Nightingale & Sparrow

Category: Contributors

  • John Grey

    John Grey

    John Grey

    Poetry Contributor

    John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Sheepshead Review, Stand, Poetry Salzburg Review and Hollins Critic. Latest books, “Leaves On Pages” “Memory Outside The Head” and “Guest Of Myself” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Ellipsis, Blueline and International Poetry Review.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Rains Me

     

  • Leslie Cairns

    Leslie Cairns

    Leslie Cairns

    Poetry Contributor

    Leslie holds an MA English degree from SUNY Fredonia. She currently lives in Denver, and enjoys writing about nature, dementia, and mental health. She has upcoming poetry in Coffeezinemag as well as the Fiery Scribe Review. She’s recently published in Honeyguide Magazine, Ilinix Magazine, and Silent Spark Press. Twitter: starbucksgirly.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    The Daisies Miss Me

     

  • Grant Howington

    Grant Howington

    Grant Howington

    Poetry Contributor

    Grant Howington is somebody who enjoys wearing many hats both figurative and literal. Born and raised in Michigan, by day he is a bookkeeper for a Detroit non-profit organization. He spends his evenings reading, writing, making music and visual art, or falling down rabbit holes on Wikipedia. Grant enjoys spending free-time with his family, including his girlfriend, and dog. He writes to feel and find his connections to the world.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Hiraeth

     

  • Sandy Benitez

    Sandy Benitez

    Poetry Contributor

    Sandy Benitez writes lyrical poetry & fiction, sometimes dark, magical, or mysterious.  Her fondest memories of childhood are from her years in Germany, playing in the vast woods behind her home which contributed to her lifelong love of fairy tales, magical realism, and the paranormal. Sandy currently resides in Southern California with her husband and two children. 


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Medusa

     

  • John Rodzvilla

    John Rodzvilla

    John Rodzvilla

    Poetry Contributor

    John Rodzvilla teaches in the Publishing and Writing programs at Emerson College in Boston. His work has appeared in Harvard Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, gorse, DecomP, Verbatim and Bad Robot Poetry. 


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Astronomy Two Ways

     

  • Alexander Etheridge

    Alexander Etheridge

    Alexander Etheridge

    Poetry Contributor

    Alexander Etheridge has been developing his poems and translations since 1998.  His poems have been featured in Wilderness House Literary Review, Ink Sac, Cerasus Journal, The Cafe Review, The Madrigal, Abridged Magazine, Susurrus Magazine, The Journal, and many others.  He was the winner of the Struck Match Poetry Prize in 1999.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    With the Birds Again

     

  • Robyn Smith

    Robyn Smith

    Robyn Smith

    Poetry Contributor

    Robyn Smith is a writer living in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada with a kick ass eleven-year-old and their fuzzy cat. She is currently writing a novella as the thesis for her MFA through UBC’s School of Creative Writing.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Where to Read

     

  • H. Sanders

    H. Sanders

    H. Sanders

    Poetry Contributor

    H. Sanders lives, writes, and teaches in Oklahoma City alongside his spouse, Mackenzie, and their beloved dog, Laura Dern. He is hoping to take up gardening soon.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    the lonely mountain apotheosis

     

  • Karen Sadler

    Karen Sadler

    Karen Sadler

    Poetry Contributor

    Karen Sadler (she/her) is a geriatric millennial living in Toronto with her husband and two young kids. She writes about grief, nature, parenthood, and the occasional ghost. You can find more of her writing on IG @kallorywrites.


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Fire Eater

     

  • Emily Perkovich

    Emily Perkovich

    Emily Perkovich

    Poetry Contributor

    Emily Perkovich is an Art Evaluator for Persephone’s Daughters from the Chicago-land area. Her work strives to erase the stigma surrounding trauma victims and their responses. Her piece This is Performance-Art was a finalist for the 50th New Millennium Writings Award and she is a 2021 Best of the Net nominee. You can find more of her work on IG @undermeyou


    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    snug