Category: Contributors

Christina Ciufo

Poetry Contributor

Christina Ciufo is a passionate writer in poetry, short stories, flash fictions, fables, and completing her first novel. At a very young age, she always had a passion for writing stories and poems, specifically in fairytales, folklore, supernatural, and horror. She truly enjoys writing about folklore, the supernatural, and horror in various writing genres because she believes by telling stories about witches, vampires, ghosts, werewolves, demons, and other supernatural forces, they evoke a haunting and terrifying imagination that brings joy and fright.

@ChristinaCiufo

Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

Decrypted Glasgow Churchyard

Anca Vlasopolos

Poetry Contributor

Anca Vlasopolos published the award-winning novel The New Bedford Samurai; the award-winning memoir No Return Address: A Memoir of Displacement; four collections of poems, Often Fanged Light (Adelaide Books, 2019), Cartographies of Scale (and Wing) (2015); Walking Toward Solstice (2012); and Penguins in a Warming World (2007); three poetry chapbooks, a detective novel, Missing Members, and nearly three hundred poems and short stories in literary journals.

Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

Gaga

Jim Hanson

Poetry Contributor

Jim Hanson is a retired Senior Researcher at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, where he worked and taught in community development since 1966. He currently resides in the St. Louis area. He has a doctorate degree in sociology and is a lay-ordinate Zen Buddhist. Recent poetry has been published or posted in Dissident Voice, International Journal of Fear Studies, I am not a silent poet, Nebo, New Verse News, Otolith, Poetry24, and Sacred Journey.

Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

Living Ghosts

Alenne Nichols

Poetry Contributor

Allene Nichols lives in Dallas, Texas, where she teaches at Richland College and at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her poetry has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including: Veils, Halos, and Shackles and Impossible Archetype. Her poem, “Queer Salt,” was a 2017 winner of OUTSpoken’s creative writing contest.

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Vanishing Point

Heather Sager

Poetry Contributor

Heather Sager’s poetry is forthcoming in Umbrella Factory Magazine and CircleShow, and has recently appeared in Hypnopomp, Alba: A Journal of Short Poetry, Mantis, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, and other magazines. Heather also writes short fiction. She grew up in rural Minnesota and lives in Illinois.

Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

You Are A Raven

Gaby Bedetti

Poetry and Photography Contributor

Gaby Bedetti’s essays, photos, poems, and translations have appeared in New Literary History, Still, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel,
Front Porch Review, and Asymptote. Other works are forthcoming in Brooklyn Rail, Ezra, and Rhino. She takes photos as a way to capture the moment fully and to stop time.

Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

Hologram

Cabin in the Woods, Interlochen, MI

Floracliff Nature Preserve, Kentucky

Henry Clay Estate, Lexington, KY

Impressionism at the Sinkhole

Leaf Falling in the Woods

Raven Run, KY

Sunset over Rich MT, GA

Turkey Trail, Sewanee, TN

Jordan Brown

Creative nonfiction Contributor

Jordan Brown received an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, where he currently resides with two cats. He’s been published in Bramble, Inkwell, Wilde Boy, and The Bastard’s Review, which he co-edits. His memoir, Henry Wait, focuses on addiction, dysphoria, and the relief that writing brings.

Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

To Carry A Stone

J.S. Watts

Fiction Contributor

J.S. Watts is a poet and novelist. Her poetry, short stories and nonfiction appear in publications in Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia and America including: Mslexia and New Myths and have been broadcast on BBC and independent radio. Her published books include: Cats and Other Myths, Songs of Steelyard Sue, Years Ago You Coloured Me and The Submerged Sea (poetry) and A Darker Moon and Witchlight (novels). Her next novel, Old Light, is due out in 2019.

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Earth to Earth

KB Ballentine

Poetry Contributor

KB Ballentine’s sixth collection, The Light Tears Loose, appeared this summer with Blue Light Press. Published in Crab Orchard Review and Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, among others, her work also appears in anthologies including In Plein Air (2017) and Carrying the Branch: Poets in Search of Peace (2017).

Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

All Soul’s Night

Elizabeth Spencer Spragins

Poetry Contributor

Elizabeth Spencer Spragins is a poet and writer who taught in community colleges for more than a decade. Her tanka and bardic verse in the Celtic style have been published extensively in Europe, Asia, and North America. She is the author of With No Bridle for the Breeze: Ungrounded Verse published by Shanti Arts and Publishing and The Language of Bones: American Journeys Through Bardic Verse published by Kelsay Books.

Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

In the Dungeon of Duntulm Castle