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CONTRIBUTORS
Gina Easton is a former registered nurse from Toronto, Canada who decided to pursue her long-time dream of writing as a
profession. Her debut horror novel, Black Jack, was released by World Castle Publishing in late December 2020. A second
novel, a supernatural romance, came out in May 2021.
Michael Boyd grew up in Southern Africa – between Zimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa – before moving to the UK. He was
the director and curator of the longest-running African film festival in the UK, the Cambridge African Film Festival. He has taught
around South Africa and Kenya and now lives and works in Johannesburg.
Stacey R. Forbes lives in Tucson, Arizona and writes professionally for Roche Diagnostics, serving a mission to improve the lives
of cancer patients in creative leadership roles. Her poem “Speaking of trees” won first place in the 2021 Plough Poetry Prize
judged by Roger McGough.
Janet Howard is an emerging writer from Central Brittany, France. She began writing seriously in 2020 and is currently
working on a book of short stories.
Adam Tamashasky is a senior professorial lecturer at American University in Washington DC. His work has appeared most
recently in the international anthology Singing in the Dark: A Global Anthology of Poetry Under Lockdown, published by
Penguin. You can read more of his work at adamtamashasky.com.
Mark Jabaut is a playwright and author living in Webster NY. Mark’s plays include IN THE TERRITORIES which premiered in
May 2014. Visit him at www.markjabaut.com.
Samuel Reifler is a grumpy old guy who lives in the Hudson River Valley. His fiction has appeared in Esquire, New Directions,
Harper's Bazaar and other magazines. His novella, "October Snow," was published by Pressed Wafer.
Sabina Perez lives in western Canada and is a former researcher with a PhD in Chemistry and a passion for Formula 1 racing.
She has been published in Bloomberg Businessweek and The Irish Times and has completed her first adult mystery manuscript.
Vanessa Frank is a poet and radio personality who lives on a mountain in Colorado. She has a BFA in dramaturgy from
Carnegie Mellon University.
Michael Summerleigh lives in rural Ontario, Canada. He has previously published work in several journals and in the last few
years he's placed mainstream stories online with cc&d magazine (Scars.tv), Scarlet Leaf Review, Literary Yard, and more.
Gerard Sarnat won San Francisco Poetry’s 2020 Contest, Poetry in Arts First Place Award/Dorfman Prizes. He has been
nominated for Pushcarts/Best of Net Awards, Gerry is published in many journals and magazines including the Vonnegut
Journal, Brooklyn Review, San Francisco Magazine, LA Review and NY Times.
Pradeep Sen lives in Hyderabad, India. After spending twenty years as a corporate executive, he took to writing after retirement.
Pradeep loves music- from Brahms to the Beatles- to Indian Classical music and is married with a son and daughter.
Dee Artea is a retired professor from Winnipeg, USA for whom the act of writing ever entails amusement and gratification.
Glen Armstrong holds an MFA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and edits a poetry journal called Cruel
Garters. He has three current books of poems: Invisible Histories, The New Vaudeville, and Midsummer.
Gary McClain Gannaway is a retired English teacher from Austin, Texas, who concentrates mostly on screenplays, one of
which he produced entitled (very misleadingly) Virgin Cheerleaders in Chains is now available on Amazon Prime. He is married
with three grown sons.
Hadley-James Hoyles is a poet, musician and teacher from North Yorkshire, who bases much of his work on the relationship
between the landscape and the psyche, the echoes of the ancient peoples of Northern England, and the impact of the natural
world on the individual lives and actions of select characters. His debut pamphlet was released in March 2021.
