David Milley's recent work appears in 3rd Wednesday, RFD Magazine, Friends Journal, The Amphibian, and Feral. David lives in New Jersey with his husband, Warren Davy, who's made his living as a farmer, woodcutter, nurseryman, auctioneer, beekeeper, and cook. These days, Warren tends his garden and keeps honeybees. David walks and writes.
Melissa Dennison is a writer of haiku, poetry and flash fiction. Her work emerges from the everyday and lived experience (in the main). Sometimes she is given to flights of fancy. Follow her on X (@MelissaDen95756)
Lance Mazmanian, word/visual author, once Random House distributed with Harlan Ellison, got a coffee as payment. Mazmanian was published 2025 by London Writers' Salon, Fiction On the Web UK, WILDsound Festival (TIFF; Canada), more. Leonard Cohen (RIP) thought he and Mazmanian should print a poetry chapbook together. Til the Scrapbook File.
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Becky Ventura grew up in Nebraska and now resides in Michigan, USA. She is a retired music teacher. In April 2019, she received the Dearborn Mayor’s Arts Educator Award with US Congressional Recognition. Ventura has two poetry collections: Radiant Jukebox (2021) and Quintessential Cubicles (2024) both published by Wild Rising Press. Her poems have been published in The Art of Listening, Poetry Pacific, Painted Pebbles and in in several Poetry Society of Michigan’s anthologies. Ventura has studied with Judyth Hill, Sarah Winn, and Jane Huffman.
Becky Parker is a Pushcart prize nominee who has published in Spirit Fire Review, Agape Review, Sweety Cat Press, Yellow Mama, Appalachia Bare, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, the Rye Whiskey Review, Pulse, the Green Shoe Sanctuary, Sequoyah Cherokee River Journal, Amaranth Journal, Spire Light, Avocet, Mackenzie’s Publication, Salvation South, Heart of Flesh, Mildred Haun Review, North Dakota Quarterly, and 10x10 Flash Fiction, and Penstricken. She is the founder of Briar Haus Writes...
Diana Woodcock has authored seven poetry collections, most recently Reverent Flora ~ The Arabian Desert’s Botanical Bounty (Shanti Arts, 2025), Heaven Underfoot (2022 Codhill Press Pauline Uchmanowicz Poetry Award), Holy Sparks (2020 Paraclete Press Poetry Award finalist), and Facing Aridity (2020 Prism Prize for Climate Literature finalist). A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee and Best of the Net nominee, she received the 2011 Vernice Quebodeaux Pathways Poetry Prize for Women for her debut collection, Swaying on the Elephant’s Shoulders. Currently teaching at VCUarts Qatar, she holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University, where she researched poetry's role in the search for an environmental ethic..
Sander de Kock is an aspiring poet. After taking part in writing courses and a poetry masterclass by Ella Frears on Brevity he got inspired and wrote a poem a week in 2024. In these poems he tried to capture the weeks events, sights, sounds, observations or the lack of these. In his other (working) life Sander works as an academic.