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Tom Piekarski - 1 post
is a former editor of the California State Poetry Quarterly. His theater and restaurant reviews have been published in various newspapers, with poetry and interviews appearing in numerous national journals, among them Portland Review, Kestrel, Cream City Review, Nimrod, New Plains Review, Poetry Quarterly, and Clockhouse Review. He has published a travel guide, Best Choices In Northern California (Gable &Gray), and Time Lines (Nimbus Press), a book of poems. He works as a fine art salesman in Carmel-By-The-Sea, California.
Tressa Brittin Berman - 1 post
, Ph.D. is an art writer, ethnographer, and creative coach who specializes in visual cultural studies and the creative exchange. She has listened to and shared stories from the hood of a car in rural North Dakota to the desert campfires of central Australia. She has published two non-fiction books and countless academic articles she hopes someone has read. Her art writing includes catalogue essays for galleries and magazines. This essay is part of a larger work-in-progress of poetry, photographs, and flash non-fiction titled Postcards from Indian Country, USA.
Trista Hurley-Waxali - 1 post
found a taste for cucumber martinis while in LA and had to give that up as she was unable to renew her US visa. She's Black from her father's side (Trinidadian) and Brown from her mother's side (Indian), and together they immigrated from Trinidad to Canada in search of a better life. With movement in her blood she kept her bags packed and found a spot in Aix-en-Provence, where she writes weird short stories.
Valentina Cano - 1 post
was born in Uruguay to Italian and Latino parents. After living in Miami, FL, for twenty-three years, she now makes her home in a secluded Victorian watermill in Italy that is ripe with history and which was the direct inspiration for her novel. Her debut novel, The Rose Master was called “a strong, satisfying effort” by Publishers Weekly and her latest novel, Aleister Blake was published last September. She has a blog, Il Vecchio Mulino delle Rocche, in which she shares her journey restoring her mill and home.
Vilina Sanburn-Bill - 1 post
lives on a farm on Lopez Island, Washington. “This whole writing thing” started when she was five years old. She and her close friend made a book called Cat and Dog. One of them would write three sentences and the other would draw a picture to match the sentences. She wrote this story for a school assignment. Her teacher said “Write a story about anything you choose.”
Vincent Renstrom - 2 posts
lives with his wife and two children in Middletown, Ohio. He received his Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature from Indiana University. His poems have appeared in Little Patuxent Review, MARGIE, and Spillway Magazine, as well as in the online journals Alba, The Centrifugal Eye, Gutter Eloquence, Red Lightbulbs, SHARK REEF, Slow Trains, and a few others.
Vivian Montgomery - 1 post
is a musician, a harpsichordist and accordionist, who writes. She is a prize winner from Writers Digest, a finalist for the New Letters’ Conger Beasley Jr. Award for Nonfiction, and her personal essays have been published in the Boston Globe Magazine, Bluestem, Adanna, Ligeia, and in the anthology Mother Reader from Seven Stories Press. She is a brooding Jewish walker and mother, feeling her way by spilling words onto the page.
Warren Carlson
is a seasoned writer working mostly in theater. Does God Cry? is based on his past neighbors in Northern Idaho. He is a returned Peace Corps Volunteer, world traveler, and a job vagabond. His credits include small magazines, newspapers, and theater productions. Credits: Spectrum, West Wind Review, Northern Journeys, Jefferson Quarterly, Fishtrap etc.
Wayne Cresser - 4 posts
lives with his wife on an island in Narragansett Bay. His fiction has been published in seven print anthologies, the most recent, Spank the Carp 2020, online at Jerry Jazz Musician, Gravel, Open: Journal of Arts and Letters, Review Americana, and Story, and in such print journals as The Ocean State Review and SLAB. For the latest news and blogs related to living his literary life, please visit Just Between You and Me (a literary confidence) (https://wcresser.wordpress.com/tag/wayne-cresser/).
Wayne Johnston - 4 posts
taught English, Creative Writing and Publications at La Conner High School for nineteen years. Prior to that, he worked for twenty-two years on tugboats, usually as chief engineer, towing freight barges between Canadian and West Coast American ports. In 2011, he won the Soundings Review First Publication award for his essay, “Sailing.” His debut novel, North Fork, was released by Black Heron Press in July of 2016. He lives on Fidalgo Island with his wife, Sally.