Category: Contributors

Liana Tsang Cohen

Fiction Contributor

Liana Tsang Cohen just graduated from Princeton University, where she majored in English and wrote a movie. When she’s not reading, writing, or discussing stories, she likes to re-enact the scene from Ratatouille in which Remy eats the strawberry and the cheese separately, then together. Her work has appeared in Nightingale & Sparrow, Halfway Down the Stairs, and The Nassau Literary Review, and her short documentary recently won Best Student Mobile Short at the Indie Short Fest (October 2020).

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Ode to Turkish Delight

Clay F. Johnson

Poetry Contributor

Clay F. Johnson is an amateur pianist, devoted animal lover, and incorrigible reader of Gothic literature & Romantic-era poetry. His writing has been featured in the Horror Writers Association’s Poetry Showcase, nominated for a Rhysling Award & Pushcart Prize, and received Honorable Mention in The Best Horror of the
Year. His first collection of poetry, A Ride Through Faerie & Other Poems, is forthcoming in 2021. Find out more on his website at www.clayfjohnson.com or follow him on Twitter @ClayFJohnson.

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Requiem

Paula Bonnell

Poetry Contributor

Paula Bonnell’s poems have appeared in print and online in publications in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., India, and Australia as well as in four collections: Airs & Voices, Ciardi prize book (BkMk Press 2008), Message (1999), and two chapbooks: Before the Alphabet (2013) and tales retold (2017). Other recognition: 2020 Pushcart Prize nominee; award from the New England Poetry Club; her sequence “Eurydice” received a Poet Lore narrative-poetry publication prize.

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EACH TREE, WHERE IT STANDS

Christie Megill

Creative Nonfiction Contributor

Christie Megill is a middle-grade writer and she also writes essays on motherhood, feminism, and fairy tales. She studied English Literature
at Fordham University and she is a former elementary school teacher, former editor, former bookseller, and current homeschooling mother.

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One Night, I Walked into the Woods

Laurence Levy-Atkinson

Poetry Contributor

Laurence Levy-Atkinson is a writer and poet based in Melbourne, Australia. His work can be found in many places, including Southerly, Australian Poetry Journal, Poetica Magazine, and Inklette. He has been featured in the Slinkies emerging writers’ series and was shortlisted for the 2018 Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Award.

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Seed and Stem

Avra Margariti

PoetryContributor

Avra Margariti is a queer Social Work undergrad from Greece. She enjoys storytelling in all its forms and writes about diverse identities and experiences. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Vastarien, Asimov’s, Liminality, Arsenika, and other venues. You can find her on Twitter @avramargariti.

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The Mushroom Maidens

Colin Lubner

Creative Nonfiction Contributor

Colin Lubner writes (in English) and teaches (math) in southern New Jersey. His work has either appeared or will appear, temporally speaking. Recent pieces can be found through his Twitter: @no1canimagine0. He is keeping on keeping on.

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Lake Oswego

Cheryl Skory Suma

Creative Nonfiction Contributor

Cheryl launched her writing career with the novel, Habitan, which was longlisted for the 2019 Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards, and her second novel, gods Playground, was a ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition semifinalist. In 2019, she was a Ruminate Magazine’s Nonfiction Prize seminalist and shortlisted for Hippocampus Magazine’s Creative Nonfiction Contest. In 2020, she won Blank Spaces’ Flash Fiction Contest, received an H.M for Spider Road Press’ Flash Fiction Contest, and was a finalist for Longridge
Review’s Prize for Creative Nonfiction (this piece received a 2020 Pushcart nomination).

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My Shadow’s Shadow
If I Fell

Barbara A Meier

Poetry Contributor

Barbara A Meier recently retired from teaching and Oregon and moved to Colorado to spend time with her mom. Her first Micro
Chapbook, “Wildre LAL 6” came out in the summer of 2019, from Ghost City Press. “Getting Through Gold Beach” came out in November 2019 from Writing Knights Press. She has been published in The Poeming Pigeon, TD; LR, Catching Fire Anthology, and The
Fourth River.

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Finding Bats in the Spring Wood at Twilight

Kelli Lage

Poetry Contributor

Kelli Lage lives in the Midwest countryside with her husband, and their dog, Cedar. Lage is currently earning her degree in Secondary English Education. Lage states she is here to give readers words that resonate

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Sun Stained