Poetry Contributor
Archana Sridhar is an Indian-American poet and university administrator living in Toronto, Canada. A graduate of Bard College, Harvard Law School and a former Fulbright Scholar, her work has been featured in The Puritan, The /tƐmz/ Review, Barren Magazine, and elsewhere.
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James is the author of four collections of poetry, Solace Between the Lines (2019), Light (2016), Ancient Rhythms (2014), and The Silent Pond (2012). He has also had over 1,390 poems, four novels, 35 short stories, and seven essays, published in over 180 national and international magazines, journals, books, and anthologies. His poems have been nominated multiple times for Pushcart and Best of Web awards. He earned his BS and MA from California State Polytechnic University, and his doctorate from BYU. A review of his newest collection of poems, Solace Between the Lines can be found on Cyberwit.com.
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Neha Maqsood is a journalist who has written for multiple publications ranging from but not limited to The Tempest, Media Diversified, Brown Girl Magazine, Rife Magazine and The Uni Bubble. Her poetry has been featured in or is forthcoming in honey & lime, Turnpike Magazine, That’s What She Said and Vampcat Mag. For her efforts in tackling discrimination against people of colour (POC) and increasing South Asian representation in Britain, she was listed as the 100 Most Influential BME (Black and Minority Ethnic) people in South-West England and was nominated for a UK National Diversity Award under Race, Faith and Religion. She also starred in the 2018 film, Sisters in Arms, which premiered at multiple international film festivals in Toronto, Los Angeles, London, Kerry and Dingle.
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Stephen Jackson lives and writes in the Pacific Northwest. He has authored multiple chapbooks, including Fifteen and Saturnine Lives. He is the creator of the Seattle small press So Many Birds publishing (SMBp), which published the literary magazine Harness, and the biannual youth-focused chapbook Future+Present. His poems have most recently appeared or are forthcoming in The American Journal of Poetry, Dream Noir, The Fictional Café, Grey Sparrow Journal, IHRAF Publishes, and Impossible Archetype.
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Mário Santos lives in Lisbon, Portugal. Coming from languages and arts but passionate for the new technologies, after long years working as a software engineer, he quit his job and wrote his first novel, A Máquina não gosta de gatos (the machine hates cats), published in 2015 in Portugal by a traditional publishing house, Guerra & Paz Editores.
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Marielle Songy (she/her) is a writer living in New Orleans. She’s a small-time journalist by trade, but has been writing in some way, shape, or form for her entire life. She specializes in poetry and fiction, but loves sharing all types of stories through the written word. She enjoys good food, good people and good art of all kinds.
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Pranav, a 20-year-old “awkward dad friend”, describes himself as a professional procrastinator. He’s the friendly nerd, who will talk poetry and statistics to you with equal fervour. You can find him at his university, picking up responsibilities and people’s spirits. His writing is the darker side of this ray of sunshine—it focuses on the pandemonium surrounding the world near him.
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 and recipient of a 2007 Eric Hoffer Book Award: Notable for Art Category. Her poetry has appeared in journals internationally, including The Bitter Oleander, Cimarron Review, The Cortland Review, Feminist Studies, and The Massachusetts Review.
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Jason B. Crawford is black, bi-poly-queer, and a damn force of nature. In addition to being published in online literary magazines, such as High Shelf Press, Wellington Street Review, Poached Hare, The Amistad, Royal Rose, and Kissing Dynamite, he is the Chief Editor for The Knight’s Library. His chapbook collection, Summertime Fine, was a Short List Selection for Nightingale & Sparrow. Jason is also the recurring host poet for Ann Arbor Pride.
Fiction Contributor
Donna Vitucci’s stories, poems, and creative nonfiction have been published in print and online since 1990. Her novels In Euphoria, Salt of Patriots, and At Bobby Trivette’s Grave are 5-star-reviewed. Her most recent novel, All Souls, along with the others, is available through Magic Masterminds Press. A Midwestern girl, she has relocated to the North Carolina piedmont, where she enjoys gardening, reading, walking and yoga.