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Contributors Fall 2025
Tobi Alfier’s credits include Arkansas Review, The American Journal of Poetry, Cholla Needles, Gargoyle, James Dickey Review, Jerry Jazz Musician, Louisiana Literature, Permafrost, Ragaire, and Washington Square Review. She is co-editor of San Pedro River Review (www.bluehorsepress.com).
Janet Belding is a writer living on Cape Cod. In addition to poetry, she is currently working on a novel based in her home town in Vermont, in the magical realism style.
Joan Bernard is a poet from Boston, MA. Her most recent poems have been published in the Naugatuck River Review, the anthology The Book of Jobs, edited by Erin Murphy, the Abandoned Mine, Amethyst Review, The Main Street Rag, and others.
Robert Boucheron is an architect in Charlottesville, Virginia. His stories, essays, book reviews, poems, and translations have appeared in Alabama Literary Review, Bellingham Review, Fiction International, Literary Heist, and Saturday Evening Post.
Mike Comstock is a Nebraska-based writer and graduate of Marquette University with a BA in Journalism. His work has appeared in 13th Floor Magazine and Marquette Literary Journal; a former screenwriter and two-time Best Screenplay winner at the Omaha Film Festival, he has recently completed his debut novel, Small Town Route.
Holly Day’s writing has recently appeared in Analog SF, Cardinal Sins, and New Plains Review, and her published books include Music Theory for Dummies and Music Composition for Dummies. She currently teaches classes at The Loft Literary Center in Minnesota, Hugo House in Washington, and The Muse Writers Center in Virginia.
Matt DiGeronimo is a writer and former nuclear submarine officer whose fiction explores the tension between duty and desire, truth and illusion, and the quiet battles that define us. His stories blend realism with philosophy, asking hard questions about what it means to lead, to love, and to stay human in complex systems.
Richard Dinges, Jr. works on his homestead beside a drying pond, surrounded by trees and grassland, with his wife, two dogs, one cat, and twelve chickens. Wilderness House, Blue Unicorn, Plainsongs, Grey Sparrow, and Oddball Magazine most recently accepted his words for their publications.
Marco Etheridge is a writer of prose, an occasional playwright, and a part-time poet. He lives and writes in Vienna, Austria. His work has been featured in over one hundred and fifty reviews across Canada, Australia, Europe, the UK, USA, and India. Power Tools is Marco’s latest collection of short fiction. When he isn’t crafting stories, Marco is a contributing editor for a ‘Zine called Hotch Potch. Author website: https://www.marcoetheridgefiction.com/
Tess Godhardt is an attorney who has always harbored a love for creative writing. When she is not working, she can be found on the basketball court attempting to relive her collegiate glory days or outside throwing the ball for one of her five dogs. A few of her short stories can be found in the Bright Flash Literary Review, The Disappointed Housewife, and The SDL Review. She lives with her husband in Cedar Creek, Texas.
Lefcothea Maria Golgaki (Λευκοθέα Μαρία Γκολγκάκη) is a published author, living in Greece. Internationally, her work poems, flash fiction, and essays have been featured widely in literary journals.
Jeff Hazlett lives in Omaha, Nebraska. His short stories have appeared in Lighthouse Digest, Ginosko Literary Journal, Talking River Review, and The Writing Disorder – and are expected soon in other publications. Find him at jeffhaz.com.
Michael Howard’s writing has appeared in a wide variety of print and digital publications. He divides his time between Saigon and Cleveland.
C. Inanen lives in the Midwest USA. His work has most recently been published in The Writing Disorder literary magazine. He's a contributor to The Yard: Crime Blog and his story The Ones that Shoot Back will be featured in the December 2025 issue of Yellow Mama magazine.
What is there left to say about Marc Janssen, other than he should eat more vegetables? Maybe his verse can be found scattered around the world in places like Pinyon, Orbis, Pure Slush, Cirque Journal, Two Thirds North and Poetry Salzburg also in his book November Reconsidered and his recent book collaboration A Resurrection of Trees. Janssen coordinates the Salem Poetry Project - a weekly reading, the occasionally occurring Salem Poetry Festival and keeps getting nominated for Oregon Poet Laurate. For more information visit, marcjanssenpoet.com.
Helen Lojek lives and writes in Boise ID. Previous publications have appeared in Catamaran, Proteus, Apostrophe, Irish Literary Supplement, cold-drill, and various academic journals.
B.C. Nance is a writer who hasn't given up his day job. A native of Nashville, Tennessee, he works by day as a historical archaeologist. At night, after roaming his neighborhood, he writes fiction and poetry, then stays up too late reading. His stories and poems have been published in a diverse selection of publications.
Joseph O'Donnell lives in San Francisco, where he writes essays rooted in resilience, queer identity, and pop culture. His debut memoir, Another Generation Ruined, has just been completed, an excerpt of which appears here. Learn more at www.anothergenerationruined.com.
CLS Sandoval, PhD (she/her) is a writer and communication professor accomplished in film, academia, and creative writing who performs, writes, signs, and rarely relaxes. CLS is raising her daughter, son, and dog with her husband in Walnut, CA.
Kelly Sheldon is currently in her senior year at the University of North Texas, pursuing an English major and a Technical Communication Certificate. She was the Editor for the 2025 edition of the American Literary Review, and aspires to pursue editing as a career. She spends her time singing and playing guitar, reading children’s classic novels, and eating leaves off trees.
Marc Swan lives in coastal Maine. Poems recently published or forthcoming in Gargoyle, Chiron Review, Sandy River Review, Crannóg, among others. His fifth collection, all it would take, was published in 2020 by tall-lighthouse (UK).
A longtime editor and writer, M.E. Wagner is the author of five nonfiction books (including Maxfield Parrish and the Illustrators of the Golden Age and America and the Great War) and co-author of two reference works on American history. Though a writer of fiction and poetry for many years, she has only recently begun submitting her stories and poems for publication. She is currently editor-in-chief of the online magazine Persimmon Tree, which publishes and celebrates the creative works of women over age 60. See the current issue at https://persimmontree.org/
Sharon Whitehill is a retired English professor from West Michigan now living in Port Charlotte, Florida. Her last chapbook, This Sad and Tender Time (Kelsay Books) appeared in December 2023. Putting the Pieces Together (Fernwood Press) was published in 2025.
Andrena Zawinski, a veteran teacher of writing, lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her poetry and flash fiction have been lauded for mastery of craft, the voice of the truth teller, and social concern. Born Under the Influence is her most recent and fourth full-length collection of poetry.
