Nightingale & Sparrow

Category: Contributors

  • Angela Acosta

    Angela Acosta

    Angela Acosta

    Poetry Contributor

    Angela Acosta is a bilingual Latina poet and scholar. She was recently nominated for Best of the Net and her work has appeared in Panochazine, Pluma, Toyon Magazine, and Latinx Audio Lit Mag. Her chapbook “Fourth Generation Chicana Unicorn” will be published by Dancing Girl Press in 2023. She is completing her Ph.D. in Iberian Studies at The Ohio State University where she studies the lives and works of early twentieth century Spanish women writers.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Sky of Your Influence

  • Annika Gangopadhyay

    Annika Gangopadhyay

    Annika Gangopadhyay

    Poetry Contributor

    Annika Gangopadhyay is an emerging writer. Her work appears in or is forthcoming in LIGEIA, The Incandescent Review, Blue Marble Review, and the borderline. In her spare time, she likes performing music and reading art criticism.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Self Portrait as Luna

  • Indu Parvathi

    Indu Parvathi

    Indu Parvathi

    Poetry Contributor

    Indu Parvathi is a teacher from Bengaluru, India. Her poetry appears in various literary magazines and platforms including The Punch Magazine, nether quarterly, Alipore Post, The Yearbook of Indian Poetry 2021, Narrow Road Journal, EKL Review and Usawa Literary Review’s December, 2022 issue. Her micropoem was published in Nightingale&Sparrow.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Centaur, Firing an Arrow

  • Jenny Wong

    Jenny Wong

    Jenny Wong

    Fiction Contributor

    Jenny Wong is a writer, traveler, and occasional business analyst. Her favorite places to wander are Tokyo alleys, Singapore hawker centers, and Parisian cemeteries. She resides in Canada near the Rocky Mountains and tweets @jenwithwords. 


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    The Night Gardener

  • Rachel Coyne

    Rachel Coyne

    Rachel Coyne

    Visual Art Contributor

    Rachel Coyne is a writer and painter from Lindstrom, Mn.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Star Giants
    Vision of a Sparrow
    Vision of Songbird

  • Zoe Raven

    Zoe Raven

    Fiction Contributor

    Zoe recently graduated from the Undergraduate Diploma in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford and is currently studying for the MLitt in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. She has been published by Paper Nations, Snakeskin and Renard Press, and The Dawntreader, and longlisted for the Black Cat Poetry Press competition. After 13 years in Ottawa, Canada, she now lives in Berkshire, England with her husband, five children, three cats and a dog.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    The Deep End

  • Sam Goundry Butler

    Sam Goundry Butler

    Poetry Contributor

    I am a teacher and writer based in South East London. I am currently studying a Masters in Creative Writing and Education at Goldsmiths University, London.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    You asked “Where does time go once it’s happened?”

  • Paula Turcotte

    Paula Turcotte

    Fiction Contributor

    Paula Turcotte was born and raised on Treaty 7 land, home of the Siksika, Piikani, Kainai, Tsuut’ina and Stoney Nakoda First Nations. She is a former English teacher and is now reading for the MSt in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford. Paula is a snack connoisseur who can often be found running, cycling, swimming, or hanging out with her dog. She never remembers to use a bookmark.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Chlorine Breakfast

  • Mel Piper

    Mel Piper

    Visual Art Contributor

    Mel Piper is based in Coventry, UK and been a keen photographer since as soon as she could get hold of a camera. Mel adores taking snapshots of the natural world around us, showcasing the beauty in the smallest of things.  Mel also enjoys portrait photography, and sport photography. In addition to photography, Mel is a keen writer, reader and is never happier than being in the great outdoors! Insta: @tinymelphotography


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Crest
    Sea Spray
    Ripple
    Radiant

  • Luanne Castle

    Luanne Castle

    Poetry Contributor

    Luanne Castle’s new poetry collection is Rooted and Winged  (Finishing Line Press). Kin Types, a chapbook of poetry and flash nonfiction, was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award.  Her first collection of poetry, Doll God, won the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Poetry. Luanne’s Pushcart and Best of the Net-nominated poetry and prose have appeared in Copper Nickel, American Journal of Poetry, Pleiades, River Teeth, TAB, Verse Daily, Saranac Review, and other journals. 


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Becoming Silent at Thirteen