Francisco.

Geosi Gyasi is a librarian, book blogger, reader, writer, and interviewer.

Gregg Norman lives and writes in a lakeside cottage in Manitoba, Canada, with his wife and a small dog who runs the joint. His poetry has been placed in journals and literary magazines in Canada, USA, UK, Australia and India.

Graduated as a mathematician but a full-time professional entertainer most of his adult life, Harlan's repeated attempts to escape the entertainment industry have brought work as a librarian, physics teacher, syndicated newspaper columnist, and city planner. Harlan divides his time between Australia and Bhutan.

Huina Zheng, a Distinction M.A. in English Studies holder, works as a college essay coach. She’s also an editor at Bewildering Stories. She resides in Guangzhou, China with her husband and daughter.

J.J. Green is a British freelance science writer currently living in Taipei, Taiwan, where she writes on the natural environment and imaginary worlds.

Jacqueline Chou is a native New Yorker with a master’s degree in French Literature. She is currently working on a collection of short stories.

Expat New Yorker James Penha (he/him) has lived for the past three decades in Indonesia.

Jay Sizemore has found a day job to be the enemy of imagination, but poverty is the cruelest of muses. He writes poems and stories while his wife sleeps and the cats try to figure out how to open doors.

A writer and programmer, John Haymaker currently writes as an American expat in Portugal.

K.G. Munro is an author and poet residing in the mountains. When she isn't writing she does yoga.

Born and raised in Scotland, Kathleen Gray left home at 18 for London, The Hague, then Paris, which became home. Her writing has been published in "Reflex Fiction," "Pharos," and "New Feathers Anthology."

Larry Borger, internationally unknown and unacclaimed writer, resides in the high-desert country of Southern Arizona along the Mexico border.

Laura Stamps loves to play with words in her fiction and prose poetry. Author of 49 novels, novellas, short story collections, and poetry books.

Liam A. Spinage is a former philosophy student, former archaeology educator and former police clerk who spends most of his spare time on the beach gazing up at the sky and across the sea while his imagination runs riot. Occasionally, this imagination has been known to spill out onto paper.

Linda Lerner's latest poetry collection, "A Dance Around the Cauldron" is a prose work consisting of nine characters during the Salem witch trials brought into our own times.

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.

Marco Etheridge is a writer of prose, an occasional playwright, and a part-time poet. He lives and writes in Vienna, Austria. His work has been featured in over one hundred reviews and journals across Canada, Australia, the UK, and the USA.

Marianne Szlyk is a professor at Montgomery College. She and her husband, the writer Ethan Goffman, live with their black cat Tyler who sometimes likes to hang out with them while they write or grade papers.

Mark Manifesto is a writer, teacher, father, and lover of stories. He’s been writing fiction, essays, articles, and poetry the past seven years.

Martin Grise is an American professor who lives a secret life as an adventure story author.

Michael Adubato is a New Jersey writer and poet currently living in Belgium.

Michael Fowler is a playwright and speculative fiction writer living in Ohio.

Ngwako C. Maifala is a writer and a high school teacher from South Africa. He teaches English literature, grammar and transactional writing.

Niles Reddick's novel "Lead Me Home" was a national finalist for a ForeWord Award, a finalist in the Georgia Author of the Year award in the fiction category, and a nominee for an IPPY award. He works for the University of Memphis at Lambuth in Jackson, Tennessee, where he lives with his wife Michelle, two children, Audrey and Nicholas.

Pathik Mitra is a young passionate storyteller who wants to impact people and their lives through his art.

Pramod Rastogi is an Emeritus Professor at EPFL, Switzerland. He is a Poet, academician, researcher, author of nine scientific books, and a former Editor-in-chief (1999-2019) of the international scientific journal “Optics and Lasers in Engineering”.

Ralph Benton lives under the blue skies of Florida's Gulf coast, where the weirdness oozes from the ground like a tar spring. So many stories, so many worlds.

Rick McQuiston is a bonafide horror fanatic. To date, he has had well over 400 publications. Currently, he's under contract with Raven Tale Publications for several novels.

Robb White is the Derringer-nominated author of the Thomas Haftmann, Raimo Jarvi, and Jade Hui detective series.

Robert A. Vella is a former computer programmer/analyst who is now pursuing his lifelong passion for writing and storytelling. Science fiction is his primary focus, but he also writes non-fiction essays on political, cultural, historical, and environmental issues. As a product of the idealistic and tumultuous Sixties, his work generally expresses themes of progressivism and secular morality.

A life-long rock-climber and mountaineer, Robert Walton has made numerous ascents in the Sierra Nevada and in Yosemite. Much of his writing reflects his time in the mountains. His novel "Dawn Drums" was published in April 2013 by Moonlight Mesa Associates.

Russell Epp-Leppel is always exploring his love of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. With a background in engineering, he enjoys deconstructing narrative systems to see how they work, then reassembling them in new ways.

S.F. Wright lives and teaches in New Jersey.

Salim Yakubu Akko, World Voices Magazine's Nigerian correspondent, is a poet and short story writer and lives in the great city of Gombe state.

Sarang Bhand is an entrepreneur working in the clean-tech space. When he is not troubleshooting projects, he likes to spend time writing over the weekends. He is a keen student of the Japanese poetry forms.

Seth Coggeshall is from Sacramento, California. He holds a B.A. in economics from California State University, Sacramento.

Shawn P. Madison, creator of the Guarder/UEN Universe, currently lives in the beautiful Garden State of New Jersey with his wife and a veritable cornucopia of kids. Although he has written in many different genres, he tends to write mostly science fiction and horror.

Indian writer and poet, born in Suburban Kolkata, Sonali completed her Post Graduation from Burdwan University in English Literature and Language, with her Special Paper on Figure Of Speech.

Steven French is a retired academic who lives in West Yorkshire, UK. He’s been ’trying his hand’ at this story writing game for a couple of years now.

Steven is based out of the Ozarks and has a BA in English with an emphasis in creative writing from Missouri State University. His fiction can be found in Bewildering Stories , Midwest Literary Magazine, Aurora Wolf, Yellow Mamma and is available for purchase in Winter Canons and A href="http://www.amazon.com/Aurora-Rising-Literary-Journal-Science/dp/1456479083">Aurora Rising.

Sudeep Adhikari, from Kathmandu, Nepal, is professionally a PhD in Structural-Engineering. His poetry has found place in many online/print literary journals/magazines.

Dr. Supatra Sen, currently Associate Professor in a reputed Kolkata college is a veteran academician, teaching and researching in the fields of Botany and Environment. Her 125 odd publications as international books, papers and reviews are chiefly in her parent subject.

Dr. Sutanuka Ghosh Roy is Assistant Professor and Head Department of English in Tarakeswar Degree College, The University of Burdwan, WB, India.

"Living for over 30 years in the Ozarks I have seen the Gods many times in the sky above the mountains, the result of my passion for Mythology both Greek and Roman."

Thomas Broderick is the author of over 25 published short stories and an active member of SFWA. Read more of Thomas's fiction on http://BroderickWriter.com.

Austrian writer Thomas Kodnar, born in 1992, has a thing for horror. He has published short stories and novellas, and written for the stage. He studied philosophy at the University of Vienna. He enjoys black coffee and vegan cake.

Tim Henderson is a freelance writer who currently resides in Asheville, NC. He holds an M.A. in Communication Studies, spent several years teaching English in Japan and traveling around Asia, and is finishing up a collection of short stories based on his adventures in the Far East.

Thomas Koperwas is a retired teacher living in Windsor, Ontario, Canada who writes short stories of horror, crime, fantasy, and science fiction.

Tom Larsen lives in Lambertville, New Jersey with Andree and her pets. His work has appeared in Newsday, New Millennium Writings, Antietam Review and Puerto del Sol.

Umar Hussaina Garba is a young Nigerian Poet and a storyteller. She has written over 20+ poems, some published by online magazines and others featured in anthologies. She's known for her beauty use of imagery in her poems and her undying exposure of culture.

Vandana Kumar is a Middle School French teacher in New Delhi, India. An educator with over 20 years of experience, she is also a French translator and recruitment consultant. Her poems have been published in various national and international journals and websites.

Víctor Parra Avellaneda (Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico 1998). He has studied Biology at the CUCBA of the University of Guadalajara. He writes speculative fiction, especially science fiction and climate fiction.

w v sutra is the author of skeuomorphia, recently released by White Donkey Publishing. His poetics seek at all times to destabilize and undermine received praxis in the hope of achieving a novel manifestation.

Bill Schwarz is a writer, designer, and engineer from Austin, Texas.

Yahuza Usman [Crawling Writer], the Secretary of Taraba State branch of Hilltop Creative Arts Foundation, is a Nigerian award-winning author, essayist, spoken word artiste, book reviewer, Wikimedian, typist, graphic designer, short-story writer, and a versatile poet who has many of his works featured in many literary magazines.

A.J. is a horror and thriller writer whose research for stories tends to leave her Google search history looking rather concerning.

Aidan Alberts is a short story writer with a knack for writing sad stories. He is currently writing a military science-fiction novel. He hopes that it isn't science-fiction that he will be attending a creative writing PhD program soon.

Aiden Dufort is a writer living in St. Louis, Missouri.

Ajanta Paul is a widely-published poet, short story writer and critic from Kolkata, India who has been in academia for ages and has returned to her first love -- writing. She did her PhD in English from Jadavpur University in the 1990s and is currently working at Women's Christian College, Kolkata.

Albert Rodriguez is an emerging writer based in Brooklyn, New York. He has a degree from Borough of Manhattan Community College.

Alcuin Fromm is an American living in Germany. A life-long lover of fantasy and science-fiction, his literary dream is to craft stories that transport his readers to far-away worlds where they can find a souvenir to take back home to the real world.

Alex Villepique is an astrophysicist from Bosnia and Herzegovina, who loves to ponder of "what if" sci-fi scenarios and turn them into stories. Currently living in mountains of South California and stares either at the night sky or computer screen.

Alexei Russell is an emerging writer living in Winnipeg, Canada. He had a great many jobs before realizing his University English teacher may have had something, when she suggested he'd be happiest as a writer. A believer in the maxim that a writer should try his hand at all genres, he has conquered all themes and genres, apart from Westerns--which he will get around to eventually.

Ali Abbas is an author, photographer and carpenter, all of which has to fit around a day job. His short fiction has been published widely. Ali maintains a blog at www.aliabbasali.com.

Alice Baburek is an avid reader, determined writer and animal lover. She lives with her female partner and four canine companions. Retired, she challenges herself to become an unforgettable emerging voice.

Almustapha Umar, a Nigerian poet based in Jalingo Taraba state, a member at Newborn Poet Forum and Hill-top Creative Arts Foundation Taraba chapter.

Amit Chakraborty is an author from India whose daytime job is in IT. He writes humorous short stories which show the human side of the problems faced by people.

Amita Ray is former associate professor in English and Vice Principal of a college residing in Kolkata, India, An academic of varied interests she is a Translator, Short Story writer and Poet.

Andrew Fraknoi is a retired astronomer and college professor. He has had nine stories published so far, two in anthologies, seven in magazines. He is the lead author of the free, online book "Astronomy," published by the nonprofit OpenStax project, which is the most frequently-used introductory astronomy textbook in North America.

Angela Townsend is a Pushcart Prize nominee, seven time Best of the Net nominee, and the 2024 winner of West Trade Review’s 704 Prize for Flash Fiction. Angela has lived with Type 1 diabetes for 34 years, laughs with her poet mother every morning, and loves life affectionately.

Anna Murray is a nationally recognized technology consultant, speaker and blogger. One of an extraordinarily rare species -- a woman who owns a successful software-development company -- she loves to combine her two passions, technology and writing.

Anna Stolley Persky is pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at George Mason University.

Anthony David Vernon is an adjunct professor of philosophy residing in South Florida. He has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Antonio Hopson has published short stories in The Harrow Magazine, The Subterranean Quarterly, Poor Mojo's Almanac and also NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu's Exquisite Corpse Magazine.

Arón Reinhold is a Texan who reads and writes. He studied English Literature at the University of North Texas until 2014. Afterwards, He took a long break from writing due to an intense focus on social justice activism.

Arthur Davis is a management consultant who has been quoted in The New York Times and in Crain’s New York Business, taught at The New School and interviewed on New York TV News Channel 1.

Ayush is a writer of low-key romances and slice-of-life fiction. A speculative theorist at heart, he can often be spotted at conventional nooks of isolation around the city—atop library shelves and behind coffee spoons.

Bevy Daniel has been composing short stories and working on plays for quite a while, with a particular draw to sci-fi and speculative fiction. She lives in Chicago, IL where she spends as much time as possible taking long walks, reading, community organizing, and spending time with the people she loves.

Bill Diamond lives in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado where he writes to try and figure it all out.

Billy Forshaw lives and works in London. He was a police officer for several years before deciding he had exacerbated his fair share of emergencies, and now teaches English (excitedly) to Secondary School students.

Bud Pharo is a disabled veteran who writes flash fiction and short stories.

C. David Ray is an author and attorney living in Richmond, Virginia. His work has appeared in the Piker Press, with forthcoming work to appear in the Freedom Fiction Journal this fall.

C.J. Arellano is a writer and filmmaker. During the day, he works as a video editor at the Second City comedy theatre in Chicago. Sift through his video and writing stuff at CJArellano.com.

Callan Preece is a writer and trainee teacher from Birmingham, England interested in telling small stories about people.

Carl "Papa" Palmer of Old Mill Road in Ridgeway, Virginia, lives in University Place, Washington. He is retired from the military and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) enjoying life as "Papa" to his grand descendants and being a Franciscan Hospice volunteer.

Carly Kapusinsky is a recent SUNY New Paltz graduate of the English program whose works can be found in the Sublunary Review, CBR and offMetro.

Caroline Taylor writes short stories, novels, and nonfiction. She's clueless about the purpose of social media, but she can imagine where it might be heading.

Casey Richards-Bradt (they/them) is a third-year creative writing student at Emerson College. They love rewatching Friday the 13th movies and writing haikus in hammocks. You can find their work right here on The Piker Press.

Cathy Adams' first novel, "This Is What It Smells Like," was published by New Libri Press, Washington.

Charles Kruger is a writer because he doesn't know how to keep his mouth shut. He paints too.

Chitra Gopalakrishnan uses her ardor for writing, wing to wing, to break firewalls between nonfiction and fiction, narratology and psychoanalysis, marginalia and manuscript and tree-ism and capitalism.

Christina Chin is a painter and haiku poet from Malaysia. She is a four-time recipient of top 100 in the mDAC Summit Contests, exhibited at the Palo Alto Art Center, California. 1st prize winner of the 34th Annual Cherry Blossom Sakura Festival 2020

"Galactic Roads, Take Me Home." Christopher Henckel is a writer of science fiction and fantasy with a healthy dose of Appalachian mischief.

Christopher Yermack is happy to be here.

Claire Wilcox Is an addiction psychiatrist, associate professor of translational neuroscience and writer.

Colin James and his wife, Jane currently reside in Western Massachusetts. He is a great admirer of the Scottish landscape painter, John Mackenzie.

Cynthia Bernard is a woman in her early seventies, a long-time classroom teacher and an emerging writer of poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. She lives with her husband, their pets, and many houseplants on a hill overlooking the ocean, about 25 miles south of San Francisco.

Dale Ashauer writes poems and stories that sometimes almost make sense. He enjoys a good edit.

Darrell T.Smith grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and relocated to Oklahoma City in 1982 where he is a real estate broker and investor and a wannabe artist.

David Blitch is a disabled Pastor and author living in Fleetwood, Pennsylvania. He loves concerts and skydiving.

David Henson and his wife have lived in Brussels and Hong Kong and now reside in Illinois. His work has been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes, Best of the Net and two Best Small Fictions and has appeared in various journals.

David Rich holds two engineering degrees from MIT and lives in the Boston area with his wife and daughters. His short fiction has been featured over the last several years in numerous literary journals.

David Simmons was born in Washington, D.C. during the crack epidemic. David is a multi-instrumentalist who has made several contributions to many major hip hop albums.

David Wright is a writer and teacher living on Canada's majestic west coast. He has a lovely wife, two sparkling daughters and more than 50 published short stories. His work has appeared in Neo-opsis, Aiofe's Kiss, Forgotten Worlds and many other cool magazines.

Devin’s job as a night watchman comprises sitting at a desk monitoring a county building, which allows him eight uninterrupted hours of reading and writing (best job ever).

Devon Field lives in Vancouver, BC, where he writes and podcasts. He hosts the medieval history podcast 'Human Circus: Journeys in the Medieval World.'

Dominy Clements studied composition and flute at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1983 to 1987. After graduating he came to The Netherlands in 1987 to study composition with Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatoire, also studying with Gilius van Bergeijk and Frederic Rzewski.

Donna Gum wrote nonfiction including several published articles and ghostwriting. Unable to resist the call of fiction, she enjoys writing flash fiction in the Appalachian Mountains.

E.B. Sommer has been writing her whole life, but as with many writers she has only recently been willing to submit her work. She’s an insurance agent by trade and a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, having served for 27 months in Rwanda. She likes to invent stories on her porch, especially if there is a caffeinated beverage at hand.

E.P. Lande was born in Montreal, but has lived most of his life in the south of France and Vermont, where he now lives with his partner, writing and caring for more than 100 animals, many of which are rescues.

Ed Nobody is an up and coming writer from Ireland who wants to break the barriers of fiction and write engaging stories not constricted by genre convention. He has written two full novels, one of which may see light next year, pending the grace of Xenu.

Returning to writing after having spent most of a lifetime doing other things. Original wife, two children, five grandchildren. Have matriculated through almost all of my earlier vices and sins (if it's other than hard drugs, I've probably attempted it). A pleasantly haphazard life.

Elaine Lennon is a film historian. She is the author of CHINATOWNE: The Screenplays of Robert Towne and other books about cinema. She is widely published in several international journals. She writes novels and short stories.

Dr. Elizabeth V.Koshy is a Professor in English Literature at Dr.A.B.Telang Senior College, Pune, India.

Luis Borges dreamed that he was an ineffective storyteller named Emile Ansers: a Colombian socialist enamored with Emersonian ethics and Nietzschean humor. The real Emile Ansers was born on June 6th, 1996, and since the age of twelve, he has been chasing after his original dreamer without success.

Emma Burnett is a researcher and writer. She has had stories in Utopia Magazine, MetaStellar, Milk Candy Review, Elegant Literature, The Stygian Lepus, Roi Fainéant, and others.

Emma Louise Gill (she/her) is a British-Australian speculative fiction writer and consumer of vast amounts of coffee. Scientist, educator, and cat mum. Brought up on a diet of English lit, she rebelled and now spends her time writing explosive space opera and other fantastical things in beach cafes.

Eric Roberson is an emerging writer. He is an alumnus of the Writers Guild Foundation - Veterans Writing Project in Los Angeles and he earned an MFA in creative writing from Augsburg University in 2020. He and his wife and old hound dog, Blue, live in Southern Nevada near their four grown children, and a crazy and eclectic family of friends and creatives.

Eric Wampler lives in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. He writes dark fantasy and science fiction.

Erik Buchanan is a writer based in Pennsylvania. He works night shift security which gives him plenty of time to scribble up stories.

Esther Mubawa is a Zimbabwe woman, single mother. She lives and works in Cape Town as a maid. When she has time, she goes for walks on the beach, reads, and writes about her life and the lives of other Shona women.

Ethan is a writer from West Virginia. He writes mostly short fiction and poetry and he has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Philosophy.

Eva Schultz lives in Aurora, Illinois, where she is a business writer by day and a fiction writer by night. Her work has appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Theme of Absence, and Writer's Digest. She lives with a big orange cat named Gus and enjoys drawing, painting, and collecting typewriters.

Evan Guilford-Blake's prose and poems have appeared in numerous print and online journals, as well as in several anthologies, winning 19 awards. His plays have been produced internationally and won 42 competitions. Thirty are published. He and his wife (and inspiration) Roxanna, a healthcare writer and jewelry designer, live in the southeastern US.

Evan Kaiser is a retired physician who practiced primary care medicine in southeastern New England for over twenty-five years. He currently lives with his wife in the Providence, RI area and enjoys painting, reading, cooking, and birding.

Fay L. Loomis, member of the Stone Ridge Library Writers and Rats Ass Review Workshop, lives a quiet life in the woods in upstate New York.

FRED HILARY, a writer of mythic fiction and fairy tale, lives in Greece. His website can be found at Fred Hilary's Fiction Pages.

G. V. Silva was born in São Paulo, Brazil. He holds a bachelors and a masters degree in philosophy from the State University of Campinas and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the Technical University of Berlin.

Gabriel Bates is a poet living in Tiffin, Ohio. His work has appeared in several publications, online and in print.

Gabriel Mambo graduated from Emerson College's MFA program in Creative Writing in 2021. Previously, he earned his bachelor's degree in English at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. He lives in Queens, New York.

Gabriel White is a senior at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale studying to be a history educator. He is an avid horror movie watcher and a devoted Stephen King fan.

Gail Chumbley is a retired history-educator following 33 years in the classroom. A nationally recognized instructor of American History, Gail was ready make the transition from telling the tales of the past, to trying her hand at writing those stories for a broader audience.

Galen T. Pickett has been a member of the physics faculty at Cal State Long Beach since 1999. His writing is inspired by the grandeur of the physical world and the absurdity of the academic world, in nearly equal measure.

Gary Durbin is a retired serial entrepreneur having founded four software companies. He now writes, hikes, and advises startup companies.

Geoffrey Marshall is a writer in Aurora, Canada. His education never really took to be honest, through no fault of his instructors (debatable), but he did manage to acquire a BA in English Literature from Carleton University.

Giovanni Ruffini lives in New York City. He is a Professor of Classical Studies in the Department of History at Fairfield University, specializing in the social history of Greco-Roman Egypt and Christian Nubia. His short stories combine a love of science fiction with a lifelong interest in the history and cultures of the Nile Valley and the Horn of Africa.

Glenn Dungan is currently based in Brooklyn, NYC. He exists within a Venn-diagram of urban design, sociology, and good stories. When not obsessing about one of those three, he can be found at a park drinking black coffee and listening to podcasts about murder.

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).

H. K. G. Lowery is a writer from Newcastle upon Tyne. He graduated from Lancaster University with a MA in Creative Writing (Distinction) where he was honoured to win the 2021/2022 Portfolio Prize for his work.

Hamish McGee has a background in health care and has witnessed the healing power of the written word.

"Metalhead, Misfit, walking this earth for two decades now. Dedicating my life to turn my mess into a masterpiece, and one way I see fit for it, is writing my heart out. I believe art is not just about reflecting the society, but also about carrying the viewer, reader, or to places unknown, at times an abyss and at times, a mirror. "

Heather Sager lives in Illinois. Her most recent work appears in Borderless Journal, Setu, Otoliths, morphrog, Poetry Pacific, Bluepepper, Magma, The Fabulist, and more.

Hridi is an Indian artist and writer currently based in Belgium, working as a research intern in art conservation at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium.

Iren Petrova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1993. Her poetry is focused on topics like women, sin, religion, motherhood and asks deep psycho-social questions.

Isaac Bouchard spends most of his time reading, writing, playing soccer, and catching insects in his backyard. The same description of him could be given for the past two decades, and it likely won't change much in the future.

Isaiah J. King is a Ph.D. candidate at George Washington University, studying machine learning. When he isn't doing that, he writes short fiction and poetry.

J. David Thayer is an educator living in Texas. His works have appeared in 24-Hour Short Story Contest (2nd Place), The First Line, The Last Line, Fantasy/Sci-Fi Film Festival, Flash Fiction Magazine, and many others.

J.T. Barr would’ve been an astronomer if it weren’t for his complete lack of mathematical talent. Instead, he reads and writes a lot of science fiction.

Jacob Aaron Reingold has taught English in Oman, served in the US Navy, and worked in refugee resettlement, carpentry, and food service. He currently lives in Spain.

Jake Zawlacki is currently pursuing an obscure master's degree at Stanford University. He has been published in The Citron Review, Riggwelter, Eunoia Review, Gravel, Litro and many others.

James Brownold enjoyed a career writing and acting in commercials by day, and performing with various comedy/improv groups at night. Currently he teaches improvisation in Westchester, NY; where he also sings at retirement homes as "Senior Moments."

James Noguera has published short stories and poems online, such as in The WiFiles, The World of Myth, and The Piker Press. He has an MFA from City College of New York. He lives in the Bronx and isn't scared.

James Rogers lives in New York and is a teacher at the United Nations International School. Originally from Ireland, his short fiction has appeared in The First Line, The Galway Review and Close to the Bone.

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.

James W. Morris is a graduate of LaSalle University in Philadelphia, where he was awarded a scholarship for creative writing. He has published dozens of short stories, humor pieces, essays, and poems in various literary magazines, and worked for a time as a joke writer for Jay Leno.

Janice is a native New yorker who enjoys writing fiction, creative nonfiction and personal essays. She is a member of Woodside Writers in Queens.

Jason Battle writes about dragons, faeries, space and time travel. His short stories have appeared in short story anthologies and online ezine publications. He resides outside Chicago with his wife and son.

Jay Cole is a science and speculative fiction writer from from Phoenix, Arizona.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jim Wright (he/him) lives in central New York State, USA. He writes short stories when he can and works as a school psychologist when he must. He is a past member of the Downtown Writer’s Center in Syracuse, NY.

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.

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.

Jon Wesick has written over a million words in poems, short stories, and novels. He is a regional editor of the San Diego Poetry Annual and host of the Gelato East Fiction Open Mic. He lives in Manchester, New Hampshire and longs for gene editing to bring giant wombats back from extinction.

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.

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

Kaci Skiles Laws is a closet cat-lady and creative writer who reads and writes voraciously in the quiet moments between motherhood and managing Crohn's Disease. She grew up on a small farm in a Texas town alongside many furry friends, two sisters, and a brother.

Karama Neal writes fiction inspired by her experience of community and her background as a geneticist. She lives, writes, and thrives in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Karla Lammers works as a corporate lawyer and has written several academic articles. Since turning her pen toward literary fiction, some of her short stories have appeared in online publications.

Kate Alexander-Kirk drinks copious amounts of tea as she dreams up weird and wonderful stories that she one day hopes to realize. And she does it all donning her Top-Hat at a jaunty angle. Most recently her work has appeared in Spry Literary Journal, Visceral Uterus and Boy Slut.

Alaskan-born Kathleen Bryson received her Ph.D. in Evolutionary Anthropology from University College London,. She studies prejudice/empathy in humans and other great apes and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Oxford University.

Kaz Morran is the author of "550AU Buried in Stone," a science fiction thriller. He's a Canadian based in Japan.

Keller Agre is a horror fiction writer originally from Overland Park, Kansas whose work has appeared in Haunted Words Press and Sirens Call Publications. He is a member of the Atlanta Writers Club. When not writing, he enjoys hiking and playing folk music on his guitar.

Ken Foxe is a writer and transparency activist in Ireland. He is the author of two non-fiction books based on his journalism and likes to write short stories of horror, fantasy, SF, and speculative fiction.

Ken Goldman, former Philadelphia teacher of English and Film Studies, is an affiliate member of the Horror Writers Association. His stories have appeared in over 700 independent press publications in the U.S., Canada, the UK, and Australia with over thirty due for publication in 2014.

Kera Morris is a freelance journalist who writes regularly for Westword. She's the editor-in-chief for the Arapahoe Pinnacle and is edging into storytelling.

Kerry D. Stewart has been traveling around the United States for fifty years, and believes that every encounter with another human being is a brush with a potential story. "Writing is as much a way of life as any other deep profession. It just wears out more laptops than most."

Kevin Keating currently teaches English at Baldwin-Wallace College near Cleveland, Ohio. His novel, "The Natural Order of Things," is scheduled for publication in November 2012 by Aqueous Books.

Kimberly Lee happily left the practice of law some years ago to focus on motherhood, community work, and creative pursuits. She lives in Southern California with her husband and three children, and is currently at work on her first novel.

Kirk Wareham is a father of six, a grandfather of six, a lover of nature, and an avid reader. His passion for reading led him to a love of writing.

Kiromil Baroroh (she/her) is a writer based in Indonesia. She speaks through the written word, yet she also finds joy in visual arts and melody because words often fall short of capturing her emotions.

Kristan Ginther is a professional copywriter and published nonfiction author. Her recent short fiction work has appeared in apt Literary Journal, M Review, and Planet Magazine. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband, Dan, two cats, and Boxer dog. She h

Kyle A. Massa is a comedy author living somewhere in upstate New York with his wife, their daughter, and three wild animals.

Lameese Hassen is a queer Palestinian-American that grew up in the Southwest Suburbs of Chicago. She received her BA from Columbia College Chicago.

Laureen Vonnegut is an American writer living between Romania and Mexico. Her novel, "OASIS", was launched in New York by literary press Counterpoint/Perseus Books. Last year her newest novel, "TWIN LIES," was published by Skorpion Press and is read in book clubs from Alaska to Romania.

Leonard Henry Scott is a Bronx born and raised graduate of American University, with an MLS degree from the University of Maryland. He was on the staff of the Library of Congress for many years and presently resides in National Harbor, Maryland.

Lily Murphy is a freelance writer from Cork city, Ireland. Some may describe her as a drinker with a writing problem!

Lisa Lahey is an Associate Acquisitions Editor for After Dinner Conversation Magazine.

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.

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.

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 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).

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.

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

Born in Cuba, Matias Travieso-Diaz migrated to the United States as a young man. He became an engineer and lawyer and practiced for nearly fifty years. After retirement, he took up creative writing.

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.'

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.

Michael Dundrea recently earned his MFA in Creative Writing at Eastern Washington University. He lives with his fiance, Alex, in Spokane where they have recently decided not to watch any more episodes of "House of Dragon."

Michael Fiorito is currently a contributing short story editor for Mad Swirl magazine. In 2018, his short story collection "Freud's Haberdashery Habits & Other Stories" was published by Alien Buddha Press.

Michael is a high school English teacher in Ozark, Alabama. He has been published in fictionontheweb.com and is currently at work on a novel to be published in the near future hopefully. More of his work can be found at scribophile.com.

Michael L. Sussman, born in New York, has lived most of his years in Oregon. He has written many songs, a handful of scripts, a boxful of jokes, and a collection of film reviews, essays, and poems.

Michael W. Clark has a Ph.D. in molecular biology from U.C.L.A. He has been a research scientist as well as an entrepreneur. Along with these professional endeavors, he has been writing fiction and poetry since he was a teenager.

An ex-pat by happenstance, Michael has spent most of the last three years in and around Germany. Some of his non-fiction has also been featured in "mental_floss" and "Americas." On the web: www.michael-ward.com

Michele Host is a lawyer and writer living in New York.

Michelle Reale is the author of several poetry collections, and is the Founding and Managing Editor for both OVUNQUE SIAMO: New Italian-American Writing and The Red Fern Review.

Mika Nadolsky resides with his wife in Dallas, Texas by way of Denver Colorado.

Mike Scofield has been publishing stories since the last millennium.

Mini Babu is working as Associate Professor of English with the Dept. of Collegiate Education, Govt. of Kerala and now working at BJM Govt. College, Chavara, Kollam, Kerala, India. Her poems have featured in anthologies, journals and magazines.

Monobina Nath is a poetess living in Kolkata, India.

Moses Bakst is a Systems Engineer originally from Brooklyn, NY. He recently graduated from the University of Maryland with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and as a member of the Jiménez-Porter Writers' House.

Nadim Silverman is a Bangladeshi-Jewish writer and illustrator based in New York City. He is currently studying creative writing at SUNY Stony Brook's MFA program.

Nathan works as a support worker in community aged care. Fantasy and Sci-Fi are his favourite genres that he enjoys reading and wants to write about. Nathan could spend hours reading about mythology, and would like to see ancient Persia become as common as medieval Europe in fantasy novels.

Nicholas Woods is a writer and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. He wrote and directed the crime/drama ‘Echoes of Violence’ which premiered at CINEQUEST FILM FESTIVAL in 2020.

Sun Valley is the record holding largest trailer park in the world. We've got a meth problem, too. Jealous?

Nick Young is a retired award-winning CBS News Correspondent. He lives outside Chicago.

Nils Wolfcale earned a Bachelor of Arts from Ohio State University and an Associates Degree from Hocking Technological College in Nelsonville, Ohio. His short story, "Summer Music" was recently accepted by the Roanoke Review. He lives on a small farm in Northern Michigan.

Noel Lis lives in Vancouver, B.C., where they work in a Post Office. Some of their interests include exploring local hiking trails, metal detecting, and building Aliexpress watches. Noel was homeschooled and whatever preconceptions of that you might have are probably true.

Olga is a freelance writer and journalist. Her articles and book reviews appear regularly in local newspapers. She also writes short stories in the fantasy genre and is working on a novel.

Orion Andersen loves stories that capture the strange magic hidden of the mundane, prose meant to be read slowly and savored, images that arrange themselves into uncanny mosaics, and also dogs.

Pat O'Malley is a walking skin machine from New York who loves to write the kind of weird, quirky fiction that he and his friends would love to read.

Patrick S. Smith lives in Columbus, Ga with his wife and daughters. He is a 20 year veteran of the U.S. Air Force Reserves. He enjoys knitting, playing video games, and watching a variety of sports.

Paul O’Neill is an award-winning short story writer from Fife, Scotland. He runs Short Story Club on Substack where he and over 100 readers analyse the classics on a regular basis.

Peter Dabbene has published the poetry collection Optimism, the graphic novels Ark and Robin Hood, the story collections Prime Movements and Glossolalia, and a novel, Mister Dreyfus' Demons.

Peter Rustin and his wife Leslie recently moved from Los Angeles to Peter’s native Connecticut, with their three rather intelligent cats. Peter is an attorney practicing remotely with his firm in Los Angeles.

"Despite spending 9 years in institutes of higher education, Phil only ended up taking two classes in English. (We think it shows.")

Dr. Piku Chowdhury teaches in a post graduate government-aided college and serves as a research guide, editor, author, painter, translator, singer, poet, photographer, and mental health facilitator.

Writer who lives in NYC.

R.F. Gonzalez was born in a small town in the impoverished country of Nicaragua. When he was young, he lived in Europe. When he grew up, he moved to the USA where he now does work as an investor and writing professor. One day he will write about these adventures.

Randall Cooper works in education in Michigan, he is excited to showcase "The Clock" at Piker Press.

Ranjit Kulkarni is a writer of short stories, articles, and novels.

Rebecca Morean is a mother of four, raises a small heard of goats and makes cheese, teaches writing and composition at Sinclair Community College, and wants to right wrongs by writing about wrongs. She has published over two dozen short stories, and her articles and fiction have appeared in Salon, Crone, Kalliope, and Mississippi Mud among others. Her novel, In the Dead of Winter (St. Martin's Press) was picked up as a series by Breese Books in England and is about the daughter of Sherlock Holmes. She is currently the president of the Antioch Writers' Workshop in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

Reeve Chudd is a retired trusts and estates attorney living in Carmel, Indiana. In his youth, he wanted to be writer, but he wasn’t prepared to sacrifice eating for his art. Today, his four academic degrees, along with $4.55, will purchase a grande latte at Starbucks.

Ricardo Visinho is a writer and the author of "The Star of the Revolution," which was published by The Piker Press in 2017. You can follow Ricardo on Twitter at @RicardoVisinho.

Rituparna Khan, an Assistant Professor in Bidhannagar College, Salt Lake, Kolkata, is a Geographer by profession dealing with anything and everything from natural to human phenomena based on a spatial dimension.

Rob Tyler lives in a barn with a cat on 30 acres of scrubland in Upstate New York. His short fiction appears here and there online and in print, and a few of his stories have been produced as podcasts. When he isn’t writing, can be found wrangling his feral cat, pulling up knotweed by the roots, or shooting pool at the local watering hole. More at robwtyler.com.

Roger Ley was born and educated in London and spent some of his formative years in Saudi Arabia. He worked as an engineer in the oilfields of North Africa and the North Sea, before pursuing a career in higher education.

Roly Andrews lives in Nelson, NZ, in his spare time he enjoys tramping. After many years of practising, he is still trying to learn to play the trombone! A champion for everyone, he has mentored rough sleepers and supported people affected by suicide. He advocates for the rights of people living with disabilities.

Saiprakash Kuntamukkala is an advocate by profession and a poet with passion, hailing from Andhrapradesh, India.

Sam Robinson is a Liverpudlian writer inspired by all things eerie and unsettling. He currently lives in Stockport working as a web developer and hopes to release more strange fiction in the not-too-distant future.

Samantha Swain is a young writer living in the Sacramento area with her family and significant other. She received a graduate degree in Immunology but has since decided to leave science behind in the pursuit of creative writing and studio art.

Samantha Terrell is a published poet who lives near Springfield, Missouri with her husband and two sons. She has been honored to find homes for her work in such reputable publications as: Dissident Voice, Knot Magazine, LaBloga Floricanto, DoveTales by Writing for Peace, the Ebola chapbook by West Chester University, and others.

Saoirse Ni Chiaragain is an Irish writer living in Berlin, Germany. You can find her other work at saoirsenichiaragain.com

Sarah Daly is an American writer whose fiction, poetry, and drama have appeared in twenty-six literary journals including "A Thin Slice of Anxiety," "Ibbetson Street Press," "The Seraphic Review," "Superpresent Magazine," and "Stick Figure Poetry."

Saswat Gautam's attempt to mediate the three-way conflict between economy, environment, and efficiency while practicing Chemical Engineering has translated into his fondness for exploring conflicts — of nations, of ideologies, of people, in one’s mind — in the literary world.

Scott Archer Jones is currently living and working on novels in northern New Mexico, after stints in the Netherlands, Scotland and Norway plus less exotic locations. He's worked for a power company, grocers, a lumberyard, an energy company (for a very long time), and a winery. He is the Treasurer of Shuter Library of Angel Fire, a private 501.C3, and desperately needs your money to keep the doors open.

Sean MacKendrick splits his time between Colorado and Texas. When not writing he works as a data engineer.

Shailendra Ahangama is an aspiring writer from Sri Lanka, currently studying a degree in Economics and Management. He has published a collection of poetry in 2019 titled 'The Beauty Of Becoming'.

Skylar Ruprecht has a B.A. in philosophy from the College of Wooster and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. He is currently an attorney in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Sorin Martin works as an EMT in Indiana, and writes in his free time.

Sreelekha Chatterjee’s short stories have been published in various magazines and journals. She lives in New Delhi, India.

Over a dozen magazines have published Stanley's short stories and he is a member of the Riverside Writers, the Virginia Writers' Club, and the North Carolina Writers' Network that have been great sources of information and support.

Founder of Whisper House Press, Steve Capone Jr. is an HWA member and award-winning Utah-based writer hailing from the Rust Belt.

I am an elementary school teacher living in Connecticut who wants to get published and who wants recognition as a skilled writer of thought-provoking stories.

Subodhana Wijeyeratne is a graduate student and writer living in Tokyo, Japan. He has been writing fiction for nearly twenty years -- primarily speculative -- and has had over a dozen short stories appear in print over the past two years.

Susan Okaty lives in Virginia Beach and is a member of Hampton Roads Writers (hamptonroadswriters.org). Her work has appeared in Highlights for Children and Vox Poetica.

Sushant Kumar B.K. is a Nepalese poet who resides in Gulariya, Bardiya, Nepal. He has MA degrees in English Literature and Political Science from Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Sydnie Stern is a third-year English student at St. John’s University. Her journalistic articles are featured in the University’s independent publication, "The Torch."

Sylvia Cumming lives in Southern California with her husband and two elderly cats. She would love to say she is working on a novel but actually she is just snacking and watching videos about cats or police car chases. As research, of course.

Tamanna Dhuppad is an Indian writer of speculative fiction from Raipur (C.G.). She is a member of Codex and a graduate of the University of Edinburgh with a Master's in Creative Writing.

Teresa Freeland is a ‘forever Midwesterner,’ living in Blue Springs, Missouri. She is always working on one more short story and has one completed novel with another on its way.

Terry Trowbridge’s poems have appeared in many publications, and Terry is grateful to the Ontario Arts Council for his first writing grant, and their support of so many other writers during the polycrisis.

Tiffany Williams lives in Oxford, England. She writes short stories; her shortest ever was 10 words. When she is not writing, she enjoys reading other writers' work, volunteering with a local special needs charity, learning foreign languages, and daydreaming.

After a forty-year career working on poverty in cities around the world, Tim Campbell is finding his voice in memoir and creative non-fiction.

Tim is an aspiring young author in the sci-fi and fantasy genre. He currently works full time in the software industry but has a love for stories with grey characters and moral ambiguity that tell us something about the world

Time Barrow is a writer, educator, poet, humorist, doctor, and dreamer living in Bellevue, WA and working as a UX writer for an Internet juggernaut. You can follow his publication progress and prowess at timewrites.com.

Todd Wells lives in Chicago. He has three children and one wife. He dabbles in time-travel, in that he plays bass in a 1980s cover band.

Tyler Garant is from Philadelphia, with plans to leave ASAP.

Uchechukwu Onyedikam is a Nigerian mad creative artist based in Lagos, Nigeria.

Virginia Bond was born in Oregon and received a Masters in Ministry in 2001. She is the author of The Reign, an adult historical fiction novel, and Specter in the Woods, a juvenile mystery which should be out within the next few months.

Wally Runnels was born in San Diego, raised along the border at his family's ranch and has traveled extensively through Mexico and Latin America.

Ward Webb is the author of numerous short stories and novellas. Originally from NC, he currently lives in NYC. When he is not reading, he is writing -- and when he is not writing, he will most likely be dead. Please do not send flowers.

William P. Adams lives near Seattle and writes short fiction, poetry, and memoirs, often inspired by his baby boomer childhood.

Zach George writes fiction of all lengths with surreal, dark, and mystical atmospheres. He lives in Southwest Ohio where he can often be found staring at blank pages while hoping words will spontaneously appear.

Zary Fekete grew up in Hungary. He has a debut novella out with DarkWinter Lit Press and a short story collection out with Creative Texts. He enjoys books, podcasts, and many many many films.