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…
BIO . Sally Cook is both artist and poet. Her poems and essays appear with regularity in many national print journals. Often inspired to relate human vagaries to those in nature, she gains inspiration from her somewhat reclusive life in the country. She has received numerous scholarships and awards and is a five time…
BIO Natalie Goldberg is the author of Writing Down The Bones: Freeing The Writer Within, which broke open the world of creativity and started a revolution in the way we practice writing in this country. Since then she has written fourteen other books, including the novel Banana Rose. Goldberg is also a prolific painter. Her…
BIO Carl Stilwell is a retired teacher of Los Angeles City Schools. His poems have been published in Blue Collar Review, Canary, Lummox, November 3 poetry blog, Pearl, Prism, Revolutionary Poets Brigade–Los Angeles, Struggle and Verse-Virtual. He won first place for best western in Golden Words 20-03-2004 Poetry Competition. He also has poems included in the…
Bio Ram Krishna Singh, born, brought up and educated in Varanasi, India, is a university professor with active interest in poetry and English language teaching. He has authored more than 160 research articles, 170 book reviews and 39 books. Many of his poems have been translated into Italian, Chinese, Japanese, French, Spanish, Greek, Crimean Tatar,…
BIO Farah Siddiqui is a research scholar pursuing her Ph.d from the University Of Allahabad, India. She has recently composed a complete collection of poetry titled “The Bliss Of Solitude,” a maiden book that was inaugurated on 25th of May 2014 in Delhi. Farah Siddiqui’s poetry brings out a bold voice born from her conscious…
BIO Ambreen Salahuddin is a known poet and writer from Pakistan residing in Lahore. Her two anthologies of Urdu Poetry, ‘Sar e Dasht e GumaaN’ (At the edge of the desert of thought) and ‘Sadyon jaise Pal’ (Moments like Centuries) were published in 2004 and 2014 respectively. Sar e Dasht e GumaaN was awarded PEN…
BIO Cally Conan-Davies hails from the island of Tasmania, famous for apples and wilderness. She moved, for love, to the United States in 2012. Her poems can be read, now or soon, in such places as The Hudson Review, Subtropics, Poetry, Quadrant, The New Criterion, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Sewanee Review, The Southwest Review,…
BIO Michael R. Burch is an American poet whose poems, translations, essays, articles and letters have appeared in TIME, USA Today, Writer’s Digest, and hundreds of literary journals. His poetry has been translated into Czech, Farsi, Gjuha Shqipe, Italian, Macedonian, Russian, Turkish and Vietnamese. He also edits www.thehypertexts.com. Something for the children of the…
BIO Brought up in Delhi in a family of liberal educationists, Tikuli is a mother of two sons. She is also a blogger and author. Some of her short stories and poems have appeared in print and in online journals and literary magazines including Le Zaparougue, MiCROW 8, Troubadour21, The Smoking Book (Poets Wear…
BIO Margaret Saine was born in Germany and lives in Southern California. She writes poetry, haiku, and short stories in five languages, also translating other poets in those languages. Her books are “Bodyscapes,” “Words of Art,” 5 haiku chapbooks, plus the mss. “Awkward Child” (in German, to be published), “The Five Senses,” “Lo efímero queda”…
