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Writer Profiles listed alphabetically by last name
Yoon Park
Yoon Park is a dynamic high school student enrolled at Seoul Academy in Seoul, South Korea. She channels her creative energy into writing and visual art and finds joy in expressing herself through these mediums. Additionally, she has a passion for music and spends her spare time playing the piano or the guitar. Yoon is the founder and editor of a global queer anthology, Queering the Quill. Her dedication to her craft has earned her recognition and admission into the prestigious Iowa Young Writers’ Studio, the Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program, and Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop.
Donald Patten
Donald Patten is an artist and cartoonist from Belfast, Maine. He creates oil paintings, illustrations, ceramics and graphic novels. His art has been exhibited in galleries throughout Maine. To view his online portfolio, visit @donald.patten on Instagram.
Dave Patton
Thirty years in the Fire service, and was also a union official, which involved writing letters, pamphlets. Travel all over the UK and abroad and took to writing short stories while travelling, waiting, travelling and more waiting.
Was chatting to an old friend who introduced me to the good people over at the Rum Shack in Glasgow where they did a monthly performance…plays, monologues etc. and after having a few of my pieces performed and meeting up online with the amazing Vivian Lermond, she prodded, cajoled, and bullied me into sending stuff off to various other venues.
And so, now I’m here, in Michigan writing short plays and monologues mostly.
Messina, Italy
E. Martin Pedersen
E. Martin Pedersen, originally from San Francisco, has lived for over forty years in eastern Sicily, where he taught English at the local university. His poetry appeared most recently in San Antonio Review, Danse Macabre, Neologism, Quail Bell Magazine, and California Quarterly, among others. Martin is an alumnus of the Community of Writers. He has published two collections of haiku, Bitter Pills and Smart Pills, and a chapbook, Exile’s Choice, from Kelsay Books.
Chris Peit
Chris Peit is an emerging author residing in New York. After graduating from George Washington University with a degree in History and a minor in Creative Writing, she decided to move to South Korea, where she worked as an English teacher for two years. Now back in New York, she is focused on writing, teaching, and binge-watching “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.” Recently, she completed a blended sci-fi/fantasy young adult novel that she hopes to publish someday.
Melanie Perish
Melanie Perish’s work appeared in Sequestrum, Sinister Wisdom, Persimmon Tree, Ravens Perch, The Meadow, and other publications.Her poems were featured on Nevada Humanities Double Down Blog, January 2024. Her books include Passions & Gratitudes (Black Rock Press, 2011), and The Fishing Poems (Meridian Press, 2017). Foreign Voices, Native Tongues (Blurb/Single Wing Press, 2021) is her most recent collection. She’s been the featured reader in online and in-person poetry readings. She is a member of Poets & Writers, Inc., and has done Poets-in-the-Schools. She owes a debt to her teachers, and to other poets who read and critique her work.
George Perreault
George Perreault has published four books, including Bodark County, a collection of poems in the voices of characters living on the Llano Estacado in West Texas. Information is available at www.georgeperreault.com.
Christine Potter
Christine Potter is the poetry editor of Eclectica Magazine. Her poems have appeared there, and in Rattle, The Midwest Quarterly, The McNeese Review, Tar River Poems, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, and now Confetti. Her time-traveling young adult novels, The Bean Books, are published by Evernight Teen, and her latest full-length collection of poetry, Unforgetting, is on Kelsay Books. She just won the annual After Happy Hour prize for a narrative poem about her grandmother and some drunken squirrels. Christine lives in Rockland County in a very old house (haunted) with her lovely kitty Bella and her patient husband Ken.
John RC Potter
John RC Potter is an international educator from Canada, living in Istanbul. His poems, stories, essays, and book reviews have been published in a range of magazines and journals, most recently in Literary Yard (“She Got What She Deserved”, June 2023), Freedom Fiction (“The Mystery of the Dead-as-a-Doornail Author”, July 2023), The Serulian (“The Memory Box”, September 2023) and a book review in Bosphorus Review of Books (Kenan Orhan’s I Am My Country And Collected Stories, September 2023). The author has over a dozen upcoming publications in the coming months, including an essay in The Montreal Review.
Stephen Price
Stephen Price writes and teaches writing on Treaty 7 territory, which he grew up calling Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is particularly interested in helping late bloomers, those who have taken up writing late in life after they have finished their careers. He was a classroom teacher for thirty years. When he retired in 2019, his students, who he often wrote stories for, encouraged him to continue writing. He has been published in The Militant Grammarian, Passengers Journal, The New Quarterly (upcoming) and The Downtime Review. The editors of The Downtime Review nominated his story for a Pushcart Prize.
Diana Raab
Diana Raab, MFA, PhD, is a poet, memoirist, workshop leader, thought-leader and award-winning author of 14 books and editor of three anthologies. Her work has been widely published and anthologized. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and The Best of the Net. She frequently speaks and writes on writing for healing and transformation. Her forthcoming anthology, Women in A Golden State: California Poets at 60 and Beyond (Gunpowder Press) is due out in May 2025. Raab writes for Psychology Today, The Good Men Project, Sixty and Me, Medium, and is a guest writer for many others. Visit www.dianaraab.com.
Niles Reddick
Niles Reddick is author of a novel, two collections, and a novella. His work has been featured in over four-hundred-fifty publications including The Saturday Evening Post, PIF, BlazeVox, New Reader Magazine, Citron Review, and The Boston Literary Magazine. He works for the University of Memphis in Tennessee.
Don Reilly
Don Reilly is a writer and a professor of English at Bergen Community College in NJ. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Apricity, Chewers by Masticadores, Down in the Dirt, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, Promethean, and several anthologies, including Living Our Blessings and Behind the Revolving Door. He earned his MA from University College Dublin and his MFA from the City College of NY. He can be contacted at djr.fiction@gmail.com.
Ron Riekki
Ron Riekki has been awarded a 2014 Michigan Notable Book, 2015 The Best Small Fictions, 2016 Shenandoah Fiction Prize, 2016 IPPY Award, 2020 Rhysling Anthology inclusion, 2019 Red Rock Film Fest Award, 2020 Dracula Film Festival Vladutz Trophy, 2019 Très Court International Film Festival Audience Award and Grand Prix, and 2022 Pushcart Prize. Right now, Riekki’s listening to Michael Kamen’s “Main Titles” from the Band of Brothers film score.
Nick Romeo
When Nick Romeo is not at his nine-to-five occupation, which is strongly situated in the STEM fields, his main forms of expression are 3D digital renderings, electronic music, writing, sewing, and photography. His work has been seen in various journals such as Alien Buddah Press, Highland Park Poetry, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Marrow Magazine, Rune, Door=Jar, and many others.
Michael Roque
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Michael Roque discovered his love for poetry and prose amid friends on the bleachers of Pasadena City College. Now he currently lives in the Middle East and is being inspired by the world around him. His poems have been published by literary magazines like North Dakota Quarterly, Cholla Needles, The Literary Hatchet and others.
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