Category: Contributors

Karson

Poetry Contributor

Karson is a 26-year-old from Derry, Ireland. He currently lives in Leeds, UK, where he is working towards an undergraduate degree in English with Creative Writing at Leeds Beckett University. His poems explore ideas of identity and the self within shifting and conflicting environments. His poetry has previously been published in The Honest Ulsterman, Lighthouse and Maelstrom. Twitter: @karsy__ Instagram: karsy_.                 Photo: Lisa Boardman.

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Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

in a dream i kiss my father’s dead mouth

Kristina Saccone

Fiction Contributor

Kristina Saccone crafts flash fiction and creative nonfiction in the hours between logging off from work and wrangling her young son. Her work has appeared in Dwelling Literary and The Minison Project, and she has a piece forthcoming in Unearthed. You can find her on Twitter at @kristinasaccone or haunting small independent bookstores in the Washington, DC, area.

Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

Weathering the Storm

Joanna Friedman

Poetry Contributor

Joanna Friedman’s fiction and poetry have appeared in a variety of anthologies and on-line publications. She works as a psychologist in the San Francisco Bay area and lives with her husband, twin girls, and pug. Her writing is inspired by the complexities of relationships. Follow her on twitter, @j_grabarek or her website, https://joannafriedman.wordpress.com/

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Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

Moods of Falling

Kathryn de Leon

Poetry Contributor

Kathryn de Leon is from Los Angeles, California but has been living in England for eleven years. She is a teacher and lived in Japan for six years teaching English to Japanese university students. Her poems have appeared  in several magazines in the US including Calliope, Aaduna, and Black Fox, in The Ofi Press in Mexico, and in several in the UK including, London Grip, The Blue Nib, Trouvaille Review, Snakeskin, and The High Window where she was the Featured American Poet.

Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

Snow

James Dowthwaite

Poetry Contributor

James Dowthwaite is a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Jena, in Germany. He is currently working on a book on Aestheticism and fate. He grew up in the United Kingdom, and now lives in Germany with his wife and son. His first book, Ezra Pound and 20th Century Theories of Language, came out with Routledge in 2019, and he has poetry forthcoming in Acumen and Poetry Salzburg Review.

Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

Intimations of Death, Passing through Connecticut

Emily Ford

Poetry Contributor

Emily Ford is a writer in North East London. She believes in anti-capitalism, the Earth, a few dear beating hearts and above all, poetry.

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Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

Descending melody

Peter Stewart O’Grady

Poetry Contributor

Peter Lives in England, in the county of Wiltshire. He has been writing poems for about 10 years and enjoys reading his work at open mic events. This year he became co-host of a monthly poetry programme, The Poetry Place, on a local on-line community radio station, West Wilts Radio.

Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

Not Everything About Winter is Winter

Kim Backalenick Escobar

Poetry Contributor

Kim Backalenick Escobar graduated from Antioch College. She worked as a chef for many years. Writing has recently become an all consuming passion and she has had several poems published in Train River Anthology, Juste Milieu Zine, and Poetry 365. She lives in Connecticut with her family, including her two cats, Lisa and Muffin.

Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

always winter

Matthew Miller

Poetry Contributor

Matthew Miller teaches social studies, swings tennis rackets, and writes poetry – all hoping to create home. He and his wife live beside a dilapidating orchard in Indiana, where he tries to shape dead trees into playhouses for his four boys. His poetry has been featured in River Mouth Review, Club Plum Journal, and Ekstasis Magazine.

Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

Snow is a Blanket Fort My Children Built