Nightingale & Sparrow

Category: Contributors

  • Jessica June Cato

    Jessica June Cato

    Poetry Contributor

    Jessica June Cato is a California based poet and mother. She is a bisexual, biracial Latina and draws inspiration from nature documentaries, therapy, astrology and experiences living her own dualities. Her favorite things include being a mother, avoiding small talk at school pickup, anything fantasy fiction and her two small poodles.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    I Used To Get Ear Infections

  • Emily Patterson

    Emily Patterson

    Poetry Contributor

    Emily Patterson received her B.A. in English from Ohio Wesleyan University, where she was awarded the Marie Drennan Prize for Poetry, and her M.A. in Education from The Ohio State University. She is the author of So Much Tending Remains (Kelsay Books). Emily’s work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and appears in Rust and Moth, Minerva Rising Press, Mom Egg Review, Sheila-Na-Gig, The Sunlight Press, Literary Mama, and elsewhere.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    In Walhalla Ravine,

  • Carella Keil

    Carella Keil

    Poetry, Visual Art Contributor

    Carella is a writer and digital artist who splits her time between the ethereal world of dreams, and Toronto, Canada, depending on the weather. Her art has appeared recently on the covers of Glassworks Magazine, Colors: The Magazine, and Frost Meadow Review, and is forthcoming on the cover of Straylight Magazine. Her art has also been featured in Skyie Magazine, Existere, Burningword, Chestnut Review, Wander Magazine, and The Field Guide Poetry Magazine. Follow her on Instagram: http://instagram.com/catalogue.of.dreams.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Thirst

    Ember Garden

    Phoenix Rising

    Sunset Bouquet

    Hypnotic Flame

  • Amanda Coleman White

    Amanda Coleman White

    Poetry Contributor

    Amanda Coleman White is a writer currently
    working toward a PhD that combines creative
    writing and Celtic myth. She has been a
    featured poet with Indolent Press, and has
    poems published in literary magazines such as
    After Happy Hour Review, Obsessed with
    Pipework, Sarasvati, and The Dawntreader.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    The Next Time I Stand at the Edge

  • A. M. Johnson

    A. M. Johnson

    Fiction Contributor

    A. M. Johnson (they/them, she/her, he/him) is
    the pen name of Annabella Johnson, a writer
    from Saint Louis, Missouri. Johnson holds an
    undergraduate degree in creative writing from
    Webster University. Johnson is bisexual and
    nonbinary. They enjoy tea, books, and relative
    quiet, even at the best of times.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    House Sanguine

  • Karen Pierce Gonzalez

    Karen Pierce Gonzalez

    Visual Art Contributor

    Karen Pierce Gonzalez’s assemblage art is a kinetic conversation with natural and found materials that follows the grain of tree bark, strands of textile, and waves of color.

    At home in the San Francisco Bay Area, she was National Arts Program’s July 2022 Featured Artist. Her creations have appeared in Feral: A Poetry and Art Journal, and have been shown at several galleries, including Truckenbrod Gallery, Tiny Kiosks, Finley Person Center, Santa Rosa Arts Center, and Sebastopol Arts Center.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Feathers
    Pine Burst
    Cup and Straws
    Enchanted Forest
    Black Swan

    Blue Crystal Bark
    Amethyst Bark

    Metallic Bark Caves
    Emerald Sweet Gum Seed

  • Amanda McLeod

    Amanda McLeod

    Amanda McLeod

    Fiction Contributor

    Margaret King enjoys penning poetry, flash fic, and micro essays. Her recent work has appeared in MoonPark Review, Sledgehammer, and Moist Poetry Journal. In 2021, she was nominated for a Pushcart for her eco-flash fiction story “The Sky Is Blue.” She teaches tai chi in Wisconsin. She is also the author of the poetry collection, Isthmus.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Languages Where Green And Blue Are One Colour

     

  • Margaret King

    Margaret King

    Margaret King

    Non-fiction Contributor

    Margaret King enjoys penning poetry, flash fic, and micro essays. Her recent work has appeared in MoonPark Review, Sledgehammer, and Moist Poetry Journal. In 2021, she was nominated for a Pushcart for her eco-flash fiction story “The Sky Is Blue.” She teaches tai chi in Wisconsin. She is also the author of the poetry collection, Isthmus.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    An autistic reflects on friendship with trees, lakes and certain birds

     

  • Daniel Rabuzzi

    Daniel Rabuzzi

    Daniel Rabuzzi

    Non-fiction Contributor

    Daniel A. Rabuzzi has had two novels, five short stories and twenty poems published (www.danielarabuzzi.com). He lived eight years in Norway, Germany and France, and earned degrees in the study of folklore and mythology, and European history. He lives in New York City with his artistic partner & spouse, the woodcarver Deborah A. Mills (www.deborahmillswoodcarving.com), and the requisite cat.  Tweets @TheChoirBoats.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    A Flowing Drop Suspended In Time, Still Flowing

     

  • K. Gene Friedman

    K Gene Friedman

    K. Gene Friedman

    Non-fiction Contributor

    K. Gene Friedman is a queer, invisibly disabled high school dropout working in sexual and reproductive health. Her words appear in Maudlin House, Entropy, Expat Press, and Queen Mob’s Tea House. Future Tense Books will publish her chapbook Foreign Body in November, 2022. You can find her on Twitter @ValleyGirlLift.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Bundles of Three