THE EXHIBITION
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THE EXHIBITION •
‘The Cabin’
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.
‘My Raven With the Disco Plating’
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.
‘Whistling Against The Wind’
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.
‘Nike of the Salish Sea’
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/
‘Free Milk’
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.
‘Sanibel’, ‘For All the Waves’ & ‘I May Never Go Back to Chicago’
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.
‘ARTIFICIAL REGENERATION’
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.
‘PEZ Collector’ & Collected Works
Brittany Richter is a poet and writer from Mississippi, where she learned early how silence can speak louder than words.
‘Lyceum’
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.
‘The City Cemetery’, ‘Silver Nickels’ & ‘Super Center Exercises’
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.
‘EGGS AND ICED TEA’
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.
‘Wicked’
Michelo Isola is senior gentleman residing in Fayetteville, Georgia with his husband of 20 years and three lively canines. Michelo hold a degree in Environmental Engineering from Lake Superior State University and relishes attendance in creative writing classes at nearby Clayton State University (free for seniors in Georgia). Michelo won first prize in fiction at Clayton State in 2023 for his story "Flight from Egypt", published in "Cygnet", the literary journal of Clayton State.
‘Making Deals’
Harvey Huddleston's short fiction has appeared in The Word's Faire, RavensPerch and Mystery Tribune, among many others.
‘The Love Song of Child-of-Water’
Tommy Cheis is a Chiricahua guide, diyyin, and Cochise descendant. After traveling extensively through distant lands and meeting interesting people, he resides near the Cochise Stronghold with his horses. His stories (will) appear in Yellow Medicine Review, Rome Review, After Dinner Conversation, NonBinary Review, Maine Review, Invisible City, University of New Mexico Look to the Mountains Anthology, and more than twenty other publications. He is the winner of the Colonel Darren L. Wright Memorial Writing Award, and his work appears on the CLMP Reading List for Native American Heritage Month November 2024. He is a PEN and Pushcart nominee. His first novel, RARE EARTH, is on submission; his second, CHILD OF WATER, will follow shortly."
‘Giving Away the Kingdom’
Ryan Rahman is a writer based in Orlando, Florida. His previous works (all poems) have appeared in Beyond Words Literary Magazine, The Stardust Review, Half and One, BarBar Literary Magazine, and Humans of The World. When he’s not writing, Ryan enjoys reading, listening to music, watching movies, and traveling.
‘Red Light’
Alex Passey is the author of the novel's Mirror's Edge and Shadow of the Desert Sun. His short fiction, poetry and journalism have been featured in many publications, most recently in the graphic novel Twilight of Echelon, the Apocalypse anthology from Dragon Soul Press, and the Winnipeg Free Press.