Poets

   Ayn Frances dela Cruz is an ESL teacher in Uzbekistan. She recently graduated with a Masters in International Art and Culture Management from Rome Business School where her startup Paper Monster Press was longlisted for the #RBS4 Entrepreneurship Prize. A fellow of the 7th UST National Writers Workshop and the Montaggio Writers Workshop, her work has been published in local Philippine and international magazines and anthologies and her micro-chapbook, Tumbleweed, was published by Tiny Press.

 

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 Eric Hadley is a poet when he feels like it, and the rest of the time too.

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 Andreas Wangensteen is a writer based in Oslo. He has previously had poems in Splittet Kjerne, The Cannon’s Mouth and other publications.  

 

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 Jennifer Browne falls in love easily with other people’s dogs. She is the author of American Crow (Beltway Editions, 2024) and the poetry chapbooks whisper song (tiny wren publishing, 2023) and The Salt of the Geologic World (Bottlecap Press, 2023). Her work has recently appeared in Poets for Science, Humana Obscura, Trailer Park Quarterly, and One Sentence Poems. She lives in Frostburg, Maryland.

  

 

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  Evgeniya Dineva is a poet from Bulgaria. Her works appear in Oxford Poetry Library, The Hong Kong Review, Ethel, Asian Cha and others. Her debut poetry collection Animals Have No Fathers came out in November 2023. Evgeniya is a fellow of the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation for Creative Writing.

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

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   Paul Tristram is a Welsh writer who has poems, short stories and flash fiction published in many publications around the world, he yearns to tattoo porcelain bridesmaids instead of digging empty graves for innocence at midnight, this too may pass, yet. His novel Crazy Like Emotion, short story collection Kicking Back Drunk 'Round The Candletree Graves and full length poetry collection The Dark Side Of British Poetry are published by Close To The Bone Publishing. 

 

 

  

 

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   John Swain is living in Le Perreux-sur-Marne, France and has published two collections of poetry, Ring the Sycamore Sky, and Under the Mountain Born. His most recent chapbook, From the Roof Terrace, was published in a bilingual edition. Additional information may be found at www.john-swain.com

  

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

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   Diana Tokaji  is a performance artist (London, SF, and Capital Fringe Festival award-winner) and the author of two books: SIX WOMEN IN A CELL, winner of the Best Indie Book Award for Nonfiction, 2021; and SURVIVING ASSAULT – Words that Rock & Quiet & Tell the Truth. (Next Generation Indie Book Finalist).

 

Awarded the Sonia Sanchez-Langston Hughes Poetry Prize judged by Richard Blanco in 2020, her essays and poems are found in The Quarry, Bellevue Literary Review, Tiferet, Author, The New Guard (2019 poetry finalist), Solstice Literary Magazine (2022 essay finalist), Bourgeon Literary, The Mid-Atlantic Review, Frontier Poetry (2024 tanka award-winner), and in parenting rags, humor anthologies, feminist presses, and a bus in Virginia that displays her 2023 winning poem. 

 

Forthcoming are her collections: “BOOK OF ESSAYS BEFORE I DIE,” and “SPOKE: Poems of Squid, Cellmates, Love.” 

 

Diana is a Certified Yoga Therapist supporting female survivors of assault and trauma. She values the accessibility and beauty of the Origami Micro-chapbooks more than ever at this time. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

 

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