Authors & Artists
Nathaniel Calhoun works on biodiversity and board governance. His projects focus mostly on the Amazon basin or Aotearoa New Zealand. His poems have featured or will soon feature in the London Magazine, the Iowa Review, Oxford Poetry, Diagram, and many others. He sometimes tweets @calhounpoems
Andrew Darling is a poet, singer-songwriter and trumpeter who lives in Healesville, Australia, on Wurundjeri land. His poetry is born more from joy than survival these days. Alongside an international performing career and longstanding work as a music educator, his poems have appeared in journals and anthologies in Australia and abroad. He also convenes the Healesville Poets’ Breakfast, a regular forum for regional Victorian writers.
Adam Gianforcaro is the author of the chapbook Poems to Stage Dive to (Stanchion Books, 2026) and full-length poetry collection Every Living Day (Thirty West, 2023). A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, his work can be found in The Offing, The Harvard Advocate, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere.
Philip Gross has published nearly 30 collections of poetry in 40 years. The Thirteenth Angel (Bloodaxe, 2022) was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. The Shores of Vaikus (Bloodaxe, 2024) is a creative re-inhabiting of Estonia, his refugee father’s birthplace. He thrives on collaboration, across languages and artforms, e.g. with Lesley Saunders on A Part of the Main (Mulfran, 2018) and with artist Valerie Coffin Price and Welsh-language poet Cyril Jones on Troeon/Turnings (Seren, 2021). (Photo: Stephen Mitchell)
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, often about the climate or other personal worries. Her work was previously published in Amsterdam Quarterly’s Issue #42, The Drabble, and Science Fiction Monologues. She lives in The Netherlands, just above sea level. Currently.
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).
Leen Raats lives in Belgium. Her native language is Dutch. She is a freelance copywriter, specializing in nature, landscapes, and history. She translates her own poems and stories and publishes them in magazines around the world, such as Pleiades, Descant, Crannóg, and Rathalla Review. Find out more at leenwrites.com.
Angela Segredaki is a Greek poet based in Utrecht. She holds a Creative Writing degree from Oxford University and loves poetry and people. In 2022, she won first prize in the 100 years Maria Callas competition in Buenos Aires. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Blue Unicorn, The Ekphrastic Review, New Lyre, Mouthful of Salt, LUPO, The Dawntreader, Snakeskin, and elsewhere. She’s currently collaborating with an American poet on a joint poetry collection.
Sally St Clair, Fish Publishing Editor, lives on a Spanish mountain, where the weather suits her just fine. Recently, her poems have appeared in London Grip, Magma, Clarion, Fragmented Voices, and Frogmore Press. She’s working on a pamphlet and a novel. Posts about her writing life in Andalusia are on Facebook. Sally recently participated in a circular chain project involving nearly 300 women poets each inspired by the previous poet’s poem. sallystclair.com Instagram @sallystclair.writer
Gopu M. Sunil is a poet and writer from India whose work explores climate anxiety, childhood, memory, and quiet social contradictions. His poems use restrained imagery to question normalized harm and human comfort built on invisible costs. He is interested in how language can hold warning, grief, and empathy without spectacle.
Jane Thomas has been highly commended in competitions including The Bridport, Fish, Hippocrates, and Rialto. Her work has been published recently in Stand, Mslexia, and The Oxford Review of Books. She is currently completing a poetry collection on the theme of Alzheimer’s, supported by Arts Council England and The Society of Authors.
Richenda Van Leeuwen is Executive Director of the Clean Energy Leadership Institute, providing fellowships to outstanding young clean energy professionals. She has 30+ years of global experience and has built international initiatives providing clean energy solutions to improve peoples’ lives, livelihoods and health. She has held CEO and leadership roles with the UN Foundation, the Aspen Institute, in non-profits, philanthropies, and private equity. She holds BSc and MBA degrees from the University of Durham, UK.
Linden Van Wert is a retired teacher living in California alongside a family of wild deer in her back field. Her interest in writing began in high school but has only recently included submitting to journals. Her work has appeared in Orchards Poetry Journal, One Sentence Poems, The Ekphrastic Journal, Muleskinner Journal and The California Quarterly, among others. In addition to writing, she is interested in restoring native plants to local habitats.
Bob Ward is a poet, photographer, and Quaker, born 1931. Following a career in chemical research and various branches of education, he retired to North Norfolk, UK, where he continues to explore the borderlands between science and the Arts. In particular he relishes the interplay of texts and visual images. His publications include: Trusting at the Last (Hawthorn Press, 2011) and Lines of Inquiry (Meniscus, 2017). He has contributed to several previous issues of AQ. He is also an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society. His new book is A Lockdown Diary, (Troubador, 2026).
Obiotika Wilfred is an upcoming Nigerian writer whose work explores spirituality, memory, desire, and the moral tensions of everyday life. He writes poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction that draw from Igbo cosmology and contemporary African experience. His works have appeared in online literary spaces, and he continues to publish internationally while developing longer creative nonfiction projects.
Michael Wilkinson is a professional computer scientist, amateur astronomer, writing poetry at night (at least the cloudy ones). Topics include mental health, friendship, loss, our place in the cosmos, dancing, and anything else that springs to mind. He is a member of Groningen Poetry Stanza in the Netherlands. He has previously had poems published in Acumen, The Writers’ Journal, and Emerge Literary Journal.
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.
Erik Vincenti Zakhia, 34-year-old, Lebanese-Italian-French citizen, is an emerging writer, poet and artist. He holds a Master in Sustainable Engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. He currently lives in Amchit, Lebanon, where he founded Arbaro de Espero (the Forest of Hope in Esperanto) that cultivates peace through the practice of permaculture and agroforestry. ‘Save The Netherlands’ is one of his projects, aiming at planting tens of thousands of seeds and trees. (Photo: Chiara Vincenti Zakhia [Quetzal])