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Contributors' Notes
AGNA. AGNA is an Indian Muslim who likes to read, gaze at nature in awe and watch Christmas movies for inspiration and escaping reality. She has been published in a few magazines and anthologies here and there, one of them being Viraj Record Holder. You can always find her lounging on her Instagram page, @chambersofthAughts.
Lorena Alvarado. Being an author has always been Lorena Alvarado's life dream, and is excited for the opportunity to submit any work. She is a narrative arts major at Boise State.
Kim Barnes. Kim Barnes is the award-winning author of three novels and two memoirs, including In the Wilderness, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Hungry for the World, Borders Books New Voices Selection. She also is the author of three novels: Finding Caruso, A Country Called Home, and In the Kingdom of Men. She holds a BA in English from Washington State, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana. She is served as Idaho Writer in Residence, and is a University of Idaho Distinguished Professor Emertia. This information, and more, can be found at kimbarnes.com.
Roger Camp. Roger Camp is the author of three photography books including the award-winning Butterflies in Flight, Thames & Hudson, 2002 and Heat, Charta, Milano, 2008. His work has appeared in numerous journals including The New England Review, Pank and the New York Quarterly. His documentary photography has been awarded Europe's prestigious Leica Medal of Excellence. Represented by the Robin Rice Gallery, NYC, more of his work may be seen on Luminous-Lint.com.
Jac Barfield-Cherry. Jac Barfield-Cherry is an undergraduate Secondary English Education major and Creative Writing minor at Oklahoma State University. They are an up-and-coming queer poet from a small Oklahoman town in the first steps of creating their first manuscript, and they live with a lovely cat named Davey
Anargaya Chib. Anargaya is a 19-year-old political science major. Born and brought up in Jammu and Kashmir, she is navigating her college life away from home in Delhi. Poetry, however, is her home there and gives her the space to express herself better, and even understand herself and the world around her in a deeper recess of moment.
Sonya Feibert. Sonya is a writer, improviser, and performer in Boise. She is an avid Treeforter and an enthusiastic patron of, and participant in, the storytelling and comedy scenes. On sunny days, she loves hiking in the Boise foothills with her pup, Chloe, and partner, Mitch.
Justin Fleming. Justin Fleming is a recent graduate of the University of British Columbia's Creative Writing MFA program. He was a finalist in the 2018 Islands Short Fiction Contest and has just recently completed his first full length fiction manuscript.
Lou Gardner. Lou Gardner is a trans, queer, and bipolar writer from Southern California. He briefly studied at the MFA in Fiction at the University of Florida in Gainesville. He lives in Gainesville, Florida.
Kevin Griffin. Kevin Griffin is an English and Creative Writing teacher at Detroit Catholic Central High School. He lives in Plymouth, Michigan, with his wife and sons. His first chapbook, Line and Hook, was published by the Michigan Writers Cooperative Press. His poetry has appeared in The Broad River Review, Up North Lit, Sheepshead Review, Common Ground Review, The MacGuffin, and Sand Hills Literary Magazine, among other publications.
Niara Hargrave. Niara Hargrave is a poet and writer from South Carolina. I didn't always like self-identifying myself. I didn’t think I was good enough yet. But I realized that even if I never become the next great American novelist, I'll never stop writing. It's where I found my voice.
Michael Hill. Michael P. Hill is the author of the chapbooks Not Just Passing Through (Main Street Rag Publishing, 2022) and Junk Drawer (Kelsay Books, 2021). His poems have also appeared in Midwestern Gothic, Spillway, Briar Cliff Review, Plainsongs and Gray’s Sporting Journal, among others. He grew up in Western Wisconsin and currently lives in Northern Colorado.
Andrea Horowitz. Andrea (Andi) Horowitz, an emerging poet who is older than she should be, is a retired High School teacher. She graduated from the University of Florida, and lives in Fort Myers with her husband and their two cairn terriers, BeCa and Bleecker.
Serge Lecomte. Serge Lecomte was born in Belgium. He emigrated to Brooklyn in 1960. After graduating high school, he became a medic in the Air Force. He earned a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in Russian Literature, worked as a Green Beret language instructor and received a B.A. in Spanish Literature from the University of Alaska where he taught from 1978-1997. He built houses, worked as a pipe-fitter, orderly, landscaper, driller, bartender. He is also a published poet, novelist, playwright and artist.
Nelson Lowhim. Writer, Artist, Immigrant, & Veteran observing our mad dance of apes. Check out his Patreon & show some love: https://www.patreon.com/nlowhim.
Rowan MacDonald. Rowan MacDonald lives in Tasmania with his dog, Rosie. His writing has previously appeared in Black Fork Review, White Wall Review, Miracle Monocle, Sheepshead Review, Defunkt Magazine and FLARE: The Flager Review. When not writing, he loves escaping into a good book or spending time in nature.
Sue McMillan. Sue McMillan lives in Boise and is an emerging writer with a few published pieces. By profession Sue is an attorney, which for many years was all-consuming, allowing little time for anything else. While law has been how Sue earned her living, writing and immersing herself in the Idaho outdoors is how she has sustained her creativity and perspective.
Donald Patten. Donald Patten is an artist from Belfast, Maine. He is currently a senior in the Bachelor of Fine Arts program at the University of Maine. As an artist, he produces oil paintings and graphic novels. Artworks of his have been exhibited in galleries across the Mid-Coast region of Maine.
Katrina Pearson. Kat Pearson grew up on a farm in a rural part of Montana with three sisters and one brother. She has loved reading and writing from a very young age, which led her to studying English at Brigham Young Universtiy. She graduated in April 2023 with a minor in philosophy.
Catherine Owen. Catherine Owen is the author of fifteen collections of poetry and prose. She hosts the podcast, Ms. Lyric's Poetry Outlaws.
Patrick Rogers. Patrick Rogers began writing poetry in late adulthood and has contributed a number of poems to literary journals, including Propeller Magazine and The Gravity of the Thing, among others. He has an MFA in Poetry from Portland State University, but now operates a truck scale at a non-ferrous metal recycler.
Erika Seshadri. Erika Seshadri lives on an animal rescue ranch in Florida with her family. When not caring for tame critters or feral children, she can be found writing.
Shauna Shiff. Shauna Shiff is an English teacher in Virginia, a mother, wife and textiles artist. Her poems can be found in Stoneboat Literary Journal, River and South Review, Cold Mountain Review, Green Ink Poetry, Grand Little Things and are upcoming in others. In 2022, she was nominated for Best of the Net.
Laurence Wensel. Laurence Wensel is a playwright, theater director, and artist. Currently, he is a PhD student in the Arts and Humanities/Visual and Performing Arts program at UTD. His artwork is a fusion of images incorporating photography, hand-drawn illustrations, and computer applications. The resulting algorithmic work evokes a dreamlike experience, captures an emotion, or subverts the expectations of the image. His digital creations have been published with Shantih Journal-Issue 3.1 in (Summer/Fall 2018), Every Pigeon-Volume 2 (12/17), TAMIU-The Writer’s Forum (1/2016), and ASU Canyon Voices (1/2014).
Gary Zenker. Gary Zenker is a marketing strategist who creates flash fiction tales that cross genres and focus on revealing facets of human nature. His stories have been selected for various anthologies, including Chicken Soup For The Soul: Laughter. He founded and continues to lead two writers’ groups in southeastern PA, assisting writers to develop their skills and achieve their writing goals. He is also the creator of Writers Bloxx, a storytelling game.
John Zywar. John J. Zywar is a retiree whose interest in photography grew out of a 4H program which included darkroom experience when in high school. Transforming photographs to artistic images through digital means is a current area of exploration. He has had seven photos published over the last two years. His photos have appeared in competitions and literary publications including Mass Audubon, Closed Eye Open, Burningword Literary Journal, Fusion Art, and Light Space & Time Gallery. Two photos and a poem will be published by the Poetry Society of New Hampshire in 2023.