Poets

Guy Traiber was born and raised in the sweltering middle-east and found love in the cold mountains of the Alps. After a decade of traveling extensively throughout India, South-East Asia & Europe he is now pitched again on the soil of his youth. He studies Sociology & Political Science and Chinese Medicine and finds that they all relate.

His writing has appeared in (very) few good journals and rejected by many well known publications.

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    Ethar Hamid is an aspiring writer. She likes to write pieces that have an underlying theme of mental illness. She hopes that her writing (one day) serves as therapy for people suffering from mental health issues (whether as formal bibliotherapy, or informal cathartic reading). Having suffered from severe mental health issues as a teenager (currently diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, depressive type), she’d like to help others who face similar conditions.

Ethar lived in northern Virginia for 15 years, but is now living with her family in Doha, Qatar.  She is from Khartoum, Sudan.

Her poems and other publications can be read at Finding a Peaceful Place.

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Shree Gupta   is a student of Computer Science but also an aspiring writer, with particular interest in poetry.  Issues and things of the mind and soul especially hold her attention and she tries to express as much of those things that usually remain unsaid. The works of Robert Frost have caught her attention and interest since childhood. In the future, she wishes to travel the world and write about her learning and experiences of it!  Currently, she is studying at Amity University in Noida, India. 

For more poems & thoughts, visit her blogsite A Thousand Words.

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Laurie Kolp is an avid runner and lover of nature living in southeast Texas with her husband, three children, and two dogs. She is the author of Upon the Blue Couch and Hello, It's Your Mother.

She enjoys writing found poetry because it creates restraints and unleashes inhibitions at the same time. Laurie is currently working on a project to honor her father, who passed away unexpectedly in 2021.

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Valerie Nieman is a novelist and poet whose work draws on her life in Appalachia and the South.  Her most recent novel, Blood Clay, was a story of the New South that won the Eric Hoffer Award in General Fiction and was a finalist for the John Gardner Fiction Book Prize.
She was longtime a journalist but now is a professor of creative writing at North Carolina A&T State University. She was a founding editor of Kestrel and currently the poetry editor of Prime Number magazine.

From 2013-2014 Val was a North Carolina Arts Council poetry fellow and received an NEA creative writing fellowship as well as major grants in West Virginia and Kentucky.  Her second poetry collection, Hotel Worthy, poems about love, loss, and survival, is being published mid-March 2015 by Press 53 and is also available through Amazon. 

Rhiannon Thorne is the managing editor of cahoodaloodaling and a book reviewer for Up the Staircase Quarterly. Her work has appeared, among others, in Existere, Foundling Review, Midwest Quarterly, and Conclave. 

Jonathan Butcher has had poetry appear in various print and online publications. His first chapbook 'Concrete Cradle' was published by Fire Hazard press in 2013, followed the next year by 'Broken Slates'  published by Flutter Press. He has been writing poetry for around nine years, and was for a short period involved as a sub-editor for an internationally distributed poetry zine named 'Unquiet Desperation'. He was born and lives in Sheffield, England.