Poetry Contributor
Kaylor Jones is a student in Phoenix studying professional writing and psychology. She enjoys listening to classic rock, eating fruit, and watching YouTube videos about movies. She can be found on LinkedIn here and contacted for freelance opportunities at kaylorannejones@gmail.com. She promises that she is very good.
Poetry Contributor
Melodie Jones is a twenty-two-year-old Ball State University graduate. She majored in English Education and minored in Creative Writing. She has been writing for ten years. She has had three pieces of poetry published thus far. She can be found on Twitter @Miss_MJones.
Fiction and Creative nonfiction Contributor
K.T. Slattery was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and grew up just across the state line in Mississippi. A graduate of Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama, she now lives in the West of Ireland with her husband and an ever-increasing amount of rescue pets. When she is not throwing a ball, she can be found painting, writing, or exploring the ruins of ancient Ireland.
The Unbearable Torture of the Raven at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum
Poetry Contributor
Emily Craig graduated from the University of North Alabama with her English, Professional Writing Degree in 2018. She is a self-published author with two poetry collections, Pieces of My Heart and Loving Myself. Links to her collections, blog, and published poems for literary magazines are on her website: www.emilycraigodyssey.wixsite.com/writer. She has poetry published on Instagram by Nightingale and Sparrow, Royal Rose, and Marias at Sampaguitas, along with poems in Marias at Sampaguitas Issue One.
Cynthia Anne CashmanPoetry Contributor
Cynthia Anne Cashman lives in Los Angeles, CA. She was born in Southern Minnesota into a family business of floriculture. These roots
developed in her a sense of wonder and awe that continues to inspire her. She recently published her second book: Circle of Time: A
Year in Haiku. Her work appears in Nightingale and Sparrow, By Me Poetry’s anthologies, and other literal works.
Poetry Contributor
Ms. Surabhi Parmar is currently working as an Assistant Professor of English at Gujarat, India. She is also pursuing her PhD on the world’s greatest epic: The Mahabharata. She is a budding poet and writes in English, Gujarati and Hindi. Many of her poems are published by Visual Verse, an online anthology of Art and Words based in Berlin, Germany. You can reach her on Twitter @SurbhiParmar24.
Poetry Contributor
William Doreski has published three critical studies and several collections of poetry. His work has appeared in various journals. He has taught writing and literature at Emerson, Goddard, Boston University, and Keene State College. His new poetry collection is A Black River, A Dark Fall.
Poetry and Creative Nonfiction Contributor, Author
Lynne Schmidt (she/her) is a mental health professional in Maine who writes poetry, memoir, and young adult. In addition to being a Maine Nonfiction Award Winner and PNWA finalist, her poetry has received the Honorable Mention from Joy of the Pen, and her chapbook Dead Dog Poems was an honorable mention from Pub House books. Her work has appeared in Soft Cartel, RESIST/RECLAIM (forthcoming), Neon Mariposa (forthcoming), Pussy Magic (forthcoming), Royal Rose, Sixty Four Best Poets of 2018 (forthcoming), 2018 Emerging Poets, Frost Meadow Review, Poets of Maine, Poets of New England, Maine Dog Magazine, Alyss Literary, UNE Magazine, Her Kind Vida, and many others. She is a former journalist and is the founder of AbortionChat and her social justice activism has allowed her to meet Michelle Obama and Cecile Richards. She has been and continues to be a featured poet at events throughout Maine. Lynne is a member of PNWA, NEPC, and SEWSA. She prefers the company of her three dogs and one cat to humans.
Casualties, Remember to Drink Water
Lynne Schmidt is the author of Gravity (Nightingale & Sparrow Press, 2019)
Poetry Contributor
Rachel Boury Baxter is a poet, writer, and mom living in South Bend, Indiana. She has a B.A. in English writing and English literature from Saint Mary’s College (Notre Dame, Indiana). In 2016, she founded the publication, Poetry in Form, a celebration of poetic form. Her first collection of poetry, Mother Scorpion, was released in April 2020.
Jonathan HopePoetry Contributor
Jonathan is a writer based in Bath, England. He is a lover of word play and an admirer of the work of Edward Gorey, Angela Carter, AA Milne, Riccardo Guasco, David Bowie and Theatre de Complicite. A bird nerd, recovered Ultimate Frisbee fanatic and sometime surfer, he can usually be spotted walking at speed on his way to work, the theatre, a poetry reading, a pub or yoga class. He has strong links with the USA, both through his day job – as Dean and Director of the study abroad programme Advanced Studies in England – and as a dedicated transatlantic dad.
His website is https://www.jonathanhope.co.uk/