Poets

Colleen Alles is a native Michigander and award-winning writer. The author of three novels and two poetry collections, she is also a fiction editor with Barren Magazine and an MFA candidate at Spalding University.

You can find her online at www.colleenalles.com.

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Dennis Owen Frohlich is a professor at Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania – Bloomsburg in the Department of Communication Studies, Media and Journalism. Born and raised in North Dakota, he moved to Pennsylvania to begin the next chapter of his career. He's found that Bloomsburg is welcoming, the mountains are beautiful, and the people are kind. Visit his website: https://DennisFrohlich.com/

M. Frost's work has appeared in American Poetry Journal, The Hopkins Review, Strange Horizons, and many other venues, with two chapbooks—Cow Poetry (Finishing Line Press) and The Women of Myth (Island of Wak-Wak)—plus a collaboration, Constellation (CreateSpace) with my artist-brother. She writes under the pen name M. Frost to differentiate her creative works from the non-fiction publications required for her job, work that informs this collection through her personal and research experience with horses and as a veterinarian.

 

Ruth Holzer is the author of ten chapbooks, most recently, “On the Way to Man in Moon Passage” (dancing girl press) and “Float” (Kelsay Books). Her poems have appeared in Blue Unicorn, California Quarterly, Freshwater, POEM, Slant and elsewhere. She is a multiple Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee.

 

 

Katy Z. Allen (she/her) is a lover of the more-than-human world, poet, retired rabbi of an outdoor congregation, former healthcare chaplain, co-founder of a Jewish climate organization, and eco-chaplain. She has been writing in one context or another all her life. Her poetry has appeared in New Verse News, The Jewish Poets Collective Poetry Journal, and 2025 Art on the Trails: Number 9, and is forthcoming in Bluebird Word. My poetic book, A Tree of Life: A Story in Word, Image, and Text was published by Strong Voices Publishing.

 

Her work can be found online at www.katyzallen.com  

 

 

 

 

 

Yucheng Tao is a Chinese poet and fiction writer based in Los Angeles, currently pursuing a B.A. in Songwriting at the Musicians Institute. He began writing poetry and fiction in 2024, and his work has since appeared in Wild Court (King’s College London), Red Ogre Review (UK), The Lake (UK), NonBinary Review, Apocalypse Confidential, The Rush Magazine (Mount Saint Mary’s University), The Arcanist, Cathexis Northwest Press, and over fifty other literary magazines. He was a Top 6 finalist for the Native Voice Award by Kinsman Quarterly . His debut chapbook was published by Alien Buddha Press, followed by his second from Bottlecap Press.

  

 

Laura Hannett lives in Central New York with her wonderful family. While she loves winter, she is always relieved when spring shows up. Other poems can be found at Pulsebeat Poetry Journal, Neologism, Amethyst Review and The Bluebird Word.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   Pam Berkman has authored or co-authored five books of fiction from Simon & Schuster, and her poetry and flash fiction have been published by Loud Coffee Press and Devil’s Party Press. Her short story “The Falling Nun” appeared in Faultline and was a Pushcart Prize nominee. Pam works in educational publishing in the San Francisco Bay Area and also serves as managing editor at Bull City Press, an independent micropress in Durham, NC, specializing in poetry, flash fiction, chapbooks, and microchap books.