Issue 40 | December 2019 |

Michelle Bermudez is a Latina poet who received her MFA in creative writing at Adelphi University

Linda Wisniewski's work has been widely published in print and online

Paul Turley is currently studying for a Master of Philosophy degree.

James Finnegan - shortlisted for Hennessy Literary Award (2018), highly commended in the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Competition (2016, 2018)

Michael Paul Hogan is a poet, journalist and fiction writer whose work has appeared extensively in the USA, UK, India and China

Bree Alexander (also Lika Posamari) writes poetry and more in or between Melbourne and New Delhi.

Dr. Emily Bilman teaches poetry in Geneva as London’s Poetry Society’s Stanza representative.

Mikael Shamsie is a Pakistani living in Canada, having previously spent his time moving from place to place

Colette Coen is a member of the G2 Writers Group.

Joe Williams is a writer and performing poet from Leeds.

Hana Meighan is currently finishing her undergraduate English degree at Ulster University Coleraine.

Maxine is widely published in print and online.

Melinda Jane, author of the poetry book ‘Nature's Nuptials’ and the children’s book ‘The Currawong and the Owl’.

John W. Sexton’s sixth poetry collection, Futures Pass, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2018.

Tony DeLorger is the author of twenty-one published books.

Jodie Hannis is a Midlands-based poet and spoken word artist who is exploring archaeological writing as part of her PhD research with the University of Leicester.

Elliott Freeman is a poet, educator, and game designer living in the mountainous hinterlands of Southwest Virginia.

David Atkinson's collection 'The Ablation of Time' is available through Ginninderra Press.

Moya Pacey published her second collection: Black Tulips (Recent Work Press, University of Canberra) in October, 2017.

Paige Elizabeth Wajda is a Choctaw writer from California and Head of Poetry for The Selkie.

After 45 years in the antique business Elaine Dillof, retired, has returned to an early love, writing.

Sandy Green's first Chapbook is Pacing The Moon. (Flutter Press, 2009)

Rose Lucas's first collection, Even in the Dark (UWAP) won the Mary Gilmore award in 2014.

Dylan Everett is Adelaide-based Australian poet. He has a background in visual arts and poetry.

Siobhan Hodge is the co-editor of Writ Poetry Review and winner of the 2017 Kalang Eco-Poetry Award

Jennifer Compton was born in Wellington (New Zealand) and now lives in Melbourne (Australia). She is a poet and playwright who also writes prose.

Michele Seminara's most recent collection is Engraft (Island Press in 2016)

As an undergraduate, Bill Cushing was referred to as the “blue collar” poet based on his previous years working at shipyards.

Sandra Renew’s ongoing project is the interrogation of gender presentation and the LGBTIQAA gender discourses.

Brenda Saunders was awarded the 2014 Scanlon Prize for her collection 'Looking for Bullin Bullin' and in 2018 she won the Ooodgeroo Nunnucal Prize and the Joanne Burns Award ( Spineless Wonders).

Rosa O’Kane's poem Hydrography of the Heart was a commended entry in The Hippocrates Prize 2014

Lee Triplett, a gay woman, studied piano performance at the University of South Carolina and computer science at the University of Texas at Austin.

Laura Jan Shore’s poetry collections include Breathworks, Dangerously Poetic Press, 2002 and Water over Stone, IP Picks Best Poetry 2011, Interactive Press. She’s also the author of YA novel, The Sacred Moon Tree, Bradbury Press,1986

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Diana Manole is a Romanian-Canadian scholar, literary translator, and award-winning author of nine books of poetry and drama in her native Romania

Lucy Dixcart was shortlisted for the 2019 Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year competition.

Mary Mulholland founded and co-runs Red Door Poets and lives in London.