Authors & Artists
Diarmuid Cawley is from Sligo, Ireland. His writing explores environment, memory, place, history, and food. He is working on his first collection. Widely published, his work has appeared in The Martello, The Belfast Review, Unapologetic Mag, Moonstone Press, The Honest Ulsterman, Channel, Anthropocene, The Frogmore Press, The Broken Spine, River’s Edge Literary Magazine, Howl, The Berlin Literary Review, Oxford Review of Books, and elsewhere.
Lee Fraser is from Aotearoa New Zealand and uses poetry for ogling life’s details, emotional archaeology, and comic relief. Her full-time occupations have included field linguist and parent. She’s been published in Cordite, Consilience, Ink Sweat & Tears, Meniscus, Micro Madness, ONE ART, Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook, Stone Circle Review, Stone Poetry Quarterly, Sunday Mornings at the River, takahē, Thimble, and elsewhere. In 2024 she placed 4th in the NZ poetry slam.
Claudia Gary’s new poetry book, Time and Other Solvents, is a story of healing. She lives near Washington DC and teaches Sonnets, Villanelles, Natural Meter, Persona Poems, Poetry vs. Trauma, etc., at The Writer’s Center (writer.org) and privately, via Zoom. Her chapbooks include Genetic Revisionism (2019). Claudia is an advisory editor for New Verse Review, health/science writer, visual artist, and composer of tonal songs and chamber music. See pw.org/content/claudia_gary. (Photo: Ron Goad)
Amlanjyoti Goswami has written three widely acclaimed books of poetry, River Wedding, Vital Signs and A Different Story, published by Poetrywala. River Wedding was shortlisted for the Sahitya Akademi award. Published in journals and anthologies across the world, including Poetry, The Poetry Review, Penguin Vintage, Rattle, and Sahitya Akademi, he is also a Best of the Net and Pushcart nominee. He grew up in Guwahati and lives in Delhi.
Megan Horsthuis is a Canadian ecologist and MFA candidate at the University of British Columbia, currently living on stolen xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ land. Her poetry is published in Dark Mountain and forthcoming in Bitter Magazine and Fish Girl Collective. She works as an editor for PRISM International.
Barbara E. Hunt has had publications across North America, the UK, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Australia, France, Germany. She received a Pushcart Prize nomination from a Swedish publication. Most recently, her work has been published in Florida, the UK, and the Great Lakes area of Canada. Her climate-change collection, Rowing Across the North Atlantic, and her newest book of tiny poems, What Is Is, are now available (writersplayground.ca).
What is there left to say about Marc Janssen, other than he should eat more vegetables? His verse can be found scattered around the world in places like Pinyon, Orbis, Pure Slush, Cirque Journal, Two Thirds North, and Poetry Salzburg, and also in his book November Reconsidered. Janssen coordinates the Salem Poetry Project-a weekly reading, the occasionally occurring Salem Poetry Festival, and keeps getting nominated for Oregon Poet Laureate. For more information, visit marcjanssenpoet.com.
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
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), and The Hippocrates Prize 2021 and 2022 (Hippocrates Press, 2021-2) anthologies, and in his book, On the Level (Circling Rivers, 2022).
Rob Schwartz writes from New York City. His work has appeared in Hobart, Bristol Noir, The Words Faire, Vine Leaves Press and is forthcoming in two outlets: Fiction on the Web and The North Lit Review. A recent work was performed and will be published by Writers Read. He is currently working on a collection of short stories.
Emma Sednaoui is a French-Egyptian journalist and audio-visual producer whose work focuses on the Middle East, gender, and society. She has worked across journalism, writing, and documentary, exploring themes of geopolitics, sexuality, and personal narratives. Her work has been featured on radio and listening platforms, as well as in Eastern media outlets such as Mille World and The New Arab.
Sushanth Shyamsundar is an Indian queer and asexual writer and spoken-word performer based in Chennai. Performing as Rakshasan, he writes poetry and fiction exploring memory, family, queerness, grief, humour, horror, and the strange pressures of everyday life. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in literary journals and anthologies internationally.
Sara Stegen is a Dutch author who writes about family and the landscape she lives in. She has published in The Broken Spine, Ranchlands Review, and The Brussels Review. Sara has an MA in English (University of Groningen) and is a 2022 Rural Writing Institute alumnus, run by authors Kathryn Aalto and James Rebanks. Sara works for Hanze Research Centre Art & Society and is working on her first poetry collection and memoir about autism. (Photo: Jeannet Wendel)
Gopu M. Sunil is an Indian poet from Kerala whose work explores landscape, ecology, memory, and cultural identity. Drawing inspiration from the everyday rhythms of life, his poems examine the connections between people, place, and the natural world. His work has appeared in Amsterdam Quarterly ( Issue 45), The Tiger Moth Review, and The Lake Poetry Magazine. He is currently pursuing a BA in English at Government College Tripunithura in Kerala, India.
Marjorie Sweetko’s poems have been published in a wide range of print and online journals, such as The High Window, London Grip, Acumen, Magma, The North, Poetry Salzburg Review, as well as in anthologies. Born in Canada, she taught English in the UK and world-wide, now lives in Marseille and is a member of the French Stanza poetry group. (Photo: Claire Egan)
Tommy Vollman is a writer, musician, and painter. For many years, he was a baseball player. He has written a number of things, published a bit, recorded a few records, and toured a lot. He has some black-ink tattoos on both of his arms. Tommy really likes A. Moonlight Graham, Two Cow Garage, Tillie Olsen, and Willy Vlautin. He’s working on a short story collection and has a new record, Cloverfield.
Fiona Ritchie Walker is a Scottish writer, now based in England. She was a journalist until landing her dream job — travelling the world meeting fair trade artisans and farmers to help them share their stories. Her poems and short fiction have been widely published in poetry collections, anthologies and magazines, including New Writing Scotland, Mslexia and Magma. Prizes won include the Julia Budenz Prize for Scots Poetry and Neil Gunn Poetry Prize. www.fionaritchiewalker.com (Photo: Dennis Minchin)