Authors

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Cody Kucker - 1 post

’s poetry has appeared in The Carolina Quarterly, Massachusetts Review, Natural Bridge, and JuxtaProse, among others. He received his MFA from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and currently resides and teaches high school English in northeastern Massachusetts.

Colin Goode - 1 post

started painting in oils over sixty years ago as a high school student. During his first career as a teacher he had occasional opportunities to teach art in Johannesburg, South Africa and in England. Later as the director of a multi media company in Cape Town he worked with artists and photographers in the production of documentary movies. In his late thirties he studied theology at Nottingham University and then at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, CA. During his thirty-year career as an Episcopal priest he never lost his love for painting and attended a number of art workshops. He now works as a full time artist on Lopez Island and teaches regular landscape workshops in oils. Over the past seven years he has added teaching Byzantine iconography to his workshop schedule. His work has been shown in South Africa, England and the United States. Paintings have been purchased by clients in those three countries as well as in Australia and Dubai.

Colleen Smith Armstrong - 6 posts

was raised on Lopez and is thrilled to still be a part of our vibrant community. She is editor of The Islands' Weekly and a freelance book critic for Seattle Weekly. She can be spotted in and around the island doing her favorite activities: dancing, writing, and reading.

Courtney Miller Santo - 1 post

is the author of two novels, THE ROOTS OF THE OLIVE TREE and THREE STORY HOUSE, both published by HarperCollins. Her works have been translated into German, Italian, Hungarian, Korean, Dutch, Spanish, Polish, Turkey, and Slovenian. She teaches creative writing at the University of Memphis and serves as chair of the MidSouth Book Festival. Her debut novel was selected by Redbook Magazine to launch its monthly book club. Her speaking engagements have included multiple panels at AWP, the Southern Festival of the Book, Decatur Book Festival, Southern Book Alliance annual conference. University of Memphis Great Conversations, Writers in the Schools and at the Savannah College of Art and Design. In addition to her novels, she has published essays, fiction and poetry in Belief and Literature, the Los Angeles Review, Irreantum, Memphis Magazine and Mason’s Road among others. Since beginning her writing career in 2011, Courtney’s work has been an Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Semifinalist, won the Memphis Magazine Fiction Contest Grand Prize, and been nominated for a Whitney. Courtney writes under the pen name Aine Ant. For further information, please visit www.courtneysanto.com

Craig McVay - 1 post

, a retired high school English and Latin teacher, has poems or stories in, among others, The Avatar Review, Blue Unicorn, Icon, Pudding Magazine, The Teacher's Voice, and Everything Stops and Listens, an anthology published by the Ohio Poetry Association. For many years, he was coordinator of the series, Peripatetic Poets, in Columbus, Ohio. He teaches English to Somali immigrants and is studying Somali at The Ohio State University.

Cynthia Stock - 3 posts

is a retired Critical Care Nurse reinventing herself as a writer. She studied at several institutions and with several mentors. Her work has appeared in SHARK REEF, HerStry, BigCityLit, The South Shore Review, and others.

D. S. Maolalai - 2 posts

has received nine nominations for Best of the Net and seven for the Pushcart Prize. His poetry has been released in three collections, "Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden" (Encircle Press, 2016), "Sad Havoc Among the Birds" (Turas Press, 2019) and Noble Rot (Turas Press, 2022)

Dan Overgaard - 3 posts

was born and raised in Thailand. He attended Westmont College, dropped out, moved to Seattle, became a transit operator, then managed transit technology projects and programs. He’s now retired and catching up on reading. His poems have appeared in Canary Lit Mag, Shot Glass Journal, Allegro Poetry, Sweet, Triggerfish Critical Review, Poets Reading The News, The High Window and elsewhere. Read more at: danovergaard.com.

Dan Pettee - 1 post

Dan Raphael - 1 post

has been active around the Northwest for a couple decades as poet, performer, publisher and reading host. His last two books are The State I’m In (nine muses books) and Impulse & Warp: The Selected 20th Century Poems (Wordcraft of Oregon.) Current work appears in Caliban, Phantom Drift, Great Weather for Media, Eratio, and Otoliths.