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Writer Profiles listed alphabetically by last name
Joshua Gage
Joshua Gage is an ornery curmudgeon from Cleveland. He is the editor of The Ohio Haiku Anthology, the first collection of haiku by Ohio poets in over twenty years. He currently co-edits the horror poetry journal Otoroshi Journal with his life partner, Lori A Minor. His newest chapbook, blips on a screen, is available on Cuttlefish Books. He is a graduate of the Low Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Naropa University. He has a penchant for Pendleton shirts, Ethiopian coffee, and any poem strong enough to yank the breath out of his lungs.
Stan Galloway
Stan Galloway writes from the hills of West Virginia. He is the author/(co-)editor of 11 books, most recently, with Brennan Breeland, Savor: Poems for the Tongue (Friendly City Books, 2024).
Shaswata Gangopadhyay
One of the prominent faces of contemporary Bengali poetry, Shaswata started writing in the mid-90s. Born and brought up at Kolkata, he has participated in several different international poetry festivals of Europe and both North and Latin America. His poems are all-time publishing in all six continents through translations in 7–8 languages. His book of Poems: Inhabitant of Pluto Planet (2001), Offspring of Monster (2009), Holes of Red Crabs (2015), and Rhododendron Cafe (2021). His ‘Selected Love Poems’ have been published very recently from Cairo, Egypt. He has also been invited to read his poems in both UK and USA Book Fair, organized virtually this year.
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Janet Garber
Janet and her husband are residents of Somers, previously from Mamaroneck and Millwood. Growing up in Queens, they are enamored with Westchester County’s lush greenery, easy access to the Hudson Valley, and wildlife (just not bears!). Janet managed a demanding career in New York City as a Chief Human Resource Officer while freelancing as a journalist for NYT, NY Post, WSJ, Working Mother magazine, Chicken Soup for the Soul and reviewing books and movies. Upon retiring in 2015, Janet became a full-time writer and published Dream Job, Wacky Adventures of an HR Manager. Her second novel, The French Lover’s Wife, launched in April 2023.
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Anne Georg
Anne Georg lives and writes in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Her journalism has appeared in print publications, websites and on radio. In 2016 Anne self-published a graphic non-fiction (The Remarkable Story of the Grizzly and the Goats) with illustrator Jaye Hilchey. Anne has had one flash fiction piece published: ‘Unchoreographed’ in Flash Fiction Magazine on March 3, 2025; and two micro fiction pieces: ‘Best Friends’ and ‘Tantrum’ in Friday Flash Fiction in July 2024. Anne is a volunteer judge for the Alberta Magazine Awards. She finds her literary community with the Alexandra Writers Centre Society and the Writer’s Guild of Alberta.
Calla Gold
Calla Gold designed jewelry for thirty-eight years. Her book, Design Your Dream Wedding Rings, From Engagement to Eternity came out in 2019. Excerpts from her dive into and disentanglement from Scientology memoir, “Lili’s Adventures in Scientologyland” were serialized in the Mike Rinder’s blog, Something Can Be Done About It, under the pseudonym Lili Ryder. Calla has been living in the Santa Barbara area and mountain biking, hiking, and taking too many pictures for years.
Anyély Gómez‑Dickerson
Anyély Gómez-Dickerson is a Cuban-born poet with a degree from Florida International University and bachelor’s from Temple. Her poem, “How to Kill a Mango Tree” won as finalist in the Atlanta Review 2023 Competition. Her work appears in Howard University’s The AMISTAD, Latino Book Review, Acentos, West Trestle Review and other esteemed publications, with her collection, We Are the Cultivated Sins at the ARTE LATINO NOW 2024 showcase. For over two decades she empowered students through writing and as Latina, she probes issues plaguing marginalized communities while exploring her own black, European, and Taína ancestry.
You can visit at: anyelywrites.wordpress.com.
Norbert Góra
Norbert Góra is a 31 year old poet and writer from Poland. He is the author of more than 100 poems which have been published in poetry anthologies in USA, UK, India, Nigeria, Kenya and Australia.
John Grey
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in New World Writing, North Dakota Quarterly and Lost Pilots Latest books, Between Two Fires, Covert, and Memory Outside The Head are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in California Quarterly, Seventh Quarry, La Presa and Doubly Mad.
Evie Groch
Evie Groch, Ed.D. is a Field Supervisor/Mentor for new administrators in Graduate Schools of Education. Her opinion pieces, humor, poems, short stories, recipes, word challenges, and other articles have been widely published in The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Contra Costa Times, The Journal, Games magazine, and many online venues. Many of her poems are in published anthologies. Her short stories, poems, and memoir pieces have won her recognition and awards. Her travelogues have been published online with Grand Circle Travel. The themes of travel, language, immigration, and justice are special for her.
Soidenet Gue
Based in South Florida, Soidenet Gue’s stories have appeared in a number of print and online journals. His most recent work can be found in Whistling Shade, Isele Magazine, Twenty-two Twenty-eight, and Washington Square Review LCC. Currently, he’s revising his first novel while working on a short story collection about families. Find him on Facebook: www.facebook.com/soide.fred/.
Lisa O’Neil Guerci
Lisa O’Neil Guerci is a writer and poet who has sought solace and safety in words, imagination, and creative expression for as long as she can remember. She works as a personal assistant and resides, with twin Hemingway cats, in a little lake cottage in Putnam County, NY.
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Sarah Das Gupta
Sarah Das Gupta is a teacher from Cambridge, UK. She lived and taught for some years in Kolkata (Calcutta). She started writing last Fall, after a long spell in hospital. Her work has been published in over 60 magazines and in ten countries, including US, UK, Australia, Canada, India and Nigeria.
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Sheldon Hanner
Shelly Hanner is an autodidact of sorts. During his long life, he has been a government employee, mentor, teacher, and stand-up comedian. He is a collector of fossil fish, framed insects and bats, baseball jerseys, history books, and coins. A lover of the outdoors, he tries to reach his goal of 12k steps daily. He is a happy guy who counts his blessings every day.
Jack D. Harvey
Jack D. Harvey’s poetry has appeared in Scrivener, The Comstock Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Typishly Literary Magazine, The Antioch Review, The Piedmont Poetry Journal and elsewhere. The author has been a Pushcart nominee and over the years has been published in a few anthologies.
The author lives in a small town near Albany, New York. He once owned a cat who could whistle Sweet Adeline, use a knife and fork and killed a postman.
Manfred Hauben
When not being a photographer, I’m a physician, clinical pharmacologist, statistician, nephologist (not nephrologist!), chocolate hyper-consumer, and parent of a very frenetic bulldog. Since childhood, I’ve been captivated by light, matter, their interactions, and how they produce countless beautiful colors and forms—always reliable euphoria sources. In retrospect I think I was the only boy in my school with a jewelry box. Some of my happiest times were as an undergraduate chemistry major learning the how and whys of color and form. I view photography, a most contemplative addiction, similar to poetry—both have an especially high density of meaning.
Kim Hayes
Kim lives and works in Chicago, IL. She works for the Chicago Cubs. She has been writing for a couple of years and recent work has been published in Epater, Adelaide, and Corner Bar. She is also a reader for Hippocampus.
Rosalie Hendon
Rosalie Hendon (she/her) is an environmental project manager living in Columbus, Ohio. Her work is published in Ravens Perch, Quibble Lit, Sad Girls Diaries, Pollux, Blue Bottle, and Willawaw, among others. Rosalie is inspired by ecology, relationships, and stories passed down through generations.
Heidi Hermanson
Heidi Hermanson is a first-generation Nebraskan. In 2010 she won the Omaha Public Library’s annual poetry contest. She organized the first Poets’ Chautauqua at the State Fair, aspires to found a library of towns that no longer exist, and learn dialects of the 17-year cicada. Her collections of poetry are Waking to the Dream (Stephen Austin University Press, 2018) and Cocktails with God (Finishing Line Press, 2022). Upon finding herself with an abundance of time due to Covid-19, she documented and photographed nearby rivers and cemeteries.
Christina Hoag
Christina Hoag is the author of novels Girl on the Brink and Skin of Tattoos (Onward Press) and forthcoming novella Law of the Jungle (Better than Starbucks Press). Her short stories and essays have been published in literary reviews including the San Antonio Review, Shooter, and the Santa Barbara Literary Journal. A former journalist for the Miami Herald and Associated Press and Latin America foreign correspondent, she recently won prizes for essay and fiction in the International Human Rights Arts Festival Literary Awards and the Soul-Making Keats Writing Competition.
Janis Butler Holm
Janis Butler Holm served as Associate Editor for Wide Angle, the film journal, and currently works as a writer and editor in sunny Los Angeles. Her prose, poems, art, and performance pieces have appeared in small-press, national, and international magazines. Her plays have been produced in the U.S., Canada, Russia, and the U.K.
Katie Hughbanks
Katie Hughbanks is a writer, photographer, and teacher whose photography has been published nationally and internationally in more than 70 magazines. She is the author of two chapbooks, Blackbird Songs (Prolific Press, 2019) and It’s Time (Finishing Line Press, 2024). She teaches English and Creative Writing in Louisville, Kentucky, US.
Viviana Iglesia
I am a 16-year-old aspiring writer from New York, allegedly containing more microplastics than 99% of the population, who mostly focuses on character instead of plot. My work mostly fixates on the human psyche, eccentric and bizarre characters, outsiders, tragedies, a little bit of absurdity, all that jazz. Besides writing, I love reading, drawing, learning about human psychology, music, TV shows, and movies.
Maggie Nerz Iribarne
Maggie Nerz Iribarne is 54, lives in Syracuse, NY, writes about witches, cleaning ladies, priests/nuns, struggling teachers, neighborhood ghosts, and other things. She keeps a portfolio of her published work at www.maggienerziribarne.com.
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