Keigh Ahr (Dark Safari) is a phonetic spelling of the initials for Ken Rogers, a writer in Northeast Ohio. His fiction has appeared in Permafrost, CommuterLit, and Corner Bar Magazine. His journalism has appeared in Freshwater Cleveland, WISH Cleveland, and Voices from the Edge, a collection of essays by workers in front-line industries during the COVID-19 pandemic. A graduate of Northwestern University and Loyola University of Chicago, he is now an active member of Literary Cleveland. More of his work can be found at keighahr.substack.com/.
Pulkita Anand (Language is not able to bind everything) is an avid reader of poetry. Author of two children’s e-books, her eco-poetry collection is we were not born to be erased. Her creative works have been published in various journal, magazine and anthologies: Winc Magazine (Issue 1, 2, 5 &7), Stanza Cannon, Superpresent, Muse,Madwomen in the Attic, Poetica#11 &12, NCTE, Carmina Magazine, Origami Press, Asiatic, Inanna Publication, Bronze Bird Books, New Verse News, Hakara Journal, Green Verse: An anthology of poems for our planet (Saraband Publication), Comparative Women, State of Matter, Convergence anthology (selected), MAI and elsewhere. She has been working on her poetry collection. For her poetry is the only solace in this chaotic world.
JG Annino’s (Posting a letter to a student) creative writing degree is from Hollins. Her lyrical book, She Sang Promise, created in coordination with The Seminole Tribe of Florida, was selected by the Library of Congress/ for the U.S. National Book Festival, A veteran Florida guide author, JG has also left her heart in Bulgaria, Canada, Costa Rica, Italy & also at the summits of Mt. Katahdin & Mt. LaConte/US. She is a doodler, photographer & with her wonderful hubby, grows figs & lemons.
Stephen Bridge (Two Poems by Stephen Bridge) is from Vermont in the northeastern U.S. He first went to Tokushima, Japan to teach English in high schools in 1989, and after three decades of teaching in the U.S., is back in Japan, this time at Tokyo International University, teaching mostly freshman
reading and writing courses. He has self-published a book of poetry, “Postcards from Roadkillville” and a graded reader (“Wild Pizza!”) on the Xreading online extensive reading platform.
Luigi Coppola (The Elephant In The Exam Hall) poetry, music, rum and coke. Southbank Centre’s New Poets Collective 23/24, Poetry Archive Worldview winner, Bridport Prize shortlist, Ledbury & National Poetry Competition longlist, he produces music as ‘The Only Emperor’and has a debut collection due Summer 2025 from Broken Sleep Books in collaboration with the artist Mark Shuttleworth. – www.LinkTr.ee/LuigiCoppola –
Zary Fekete (1979, Hungary) grew up in Hungary. He worked as a teacher for 20 years in Eastern Europe and East Asia. He now lives in Minnesota with his wife and two boys. He has a debut novella (Words on the Page) out with DarkWinter Lit Press and a short story collection (To Accept the Things I Cannot Change: Writing My Way Out of Addiction) out with Creative Texts. He enjoys books, podcasts, and many many many films. Twitter and Instagram: @ZaryFekete Bluesky:zaryfekete.bsky.social
Sarah Jane Gilliam (The Ellipsis) is an Appalachian writer and Assistant Professor of English from the rural Southwest Virginia town of Big Stone Gap. When she isn’t writing, you can find her hunting for river glass and fossils in mountain creek beds with her 9-year-old son. Her previous work can be read in Jimson Weed, Still: The Journal, and Suburban Witchcraft Magazine. She received a 2024 Pushcart Prize nomination for her short fiction piece, “The Easter Jesus.”
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Ian Goh (An Ode to a Young Lady Sitting for her O-Level Examinations) writes about games, pop culture, and wabi-sabi stuff. His work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Star*Line, Asimov’s, and elsewhere. He’s currently doing his best Jack Sparrow impersonation as a Scriptwriter at Ubisoft, and is a strong advocate for educating the wider community on the craft of game writing.
Jaipreet Grover (Game Of Words) holds a Masters degree in Human Resource Management. She has anexcellent academic record both at school and college level. At present, she is working as a teacher in a renowned school in Pune, India. As an educationist, she has been appreciated for her creative work and innovative teaching aids. She was bestowed with the Teachers’ Recognition Award in 2019. She loves to pen down her thoughts in the form form of motivational and message-driven poems. Her work has been appreciated and published in national and international platforms, e-zines, and a school magazine. For her, learning is a continuous process and she keeps add medley in varied spheres.
Ellen Head is the author of Lesson in Jing’ an Park.
William Heath (Lit Crit) has published four poetry books: The Walking Man, Steel Valley Elegy, Going Places, Alms for Oblivion; three chapbooks: Night Moves in Ohio, Leaving Seville, Inventing the Americas; three novels: The Children Bob Moses Led (winner of the Hackney Award), Devil Dancer, Blacksnake’s Path; a history, William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest (winner of two Spur Awards and the Oliver Hazard Perry Award); a book of interviews, Conversations with Robert Stone. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Hiram College. He lives in Annapolis. www.williamheathbooks.com
SR (Salvatore Richard) Inciardi (Catapult) was born in New York City and attended Brooklyn College and New York University. He was employed in the health care industry in New York and New Jersey for over thirty-five years. He has been a writer of poetry from his time at Brooklyn College where he was influenced by David Lehman and John Ashbery, both professors of English while he attended the school. Since retiring, he has published an initial book of poetry entitled “Coloring Outside the Edges” in the Fall of 2022. A second book of poetry was then published after the sudden and tragic loss of his 37-year-old son, due to influenza and pneumonia, who was married with two young daughters. This book, entitled “The Aroma of Thawing, Poems on Grief and Recovery”, was published in an effort to assist others going through the intense and devastating loss of a loved one. Drawing upon the “aroma” theme, he has published another poetry book on grieving, loss, and hope. His most recent release, “The Aroma of Lilac, Poems on Hope and Healing After Loss”, first appeared on Amazon in May 2024. SR Inciardi’s poetry has appeared in the USA and in Europe in various online and print magazines. His writing has appeared in Front Porch Review, SpillWords, Green Ink Poetry, and other places. He was a featured poet in Spillwords’ “Spotlight on Writers” segment and was just accepted by Green Ink Poetry for their publication on “Kennings: Equinox Collections: Autumn” released on Amazon in October 2024. He was a contributor to Newsweek for their “My Turn” segment which appeared in September 2024. SR Inciardi has been married since 1978 and has one married adult child and four grandchildren.
Ron Jevaltas (Two Poems by Ron Jevaltas) lives in rural Wisconsin. He has been teaching elementary, middle school, and high school for 41 years. He’s been recently published in the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Calendar for 2023, and in the latest three issues of The Moss Piglet. He is an avid outdoorsman.
Margaret Karmazin’s (The Correction) credits include stories published in literary and SF magazines, including Rosebud, Chrysalis Reader, North Atlantic Review, Mobius, Confrontation, Spank the Carp, Pennsylvania Review, The Speculative Edge, Aphelion, AnotherRealm and The Rabbit Hole. Her stories in The MacGuffin, Eureka Literary Magazine, Yuan Yang: A Journal of Hong Kong, Licking River Review and Mobius were nominated for Pushcart awards. Her stories have been published in, beside the US and Canada, Australia, UK, Germany, South Africa, India and Romania. She is also an artist with work in several literary and national magazines, including SageWoman, The Adirondack Review, The MacGuffin, Moonday Magazine, Persimmon Tree and Chestnut Review.
Sreekanth Kopuri Ph.D. (ROTTELA PANDUGA, a festival of breads) is an Indian poet from Machilipatnam. He is the Current poetry editor for The AutoEthnographer Journal Florida, Writer in Residence, and a Professor of English. He is a pushcart nominee for 2023. He recited his poetry in Oxford, John Hopkins, Heinrich Heine, Caen, Banja Luka, and many. His poems appeared in Two Thirds North, Arkansan Review, San Antonio Review, Tulsa Review, Vayavya, Nebraska Writers Guild, Poetry San Jose, , to mention a few. His forthcoming book From an Indian Diary is the finalist for the Eyelands Book Award 2022, Athens. His book Poems of the Void was the winner of Golden Book of the year 2022. https://theautoethnographer.com/author/sreekanthkopuri/
Grace Mai Kwai (At Home) is a biracial arts student based in Toronto, Canada. She is passionate about oil painting, fiction writing, and poetry. She aspires to become a full-time writer one day. For now, she waitresses at two restaurants and works on her novels and other artistic projects when she is off the clock. Her short stories and poetry can be found in Pulse Magazine, Petal Projections, and the Spiritus Mundi Review.
Glen Loveland is the author of Banana Coconut Epiphanies: Adventures in Mandarin Martyrdom
Dianne Loyet is contributor of The Font’s regular column, In Love with Language. She was born and raised in Illinois, and became determined to study languages at the age of nine when her much older brother told her she was a ‘mala puella,’ and refused to explain what it meant. That determination carried her through bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Russian at the University of Illinois in Champaign. She briefly taught Russian but then switched to TESOL, earning an MA from UCLA and a PhD from New York University. She has been teaching composition to advanced non-native speakers of English since 1993. Currently she is an adjunct instructor at the University of Illinois at Springfield Intensive English Program.
Paweł Markiewicz (Germany in the Nighttime) was born 1983 in Siemiatycze in Poland. He is poet who lives in Bielsk Podlaski and writes tender poems, haiku as well as long poems. Paweł has published his poetries in many magazines. He writes in English and German.
Meredith McLean (Vending Machine) is an Australian writer based in Japan. She teaches English classes for all levels as well as Executive Language and Leadership coaching for intermediate to advanced level Japanese executive professionals. Between ten years’ experience in marketing and lifestyle magazine publishing, she tries to find time to use her qualifications in viticulture, and occasionally plays the drums at very forgiving local bars. You can find her work published in various magazines such as Aniko Press, The AU Review, Froth Beer Mag and Concrescence. She resides in a shoebox apartment in Tokyo but diligently tries to visit another part of the Kanto region every fortnight.
Daniel Puzzo (Teaching Terminology) grew up in Europe, the UK and the US, and started teaching English in 2005. After stints in western Ukraine, Basque Country, Latvia and Kyrgyzstan, he moved [back] to Ukraine in 2010 where he taught at the British Council Kyiv until 2023. In February 2022 he left Ukraine and now lives in Vienna with his family (permanently?). He has published two books, his first being A Classroom in Kyiv: Life Lessons for English Learners, and he’s at work on a few more. He also writes a Substack newsletter – find out more on his site: danielpuzzo.com/
Rick K. Reut (Around a Word) was born in 1984, in the USSR. He studied philosophy at EHU in Minsk, Belarus, and literature at Saint Petersburg State University, Russia. For most of his life after graduation, he has worked as a translator and a tutor of English as a foreign language.
Muhammad Khurram Salim (The Toy Camel) 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.
David Sheskin (An Alphabetized Archive of Alliteration) is a writer and artist who has been published extensively over the years. Most recently his work has appeared in The Dalhousie Review, The Satirist, Chicago Quarterly Review, Tamarind, Shenandoah and The Journal of Irreproducible Results. His most recent books are Art That Speaks, David Sheskin’s Cabinet of Curiosities and Outrageous Wedding Announcements. A former university professor, he is the author of The Handbook of Parametric and Nonparametric Statistical Procedures.
Kalina Smith (One Good Friend) is “mostly” a poet, but her fiction and creative nonfiction have also been published. She is a high school English teacher in Arkansas where she is responsible for many courses, including creative writing. Kalina has previously been published in Nebo, A Literary Journal, Free Spirit, The Ignatian, FLARE: The Flagler Review, and the Cackling Kettle. She is forthcoming in ONE ART: A Journal of Poetry and RedRoseThorns.
Meredith Stephens (Bon Voyage) is an applied linguist from South Australia. Her recent work has appeared in Sage-ing: The Journal of Creative Aging, The Muse, Borderless, Syncopation Literary Journal, MockingOwl Roost Blog, MindBrainEd Think Tanks, Ultramarine Literary Review, and The Writers’ Journal. In 2024, her short story Safari featured as the Editor’s Choice in the June edition of All Your Stories. In 2022, with Yudai Aoki, she received the Michelle Steele Best of JALT award for Extensive Reading.
Maniku Jein (Find Uniqueness) call me Jian, I was born in Samarinda, East Borneo, Indonesia and ‘ve been teaching English to Indonesian students since 2016. Now, I am working as English Lecturer at Prisma University Manado and have small business in Education Course. I love music, art, and literature. I enjoy teaching kids and writing poems or story. Find me at https://facebook.com/Jlyn31
Ervita Carolina Tania (Mama) was born in Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. I’ve been teaching English to Indonesian students since 2011, and currently working as English lecturer at Prisma University Manado. I love literature and enjoy writing poems as much as reading them. Find me at prisma.ac.id/profile/ervita-tania/profile.
G.M.H. Thompson (The Doorman) teaches ESL in Los Angeles currently, but last year taught in Chengdu, China, & the year before that taught in Ha Noi, Viet Nam. G.M.H. Thompson’s first collection of poems, Yard Sale at the Devil’s Petting Zoo, was published by Spartan Press of Kansas City in 2018. In 2020, G.M.H. Thompson was nominated for a Pushcart. In 2023, G.M.H. Thompson self-published a collection of 100 full-colour illustrated sonnets on Amazon entitled Quetzalcoatl: https://wwwamazon.com/dp/B0CH2CXSM7. In 2024, G.M.H. Thompson was nominated for Best of the Net.
N.H. Van Der Haar (El Camino Real) is an autistic, queer writer who recently completed his master’s at the University of Melbourne. Previous work can be read at Antithesis Magazine and Farrago Magazine. He enjoys brisk walks, birds and watching other people. He can be found online on Instagram: @nic_noc_nac.
is a writer and educator living in Egypt. She enjoys teaching philosophy, language, and literature. Her writing has appeared in Protocols and Positive Feedback.