Author: Life and Legends

BIO Amata Natasha Goldie is a poet, artist and a natural health practitioner from Australia, living in Portugal. Educated at Edith Cowan University in Perth and Central Metropolitan College of Arts, Amata is best know for her book “The Golden Thread”, that is a collection of practical and metaphysical wisdom, sourced from contemporary geniuses. It…

BIO The author of ten books of poetry and short fiction, Laurel Ann Bogen is a founding member of the celebrated poetry performance ensemble, Nearly Fatal Women. Since 1990 she has been an instructor in the Writers’ Program at UCLA Extension where she received the Outstanding Instructor of the Year of the Award in 2008. In 2016…

BIO Ashok Bhargava is a multilingual poet, speaker and essayist. He has published 4 books of poetry. His poetry has been published in various literary magazines and anthologies. He has been featured on CBC Radio (Sounds like Canada & North by Northwest) and Chanel M TV as well as Word On The Street, explor Asian…

BIO . Yahia Lababidi, an Egyptian-American thinker and poet, is the author of five books in four genres. His sixth book, a collection of aphorisms, is ready and fluttering wildly against the bars, awaiting an intrepid publisher. Lababidi has been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera and in The Guardian. For more information, please visit –…

BIO Dr. KATE GALE is Managing Editor of Red Hen Press, Editor of the Los Angeles Review and President of the American Composers Forum, LA. She teaches in the Low Residency MFA program at the University of Nebraska in Poetry, Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction. She serves on the boards of A Room of Her Own…

BIO Diann Blakely, a two-time Pushcart winner, also received the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America for Cities of Flesh and the Dead while still in manuscript form, then 7th annual Judge’s Prize from Elixir Press.  Farewell, My Lovelies, was named a Choice of the Academy of American Poets’ Book Society. She has taught at…

BIO Mags ask for a 50-word bio My confession reads Born in Lewiston Maine   city of gay Marsden Hartley grand painter   Like Marsden I get lost in Paris   Come back 5 years later   after Greece   Andalusia   London Soldier in Korean War (stationed in France) I like to write sonnets. . A Letter to My Soul…