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Cindy Rinne
Poetry
A.K. Shakour has a bachelor’s degree from The University of British Columbia in English literature, with a minor in creative writing. She has work published in Orange Peel Mag, Room Magazine, yolk literary, and others. She lives in Philly with her roommate and a plethora of potted plants that desperately need to be watered.
Visual Art Contributor
Cindy Rinne is a poet and fiber artist living in San Bernardino, CA. She translates the world into an alternate reality of verbal mosaics. Pushcart Award nominee. Cindy attended a residency at Desert Dairy Artist Residency. She performed “Dancing Through the Fire Door” during the PAMLA conference at UCLA. Her poems appeared in literary journals, anthologies, art exhibits, and dance performances. Author of The Feather Ladder (Picture Show Press), Words Become Ashes: An Offering (Bamboo Dart Press), Today in the Forest (Moonrise Press), and others. Her poetry appeared in: The Closed Eye Open, Verse-Virtual, Mythos Magazine, and others. www.fiberverse.com.
Poetry Contributor
Danny Fantom is a writer with work in Defunct Magazine, Vocal, and can be found on Twitter retweeting pictures of desserts and skylines @ThrillandFear.
Poetry Contributor
Emma Atkins is a Bexhill-based poet fascinated by small and unobtrusive things: the overlooked gems. She started writing poetry in 2018 and has been finding footholds in the creative world ever since. Her poetry has been described as bizarre and thoughtful, with a deep connection to the natural world.
Poetry Contributor
Jesse Breite’s recent poetry has appeared in The Chattahoochee Review, Tar River Poetry, Fourteen Hills, and Rhino. His chapbook is The Knife Collector (FutureCycle, 2013). He is also librettist for Atlanta composer Michael Kurth’s choral scores. Jesse teaches high school in Asheville, North Carolina, where he lives with his wife and two kids. More at jessebreite.com.
Poetry Contributor
R Hamilton (they/them) is returning to poetry as a means of filling the vacuum left after a fifty-year career backstage in the performing arts, a retirement handily but unexpectedly coincident with the pandemic. Since then, Hamilton’s work has been presented by Boats Against the Current, Caesura, the Ekphrastic Review, and Oprelle Publications, among others.
Fiction Contributor
Jenny Wong is a writer, traveler, and occasional business analyst. Her favorite places to wander are Tokyo alleys, Singapore hawker centers, and Parisian cemeteries. She resides in Canada near the Rocky Mountains and tweets @jenwithwords.
Poetry Contributor
Sabrynne has taken to using poetry as a means of investigating and learning about the world she inhabits, and her work has been published in print and online nationally and internationally, appearing in the Greyrock Review, Bloom Magazine, Studio OUCH! Gazette, and others.
Visual Art Contributor
Rachel Coyne is a writer and painter from Lindstrom, Mn.