Marshall Crossman - 1 post

earned her BFA from Colorado State University in 1973. She has been a studio painter for over 35 years, and is still fascinated by the alchemy & expression of paint. She paints primarily in oil on canvas. Her painting process allows for a lot of spontaneity in both paint handling and color. She begins a painting with a basic concept, and wander through many stages of paint action and destruction before arriving at a finish that feels resolved. When Crossman relocated to San Francisco in 1977, she was very influenced by the Bay Area figurative painters. Her figures are abstracted by motion, water and emotion. She works in a series, often on several paintings at the same time. Her series includes: Women Shopping, Swimmers, Class Photo Series, Beach Series, Pacifica and Portugal. She has also explored monotype and watercolor. Marshall Crossman is represented by several art galleries in the US. Her work can be found in private & public collections here and in Europe. Marshall lives on the coast in Pacifica, CA, with her husband. Marshall's thoughts on her Beach Series: "In 2000, my husband, son and I moved from urban San Francisco, to the Pacifica beach. Our new home looked directly out on the Pacific. Across the road was a fishing pier with a bait shop. I was captivated by the dusty, sun bleached Polaroids of fisherman holding up their catch. The humanity of these people inspired me, and thus began the Beach Series. The subject of these beach paintings soon shifted from fisherman to bathers frolicking in the surf. I had to imagine this, as the ocean in northern California is way too cold for swimming. The movement of the bathers related energetically to my past work in the Swimmer and Women Shopping Series. I liked the way these active, wet, partly submerged figures morphed into abstraction."

Martha Kay Salinas - 1 post

holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative writing and writes young adult fiction and middle grade fiction as well as personal essays. She enjoys writing characters braver than she dares to be. Martha worked as the children’s and young adult editor for Soundings Review, and she now works as a freelance editor. She also loves to teach writing classes as often as she can find the time. A native Texan, she lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington. "Sixteen Years Old" is an excerpt from the memoir she’s writing, "Lies I Told My Mother."

Martha Rosenthal - 1 post

taught public school for twenty years. Now retired, she devotes her time to writing. She has taken creative writing classes through the continuing education program at Stanford University for years. Her story “Solitaire” was recently published in Talking Writing magazine. She lives in Woodside, California, with her husband and two dogs.

Martijn Peutor - 1 post

is 28 and lives in Amsterdam. He studied philosophy and English.

Mary Anne Perez - 1 post

has been a writer for as long as she can remember, even as that quest was interrupted by careers in newspapers, entertainment and finance. She is a mom to a human son and the Pit Bull Missy Elliot and enjoys walks around her downtown neighborhood. She is currently working on a non-fiction book about her four paternal uncles who fought in and all came home from WWII and her father who served in the Navy and witnessed two atomic bomb tests. She’s also writing a fairy tale centered around a brown-skinned girl who climbs apricot trees and who inherits a shawl knitted from fibers passed down and imbued with the wisdom of generations.

Mary Black - 1 post

attended Joyce Maynard’s Memoir Workshop in Guatemala, the Creative Nonfiction Magazine Conference, and Florida Writers Association Conference. She studied English and journalism as an undergrad, and went on to pursue a master’s in English with a concentration on creative writing. She taught writing and literature at the high school level for fourteen years and currently works as a literacy specialist for the state of Texas. She recently completed writing her first memoir Kick Ass Harley.

Mary Ellen Talley - 1 post

’s poems have been published in numerous literary journals including Gyroscope, Raven Chronicles, Rat’s Ass Review, and Banshee as well as in several anthologies. A former school-based speech-language pathologist (SLP), she resides in Seattle, WA. Her work has received three Pushcart nominations. A chapbook, “Postcards from the Lilac City” was published by Finishing Line Press in 2020.

Mary Lingen - 1 post

is a full-time artist living in central Minnesota. She uses oil paint to create images that parallel the landscape she walks in daily.  She exhibits a great deal in Minnesota and also has galleries in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Her work can be seen at www.mnartists.org/mary_lingen and

Mary Senter - 1 post

writes in a cabin in the woods on the shores of Puget Sound. She earned certificates in literary fiction writing from the University of Washington and an M.A. in strategic communication from WSU. She writes literary and historical fiction, personal essay, and poetry. Her work can be found in Claudius Speaks, Six Hens, FewerThan500, WORK, Red Fez, Stratus: Journal of Arts and Writing, and Heater. She is working on a historical novel set in the 1890s. Visit her at www.marysenter.com.

Mary Wlodarski - 1 post

is a native Minnesotan and a lover of all things animal. She currently lives in Oak Grove, with her two horses and miniature dachshund. She is on sabbatical as a high school English teacher and is a full-time student completing her MFA at Hamline University and will be graduating this spring. Her current project is Speak Horse which includes “The Horse Project” “According to the Greeks” and “Plow Horse.” She has had work published in the St. Paul Almanac, Sleet and Versus Literary Magazine.