Authors & Artists
Matthew Brennan has published seven books of poetry, including The End of the Road (Kelsay Books, 2023) and Snow in New York: New and Selected Poems (Lamar University Literary Press, 2021). His writing has appeared in Amsterdam Quarterly, New York Times Book Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Georgia Review, and Valparaiso Poetry Review. He has won the Thomas Merton Prize for Poetry of the Sacred. He retired from Indiana State University and now lives in Columbus, Ohio.
Fiona Clark’s poetry is published in a variety of journals and e-zines. She is an active member of Suffolk Poetry Society, who performs her poems with Poetry Aloud ‘poetry café’ and at poetry festivals. Fiona’s poems have been commended for the Crabbe Memorial Poetry Award three times recently, and for the Norwich Writers’ poetry prize. Her pamphlet, The Witch’s Leg, a life-affirming poetic narrative based on an East Anglian legend, is awaiting publication later this season.
Clive Donovan has three poetry collections, The Taste of Glass (Cinnamon Press, 2021), Wound Up With Love (Lapwing, 2022) and Movement of People (Dempsey&Windle, 2024), and is published in a wide variety of magazines including Acumen, Amsterdam Quarterly, Crannog, Interpreters House, Pennine Platform, Popshot, and Stand. He lives in Totnes, Devon, UK. He was a Pushcart and Forward Prize nominee for 2022’s best individual poems.
Kiera Faber (Luxembourger/American) builds surreal worlds; exploring how materials respond to physical manipulation; enhancing tactility and the vitality of touch. Contemporary craft and image-making converge into a signature physically ‘lived-in’ analogue aesthetic in her handmade stop-frame animations, Jacquard tapestries, photographs, and drawings. Trauma, vulnerability and resiliency inform her risk-taking work that is exhibited and screened worldwide, receiving significant recognition from the McKnight and Jerome Foundations, honouring her visionary creations that challenge audiences.
Pasi Jaakola is the author of The Four Seasons. His work has appeared in The Big Picture, published by The Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology in Cambridge, and in A Personal History of Home: An Anthology, published by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (Humanities Division, University of Oxford).
Hollis Kurman’s début poetry collection, Unlikely Skylight (Barrow Street Books) was published in 2025. Her poems, one nominated for a Pushcart Prize, have appeared in Amsterdam Quarterly, Atlanta Review (International Poetry Prize finalist), Barrow Street, Intima, Lilith, Ocean State Review, Phoebe, Rattle, and elsewhere. Her award-winning 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)
Susan E Lloy is the author of four short story collections: But When We Look Closer (2017), Vita (2019), Nothing Comes Back (2023) and Deep Breaths of the Inanimate (2025). Susan embraces unconventional characters existing on the edges of ordinary life. She lives in Montreal. website: susanlloy.com instagram: susanlloy1
Born in Hong Kong and raised in Manila and San Francisco, Christina Lloyd holds a PhD in creative writing from Lancaster University. Her work appears in a variety of publications, including Magma, Poetry Daily, Poetry Ireland Review, The Interpreter’s House, and The North. Her first full length collection, Women Twice Removed, was published in 2024 by Sixteen Rivers Press. (Photo: Kym Matossian)
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.
Michael Mintrom is a poet from Aotearoa, New Zealand based in Melbourne, Australia. A past winner of the University of Canterbury’s MacMillan Brown Prize for Creative Writers, his poetry has appeared in many literary journals including Cordite Poetry Review, Feral Poetry and Art, and Stone Poetry Quarterly.
Having travelled and lived in a few countries, David Pirooz considers himself an ‘analogue nomad’ in a digital world. He knows France, Spain, the UK, and Canada quite intimately. Restlessness is his birthright being the son of immigrants/refugees. He roams endlessly with delight.
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad is a multi-award winning Indian-Australian artist and poet. She has been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. The author of Patchwork Fugue (Atomic Bohemian Press, UK, 2024) and A Second Life in Eighty-eight Keys (Hedgehog Poetry Press, UK, 2024), her second full-length collection is forthcoming from 5 Islands Press in 2026. She is the inaugural Writer in Residence, Woollahra Libraries.
Sambhu Ramachandran is a bilingual poet, translator, and short story writer who spends his daylight hours as an Assistant Professor of English at N.S.S. College, Pandalam. His work has appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Two Thirds North, The Bombay Literary Magazine, and The Tiger Moth Review, among many others. He lives in Kayamkulam, Kerala, where he attempts to capture the transience of the world through his writings and occasionally answers to @sambhuramachandran on Instagram.
Kumar Sen is a writer from India. Trained as a mathematician, he writes in both Bengali and English, exploring sensory detail and the subtly absurd. His work has appeared in Reading into Culture, Unbroken Journal, New World Writing Quarterly, Flare Magazine, Behemoth Magazine, and the SFWP Journal, among others. When not writing, he is a composer, musician, and dedicated bibliophile.
Clare Starling started writing poetry during lockdown. Her pamphlet Magpie’s Nest won the Frosted Fire First Pamphlet Award 2023. Her poems have been published widely including in London Grip, Obsessed With Pipework, and The Interpreter’s House. After eighteen years as a Whitehall Civil Servant she is now training to be a nurse. She lives in London with her husband, son, and their cat, Lady Jane Grey. www.clarestarling.com
Jerl Surratt’s poems have been published previously in Amsterdam Quarterly, and in the Robert Graves Review, The Hopkins Review, The Irenaut, Kenyon Review, The New Criterion, PN Review, and other US, UK, and Canadian journals and anthologies. A longtime writer for educational, health, LGBTQ+, and social service nonprofits, he lives and works in upstate NY. Website: jerlsurratt.com