Authors & Artists
B. Anne Adriaens’ poetry and fiction reflect her interest in alienation, as well as her concerns about the environment, which she addresses through dystopia. Her work has appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including Poetry Ireland Review, Ink Sweat and Tears, The Other Side of Hope, Skylight 47, Emerge Literary Journal, and Stand Magazine (forthcoming). She currently lives in Somerset.
Emma Atkins is a poet and novelist currently studying for her PhD at Middlesex University. She started writing poetry in 2018 and has been finding footholds in the creative world ever since. Most recently, she is writing about her new role as Auntie Mema to her two-year-old niece.
Jane Blanchard lives and writes in Georgia (USA). Her poetry has recently appeared in The Main Street Rag, The Robert Frost Review, and The Wallace Stevens Journal. Her latest collection is Metes and Bounds (Kelsay Books, 2023).
One of Joan Byrne’s poems is buried in a time capsule at Conway Hall in Central London. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was a prize-winner in an urban poetry competition. Joan is published in a variety of magazines including The North, Ink Sweat & Tears, and Sideways Poetry. She performs regularly with the Rye Poets, a south London trio. Joan finds voicing poems a thrill, so too is having her work published.
William Cass has had over 325 short stories appear in literary magazines and anthologies. A nominee for Best Small Fictions and Best of the Net, he’s also had six Pushcart Prize nominations. His first short story collection was published by Wising Up Press in 2020, and a second collection has recently been released by the same press. He lives in San Diego, California.
Naomi Foyle is a British-Canadian poet, novelist, dramatist, and essayist. Her many poetry publications include The Night Pavilion (Waterloo Press), an Autumn 2008 PBS Recommendation, Adamantine (Red Hen/Pighog Press, US/UK, 2019), and the polemical pamphlet Importents (Waterloo Press, 2021). ASTRA, a multimedia theatre adaptation of her eco-science fiction quartet The Gaia Chronicles, won the 2022 Brighton Fringe ONCA Green Curtain Award. Naomi Foyle lives in Brighton and teaches creative writing at the University of Chichester. (Photo: Coxy).
Margaret Elysia Garcia is the author of the poetry collection the daughterland poems (El Martillo Press, 2023), the short story collection Graft (Tolsun Books, 2022), and the poetry chapbook Burn Scars, (Lit Kit Collective, 2022). Her second short story collection, Come and Play: Gen X Chicana Noir was recently longlisted by Yes Yes Books. She’s the co-editor of the forthcoming Red Flag Warning: Living Through Fire, an anthology to be published by AK Press.
Kevin Grauke has published work in such places as The Threepenny Review, The Southern Review, Quarterly West, Ninth Letter, and Cimarron Review. He’s the author of the short story collection, Shadows of Men (Queen’s Ferry Press), winner of the Steven Turner Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. He lives in Philadelphia.
Robin Helweg-Larsen is Anglo-Danish by birth but Bahamian by upbringing. He has had over 400 poems published in the Amsterdam Quarterly, Alabama Literary Review, Allegro, Ambit and other international journals. He is Series Editor for the ‘Potcake Chapbooks—Form in Formless Times’, published by Sampson Low in the UK. After decades in British Columbia and North Carolina, Robin has returned to blog at formalverse.com from his hometown of Governor’s Harbour.
Timothy Liu’s latest book of poems is Down Low and Lowdown: Bedside Bottom-Feeder Blues. New work appears in Poetry, Fence, and Michigan Quarterly Review. A reader of occult esoterica, he lives in the Hudson Valley and teaches at SUNY New Paltz and Vassar College. www.timothyliu.net
Zach Keali’i Murphy is a Hawaii-born writer with a background in cinema. His stories appear in Reed Magazine, The Coachella Review, Raritan Quarterly, Another Chicago Magazine, Flash Frog, and more. He has published the chapbook Tiny Universes (Selcouth Station Press). He lives with his wonderful wife, Kelly, in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Nora Nadjarian is a poet and writer from Cyprus. She has won prizes or been commended in numerous international competitions including the Live Canon International Poetry Competition and Mslexia. Her work has been published in Poetry International, Ink Sweat & Tears, The Interpreter’s House, and Magma, and in the anthology Being Human, (Bloodaxe Books, 2011). Her poetry collection, Iktsuarpok, was recently published by Broken Sleep Books. https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/nora-nadjarian-iktsuarpok
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.
https://www.facebook.com/carlpapa.palmer.1 Papa’s motto: Long Weekends Forever!
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.
Karin Chastain Turner (she/her) is a Virginia born and raised artist currently working out of Baltimore, Maryland. After graduating college in 2021, she has found herself inspired by everyday life as she has moved up and down the East Coast. Focusing on themes of escapism, closeness, and what it truly means to be alive, she uses photography to show a glimpse of the world around her in an attempt to better understand it herself.
Sharon Whitehill is a retired English professor from West Michigan now living in Port Charlotte, Florida. In addition to poems published in various literary magazines, her publications include two scholarly biographies, two memoirs, a full collection of poems, and three poetry chapbooks. Her latest, This Sad and Tender Time, appeared in December 2023.
Mantz Yorke–a scientist by training–lives in Manchester, England. His poems have been published internationally, including in Amsterdam Quarterly. His collections, Voyager and Dark Matters, are published by Dempsey and Windle.