Seán Carlson (Pine needle tea in the home of a writer who disappeared) is working on his first book, a family memoir of migration. His essays and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in the Irish Independent, the Irish Times, New England Review, Oxford Review of Books, Trasna, and elsewhere. For more information and to join his email newsletter: https://www.seancarlson.com/

Yuan Changming (Tutorials) grew up in an isolated village, started to learn the English alphabet in Shanghai at 19 and published several monographs on translation before leaving China. With a Canadian PhD in English, Yuan currently lives in Vancouver, where he edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan. Credits include 15 chapbooks, 12 Pushcart nominations for poetry and 2 for fiction besides appearances in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17), BestNewPoemsOnline and 2069 other publications across 51 countries. A poetry judge for Canada’s 44th National Magazine Awards, Yuan began writing and publishing fiction in 2022.

Arthur Davenport (The Ranting Pen) is a poet and singer-songwriter. His songs have been featured on National Public Radio.  He writes lyrical, scientific and humorous poems, introspective ruminations, tall tales, nursery rhymes, and odes to nature.  Many were written for poetic therapy, to help overcome tragedy in life.  Here is his hompage:   <http://www.arthurdavenport.com/>

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Joanne Durham (Poetry Lesson: Grade 6) was a classroom teacher, reading/language arts supervisor, adjunct professor, and literary consultant K-12 for over 25 years. After retiring, she now happily writes and teaches poetry online and in person in Wilmington, North Carolina, USA. She is the author of To Drink from a Wider Bowl, winner of the Sinclair Poetry Prize (Evening Street Press 2022) and a chapbook, On Shifting Shoals (Kelsay Books 2023). Her poetry appears across the English-speaking world, including in Dodging the Rain and DUO Anthology (UK), Love in the Time of COVID Chronicles (New Zealand), The Sailor’s Review (Zimbabwe), Eunoia Review (Singapore), and many journals and anthologies in the US. She lives on the Atlantic coast of the United States, with the ocean as her backyard and muse. Visit her at https://www.joannedurham.com.

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Vern Fein (VITO) is a recent octogenarian, and a retired Special Education teacher for teens, Vern Fein, has published  over 300 poems and short prose pieces in over 100 different sites. A few are: Gyroscope Review, Young Raven’s Review, Bindweed, *82 Review, River And South, Grey Sparrow Journal, and Uppagus magazine.  His second poetry book—REFLECTION ON DOTS—was just released. His Muse is the entire world of poetry.

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Titus Green (Chaos in the Viral Panopticon) was born in Canada but grew up in the UK. His fiction, non-fiction and prose poetry have appeared in The Collidescope, Adelaide Literary Magazine, The Bosphorus Review of Books, HORLA, Literally Stories, Sediments Literary Arts, Fear of Monkeys, Nalubaale Review, Stag Hill Literary Journal, The Chamber, S.A.V.A Press, The Rye Whiskey Review, Empty Sink Publishing, The Font and Close to the Bone Publishing (forthcoming). He teaches English as a foreign language for a living.

Hardy Jones, Ph,D. (The Nicest Christian in Korea) is a certified teacher with twenty-seven years of teaching experience. Dr. Jones is a two-time Pushcart Nominee in fiction and nonfiction. He is the author of the novels Every Bitter Thing, International Love Supreme, the memoirs People of the Good God, Resurrection of Childhood, and the story collection Coconuts and Crawfish. He is the co-author of the memoirs Wal-Mart Girl, When I was a Child, and A True Story of Child Labor. His creative nonfiction won two grants. His stories were anthologized in the 2009 Dogzplot Flash Fiction Anthology, The Best of Clapboard House Literary Journal, Southern Gothic: New Tales of the South, and Summer Shorts II. Dr. Jones holds a Ph, D. in American Literature from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Memphis, a M.A.T. in Secondary English Education from the University of New Orleans, and a Bachelor’s Degree in English with a minor in German from Louisiana State University.

Jared Michael Kubokawa (April in Sibu) is currently an assistant professor in the department of humanities and social sciences at Aichi University in Japan and has been working as an EFL teacher for the past 15 years in Japan, Malaysia, Italy, Ukraine, and Abu Dhabi. His research interests include second language writing, second language creative writing, multilingual/translingual creativity, learner and teacher agency, and teacher education. He has published academic research, creative writing, and journalistic articles in various international journals and websites. More information on Jared can be found here: https://jaredkubokawa.wordpress.com.

From associate professor of English to management trainer to retiree, Carolyn Martin (Three Poems) is a lover of gardening and snorkeling, feral cats and backyard birds, writing and photography. Since the only poem she wrote in high school was red-penciled “extremely maudlin,” Carolyn is amazed she has continued to write. Her poems have appeared in more than 200 journals throughout North America, Australia, and the UK. For more, go to www.carolynmartinpoet.com.

Catherine Payne (The Specter of Peer Review) guides young writers on Guam, the Pacific island where she was born and raised. She teaches composition as an adjunct instructor at the University of Guam. She also tutors middle and high school students. In her free time, she writes children’s books. She loves to connect with readers and writers on Instagram @cathyapayne

Laurie Kuntz’s  (Compostion) poetry books are: That Infinite Roar, Gyroscope Press, Talking Me Off The Roof, Kelsay Books, The Moon Over My Mother’s House, Finishing Line Press,  Simple Gestures, Texas Review Press, Women at the Onsen, Blue Light Press, and Somewhere in the Telling, Mellen Press. Simple Gestures, won Texas Review’s  Chapbook Contest, and Women at the Onsen won  Blue Light Press’s Chapbook Contest.   She’s been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes and won a Pushcart Prize in 2024. She has also been nominated for  two Best of the Net Prizes.  Her work has been published in Gyroscope Review, Roanoke Review, Third Wednesday, One Art, Sheila Na Gig, and other journals.  More at:

https://lauriekuntz.myportfolio.com/home-1

Michael Moreth (Cover art: Matchless) is a recovering Chicagoan living in the rural, micropolitan City of Sterling, the Paris of Northwest Illinois USA.

Kevin Ramsden (The Observer) was born in London, England, in 1959, although he has also lived, worked and studied in several different countries over the course of his sixty three years. For the past thirty of these, he has resided in Kyoto, Japan, and has taught English and various other subject matter at all levels of the Japanese education system. He is currently serving as a professor in the Department of Global Studies at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, where he is also the Deputy-Director of the Community Engagement Center. Married with two grown sons, he has a very happy home life, in which he pursues his twin passions of reading and writing. His other interests include reggae music, the various sauvignon blancs of New Zealand, and complaining about the performances of West Ham United football club.

Debra Rymer (Twelve Names for Sugar) has taught English for 26 years, first at Northern Lights College and later in New York City public schools.  Teaching English as a New Language has provided many opportunities to better understand how languages adapt to cultural shifts and how cognates reveal our overlapping histories.  Her writing has been featured in Passionfruit Review, Rez, The Idiom, Blue Angel Landing volumes I and II, and will soon appear in Frontier Journal of Women’s Studies as well as The Font.  Ms. Rymer lives in the Bronx where she practices speaking Spanish, and writing poems in English.  She’s a dual citizen of the US and Canada.

Muhammad Khurram Salim (As the Town Slept) was born on the 23rd of June, 1967, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. I started taking an interest in writing when I was a child and wrote poems and short stories for the Bangladesh Observer newspaper, from 1977 to 1985. I was awarded a silver medal in Shankar’s Children’s Competition of India (1983) for a short story I wrote. I have been published in various anthologies and magazines, over the years. I take a keen interest in writing stories and novels, poetry and plays and essays too. Many of my writings have been published, online, over the years. I have lived in the U.K. most of my life, but have spent some of my years studying and writing in Bangladesh and the USA too. Writing and creativity make my life most enjoyable.

Ralph James Savarese (My Greatest Moment as a Teacher) taught in Poland in the late-80s and early-90s when the world turned upside down. He teaches at Grinnell College in Iowa and is the author of three books of poetry and three books of prose.

Meredith Stephens (Contract Discombobulation) is an applied linguist from South Australia. Her recent work has appeared in Syncopation Literary Journal, Agape Review. The Blue Mountain Review, Continue the Voice, and MockingOwl Roost blog. In 2022, with Yudai Aoki, she received the Michelle Steele Best of JALT Award for Extensive Reading. In 2024 her stories were featured as the Editor’s Choice for the June edition of All Your Stories.

M. Benjamin Thorne (Chimeras) is an Associate Professor of Modern European History at Wingate University. Possessed of a lifelong love of history and poetry, he is interested in exploring the synergy between the two. His poems appear or are forthcoming in Sky Island Journal, Cathexis Northwest, Griffel, The Westchester Review, Feral, and Gyroscope Review. He lives and sometimes sleeps in Charlotte, NC.

Terry Trowbridge (Crib Notes for an Asparagmental Poetics Intro Course) has been a university teaching assistant for 17 years, and is currently a plum farmer. He is grateful to the Ontario Arts Council for his first writing grant.