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Poetry by Mia Amore Del Bando

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Mia Amore Del Bando was born and raised in Long Beach, California. She featured in The Art of Everyone, Flora Fiction, Poets Choice, and others. Her poetry book Fragments of a Woman’s Brain published by Nymeria Publishing debuts in 2024. She is a faithful friend, difficult daughter, and selfish lover.

Poem by Jack O’Grady

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Jack O’Grady is currently writing from Boston, but grew up writing from Maryland and graduated with a degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Since he began writing seriously, he’s been focused on translating vulnerable experiences with nature and time into stories that strive to question our conception of either. His writing hopes to soften genre and structure into something like a soup, warm and nourishing. Outside of writing, he also writes tabletop games and is one of the founding editors of The Downtime Review, a literary mag dedicated to platforming the work of writers with day jobs. You can find links to his work at: jackogrady.carrd.co. 

Poem by Phyllis Ritner

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Phyllis Rittner writes poetry, flash fiction and creative non-fiction. Her work can be found in Wrong Turn Lit, Burnt Breakfast, Roi Faineant Press, Paper Dragon, Versification, Fairfield Scribes, Sparks of Calliope, Gyroscope Review and others. She is the winner of the Grub Street Free Press Fiction Contest and a member of The Charles River Writing Collective. She can be reached on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/phyllis.rittner

Poem by Michael Theroux

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Michael Theroux writes and doodles from him home office in Northern California. His careers span includes classically trained botanist, environmental health specialist, green energy developer and resource recovery web site editor. A life-long word smith, his publications have primarily been professional papers supporting these careers. Entering literary publishing late in life at 72, he is seeking publication of my cache of art writings, including around 400 poems, stories, memoirs, vignettes and two novels (one complete, the other in progress). Some of his shorter works may be seen in Down in the Dirt, Ariel Chart, 50WS, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, CafeLit, Poetry Pacific, Last Leaves and Academy of the Heart and Mind.

Poetry by Mark Slauter

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Mark currently lives in Virginia with his wife and two cats. The Diary Of A Novice Investor: The Bullet Train To Wealth Left When? was published in 2017. Recent story publications include Shark Week: An Ocean Anthology (July 2021) [How Manta Ray Was Created] and Goats Milk Magazine (Aug 2021) [Anliquitzchan]. His digital art has appeared in The Bookends Review, Goats Milk Magazine, and Nocturne Magazine. He is a member of the James River Writers group in Richmond, VA.

Poem by LindaAnn LoSchiavo

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Native New Yorker LindaAnn LoSchiavo, a four time nominee for The Pushcart Prize, has also been nominated for Best of the Net, the Rhysling Award, and Dwarf Stars.

She is a member of SFPA, The British Fantasy Society, and The Dramatists Guild. Elgin Award winner “A Route Obscure and Lonely,” “Women Who Were Warned,”  Firecracker Award, Balcones Poetry Prize, Quill and Ink, Paterson Poetry Prize,and IPPY Award nominee “Messengers of the Macabre” [co-written with David Davies], “Apprenticed to the Night” [UniVerse, 2023], and “Felones de Se: Poems about Suicide” [Ukiyoto Publishing, 2023] are her latest poetry titles. In 2023, her poetry placed as a finalist in Thirty West Publishing’s “Fresh Start Contest” and in the 8th annual Stephen DiBiase contest.- links -Twitter: @Mae_Westside

LindaAnnLiterary:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHm1NZIlTZybLTFA44wwdfg

Poem by Mukut Borpujari 

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Mukut Borpujari is a graduate in English Literature and a Masters in Computer Application (MCA) degree holder. He started writing while he was still in college and his early writings were published in various local newspapers and magazines. Recently his poems appeared in various international literary journals and magazines, including Mount Hope Magazine of the prestigious Roger Williams University (RWU), RI, USA and New Feathers Anthology. Remington Review and Zephyr Review, Cerasus Magazine, London, UK are other major journals where his poems appeared. He is also long listed in this year’s Erbacce-prize for poetry 2023.

Flash by Tammy L. Evans

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Tammy Evans has been published in Gone Lawn, Cabinets of Heed, Clover and White, Spelk, Five on the Fifth, Fiction Kitchen Berlin, and Elephants Never. 

Poetry by Emma Wilson-Kanamori

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Emma’s poetry has appeared on Half Hour to Kill, and her short fiction in literary magazines Ginosko Literary Journal and The Gravity of the Thing.  Though she grew up in Japan as a mix of writer, artist, and dancer, she has moved to Scotland and has settled down fully as a
scribbler, both of words and of images.

Flash by Marty B. Rivers

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Marty packed his few belongings and left California for the rural life in Tennessee, where his wife shucked peas and his two children spit watermelon seeds and splashed in the creek. It was there he discovered a lack of dentists, catfish, moonshine, and fried foods. His writing is off-beat, counter-culture, geared toward YA and those still capable of thought. An emerging author, his work has been published in Heavy Feather Review, AOL, Yahoo and the defunct Los Angeles Free Press.