THE EXHIBITION
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‘Ars Amatoria’, ‘Sweet Potato’ & ‘Remaining’
Julian Kanagy is a Chicago-based poet whose work sets out to explore questions he can't find the words to ask. As Editor-in-Chief of The Wild Umbrella, in regular reading, and in his own writing process, Julian appreciates intention, concision, and variety in structure. Per the advice of a mentor, he lives in search of poems that nobody else could have written.
‘Fava Memories of a Kitchen Midwife’, ‘Carnaval on the Dunes of Ceara’ & ‘Water Lessons’
Ruth Mota currently resides in Santa Cruz, California after living a decade in Brazil and working as an international health trainer. Her poems often reflect her experiences in Latin America and Africa. Over fifty of her poems have been published in online and print journals including The Atlanta Review, Gyroscope Review, Duo, Terrapin Books and others.
‘Waking Up to A Nightmare’
Boaz Dvir, a Penn State University associate professor of journalism, has written for many publications, including New York’s Newsday, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, The Miami Herald, the Tampa Bay Times, TIME magazine, the Las Vegas Sun, the Jerusalem Post, The Satirist, Scripps Howard’s Treasure Coast Newspapers, and the Times of Israel. He wrote a chapter for “Homegrown in Florida” (University Press of Florida, 2012), an anthology edited by William McKeen that includes childhood stories by Michael Connelly, Carl Hiaasen, Zora Neale Hurston, and Tom Petty.
‘Everything Will Be Fine’
Ludivine M. was born and raised in Paris, France, and has been living for the past ten years in Berlin, Germany, where she works and raises her two daughters. She mostly writes nonfiction essays about motherhood and addictions.
‘Sitting Here’, ‘The Journey’ & ‘On the Day That You Died’
Tanya Moldovan started writing poetry after the loss of her mother. She's a new author and her poetry is grief and death related. She thinks death is universal experience and she hopes people from different corners of the world will be able to relate, find solace or take a glimpse at "the after death" experience.
‘Birthday’
Walter Weinschenk is an attorney, writer and musician. Until a few years ago, he wrote short stories exclusively but now divides his time equally between poetry and prose. Walter's writing has appeared in a number of literary publications including La Piccioletta Barca, The Normal School, Lunch Ticket, The Carolina Quarterly, The Worcester Review and others. He is the author of "The Death of Weinberg: Poems and Stories" (Kelsay Books, 2023). More of Walter's work can be found at walterweinschenk.com.
‘Notes from an NPC at the Hotel Morton’
Gordon Laws has recently published in Irreantum, The Wrath-Bearing Tree, and the Line of Advance. He oversees course development at Coursera.
‘The Marksman and the Mark’
Jack Douglas Riter
‘The Graffito’
Alexander Forston (he/him) is an Indiana-based writer. His work often explores the fuzzy edges of the real and the unreal, yet never abandons the core of the human heart. He holds an MFA in fiction writing from Lindenwood University, and teaches composition at the University of Southern Indiana.
‘Immerensis’
Linhly Harwell is a junior at a liberal arts high school specializing in creative writing. From a young age, Harwell displayed an interest in writing which led to her pursuing writing seriously. Over the years, she has been able to dabble in different fields of writing such as poetry, short stories, nonfiction, screenwriting, and more!
‘Ode to Frankendick’
Aaron Beck is a poet and pianist living in Portland, Oregon with his dog, Jack.
‘Leviticus 18:22’
Holly Jones (she/her) is a student studying Creative Writing at Missouri State University. She is a volunteer editor for University magazines Moon City Review and Logos. She is currently an unpublished author and the host of The Not Natural Podcast.
‘Confessions of a Scammer’
Derek Go
‘The Ears of Spring’, ‘On the Village Green’, ‘A Tangible Sum That Doesn’t Add Up’ & ‘It Used to be so Easy, Back in School–’
William Binzen's expressive medium of choice is words. The elements in this poetic process include: narrative invention, emergent theme, intentional structure and sound crafting. He tries to make every line a meaningful moment and one that corresponds to how both individual words and whole lines unfold across a page. His poetry and photography were featured in the anthology, Beside the Sleeping Maiden, and are forthcoming in the winter issue of the Banyan Review.
‘My Kingdom’
Levi Himes was born and raised in Indiana. He currently resides and writes in Colorado with his wife Heather and their dog Birdy. Levi has published his first full length travel memoir The Good Vibe which is available now. He is currently working on his first full length fiction project. He is also actively exploring his abilities in the world of short fiction. His greatest pursuit in writing is the unraveling of perspectives throughout his stories.
‘Comeuppance’
Pamela Cottam is a fiction writer with an MFA in Creative Writing from Cleveland State’s NEOMFA program. She has written a mystery novel, children’s stories and adult short fiction. Her writing has been published in Across the Margin, Better than Starbucks2, Active Muse, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Creepypasta (Audio) Constellate Literary Journal, the Pennsylvania Literary Journal and The Write Launch. She was a nominee for the Best of the Net, a runner up in the Gordon Square Review Fiction 2022 contest and Gival Literary Contest, 2023.