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Jacqueline is a lover of language, mystery, absurdity, and laughter. She believes that mandatory personal lampooners would greatly benefit humanity. -
While studying acting in NYC Nicole worked side jobs to get by—artist model, stripper, and bar back. So it goes.
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Nadia is a seeker of beauty, the overlapping edges of harmony and dissonance, and the perfect - PERFECT - cup of chai tea.
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Alice Shechter is constantly shocked at how far down she has to scroll before hitting her birth year.
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Ruth Ann Dandrea is a morning poet, an afternoon storyteller, and a full-time grandmother, and loving it all.
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Things Lou loves: dogs, the Sunday paper, that patient someone who listens, happy delusions. Things Lou doesn't love: too much reality.
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Georgi Dwiggins is a writer and end-of-life doula living in Portland, Oregon. She finds purpose working with people, memory, and stories.
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Marco Romantini is a Milwaukee-based artist, activist, and arts educator, who apparently also writes things in his free time.
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Rhiannon spends half the year teaching and the other half road-tripping, doing circus arts, and cuddling her feral cat.
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Tim Tomlinson lays down all thoughts and surrenders to the void. It is shining, shining.
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Jeffrey S, Markovitz is laboriously completing the AT one state at a time. In between, he teaches, parents, and writes.
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J.A. Caldwell lives in and writes about the weird and magical South. She labors over every word. Drinks all the coffee.
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Natalie is an ostensibly human software engineer who lives in Boston with her cat.
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Rachel Hope Crossman, ex-fry cook, ex-substitute teacher, and retired Montessori teacher, hopes to visit Narnia, Middle Earth, and Mars one day.
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Davonna Thomas is a permanently exhausted yet forever grateful teacher of writing. She loves storytelling in all its forms.
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Karla is a writer from Germany with a passion for good books, roaming the outdoors and meeting friendly animals.
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Ellen Lager's passions are family and grandkids, Labrador retrievers, short-hair cats, bee-friendly gardening, peaches, chipmunks, pines, hiking, kayaking, cabins, and campfires.
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Eva Sweeney is an 18-year-old, nonbinary, Massachusetts-based poet. Their work focuses on their personal experiences and struggles with mental health.
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Fhionna is currently studying for her MA in Creative Writing. Her stories have been long-listed and short-listed several times.
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Garrett Ellsworth-Spotton is a writer based out of Montreal, Canada. He believes that rebellion is the purest human act.
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Shoshauna loves hanging out with trees, books, cats, her husband, and chocolate—preferably all at the same time.
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Geoff Wales is a former aerospace engineer turned kiteboarding instructor and fiction writer.
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Laura loves reading true crime and red wine. In her spare time she's biking with her husband or laying with Ladybug.
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Keith Huettenmoser is a poet and prose writer from the mountains of New Jersey.
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T.E. Hahn is either playing Minecraft with his 6-year-old or writing his dissertation.
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Annalise Goeke finds a bit of danger thrilling. Examples? Boxing, solo-hiking, fast cars, and submitting poetry no one else has read.
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Taylor Stoneman is a backpacking poet who sometimes performs legal work. She enjoys observing birds, trees, and sea lions.
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Susan hears poetry while hiking, channels songs during emotional moments, and coaches young writers with assistance from her lively inner child.
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I love crows, their understated beauty and feisty intelligence. They appear in my poetry and artwork an amazing number of times.
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Jose Varghese is a bilingual writer and translator from India. He is the chief editor of Lakeview Journal and Strands Publishers.
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John was president of his high school student council and never again sought office. His garage is his kingdom.
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Today, Dan Reilly might be falling off his mountain bike doing wheelies or connecting the lost and forgotten to present emotions.
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Clara Mae Barnhart is bad at writing bios. Her dogs would say she's pretty cool, shares her food, loves long walks.
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Alan takes pride in his hominid ancestors. From out the hole in his head, he—hearken now—speaks.
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Azriel Cervantes is a writer, designer, and unapologetic pepper head who thinks Carolina Reapers are mild.
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Julie Le Blanc is a speculative fiction nerd with a love for languages, crafts, and Broadway musicals.
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Weigel creates art in an interdimensional portal under the stairs in semi-rural Kansas; she also documents her horror sightings for posterity.
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Emily is a person of motion. She loves moving, mainly outside, where she experiences life and thinks about words.
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Ai Jiang loves buying more books than she can read and collecting way too many pens.
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Christa lives in the shadow of the Catalina Mountain range of Tucson where writing, hiking and dancing make her heart sing.
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Tifara is a country girl who loves writing, fishing and protesting racism regularly!
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Aaron was born in Wilkes-Barre, PA, and appeared in a commercial for hair extensions. Writing was the obvious next step.
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From deep presence with marginalized people to living on an island floating in the Salish Sea, Cynthia extracts powerful poetic stories.
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Rafaella can honestly say that she did not improve her baking skills during quarantine.
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Olivia is a social justice supporter, feminist, book-lover, beach-lover, theatre-lover, non-pandemic traveler, and dog-wrangler.
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Frankie loves a window filled with sunrise, a cup of cafe Bustelo, and his son dancing to Sesame Street.
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When author Maurice Ruffin called Christy dark and weird, it was one of the best days of her life.
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Jeremy A. Wall is an educator, musician, and writer living in New York's Hudson Valley.
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Tracy Wetzel is a klutz who is surprisingly graceful with a pen. (Don't ask her 3 am notes, though.)
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Roselili Vargas is a writer, lover of words, educator, and believer in magic.
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Adina tutors teens and edits fiction for all ages. She's thrilled she's no longer in school.
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Rick Krizman has done everything on the list except #15, because what responsible father would jump out of an airplane?
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Freed from the constraints of expository writing, Farrar is thriving in the vineyard of creative writing.
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Taylor Leigh Harper writes in Southern California. She loves nothing more than an ice cold Coca-Cola and her two cats.
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Nancy L. Davis once hiked the Grand Canyon, raced the Slalom, mastered back-flip dives. Now, she performs language-based stunts.
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Claire Champommier owes $5.20 to her local library and owns no erasers. Her work has appeared in Otis Nebula.
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Helen Beer sells for a living. She writes, mucks stalls, and eats ice cream to maintain some semblance of sanity.
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Summer Hammond is of the tribe of lonely girls, who read books in trees, alone with the leaves and sky.
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Caffeinated, loquacious, Epicurean fueled by pinot noir, yoga, travel, baking, nature. Inspired by RBG, Mary Shelley, Myrna Loy, and family.
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Each week Larry Brown shakes and stumbles his way through 9 holes of golf and always comes back for more.
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Judith's Women's Studies students lovingly called her The Judenator and her colleagues called her Hurricane Judith.
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Alexandra Weiss just wants to write poems that feel like undated entries in a phone notes app.
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When not writing, Abiola studies pop culture. Her nickname is IMDb because of her encyclopedic recollection of actors' roles.
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Jennifer Lagier is a retired college instructor/librarian and former California Poets in the Schools teacher and area coordinator.
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Katherine West loves to combine her poetry with her art and those of other artists in Silver City, New Mexico.
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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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A composer's son, music seeded his youth. But Fate gifted him a life in words, in New York, then Santa Fe.
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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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Sophie Kamryn 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 stage, with poems and stories of food, family, and strong women.
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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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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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