Authors

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Beth Ford - 1 post

lives in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Her short fiction, poetry, and a novel excerpt have appeared in Embark Literary Journal, The Scores, Sangam Literary Journal, fresh.ink, The Bluebird Word, and The Journal of Undiscovered Poets. In addition, her short story “The Farmhouse” won 7th place in the literary/mainstream fiction category of the 2020 Writer’s Digest Annual Writing Competition. For more information, visit http://bethfordauthor.com.

Betsy Mize Currie - 1 post

was born in 1956 in Saigon and grew up overseas (in North Africa and the Middle East, mostly). She went to high school and college in New England and graduate school in art history, in New York City. She and her husband and two sons moved to the West Coast in 1989 and she now resides in the Pacific Northwest. Currie has been an artist since she was a little girl and works almost every day in her studio or gardens.  She is a magpie for color and believes in the power of beauty and color to nourish us.

Bill Ratner - 1 post

is published in Best Small Fictions 2021, Sh!t Men Say to Me from Moon Tide Press, Baltimore Review, Missouri Review Audio, Rattle Magazine’s Rattlecast, and other journals, with readings featured on NPR’s Good Food, The Business, and KCRW’s Strangers. He is a 9-time winner of The Moth Story Slams, and he teaches voiceover for the Screen Actors Guild Foundation, is the voice of “Flint” in G.I. Joe, and earns his living as a voice actor. @billratner

Birgit Sarrimanolis - 1 post

has been published in Cirque Journal, Five on the Fifth, and 49 Writers. Her story “April Supermoon” aired on Juneau KTOO’s Community Connections series. She was a finalist in the 2020 Pacific Northwest Writers Association literary contest and won second place in the 2021 Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition. Her memoir, Transplanted, is forthcoming from Cirque Press Books. She regularly attends several writing conferences, including the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference, the Seattle Writing Workshop, and the Kachemak Bay Writers Conference. Birgit holds a BA in art history and German studies, an MA in art history, and a PhD in art education. She has lived in Indonesia, India, Chile, Argentina, Egypt, Germany, and Greece, but now calls Alaska home, where she writes overlooking the Tanana Valley. You can read her blog and learn more about Birgit at her website: www.birgitsarrimanolis.com.

Blair Hurley - 1 post

is a graduate of Princeton University, with a B.A. in English and Creative Writing. She recently earned her M.F.A. from NYU’s Program in Fiction. Her short stories have been published or are forthcoming in West Branch, Washington Square, Hayden's Ferry Review, Descant, Fugue, The Red Rock Review, The Best Young Writers and Artists in America, and elsewhere. I’m the recipient of fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and the Writer’s Room of Boston.

Bob Buchanan - 1 post

's poetry collection, Beyond The Wall, has been published by Cardinal House Publishing and was listed as a “Best Poetry Book” for May 2014 by Grace Cavalieri in the Washington Independent. His work has appeared in multiple literary journals including Broad River Review, Diverse Voices Quarterly, The Healing Muse, and Juked, and he is active in the Scottsdale poetry community. A new collection of his work was published last year.

Bobbi Sinha-Morey - 1 post

is a poet and reviewer for the online magazine Specusphere. Her poetry can be read in the Oak Bend Review, Pirene's Fountain, Bellowing Ark, Falling Star Magazine, and The Penwood Review, among others. Her latest poetry book, Rain Song, is available at www.writewordsinc.com. Her website is http://bobbisinhamorey.wordpress.com.

Brandon McNulty - 1 post

is from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He is an English graduate student at Florida State University, and he has been writing fiction since he was eighteen. In 2010 he was selected as a regional finalist in a fiction contest sponsored by the National Society of Arts and Letters. When he is not writing, he enjoys running, hiking, videogames, fantasy football, and following the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Breanne Ward - 1 post

wrote Day Dreamer when she was 11 years old. She has lived on Lopez Island her whole life, and takes writing classes in school. “I get my ideas from things I see, and from things in my head.”

Brian Doyle - 1 post

is an award-winning writer and essayist and editor of the University of Portland's PortlandMagazine. He is the author of Mink River, set in the fictional Oregon coastal town of Neawanaka, in which he weaves together the stories of dozens of characters, including a 12-year-old boy who incurs a horrific bicycle accident and is rescued by a bear; the boy’s grandfather, Worried Man, who embarks on a dangerous mission to track down the source of time; and a philosophizing crow that speaks English.