Poetry Contributor
ESH Leighton is a writer and wanderer who has lived in six cities in the last fourteen years. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in Mookychick, Loud Coffee Press, and Trampoline among others. She currently lives in Las Vegas with her husband where she tends bar, listening to people’s stories and tucking them away for future use. Find her on social media @eshleighton.
My Father Speaking About Monsoons
Photography Contributor
Louis Dennis learned photography in a chemical darkroom. He finds surprises where they are least expected. His photographs have recently appeared in The Positive Pandemic experiment, The Hopper, and The Burningword literary journal.
Poetry Contributor
Donna J. Gelagotis Lee is the author of two award-winning collections, Intersection on Neptune (The Poetry Press of Press Americana, 2019), winner of the Prize Americana for Poetry 2018, and On the Altar of Greece (Gival Press, 2006), winner of the 2005 Gival Press Poetry Award. Her poetry has appeared in journals internationally, including The Bitter Oleander, Cimarron Review, Feminist Studies, The Massachusetts Review, and Nightingale & Sparrow.
Poetry Contributor
Lauren Aspery is a school librarian from the North East of England. She is a two-time winner of the Terry Kelly Poetry Prize and was named the poet-in-residence commendation at the 2020 Chester Cathedral Young People’s Poetry Competition. She also won the inaugural Loft Books International Poetry Competition. Her poetry has been published by Fragmented Voices, Aloe Mag, Slice of the Moon Books and others.
Poetry Contributor
John C. Polles is a copyeditor from Northeast Ohio whose creative work has appeared in — or is forthcoming from — Rubbertop Review, Wyrd & Wyse, Queerlings, Kissing Dynamite, and more. A graduate of Kent State University at Stark, he previously served as Editor-in-Chief of Canto: A Magazine for Literature & Art. In his spare time, John enjoys working with local marching band and colorguard programs.
Whenever it snows.
quiet, quiet, quiet
Fiction Contributor
Fija Callaghan is a storyteller who writes poetry, love letters, and fiction that can be found in a range of literary journals and magazines in print and across the web. You might see her sitting in a café with a notebook, sunning on the docks of the Portobello Canal, or looking out at the sea and wondering what it would be like to have fins.
Michael NelsonPhotography Contributor
Michael Nelson is a software engineer with a B.S. in Computer Science with an emphasis in Entertainment Arts Engineering. He has been photographing life and nature since high school and enjoys digital and film photography. His work was recently published in Ogma’s “Issue 7: Culture“, Small Leaf Press‘ “Rose“, and SLCC’s Anthology. In his free time, he loves cooking, baking, travel, cars, and science. More of his work can be found on Instagram @thetreacheryofimages.
Merril D. SmithPoetry Contributor
Merril D. Smith is a historian and poet who writes from southern New Jersey. Her poetry and short fiction have been published recently in Nightingale & Sparrow, Black Bough Poetry, Anti-Heroin Chic, Twist in Time, and Fevers of the Mind Press Presents The Poets of 2020.
Fiction Contributor
Penny Pennell received an M.A. in English from the University of Illinois at Springfield. Her fiction has appeared in 3Elements, Barnstorm, Sundress Blog, The Illinois Times, and other places. She is an avid gardener and Chicago Cubs fan.
Amanda CrumPoetry Contributor
Amanda Crum is a writer and artist whose work has been published in Barren Magazine, Detritus Online, and others. She is the author of Tall Grass and Cinders and Glass; she is also a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net Award, and Indie Horror Book Award nominee.