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CONTRIBUTORS
David Dumouriez is a chap without a chapbook, a poet without a pedigree. His collected works are freely available for burglars and
hackers.
Lorie Greenspan is publishing director at a Florida book publishing company. Prior to 2015, she was a newspaper editor in New Jersey for
more than thirty years. Her poems have been inspired by the death in April 2020 of her husband of twenty years following a long illness.
She also has written a middle-grade fantasy novel that she hopes to publish this year (2022).
Edward Lee has had poetry, short stories, non-fiction and photography published in magazines in Ireland, England and America,
including The Stinging Fly, Skylight 47, Acumen, The Blue Nib and Poetry Wales. He is currently working on a novel.
Jim Pratzon has recorded ten books for the New York Public Library. He has presented his poetry at the 92 St Y, the KGB Bar, the
Academy for Teachers, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has appeared most recently in Mono and The Black
Poppy Review.
Tony Rauch has four books of short stories published – “I’m right here” (spout press), “Laredo” (Eraserhead Press), “Eyeballs growing all
over me . . . again” (Eraserhead Press), and "What if I got down on my knees?" (Whistling Shade Press).
James Croal Jackson is a Filipino-American poet who works in film production. He has two chapbooks (Our Past Leaves, Kelsay Books,
2021 and The Frayed Edge of Memory, Writing Knights, 2017) with one forthcoming: Count Seeds With Me (Ethel, 2022). He edits The
Mantle Poetry from Pittsburgh, PA.
Penny Beretta is currently studying English and Creative Writing at the University of Exeter. She grew up in Northern Italy, and moved to
Cornwall aged eight, whereupon she discovered a passion for reading and writing in the English language.
Kate Tyte has had essays published in Slightly Foxed, and her fiction and poetry in STORGY, Riggwelter, Idle Ink, The Fiction Pool, Press
Pause Press and the anthologies Ghastly Gastronomy; Strange Spring: Stories We Wrote in Self-Isolation; Living, Loving, Longing: Lisbon;
and on the podcast The Other Stories. She is a book reviewer for STORGY and The Short Story. She lives in Lisbon.
Alan Dunnett is a former theatre director and drama school acting coach. Poems have appeared in Poetry and Settled Status For All
(2022 anthology), Apocalypse Confidential, Dodging The Rain, Ink Sweat & Tears, The Crank, The New European. Film-poem Assassin
awarded a 2020 Best Rhythm & Poetry for Berlin Deadline at Berlin Underground Film Festival.
Claudia Recinos Seldeen has work appearing in Touch: The Journal of Healing, and was recently accepted by The Amphibian Literary
Journal. Her verse novel, To Be Maya, is scheduled for publication December 2022 by West 44 Books. Claudia is a first generation
Guatemalan American. When not writing, she can be found on a trapeze.
J. Twm has had poetry appearing in Stand, Poetry Wales, New Welsh review, Planet, Orbis, Dreamcatcher, Fly on the Wall Press, Marble,
and Poetry Salzburg Review amongst others.
Sheila Kinsella is a Belgium based writer. Her short stories draw inspiration from an Irish upbringing. An avid watcher of people’s
behaviour, and blessed with abundant natural curiosity, Sheila lures the reader into a shrewdly observed world via imagery and comedy.
Sheila graduated with an MA in Creative Writing (Distance Learning) from Lancaster University, UK in 2017.
Mark J. Mitchell was born in Chicago and grew up in southern California. His latest poetry collection, Roshi San Francisco, was just
published by Norfolk Publishing. Starting from Tu Fu was recently published by Encircle Publications.
He is very fond of baseball, Louis Aragon, Miles Davis, Kafka and Dante. He lives in San Francisco with his wife.
Gerry Stewart is a poet, creative writing tutor and editor based in Finland. Her poetry collection Post-Holiday Blues was published by
Flambard Press, UK. Totems is to be published by Hedgehog Poetry Press in 2022.
Don Cellini is a poet, photographer and recipient of fellowships from the King Juan Carlos foundation and the National Endowment for the
Humanities. He is professor emeritus at Adrian College and divides his time between Toledo, Ohio and Savannah, Georgia.
Alastair Noon has publications including Earth Records (2012) and The Kerosene Singing (2015), both Nine Arches Press, and a dozen
chapbooks from various presses. He lives in Berlin.
