Nightingale & Sparrow

Author: Melissa Ramos

  • Kevin Densley

    Kevin Densley

    Poetry Contributor

    Kevin Densley is an Australian poet whose work has appeared in Australian, English and American journals. Densley’s upcoming poetry collection, his fourth, Sacredly Profane, will be published by Ginninderra Press (Port Adelaide, South Australia) in late 2020.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Sylvia and the Lorelei

    Cracker Night

     

  • Alan Parry

    Alan Parry

    Poetry Contributor

    Alan Parry is a poet, playwright and editor from Merseyside, England. He is an English Literature graduate and English teacher. Alan enjoys gritty realism, open ends and 60s girl groups. He has previously had work published by Dream Noir, Streetcake, Black Bough Poems and others. He cites Alan Bennett, Jack Kerouac and James Joyce as inspiration.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Brill-Building Pop

     

  • Joann Renee Boswell

    Joann Renee Boswell

    Poetry Contributor

    Joann Renee Boswell is a teacher, mother, photographer and poet currently living in Camas, WA with her partner and three children. Joann loves rainy days filled with coffee, books, handholding, moody music and sci-fi shows. Some places she’s been published include Mothers Always Write, For Women Who Roar, The Martian Chronicle and VoiceCatcher. Her first book of poetry, Cosmic Pockets, is expected through Fernwood Press in May 2020.
    joannrenee.com


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    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Ode to Klickitat Cabin

     

  • Ange Yang

    Ange Yang

    Photography Contributor

    Ange Yang is a writer living in Australia with her dog and colossal student debt. She is interested in works concerning Asian-Australian literature, mental health, and cross-cultural exchange.. She enjoys her dumplings steamed, her noodles spicy and is known to be an aggressive stationery hoarder. You can find her at @imbyelaw on instagram and twitter and at byelaw.wordpress.com


    [Twitter] | [Instagram]


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Amusement Park Blues

     

  • Jeffrey H. Maclachlan

    Jeffery H. Maclachlan

    Poetry Contributor

    Jeffrey H. MacLachlan also has recent work in New Ohio Review, the minnesota review, Santa Clara Review, among others. He teaches literature at Georgia College & State University.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Pop Song Crush

     

  • Stuart Rawlinson

    Stuart Rawlinson

    Poetry Contributor

    Stuart Rawlinson is a Brisbane-based writer, focused on poetry. He released his first poetry collection in 2015. Encyclopaedia of Trees is a 19-poem collection on a theme of time and memory and each poem accompanies a piece of original music. Stuart’s poems have appeared in various publications, such as Black Bough Poetry, Adelaide Literary Magazine, and Wellington Street Review.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Jogging to Reich

     

  • Iona Murphy

    Iona Murphy

    Fiction Contributor

    Iona Murphy is s a feminist, mental health advocate, and spends most of her time engrossed in the works of Sylvia Plath. She describes her work as “straddling the fine line between poetry and oversharing.” She has writing published with Black Bough, Teen Belle, 3 Moon, Re-Side, The Fruit Tree, Fevers of the Mind, Forty-Two Books, The New Southern Fugatives, Ayaskala, Ang(st) Zine, and Brave Voices.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Sing For Me

     

  • Hunter Blackwell

    Hunter Blackwell

    Poetry Contributor

    Hunter Blackwell is a graduate of the College of William and Mary. Her work has appeared in Rose Quartz Magazine, The Write Launch, Twist in Time Literary Magazine, Ink & Nebula, Mid-Heaven Magazine, The Athena Review, Barren Magazine, and Crêpe & Penn. She is a Black and Native bisexual author and poet. When not writing, she’s obsessing over the latest Marvel movie. She is a novice crock-pot user and cosplayer.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    3 A.M. is the Perfect Time For a Lost Lover

     

  • Maya Stott

    Maya Stott

    Poetry Contributor

    Maya is an English tutor from Manchester, England. When she’s not writing or teaching, she spends her time reading books on her balcony. Music was always playing in the background when she was growing up, and this she believes inspired her love of language and poetry.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Record Player

     

  • Rebecca L. Yong

    Rebecca L. Yong

    Poetry Contributor

    Rebecca is a Singaporean student who loves museums and rainy days. She is also one of Nightingale and Sparrow’s poetry editors. She likes to collect postcards and enamel pins.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    an ode to troubled times