Category: Contributor

John Paul Davies is a member of the Poised Pen writers (thepoisedpen.co.uk). Originally from Liverpool, UK, he now lives in Navan, Ireland. His work has been published in The Fog Horn, Rosebud, The Pedestal, Grasslimb, Pseudopod, Ares Magazine, Killing The Angel, and is forthcoming from Sci-Fest LA and Footnote. A poem of his is displayed…

Lane Falcon’s poem’s can be found in publications including Rhino, december, The Cortland Review, and more. She won an award for poetry too long ago to mention by name. A single mother of two, one with special needs, she lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

Raised in the nomadic subculture of the U.S. military, Kathryn Kirkpatrick grew up in the Philippines, Germany, Texas, and the Carolinas. For over 20 years she has lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina where she is a professor of English at Appalachian State University. She is the author of six collections of…

Liz Dolan’s poetry manuscript, A Secret of Long Life, nominated for a Pushcart, has been published by Cave Moon Press. Her first poetry collection, They Abide, nominated for The McGovern Prize, Ashland University, was published by March Street. An eight-time Pushcart nominee and winner of  Best of the Web, she was a finalist for Best of the Net 2014. She won…

Simona Chitescu Weik is a poet, originally from Romania, now living in Atlanta, Georgia, and working towards a PhD in Creative Writing at Georgia State University, where she is also a teaching fellow. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in several print and online publications including The Adirondack Review, Smartish Pace,Terminus, Deer Bear Wolf, The Cimarron Review, and Negative…

Diana Keren Lee has lived in Austin, New York, and Los Angeles. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Atlas Review, No Tokens, Painted Bride Quarterly, Prelude, and TINGE, among other journals. She has received fellowships from NYU and The MacDowell Colony.

Emily Hockaday is author of three chapbooks: Ophelia: A Botanist’s Guide (Zoo Cake Press), What We Love and Will Not Give Up (Dancing Girl Press), and Starting a Life (Finishing Line Press). Her work has appeared in journals including the North American Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Newtown Literary, West Wind Review, and others. She is assistant editor of the science fiction magazines Analog Science…

Sandy Coomer is a poet, mixed media artist and endurance athlete. Her poetry has most recently been published or is forthcoming in POEM, Through the Gate, Euphemism, and Firefly Magazine, among others. She is the author of two poetry collections: Continuum (Finishing Line Press) and The Presence of Absence (2014 Janice Keck Literary Award Winner).…

Steffi Lang is a Latina-German American originally from the US-Mexico border, but now lives at the tip of a mountain in rural Appalachia. She has had work appear or forthcoming in Rust + Moth, Duende, and Haverthorn, among others.