Preeth Ganapathy is a software engineer turned civil servant from Bengaluru, India. Her recent works have been published in several magazines such as Last Stanza Poetry Journal, The Ekphrastic Review, Star 82 Review, Panoply Zine, Tiger Moth Review, The Sunlight Press and various other journals. Her microchaps 'A Single Moment' and 'Purple' - have been published by Origami Poems Project. Her work has been nominated for the 2023 Best Spiritual Literature.
Matt Stefon was religion editor of Encyclopaedia Britannica, poetry editor of West Texas Literary Review, adjunct in English and humanities at Middlesex Community College, and adjunct in comparative religion in Norwich University’s online degree completion program.
He studied at Penn State and Boston University and has two chapbooks and 463 wiffle ball home runs.
Tonya McKenna Trabant is a coach, educator, poet, mom living in rural Wisconsin with her partner, their two near-perfect offspring, a rescued dog, and some laying hens. Her poems appear in Clockhouse Journal, Bramble, Verse Wisconsin, Icebox Journal, and others. She is a willingly displaced Alaskan who writes to catalyze human connection, justice, and joy.
Lourdes Tutaine-Garcia is Cuban by birth, American by citizenship, Cuban-New Englander by culture. She lives in Mid-coast Maine where she listens to what the ocean has to say, then runs home to write it down. Her work has appeared in many journals, including Metafore, The Adanna Literary Journal, Avocet, and Cathexis Northwest Press. Blanket Sea nominated one of her poems for Sundress Publications 2019 Best of the Net. In 2018, BestLit Review selected her as one of the ten best prose writers in mid-coast Maine.
Hailing from Blacksburg, VA, August Reynolds' aims to tell and retell stories of people, hardships, society, and our ability and inability to forget. August draws inspiration from the American writing styles of the early-mid 20th century by detailing important, relatable stories and interactions through a more accessible, reserved writing style that teeters on the line of complex and over-simplified.
August has seven poems currently accepted for publication in places such as The Red Cedar Review, Philologia, in an anthology soon-to-be created by Eber & Wein, and a four-poem microchap accepted for publication here, with Origami Poems Project. The poem in the anthology is currently in the semi-finals of an international poetry competition put on through Poetry Nation by the parent publishing company, Eber & Wein. Both the poems in The Red Cedar Review and Philologia have already been successfully published by both and are found on their respective websites."
H Fay is a poet and educator from Massachusetts. Recent work has grappled with ecology, borders, and embodiment.
Ellen Sander, a lapsed rock journalist, is a cultural historian of the nineteen-sixties counterculture. An augmented edition of Trips: Rock Life in the Sixties, was recently reissued by Dover Publications. Chuck Klosterman told The N.Y. Times (7/18/2019) that it was on his nightstand. La-dee-fekking-dah, right?
She was the Poet Laureate of Belfast, Maine in 2013 and 2014. Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including the Maine Review, the Georgia Review and Visiting Bob (Dylan). Hawthorne, a House in Bolinas, is published by Finishing Line Press. Her next poetry chapbook, Aquifer, will be published by Red Bird Chapbooks. You can easily find her website and social media droppings.
She hosts and produces, Poetry Woodshed Radio on WBFY-LP in Belfast, Maine. Poetry drop kicks her in the morning and undoes her curfew at night. She wishes frash were a word.
www.ellensander.com
Victoria Crawford shares her world in Thailand where she lives in an old teak house in Chiang Mai, once the capital city of the Lanna Kingdom, surrounded by a moat and remnants of thousand year old walls. Her poems have been published in places such as Hawaii Pacific Review, Poetry Pacific, Verse Virtual, and Cargo Literary.
She particularly loves having a tropical garden.