Sally Quon is a poet and photographer living in the Okanagan Valley of beautiful British Columbia, Canada. She is an associate member of The League of Canadian Poets and a member of Haiku Canada. Her work has been published in numerous anthologies including The Heron’s Nest, Modern Haiku, and The Red Alder.
Philip Brent Harris has written a dozen original screenplays and two adaptations solo and four with Stanford Professor, Jasmina Bojic. For over a decade, he served as a juror for both the San Francisco Film Festival and the United Nations Association Film Festival. The latter was founded by Professor Bojic, who also serves as the Executive Director. Harris was honored as the final poem in the print anthology: Humans in the Wild: Reactions to a Gun Loving Country, Mythic Picnic.
Laura Sloan Patterson is an English professor at Seton Hill University in western Pennsylvania. Her poetry has appeared in Lines + Stars, Spry, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, WomenArts Quarterly, The Mom Egg, Rust + Moth, HOOT, The North Carolina Literary Review, and other journals. She was a finalist for the James Applewhite Poetry Prize awarded by the North Carolina Literary Review.* 2023 Update: Laura's poem Learning to Read was nominated by the Origami Poems Project for the annual Pushcart Prize.
Vikki C., is a British-born writer, poet and musician from London whose literary works are inspired by science, spirituality, the natural world and the human condition. She is the author of 'The Art of Glass Houses' (Alien Buddha Press) - a debut chapbook of poetry and prose exploring the human experience through the liminal spaces of memory, place, heritage, art and existentialism.
Vikki's poetry and prose are published both in print and online journals and anthologies. Her work appears or is forthcoming in publications such as EcoTheo Review, Ellipsis Zine, Black Bough Poetry, Acropolis Journal, Nightingale & Sparrow, Loft Books, DarkWinter Literary Magazine, Across The Margin, Literary Revelations, Lazuli Literary Group, Spare Parts Lit and other venues.
Vikki has also lived and worked in Asia and attributes her diverse artistic perspectives to these cross cultural influences.
Twitter: @VWC_Writes
Anna Remennik is a chemical engineer working in Silicon Valley, and enjoys writing poems about automatic titrators, technical supply chain processes, and occasionally even more fantastical things. Her work has appeared in publications including Radon Journal, New Myths.com (with a poem nominated for the 2023 Rhysling Award), and was awarded third prize at the 2022 Patricia Eschen Prize for Poetry. She can be found online at https://annaremennik.wordpress.com
Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo is a Filipina poet and author of two self-care books — the twin deLights — titled "Haikuna Matata" (5-7-5 haiku/haiga) and "Hainaku! It's Pundemic!" (humour). Her poetry has been published in various anthologies and journals, most recently in the Haiku Corner, Tanka Society of America, Pan Haiku Review, Haikuniverse, Kokako, and Haiku Dialogue. Her Golden Haiku 2023 competition entry was one of the 200 printed signs displayed along the iconic streets of Washington DC. She is also a medical transcriptionist.
C.X. Turner writes poems about dandelions, frozen fingers and frogs. She enjoys experimenting with Japanese short-forms, working collaboratively with other poets and on solo projects. Her poems and artwork have been widely published in a range of journals and anthologies; three of her poems were Touchstone-nominated in 2022. She is a social worker and observer of life, rediscovering her creativity and always making space on her bookshelves for more.
Michael Terence O'Brien is a poet, playwright, artist, and a singer/songwriter who resides in Chesterfield N.J. He currently works as a special education teacher and instructs students with autistic spectrum disorder.