Stephen Toft is a poet and homelessness worker who lives in Lancaster, UK with his girlfriend and their children. His first collection "the kissing bridge" was published by Red Moon Press in 2008 and in December 2016 Scars Publications released his chapbook "naming a storm: haiku and tanka".
Oz Hardwick is a York-based poet, photographer, music journalist, and occasional musician. He has published countless poems internationally, in journals and anthologies, as well as having work performed in musical settings and as part of art and film collaborations. His most recent poetry collection is The Ringmaster’s Apprentice (Valley Press, 2014), and he is co-author, with Amina Alyal, of the Saboteur-shortlisted Close as Second Skins (IDP, 2015).
Chip Dameron is the author of eight collections of poetry, including China Sketchbook (Virtual Artists Collective, 2016). His poems, as well as his essays on contemporary writers, have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies in the U.S. and abroad. A two-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, he was a recent Fellow at the Dobie Paisano Ranch.
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The author thanks the Dobie Paisano Fellowship Program for its generous support.
Jeff Ingram teaches creative writing at two local colleges and works on his organic garden. He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife, Kim.
Most recently, Jeff has been published in Akitsu Quarterly’s Spring 2022 and Modern Haiku’s Autumn 2022 editions. He also has had a piece selected for publication in bird whistle: A Contemporary Anthology of bird Haiku (title subject to change) through bottle rockets press in 2023. As for inspiration, he spends time revisiting Issa in A Taste of Issa and has recently finished a wonderful read, eggplants & teardrops, by Aaron Barry.
seed library is Jeff Ingram's fourth microchap collection.
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Daniel Blokh is a 15-year-old writer and author of In Migration (BAM! Publishing, 2016), available now on booksamillion.com. His work has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, Foyle Young Poets, Cicada Magazine, Thin Air magazine, and more. He is an editor at Parallel Ink.
www.danielblokh.com
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Lori Lamothe is the author of three poetry books, Trace Elements (Aldrich Press, 2015), Happily (Aldrich, 2016) and Kirlian Effect (FutureCycle Press, forthcoming 2017), as well as several chapbooks, most recently Ouija in Suburbia (dancing girl press, 2015). Her poems have appeared in The Journal, The Literary Review, Painted Bride Quarterly Review, Verse Daily and elsewhere.
A two-time Pushcart nominee, she lives in New England with her daughter and a Siberian husky born on Halloween.
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2016 - The Origami Poems Project nominated Lori Lamothe's poem, The Blue Earrings, for a Pushcart Prize.
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Ho Cheung LEE (Peter) Ed.D., resides in Hong Kong where he teaches and writes. He earned his doctorate from The University of Hong Kong with a thesis on teaching reading.
His poetry has appeared in aaduna, FIVE Poetry Magazine, Ozone Park Journal, Poetry Pacific, Red Booth Review, Sierra Nevada Review, The Chaffey Review, The Interpreter’s House, The Writing Disorder, Wild Violet and elsewhere. His short stories have also been published in Eastlit, Miracle Magazine, Nazar Look, River Poets Journal and The Oddville Press.
In the winter of 2014 he started BALLOONS Lit. Journal (www.balloons-lit-journal.com)
He can be found at www.ho-cheung.com
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