Abhilash Fraizer
Abhilash Fraizer is a multi-award-winning Indian writer from Kerala, India. A master’s degree holder in English Literature, Abhilash has authored 14 books. His latest book, “Father,” won the Panorama International Literature Special Jury Award. He was an Indian delegate to the Panorama International Literature Festival 2024, held in Greece.
Alison Hurwitz
Featured in Rust and Moth, River Heron Review, SWWIM Every Day, and Thimble Mag, among others, Alison’s work is forthcoming in Carmina Magazine and Anti-Heroin Chic. She hosts Well-Versed Words, a Zoom poetry reading. alisonhurwitz.com
Alshaad Kara
Alshaad Kara is a Mauritian poet who writes from his heart. He won the Gal’s Guide Anthology 2023 People’s Choice Award for his poem “Prelude.” His latest poems were published in the anthologies, Gal’s Guide Anthology: Journey and Suicide Vol.2, and in The Ryder Magazine April/May 2023, Literary Cognizance Vol.- III, Issue 4, March 2023, and Cultural Reverence Vol. V, No. 2, April 2023.
https://instagram.com/alshaad_kara
Amit Shankar Saha
Dr. Amit Shankar Saha is author of three collections of poems titled “Balconies of Time”, “Fugitive Words”, and “Illicit Poems.” He has won numerous awards including the Wordweavers Prize and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the Best of Net anthology.
Website: www.amitshankarsaha.com
Ammanda Moore
Ammanda Selethia Moore (they/elle) is a non-binary poet and writer who also teaches English at Norco College. Their poetry has been published in Synchronized Chaos, Literary Yard, and The Journal of Radical Wonder. They live with their partner in sunny southern California. Follow their exploits @prof.ammanda on Instagram.
Barbara Anna Gaiardoni
Barbara Anna Gaiardoni received two nominations for the Touchstone Award 2023, recognized on the Haiku Euro Top 100 list for 2023, and on The Mainichi’s Haiku in English Best 2023. Her Japanese-style poems were published in 154 international journals. They were translated into Japanese, Romanian, Arabic, Malayalam, Hindi, French, Chinese, Korean, Turkic, and the Spanish languages.
http://barbaragaiardoni.altervista.org/blog/haikuco-2/
Barbara Leonhard
Barbara is author of the best-selling Three-Penny Memories: A Poetic Memoir (EIF-Experiments in Fiction, 2022), which is available on Amazon, and Editor of MasticadoresUSA. She loves connecting with poets on social media and Zoom. She’s a Netter Go-Getter. You can follow her on WordPress.
Ben Nardolilli
Ben Nardolilli is currently an MFA candidate at Long Island University. His work has appeared in Perigee Magazine, Door Is a Jar, Red Fez, Danse Macabre, The 22 Magazine, Quail Bell Magazine, Elimae, The Northampton Review, Slab, and The Minetta Review. Follow his publishing journey at mirrorsponge.blogspot.com.
Bogdan Dragos
Bogdan Dragos supervises casinos for a gambling company, working twelve-hour shifts locked in a dark office full of TV monitors. There he mostly daydreams and writes poems and stories. He also manages a poetry blog Daydreaming as a profession.
Brian Michael Barbeito
Brian Michael Barbeito is a Canadian poet and photographer. He is the author of the book of prose poems, Chalk Lines (Fowl Pox Press). Currently, he is at work on the visual and written nature narrative, Mosaics, Journeys Through Landscapes Rural.
Britta Benson
Britta Benson is a happiness & poetry blogging, circus skills instructing & common butterfly following German, a writer, performer & linguist thriving in Scotland, her chosen habitat since the year 2000. Read more of Britta’s work at- Britta’s Blog – Letters from Scotland and Odds & Ends.
Cheryl Snell
Cheryl Snell’s books include several poetry collections and the novels of her Bombay Trilogy. Most recently her writing has appeared in Gone Lawn, Sleet Magazine, Necessary Fiction, Pure Slush, and other journals. For more, see https://cherylsnell.weebly.com
C.J. Anderson-Wu
C J. Anderson-Wu (吳介禎) is a Taiwanese writer who has published two collections about Taiwan’s military dictatorship “Impossible to Swallow” (2017) and “The Surveillance” (2020). Currently she is working on her third book “Endangered Youth—to Hong Kong.” Her short stories have been shortlisted for a number of international literary awards, including the Art of Unity Creative Award by the International Human Rights Art Festival. She also won the Strands Lit International Flash Fiction Competition, and the Invisible City Blurred Genre Literature Competition.
CLS Sandoval
CLS Sandoval, PhD (she/her) is a Pushcart-nominated writer and communication professor with accolades in film, academia, and creative writing who speaks, signs, acts, publishes, sings, performs, writes, paints, teaches, and rarely relaxes. She’s a flash fiction and poetry editor for Dark Onus Lit. She has presented over 50 times at communication conferences, published 15 academic articles, two academic books, three full-length literary collections, three chapbooks, as well as flash and poetry pieces in several literary journals, recently including Opiate Magazine, The Journal of Magical Wonder, and A Moon of One’s Own. She is raising her daughter and dog with her husband in Alhambra, CA.
https://www.instagram.com/cls.sandoval/
https://www.facebook.com/crystallaneswift/
Clyde Borg
Clyde L. Borg is a retired high school teacher and administrator. He has written poetry and nonfiction since 1998. Some of his work has appeared in History Magazine, Leaves Magazine, Twilight Times, and The Black Poppy Review. He resides in Fords, New Jersey.
Daniel J Flore III
Dan Flore III’s poems have appeared in many publications. His 6th poetry book is HOSPITAL ISSUED WRITING NOTEBOOK.
https://dfloreiii324.wixsite.com/danflore
Danny P. Barbare
Danny P. Barbare’s book, A Collection of Poems, is available through Barnes & Noble. His poetry has appeared locally and abroad.
Dawn Pisturino
Dawn Pisturino is a retired nurse in Arizona whose publishing credits include poems, limericks, short stories, and articles. Her poetry has appeared in several anthologies, most recently in Hidden in Childhood: A Poetry Anthology, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women, and the 2023 Arizona Literary Magazine. She is a Mystery Writers of America and Arizona Authors Association member.
http://www.dawnpisturino.wordpress.com
DC Diamondopolous
DC Diamondopolous is an award-winning short story, and flash fiction writer with hundreds of stories published internationally in print and online magazines, literary journals, and anthologies. DC’s stories have appeared in: Penmen Review, Progenitor, 34th Parallel, So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library, Lunch Ticket, and others. DC was nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and twice for Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net. She lives on the California central coast with her wife and animals. dcdiamondopolous.com
Destiny
Destiny is from South Africa and is currently searching worlds through her words. She is a Foundation Phase Specialist in reality and simply Destiny in her writing – reading herself through her words. Please visit Destiny’s Designz to read more of her thoughts and writings.
Diane Funston
Diane Funston has been published in Synkronicity, California Quarterly, and Lake Affect Magazine, among others. She lives in the Sacramento valley of California and enjoys her urban farm, dogs, and family.
Dominik Slusarczyk is an artist who makes everything from music to painting. His poetry has been published in various literary magazines, including Fresh Words and Berlin Lit. His poetry was long listed in the VOLE Books Summer Competition 2023 and was a finalist in the Flying South Contest 2023. www.dominikslusarczyk.com
Donna Pucciani
Donna Pucciani, a Chicago-based writer, has published poetry worldwide in Shi Chao Poetry, Poetry Salzburg, Meniscus, Journal of Italian Translation, Voice and Verse, Acumen and other journals. Her seventh and latest book of poetry is EDGES. (donnapuccianipoet.wordpress.com)
Edward Ahern
Ed Ahern resumed writing after 40-odd years in foreign intelligence and international sales. He’s had over 450 stories and poems published so far, and 8 books. Ed works the other side of writing at Bewildering Stories, where he sits on the review board and manages a posse of eight review editors.
https://www.facebook.com/EdAhern73/?ref=bookmarks
https://www.instagram.com/edwardahern1860/
Edward Lee
Edward Lee’s poetry, short stories, non-fiction and photography have been published in magazines in Ireland, England and America, including The Stinging Fly, Skylight 47, Acumen, The Blue Nib and Poetry Wales. His poetry collections are Playing Poohsticks On Ha’Penny Bridge, The Madness Of Qwerty, A Foetal Heart and Bones Speaking With Hard Tongues. He is currently working on a novel.
He also makes musical noise under the names Ayahuasca Collective, Orson Carroll, Lego Figures Fighting, and Pale Blond Boy.
His blog/website can be found at https://edwardmlee.wordpress.com
Elliot M Rubin
Elliot M. Rubin is a New Jersey poet who published over 30 books of poetry, facilitates two Zoom poetry critique groups, posts daily on Instagram and has over 10,200 poets following him. He also won first place in the Poets Corner Poetry Contest and has had poems published in assorted anthologies.
Fabrice Poussin
Poussin is a professor of French and world literature. His poetry and photography has appeared in “Kestrel,” “Symposium,” “The Chimes,” and hundreds of other publications around the world. More recently, his collections include “In Absentia, “”If I Had a Gun,” and “Half Past Life.”
Francisco Bravo Cabrera
He is a painter and a poet from Valencia, Spain
https://www.paintinginvalencia.com
https://www.YouTube.com/@FranciscoBravoCabrera
Gabriel Bates
Gabriel Bates is a poet living in Tiffin, Ohio. His work has appeared in several publications, online and in print. Keep up with him at gabrielbates.substack.com
Gargi Sidana
Gargi Sidana is a voracious reader and a skilled writer residing in Ludhiana (Punjab). She has curated poems, short tales and articles for a variety of magazines. Her poems were chosen for the OPA Anthology, Best Poetry Writing Contest (Kajakisthan). She also earned a diploma from Best Poet Of The World 2019.
Gerard Sarnat
Gerard Sarnat MD authored HOMELESS CHRONICLES, Disputes, 17s, and Melting Ice King. He is published by Gargoyle, Newark Public Library, Blue Minaret, Columbia, Harvard, Stanford, Main Street Rag, New Delta Review, Northampton Review, New Haven Institute, Buddhist Review, American Journal Poetry, Poetry Quarterly, Brooklyn Review, LA Review, SF Magazine, NY Times.
Giulio Magrini
Giulio Magrini started writing poetry in the early 1970’s. He has performed at the Three Rivers Arts Festival, and many other venues in Pittsburgh. Giulio has conducted poetry workshops in alternative high schools, prisons, drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers, and hosted a radio show for local poets. The anthology of his poetry and flash fiction over the last fifty years, The Color of Dirt was published in September 2022 by Word Association Press. As Giulio Magrini tells us, “We have put our hands in the dirt and sanctified each other.”
Glen Armstrong
Glen Armstrong (he/him) holds an MFA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and edits a poetry journal called Cruel Garters. His latest book is Night School: Selected Early Poems.
Jasna Gugić
Jasna Gugić is the Vice-President for public relations of the Association of Artists and Writers of the World SAPS; She is a co-editor of the anthology, “Compassion—Save the World,” one poem written by 130 world poets. Jasna is a multiple winner of many international awards for poetry and literature, and her work has been translated into several world languages. Her first independent collection of poetry was published in 2021, a bilingual English-Croatian edition, entitled “Song of Silence.” She lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.
Jason Ryberg
Jason Ryberg is the author of 18 books of poetry, 6 screenplays, a few short stories, a box full of folders, notebooks and scraps of paper that could one day be (loosely) construed as a novel, and a couple of angry letters to various magazine and newspaper editors.
Jay Maria Simpson
Jay Maria Simpson was born in Sydney, Australia. Her new manuscript, a book length anthology, is being reworked with new poems, themes and ideas. She is also putting together a chapbook of selected poems dedicated to her daughter, Kate. Jay loves poetry, art, music, satire and black comedy. She also loves recording and reading poetry publicly.
She is the Creative Director and Author at Living Dangerously.
Website: https://livingdangerously618190523.wordpress.com/
Jean-Paul Moyer
When not writing, Jean-Paul Moyer enjoys napping for hours, attacking his mom’s yarn and chasing his sister, Simone. His work has appeared in Five Fleas and dadakuku.
Jeanna Ní Ríordáin
Jeanna Ní Ríordáin is a translator from West Cork, Ireland. Her poetry has appeared in Quarryman, Drawn to the Light Press, Swerve, New Isles Press, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Burrow, and Otherwise Engaged Literature and Arts Journal.
Jeff Flesch
Jeff Flesch lives in Corvallis, Oregon, and was voted the 2022 Spillwords Press Author of the Month for January and February. He is the author of the #1 Amazon New Release Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow, and his poetry appeared in the #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women. You can read more of Jeff’s poetry at Develop. Inspire. Transform, and on Twitter.
Jeffrey Zable
Jeffrey Zable is a teacher, conga/bongo drummer, and a writer of poetry, flash-fiction, and non-fiction. His writing has appeared in hundreds of literary journals; more recently in Alba, Raw, Suisun Valley Review, Cacti Fur, and Fleas on the Dog.
Jerome Berglund
Jerome Berglund has many haiku, senryu and tanka exhibited and forthcoming online and in print, most recently in the Asahi Shimbun, Bottle Rockets, Frogpond, and Modern Haiku. His first full-length collection of poetry, Bathtub Poems, was released by Setu Press.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BerglundJerome
Blog: https://flowersunmedia.wixsite.com/jbphotography/blog-1/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lespectrepoliteraryjournal/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JeromeBerglundPhotography/
Jill and Scott Kalter
After spending 30 years in the hustle-bustle of Los Angeles, Scott and Jill Kalter escaped to the Applegate Valley in Southern Oregon. They now live on a small hobby farm with their two border collies, black cat, and six sheep.
Joan Leotta
Joan Leotta plays with words on page and stage. She performs tales featuring food, family, and strong women. Internationally published, she’s a 2021, 2022 Pushcart nominee, 2022 runner-up, Robert Frost Competition. Recent publications include MacQueen’s Quinterly, Last Leaves, Verse Virtual, and Gargoyle. Her new chapbook, Feathers on Stone, is recently out from Main Street Rag.
Joan McNerney
Joan McNerney’s poetry is published worldwide in over 35 countries in numerous literary magazines. Four Best of the Net nominations have been awarded to her. The Muse in Miniature, Love Poems for Michael, and At Work are available on Amazon.com. A new title, Light & Shadows has recently been released.
John Chinaka Onyeche
John Chinaka Onyeche is an author, poet, and teacher of History and African History from Nigeria. He is the author of Echoes Across The Atlantic, A Night Tale At The Threshold Of Howl, We Returned To Kiss The Cross, The Broken Fort, A Good Day For Tomorrow’s Coming, Stateless, 25 Atonements, The Gathering Of Reeds (to be published in March 2024 by Ethel Zine Press), and a chapbook Chapters Of Broken Tales. He is a Best of the Net Nominee.
He can be reached at:
Facebook: jehovahisgood
Twitter: @apostlejohnchin
https://internationalbookworld.webador.com/john-chinaka-onyeche
John Grey
John RC Potter
John RC Potter is an international educator from Canada, living in Istanbul. He has experienced a revolution (Indonesia), air strikes (Israel), earthquakes (Turkey), boredom (UAE), and blinding snow blizzards (Canada), the last being the subject of his story, “Snowbound in the House of God” (Memoirist). His poems, stories, essays, and reviews have been published in a range of magazines and journals, most recently in Blank Spaces, (“In Search of Alice Munro”), Literary Yard (“She Got What She Deserved”), Freedom Fiction (“The Mystery of the Dead-as-a-Doornail Author”), The Serulian (“The Memory Box”), The Montreal Review (“Letter from Istanbul”) & Erato Magazine (“A Day in May, 1965”). The author’s story, “Ruth’s World” (Fiction on the Web) was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His gay-themed children’s picture book, “The First Adventures of Walli and Magoo,” is scheduled for publication.
Website: https://johnrcpotterauthor.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JohnRCPotter
Instagram: John RC Potter (@jp_ist)
John Yamrus
In a career spanning more than 50 years as a working writer, John Yamrus has published 39 books. He has also had more than 3,500 poems published in magazines and anthologies around the world. A number of his books and poems are taught in college and university courses. He is widely considered to be a master of minimalism and the neo-noir in modern poetry. His two most recent books are the memoir “The Street” and a volume of poetry called PEOPLE (AND OTHER BAD IDEAS).
Joni Caggiano
Joni is an internationally known and published poet, photographer, and author. Her poetry is included in the Amazon #1 bestselling poetry anthology Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women, and the poetry anthology, Hidden in Childhood. She is a regular contributor to Masticadores magazines and Spillwords Press NYC, where she has been twice nominated and won Publication of the Month for “Love Me Like a Luna.” (November 2022).
Joni’s blog, Rum and Robots, is an effort to help other surviving Adult Child of Alcoholics (ACOAs) through faith and a strong kinship with nature.
Her complete list of books, anthologies, magazines, and contests can be found at Joni Caggiano’s Publications.
You can also read her writing on Instagram @jonicaggiano and Twitter @theinnerchild1.
Julie A. Dickson
Julie A. Dickson writes from art prompts, memories and environment. Her poems appear in over 70 journals, including Ekphrastic Review, Medusa’s Kitchen, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, and Chewers and Masticadores. Her full-length works are available on Amazon.
Kanwalpreet Baidwan
Dr. Kanwalpreet teaches Political Science at a college in India. Her poems have been accepted in Sycopation, Yorick Radio, University of Wisconsin, Double Speak, Mocking Owl, Open Skies and others. Her books include:
- Looking back with a twinkle, a biography of Oshima Zarenghez Samundri Rekhi
- Rings of Life, a collection of 13 short stories
- A Magic Combo, 31 poems and 13 short stories for children
- Path Makers and Protectors
- Elections and Election Commissions across the world
Karen Barton
Wyoming artist Karen Barton has been honing her skills as a portrait artist since 1988 working mainly in pastels and has fulfilled hundreds of portrait commissions to date. With her education and career history in graphic art, combined with the precise realism required of portraiture, she has, in recent years, expanded her subject choices and experimented with a variety of style and media options. Her paintings range from stylized and colorful wildlife in acrylic, an in-depth exploration of native regalia and dance in oils and pastels, serene and clear ponds and trees as real as life in oils, to the occasional colored pencil floral.
Karen has won awards and participated in national juried shows and her unique work is represented by 6 galleries in her region.
Katie Coleman is a British writer living in Thailand. She has work published in or forthcoming in Milk Candy Review, Roi Faineant Press, Ghost Parachute, The Sunlight Press, SoFloPoJo, Bending Genres, and elsewhere. Her stories have received nominations for Best of the Net and Pushcart prizes. She can be found on Twitter @anjuna2000 and Instagram @kurkidee
Keith Snow
Keith Snow has been writing and performing poetry since 1999. Former poetry editor of Megaera. Featured poet. Hosted slams and curated a monthly reading. Recently published in Dadakuku, Five Fleas, Medusa’s Kitchen, and Lothlorien Poetry Journal.
Kelly Moyer
Kelly Moyer can often be found wandering the mountains of North Carolina, where she resides with her husband and two philosopher kittens, Simone and Jean-Paul. Her latest book, Hushpuppy, a collection of experimental ku, is due out this year.
Ken Tomaro
Ken Tomaro is a writer living in Cleveland Ohio whose work reflects everyday life with depression. His poetry has appeared in several online and print journals and explores the common themes we all experience in life. Sometimes blunt, often dark but always grounded in reality. He has 4 full-length collections of poetry, most recently, Potholes and Perogies available on Amazon.
Kenneth Pobo
Kenneth Pobo (he/him) is the author of twenty-one chapbooks and nine full-length collections. Recent books include Bend of Quiet (Blue Light Press), Loplop in a Red City (Circling Rivers), Lilac And Sawdust (Meadowlark Press), Lavender Fire, Lavender Rose (BrickHouse Books), and Gold Bracelet in a Cave: Aunt Stokesia (Ethel Press).
K.G. Munro
K.G. Munro is an author and poet from Scotland. Her writing credits include Indian Periodical, Poetry Potion, Ink Pantry, and Splendeur Magazine.
Website: https://cosmofunnel.com/user/85345
Kumar Ghimire
Kumar Ghimire is a poet from Nepal. He writes poems in English and Nepali language. His poems have appeared in Polis Magazine, Grey Thoughts, International Times, and others.
Kushal Poddar
Kushal Poddar, the author of Postmarked Quarantine, has 8 books to his credit. He is a journalist, father, and the editor of Words Surfacing. His works have been translated into 12 languages, published across the globe.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Kushalpoe
Laura Stamps
Laura Stamps is the author of over 50 novels and poetry collections, including “The Good Dog” (Prolific Pulse Press 2023), “Addicted to Dog Magazines” (Impspired, 2023), and “My Friend Tells Me She Wants a Dog” (Kittyfeather Press, 2023). Recipient of a Pulitzer Prize nomination and 7 Pushcart Prize nominations. Lover of feral cats, Chihuahuas, and Yorkies.
Lawrence Miles
Lawrence Miles is a poet living in White Plains, NY. He has recently been published in Poets Live Fourth Anthology, 2022 New Generation Beats Anthology, and Four Feathers Press’ Sounds of Southern California: Poetry of Music.
lawrencemiles.substack.com
twitter: the_poet_larry
Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal
Born in Mexico, Luis lives in California and works in the mental health field in Los Angeles, CA. His poetry has appeared in Escape Into Life, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Mad Swirl, and Medusa’s Kitchen. His latest poetry book, Make the Water Laugh, was published by Rogue Wolf Press.
Lyndi Waters
Lyndi Waters is the author of Butcher Shop of Wild Forgiveness. Wins in poetry and fiction include the Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Writing Award, Wyoming Writers, Inc. contests, and the Eugene V. Shea National Poetry Contest. Unbroken Journal, Gyroscope Review. Her new book, Poem Salt, is forthcoming from Powder River Publishing.
Lynn White
Lynn White lives in north Wales. Her work is influenced by issues of social justice and events, places and people she has known or imagined. She is especially interested in exploring the boundaries of dream, fantasy and reality. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net and a Rhysling Award. Find Lynn at:
https://lynnwhitepoetry.blogspot.com
https://www.facebook.com/Lynn-White-Poetry-1603675983213077/
Mahvash K. Mohtadullah
Mahvash was a part of the Financial Services Industry. When she’s not writing, she’s fussing in her head over ideologies of social justice and equality, with superhero twists! She published a book of poetry and essays, and three books in a children’s series.
Instagram: @mahvash_mohtadullah
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mahvash.mohtadullah?mibextid=LQQJ4d
Weblog: theroamingdesi.org
Margaret Kiernan
Margaret is an Irish writer who writes prose, poetry, and flash fiction. She is widely published in journals and magazines and online, in four continents. She is a 2023 nominee for The Best of The Net Award for a second year running. She is listed in the Contemporary Women Poets in Ireland, at University College Dublin. Her hobby is painting in watercolor and acrylics. Her work has been exhibited.
Marzian Rahman
Marzia Rahman is a Bangladeshi fiction writer and translator. She is the author of two books, Dot and Other Flashes and The Aftermath (translation). Her flash fictions have been widely published in both print and online journals. She received a nomination for Best Microfiction 2023.
Matthew Borczon
Matthew Borczon is a poet, a nurse and a retired Navy sailor. He published 18 books of poetry. When not writing, he and his wife raise four kids outside of Pittsburgh Pa.
Mehreen Ahmed
Mehreen Ahmed is an award-winning Australian novelist born in Bangladesh. She has also won multiple contests and nominations for short fiction such as BOTN and Pushcart.
Melissa Lemay
Melissa Lemay is a stay-at-home mother from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She never graduated college. She has lived an interesting life and her experiences shape her writing (some might call it an obsession). She writes about God, addiction, trauma, healing, being a mother, and many other things. Additionally, she enjoys spending time with family, drinking good coffee, and cats–petting them, not drinking them. Find her at https://melissalemay.wordpress.com
Michael Ceraolo
Michael Ceraolo is a 65-year-old retired firefighter/paramedic and active poet who has had two full-length books (Euclid Creek, from Deep Cleveland Press; 500 Cleveland Haiku, from Writing Knights Press) published, and has two more, Euclid Creek Book Two and Lawyers, Guns, and Money, in the publication pipeline.
Michael L Utley
Mike is a deaf writer/photographer who lives in rural southwest Colorado, USA. His love of nature shines through his poetry and photography, both of which he uses to make sense of his world.
Please visit Silent Pariah to read and view more of his wonderful work.
Michael Lee Johnson
Michael Lee Johnson is a poet in the greater Chicagoland area, IL. He has 295 YouTube poetry videos. Michael Lee Johnson is an internationally published poet in 44 countries, a song lyricist, has several published poetry books, has been nominated for 6 Pushcart Prize awards, and 6 Best of the Net nominations. He is editor-in-chief of 3 poetry anthologies, all available on Amazon. He has over 453 published poems.
Michele Mekel
Living in Happy Valley, Michele Mekel wears many hats of her choosing: educator, bioethicist, poetess, cat herder, witch, and woman. Mekel has had more than 150 poems published, as well as a recently-released chapbook (Under a Quiet Moon). Her work has appeared in various academic and creative publications, including being featured on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac and nominated for Best of the Net. Her poetry has also been translated into Cherokee.
Michelle Ayon Navajas
Michelle Ayon Navajas is a best-selling international poet known for her books reaching the #1 spot within days of their release. Her poetry appeared in several international literary magazines such as Spillwords (with two poems voted as Publication of the Month), MasticadoresUSA, and Chewers & Masticadores. She is Spillwords’ Press Author of the Month for March 2023. She is currently the co-editor of Hotel Masticadores House.
Follow her online:
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/poetrybymich/?hl=en
YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdD8ldrR6cT5YSYgPjbCAxQ
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/poetrybymich
Twitter – https://twitter.com/poetrybymich
Blog – https://michnavs.wordpress.com/
Mike Armstrong
In high school, to stay out of trouble, Mike spent much of his time in the art room as an art major and art minor.
His time at the University of Alabama as an accounting major was short-lived. He changed to a major in painting and a minor in ceramics.
He was an art teacher for 34 years. He continues to practice his love of painting and ceramics.
Mimi Bordeaux
Mimi Bordeaux, published writer for Raw Lit, Borderless, Arcana, Lakefly, Liminal, Consett Magazine, and many others. I love photography, art, video making, and design. I live in Melbourne, Australia and wish it were Europe!
Mykyta Ryzhykh
Winner of the international competition Art Against Drugs and Ukrainian contests Vytoky, Shoduarivska Altanka, Khortytsky dzvony; laureate of the literary competition named after Tyutyunnik, Lyceum, Twelve, named after Dragomoshchenko. Finalist of the Crimean ginger competition. Nominated for Pushcart Prize. Widely published in hournals and newspapers, including Dzvin, Dnipro, and Bukovinian magazine.
Myriam DesCendres
Myriam DesCendres, a young transgender female and poetess at bay in her world of impressions, furtive flash and melancholy. A black and white vision marked by borderline, anxiety, and yes… love.
You can find her wandering her garden on WordPress at nouvelles-errent.ca.
Myrtle Thomas
Myrtle Thomas is a contemporary poet. She lives in the United States and has been published in Otherwise Engaged Literature and Arts Journal and in The Writers and Readers Magazine. She is retired from a large manufacturing company, which gives her time to follow her writing.
Nancy Byrne Iannucci
Nancy Byrne Iannucci is a poet from Long Island, New York who currently lives in Troy, NY with her two cats: Nash and Emily Dickinson. San Pedro River Review, 34 Orchard, Hobo Camp Review, Bending Genres, The Mantle, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Glass: a Poetry Journal are some of the places you will find her. She is the author of three chapbooks, Temptation of Wood (Nixes Mate Review, 2018), Goblin Fruit (Impspired, 2021), and Primitive Prayer (Plan B Press, fall 2022). Visit her at www.nancybyrneiannucci.com
Instagram: @nancybyrneiannucci
Nigel Bing
Nigel Byng is a freelance writer, living in the USA. His writing can be found on Signs of the Times Australia, or on his personal blog Helping you to Succeed where he displays his love of fiction under his pen name, Jerome Kenrick. Follow him on Instagram at @hyts_daily.
Niles M Reddick
Niles Reddick is author of a novel, three collections, and a novella. His work has been featured in over 500 publications including The Saturday Evening Post, New Reader Magazine, The Museum of Americana, Citron Review, Nunum, Right Hand Pointing, and Vestal Review. He is a four-time Pushcart, three-time Best Micro, and three-time Best of the Net nominee. His newest flash collection, If Not for You,was recently released by Big Table Publishing.
Website: http://nilesreddick.com/
Twitter: @niles_reddick
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/niles.reddick.9
Instagram: nilesreddick@memphisedu
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niles-reddick-0759b09b/
Nolcha Fox
Nolcha Fox’s poems have been curated in print and online journals. Her poetry books are available on Amazon and Dancing Girl Press. Nominee for 2023 Best of The Net, 2024 Best of the Net Anthology. Nominee for a 2023 Pushcart Prize. Editor for Entropy. Visual editor for Chewers & Masticadores.
Website: https://bit.ly/3bT9tYu
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nolcha.fox/
Medium: @nolchafox_14571
Patricia Walsh
Patricia Walsh was born and raised in the parish of Mourneabbey, Co Cork, Ireland. She published two novels, In The Days of Ford Cortina (2021), and The Quest for Lost Eire (2014). She published a collection of poetry, Continuity Errors, with Lapwing Publications in 2010. She has been published in a variety of print and online journals across Ireland, The UK, USA, and Canada.
PD Lyons
PD Lyons was born and raised in the USA but travelled and lived abroad. Since 1998 he has resided in Ireland. The work of PD Lyons has appeared in many formats throughout the world. Lyons’ poetry collections have been published by Lapwing Press, Belfast and erbacce Press, Liverpool. Winner of the annual erbacce-press International Poetry Competition for 2019.
https://pdlyons.wordpress.com/
Peter Mladinic
Peter Mladinic earned an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas in 1985. Professor emeritus at New Mexico Junior College, he was a member of the English faculty for 30 years. His fifth book of poems, Voices from the Past, is due out in November 2023 from Better Than Starbucks Publications. An animal rights advocate, he lives in Hobbs, New Mexico, United States.
Prithvijeet Sinha
Prithvijeet Sinha is a proud resident of the cultural epicenter that is Lucknow. His published credits encompass poetry, musings on the city, cinema, anthologies, journals of national and international repertoire as well as a blog. His life-force resides in writing, in the art of self-expression.
https://anawadhboyspanorama.wordpress.com/
Ray Whitaker
Ray has been a member of the North Carolina Poetry Society, the Winston-Salem Writers, and The North Carolina Writers Network. He has thrice been a Writer-in-Residence at the North Carolina Center For The Arts and Humanities.
He has four books published by Newness Twoness Books: “ACKNOWLEDGMENT: Poems From The ‘Nam,” “FOR THE LOST AND LOVED,” “THE SCUPPERNONG WORKS,” and “THE IMPROMPTU, —of LOVE —of MUSIC.”
Some of his work has been published in American, Irish, English, India, Belgium, Pakistani, Italy, and Bali Literary Journals.
Rehan Qayoom
Rehan Qayoom is a poet of English and Urdu, editor, translator and archivist, educated at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has been featured in numerous literary publications and performed his work internationally. He is the author of About Time and other books.
Richard M Ankers
Richard M. Ankers is the English author of The Eternals Series and Britannia Unleashed. Richard has featured in Expanded Field Journal, Love Letters To Poe, Spillwords, and feels privileged to have appeared in many more. Richard lives to write. Please visit Richard M. Ankers – Storybook and Twitter – @Richard_Ankers to read more of his work.
Roy Eisenstein
Roy was born and raised in NY, but lives in California since getting out of the Army. He is a filmmaker, author, lyricist, and poet. He has short films, spoken word pieces and songs with his lyrics on his YouTube Channel.
https://www.youtube.com/@EyezenMediaProds/videos
Rp Verlaine
Rp Verlaine has a master’s degree in English from City College. He has three books and three eBooks published in the last five years.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100066822182013
Sandipta Bhattacharya
Sandipta (Pakhi, as I want to be called) is nothing but a mere soul breathing and expressing. The girl with the books presently, I do aim to be the woman writing them someday. I want my writings to stay, even when I’m not there and that’s how I’ll live and love!
Sandy Rochelle
Sandy Rochelle is an award winning, widely published poet.
Recipient of the Prestigious Presidential Literary Award.
Scott Burton
Scott Burton is a poet, a dreamer and a hopeless romantic – to a fault. With decades worth of poetry and prose in the archives, he writes what he can’t speak, using his art as a way to release all that dances within his mind and heart. His writing crosses genres and themes and is always raw with emotion and serves as a window into his soul.
Scott Thomas Outlar
Scott Thomas Outlar is originally from Atlanta, Georgia. He now lives and writes in Frederick, Maryland. His work has been nominated multiple times for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. He guest-edited the Hope Anthology of Poetry from CultureCult Press as well as the 2019-2023 Western Voices editions of Setu Mag. Selections of his poetry have been translated and published in 15 languages. More about Outlar’s work can be found at 17Numa.com.
Shalini Kathuria Narang
Shalini Kathuria Narang is a Silicon Valley-based software professional and freelance journalist. She has reported for national and international newspapers, magazines and news sites. Her poems have been published in several anthologies including Starry Nights: poetry of Diaspora in Silicon Valley. She is a treasured contributor to Masticadores USA and has been published on Spillwords Press. Her blog site is Rhythm and Rhyme.
Shrestha Ganguly
Shrestha Ganguly is a 17-year-old girl who is currently studying in twelfth standard and is a student of arts stream. She is interested in painting, writing, observing nature and reading fictional books since the very beginning of her teenage years. She loves to stare at people and tries to read their minds, which is next to impossible!
Snigdha Agrawal
Snigdha Agrawal is a published author of four books of poetry and prose, available on Amazon. She is a regular contributor to online journals published in India and overseas. Her love for the written word is what keeps her going as a septuagenarian. Her travel diaries can be accessed in the WordPress blog randomramblings52.wordpress.com.
Steve Brisendine
Steve Brisendine lives, works and wrestles with words in Mission, KS. His most recent collections, Salt Holds No Secret But This (Spartan Press, 2022) and To Dance with Cassiopeia and Die (Alien Buddha Press, 2023) were nominated for the 2002 Thorpe Menn Literary Excellence Award. His work has appeared in Wales Haiku Journal, Windward Review, I-70 Review and other journals and anthologies.
Steven Fortune
Steven Fortune is a resident of Sydney, Nova Scotia (Canada) and a graduate of Acadia University. He has released five poetry collections to date, edited several works for others, and has also appeared on CBC Radio, while his work has been featured and read on several radio programs.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/steven.fortune.982/
Strider Marcus Jones
Poet from England. Editor and publisher of Lothlorien Poetry Journal. A Poetry Society member, his five published poetry books reveal a maverick, roaming cities, tooting his sax.
https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/
https://stridermarcusjonespoetry.wordpress.com/
Susana Cabaço
Susana Cabaço, PhD, is a biologist who graduated from the University of Algarve (Portugal), where she worked for many years in scientific research on ecology, and a mystic who, for decades, has been journeying the paths of spirituality. Love for Spirit and Nature led her naturally to share her unique spiritual visions and more conscious ways of living, namely veganism, in order to bring forward individual and global expansion of awareness, balance, and well-being. #mystic #vegan #naturelover #biologist #author
blog: https://susanacabaco4u.wordpress.com/
Thasia Anne Lunger
Thasia Anne is a poet from Erie, PA, who has been writing professionally since the 1990s. She is a great-grandmother and retired social worker.
Thasia Anne has 6 poetry collections, and four romance novels through (ABP) Alien Buddha Press.
She has a yearly poetry production, and the 12th annual just took place. Women of Word, featuring a Few Man Made Words, showcases each poet’s original works woven into conversations, dance and original music.
Thomas M. McDade
Thomas M. McDade resides in Fredericksburg, VA. He is twice a U.S. Navy Veteran. His fiction has most recently appeared in Dear Booze.
Tohm Bakelas
Tohm Bakelas is a social worker in a psychiatric hospital. He was born in New Jersey, resides there, and will die there. His poems have been printed widely in journals, zines, and online publications all over the world. He is the author of 25 chapbooks and several collections of poetry, including Cleaning the Gutters of Hell (Zeitgeist Press, 2023). He is the editor of Between Shadows Press.
Tony Ashenden
Tony is a seasoned traveler, a computer analyst, seaman, shaman, and a complementary alternative therapist. He is a writer of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. In his own words – Life is real only then when I am. Please visit his blog Mine Quick Voice of Aquarius to read more of his work.
Unspoken
Please visit Perfectly Poetry to read more of Unspoken’s work.
Vandana Kumar
Vandana Kumar is a Delhi-based French teacher, translator, recruitment consultant, Indie film producer and multiple award-winning poet.
She is also a Pushcart nominee for 2023. Her poems have been published in national and international websites, journals and anthologies.
Wayne F Burke
Wayne F. Burke’s poems have been widely published in print and online (including in CHEWERS & MASTICADORES). He is author of 8 published full-length poetry collections and one short story collection. He lives in Vermont (USA).
Chewers 