Author: Melissa Ramos

December Lace

Creative Nonfiction Contributor

December Lace is a former professional wrestler and pinup model from Chicago. She is a Best of the Net nominee and has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Pro Wrestling Illustrated, Coffin Bell, Pussy Magic Lit, Twist in Time, Dark Marrow, and Rhythm & Bones YANYR Anthology, among others as well as the forthcoming Pink Plastic House. She loves Batman, burlesque, cats, and horror movies. She can be found on Twitter and Instagram @TheMissDecember or http://decemberlace.blogspot.com.

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Unlocked

H.E. Grahame

Poetry Contributor

H.E. Grahame is a writer, poet with work featured in Brave Voices, Z Publishing House’s Emerging Poets and Writers series, SLCC Folio, and The Bitchin’ Kitsch, and a student at the University of Utah studying Writing and Rhetoric and Gender Studies. She works as a Writing Consultant/Tutor and Publications Coordinator for Salt Lake Community College. She enjoys cooking, travel, photography, music, and words.

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Star II

Michael Estabrook

Poetry Contributor

Michael Estabrook has been publishing his poetry in the small press since the 1980s. Hopefully with each passing decade the poems have become more clear and concise, succinct and precise, more appealing and “universal.” He has published over 20 collections, a recent one being The Poet’s Curse, A Miscellany (The Poetry Box, 2019).

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Erophilia

Annette Gagliardi

Poetry Contributor

Annette has poetry published or forthcoming in the Gideon Poetry Review, OWS Ink LLC, Dreamers Creative Writing Year 1 Anthology, Jitter Magazine, Down in the Dirt Online Magazine, the Poetic Bond VIII, and others. Her poems appear in three state anthologies, The Moccasin, vol. LXXXI, (the League of Minnesota Poets), Arizona State Poets’ Society Sandcutters and South Dakota State Poets Society, Pasque Petals. She is a contributor and one of two editors for “Upon Waking: 58 Voices Speaking Out From The Shadow of Abuse.” She teaches poetry at a nearby elementary school as a volunteer.

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To Kiss Your Burled Lips

Jessica Siobhan Frank

Poetry Contributor

Jessica Siobhan Frank is a graduate of McNeese State University’s MFA program. Her work has appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Ninth Letter (online), Up North Lit, La Scrittrice, and several other publications. She lives outside Chicago with her loved ones.

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Living Room Love Poem

Hannah Fischer

Photography Contributor

Hannah Fischer is a photographer, writer, and librarian who enjoys clapping on the down beat. Her photographs have appeared in the Capital Weather Gang column of the Washington Post and in the Exposed DC Crystal City Photowalk Exhibit of 2018. Her views and perspectives are her own.

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Broken Love Bee Eaters

Daniel Hinds

Poetry Contributor

Daniel Hinds won the Poetry Society’s Timothy Corsellis Young Critics Prize 2018 and was shortlisted for the Terry Kelly Poetry Prize 2018 and the Streetcake Experimental Writing Prize. Two of his poems were highly commended in the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts Water Poetry competition. He has been published in Streetcake Magazine and Pre-Raphaelite Society Review. He has poetry forthcoming in Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal and The Wilfred Owen Association Journal. Twitter: @DanielGHinds

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Wedding at Ward 35

Lauren Boisvert

Poetry Contributor

Lauren Boisvert is a writer from Florida. Her work has been featured online and in print in Mochilla Review, Spy Kids Review, Memoir Mixtapes, and elsewhere. She tweets @calamity_zelda.

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Love Poems That are not About Suffering are Difficult

Kim Malinowski

Poetry Contributor

Kim Malinowski earned her B.A. from West Virginia University and her M.F.A. from American University. She studies with The Writers Studio. Her chapbook Death: A Love Story was published by Flutter Press. Her work was featured in Faerie Magazine and appeared in War, Literature, and the Arts, Calliope, Mookychick, and others.

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Strawberries

Jo Angela Edwins

Poetry Contributor

Jo Angela Edwins has published poems in various journals and anthologies and has also published a chapbook, Play (2016). She has received awards from Winning Writers, Poetry Super Highway, and the SC Academy of Authors and is a Pushcart Prize, Forward Prize, and Bettering American Poetry nominee. She is the first poet laureate of the Pee Dee region of South Carolina. She teaches at Francis Marion University.

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Aubade