Authors & Artists
Jane Blanchard lives and writes in Augusta, Georgia. Her work has recently appeared in Alabama Literary Review and North Dakota Quarterly. Her latest collection is Furthermore (Kelsay Books, 2025).
Educated as an engineer, Simon Brod is a Feldenkrais Method practitioner, strategy consultant, poet, and Argentine tango dancer. Born in Oxford, he has made Amsterdam his home. His poems have been published in anthologies by Arachne Press and Image Found, in Amsterdam Quarterly, and in his blog http://www.bodymind.space.
Caleb Coy is a freelance writer with a Masters in English from Virginia Tech. He lives with his family in the USA. His work has appeared in Potomac Review, Coachella Review, Hippocampus, North Dakota Quarterly, The Common, Plough, and elsewhere. He is the author of the 2015 novel, An Authentic Derivative. ‘Last Day In April’ received an Honourable Mention in Glimmer Train’s 2013 Fiction Open.
Andy Craven-Griffiths has had his poetry broadcast on UK national radio and on BBC 2 television. He has been published in various poetry journals and has written commissions for the BBC, the NHS, and Rethink Mental Health charity. Andy grew up working class in a multi-racial family, with adopted siblings, in a feminist, socialist household. He teaches Creative Writing part-time at Leeds Arts University, and at English-speaking schools both regionally and internationally.
(Photo: Sara Teresa).
Lucinda Guard Crofton is an emerging memoir writer who writes from both the vantage point of an elder exploring frailty and strength, and through the eyes of a child making sense of the world around them. Lucinda has worked in film, television, radio, and as a teacher and a farmer. She lives in rural Wisconsin. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in A Catalog of Small Machines, Streetlight Magazine, Brevity Blog, and Short Reads. (Photo: Jacyra Guard).
Allyson Dowling is a writer, poet and translator. She recently graduated with a First in Creative Writing from Oxford University where she rediscovered her love for poetry. Her poems and literary criticism have been published in Ink, Sweat and Tears and Thresholds. She lives in County Wicklow in Ireland with her family and is often to be found in the sea.
Madhumati Dutta has lived and worked mostly in Kolkata (Calcutta), India. While professionally an environmental economist, she has always wanted to write. She has published essays and travelogues—and more recently, she has been writing short and flash stories.
Jennifer L. Freed’s recent poetry appears in Atlanta Review, OneArt, Rust and Moth, Sheila-Na-Gig, Vox Populi, and What The House Knows. Her collection When Light Shifts, exploring themes of identity, body, and care-giving, was a finalist for the 2022 Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize. In the 2025 Eric Hoffer awards, it was short-listed for the Grand Prize, was a finalist for the Medal Provocateur, and second place for the Legacy Prize. She writes, teaches, and facilitates workshops in Massachusetts, USA. Please visit Jfreed.weebly.com.
Claudia Gary teaches workshops on Villanelle, Sonnet, Natural Meter, Persona Poems, Poetry vs. Trauma, etc., at The Writer’s Center (writer.org), currently via Zoom. Author of Humor Me (2006) and several chapbooks, most recently Genetic Revisionism, she is also a science writer, visual artist, and composer of tonal art songs. Her chapbooks are available via the email address at pw.org/content/claudia_gary. Her 2022 article on setting poems to music is online at https://straightlabyrinth.info/conference.html
Mary Granfield’s work has appeared in Ploughshares, Post Road, The Boston Globe, and other publications. She lives in Massachusetts.
Hollis Kurman’s début poetry collection, Unlikely Skylight (Barrow Street Books) published in June 2025. Her poems, one nominated for a Pushcart Prize, have appeared in Amsterdam Quarterly, Atlanta Review (International Poetry Prize finalist), Barrow Street, Carmina Magazine, Intima, Lilith, Ocean State Review, Phoebe, Rattle, and elsewhere. Her children’s books, Counting Kindness and Counting in Green, are published in 11 countries. Hollis serves on not-for-profit boards, is writing a concussion memoir, and lives in Amsterdam. https://holliskurman.com. (Photo: Thiemi Higashi).
Monique van Maare writes short stories and poetry to clear her mind and hear her heart speak. Her work was previously published in The Drabble and Science Fiction Monologues. She lives in The Netherlands, just above sea level. Currently.
Ross McQueen is a Scottish writer based in Brussels. His work has appeared in Amsterdam Quarterly and The Brussels Review (forthcoming). His non-fiction has appeared in the Guardian, Time Out and The Brussels Times.
Bryan R. Monte is a writer, lecturer, anthropologist, editor, and publisher. He was a finalist for the 2021 Hippocrates Open Poetry Competition, and the 2021 and 2025 Gival Press Oscar Wilde Poetry Award. His poetry has been published in Gathered: Contemporary Quaker Poets (Sundress Press, 2013), Voices from the Fierce Intangible World (SoFoPoJo Press, 2019), The 2021 and 2022 Hippocrates Prize (Hippocrates Press, 2021-2) anthologies, and in his book, On the Level (Circling Rivers, 2022).
Guy Russell was born in Chatham, UK, but has lived in Milton Keynes since about 1996. Work in Somewhere This Way (Fiction Desk), Brace (Comma Press), No Spider Harmed (Arachne Press), Madame Morte (Black Shuck), Troubles Swapped For Something Fresh (Salt) and elsewhere. One pamphlet: Like Basically (Dreich Press). He reviews for Tears in the Fence and its blog https://tearsinthefence.com/blog/. (Photo: Marion Russell)
Marcus Slingsby was born in Yorkshire in 1973. During his 20’s and early 30’s he travelled the world. ‘Alang Ship Breaking Yard’ in AQ38 was his first published work. He lives in Friesland with his family.
Kris Spencer is a teacher and writer based in London. His two poetry collections, Life Drawing (2022) and Contact Sheets (2024), are published by Kelsay Books. His debut novel, Every Storm is a Message (2025), is published by Holland Press. His third collection, Slack Land (2025), will be published by Kelsay Books later in the year.
Dick Westheimer lives in rural southwest Ohio with his wife and writing companion, Debbie. He is winner of the 2023 Joy Harjo Poetry Prize and a Rattle Poetry Prize finalist and nominated for numerous awards. His poems have appeared in Only Poems, Whale Road Review, Rattle, Abandon Journal, One Art and About Place. His chapbook, A Sword in Both Hands, Poems Responding to Russia’s War on Ukraine, is published by SheilaNaGig. More at www.dickwestheimer.com
Mantz Yorke is a former science teacher and researcher living in Manchester, England. His poems have been published internationally. His collections, Voyager and Dark Matters are published by Dempsey & Windle, and No Quarter by Erbacce Press.