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Katherine West loves to combine her poetry with her art and those of other artists in Silver City, New Mexico. -
Virginia Watts began writing more often when she found herself using her laptop computer for nothing but hidden object games.
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Tech writing by day, fiction at night. And when words become too many (or too few) Ryan hikes the Sierras.
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Beau Lee Gambold still believes in fiction that can provide solace, strengthen resolve, and increase our ability to hope.
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Jennifer Schomburg Kanke uses stickers to reward herself for sending out submissions and is over level 2000 in Candy Crush.
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MFA candidate @umassmfa, youngest of seven, daughter of Cuban immigrants, mother of three really great adults, poet, educator, history enthusiast.
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Richard Eric Johnson’s work as a grave digger in West Berlin sparked a lifetime of poetic musing.
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Arose from NYC's prose trenches to play on New Mexico's high plain with trees, boulders, and words at 7,000 feet.
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Jacqueline Ahl, AKA Miss Anthropy, Madam for the Kingston Poetry Brothel, is a playwright produced in NY, NC, and MO.
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Lisa is a coffee drinker, Mustang bass player, and a baseball fan who loves writing fiction more than anything.
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Amanda Leal comes from the wild west of South Florida. She corrals her toddler and pitbull in her spare time.
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Gerardo writes with his eyes closed, it's pretty apparent after reading his work.
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Anastasia Gerdes is a massive fan of raccoons, pickles, and the sound of falling snow. In that order.
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Nicole Fitton likes to tread lightly across words because she finds them as fragile as glass but twice as sharp.
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Daniel Paton is a hopeless loser millennial with a battered laptop and some half-cooked ideas.
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Kaitlin is a nurse, actress, & Victorian poetry enthusiast. She enjoys playing with her Bengal cats & memorizing for fun!
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Martin Toman is a fiction writer who lives in a treehouse, can fix bicycles and is handy with a chainsaw.
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Katie Strine tolerates life through literature, dark beer, and her family of three.
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Christine used to sing in the opera. Now she's finally shut up, she can write some.
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Christina goes everywhere by bike and has her best ideas while walking her dog.
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Sylvia Santiago enjoys the music of Ólafur Arnalds, the paintings of Remedios Varo, and the sweet lattes of Rosso.
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Each Wednesday, Robert Eugene Rubino participates in the poetry open mic at Sacred Grounds Cafe in San Francisco.
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Milton Bates’s muses include his wife and a pair of carved wooden bears that belonged to Wallace Stevens.
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Julie Allyn Johnson digs the unorthodox and the unconventional whether it be art or film, people, poetry, prose or music.
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Rachel Mallalieu is a mom of five by day, an emergency physician by night, and writes in her "spare time."
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Irreverent, playful, serious. Phebe Jewell hopes to learn something other than "Amazing Grace" on her ukelele.
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Allen Guest thinks of words as numbers. His poems are really just equations and proofs.
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David Pickering is 63 years old, but his mind tells him he's still 26. Yes, you're right. It's a hardship.
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Laura Besley currently lives in land-locked Leicester (UK). She misses the sea a lot and goes at every opportunity.
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Robin is a self-proclaimed comedian who cannot take a joke. She also likes coffee, wine, and dogs.
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Natalie is an enthusiastic hoarder of yarn, books, chocolate, slightly-damaged dogs, and friends.
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Jay Faulkner is a disabled writer, martial artist, sketcher, and dreamer but most importantly just a husband and father.
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Bobby is reclusive, somewhat kind, somewhat diplomatic, enjoys current Americana (folk) music plus the sounds of the 1940's and 1960's.
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Kimm Brockett Stammen was a professional saxophonist. Now a writer, her house is quieter.
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Elizabeth Markley is a mom and a writer and a lover of coffee, wine, and words.
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Erica Soon Olsen was born in Hollywood and lives in the rural West. Favorite writing spots: desert and mountain wilderness.
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Robert Schuster teaches English, drinks coffee, pets cats, plays bass, and listens to death metal, though not necessarily all simultaneously.
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Josh McColough is a writer in Chicago. He possesses expert knowledge of two things: crushing debt & 80s hair metal.
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Ken seeks fractures-- intriguing and inscrutable cracks to explore, from edge of the cosmos to edge of a conversation.
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Mary Kuck took 15 years to realize she wouldn't finish her quilt. She loves poetry, church, family.
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Coffee addict. Wine lover. Tiger mom to two dogs. Gifted procrastinator. Go to karaoke song is "Ring of Fire."
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Joan Leotta plays with words on page and on stage, hoping her words encourage others to pursue their passions.
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A long-distance swimmer, MB Hines haunts kettle ponds, lakes, oceans, for creative inspiration.
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Ingredients for Jeremy potpourri: Nutmeg. Bayberry. Dandelion or Milkweed. Bit of rainy mountain dust. Drop of Patchouli. And a hug.
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Kindra McDonald bakes, hikes, makes art, blows glass, throws clay, falls regularly and has always, always been a poet.
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Swatilekha is a fearfully fearless person, unless it's got anything to do with confessing love.
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A hardcore appreciator of clouds, Sherry loves Elvis, Fireball & crumpets. A good day contains all four. She also swims.
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I'm a glutton for pain and plush pigs. I secretly hope ghosts are real. Booyakasha.
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Courtney LeBlanc loves nail polish, wine, and tattoos. And poetry. Always poetry.
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Merridawn Duckler publishes prose, poetry and plays from Portland, proof she loves alliteration. She’s writing an oratorio of meeting minutes.
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Nicole Braden-Johnson's perfect summer day: finding mudpuppies and ring-neck snakes outside, ending with good wine and The Honeymooners at night.
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Dead insect collector. Pet rat owner. Cigar smoker. Dislikes the sun and plastic.
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Arab. Gay. Drummer. Kinky. Good intentions. Trilingual. Scholar. International Affairs Aficionado. Former Thief. Current Escort. Future Icon. Always Scandalous.
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Pat Phillips West moved so often even her closest friends asked if she was in the Witness Protection Program.
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Jacqueline Rosenbaum is looking forward to the day that she completes a second story with a beginning, middle, and end.
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Richard Alan Hadley is a voracious chocolate consumer and caffeine drunk. He speaks in run-on sentences and writes incomplete thoughts.
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Claire loves classical music, hiking, reading and cleaning closets. Also poetry. She is "grammy" to five special grandkids.
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Laurel Radzieski enjoys board gaming, alphabetizing and writing poems for strangers.
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One-armed master of the macabre, Sal fancies writing poetry and short fiction in between his legal studies.
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Sarah Bradley is a part-time writer, full-time mother, amateur baker, and lifelong daydreamer from Connecticut.
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Courtney Harler writes and teaches in Las Vegas, where, to be perfectly honest, life is (almost) too weird for words.
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Rachel Lauth is a UMass Amherst graduate, writer, heavy-sleeper, coffee lover, and shares too many pictures of her cat online.
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NJ writes in cursive to hide the butchered spelling that would otherwise raise suspicion about her master’s degree in writing.
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Emily loves to write, submit, and see what happens, while playing with the dog and cat, and listening to music.
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Murder. Suicide. Loss. Cindy's stories probe the haunted corners of our minds and hearts. She writes what she knows.
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Richard L Ratliff, born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana. Midwest ties have built the foundation and setting for his poetry.
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Elaine Nadal teaches Spanish, travels, and enjoys line dancing. She is not related to Rafael Nadal.
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Mary's passions include writing, poetry, photography, travel, cooking, art, museums, astronomy, science - oh yeah, and shiny objects too!
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Meredith Katz loves monsters and the uncanny. Given a choice between the abyss and the void, she'd pick the abyss.
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