Dreamer ( Short Story )
BIO Born in 1956, Dr. Sarojini Sahoo earned her Masters and PhD degrees in Oriya Literature, and a Bachelor of Law degree from Utkal University. She teaches at a degree college in Belpahar, Jharsuguda, Orissa, India. A distinguished South Asian feminist writer Sarojini is also an associate editor of an English journal Indian Age,…
Amata Natasha Goldie
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…
Laurel Ann Bogen
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…
Ashok Bhargava
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…
Yahia Lababidi
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 –…
Kate Gale
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…
Miguel Barnet: Translations by George Henson
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…
Diann Blakely
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…
Willis Barnstone
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…