Susan Slapin - 4 posts

is a visual artist, working in printmaking, painting, photography, and also poetry. Susan's paintings are relatively abstract color fields, often referring to the landscape. She spent her early years around her grandfather's Connecticut printing company and later working at The Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts, and Sciences. In both places, the visual world was the dominant feature. Susan attended San Francisco Art Institute and graduated from Marylhurst University. Her work has been exhibited and published, received numerous awards and can be found in private and corporate collections. Susan’s website is www.susanslapin.com.

Susi Lovell - 1 post

is originally from England and has lived in Montréal and Québec's Eastern Townships for more than thirty years. She came to fiction writing after a lifetime of performing and teaching movement and physical theatre, and a spell writing on dance for the Montreal Gazette. Her stories have appeared in Grain, Fiddlehead, Kudzu Review, Blue Lake Review, Fiction Brigade.

Suzanne Olson - 1 post

spends most of her life following the worm, which brought her to Orcas Island in 2005. She is an organizational storyteller by trade and earned a degree in Writing and Literature from Prescott College. Her latest creative project is Letters From Orcas Island, which began as a weekly broadcast on FaceBook Live to connect isolated islanders during COVID-19 and is now being developed into a book. Her poetry has appeared in Alligator Juniper and several Fishtrap anthologies.

Sylvia Chesley Smith - 1 post

attended Cornish Institute of the Arts in 1981 in mid-life after raising her three daughters, graduating in 1981 with a B.F.A. in painting and sculpture. Her art provides a balance against her work as a counselor. Sylvia is one of three daughters, as is her 93-year-old mother who still plays the piano.

“I like to build. Making something from nothing. Order from chaos. When I paint I start with color. Color and more color. Layers of paint rubbed back to show what was before. Then images appear. Air born things; seeds, leaves, birds. Flying. Floating. Or, references to people; bowls, hands, clothing. I ground it all with architectural references; houses, arches, windows. And, circles. Where it all begins and ends. Creating is a longing. A being. A process that, for me, is an inner journey that has its own language.”

Sylvia Byrne Pollack - 2 posts

is a hard-of-hearing poet and retired scientist, whose work appears in Floating Bridge Review, Quartet, Crab Creek Review, The Stillwater Review and many other print and online journals. A two-time Pushcart nominee, she won the 2013 Mason's Road Literary Award, was a 2019 Jack Straw Writer and a 2021 Mineral School Resident. Both her debut full-length collection Risking It (2021) and her new collection, What Lasts (2023) were published by Red Mountain Press. Visit her at www.sylviabyrnepollack.com

T. Dallas Saylor - 1 post

is a PhD candidate at Florida State University and holds an MFA from the University of Houston. His work meditates on the body, especially gender and sexuality, against physical, spiritual, and digital landscapes. He currently lives in Denver, CO. He is on Twitter: @dallas_saylor.

Tana Young - 1 post

holds a BA in English from Whitworth University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Eastern Washington University's Inland Northwest Center for Writers. Her work has appeared in Hawai'i Review, Southloop Review, Rock & Sling, Waccamaw, The Writing Disorder, and Weyfarer. She is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Literary Studies.

Tara K. Shepersky - 3 posts

(she/her) is a contemplative walker and writer based in Oregon's Willamette Valley. PDXpersky.com

Terrell Carter - 2 posts

wrote Lost Soul and Short of Air when he was 13 years old. He has acted in many of Shakespeare's plays directed by his father, Richard. In addition to writing poetry, Terrell is a very fine short story writer and essayist. He speaks French and is an excellent student.

Terry Barr - 1 post

is the author of three essay collections, the most recent of which, Secrets I'm Dying to Tell You, was published this summer by Red Hawk Publications of Hickory, NC. He lives in Greenville, SC, with his family and writes regularly at medium.com/@terrybarr.