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Writer Profiles listed alphabetically by last name
Ben Macnair
Ben Macnair is an award-winning and much-published poet, playwright and musician from Staffordshire in the United Kingdom. Follow him on Twitter @benmacnair.
Nigeria
Peace Nkeiruka Maduako
Peace Nkeiruka M. is a Nigerian writer who spends most of her leisure time reading and writing creative works. Inspired by arts that tell stories in themselves and the feeling of taking hot tea on drizzly mornings, she has written works featured on Kalahari Review, SpillWords press, Heart Of Flesh Literary Journal, Calla Press, ClayJar Review and more. She has a page ‘PeaceGirl works’ where she posts her writings and runs a journal, SweetSmell Journal. She has also authored ebooks, ‘I Come Home’ and ‘Like I Do’.
Sanibel Island
Terry John Malik
Terry John Malik is a Chicagoan to the core. Born and raised in the city he loves, he now explores the back streets and dark alleys of the city’s imagination.
His debut novel, The Bricklayer of Albany Park, was published in September 2017 by Blank Slate Press. Its awards include the I.B.P.A. Benjamin Franklin Gold Medal, the M.I.P.A. medal winner, and a Silver Falchion Award Finalist.
His short story “Tomorrow is Best Forgotten” was published by confetti in the fall of 2022. The Mystery Tribune has published two of his pieces of Flash Fiction, “Her Lips, Cherry Red” and “Person of Interest.”
Keith Manos
Keith Manos’s stories have appeared in both print and online magazines like Aethlon, Storgy, October Hill Magazine, Wrestling USA, New Reader Magazine, and Attic Door Press, among others. He has also published twelve books to date, including his debut novel My Last Year of Life (in School), which was traditionally published by Black Rose Writing. Keith has been recognized as one of Ohio’s top writing teachers by the Ohio Council of Teachers of English/Language Arts. Check out all of Keith’s books at www.keithmanos.com.
Ireland
DS Maolalai
DS Maolalai has received eleven nominations for Best of the Net and seven for the Pushcart Prize. His poetry has been released in three collections, Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden (Encircle Press, 2016), Sad Havoc Among the Birds (Turas Press, 2019) and Noble Rot (Turas Press, 2022).
David Marek
David Marek currently lives and works in Northern California. He is married with two children. He also has three dogs, two cats, many chickens, and a tortoise. He wants to spend more time writing, but he is easily distracted. He also wants to eat healthier.
Westchester Writers Workshop member
margie marek
margie marek (marGmarek)’s biology is an unsolved mystery. She’s a knot-doctor, NOT a licensed medical practitioner, therefore doesn’t prescribe following her footsteps. At age eight, she ate a grape out of her grandma’s deceptively tempting fruit display. Her future-self so thoroughly comprehends wax and plastic digestion and has evolved into a one-woman recycling machine. She aims to up-scale her process, ultimately implementing a global effort to the same end. As self-healing as the Terminator, marGmarek and her puppy Hiro skate through life unscathed. She writes reality-fiction, alternate-reality non-fiction, and poetry; using ridiculously big words while surgically altering otHers to suit herself.
Paweł Markiewicz
Paweł Markiewicz was born 1983 in Siemiatycze in Poland. He is poet who lives in Bielsk Podlaski and writes tender poems, haiku as well as long poem. He studied law in Warsaw and German in Biala Podlaska. He was a participant of the Forum Alpbach – the village of thinkers in Austria.
Westchester Writers Workshop member
Axel Martens
Intrigued by the gray areas between good and evil, German-born fantasy author Axel Martens weaves tales where heroes are flawed and villains have their own stories. His childhood as the fourth of five siblings fostered a love for stories, especially those that lurk in the shadows. When not wrangling a day job at Google, Axel loves exploring the world, drawing inspiration from the stark beauty of Iceland and the haunting castles of Scotland. His debut novel, Mae: Death’s Youngest Daughter, arrives June 21st, 2024. Get a sneak peek in confetti magazine and explore Mae’s world at www.project-witchcraft.com.
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Kathryn Helena McCarthy
From Wales, Kathryn Helena McCarthy has been living in West Cork (Ireland) since 1996. Although she has been writing since childhood, she only started to submit her pieces early in 2025. The poems spring from silence and appear spontaneously in her mind. She loves writing poetry for the pure experience it brings and likes sharing her work with others.
LaVern Spencer McCarthy
LaVern Spencer McCarthy has written and published five books of poetry and four books of short stories. She has been published in From the Shadows, a short story anthology edited by Amanda Steele, Anthology Of Short Stories by Fenechty Publishing, and many others. Her poems have appeared in numerous state anthologies, and she has won over five hundred awards for her writing. She is a life member of Poetry Society Of Texas. She resides in Blair, Oklahoma.
Dennis McFadden
Dennis McFadden, a retired project manager, lives and writes in a cedar-shingled cottage called Summerhill in the woods of upstate New York. His collection Jimtown Road, won the 2016 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction; another collection, Lafferty, Looking for Love, is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press. His novel, Old Grimes Is Dead, earned a starred review and was selected by Kirkus Reviews as one of the Best Indie Books of 2022. His stories have appeared in over a hundred publications, including The Missouri Review, New England Review, The Sewanee Review, The Massachusetts Review, Crazyhorse, and The Best American Mystery Stories.
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Eduard Schmidt-Zorner (penname Eadbhard McGowan) is a translator and writer of poetry, haibun, haiku, and short stories. He writes in four languages: English, French, Spanish, and German and holds workshops on Japanese and Chinese style prose and experimental poetry.
Member of four writer groups in Ireland. Lives in County Kerry, Ireland, for more than 25 years and is a proud Irish citizen, born in Germany.
Published in over 170 anthologies, literary journals, and broadsheets in USA, UK, Ireland, Australia, Canada, Japan, Sweden, Spain, Italy, France, Bangladesh, India, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, and Nigeria. Some poems and haibun published in French (own translation), Romanian, and Russian language.
Joan McNerney
Joan McNerney’s poetry has been included in numerous literary magazines such as Seven Circle Press, Dinner with the Muse, Moonlight Dreamers of Yellow Haze, Blueline, and Halcyon Days. Four Bright Hills Press Anthologies, several Poppy Road Review Journals, and numerous Kind of A Hurricane Press publications have accepted her work. She has four “Best of the Net” nominations and her latest titles are The Muse in Miniature and Love Poems for Michael, both available on Amazon.com.
Bruce McRae
Bruce McRae, a Canadian musician, is a multiple Pushcart nominee with poems published in hundreds of magazines such as Poetry, Rattle and the North American Review. His books are The So-Called Sonnets (Silenced Press); An Unbecoming Fit Of Frenzy; (Cawing Crow Press) and Like As If (Pski’s Porch) and Hearsay (The Poet’s Haven).
Marcelo Medone
Marcelo Medone (1961, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a Pushcart Prize nominee fiction writer, poet, essayist, playwright and screenwriter. He received numerous awards and was published in multiple languages in more than 50 countries around the world, including the US.
He currently lives in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Ron Micci
A native New Yorker, Ron is a prolific author of plays, screenplays, novels, and short stories, comedic and serious, many available for perusal on the Booksie, Stage32 and Amazon websites. A published playwright (Brooklyn/Heuer Publishers), former magazine editor and advertising proofreader, his one-act plays have been staged in Manhattan and throughout the country.
Lawrence Miles
Lawrence Miles is a writer living in White Plains, New York. His work can be seen at lawrencemiles.substack.com.
I.J. Miller
I.J. Miller has published six books of fiction and one book of non-fiction. Miller’s novels have been translated into German and Spanish. The audio version of the novel Wuthering Nights was nominated for an Audie Award in 2014. Miller’s short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies. In 2022, Miller co-authored Promise Fulfilled, the memoir of a plastic surgeon who emigrated from Bolivia to the U.S. The seventh work of fiction, the thriller Surviving the Storm, will be published by Blank Slate Press in September, 2024 and is available now for pre-order at Bookshop.org.
J. Clifford Milligan
J. Clifford Milligan works for a living in Pennsylvania. He recently rediscovered writing.
Nazanin Mirsadeghi
Nazanin Mirsadeghi is a Persian-American writer, poet and the founder of Bahar Books, an indie press specialized in publishing Farsi and bilingual books. She has authored more than 20 books in Persian and English, from children’s stories to poetry translations and language workbooks. Her two published poetry collections are A Jarful of Moonlight, and Garden in a Seed. She lives in White Plains, New York with her family.
Arik Mitra
Arik Mitra lives in Kolkata, India. An IT professional, he has been writing for about two years now. He writes mainly short stories and poetry in English and Bengali (mother tongue). His work has been published by Clarendon House Publications, Red Penguin Books, Dyst Journal and more.
Peter Mladinic
Peter Mladinic’s most recent book of poems, Maiden Rock, is available from the UnCollected Press. An animal rights advocate, he lives in Hobbs, New Mexico, United States.
Mahvash Mohtadullah
Mahvash was once a part of the Financial Services Industry. Now she writes. When she’s not writing, she’s fussing in her head, over ideologies of social justice and equality, with superhero twists! Mahvash’s stories and poems have appeared in The Rumen, Sequoia Speaks, Recesses, Every Day Fiction and DoubleSpeak magazines. Her poem, “Veins” was long listed in the Plough 2023 poetry competition. She has published a book of short stories and three books in a children’s series.
Aubrey Moncrieffe
Aubrey Moncrieffe Jr., now retired, has been a developmental college professor at Housatonic Community College for the last thirty-five years. He is a graduate of New England College with an M.F.A. in creative writing, focusing on poetry. Has taught creative writing to seniors at the Baldwin Center in Stratford, Connecticut for over 20 years and assisted some with publishing their works. Additionally, he has studied poetry for the last thirteen years at the Hudson Valley Writers Center with Jennifer Lynne Franklin. Some of his poetry writing can be found in publications such as Poets in Motion, an anthology and Image, a journal.
James W. Morris
James W. Morris is a graduate of LaSalle University in Philadelphia, where he was awarded a scholarship for creative writing. He is the author of dozens of short stories, humor pieces, essays, and poems which have appeared in various literary magazines, and his first novel, Rude Baby, was published last year. More info at www.jameswmorris.com.
Yvonne Morris
Yvonne Morris is the author of two chapbooks of poetry: Busy Being Eve (Bass Clef Books, 2022) and Mother was a Sweater Girl (The Heartland Review Press, 2016). Her work has appeared in ONE ART, The Galway Review, MacQueen’s Quinterly, The Main Street Rag, and elsewhere. She earned an MA in Mass Communication from the University of Kentucky.
Brian Mosher
Brian Mosher has self-published 3 books: One Bad Day Deserves Another (short stories) and Moon Shine and Lemon Twists (poetry), both in 2016; and The Broken Mosaic (poetry and prose), in 2021. His most recent release is a collection of poems and song lyrics from Metaphysical Fox Press titled, A Muster of Melodious Musings (2025). His poetry chapbook Relict is scheduled to be published by Finishing Line Press in January 2026. His work has appeared in Literary Underground, Blue Villa, Nixes Mate, eMerge, Books and Pieces, confetti, Rituals, Coneflower Cafe, Written Tales, Esoterica Magazine, Half and One Magazine, and others.
P. Muralidharan
Poet, thinker, fiction writer and reviewer, P. Muralidharan’s collection of short stories, Draupadi’s only partner, was published in 2021 and his novel, Boomerang, is ready for publication. He is currently in the panel of judges for an ongoing interactive novel contest. Several of his short stories have been included in anthologies. He is an active member of many global literary societies, and a poetry/book reviewer. Poems so far selected and published by globalpoemic.wordpress.com, otherwiseengagedjournal.com, formerpeople.wordpress.com, ekcentrica.com, subterraneanbluepoetry.com, The Mocking Owl Roost, and thewritersandreadersmagazine.com. He has translated two books including Shashi Tharoor’s Why I am Hindu into Tamil. His blogs on poetry reviews stand out.
Jim Murdoch
Jim Murdoch has been writing poetry for fifty years and has graced the pages of many now-defunct literary magazines and websites and a few, like Ink, Sweat and Tears and Poetry Scotland that are still hanging on in there. For ten years he ran the literary blog The Truth About Lies but now lives quietly in Scotland with his wife and, whenever the mood takes him, next door’s cat. He has published two books of poetry, a short story collection and four novels: Jim, not the cat.
Anastasia Murphy
My name is Anastasia Murphy. I’m 21 years old. I love to read and write. I have been writing since I was sixteen in high school. My first story that I had written is called “Keeley’s Story.” I have written other stories such as “Dawn of the New Wolves,” “Cadmar’s Family,” “Dangerous Husband,” “Heaven Calls,” and “Engaged!” I also have written fanfiction called “Scarlet Witch & Luke Evans.”
Here’s a link to where I post my stories: www.wattpad.com/user/Magicmonkey1020. Feel free to take a look!
A. N. Myers
A. N. Myers is a London UK based writer of speculative fiction. His recent short fiction credits include Best of British Science Fiction, BFS Horizons, Sein und Werden, The World of Myth and the recent anthology from JayHenge Publishing, Sunshine Superhighway. His flash fiction has appeared in Flash Frontier, Bag of Bones, 101 Fiction, and the ‘Valentine’ anthology published by Black Hare Press. His YA science fiction novel, The Ides, is available from Amazon.
Chaya Nadi
Chaya Nadi is a Channeled Poet, Writer, Medicine Woman, Facilitator and Mother to six children. She is deeply rooted in beautiful St. Margaret’s Bay, Nova Scotia with her every-life partner, Alex. Chaya has background studies in Psychology, American Sign Language, Adult Education and Shamanism. In 2018, she traded corporate life to become the ‘Girl Boss’ of her own international practice, that focuses on Collective Trauma Healing through the unlikely vehicle of Mediumship. Chaya was a contributing author to the anthology Gathering In, and looks forward to sharing her personal tale of survivorship with her memoir: Ashes On Her Tongue.
Malaena Nahmias
Malaena has been writing flash memoir and poetry for most of her life. She enjoys getting to the essential feelings of her direct experience in as few words as possible. Malaena has worked in the healing professions including teaching, social work, interfaith ministry and hospice chaplaincy. Many of her stories and poems address being present for the dying. Since retirement two years ago, Malaena has more time to focus on her writing. confetti is her first publication. You can reach her at Malaenawrites@gmail.com
B. C. Nance
B. C. Nance is a writer who hasn’t given up his day job. A native of Nashville, Tennessee, he works by day as a historical archaeologist and literally knows where the bodies are buried—most of them anyway. At night, after roaming his neighborhood, he writes fiction and poetry, then stays up too late reading. His stories and poems have been published in a diverse selection of publications.
Richard Natale
Richard Natale is a Los Angeles-based journalist and writer whose stories have appeared in such publications as Mollyhouse, Otherwise Engaged, Confetti, Gertrude Press, The MCB Quarterly, Chelsea Station, and the anthologies Image/Out and Off the Rocks. His novels include Pigeon, The Rushes, Love on the Jersey Shore, Café Eisenhower, which received an honorable mention from the 2015 Rainbow Book Awards, the novella Junior Willis, and the YA fantasy novel The Golden City of Doubloon. His latest novel, Mystery Dance, was published in early 2024.
Don Noel
Don Noel is retired from four decades’ prizewinning print and broadcast journalism. He took an MFA from Fairfield University at age 81, and in the decade since has published more than 100 short stories or other pieces.
Shaun O Ceallaigh
Shaun O Ceallaigh is a working class writer from Ireland. His stories have appeared in Crannog, Howl, The Wexford Bohemian and Hearth & Coffin.
Kenneth Oduah
Kenneth Oduah holds a BSc from the department of chemistry, Delta State University. He’s an estate manager, a human resource personnel and digital marketer. His love for arts made him delve into writing, music composition, storytelling and poetry. He is the author of an educational guidebook, ‘Before you enter the university’, and also working on further projects. When he’s not writing, he is imagining stories and taking pictures of life. You can catch him on Facebook; Ken Oduah, and Instagram; kenlala.
Caitlin O’Halloran
Caitlin O’Halloran is a biracial Filipino-American writer living in Rochester, New York. She has a Bachelor of Arts from Boston University in Philosophy and History. Her poetry has been published in literary magazines, including ONE ART, Third Wednesday, Vast Chasm Magazine, The Basilisk Tree, and Remington Review.
Susan Oleferuk
Susan Oleferuk’s poems have appeared in numerous literary journals and reviews both here and abroad. She has four poetry collections: Circling for Home, Finishing Line Press (2011), Those Who Come to the Garden, Finishing Line Press (2013) Days of Sun, Finishing Line Press (2017) and When There Is Little Light Left in Late Afternoon, Kelsay Books (2022). She lives and works in Westchester.
Martin O’Malley
Martin O’Malley was born and raised in Rockland County, NY, and has written a memoir centered around a car accident in 2004. In the accident, O’Malley sustained a traumatic brain injury and a paralyzed right arm. He also writes in detail about his alcoholism, drug addiction, and recovery. O’Malley describes how his injuries turned him into a voracious reader, which led him to write his memoir.
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