Authors, poets, and artists featured in this issue…
Art:
Portrait of Hannah Arendt
Alaina Hammond is a poet, playwright, fiction writer, and visual artist. Her poems, short stories, paintings, drawings, and photographs have been published both online and in print. Publications include Nomad’s Choir Poetry Journal, The Word’s Faire, Littoral Magazine, Spinozablue, Third Wednesday Magazine, [Alternate Route], Paddler Press, Verse-Virtual, Macrame Literary Journal, Route 7 Review, Sublunary Review, Quail Bell Magazine, Assignment Literary Magazine, Superpresent, Jelly Squid, redrosethorns, Flash Frog, Clockwise Cat, Ranger Magazine, Troublemaker Firestarter, and The Ravens Perch.
- Instagram: @alainaheidelberger
Poem:
La Puerta de la Muerte
Alexander Antonio Cortez is a Chicano poet, mosh pit enthusiast, and tamale lover from Sacramento, California. He is a member of GTFO Poetry and host of the Profiles in Poetry Podcast. His work has appeared in Fleas On The Dog Magazine and Tule Review.
Poem:
Portrait of Herr Stefan George (1868-1933)
A. Z. Foreman is a literary translator, poet, and language-acquisition addict currently working on a doctorate in Near Eastern Languages at Ohio State University. His translations from Arabic, Chinese, Latin, Occitan, Ukrainian, Russian, Irish, and Yiddish have appeared in sundry publications, including Metamorphoses, Blue Unicorn, ANMLY, and the Penguin Book of Russian Poetry. He also writes his own poetry when it’s really necessary. Most importantly, if you have a dog he’d love to pet it.
Poem:
A Shrinking Universe
Isabel Leo is a third-year English and creative writing student at the University of Galway. She is passionate about poetry and is currently writing her first novel.
Art:
Pumpkin Doctor
Jennifer Frederick is an artist, a writer, and a lawyer in Maryland. They have been writing since a young age and creating collages since 2016. On top of being the author of the Coffee Table Book of Pride Flags: Discovering the LGBT+ Community Through Art, their work has appeared in places like Coffee People Zine; Beyond Words Literary Magazine; and 1807: An Art and Literary Journal.
Art:
Untitled
John Brackney contributed an untitled photograph to be presented with Robert Martin’s flash fiction, “The Boy Played On.”
Poem:
Statistics and Quantum Entanglement: On Love
Art:
Sun Worshiper
Maia Brown-Jackson: After the incredibly practical literature degree from the University of Chicago, she braved the myriad esoteric jobs that follow until straying to Iraq to volunteer with survivors of ISIS genocide. Inspired with a new focus, she caffeinated herself through a graduate degree in terrorism and human rights and now investigates fraud, waste, and abuse of humanitarian aid in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Also, she writes, including the chapbook And My Blood Sang and various journals and anthologies you can find on her website.
- Website: maiabrown-jacksonwriting.com
- Substack: maiawrites.substack.com
- Instagram: @tilting.at.windmills
Short Story:
Trapped in a Kafka Story
Mark Tulin is a former therapist from Long Beach, California. A publisher compared his work to artist Edward Hopper’s in terms of how he grasps people’s peculiar traits. Mark’s books include Magical Yogis, Awkward Grace, The Asthmatic Kid and Other Stories, Junkyard Souls, Uncommon Love Poems, and Rain on Cabrillo. Mark appeared in Amethyst Review, Books’ N Pieces, EveryWriter, Spillwords, Fiction on the Web, and others. He is a Pushcart nominee and Best of Drabble.
- Website: crowonthewire.com
- Medium: mftulin.medium.com
- Instagram: @crowonthewire_poetry
Cover Art:
Limitless
Art:
Always Waiting
Matthew McCain is an author and fine artist with three of his novels reaching the top #10 on Amazon Kindle Unlimited. His paintings can be found all around the world, from London to Las Vegas, with Bar Rescue’s Jon Tafer and Alice Cooper’s Teen Youth Rock Center in Phoenix, Arizona. He’s currently represented by the Bilotta Gallery in Florida.
Poem:
The Becoming
Riam Griswold is an editor and writer of fiction and poetry. Their work has been published in F3ll Magazine, Coffin Bell Journal, Levee Magazine, Red Rock Review, Book XI, and FIVE:2:ONE, and they currently live in Tucson, Arizona.
Flash Fiction:
The Boy Played On
Robert Martin, a native of Denver, Colorado, began writing as a form of therapy after retiring from his career in printing and publishing. Following his doctor’s advice to keep his cognitive abilities sharp, Robert turned his lifelong love for reading into a passion for writing. He now channels his creativity into crafting stories of different genres, facing and overcoming the challenges of procrastination and reader reception anxiety. In his free time, Robert and his wife enjoy traveling with their two dogs in their 5th-wheel trailer, exploring new places, and finding inspiration for new stories. Whether on the road or at home, Robert enjoys the written word, sharing his experiences and imagination with readers.
Short Story:
Penguins Make the Best Parents
Rory Perkins is a British writer focusing on shorter works. His fiction chapbook, If It Wasn’t Too Late, is out now with Alien Buddha Press. He has been published in Vast Literary Press, SoFloPoJo, Passengers Journal, and Artam’s The Face Project (forthcoming).
- Bluesky: @rperkinswriter
Short Story:
Mother Says
R. P. Singletary is a rural native of the southeastern United States, R. P. Singletary writes across genres of fiction, poetry, drama, and hybrid. Member, Authors Guild.
- Poets and Writers: www.pw.org/directory/writers/r_p_singletary
- New Play Exchange: newplayexchange.org/users/78683/r-p-singletary
Art:
Wood Woman
Serge Lecomte was born in Belgium in 1946. He came to the States where he spent his teens in South Philly and then Brooklyn. After graduating from Tilden H. S. he joined the Medical Corps in the Air Force. He earned an MA and Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in Russian Literature with a minor in French Literature. He worked as a Green Beret language instructor at Fort Bragg, NC, from 1975-78. In 1988, he received a B.A. from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in Spanish Literature. He worked as a language teacher at the University of Alaska (1978-1997). He worked as a house builder, pipe-fitter, orderly in a hospital, gardener, landscaper, driller for an assaying company, bartender, and painter.
Poem:
Ours
William A Schreiber Jr has been a Hyla Brook Poet since 2018. Bill has been published in Aerial Perspective, Assignment Literary Magazine, Broadkill Review, Gyroscope Review, Shot Glass Journal, The Poets Touchstone, and Metonym Journal. Bill works in the technology field and lives with his wife and son in southern New Hampshire.