Angela Acosta, Ph.D. (Fluency) is an Assistant Professor of Spanish Contemporary Literature and Culture at the University of South Carolina. She is a 2022 Dream Foundry Contest for Emerging Writers Finalist and 2015 Rhina P. Espaillat Award winner. Her Rhysling nominated speculative poetry has appeared in Star*Line, Apparition Lit, Radon Journal, and Space & Time. She is author of Summoning Space Travelers (Hiraeth Publishing, 2022) and A Belief in Cosmic Dailiness (Red Ogre Review, 2023). She has published articles on Spanish modernism in Persona Studies, Ámbitos Feministas, and Feminist Modernist Studies.
Farrukh Amirov 
(My literary portrait) was born in 2004 in the Jizzakh region of Uzbekistan. He graduated from the Faculty of Uzbek Language and Literature of the Jizzakh State Pedagogical University.
Guillermo Bowie (Columbia University) is a Chilean trained poet as he began writing while doing his first M.A. under the direction of Chilean poet Enrique A. Giordano, studied with Chilean poet Nicanor Parra during his second M.A., and after attending Harvard did doctoral studies with Harvard graduate Chilean poetry anthologizer Juan A. Epple. His work has been published in Maryland Literary Review, Maryland’s Academy Of The Heart And Mind, Grey Sparrow Journal, Children, Churches, And Daddies, The Gorko Gazette, Book Of Matches, Fowl Feathered Review, Pulsebeat Literary Journal, Blue Collar Review, forthcoming in Australia’s Other Terrain, Arrhythmia Magazine, Shoe Gaze Literary, The Wise Owl, Heavy Crown Press, Speculative Stories, The Argyle Literary Magazine, and INNSAEI Journal.
Monal Dewle (City – Shehar) is a citizen of India. She has been brought up in Nagpur and at present she lives in Delhi. She is working as an Assistant Professor and loves to read and write poetry.
Ian Douglas Robertson (The New Teacher) is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin. He lives and works in Athens, Greece, as a teacher, actor and translator. He has had a number of poems and short stories published in online and print magazines as well as three books of non-fiction in collaboration with his wife Katerina. He has also recently published several novels, available on Amazon, including Break, Break, Break, Under the Olive Tree, The Frankenstein Legacy, On the Side of the Angels, The Reluctant Messiah and The Adventures of Jackie and Jovie. His novel The Return of the Dissolute Son was published in August 2024. His latest novel A Meeting of Minds will be published in 2026. www.iandouglasrobertson.com
Joanne Durham (Learning to Read) 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.
Titus Green (Split Shift Memories) 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.
Paul Hostovsky (Die Beiden) is a sign language interpreter and Braille instructor living in Boston. His poems have won a Pushcart Prize, two Best of the Net Awards, and have been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and The Writer’s Almanac. Website: paulhostovsky.com
Ron Jevaltas (Still Teaching) 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.
Muhammad Khurram Salim (An Arab Tune) 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.
Jared Michael Kubokawa (What Race Do You Speak) 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.
Greg Li (On Domestic Student Privilege) is a Chinese Australian writer living in Melbourne. He is interested in long form creative nonfiction and fictional novel writing. His focus includes racism, social injustice, and lives of others. After completing a Bachelor’s degree at the University of Melbourne, he is now doing a Master of Teaching at Australian Catholic University.
Sherri Moshman-Paganos (The Little Silver Tray) grew up in the Washington DC area and taught English as a second language before moving to Athens Greece in 1983. In Athens she taught secondary and college level English language and literature for 35 years at the American College of Greece. She has published poetry and prose in a number of literary journals and is the author of a teaching memoir, Miss I wish you a bed of roses: Teaching Secondary School English in Greece. She has turned her love for her adopted country into a travel blog, which can be found at https://olivesandislands.home.
James Mulhern’s (Longing) writing has appeared in literary journals over two hundred and fifty times and has been recognized with many awards. In 2015, Mr. Mulhern was granted a fully paid writing fellowship to Oxford University. A story was longlisted for the Fish Short Story Prize that same year. In 2017, he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Two of his novels were Finalists for the United Kingdom’s Wishing Shelf Book Awards. His novel, Give Them Unquiet Dreams, was a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year. He was shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2020 for his poetry. He is an English professor at Atlantic Technical College and Broward College in South Florida.
K.V. RAGHUPATHI (Strumming the Guitar by the Lakeside on a Summer Evening) has been widely published and anthologised in print and online journals in India and abroad. He is a former academic, poet, short story writer, novelist, critic, columnist, and book reviewer, K.V. Raghupathi lives in Tirupati (India) and is actively engaged in writing. He can be reached at drkvraghupathi9@gmail.com
Catherine Payne (A Letter to Shakespeare) 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
Dr. Ratan Ghosh (Mrs. Jennings), a luminary in the realm of Bharatiya Bi-Lingual literature, stands as a distinguished addition to the Advisory Board of Panorama International Literature Festival (PILF) 2024. A passionate and prolific author, editor, and academician, Dr. Ghosh has left an indelible mark on the literary landscape. His creative expressions, spanning various genres, have garnered acclaim not only nationally but across the globe.
Partha Sarkar (A journey with no episodes), a resident of Ichapur, a small town of a province West Bengal of India, a graduate writes poems being inspired by his the late Sankar Sarkar And his friends (especially Deb kumar Khan) to protest against the social
injustice and crime against nature. His poems have been in different magazines
Both in Bangla and in English. At once, he would believe in revolution but now
He is confused because of obscurity of human beings though he keeps fire in
soul despite.
David Sheskin (Organization Accreditation) 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.
Meredith Stephens (Miss Stepney Green) 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.
Dr. Ernest Williamson III, PhD, (cover art: joueur-de-trombone-
Craig Wilson’s (The Ivory Tower) published works include ABOUT THE DANCE FLOOR, THE CLOCK (Black Petals 2013), DEMONIC SNAKE (Blood Moon Rising 2013), and THE ABANDONED HOSPITAL (Home Sweet Horror Volume 1 2024). He posts dream stories on his blog, Father of the Demon 2.0. He posts comics and poetry on Pessimist Press.
Terry Trowbridge (
A Life Imitates a Character from Middlemarch) 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.