Authors

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Ari Blatt - 1 post

lives on the Oregon Coast and counts herself lucky to spend much of her time counting salmon and birds on the job as a biological technician. She graduated from Western Washington University with an Environmental Science degree in 2016. From 2018-2022, she wrote for the independent newspaper the Corvallis Advocate. She recently completed work towards a MFA in Creative Writing through Oregon State University Cascades in which she focused on fiction. She is continuing work to bring her thesis project, “Our Faults and Other Cataclysms” to its complete form.

Aruni Wijesinghe - 3 posts

is a project manager, ESL teacher, erstwhile belly dance instructor and occasional sous chef. A grateful Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, she has been published nationally and internationally both online and in print journals and anthologies. Her debut poetry collection, 2 Revere Place (Moon Tide Press), is a love letter to her family and miraculous childhood in New York. Her latest collection, The Litany of Missing (Arroyo Seco Press) is a meditation on loss, longing and love. You can follow her on social media at @aruniwrites (Instagram and Twitter) or on her website at www.aruniwrites.com

Arvilla Fee - 1 post

Arvilla Fee teaches English Composition for Clark State College and is the poetry editor for the San Antonio Review. She has published poetry, photography, and short stories in numerous presses, and her poetry book, The Human Side, is available on Amazon. For Arvilla, writing produces the greatest joy when it connects us to each other.

A. L. Diaz - 2 posts

graduated cum laude from the University of La Verne with a degree in Creative Writing. She has publications with such literary anthologies as Cultural Weekly, Fiction Kitchen Berlin, and Defenestrationism.Net.

Ava Mailloux - 1 post

received her BA in writing from Ithaca College in 2011 and is seeking jobs and a Masters. She has been published on Nerve and xoJane and is currently a writer at large.

Aviva Kana - 1 post

was in the tenth grade at Lopez High School when she wrote this piece. She grew up on Lopez Island with her mother, Doreen, and her older sister, Talula. Aviva was recently given the AFS award for excellence in leadership, community service and academics. The scholarship award enabled her to spend six months in Argentina in 2002.

B. J. Wilson - 2 posts

is the author of two poetry collections, Naming the Trees (The Main Street Rag, 2021) and Tuckasee (Finishing Line Press, 2020). His work has appeared in The Blue Mountain Review, Burningword Literary Journal, The Louisville Review, Tar River Poetry, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the Bluegrass Writers Studio at Eastern Kentucky University, a writing fellowship from the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, and a Pushcart nomination for his poetry. B.J. is also a songwriter and vocalist, and his books and music can be found at bjwilsonpoet.com. To get by, he teaches high school English in western Kentucky.

Barbara Bloom - 3 posts

's poems have appeared in various literary journals, including Phren-Z, Catamaran Review, Raven Review, and Adventures Northwest. She has published two books of poetry, On the Water Meridian and Pulling Down the Heavens. She now lives in Bellingham, Washington.

Barbara Kristaponis - 2 posts

grew up in Baltimore, worked through college, like so many, as a waitress, cleaning lady, and clerical person. She then taught history and after-school filmmaking in a Baltimore public high school. She later moved to New York and, for more than a few years, was a video camerawoman and editor in medical, industrial, educational, and arts television. She also received grants as a video artist from the New York State Council on the Arts, National Endowment, and Poets & Writers. She lives now in northern New Mexico where she works remotely for a national foundation as a taxonomy coder and she writes.

Barbara Lewis - 1 post

lives on Orcas Island with her husband, Brian. She is a graduate of the Vermont College MFA program in fiction writing and director of the Orcas Island Writers Festival.