Category: Contributors

After military service William Conelly took both Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in English at UC Santa Barbara. Unrelated post-grad work followed, before he returned to academia in 2000. Since then he’s served in both America and the UK as an associate professor, tutor and seminar leader in writing and English Studies. Retired now, with three grown sons and dual citizenship, he resides primarily in the West Midlands town of Warwick. In 2014 The Able Muse Press published an assortment of his verse dating back four decades; it’s titled Uncontested Grounds and may be reviewed at their website or via Amazon.

Holly Salvatore is a farmer in Boulder, CO. They tweet @Queen_Compost and are excellent at naming chickens. Find them outside.

Don Noel is retired from four decades’ prize winning print and broadcast journalism in Hartford, CT. He took his MFA in Creative Writing from Fairfield University in 2013, and has since published more than five dozen short stories, including Méchant in Nightingale & Sparrow’s Renaissance issue.

Jane Marshall Fleming is a PhD student in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of Ocotillo Worship (APEP Publications, 2019) and Violence/Joy/Chaos (Rhythm & Bones Press, 2020). Her poetry, collages, and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Ghost City Review, Barren Magazine, Pussy Magic Magazine, and Honey & Lime, among others. She is currently a Contributing Editor at Barren Magazine and blogs at lunaspeaksblog.com.

Courtney Burk’s writing has been published in Pussy Magic, She & Her, F-Bom, and featured in WOMEN Art Show in Detroit. She’s constantly on the hunt for engaging prose about mythology as the fiction editor of Cauldron Anthology. She loves nothing more than a good story and hikes in National Parks with her husband and rescue mutts. She blogs at www.spoonfulofink.com and her social handle is @spoonfulof_ink.

Camille Clarke is a Midwestern writer currently living in the South. A graduate of the University of Minnesota, she has a degree in Asian Languages and Literature with a minor in English. She is working on a novel in between cups of tea. Find her on Twitter where she mostly tweets about how adorable her nephew is: @_camillessi.

Joris Lenstra works as a translator and editor. Occasionally, he manages to squeeze out a poetry translation, which has resulted in Dutch poetry books of work by Walt Whitman, Jack Kerouac, Oscar Wilde, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. He also loves to write his own work and has published poems, short stories, essays and articles in magazines and anthologies in the Netherlands.

Liat Miriam is a New Yorker who has also lived in Israel, Colorado, and briefly, North Carolina. When not writing, she enjoys meeting dogs and eating hummus. Twitter: @itsliat.

DW McKinney is a Sin City-based writer. She is the creative nonfiction editor for The Tishman Review and is the 2018 Hellebore Press Creative Nonfiction Scholarship Honoree. Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Hellebore Press, Stoneboat, TAYO Literary Magazine, Cagibi, honey & lime literary magazine, Sidereal Magazine, and others. She is also a regular contributor to HelloGiggles.com and OnOurMoon.com. She loves eating peanut butter and chocolate ice cream (only from Baskin-Robbins) and doting on her orchids. Check out her projects on dwmckinney.com or follow her @thedwmckinney.

Bailey Dann was born and raised in rural Idaho next to potato fields nestled in the Rocky Mountains. She is a Shoshone-Bannock writer and artist who currently teaches elementary school in the Shoshoni language on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation.