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  • Michael Broder

    White, working-class, gay, Jewish, boomer, poet, writer, classicist, cultural materialist, queer theorist.

  • D. Dina Friedman

    Author, activist, parent, grandparent, gardener, nature lover, and aspiring musician contemplating what it means to be a creative soul in a challenging universe.

  • KathrynK

    She goes in through the out door. Words in BULL, Claudine, DIRTBAG, Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute, HAD, Monkeybicycle, Pithead Chapel, Smokelong Quarterly, trampset, Wigleaf. Best Small Fictions/Best Microfiction. Editor @Cleaver magazine.

  • Pamela Laskin

    I am writing political and social activist blogs. I am a published poet and young adult author! I live in Manhattan.

  • Robbie Gamble

    Robbie Gamble (he/him) is the author of the chapbook A Can of Pinto Beans (Lily Poetry Review Press, 2022). His poems have appeared in ONE ART, Post Road, RHINO, Salamander, and The Sun. He divides his time between Boston and Vermont.

  • Paul Deane

    Linguist. Writer. Editor of Forgotten Ground Regained, journal of alliterative verse.

  • Karen Hildebrand

    I write and review poetry; am awestruck by dancers; wildly inspired by art and performance.

  • Ann Grogan

    I write to inspire and encourage reader's commitment to feminist-humanist values. I'm an ever-curious, unconventional, happy octogenarian and my writing promotes the unequivocal permission to pursue one’s passions at any age!

  • Daniel Nathan Terry

    Poet, Educator, Dog-Lover, Gardener, Clotheshorse, Plant-Based Cook, and Husband

  • Thomas Redoubt

    Thomas Redoubt is from Freedom, PA. He was a materials science researcher, a lawyer, a law school professor. Redoubt has a passion for writing poetry. His poems have appeared in redrosethorns, Dissident Voice, and Second Coming.

  • Sarah Sarai

    I like pigeons.

  • Richard Levine

    Richard Levine, a retired NYC teacher and Vietnam veteran, is author of seven books. Now in Contest is forthcoming from Fernwood Press. He is an Advisory Editor of BigCityLit.com. website: richardlevine107.com

  • Carl Landauer

    Carl Landauer, a visiting scholar with Berkeley’s Institute for South Asia Studies, taught history at Yale, Stanford and McGill. His poems can be found in The Kenyon Review, Pembroke and New American Writing and his collection is forthcoming.

  • Gail Carson Levine

    Gail Carson Levine is best known for children’s book Ella Enchanted, and she’s a poet. Her poem, “Lest,” was recently published by the journal Justice Reads. Her poetry collection, Transient, came out in July 2016 from Nightshade Press.

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