Nightingale & Sparrow

Author: Melissa Ramos

  • Sam Jowett

    Sam Jowett

    Poetry Contributor

    Sam Jowett is a queer, non-binary writer and law student living in Toronto Ontario. They enjoy stellar magic tricks, playing the electric violin, and neon blue lipstick. You can find their work in Room Magazine, Hypertrophic Literary, Crabfat Magazine, and on the moon during Earthrise.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Pillars of Creation

     

  • Linda McMullen

    Linda McMullen

    Fiction Contributor

    Linda McMullen is a wife, mother, diplomat, and homesick Wisconsinite. Her short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in over forty literary magazines, including, most recently, Arachne Press, Write Ahead/The Future Looms Magazine, Drunk Monkeys, Storgy, X-R-A-Y, and Newfound.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Daphne

     

  • Ariel K. Moniz

    Ariel K. Moniz

    Poetry Contributor

    Ariel K. Moniz is a lifelong writer, emerging poet, and avid reader. She is a witch, a womanist, and a wanderer who embraces life through the written word. Her work has been published in Bloodbath Literary Zine, Vamp Cat Magazine, and Pussy Magic, among others. She is currently working on her first poetry collection as well as a novel. You can follow her travels in writing on her website kissoftheseventhstar.home.blog or at her Instagram account @kiss.of.the.seventh.star.


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    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Atlas & The Exact Weight of Calamity in Six Letters

     

  • Kathleen McKitty Harris

    Kathleen McKitty Harris

    Creative Nonfiction Contributor

    Kathleen McKitty Harris is a fifth-generation native New Yorker whose work has appeared in Longreads, Sonora Review, Creative Nonfiction, McSweeney’s, and The Rumpus, among others. Her essay, A Timeline of Human Female Development, appears in the anthology My Body, My Words. She has also performed as a storyteller at The Moth in New York City, and at the Listen To Your Mother live-reading series in northern New Jersey, where she lives with her husband and two children.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    New York’s (Just Like) Starting Over

    The Nature of Knowledge Itself

  • Sarra Culleno

    Sarra Culleno

    Poetry Contributor

    Sarra Culleno is a London born, Manchester based UK poet, a mother of two and an English teacher. She performs at poetry events across the UK. She writes about children’s rights, motherhood, identity, gender, age, technology, the environment, politics, modern monogamy and the education system. Sarra is widely published and longlisted for the Cinnamon Press Pamphlet Prize. She has appeared at numerous literary festivals as Featured Poet. Sarra has co-hosted Write Out Loud at Waterside Arts.


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    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    THE CONSECRATION OF THE APSARASES

     

  • Lauren Aspery

    Lauren Aspery

    Poetry Contributor

    Lauren is a 22 year old student from the North East of England and is currently undertaking a research Master’s in British children’s poetry at Newcastle University. Lauren is a two-time winner of the Terry Kelly Poetry Prize and has since become the award’s coordinator. She placed second in the Young Poets Network Carol Ann Duffy poetry challenge and performed her poem at the British Academy’s celebration of Duffy’s Laureateship.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    A Late-Night Playroom Soirée

     

  • Adritanaya Tiwari

    Adritanaya Tiwari

    Poetry Contributor

    Adritanaya Tiwari is a dental student from India who has been published in Nightingale & Sparrow, All Ears, Ayaskala, and Esthesia magazine. She spends her time making strange analogies and calming her artsy alter-ego to focus on never-ending syllabus.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    A Song for Ho(me), The Woods are Alive

     

  • Dr. Pallavi Narayan

    Dr. Pallavi Narayan

    Photography Contributor

    Pallavi Narayan is an avid photographer. She holds a PhD in literature, has been Frankfurt Fellow 2018 of the Frankfurter Buchmesse, and has worked in academia and publishing in Singapore/India. Her short stories, poetry, book and performance reviews, and translations have been published in Jotted by Bound India, Jala, Kitaab, We Are A Website, Muse India, Literary Paritantra (Systems): An International Journal of Literature and Theory, Commonwealth Business News, The Book Review, and more.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Paris in Song

     

  • Anne Rundle

    Anne Rundle

    Poetry Contributor

    Anne Rundle’s poetry has appeared in Kissing Dynamite, Coffin Bell Journal, Common Ground Review, Artful Dodge, and Common Threads. She has a Master of Fine Arts from Ashland University. Her poem, Now the Teacher Becomes the Student, won the 2017 Ides of March contest. Anne resides in Westerville, Ohio.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Eleftheriou

     

  • Mandira Pattnaik

    Mandira Pattnaik

    Fiction Contributor

    Mandira Pattnaik’s work has been published by The Times of India, Panoplyzine, Spelk, Lunate, The Bombay Literary Magazine, Gasher, Eclectica, DoorIsAJar, among others. Fiction is forthcoming at Heavy Feather Review, Star 82 and Watershed Review. Her work is currently listed among 46 top Editor’s Picks at JuggernautBooks. She tweets @MandiraPattnaik


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    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    After a Room full of Muddled Melodies