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Writer Profiles listed alphabetically by last name
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Mahbubat Salahudeen
Mahbubat Kanyinsola Salahudeen is a writer, poet and spoken words artist. Her works have featured or forthcoming at several places including Spillwords magazine, Brittle Paper, Ice Flow press, Ninshar Arts, Ice Lolly, Arts Lounge, SprinNG journal, Litround journal, Down in the Dirt, Aayo Magazine, Nanty Greens, Cathartic Review, Northern Otter Press, Konya Shamsrumi, Lothlorien Poetry Journal and elsewhere. When she is not writing, she’s either reading works by contemporary writers or hanging out by herself. Her friends call her Raven.
Kristin H. Sample
Kristin H. Sample’s short fiction has appeared in The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Sand Hills, Mawth, Running Wild, Brief Wilderness, The Airgonaut and more. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Parents Magazine. She has two published novels: North Shore South Shore and STAGECRAFT. Kristin lives in Dallas, TX.
Sara Sarna
Sara Sarna is a poet, actor and avid hiker living in Southeast Wisconsin. Her poetry had appeared in print, online, and has been heard from stage and radio. Her chapbook, Whispers from a Bench, was published in 2020.
Gerard Sarnat
Gerard Sarnat MD’s won San Francisco Poetry’s Contest, Poetry in Arts First Place Award/Dorfman Prizes. Nominated for Pushcarts/Best of Net Awards, Gerry’s published in Hong Kong Review, Tokyo Journal, Buddhist Review, Gargoyle, Main Street Rag, New Delta Review, Arkansas Review, Hamilton-Stone Review, New Haven Institute, Texas Review, Vonnegut Journal, Brooklyn Review, SF Magazine, LA Review, NY Times, plus by Harvard, Stanford, Dartmouth, Penn, Chicago, Columbia presses. He’s authored collections Homeless Chronicles, Disputes, 17s, Melting the Ice King. Stanford professor/healthcare CEO, Gerry’s built/staffed clinics for the marginalized, devoted energy/resources toward climate justice on Climate-Action-Now’s board. Married since 1969, Gerry’s nine grand/kids.
Jade Scardham
Jade Scardham is an artist and writer focusing on fantasy, horror and sci-fi. She particularly enjoys writing creepy stories and designing creatures and characters. You can find her on Bluesky: @arcanepixels744.bsky.social
Lauren Scharhag
Lauren Scharhag (she/her) is an award-winning author of fiction and poetry, and a senior editor at Gleam. Her latest poetry collection, Moonlight and Monsters, is now available from Gnashing Teeth Publishing. Forthcoming are Ain’t These Sorrows Sweet (Roadside Press) and Screaming Intensifies (Whiskey City Press). She lives in Kansas City, MO.
Thea Schiller
Thea Schiller, a New York poet and psychotherapist facilitates a poetry workshop at the Somers Library in Somers, New York and practices psychotherapy in Connecticut. Her poem, “Sarah,” was the Orchard Poetry Prize winner in Furrow, University of Wisconsin. Recently, she has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and her poems have appeared in The San Diego Annual Poetry Review 2017-2018, Edify Fiction, The Ravens Perch, 4th & Sycamore, Hevria, Lucent Dreaming, and The Tenth Muse as well as numerous other literary journals.
Katharine Schulz
Katharine Schulz is indescribable: stunning, talented, breathtaking, exquisite, completely unique, and most of all modest. Katharine is a friend to all vermin, as she was one in a previous life. She’s deeply interesting and complex, however she’s handicapped by the fact that she cannot stop breaking the first rule of F**** C***. She would like to point fingers at her 2nd grade teacher for allowing her to write 50 poems in one day instead of doing school work, and thank Martin Scorsese for casting Harvey Keitel in Mean Streets.
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Westchester Writers Workshop founder
Gabriel Sebastian, Futurist
Capricious vagabond, time-displaced Viking. Gabriel Sebastian has been pretending to write verse and doggerel since Nixon met Mao. Dubious credentials will not be bill-boarded here. Chronic sufferer of oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) – political and cultural variant. Suffice it to say, Sebastian’s endeavors include surrealist poetry and contemporary fictions.
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Alex Shafer
I was born in New York City, grew up in Connecticut, lived in Boston for a few years after college, moved to the SF/Bay Area, where I lived till I was 62, and then moved back east, landing in Yonkers, where I still live. Besides creative writing, I’ve had many jobs, the most noteworthy were technical writer, taxi driver, and professional gardener, which I did for 27 years until I retired a few years ago. I have also been an actor on and off since college. I once played a writer on Law and Order, who is murdered.
Sunil Sharma
Sunil Sharma is India-born and currently Toronto-based author-academic-editor-poet who has published 23 creative and critical books—joint and solo. His works have appeared in literary journals majorly from UK, USA, Canada, India, Australia and France, among others.
He is a recipient of the UK-based Destiny Poets’ inaugural Poet of the Year award—2012 and other recognitions.
His poems were published in the prestigious UN project: Happiness: The Delight-Tree: An Anthology of Contemporary International Poetry, in the year 2015.
Sunil edits Setu, a monthly published from Pittsburgh, USA: www.setumag.com.
John Sheirer
John Sheirer lives in Western Massachusetts and is in his 30th year of teaching at Asnuntuck Community College in Northern Connecticut. His latest book is Stumbling Through Adulthood: Linked Stories. Find him at www.johnsheirer.com.
Dominik Slusarczyk
Dominik Slusarczyk is an artist who makes everything from music to painting. He was educated at The University of Nottingham where he got a degree in biochemistry. He lives in Bristol, England. His poetry has been published in Fresh Words, Dream Noir, and Home Planet News.
Mohammad Soltani
Mohammad Soltani is a fiction writer and painter living in Tabriz, Iran. He holds a BA in Painting and an MA in Ancient Iranian Art History. Before studying art, he began a degree in electrical engineering but ultimately decided to discontinue it. His writing and visual artwork explore themes of surrealism and imagination. His story “Blue Parrot” appeared in Corner Bar Magazine (US), and his research article “Surrealism and the Reliefs of the Sasanian High Priest Kartir” was published in CLARA Journal (Norway). Several of his social posters have been selected for international juried and invitational exhibitions around the world.
Patty Somlo
Patty Somlo’s books, Hairway to Heaven Stories (Cherry Castle Publishing), The First to Disappear (Spuyten Duyvil) and Even When Trapped Behind Clouds: A Memoir of Quiet Grace (WiDo Publishing), have been Finalists in several contests. Her work has appeared in Guernica, Delmarva Review, Under the Sun, the Los Angeles Review, and over 40 anthologies. She received Honorable Mention for Fiction in the Women’s National Book Association Contest, was a Finalist in the J.F. Powers Short Fiction Contest, and had an essay selected as Notable for Best American Essays.
Wilton, CT
Pat St. Pierre
Pat St. Pierre is a freelance writer and amateur photographer who has been writing since her high school days after which she was captivated by the written word. She has had adult and children’s poetry, fiction, and nonfiction published in a variety of magazines. Her fourth poetry chapbook “Not As it Seems” was published in 2021. Some of her poems have been published in Three Line Poetry, Ephrastic Review, Jellyfish Whispers, Pangolin Review, Scarlet Leaf River, and Highland Park Poetry. Her fiction and nonfiction have also been published in Mountain Tales Press, Minute Magazine, Poetry Pacific, Touch Journal, Plants and Flowers, and Smoky Quartz. Her blog is www.pstpierre.wordpress.com.
Richard Stimac
Richard Stimac has published a poetry book, Bricolage (Spartan Press), two poetry chapbooks, and one flash fiction chapbook. In his work, Richard explores time and memory through the landscape and humanscape of the St. Louis region. He invites you to follow his poetry Facebook page: “Richard Stimac poet”.
Alex Stolis
Alex Stolis lives in Minneapolis; he has had poems published in numerous journals. Two full length collections Pop. 1280, and John Berryman Died Here were released by Cyberwit and available on Amazon. His chapbook, Postcards from the Knife-Thrower’s Wife, was released by Louisiana Literature Press in 2024, RIP Winston Smith from Alien Buddha Press 2024, and The Hum of Geometry; The Music of Spheres, 2024 by Bottlecap Press.
Adam Strassberg
Adam Strassberg is a retired psychiatrist living in Portland, Oregon. (He was born and raised in Rockland County, New York.) His work uses the intersection of psychology, religion, mythology and magical realism to explore the human condition. When he’s not writing or napping, he often can be found updating his website at www.doctorstrassberg.com.
Irina Tall
Irina Tall (Novikova) is an artist, graphic artist, illustrator. She graduated from the State Academy of Slavic Cultures with a degree in art, and also has a bachelor’s degree in design. The first personal exhibition “My soul is like a wild hawk” (2002) was held in the museum of Maxim Bagdanovich. In her works, she raises themes of ecology, in 2005 she devoted a series of works to the Chernobyl disaster, draws on anti-war topics. In 2020, she took part in Poznań Art Week.
Ryan Tan
Ryan Tan studies English Literature at the National University of Singapore. His fiction has appeared in Cold Signal, Bone Parade, and Bristol Noir.
Linda Tancs
Linda Tancs writes both fiction and nonfiction for adults and children. In addition to books, blogs, short stories and other fare, she writes plays, lyrics and movie scripts. Her animated short script, THE BEST WORDS EVER, entered the quarterfinals in the 2021 ScreenCraft animation writing competition. Visit her website at ltancs.com and her Facebook page at facebook.com/writerlindatancs.
Daniel Tarker
Daniel Tarker is a Seattle based writer and educator. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and a Doctorate in Higher Education Leadership from Oregon State University. His plays have been produced by 14/48, Pacific Play Company, Seattle Playwrights Collective, Actors Theatre Santa Cruz, The Western Stage, Phoenix Theatre, and Spokane Radio Theatre. He has also published his research on leadership in multiple academic publications. You can find more at his website danieltarker.com.
Chere Taylor
Chere Taylor enjoys wasting many hours of her life buried in a good book or binge watching bad cinema on Netflix. She has a passion for reading, writing and almost everything involving the works of Stephen King. She is currently working on her first novel. You can find her stories in Another Realm, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Granfalloon, and Books ‘n Pieces Magazine. She’s also been known to lurk around her Inkitt account at www.inkitt.com/chereevans.
Baltimore
Leon Taylor
Leon Taylor teaches economics at KIMEP University in Almaty, Kazakhstan, a post-Soviet nation in Central Asia. A Hoosier, he was a newspaper reporter before becoming an economist. He has written fiction for Schlock!, Space and Time, 96th of October, 365tomorrows, kaidankai, Sanitarium, Mono blog, Spotlong Review, The Quiet Reader, The Unpleasantville Anthology, Samjoko, Made of Rust and Glass Anthology, HalfHourToKill, and other publications.
William Teets
William Teets is a writer born in Peekskill, New York, who has recently relocated to Southeast, Michigan. He misses New York pizza, the Hudson River, and Fran, Remember the Good Times ‘68. Mr. Teets’ poetry and prose has been published in various literary journals and anthologies including Ariel Chart, Drunk Monkeys, and Impspired. A collection of his poetry, After the Fall, was published by Cajun Mutt Press in February 2023. A memoir, Upside Down (One on the House), and novel, Reverend Went Walking, released to wide acclaim in 2013 & 2016.
Mr. Teets can be contacted at: bwteets@hotmail.com.
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Marianne Tefft
Marianne Tefft is a poet and voiceover reader who daylights as a Montessori teacher in the Dutch Caribbean. Her poems appear online and in print in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Serbia, India, the Dominican Republic and her home island of Sint Maarten. She is the author of the 2022 poetry collections Full Moon Fire: Spoken Songs of Love and Moonchild: Poems for Moon Lovers.
G.M.H. Thompson
G.M.H. Thompson has been published in a number of poetry publications no one has read because nowadays, no one reads poetry. In 2018, Spartan Press published G.M.H. Thompson’s first collection, Yard Sale at the Devil’s Petting Zoo. In 2020, G.M.H. Thompson was nominated for a Pushcart. In 2023, G.M.H. Thompson put a second collection out (on amazon) entitled Quetzalcoatl. Certain editors seem to like some of G.M.H. Thompson’s poems while other editors don’t really seem to much. In 2024, G.M.H. Thompson was nominated for Best of the Net. The modern poetic world is a strange jungle of ego and madness.
BJ Thoray
BJ Thoray is a writer/editor active in the nonprofit space. BJ’s publication credits include The Aesthete, Forum, Rundelania!, Black Cat Press, Mobile Data Mag, Prosetrics, and Kosmos Obscura. Originally from California, BJ is currently based in Belgium (less for the waffles, more for the surrealism).
E.C. Traganas
Author of the critically applauded debut novel Twelfth House, E.C. Traganas has published in Ibbetson Street Press, The Penwood Review, Agape Review, Ancient Paths, The San Antonio Review, The Chamber Magazine, Dark Winter Literary, Persimmon Tree, and numerous other literary journals. Hailed as ‘an artfully created masterpiece’ and a ‘must-read’, her new work of haiku and short poetry, Shaded Pergola, was recently released by Tropaeum Press and features her original illustrations. A resident of New York City, Ms. Traganas enjoys a varied career as a Juilliard-trained concert pianist and composer, activities that have earned her accolades from the international press.
Dana Trick
Born a first-generation Mexican-Canadian-American autistic demisexual with ADHD, Dana Trick lives in Southern California where it is clearly foolish to wear black any day, but she does it anyway. Besides writing, she spends/wastes her day by either reading weird books and comics; researching history because she is an historian with a degree to prove it; drawing crappy art and comics which she posts on deviantART under Silencedbook9; and/or watching an unhealthy amount of cartoons, anime, and YouTube videos. She wishes the reader a nice day.
Rosanne Trost
Rosanne Trost is a retired oncology nurse. She resides in Houston, Texas. After retirement, she enrolled in creative writing classes, and discovered her passion for writing. Her work has appeared in a variety of print and online publications, including Blink Ink, Ravens Perch, Chicken Soup for the Soul and Commuter Lit.
Terry Trowbridge
Terry Trowbridge’s poems have appeared in The New Quarterly, Carousel, subTerrain, paperplates, The Dalhousie Review, untethered, Quail Bell, The Nashwaak Review, Orbis, Snakeskin Poetry, Literary Yard, Gray Sparrow, CV2, Brittle Star, Bombfire, American Mathematical Monthly, The Academy of Heart and Mind, Canadian Woman Studies, The Mathematical Intelligencer, The Canadian Journal of Family and Youth, The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, The Beatnik Cowboy, Borderless, Literary Veganism, and more. His lit crit has appeared in Ariel, British Columbia Review, Hamilton Arts & Letters, Episteme, Studies in Social Justice, Rampike, and The /t3mz/ Review.
Westchester Writers Workshop member
Judy Voss
Raised in Illinois, Judy attended several universities in Colorado and the Chicago suburbs earning her bachelor’s degree in communications. Early work included commercial writing and marketing communications. She moved to New York in the late 80s where her last job was a director of professional development in the public relations field. Now retired, she focuses on short story fiction. She likes to include humor, sarcasm and farce in many stories but occasionally spends time on more serious topics. Outside interests include gardening, gardening and more gardening.
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