Category: Contributors

N.D. Erwin

Poetry Contributor

N.D. Erwin is a rural poet, educator, community mediator, and researcher at the School of International Service, American University. With a family tree rooted in the North and South, Alabama moonshiners and Vermont dairy farmers, Erwin grew up in the hills of Newark Valley, New York. N.D. Erwin works as a poetry editor for Folio and Barrelhouse Magazine. His poetry has appeared in a number of print and online publications, including Redactions, Wordgatherings, Breadcrumbs, Sonic Boom, and Old Red Kimono. His book Hemp and Farm Justice is forthcoming Fall 2020 from Mandel-Vilar Press.

Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

A Little Love Poem on a Little Love Poem

Zebib K. A.

Poetry Contributor

Zebib K. A. a writer, psychiatrist, and movie lover living in NYC. She comes from a black/immigrant background, and identifies as queer, and explores these identities in her writing.

Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

Kourtina

Parth Shirke

Photography Contributor

Parth Shirke (he/him) received his Master’s in Electrical Engineering from CSU Long Beach in 2016. Since then, he has moved to the Bay Area and works in the tech industry. Parth finds relief from his fast-paced life by taking photos inspired by the urban city he works in while also taking the time to capture the beauty of nature. His photography has been featured in J. Mane Gallery, honey & lime literary magazine, Tiny Seed Literary Journal, and Nightingale & Sparrow.

Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

The Magic

A Patch of Sun

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

Megha Sood

Poetry Contributor

Megha Sood is an author at Whisper and the Roar, GoDogGoCafe, and Asst. Poetry editor at Ariel Chart and MookyChick. Over 350+ works in journals including FIVE:2: ONE, KOAN, Kissing Dynamite, among others. Featured in 35 print anthologies by the US, UK, Australian, and Canadian Press. Two-time State-level winner of the NJ Poetry Contest, 2018/2019. National level finalist in Poetry Matters Prize, 2019 and Pangolin Poetry Prize, 2019. Finalist in the Adelaide Literary Award, 2019.

Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

Bittersweet Symphony

Silence – a lost art

Declaration

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

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

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

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