BIO Sweta Srivastava Vikram (www.swetavikram.com), featured by Asian Fusion as “one of the most influential Asians of our time,” is an award-winning writer, three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Amazon bestselling author of 9 books, novelist, poet, essayist, and columnist who currently lives in New York City with her husband. A graduate of Columbia University, when Sweta…
BIO Constantin Severin (constantinseverin.ro) is a Romanian writer and a visual artist. He is the founder and promoter of the award-winning concept known as archetypal expressionism. He is the author of eight books of poetry, essays, and novels. His poems have been published by major Romanian and international literary magazines. He is one of the…
Gopikrishnan Kottoor is an award winning poet. His prizes include the All India Poetry prize, British Council, (Special Prize, Best Theme, Second Prize, General Category, and three times commendations) among others. He has been included in The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poetry in English (UK), The Golden Jubilee Anthology of Indian Poetry in English…
BIO J. P. Dancing Bear is editor for the American Poetry Journal and Dream Horse Press. Bear also hosts the weekly hour-long poetry show, Out of Our Minds, on public station, KKUP, which is also available as podcasts. He is the author of thirteen collections of poetry, most recently, Love is a Burning Building,(FutureCycle Press, 2014), and his fourteenth, Cephalopodic, will…
BIO Maureen Alsop, Ph.D. is the author of, Mirror Inside Coffin (Cherry Grove Imprint), Mantic (Augury Books), Apparition Wren (Main Street Rag), Later, Knives and Trees (forthcoming) and several chapbooks. Her chapbooks include a blade of grass made bare by its own anatomy (Blue Hour Press), Luminal Equation in the collection Narwhal (Cannibal Press), the dream and the dream you spoke (Spire Press), 12 Greatest Hits (Pudding House), Nightingale Habit (Finishing Line Press) and Origin of…
BIO Gayle Brandeis is the author of Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write (HarperOne), and Dictionary Poems (Pudding House Publications). She also wrote the novels The Book of Dead Birds (HarperCollins), which won Barbara Kingsolver’s Bellwether Prize for Fiction of Social Engagement, Self Storage (Ballantine), Delta Girls (Ballantine), and My Life with the Lincolns (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers), which…
BIO Paolo Staglianò was born 1953 in Olivadi, Italy. He lives in Crotone, where he also works as an MD and a surgeon. His books of poems are: Il Foulard Rosso [The Red Scarf]; Coriandoli di Pietra [Stone Confetti]; Proxima del Centauro [Proxima of Centaurus]; Màthema; Gioco Tondo; and Hypnerotomachia. He has been published widely…
BIO Ami Kaye is the author of What Hands Can Hold (2010). Her poems, reviews and articles have appeared in various journals and anthologies including Kentucky Review, Tiferet, East on Central, First Literary Review- East, Tears in the Fence, Cartier Street Review, Wild Goose Poetry Review, Peony Moon, Scottish Poetry Review, Diode Poetry Journal, and Iodine Poetry Journal, among others….
BIO Peycho Kanev is the author of 3 poetry collections and two chapbooks. He has won several European awards for poetry. He has been nominated for the Best of the Net and Pushcart Award. Translations of his books are going to be published soon in Italy, Poland and Russia. His poems have appeared in many…
BIO Jeremy Birkline has taught English in South Korea and is a writer of poetry, fiction, and drama. He graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Texas. His work has been published in The Criterion and one of his plays was produced by his college. When not teaching, reading, or writing,…
BIO Justin Krebbs was born in Bloomington, Indiana and owes his “pilgrimage of words” to three moments. The first took place when he was encouraged by a local poet named Roger Pfingston to take his creative writing class. The second moment happened when he stumbled upon a copy of Marvin Bell’s Drawn by Stones, by…
BIO Anny Ballardini completed her PhD (2013) at the University of Verona; her dissertation explores Charles Sanders Peirce’s philosophy in relation to contemporary American Poetry. Her MFA (2008) at the University of New Orleans was earned with a specialization in poetry. She has published two collections of poetry: Ghost Dance in 33 Movements (Otoliths, 2009) and Opening and…
