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 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 . 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 Cuban novelist, poet and ethnographer Miguel Barnet is perhaps best known for this testimonial novel Biography of a Runaway Slave. The winner numerous national and international literary awards, including the Premio Nacional de Literatura and the Premio Juan Rulfo, Barnet is the author of a ten books of poetry and five novels, as well…
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…
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 . .Ralph Angel’s latest collection, Your Moon, was awarded the 2013 Green Rose Poetry Prize. Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986-2006 received the 2007 PEN USA Poetry Award, and his Neither World won the James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets. In addition to five books of poetry, he also has published…
BIO Michelle Chung is a poet, critic, editor, and translator. She grew up in Seoul, Korea. She graduated Hanyang University, taught in high school, and immigrated to the U.S. She earned a Master’s degree in Christian Psychology at Emmanuel University in Los Angeles. She worked for Dong-A Daily USA and Christian Herald as a reporter….
BIO Marie Lecrivain is the editor-publisher of poetic diversity: the litzine of Los Angeles, a photographer, and a writer-in-residence at her apartment. Her work has appeared in various journals, including Edgar Allen Poet Journal, The Kentucky Review, Maitenant, A New Ulster, Spillway, The Los Angeles Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, and others. She’s the author of…
BIO Kursheed Hayat is an eminent story writer, novelist and poet of Urdu literature from Gaya, Bihar, India, now living in Bilaspur, working for the Indian Railway. Khursheed has been writing since 1974, and has received several acclaims for his works, including honor from the Governor of Bihar, India, for the year 1985 & 1986…
BIO . Dennis Maloney is the editor and publisher of the widely respected White Pine Press in Buffalo, NY. He is also a poet and translator. His works of translation include: The Stones of Chile by Pablo Neruda, The Landscape of Castile by Antonio Machado, Between the Floating Mist:Poems of Ryokan, and The Poet…
BIO Renowned poet Abrar Ahmed was born in Lahore, Pakistan, on February 6th, 1954. He is a medical doctor by profession. His poems have been published in several leading magazines and periodicals. Dr. Ahmad has been the Editor of “Muntakhab Shairi” (Selected Poetry Magazine), and the Guest Editor of Adabiyat (Literary Magazine). He writes columns…
