Nightingale & Sparrow

Category: Contributors

  • Elisabeth Horan

    Elisabeth Horan

    Poetry Contributor

    Elisabeth Horan is an imperfect creature advocating for animals, children and those suffering alone and in pain – especially those ostracized by disability and mental illness. Elisabeth is honored to serve as Poetry Editor at Anti-Heroin Chic Magazine, and is Co-Owner of Animal Heart Press. She recently earned her MFA from Lindenwood University and received a 2018 Best of the Net Nomination from Midnight Lane Boutique and a 2018 Pushcart Nomination from Cease Cows. She has books coming out in 2019 with Fly on the Wall Poetry Press, Twist in Time Press, Flypaper Magazine, Hedgehog Poetry Press, and Cephalo Press.Follow her @ehoranpoet & ehoranpoet.com.

    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Thankful

  • Joan McNerney

    Joan McNerney

    Poetry Contributor

    Joan McNerney’s poetry has been included in numerous literary magazines such as Seven Circle Press, Dinner with the Muse, Moonlight Dreamers of Yellow Haze, Blueline, and Halcyon Days. Four Bright Hills Press Anthologies, several Poppy Road Review Journals, and numerous Kind of A Hurricane Press Publications have accepted her work. Her latest title is Having Lunch with the Sky and she has four Best of the Net nominations.

    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    In Flight

  • Claire Loader

    Claire Loader

    Photography Contributor

    A writer and photographer, Claire Loader was born in New Zealand and spent several years in China before moving to County Galway, Ireland.  Recently published in Pidgeonholes, The Bangor Literary Journal and Crossways, she spends her days seeking enchantment in ruins.  You can find her work here: www.allthefallingstones.com

    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Soar

  • Linda M. Crate

    lindacrateLinda M. Crate

    Poetry Contributor

    Linda M. Crate’s works have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies. She’s the author of six poetry chapbooks, the latest of which is: More Than Bone Music (Clare Songbirds Publishing House, March 2019). She’s also the author of the novel Phoenix Tears
    (Czykmate Books, June 2018). She has published three full-length poetry collections: Vampire Daughter (Dark Gatekeeper Gaming,
    February 2020), The Sweetest Blood (Cyberwit, February 2020), and Mythology of My Bones (Cyberwit, August 2020).

    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    malignant dystopia, what’s left, crow song & solitude

  • Akif Kichloo

    Akif Kichloo

    Poetry Contributor

     Akif Kichloo is a poet of Indian origin currently alternating residence between Saginaw, Michigan (USA) and Kashmir, J & K (India). With a bachelor’s degree in Medicine and Surgery, he has been eating shoelaces for the past year because he gave up everything to write poetry.

    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Dreamers Dream Dreamers Do

  • Scott Moses

    scottmosesScott Moses

    Fiction Contributor

    Scott Moses is an optician by day and a writer by night. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Coffin Bell, Boston Accent, Nightingale & Sparrow and Beautiful Losers. He currently resides in Baltimore, simultaneously loving and loathing humanity. Twitter/Instagram: @scottj_moses.

    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Right Now, Long Ago

  • Jennifer Porter

    Jennifer Porter

    Fiction Contributor

    Jennifer Porter lives near East Lansing, Michigan. Her writing has appeared in Fifth Wednesday Journal, Old Northwest Review, The Dos Passos Review, Apeiron Review, drafthorse, The Ocotillo Review, Chagrin River Review, and other journals and anthologies. Her novella The World Beyond can be found in The Binge-Watching Cure anthology with Claren Books. She is a graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars.

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    Flyer

  • Justine Akbari

    Justine Akbari

    Poetry Contributor

    Justine Akbari is a New York City resident in training, aspiring pantomath, and writer of life as she experiences it–often through an anxious, over-stimulating lens. A half-Persian, Midwestern transplant, she now resides in the hipster haven that is Bushwick, Brooklyn, where she works in B2B media by day and writes poetry and beer descriptions by night.

    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    A Composition of Melodious Words

  • Tiffany Moton

    Tiffany Moton

    Poetry Contributor

    Tiffany-Amber Moton is a 23-year-old New Yorker with a penchant for writing love poetry on bar napkins and oversharing to strangers. After studying politics and writing at Pace University, she self-published her first book, A Lonely Trip Down the Rabbit Hole in late November. Tiffany hopes to continue writing poetry about difficult topics and sharing it with others for the rest of her life and has plans to continue publishing until she finally runs out of things to say. (Never.) 

    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Quarter Life Blues in Solitude

  • Erin Moran

    Erin Moran

    Nonfiction Contributor

    Erin Moran (she/her) is a journalist and poet based in Philadelphia. Her creative work has been published by Sword & Kettle Press, Sea Foam Mag, FIVE:2:ONE Magazine and elsewhere. As a journalist, she freelances for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia magazine and other outlets. Moran curates, publishes and hosts readings and artist events for a quarterly literature & arts zine, Suburban Springtime. You can find her at ernmrn.com or follow along on Twitter (@ernmrntweets) or Instagram (@ernmrn).

    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Airplane Vignettes