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Michelo Isola resides in Georgia with his husband of twenty years and three needy dogs. He is a later life writer who relishes stories about marginalized people.
Brianna Roberto is a 22-year-old artist and writer based in Fremont, CA whose work has been featured in multiple publications and exhibitions. Having just finished her undergraduate program at Santa Clara University, earning a B.A. in both Child Studies and Studio Art, she is continuing her graduate studies at SCU to earn a Masters in Education. More of her work can be found at colorbybri.com.
Peter Conrad’s work was a runner up in the My Dream Writing Contest 2024 and appeared in Wingless Dreamer's 2024 anthology Summer Fireflies 2. His writing appears in LOFT Books, Issue VI, Gnashing Teeth Publishing, The Cost of Our Baggage anthology. His stories appear in over thirty literary journals including The Taborian, WayWords Literary Journal, Umbrella Factory Magazine, CafeLit, Bare Hill Review, Impulse, The Paradox Literary Magazine, In Parentheses, The Hemlock, Livina Press Golden Issue, Folklore, Novus, Half and One, Superpresent Magazine, Poor Yorick, and the Datura. His work will be published in Wingless Dreamer’s 2025 anthology, Unfolding Colours. His work appears in over thirty literary journals worldwide.
Drema Drudge is an award-winning novelist and author of several chapbooks-in-progress, including Look, I Built a Cathedral. Her poetry blends emotional candor with tenderness and wit. She has an MFA from the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing, and her work has appeared in Spectrum and The Louisville Review and others. www.dremadrudge.com
Allan Scherlen’s experiences as a child were on a farm in Texas, but he eventually settled in the mountains of Appalachia. Along the way, he discovered poets and his trips to Mexico and China added rich experiences that influenced him. Being a librarian brought him closer to books and the music of the mountains. He has published in Progenitor, New Words Press, Azahares Spanish Literary Mag, New Note Poetry, Hong Kong Review, Galway Review, Word’s Faire, Bluebird Word and Vermilion.
Ryan Rahman is a writer based in Orlando, Florida. His works have appeared in Beyond Words Magazine, The Stardust Review, Half and One, BarBar, Humans of The World, WILDsound Writing Festival (Festival for Poetry), Wingless Dreamer Publisher, Moonstone Arts Center, Poets Choice, and The Word's Faire. When he’s not writing, Ryan enjoys reading, listening to music, watching movies, and traveling.
Zach Downs is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he earned his BS in Chemical Engineering. Although new to the world of creative fiction, he has prior writing experience with his work in the band On Regret, an alternative five-piece band based out of Boston, MA. Zach is a guitarist and vocalist in the band and one of the primary songwriters/lyricists.
Byron Griffin has been living in Dayton Ohio. Currently he is a part of Stivers School for the Arts. At Stivers he participates in all things writing, poetry club, publishers workshop, etc.
Devin Meireles was born and raised in Toronto, Canada, where growing up around the Portuguese diaspora had a profound effect on him. He has been published in literary journals, health magazines, and cultural newspapers. Apart from creative writing, he enjoys collecting tattoos, banknotes and travel stamps. He lives near Lake Ontario with his wife and dog.
Eros Salvatore is a writer and filmmaker living in Bellingham, Washington. They have been published in the journals Anti-Heroin Chic and The Blue Nib among others, and have shown two short films in festivals. They have a BA from Humboldt State University. Their work can be seen, heard and read at https://erossalvatore.com/
Alexander Jones has an English/Creative Writing BA. After graduating he went to trade school for metal fabrication. He’s placed short stories or poetry in Akashic Books, Bastion Magazine, Crack the Spine, DASH, Eunoia Review and other publications. Several of his short stories have received honorable mentions in Writer’s Digest’s annual contests, and one of his essays won GoRail’s 2012 contest; he got to meet his congressman in Washington DC and sit for a second in his comfy office chair inside the Capitol as his prize. He’s slowly earning a Master’s Degree in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He works as a welder for a metropolitan transportation agency near New York, and lives with his wife and son in New Jersey.
Kim Rossi is a poet and speech language pathologist living in Decatur, Georgia. Her poems have been published in isotrope. When she is not working and playing with language, she can be found wandering streets and forest trails.
K. E. Pleshinger is an emerging science-fiction, horror, and fantasy writer. She was previously published in Issue 22 of "Grim & Gilded" and studied Creative Writing and Digital Media Production at Ashland University before receiving her MFA in Television Writing and Producing from Chapman University. K. E. is currently based in Los Angeles where she works in entertainment, daydreams about stories, and lives with her cat, Book.
Brittany Richter is a poet and writer from Mississippi, where she learned early how silence can speak louder than words.
Katharine Chung is a graduate of SUNY Purchase College. An Assistant Director in an urban public library by day, she enjoys stand-up paddle boarding with her dog, night photography, an eclectic taste in music, and movies in her free time. Her poetry has previously been published in Italics Mine, The Word’s Faire and Wildroof Journal. Find her on Instagram @vegancinephile.
Anthony Collins wrote his first poetry book in kindergarten. It was a project assigned by his then teacher, Ms. Kohler. This started Anthony’s lifelong relationship with poetry. As an infant, Anthony suffered from a condition that impaired his hearing. This went undetected until his late grandmother performed a hearing test, involving banging pots and pans. Though simple, that test changed Anthony’s life. Surgery corrected Anthony’s hearing, though he’d struggle with speech for some time. Poetry became his language of self expression. As the years passed, Anthony put the good, bad, and the mundane of life growing up during nineties-era Miami, Florida.
Andrew Sarewitz has published a number of short stories (website: www.andrewsarewitz.com) as well as having penned scripts for various media. Mr. Sarewitz is a recipient of the City Artists Corp Grant for Writing. His play, Madame Andrèe (based on the life of WWII resistance fighter, Nancy Wake, the “White Mouse”), garnered First Prize from Stage to Screen New Playwrights in San Jose, CA; produced with a multicultural cast and crew. Member: Dramatists Guild of America.
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Samuel Gilpin is a poet living in Portland, OR, who holds a Ph.D. in English Lit. from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, which explains why he works as a door to door salesman. A Prism Review Poetry Contest winner, he has served as the Poetry Editor of Witness Magazine and Book Review Editor of Interim. A Cleveland State University First Book Award finalist, his work has appeared in various journals and magazines, most recently in The Bombay Gin, Omniverse, and Colorado Review. His chapbook Self-Portraits as a Reddening Sky was published by Cathexis Press.