Poetry, Healing, and Growth Series Contributors

Poetry, Healing, and Growth Book Series
Contributor Brief Biographies

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Judith Adams is an English-born poet. She has published four books of poetry and two children’s books in the UK. She conducts poetry workshops for youth and adults and leads a Poetic Apothecary at Healing Circles in Langley, WA. Judith has a poem in A 21^st Century Plague.

Katelyn Adams contributed poems to Stay Awhile.

Wade Agnew, the author of A Dusultory Way, has poems featured in 2 volumes in the Poetry, Healing, and Growth Series, including Capturing Shadows and Journey of the Wounded Soul.

Pamela Ahlen is the program coordinator for Bookstock Literary Festival held each summer in Woodstock, Vermont. She organizes literary events for Osher (Lifelong Education at Dartmouth) and compiled and edited Osher’s Anthology of Poets and Writers: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years at Dartmouth. Pam received an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is the author of the chapbook Gather Every Little Thing (Finishing Line Press). She has a poem featured in A Walk with Nature.

Bruce Elliot Alford contributed a poem to Journey of the Wounded Soul.

Murray Alfredson has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

Joe Amaral‘s poetry collection The Street Medic won the 2018 Palooka Press Chapbook Contest and his poem “Epochal” was a finalist for the 2019 River Heron Review Poetry Prize. His writing has also appeared in awesome places like 3Elements Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, New Verse News, Panoply, Poets Reading the News, Rise Up Review, and Writers of the Portuguese Diaspora. Joe works 48-hour shifts as a paramedic on the California central coast, spending days off adventuring outdoors with his young family: camping, hiking, traveling, and hosting foreign exchange students. Joe won the 2014 Ingrid Reti Literary Award and the 2018 Golden Quill Award for poetry. You can find him at jadetree.org contributed a poem to Our Last Walk and A Walk with Nature.

Cynthia Anderson is featured in A Walk with Nature.

Tiel Aisha Ansari contributed a poem to Our Last Walk.

Dori Appel poems have been widely published in magazines and anthologies, as well as in her collection of poems, Another Rude Awakening (Cherry Grove Collections). A playwright as well as a poet, she is the author of many published plays and monologues, and she was the winner of the Oregon Book Award in Drama in 1998,1999, and 2001. She lives and writes in Ashland, Oregon. Her website is http://www.doriappel.com/. Dori has a poem included in Our Last Walk.

Daniel Ari writes, publishes, teaches, and performs poetry and has even started to provide one-on-one poetry consultation. His book One Way to Ask combines original poems in a new form called queron with art created or curated in collaboration with 67 artists including Roz Chast, R. Crumb, and Wayne White. He edited the first-ever, Richmond (California) Anthology of Poetry. Preview and order both books at norfolkpress.com or at Amazon. He contributed a poem to Our Last Walk and Lullabies & Confessions.

Carrie Arnold has poems featured in Journey of the Wounded Soul.

Miriam Aroner is a retired librarian and the published author of three children’s books. She has published poetry online and in print. Her poetry has been published in Boston Poetry Magazine, Better Than Starbuck’s and Pudding. She has a poem included in A 21^st Century Plague.

Felice Aull has been writing poetry for 20 years, beginning when she was in her 60s. Her poems are published in a variety of print and online journals. Her collection, Mandatory Evacuation Zone (2017), was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She and her late husband, Martin Nachbar, founded the NYU Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database – a web resource for teaching and research in medical humanities. Retired from the faculty of New York University School of Medicine, she is now an adjunct in its Division of Medical Humanities. Visit her website: www.feliceaull.com. Felice has poems featured in Lullabies & Confessions.

Kim M. Baker: When she isn’t working at Cotuit Center for the Arts or writing poetry about big hair and Elvis, Kim works to end violence against women and end hunger.  A poet, playwright, photographer, and NPR essayist, Kim publishes and edits Word Soup, an online poetry journal that donates 100% of submission fees to food banks.  Kim’s chapbook of poetry, Under the Influence: Musings about Poems and Paintings, is now available from Finishing Line Press.  Kim’s photography has appeared in local and national art exhibits.  Kim helps organize the Wickford Art Association’s annual Poetry and Art show. Kim is currently working on a book of ekphrasis poems about the stories and portrayals of women in the paintings of female artists. Kim contributed a poem to Our Last Walk.

Samuel Ballou contributed a poem to Capturing Shadows.

Kelly Bargabos has a poem included in Silent Screams.

Richard Bargdill, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. He taught for ten years at Saint Francis University in Pennsylvania.  He received his PhD in Clinical Psychology from the existential-phenomenological psychology program at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA.  He has published works that address the issues of profound boredom, fate and destiny, and creativity. He teaches courses on abnormal psychology, human development, history of psychology, and qualitative research. He is currently a board member of the Society for Humanistic Psychology, Division 32 of the American Psychological Association. He began the Student Ambassador’s Program in which students from humanistic graduate programs act as liaisons with the Society of Humanistic Psychology through sharing information and opportunities. In addition, Dr. Bargdill has also published and won awards for his short poems and has won a number of awards for his visual artwork.  In 2009, his sculpture “I’m a tree chopped down everyday” was awarded 1st place in the 3D category at the official State Art Show of Pennsylvania. He has poems featured in several volumes in the Poetry, Healing, and Growth Series including Stay Awhile, Capturing Shadows, Journey of the Wounded Soul, Our Last Walk, Connoisseurs of Suffering, Silent Screams, and A Walk with Nature. 

Bartholomew Barker is one of the organizers of Living Poetry, a collection of poets and poetry readers in the Triangle region of North Carolina. His first poetry collection, Wednesday Night Regular, written in and about strip clubs, was published in 2013. His second, Milkshakes and Chilidogs, a chapbook of food-inspired poetry was served in 2017. Born and raised in Ohio, studied in Chicago, he worked in Connecticut for nearly twenty years before moving to Hillsborough where he makes money as a computer programmer to fund his poetry habit. Bartholomew has a poem included in Silent Screams.

Carol Barrett holds doctorates in both Clinical Psychology and Creative Writing. She teaches in the Creativity Studies program at Saybrook University, and in the PhD program in Interdisciplinary Studies at Union Institute & University, where she coordinates the Creative Writing Certificate Program. Carol’s poems, essays, and scholarship appear in journals in the fields of psychology, literature, women’s studies, gerontology, religious studies, art and dance therapy, education, and medicine. Her book Calling in the Bones won the Snyder Prize from Ashland Poetry Press. Pansies, a work of creative nonfiction, was recently released by Sonder Press in New York. Carol has numerous poems featured in the Poetry, Healing, and Growth Series, including Capturing Shadows, Journey of the Wounded Soul, Connoisseurs of Suffering, A Walk with Nature, Lullabies & Confessions, A 21^st Century Plague, andRising Voices.

Nicole V. Basta has a poem included in Silent Screams.

Milton J. Bates has a poem included in Lullabies & Confessions.

Janée J. Baugher is the author of two ekphrastic poetry collections, Coördinates of Yes (Ahadada Books, 2010) and The Body’s Physics (Tebot Bach, 2013). In 2020, McFarland & Company, Inc. publishers will publish her academic book, Ekphrastic Writing: A Guide to Visual-Art-Influenced Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction, and she’s performed at the Library of Congress. Since earning an MFA in Creative Writing from Eastern Washington University, her work has been widely published, in journals such as Tin House, The Southern Review, The American Journal of Poetry, Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry, Nano Fiction, and The Writer’s Chronicle. Baugher’s had work adapted for the stage and set to music at the University of Cincinnati–Conservatory of Music, Contemporary Dance Theatre in Ohio, Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan, Dance Now! Ensemble in Florida, The Salon at Justice Snow’s in Colorado, and the University of North Carolina-Penbroke. Currently, she’s a poetry reader for Boulevard magazine. Janée contributed a poem to A Walk with Nature.

Norm Baxter is a retired educator and poet. His work appeared in The Avocet, The American Dissident, and the Journal of Undiscovered Poets, and received honorable mention by the Oregon Poetry Association. Norm has a poem included in A 21^st Century Plague.

Virginia Subia Belton is a thanatologist, a compassionate companion and empathic witness in her private practice at Redwood Palliative Psychology, where she focuses on cultivating her community’s capacity for living, aging, dying, and grieving well.  Oriented in an ecopsychological attitude, Gina’s work and research in existential medicine is empowered by her approach characterized as “cultivating an ethic of radical hospitality” (Belton, 2017).  The concept of cultivating an ethic of radical hospitality is the ecopsychological out-growth of her Indigenous, Mestizaje lineage and guides Dr. Belton in her work with clients transitioning to the end of life and supporting the beloveds who mourn them.  As a professor of psychology at Saybrook University, Gina is an emerging Indigenous scholar and committed to the success of her students growing into their own scholarship and practice. Dr. Belton has poems featured in A Walk With Nature, Stay Awhile, Capturing Shadows, Journey of the Wounded Soul, Our Last Walk, Connoisseurs of Suffering, Connoisseurs of Suffering,Silent Screams, and Rising Voices.

David Benata was born in Gibraltar in 1946. He flunked out of school and started working in the family fashion clothing business at 14. When he next looked back it was 42 years later! He retired but was bored so started a silver Jewellery business.  That got him into designing, which he still does. He has always believed in the power of words. As an avid reader, it was almost natural to write. Poetry is the music of words that, when placed in the right rhyming order, creates a symphony of emotions. He  published a book of short stories “Death a la Carte” – under the unfortunate pen name of David B. Duke (Amazon e-books) and last year “HEAD, HEART & SOUL – 101 Illustrated Poems.” Being aware that poetry books rarely made best-sellers, he sent his poems off to artist friends and each illustrated a poem in whichever way they interpreted their poem. The result was a very well-received poetry (real) book he is rather chuffed about. When his poems were accepted by the editors of Capturing Shadows and Journey of the Wounded Soul, he was–and remains–honored and proud to be part of these amazing publications.

Brook Bhagat’s poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and humor have appeared in Monkeybicycle, Empty Mirror Magazine, Harbinger Asylum, MoonPark Review, Little India, Lotus-Eater, Nowhere Poetry, Rat’s Ass Review, Peacock Journal, A Story in 100 Words, Anthem: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen, and other journals and anthologies. In 2013, she and her husband Gaurav created Blue Planet Journal, which she edits and writes for. She holds an MFA from Lindenwood University, teaches creative writing at a community college, and is writing a novel. See more at www.brook-bhagat.com or reach her on Twitter at @BrookBhagat. She has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

Annette Hope Billings RN, CCM, is an award-winning Kansas writer and performer known for her dynamic presentation of poetry and prose. Her fans have dubbed her “Maya of the Midwest.” She has published two books, A Net Full of Hope (2015), a collection of poetry, and Descants for a Daughter (2016), a collection of affirmations. Her poetry is included in poetry anthologies Our Last Walk: Using Poetry in Remembering and Grieving Our Pets and Gimme Your Lunch Money: Heartland Poets Respond To Poetry. Her short story, “As Mercy Would Have It,” is included in the anthology, Twisting Topeka (2016). A variety of online and print publications also contain her work. Other creative activities include classroom poetry presentations for elementary to college-age students, numerous poetry performances, co-hosting a monthly open mic, and voice-over work for the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. visit her website at http://anetfullofhope.com/. Annette’s poem is featured in Our Last Walk.

David Bilyeu lives in Bend, OR with his wife and two dogs. After retiring from college and university librarianship, he runs trails and roasts coffee. He loves to spend time on the Oregon coast and lives to write after a morning beach walk. David contributed a poem to Capturing Shadows.

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Roberta Bisgyer has a poem included in Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Sophie Cabot Black contributed a poem to A Walk with Nature.

Eylin Margarita Blake contributed a poem to Capturing Shadows.

Heidi Elizabeth Blankenship. Poet, wilderness ranger, artist, editor, and wanderer, Heidi Elizabeth Blankenship is the author of Memorizing Shadows: Inspiration from the Arizona Trail (Shanti Arts 2017), a compilation of poetry and artwork from her Arizona Trail thru-hike, and Stone Wishes on the Colorado Plateau, a book of her poetry combined with photographs by Michael Salamacha (Legacy Book Press 2019). She serves as the poetry editor for Deep Wild Journal, a journal that seeks fine writing and artwork focused on backcountry adventures. She enjoys wandering, birding, and staring at the clouds. You can visit her website at www.heidibug.com. She contributed to A Walk with Nature.

Larry Blazek has a poem featured in A Walk with Nature.

Sally Bliumis-Dunn has a poem included in Connoisseurs of Suffering.

LeesaMaree Bleicher contributed poems to Capturing Shadows, Journey of the Wounded Soul, Connoisseurs of Suffering, and Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Carolina Borens has a poem included in Silent Screams.

Michael Bosworth is retired and recently returned to writing poetry and creative nonfiction after a 45-year hiatus. He serves on the board of the Brattleboro Commons newspaper and belongs to the writer’s group, Write Action, both in Brattleboro, VT. Michael has a poem in A 21^st Century Plague.

Victoria Bowers has a poem in A Walk with Nature.

Ted Bowman contributed a poem to A Walk with Nature.

John Bradley is the recipient of two NEA Fellowships and a Pushcart Prize. His poetry has appeared in a number of journals including Caliban, Diagram, Hotel Amerika, and Pedestal. His most recent book is Everything in Motion, Everything at Rest (Dos Madres Press). John has a poem featured in A 21^st Century Plague.

Gabriella Brand’s stories, poetry and essays have appeared in over 50 literary magazines. Her latest work appears in New Salon Lit, Aji, and The Globe and Mail. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and an Osher Lifelong Learning instructor at the University of Connecticut. Gabrielle has a poem in A 21^st Century Plague.

Joseph Ellison Brockway is a poet, translator, and Spanish professor working on a PhD in Studies of Literature and Translation. Joseph’s poetic work experiments with language and ideas that explore the human psyche and existence. He is currently working on a manuscript that deals with identity, family, and depression after a recent DNA test revealed that the man he knew as his father is not his biological father. Joseph’s literary translation interests include surrealism, the subconscious, mental illness, 20th-century Latin American experimental poetry and short story, 20th-century Puerto Rican poetry and short story, and current Puerto Rican culture, politics, and poetry. He has translated poems from Las mujeres no hablan así (That’s Not How Women Talk) by Puerto Rican poet Nemir Matos-Cintrón, and he is now translating Isla cofre mítico (Island: Mythical Coffer) by Spanish surrealist Eugenio Fernández Granell as part of his dissertation. Joseph’s writings and poetry have recently been published in LeHigh Valley Vanguard, The Rising Phoenix Review, Dirty Chai, Full of Crow, Reunion: The Dallas Review, and Surreal Poetics. Joseph can be found on Facebook and Twitter at @JosephEBrockway. Joseph has two poems included in Connoisseurs of Suffering andRising Voices.

Marna Broekhoff has taught English composition, literature, and ESL/EFL classes for half a century primarily at the University of Oregon in Eugene, first in the English Department and then in the American English Institute. Welcoming overseas opportunities, she has taught on every continent except Antarctica, missing the latter by only 500 miles in Patagonia.  Other assignments have included several years in both Japan and Turkey. On US State Department English Language assignments in Namibia in 2008 and in Chile in 2015, she created academic writing centers that are still alive today. An honors graduate of Stanford, she holds a PhD from the University of Michigan in English Language and Literature. Widowed in 1991, she remarried in 2007. Her three sons are now grown. Her dog Astro was her companion for 18 years. She now divides her time between Eugene and Tucson. A left-brain type, she is new to writing poetry. She has poems featured in Capturing Shadows, Our Last Walk, and Rising Voices.

Rodger E. Broome, PhD, has a poem included in Journey of the Wounded Soul, A Walk with Nature, and Lullabies & Confessions.

J. Thomas Brown lives in Richmond, Virginia with his wife and family. He has had careers as a computer technology manager, a realtor, and a truck driver, and co-produced local TV writing shows and coordinated poetry readings at the Richmond Public Library. His short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. He has contributed poems to Lingering in the Margins: A River City Poets Anthology, North of Oxford, Rattlecast,and New Verse News. He describes his greatest honor as to be included in Rising Voices: Poems Towards a Social Justice Revolution. Other published works include Driving With Poppi: A Patremoir, Mooncalf poetry collection, Land of Three Houses, and The Hole in the Bone. He has poems featured in Rising Voices.

Geoffrey S. Browning has a poem included in Silent Screams.

Leah Browning is the author of three short nonfiction books and six chapbooks of poetry and fiction. Her work has appeared in a variety of literary journals including Poetry South, Oyster River Pages, The Broadkill Review, The Stillwater Review, Belletrist Magazine, Four Way Review, The Threepenny Review, Valparaiso Fiction Review, Watershed Review, Random Sample Review, Superstition Review, Santa Ana River Review, The Homestead Review, The Petigru Review, Newfound, Belle Ombre, South 85 Journal, First Class Literary Magazine, Thin Air Magazine, Waypoints, Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing, Clementine Unbound, The Literary Review, Glassworks Magazine, Corium Magazine, Heron Tree, and Mud Season Review. Individual poems have also appeared on materials from Broadsided Press and Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf, with audio and video recordings in The Poetry Storehouse, and in anthologies including Baby Blessings from Andrews McMeel Publishing, Mamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Heartbreaking Art of Parenting from City Works Press, Family Pictures: Poems & Photographs Celebrating Our Loved Ones from Capital BookFest, and Miracles of Motherhood from Center Street/Hachette Book Group USA. In addition to writing, Browning serves as editor of the Apple Valley Review. She has poems featured in Lullabies & Confessions.

Y’Anad Burrell has a poem featured in Rising Voices.

D.C. Buschmann is a retired editor and reading specialist. Her poem, “Death Comes for a Friend,” was the Editor’s Choice in Poetry Quarterly, Winter 2018. She has been published in the US, the UK, Australia, Iraq, and India. Her work has appeared in the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library’s So it Goes Literary Journal, The Adirondack Review, San Pedro River Review, Tipton Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. She has a poem included in A 21^st Century Plague.

Gayle Byock is completing her PhD in Humanistic Existential Psychology and Creative Studies at Saybrook University. She studied and published poetry before taking on administrative positions at UCLA for 20 years. She has now turned her attention to researching how poetry can facilitate a catalytic shift in older women in American society and awaken a creative voice often self-silenced. Gayle contributed a poem to A Walk with Nature.

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Charles Butterfield has published three poetry collections, a biography and a memoir. A retired teacher he holds an M.A. from Middlebury College Bread Loaf School of English. Charles has a poem included in A 21^st Century Plague.

Joan Canby obtained her MFA at Vermont College of Fine Arts and has been published in California Quarterly, The Hawaiian Advertiser, Illya’s Honey, Texas Observer, Forces, Beginnings, New Voices, Cape Rock, Voices Project, Brevitas, Broken Plate, Main Street Rag, and Thema.  She lives in Garland, Texas. She contributed a poem to Our Last Walk.

J. Blair Cano contributed a poem to Our Last Walk.

Jeremy Cantor began writing shortly before retiring from a career in laboratory chemistry. He has made and tested engine oil additives, detergents, and pharmaceuticals, driven a forklift, worked in a full-body acid-proof hazmat suit, tried to keep his fingers working in a walk-in freezer at -40°F, and worked behind radiation shielding. He prefers writing.
Jeremy Cantor’s debut poetry collection, Wisteria From Seed, with a foreword by former Boston Globe arts critic Michael Manning, was published in 2015 by Kelsey Books. His work has been performed at the Boston Conservatory (set to music by composer Robert Gross) as well as in San Francisco and Tucson. His poems have appeared in ISLE (Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, published in conjunction with Oxford University Press), Ithaca Lit, The Naugatuck River Review, Glassworks, Prelude, The Bicycle Review, Pirene’s Fountain, Poetalk, and other journals and anthologies. Jeremy is an alumnus of The Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. He contributed a poem to Connoisseurs of Suffering and A Walk with Nature.

Neil Carpathios contributed a poem to Our Last Walk.

Judith Waller Carroll is the author of What You Saw and Still Remember, a runner-up for the 2017 Main Street Rag Poetry Award, The Consolation of Roses, winner of the 2015 Astounding Beauty Ruffian Press Poetry Prize, and Walking in Early September (Finishing Line Press).  Her work appears in numerous journals and anthologies and has been nominated for Best of the Net. Carroll’s poem “Ways to Keep Warm” traveled to New Zealand, where it was included in the Poems in the Waiting Room series and placed in hospitals, hospices, nursing homes, medical offices, and prisons. Judith is featured in Silent Screams.

Robert Carroll has poems featured in Our Last Walk.

Ann Cefola is the author of Free Ferry (Upper Hand Press, 2017), Face Painting in the Dark (Dos Madres Press, 2014), St. Agnes, Pink-Slipped (Kattywompus Press, 2011), Sugaring (Dancing Girl Press, 2007), and the translation Hence this Cradle (Seismicity Editions, 2007). A Witter Bynner Poetry Translation Residency recipient, she also received the Robert Penn Warren Award judged by John Ashbery.  Her work appears in journals such as Feminist Studies and Natural Bridge, and translations in Eleven-Eleven, Exchanges, and Inventory among others.  For more about Ann, see www.anncefola.com and www.annogram.blogspot.com. Ann has poems featured in Our Last Walk and Silent Screams. 

Sharon L. Charde has poems included in Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Geri Biebel Chavis. As a leader in the poetry/bibliotherapy field, psychologist, certified poetry therapist, mentor-supervisor, humanities professor at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota, and immediate past president of the National Association for Poetry Therapy, Geri Chavis has been fostering growth and healing through poetry, story, and creative writing since 1979. She has presented a wide range of workshops in the U.S., U.K., and Republic of Ireland and written numerous books and articles. Her most recent book is Poetry and Story Therapy: The Healing Power of Creative Expression. Geri contributed a poem to A Walk with Nature.

John Chavis contributed a poem to Capturing Shadows.

Roxanne Christensen contributed poems to Stay Awhile.

Anna Citrino has taught in several countries, including Kuwait, India, and Saudi Arabia. Her work has appeared in various literary journals including Canary, Evening Street Review, Paterson Literary Review, and Porter Gulch Review. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2019, she is the author of A Space Between, and two chapbooks.Anna has a poem included in A 21^st Century Plague.

Trent Claypool contributed a poem to Stay Awhile.

Elayne Clift, a Vermont Humanities Council Scholar, is an award-winning writer and journalist whose work appears in numerous publications internationally. She has published two poetry collections, two memoirs, and three short story collections, the third of which, Children of the Chalet, won First Prize/Fiction, Greyden Press, 2014. Her latest book is Around the World in 50 Years: Travel Tales of a Not So Innocent Abroad (Braughler Books). Elayne has poems included in A 21^st Century Plague.

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Sheryl Clough contributed a poem to Our Last Walk.

Marion Deutsche Cohen is the author of 32 collections of poetry and memoir. Her prose and poetry collections include Not Erma Bombeck: Diary of a Feminist 70s Mother, The Essence of Seventh Grade: A Kind of Autobiography, and The Discontinuity at the Waistline: My #MeToo Poems. She teaches Mathematics in Literature, and Societal Issues on the College Campus at Drexel University. Marion has poems featured in  Lullabies & Confessions and A 21^st Century Plague.

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SuzAnne C. Cole, MA, Stanford, former college English instructor, enjoys being a wife, mother, and grandmother; traveling and hiking the world; and writing from a studio in the Texas Hill Country.  She’s been both a juried and featured poet at the Houston Poetry Fest and once won a haiku contest in Japan.  Her poetry and short fiction have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. Her book To Our Heart’s Content: Meditations for Women Turning Fifty was published by Contemporary. She’s also published more than 450 essays, short fiction, plays, and poetry in venues ranging from Newsweek, Baltimore Sun, Houston Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News to literary and commercial journals and many anthologies. Recent poetry publications and acceptances include Binnacle, Zingara Poetry Picks, Poetry Saved My Life, Ekphrastic Review, Poetry & Place 2015, Binnacle, Gloom Cupboard, and Vineleaves, Texas Poetry Calendar 2015 and Postcard Poems. She creates because she doesn’t think it’s a choice; it’s a calling—writers must put into words what others feel, but cannot articulate.  Writing is sometimes a pleasure, often a necessity, and sometimes, but not often, an agony. She can be reached at suzannecc@aol.com. SuzAnne has a poem featured in Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Ginny Lowe Connors is an award-winning author of several poetry collections including Toward the Hanging Tree and Poems of Salem Village. Her chapbook, Under the Porch, won the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize and she is co-editor of Connecticut River Review. Ginny has poems included in A 21^st Century Plague.

Linda Conroy has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

Michael Coolen is a pianist, composer, actor, performance artist, storyteller, and writer living in Corvallis, Oregon. He has won awards from the Oregon Poetry Association and the Oregon Writers Colony and has been published in Ethnomusicology, Western Folklore, Oregon Humanities, 50wordstories Online, The Gold Man Review, Best Travel Stories, The Fable Online, Kalnya Language Press, Twisted Vine, Clementine Poetry Journal, Creative Writing Institute, Rats Ass Review, Solarwyrm Press, Synesthesia Magazine, Broken Plate Poetry Magazine, WalkWriteUp, StoryClub Magazine, The Poetry Quarterly, Oregon Poetry Association, Shadowgraph Quarterly, Riding Light Review, Bookers Corner.uk, Pure Slush, Melancholy Hyperbole, Oneye Press/Shotgun Honey, Lost River Review, and other publications. He has also published music for various ensembles, as well as soundtracks, plays, experimental films, and documentaries, including the award-winning documentary, Freedom on the Fence, about Polish poster art after WW II. His compositions have been performed around the world, including in France, Sweden, and Denmark, and at Carnegie Hall, the New England Conservatory of Music, MoMA, and the Christie Gallery in New York. He has a poem included in Silent Screams.

Sarah Cooper has poems featured in Silent Screams.

Tasha Cotter contributed a poem to A Walk with Nature.

Hans Cox has a poem featured in Journey of the Wounded Soul.

Tess Crescini has a poem included in Stay Awhile.

Barbara Crooker is the author of eight books of poetry, including Les Fauves (C&R Press, 2017) and The Book of Kells (Cascade Books, 2019).  Radiance, her first book, won the 2005 Word Press First Book Award and was a finalist for the 2006 Paterson Poetry Prize; Line Dance, her second book, won the 2009 Paterson Award for Excellence in Literature. Her writing has received a number of awards, including the 2004 WB Yeats Society of New York Award, the 2003 Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award, and three Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships. Her work appears in a variety of literary journals and anthologies, including Common Wealth:  Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania and The Bedford Introduction to Literature.  She has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Moulin à Nef, Auvillar, France, and The Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, Ireland.  Garrison Keillor has read her poems on The Writer’s Almanac, and she has read her poetry all over the country, including The Calvin Festival of Faith and Writing, The Austin International Poetry Festival, Poetry at Round top, The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival,  Glory Days: A Bruce Springsteen Symposium, and the Library of Congress. She contributed a poem to Our Last Walk and A 21^st Century Plague.

Sue Reed Crouse is a graduate of the Foreword Program, a two-year poetry apprenticeship at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. Her award-winning work appears in numerous journals, and her manuscript, One Black Shoe, was a finalist for the Backwaters Poetry Prize. Sue has a poem included in A 21^st Century Plague.

Amanda Cudney contributed a poem to Stay Awhile.

Christine Holland Cummings contributed a poem to Our Last Walk.

Kylee Mabel Cushman, MFA, resides in Central Vermont. Her work (some under her given name “Kyle” Cushman) has appeared in The Rough Road Review, Opium Magazine, and Fiction Daily, as well as in the anthologies Writers and Artists Do Sleep (Red Claw Press), Wild Things (Outrider Press), and Our Last Walk: Using Poetry for Grieving and Remembering Our Pets. Kylee provides writing coaching and manuscript feedback and also teaches composition and literature courses as an adjunct professor. She plays bluegrass guitar and fiddle in her band Two Cents in the Till, and enjoys hiking, canoeing, and gardening. Kylee contributed a poem to Our Last Walk.

Matt Dahl has a poem included in Rising Voices.

Brian J. Daldorph teaches at the University of Kansas and Douglas County Jail.  He edits Coal City Review.  His most recent book of poetry is Blue Notes (Dionysia Press, 2019). Brian has a poem included in A 21^st Century Plague.

Julie Danho’s first full-length collection, Those Who Keep Arriving, won the 2018 Gerald Cable Book Award from Silverfish Review Press. Her chapbook, Six Portraits, received the 2013 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Award, and her poems have appeared in such publications as Pleiades, Alaska Quarterly Review, and The Writer’s Almanac. Julie has a poem included in A 21^st Century Plague.

Katie Darling has a poem in A Walk with Nature.

Joshua Davies contributed a poem to A Walk with Nature.

Mary Davies Cole has a poem included in Our Last Walk.

Andrea Deerheart, PhD, is the passionate founder of The HeartWay, a non-profit foundation dedicated to Embracing life and Honoring Death. Using wisdom gathered from decades of guiding the living and dying; physically, spiritually, and psychologically, Andrea has provided loving care and healing for those on the journey of conscious living and dying.  Her primary work and teaching focuses on issues related to aging, radiant well-being, death and dying, as well as grief and loss, and mindful and compassionate care. She also offers diverse programs emphasizing the relevance that the lessons learned near death have for living a more loving and compassionate life. Andrea has a very diverse educational background beginning at San Diego State with a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing and Sociology. Her studies took a dramatic shift after she became a Hospice volunteer and social worker. She completed her first Masters’s in Counseling Psychology and continued to Doctoral work at Pacifica Graduate Institute. There her years of study focused on mythology, depth psychology, comparative religions, death, dying, and beyond. She is a sought-after consultant, writer, and poet. She contributed poems Capturing Shadows.

Carol L. Deering has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

Diane Elayne Dees has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

Nancy Devine contributed a poem to Rising Voices.

Rai d’Honoré holds a PhD in Modern Languages and has taught English, French, and Spanish languages, literature, film, history, and politics at universities in the US and abroad. She composes and sings troubadour-style songs and gives lectures and concerts on the culture of medieval Occitania at universities and other venues in the US and France. Rai has a poem included in A 21^st Century Plague.

Jason Dias, PsyD, is a doctor of clinical psychology (PsyD) who teaches graduate and undergraduate psychology. He is a co-founder of the Zhi Mian Institute for International Existential Psychology, frequently visiting China to deepen and extend international understanding of existential and humanistic psychology. Seeking to bring existential ideas out of the ivory tower, he writes a column for aNewDomain and is also a novelist. Dr. Dias has poems featured in Stay Awhile, Connoisseurs of Suffering, and A Walk with Nature.

Patrick S. Dixon is a writer and photographer who retired from careers in teaching and commercial fishing. Raised in Indiana, he grew up in Alaska and moved to Olympia, Washington in 1998. Published in Cirque Literary Journal, Oregon Coast, The Journal of Family Life, Oberon Poetry Journal, and Smithsonian, he is the poetry editor and a contributor for National Fisherman magazine and their quarterly, North Pacific Focus. He is a member of the FisherPoets organizing committee. He is the editor of The Fisherpoets Anthology: Anchored in Deep Water. His chapbook Arc of Visibility won the 2015 Alabama State Poetry Morris Memorial competition. His work may be seen at his website, Patrick Dixon, Writer, on his blog, Gillnet Dreams, and at the website he manages for the FisherPoets Gathering: IntheTote. Patrick has poems featured in Our Last Walk.

Lynn Domina has poems included in Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Carol Dorf has poems included in Lullabies & Confessions.

Morrow Dowdle is a poet living in Hillsborough, NC.  She released her first chapbook, Nature v. Nurture (Artagem Graphic Library) in 2018.  She has published poetry in numerous journals and anthologies, most recently The Baltimore Review, Adanna Literary Journal, Poetry South, Dandelion Review, and Panoply.  She was a Pushcart Prize nominee in 2018.  She is a member of the North Carolina Poetry Society and the Living Poetry collective of the North Carolina Triangle area.  She also writes graphic novels in collaboration with her husband, Max Dowdle, including An Unlikely Refugee, a collaboration with the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, which now houses a permanent exhibit related to the book.  She previously studied at Emerson College’s creative writing MFA program and currently works as a physician assistant in mental healthcare. Morrow has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

Ken Allan Dronsfield is a disabled veteran, prize-winning poet, and fabulist who resides in Seminole, Oklahoma, He is a three-time Pushcart Prize and six-time Best of the Net Nominee for 2016-2018. Ken loves writing, thunderstorms, walking in the woods at night, and spending time with his cats Willa and Yumpy. Ken contributed a poem to A Walk with Nature.

Iris Jamahl Dunkle has a poem featured in Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Amy Durant lives in New York’s Capital Region and works as a copyeditor for an award-winning daily newspaper and a theater reviewer for a weekly arts newspaper. Her most recent poetry has been published in Gingerbread House Literary Magazine, Sundog Lit, The Museum of Americana, Kaaterskill Basin Literary Journal, and Fourth & Sycamore as well as the anthologies Full Moon and Foxglove and Our Last Walk. Her book of poetry Out of True was published in 2012. To read her work, go to http://bit.ly/2mlpusD. She contributed a poem to Our Last Walk.

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Matthew D. Eayre contributed a poem to Journey of the Wounded Soul.

Katherine Edgren: In addition to her book The Grain Beneath the Gloss, published by Finishing Line Press, she also has two chapbooks: Long Division and Transports. Her latest book, Keeping Out the Noise, is scheduled for publication in 2022 by Kelsay Books. Her poems have appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, Coe Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Third Wednesday, Orchards Poetry Journal, Peninsula Poets, Barbaric Yawp, and the Decadent Review. She is a retired social worker and lives in Dexter, Michigan. Katherine has a poem included in Rising Voices.

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Gail Eisenhart contributed a poem to Connoisseurs of Suffering.

David N. Elkins, PhD, has poems featured in Capturing Shadows and Journey of the Wounded Soul.

Susan J. Erickson has poems featured in Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Ronald V. Estrada contributed a poem to Stay Awhile.

Zajnab Ummer Farook has a poem included in Silent Screams.

Julia Falk is a graduate of Saybrook University’s humanistic psychology program, and also holds degrees in nursing and health promotion. Julia teaches Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, along with therapeutic yoga. She is an Integrative Wellness Coach at Holywell Coaching for Life and Health, where she blends the humanistic practice of Focusing into her work. Julia has poems included in A Walk with Nature and Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Joel Federman, has a poem featured in Capturing Shadows.

Steve Fehl has been a regular contributor to the New Existentialist blog, as well as a contributing co-author of chapters in Explaining Evil; Existential Psychology East–West; Miracles: God, Psychology, and Science in the Paranormal; and Whole Person Health Care.  Prior to earning his doctorate in clinical psychology, Steve served Lutheran parishes in Texas, Michigan, California, Minnesota, and Colorado.  Steve’s research interests include Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) issues; faith and spirituality; spiritual abuse; existential theology; and the role of spirituality in existential psychology. Steve has poems featured in Journey of the Wounded Soul.

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Joshua Ferguson explores the intersectionality of cultures, class, and categorization. He promotes holistic, humanistic perspectives, and the humanitarian philosophy through his works as a published writer, public health worker, youth worker, and aspiring pediatrician. A young intellectual global citizen, he has immersed himself in the international community to advance sustainable development. His journey toward self-actualization encompasses diverse endeavors, penning over a thousand poems, and collaborations with emerging talent: musicians, filmmakers, artists, writers. Efforts leading to the International Thespian Society bestowing upon him an award, for excellence in stage acting, as a student in high school. This recognition was the catalyst that awakened his cognitive spiritual journey expressed through the creative arts, extensive world travel, and humanitarian work. An awakening further heightened by his foray into the formal academic community. Rising out of poverty in rural Vermont presented firsthand challenges and opportunities. The cornerstone along his path to personal and social empowerment was built upon his intimate witness of poverty, addiction, and other impacts of inequitable policy. Unturning yet another form of spiritual struggle — identity, faith, religion, one’s concept of history, and existence — is his poem Immaculate Combustion included in Journey of the Wounded Soul.

Marta Ferguson has poems featured in Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Meg Files has a poem in A Walk with Nature.

Ashley Finley contributed a poem Capturing Shadows.

Marilyn Flower contributed a poem to Our Last Walk and Lullabies & Confessions.

Peter W. Fong is the author of the award-winning novel, Principles of Navigation. In 2018, he led a first-ever scientific expedition from the headwaters of Mongolia’s Delgermörön River to Russia’s Lake Baikal. Peter has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

Frederick K. Foote, Jr., has poems featured in Rising Voices.

Azima Lila Forest is an author, poet, dream consultant, Reiki healing practitioner, and minister in the Unitarian Universalist and universal Sufi traditions.  She lives in Silver City, New Mexico. She contributed a poem to A Walk with Nature.

Staci Fraley contributed a poem to Capturing Shadows.

Charlotte Friedman teaches Narrative Medicine at Barnard College. Her poetry has been published in Connecticut River Review, Intima, Light, and elsewhere. Her book The Girl Pages was published by Hyperion. Charlotte has a poem featured in A 21^st Century Plague.

Patricia Frolander, Wyoming’s fifth Poet Laureate, lives in the Black Hills on her husband’s fifth-generation ranch. She has garnered the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum’s coveted Wrangler Award, Willa Cather Award, and High Plains Book Awards among others. Patricia has performed at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering the past three years. She still actively ranches, but at this stage of her life prefers the padded office chair at her writing desk. She is at work on her fourth collection of poems. She has a poem featured in Our Last Walk and A Walk with Nature.

Nesreen (Alsoraimi) Frost has poems included in several volumes in the Poetry, Healing, and Growth Series including Stay Awhile, Capturing Shadows, Journey of the Wounded Soul, Our Last Walk, Connoisseurs of Suffering, and Lullabies & Confessions.

Rachel Gabriel shares and encourages creative expression through word, image, and song. Her writing is included in several anthologies, and she is the recipient of an Artist Residency at the Ragdale Foundation for her novel in progress. She has taught youth and adults at The Loft Literary Center for over a decade and was awarded their Excellence in Teaching Fellowship by student nomination. Ms. Gabriel believes in the power of creative expression to facilitate community and personal wellness, and is particularly interested in the intersection of the arts with phenology, women’s studies, religious tolerance, and spiritual practice. Rachel contributed a poem to A Walk with Nature.

Susan Gabriel, MFA, is in the final stages of her Ph.D. in Psychology at Saybrook University. Along with publication in the anthology Capturing Shadows: Poetic Encounters Along the Path of Grief and Loss, she was a winner of the Rollo May Scholarship for her essay, “Cry for the Mythic Artist: A Consideration of Archetypal Hero and Shaman Healer as part of May’s Legacy.” Her chapter, “Holistic Coaching for Mental Health,” will appear in the upcoming book edited by Fracasso, Krippner & Friedman titled A Mental Health Practitioner’s Guide to Holistic Treatments. In addition, Susan’s work has been published in The Christian Science Monitor, The Baltimore Review, Heyday, Ayris, San Francisco Peace and Hope, and Sugar Mule, and she was a winner in the CBWF Poetry Prize for Women. Her short story “What she should have said” was published in the Social Justice issue of the Little Patuxent Review, and she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her poem “After 10 years of War.” As a Certified Coach and Mediator, she helps others live more authentic lives, and also works as an editor and professor. Please contact her at sgabrielle@saybrook.edu or at http://redearthwriting.com/. She contributed a poem to Capturing Shadows.

Sarah Gajkowski-Hill has poems featured in Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Laura Gamble contributed a poem to Our Last Walk.

Keaneasha Garcia contributed a poem to Journey of the Wounded Soul.

Michael Gargano contributed a poem Lullabies & Confessions.

Levia Gee has a poem included in Stay Awhile.

Aarica Geitner has a poem included in Capturing Shadows.

Joan Gerstein is a retired psychotherapist and educator who has been writing poetry since elementary school. She taught creative writing to incarcerated veterans for five years until the Corona virus forced lockdown. Joan has a poem included in A 21^st Century Plague.

Susan Claire Glass contributed a poem to Our Last Walk.

Marissa Glover is a full-time faculty member at Saint Leo University, where she teaches English and professional writing. Her academic work has appeared in various places such as Florida Studies; her research interests include the politicization of victimhood, the intersection of faith and desire, social constructs as they pertain to systems of oppression, and the notion of language and silence as means of power and control. Marissa’s poetry is published or forthcoming in journals such as The Opiate, Rat’s Ass Review, Strange Poetry, Gyroscope Review, Lipstick Magazine, Helen, 4 Ties Lit Review, Soltice Sounds, and Gyroscope Review. She has performed her spoken word poetry at numerous events and conferences including the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. When she isn’t teaching or writing, Marissa shares her thoughts more than necessary, which she considers a form of charitable giving. If it counted as a tax deduction, she’d be rich. Marissa has a poem in Silent Screams.

Mel Goldberg contributed a poem to Our Last Walk.

F.I. Goldhaber, as a reporter, editor, business writer, and marketing communications consultant, has produced news stories, feature articles, essays, editorial columns, and reviews for newspapers, corporations, governments, and non-profits in five states. Now her poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews appear in paper, electronic, and audio magazines, books, newspapers, calendars, anthologies, and street signs. Her work appears in publications such as Windfall: A Journal of Poetry of Place, Gold Man Review, In Our Own Voices, The Rambler Magazine, Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review, Every Day Poets, Poetry for the Masses, Soul-Lit, A Quiet Courage, and Diverse Voices Quarterly.  Her fourth poetry collection, Food / Family / Friends, releases in May, 2017. http://www.goldhaber.net/. She has a poem included in Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Larry Graber is a psychotherapist in Santa Monica, CA specializing in arts and body-based psychotherapy for posttraumatic stress, couple therapy, clinical hypnosis, and medical psychology. He brings over 35 years’ experience in professional psychology, with a background in complementary medicine, dance, movement, and creative arts. Larry is a certified body psychotherapist in biodynamic psychology. He held clinical/research positions in the VA Healthcare System, UCLA School of Medicine, and has expertise in emergency psychiatry/crisis management. Larry developed a creative arts approach utilizing embodied poetic dialogue for healing grief, loss, and complex traumas. He is completing a doctoral dissertation in clinical psychology at Saybrook University on the historical and contemporary role of the body in trauma psychotherapy.  Larry has poems featured in Capturing Shadows, Journey of the Wounded Soul, A Walk with Nature, andRising Voices.

Aliya J’anai Granger has poems featured in Stay Awhile, Capturing Shadows, and Rising Voices.

Catherine Granger contributed a poem to Capturing Shadows.

Nathaniel Granger, Jr., PsyD, is an adjunct faculty member at Saybrook University and Pikes Peak Community College.  He is the current Secretary and, more recently, President-elect of the Society for Humanistic Psychology (APA Division 32) and Treasurer of the Rocky Mountain Humanistic Counseling and Psychological Association. Dr. Granger is a sought after speaker with several publications, presentations, workshops, and keynotes to his credit. Dr. Granger is founder and director of Be REAL Ministries, Inc., a faith-based non-profit organization devoted to Making a Difference for REAL People with REAL Issues, particularly the homeless population as well as other disenfranchised groups. Dr. Granger has poems featured in several volumes in the Poetry, Healing, and Growth Series including Stay Awhile, Capturing Shadows, Journey of the Wounded Soul, Connoisseurs of Suffering Silent Screams, Lullabies & Confessions and Rising Voices.

Stephen L. Granger contributed poems to Stay Awhile.

Glenn Graves contributed poems to Stay Awhile and Journey of the Wounded Soul.

Melanie Green is the author of three poetry collections: A Long, Wide Stretch of Calm, Continuing Bridge, and Determining Sky.  Her poems have appeared in The Oregonian, Amethyst Review, Windfall, Voice Catcher and elsewhere. Melanie has a poem featured in A 21^st Century Plague.

Tom Greening, PhD, is a retired psychologist and professor emeritus at Saybrook University. He served as the editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology for 35 years and maintained an active private practice in the same location where he was first hired by James Bugental for over 50-years. Now that he is retired, he continues to prolifically write poetry.  Dr. Greening has poems featured in several volumes of the Poetry, Healing, and Growth Series, including Stay Awhile, Journey of the Wounded Soul, Our Last Walk, Poems For and About Elders and Lullabies & Confessions.

Michael A. Griffith contributed to A Walk with Nature.

Dakota Gundy, PsyD, contributed poems to Stay Awhile, Journey of the Wounded Soul, and Our Last Walk.

Laura A. Gundy, PsyD, contributed a poem to Our Last Walk.

Sean Gunning debut collection of verse, No Samaritan, was published by Tebot Bach in 2016. He has won poetry contests in California and Canada and has been published in various anthologies and magazines in the U.S., Canada, and France.  Notable publications include Cadence Collective: Year One Anthology; Journey of the Wounded Soul: Poetic Companions for Spiritual Struggles; Long Beach, California—Past, Present & Future: The Anthology; San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly; Serving House Journal; and The Bastille (Paris, France). Sean’s poem “Waiting for Snow to Fall” was read by poets in Wales and New York during National Poetry Day (Oct. 6, 2016) in Great Britain. Learn more at www.seangunning.com. Sean has poems featured in Journey of the Wounded Soul.

Richard Hague was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in both poetry and prose in 2019.  Winner of the River Writing Contest in fiction sponsored by the Cincinnati literary festival “Books by The Banks” and the contest in Creative Nonfiction from Still: The Journal, he is author or editor of 20 volumes, most recently Riparian: Poetry, Short Prose, and Photographs Inspired by the Ohio River (Dos Madres Press, 2019) and the prose collection Earnest Occupations: Teaching, Writing, Gardening, and Other Local Work (Bottom Dog Press, 2018). He is Artist-in-Residence at Thomas More University in northern Kentucky. Richard has a poem featrued in A 21^st Century Plague.

Red Haircrow is an award-winning writer, educator, and filmmaker of Native (Chiricahua Apache/Cherokee) and African American heritage currently based in Berlin, Germany. Their work has been published in several journals, books, magazines, and anthologies, in a variety of genres and on a wide range of topics. They hold a Master’s in Native American/Indigenous Studies, a Bachelor’s of Science in Psychology, and  their research focuses include Autistic Spectrum Disorder, GLBTIIQ needs, and suicide prevention, and the healing of inter-generational historic trauma of marginalized and minoritized groups through greater cultural competence. Their personal website has a list of their current projects, on-going collaborations and past works. https://redhaircrow.com/ Red Haircrow has an poem featured in Rising Voices.

Victoria J. Hamdi contributed a poem to Capturing Shadows.

Nicole Hamlin contributed a poem to Stay Awhile.

Maryanne Hannan has published poetry widely in journals and anthologies. Her first book, Rocking Like It’s All Intermezzo: 21st Century Psalm Responsorials was published by Resource Publications (2019). A lifelong resident of upstate New York, she contributed a poem to Walking with Nature. Her website is mhannan.com. Maryanne has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

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Don Hardison has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

Lois Marie Harrod’s Spat will be published in May 2021, and her 17^th collection Woman was published by Blue Lyra in February 2020. Nightmares of the Minor Poet appeared in June 2016 from Five Oaks; her chapbook And She Took the Heart appeared in January 2016; Fragments from the Biography of Nemesis (Cherry Grove Press) and the chapbook How Marlene Mae Longs for Truth (Dancing Girl Press) appeared in 2013. Life-long educator and writer, she is published in literary journals and online ezines from American Poetry Review to Zone 3.  Links to her online work www.loismarieharrod.org.  Lois has poems included in Lullabies & Confessions.

Michael Harty contributed a poem to Lullabies & Confessions.

Jo Hausam’s poetry has appeared in various journals and other publications, including Pentimento, Innisfree Journal, and Persimmon Tree. She is the author of the chapbook Step by Stepping Stone (Finishing Line Press, 2014). Jo has a poem featrued in A 21^st Century Plague.

TS Hawkins is an international author, performance poet, art activist, playwright, and member of the Dramatists Guild. Plays, short works, and books include Seeking Silence, Cartons of Ultrasounds, Too Late to Apologize, They’ll Neglect to Tell You, #RM2B, The Secret Life of Wonder: a prologue in G, AGAIN, #SuiteReality, “don’t wanna dance with ghosts…”, Sugar Lumps & Black Eye Blues, Confectionately Yours, Mahogany Nectar, Lil Blaek Book: all the long stories short, and The Hotel Haikus. Hawkins’ one-act choreopoem, AGAIN, was acknowledged for having the “Best Theater Moment of 2017”. #SuiteReality received the 2017 “Theatrical Reality Check” Surya Bonaly Award, an international publication in WORDPEACE Literary Journal, showcased in Chicago at the Goodman Theatre for the Black Lives, Black Words International Theatre Festival, and shares residence at the Carnegie Mellon University Hunt Library. Cartons of Ultrasounds had the pleasure of returning to New York for a limited off-Broadway run to rave reviews. Recently, The Secret Life of Wonder: a prologue in G graced Australian stages as part of Antipodes Theater Company’s Ricochet Reading Series! Hawkins’ residency credits include National Black Theatre SOUL Producing Resident, Swim Pony Performing Arts TrailOff Writer-in-Residence, 1812 Productions’ Jilline Ringle Solo Performance Residency, Out of Exile Artist-in-Residence, Irondale Ensemble “To Protect, Serve, and Understand”, Painted Bride Art Center’s Souls of Black Folk, and Alphabet Arts Puppets & Poets. Notable writing contributions include Rising Voices: Poems Towards a Social Justice Revolution (University Professors Press), Closet Cases: Queers on What We Wear (Et Alia Press), Family Legacies (SONKU Collective Magazine). WORDPEACE Literary Magazine/vol. 2 Spring Edition, Fragrance of Love (Poet Tree), and Long Wharf Theatre Blog Series. Ongoing projects: TrailOff and Community Capital: an Afrofuturism South Philly Walking Experience. tspoetics.com TS has a poem featured in Rising Voices.

Richard Hendrick is an Irish poet and a Capuchin Franciscan Brother.  His poem “Lockdown” went viral and is included in this anthology with his permission. Richard has a poem featrued in A 21^st Century Plague.

Candace Hennekens has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

Delaquaze Herbert contributed poems to Silent Screams.

Duane L. Herrmann, a reluctant carbon-based life-form, was surprised to find himself in 1951 on a farm in Kansas. He’s still trying to make sense of that but has grown fond of grass waving under wind, trees, and moonlight. His full-length collections of poetry include: Prairies of Possibilities, Ichnographical:173, Family Plowing, Remnants of a Life, No Known Address, Praise the King of Glory and Gedichte aus Prairies of Possibilities, plus a science fiction novel: Escape From Earth, and a number of chapbooks. Individual work has been published fifty anthologies and more than 100 other publications including: Midwest Quarterly, Little Balkans Review, Flint Hills Review, Orison, Inscape, Lily Literary Journal, Hawai’i Review and others in print and online in English and other languages. He is the recipient of the Robert Hayden Poetry Fellowship, and the Ferguson Kansas History Book Award. He survived a traumatic, abusive childhood embellished with dyslexia, ADHD (both unknown at the time), cyclothymia, now, PTSD. Duane has a poem featured in Rising Voices.

Candice Hershman, PhD, is featured in several volumes of the Poetry, Healing, and Growth Series including Stay Awhile, Capturing Shadows, and Journey of the Wounded Soul.

Ronnie Hess is an essayist and poet, the author of five poetry chapbooks and two culinary travel guides on Portugal and France (Ginkgo Press). A native New Yorker, she now lives in Madison, WI. You can visit her website at ronniehess.com. Ronnie has a poem included in Lullabies & Confessions.

Jennifer L. Highland contributed a poem to Connoisseurs of Suffering and A Walk with Nature.

Leonore Hildebrandt is the author of the poetry collections Where You Happen to Be, The Work at Hand and The Next Unknown. Her poems and translations have appeared in the Cafe Review, Cerise Press, the Cimarron Review, Denver Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, Harpur Palate, Poetry Daily, RHINO, and the Sugar House Review, among other journals. Winner of the 2013 Gemini Poetry Contest, she received fellowships from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Maine Community Foundation, and the Maine Arts Commission. She was nominated several times for a Pushcart Prize. A native of Germany, Leonore lives “off the grid” in Harrington, Maine, and spends the winter in Silver City, New Mexico. She teaches writing at the University of Maine and serves on the editorial board of the Beloit Poetry Journal. Leonore contributed a poem to A Walk with Nature.

Melissa Hobbs has a poem included in Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Dan Hocoy, PhD, has served as an academic administrator for the past few years, including President of Antioch University, Seattle.  Dan failed in his efforts to become a Catholic priest and settled for being a licensed clinical psychologist instead. He is the author of numerous publications that intersect culture, social change, and psychology. Dan is particularly obsessed with the transformative power of art as well as the notion of synchronicity and spends an inordinate amount of time trying to get the Universe to conform to his personal desires. Dan has poems featured in Stay Awhile, Journey of the Wounded Soul, and Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Joy L. S. Hoffman, PhD, has poems included in Stay Awhile, Capturing Shadows, Our Last Walk, and Rising Voices.

Louis Hoffman, PhD, is a licensed psychologist, professor, and poet. He has edited several scholarly volumes and several volumes of poetry that are part of the Poetry, Healing, and Growth Book Series. He is a faculty member at Saybrook University where he teaches the courses, Poetry, Healing, and Growth and The Use of Poetry with Death, Loss, and Life Transitions. Dr. Hoffman is a fellow of the American Psychological Association as well as 3 divisions of the APA, including the Society for the Study of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. More information on Dr. Hoffman’s writing can be found at his website (www.louis-hoffman.com). You can follow Dr. Hoffman and his writing also at his author Facebook page. Louis Hoffman contributed poems to several volumes in the Poetry, Healing, and Growth Series including Stay Awhile, Capturing Shadows, Journey of the Wounded Soul, Our Last Walk, Connoisseurs of Suffering, Silent Screams, A Walk with Nature, Lullabies & Confessions, andRising Voices.

Karen Paul Holmes is the author of the poetry collection, Untying the Knot (Aldrich Press, 2014), which tells a story of loss and healing “with grace, humor, self-awareness and without a dollop of self-pity,” according to Poet Thomas Lux. She was chosen for Best Emerging Poets (Stay Thirsty Media, forthcoming), and recent publications include Prairie Schooner, Tinderbox, Tar River Poetry, Slipstream, and Poet Lore. To support fellow writers, Holmes originated and hosts a critique group in Atlanta and Writers’ Night Out in the Blue Ridge Mountains. She also teaches writing classes at John C. Campbell Folk School, Writer’s Circle, and other venues, and is a freelance business writer.  Follow her on Facebook. Karen has poems featured in Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Roxy Hornbeck is an artist, writer, poet, educator, and advocate. She lives in Seattle, WA. She has a poem included in A 21^st Century Plague.

D. A. Hosek’s poetry and fiction have been published in journals around the world. He earned his MFA fro, the University of Tampa and lives and writes in Oak Park, IL. He spends his days as an insignificant cog in the machinery of corporate America. You can find out more about D. A. Hosek at https://dahosek.com. He has a poem in Rising Voices.

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Paul Hostovsky is the author of ten collections of poetry, including Deaf &Blind (Main Street Rag, 2020). His poems have won a Pushcart Prize, two Best of the Net Awards, the Future Cycle Poetry Book Prize, and have been featured in Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and The Writer’s Almanac. Paul has a poem included in A 21^st Century Plague.

Diane Hovey works as a therapeutic guide aiding individuals and couples in overcoming life-altering challenges such as ongoing health conditions, sex and pornography addiction, and other compulsions that result in grief, loss, shame, anxiety, depression, trauma, intimacy disorders, and relationship problems. Whatever the given issue, she helps her clients find practical and down to earth ways to address their specific life challenges and get their lives back on track. Combining the arts with therapy, Dr. Hovey founded and directed a non-profit organization, the Family Institute for Creative Well-Being.  Currently, she is the president/owner of Alliance for Healing PA where she continues to work with those who live with life-altering challenges, assisting them on their transformational journeys. Diane contributed a poem to A Walk with Nature.

Kristen Beau Howard contributed poems to Journey of the Wounded Soul, Our Last Walk, and Rising Voices.

Juleigh Howard-Hobson’s poetry has appeared in The Lyric, Trinacria, VerseWisconsin, The Alabama Literary Review, Caduceus, Mandragora (Scarlet Imprint), Poem, Revised: 54 Poems, Re-visions, Discussions (Marion Street Press), and many other places.  Her work has been nominated for both “The Best of the Net” and The Pushcart Prize. Her fourth and latest book is Remind Me (Ancient Cypress Press). She lives on a farm, nestled beside a dark forest, in Deep Cascadia.  You can learn more about what makes her tick here. She contributed a poem to Our Last Walk.

Anne Y.J. Hsu contributed poems Capturing Shadows and Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Linda Imbler. Examples of Linda’s poetry and a listing of publications can be found at lindaspoetryblog.blogspot.com. When not writing, Linda is an avid reader, classical guitar player, and a practitioner of both Yoga and Tai Chi. In, addition, she helps her husband, a Luthier, build acoustic guitars. Linda enjoys her 200-gallon saltwater reef tank wherein resides her almost 20-year-old yellow tang. A retired teacher, who began writing in earnest in January, 2015, Linda believes that poetry truly adds to the beauty of the world. Much of this beauty she feels can be found in the night sky and, on warm nights, her telescope serves as inspiration for this belief. Linda’s self-published poetry collections include “Big Questions, Little Sleep,” “Lost and Found,” and “Red Is The Sunrise.” She has two e-books published by Soma Publishing; “The Sea’s Secret Song,” and “Pairings,” a hybrid ebook of short fiction and poetry. Her newest e-book, “That Fifth Element” will be published by Soma Publishing in late Autumn. Linda has a poem featured in A Walk with Nature.

Jyl Anais is a poet and visual artist who works at the intersections of a variety of media. Her debut poetry collection, Soft Out Spoken, was released in 2019 by Sin Miedo Press. Jyl’s work appears in Rising Voices: Poems Toward A Social Justice Revolution, We Are The Changemakers, Protectors 2: Heroes, Connoisseurs of Suffering, and Asylum Magazine for Democratic Psychiatry among others. She’s worked as a model and an advocate for crime victims in the court system. Originally from Trinidad, she now lives in the United States where she makes plant medicine in her home apothecary and faces the blank page. Find her at jylanais.com. Jyl contributed poems to Journey of the Wounded Soul, Connoisseurs of Suffering, and Rising Voices.

Hubert Jackson has a poem featured in Rising Voices.

Nancy K. Jentsch is a second-career poet who has spent most of her life teaching German and Spanish at Northern Kentucky University. She has worked to instill a passion for language in her students and to broaden their horizons through study abroad. As a poet, she seeks to exercise her passion for language and open new views for her readers. She has recently published poetry in Eclectica, 3 Elements Review, Soul-Lit and Panoply. Her chapbook, Authorized Visitors, and seven ekphrastic poems in the chapbook Frame and Mount the Sky were published in 2017. Her writer’s page on Facebook is https://www.facebook.com/NancyJentschPoet/ Nancy has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

Jeffrey Johannes has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

Alison Johnson is a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner and a Registered Poetry Therapist. Alison contributed to A Walk with Nature.

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Caroline Johnson has two poetry chapbooks, Where the Street Ends and My Mother’s Artwork, and more than 70 poems in print. A nominee for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, she has won numerous state and national poetry awards, including the 2012 Chicago Tribune’s Printers Row Poetry Contest. Her poetry or short stories have appeared in Lunch Ticket, Rambunctious Review, Origins Journal, The Quotable, Encore, Naugatuck River Review, Blast Furnace, The Chicago Tribune, New Scriptor, Prairie Light Review, and Kind of a Hurricane Press, among others. She served as president of Poets and Patrons of Chicago for four years and leads poetry workshops for veterans and others in the Chicago area. An English teacher for 20 years, she now works as a community college academic advisor. One of her favorite activities in the past was watching James Bond movies with her father. Caroline has poems featured in Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Sophie Paulette Jupillat. From an early age, French-Venezuelan Sophie Paulette Jupillat pursued her love for writing and music. She enjoys innovating her art and seeking inspiration from the richly eclectic world around her. She studied writing and music at Rollins College. Sophie’s diverse works have been featured in magazines such as Scriblerus (‘Black and White’), The Halcyon (‘Mellow Raccoon’, ‘Fleet Deer’), Festival Writer, (‘The Folly of Red and Black’), Art Saves Lives International (‘Redoutable’), Masque and Spectacle (‘Remembrance of a Waltz’, ‘Antlers’ – a collaboration with Jose Rivera), Perspectives (‘Once Upon a Time,’ ‘Nature’), and the Mulberry Fork Review (‘Forgive Me’). When she is not writing or composing music, she teaches French and Piano to students in Central Florida. You can follow Sophie on LinkedIn and Facebook. You can find more information on her tutoring website and music composing website. Sophie has a poem included in Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Mary-Lane Kamberg is a professional writer with more than thirty nonfiction books in print. Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals, and her chapbook Seed Rain was published by Finishing Line Press in 2015. She co-leads the Kansas City Writers Group. Mary-Lane has a poem included in A 21^st Century Plague.

J. Kates is a poet and literary translator. He lives in New Hampshire. He has a poem included in A 21^st Century Plague.

Rick Kempa has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

Sarah Dubreuil Karpa has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

Jim Keller has a poem included in Rising Voices.

Elizabeth Kerlikowske contributed a poem to Our Last Walk.

Alan King has a poem included in Lullabies & Confessions.

Betz King contributed a poem to Our Last Walk.

Grace Harlow Klein contributed a poem to Capturing Shadows.

Tricia Knoll has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

Laurie Kolp lives in Southeast Texas with her husband, three children, and two dogs. She has recently returned to teaching after a 14-year hiatus during which she published a full-length collection of poetry, Upon the Blue Couch (Winter Goose Publishing), and chapbook Hello, it’s Your Mother (Finishing Line Press). Her poems have appeared or are upcoming in Rust + Moth, concis, Bracken, Up the Staircase, The Leveler, PITH, and more. Laurie’s poem, “In a Fallen World,” recently won the Front Porch Journal’s Ekphrasis challenge, and her winning poems have been published twice in Writer’s Digest. Lover of running, almonds, and key lime pie, Laurie is forever in search of the best word. Learn more about Laurie at www.lauriekolp.com. She contributed a poem to Our Last Walk.

Marlee Kongthong has a poem included in Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Edward Korber, PhD,  has a poem featured in Journey of the Wounded Soul.

Rozann Kraus, recently Resident Choreographer at the Central Square Theater, has served on the faculties of the Yale School of Drama, New England Conservatory of Music, and Boston University. In 1991, she founded The Dance Complex in Cambridge MA, rescuing the historic Odd Fellows Hall, creating a center for the movement arts in New England.  Winner of an Artists Foundation Choreography Fellowship (MA), a Fellowship from Ohio, Live Arts Boston Grant, the Paul Robeson Award, an award from WILPF, and Arts Lottery Grants from five cities, she’s had many commissions, including from the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, The Yale Art Gallery, Composers in Red Sneakers, and (for 9 consecutive years) Boston’s First Night. Touring as a teacher, choreographer, and performer, Ms. Kraus has been a guest choreographer at MIT, the Cambridge School of Weston, and Tufts University, and was an Artist in Residence at Clark University and many other institutions. A community activist (irritant), her first poem was published in Genesis (1988) and her most recent wordful work is as the editor of Between the Lanes newsletter for the swim community in New England. She contributed a poem to Our Last Walk.

Evgeny Krayushkin-Zheka has a poem included in Lullabies & Confessions.

Katherine Kreil-Sarkar contributed poems Capturing Shadows and Journey of the Wounded Soul.

Molly Kruger contributed a poem to Capturing Shadows.

John Krumberger has published a volume of poems, The Language of Rain and Wind; a chapbook, In a Jar Somewhere; and a poetry collection, Because Autumn. He is a psychologist in St. Paul. MN. He has a poem included in A 21^st Century Plague.

Veronica Lac, PhD, LPC, is a mental health professional who works with horses. She is the Founder & Executive Director of The HERD Institute® which offers training and certification in equine facilitated psychotherapy and learning. She has published two books within the field of equine therapy and multiple peer-reviewed articles on the subject. Dr. Lac has served on the Executive Board of APA Division 32 (Secretary) and is a founding member of the Racial Diversity Work Group for the Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship (PATH Intl). She is also a regular peer-reviewer for The Humanistic Psychologist and the Journal of Humanistic Psychology. Her commitment to fighting for social justice is woven through the fabric of her professional and personal life. Dr. Lac lives on a farm in Orlando, Florida, with her husband, three horses, three dogs, a cat, and six chickens. She has poems featured in Stay Awhile, Capturing Shadows, Journey of the Wounded Soul, Our Last Walk, Lullabies & Confessions, and Rising Voices.

Jennifer Lagier has published thirteen books, taught with California Poets in the Schools, and co-edits the Homestead Review. Her degrees include a PhD in Computing Technology in Education from Nova Southeastern University, MA in English from California State University, Stanislaus, MLIS from the University of California, Berkeley. Her most recent books include Scene of the Crime (Evening Street Press), Harbingers (Blue Light Press), and Camille Abroad (FutureCycle Press). More information about her is available on her website, www.jlagier.net. She has a poem included in Silent Screams, A Walk with Nature,andRising Voices.

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John Lambremont, Sr. has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

W. F. Lantry has poems featured in Lullabies & Confessions.

Sandra Larson has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize. She has published three chapbooks in addition to Ode to Beautiful, published in 2017, which was followed by a full-length manuscript, This Distance in My Hands. Her poetry has appeared in Atlantic Review, Grey Sparrow, Earth’s Daughters and numerous anthologies. She has a poem included in A 21^st Century Plague.

Emily Lasinsky, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Counseling Department at Wayne State College in Wayne, Nebraska. In addition to academic pursuits, she enjoys creating art and writing.  She believes in the healing potential of the creative process, and the intention of her work is to foster introspection, curiosity, and healing. She is grateful to have her work among many other respectable artists, poets, and mental health professionals in the Poetry, Healing, and Growth Book Series. . To view Emily’s artwork, check out: Art Expressions by Emily Lasinsky on Facebook. Emily contributed poems to several volumes in the Poetry, Healing, and Growth Series including Stay Awhile, Capturing Shadows, Journey of the Wounded Soul, Our Last Walk, Connoisseurs of Suffering, and A Walk with Nature.

Hillary Leighton. A lifelong apprentice to nature and psyche, Dr. Hilary Leighton is an associate professor at Royal Roads University, psychotherapist, and Registered Clinical Counsellor in private practice. Leighton draws upon the wisdom of ecopsychology, depth psychology, whole systems thinking, embodiment, and nature-and arts-based practices. Her research and teaching reflect the ethical dilemma, suffering and loss of our relationships with what is wild and contemplates learning as an initiatory journey toward maturation and a more soulful way of belonging. Hillary contributed a poem to A Walk with Nature.

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Tamiko Lemberger-Truelove has poems featured in Stay Awhile and Journey of the Wounded Soul.

Annie Lighthart is an Oregon writer and teacher.  Her books include Pax, Lantern, and Iron String. Annie’s poems have been featured on The Writer’s Almanac and in various anthologies, including Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems and Healing the Divide. Her work has been turned into choral music, used in projects in Ireland, England, and New Zealand, and has traveled farther than she has. She has poems included in Lullabies & Confessions.

Sandra Lindow lives on a hillside in Menomonie. Wisconsin. She teaches, writes, edits, and competes with wildlife for the sustenance of her vegetables and perennials. She has been publishing her poetry since was eleven and is presently the longest-serving regional vice president in the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets. She has eight poetry collections. The most recent is the The Island of Amazonned Women (2019). She is the longest-serving regional vice president in the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets. Her awards include the 1990 CWW Posner Award for best poetry collection, two WWA Jade rings for poetry, two WFOP theme awards for poetry, the Wisconsin Press Women’s Award for Poetry, and the 2018 Norbert Blei Award for Poetry. You can find out more about her at https://www.wfop.org/member-pages#/sandra-lindow. Sandra contributed a poem to A Walk with Nature.

Stephen Linsteadt is a painter, poet, and writer. He is the author of the poetry collection The Beauty of Curved Space (Glass Lyre Press 2016), and the non-fiction books The Heart of the Hero and Scalar Heart Connection, which are concerned with humanity’s connection, or lack thereof, with Nature, the Sacred Feminine, and the global community. Stephen was a finalist in the 2016 Edna St. Vincent Millay Poetry Prize. His poetry has appeared in California Quarterly, The Tishman Review, Silver Birch Press, Synesthesia Literary Journal, Pirene’s Fountain, San Diego Poetry Annual, Gyroscope Review, Saint Julian Press, Poetry Box, Spirit First, and others. He has published articles about heart-centered consciousness in Whole Life Times, Awaken, Truth Theory, Elephant Journal, and others. Stephen’s paintings were featured in the poetry anthology Woman in Metaphor and have also appeared in The Tishman Review, Reed Magazine, Lime Hawk, Badlands Literary Journal, Birmingham Arts Journal, and on the covers of various poetry collections. Stephen has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

Erica Loberg was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. She received her BA in English from Columbia University. Erica won the IPPY Award for Most Outstanding Original Concept for her book Screaming at the Void in 2016, and her work continues to be celebrated in books from around the world. For more on Erica check out her YouTube channel. She contributed a poem to Journey of the Wounded Soul.

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Ellaraine Lockie is a widely published and awarded poet, nonfiction book author, and essayist. Her newest poetry book is the coauthored Trio from Poetrylandia. Recent work has recently won the Poetry Super Highway Contest, the Nebraska Writers Guild’s Women of the Fur Trade Poetry Contest, New Millennium’s Monthly Musepaper Poetry Contest, and a First Place in the Artists Embassy International Dancing Poetry Contest. Her fourteenth chapbook, Sex and Other Slapsticks, has been released from Presa Press. Earlier collections won Poetry Forum’s Chapbook Contest Prize, San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival Chapbook Competition, Encircle Publications Chapbook Contest, Best Individual Poetry Collection Award from Purple Patch magazine in England Competition, and the Aurorean’s Chapbook Choice Award. Her poems have found their ways onto broadsides, buses, rented cars, bicycles, cabins, greeting cards, key chains, bookmarks, mugs, coffee sack labels, church bulletins, radio shows, and cable TV as well as into hundreds of national and international journals, magazines and anthologies. Thirty of her poems have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, and she has received multiple writing fellowship awards from both Summer Literary Seminars and Centrum Literary Residencies. Ellaraine teaches writing workshops, frequently judges poetry contests, and serves as Poetry Editor for the lifestyles magazine, LILIPOH.  She contributed a poem to Our Last Walk, Silent Screams, and Lullabies & Confessions.

Joel Long’s book Winged Insects won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize, and two of his other works were published by Blaine Creek Press. He has also published two chapbooks. His work has appeared in the Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner, Rhino, Bitter Oleander, and other publications. He lives in Salt Lake City. Joel has a poem included in A 21^st Century Plague.

Christina Lovin has poems featured in Lullabies & Confessions.

John Lyhne contributed poems to Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Bev Lyles has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

B. M. Lyon contributed poems to Journey of the Wounded Soul.

Kathryn Howd Machan, PhD, Professor of Writing at Ithaca College, holds degrees from the College of Saint Rose, the University of Iowa, and Northwestern University. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines; in anthologies/textbooks such as The Bedford Introduction to Literature, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Early Ripening: American Women’s Poetry Now, Literature, Sound and Sense, Writing Poems; and in 32 collections, most recently the chapbooks H (winner of the 2013 Gribble Press competition) and Wild Grapes: Poems of Fox (Finishing Line Press, 2014, first runner-up in their competition). The former director of the national Feminist Women’s Writing Workshops, Inc., in 2012 she edited Adrienne Rich: A Tribute Anthology (Split Oak Press). FutureCycle Press will publish her chapbook Dark Matters in 2017 and Katharyn Howd Machan: Selected Poems in 2018. Also in 2018 Cayuga Lake Books will publish her full-length Secret Music: Voices from Redwing, 1888 and Red Berry Editions will publish her chapbook Dreaming Turquoise, winner of their national competition. She has had poems included in Silent Screams.

Beverly Magovern has poems featured in Capturing Shadows.

Cahterine A. MacKenzie contributed a poem to Our Last Walk.

Maria Elena B. Mahler’s poems and short stories are published internationally in English and Spanish journals and anthologies. Her first bilingual poetry collection, Sweeping Fossils, was published by Glass Lyre Press in 2016. She was a finalist for the 2011 San Francisco-based Primer Concurso de Poesía Latinoamericana en Español and a finalist in the BorderSenses poetry competition in 2015. Maria Elena also co-authored the non-fiction book The Heart of Health (Truth Publishing Co. 2011). She was the editor of the poetry anthology, Woman in Metaphor (NHH Press 2013), a collection of poems from around the world inspired by the paintings of Stephen Linsteadt. Her personal essay about Linstead’s poetry was published by the Tishman Review (Sept 2016). Maria Elena was raised in the South of Chile. After graduating with a degree in Communications, she lived and worked in Mexico and Canada, and currently resides between the woods of Northern California and the jungle of Brazil. Maria has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

Ted Mallory has poems featured in Stay Awhile, Capturing Shadows, and Journey of the Wounded Soul.

Eileen Malone has a poem included in Silent Screams.

Charlotte Mandel has published eleven books of poetry, the most recent, Alive and In Use: Poems in the Japanese Form of Haibun. Previous titles include To Be the Daylight; Through a Garden Gate—poems responding to color photographs by Vincent Covello; Life Work; SightLines; Rock Vein Sky; and two poem-novellas of feminist biblical revision—The Life of Marty and The Marriages of Jacob. In 2019, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Brooklyn College Alumni Association. Other awards include the New Jersey Poets Prize, two fellowships in poetry from New Jersey State Council on the Arts; Woman of Achievement (arts); and residencies at Yaddo, Millay, VCCA, and Villa Montalvo. She edited the Eileen W. Barnes Award Anthology, Saturday’sWomen. Critical essays include a series on the role of cinema in the life and work of H.D.; articles on Muriel Rukeyser; May Sarton; Thomas McGrath; others. Visit her at www.charlottemandel.com. Charlotte has poems featured in Lullabies & Confessions.

John C. Mannone has work in Blue Fifth Review, New England Journal of Medicine, Intima, Amsterdam Quarterly, Peacock Journal, Gyroscope Review, Inscape Literary Journal, Baltimore Review, Pedestal, and Pirene’s Fountain. He’s been awarded Weymouth writing residencies (2016, 2017) and has three poetry collections: Apocalypse (Alban Lake Publishing, July 2015), nominated for the 2017 Elgin Book Award; Disabled Monsters (The Linnet’s Wings Press, December 2015) featured at the 2016 Southern Festival of Books; and Flux Lines (Celtic Cat Publishing, Spring 2017). He’s been nominated for several Pushcart and Rhysling awards and won the 2015 Joy Margrave award in creative nonfiction. He edits poetry for Abyss & Apex, Silver Blade, and Liquid Imagination. He serves as the 2016/17 President of the Chattanooga Writers’ Guild, as well as on the Board of Directors for Silver Pen Writers, Inc. Mannone is a professor of physics appointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Science, Engineering, Health and Management in 2017 (Techno University, Bengal, India). He is engaged in astronomy outreach and lives near Knoxville, TN. Visit http://jcmannone.wordpress.com to find out more. John has a poem featured in Connoisseurs of Suffering, Lullabies & Confessions, and Rising Voices.

Lorraine Mangione, PhD, is a professor of Psychology and Director of Practica at Antioch University New England in Keene, New Hampshire, and teaches doctoral students in the Department of Clinical Psychology. Her undergraduate degree is from Duke University and her doctorate is from the University of Kansas.  Teaching, clinical, and research interests include group therapy, creativity, and the self, psychodynamic and relational frameworks, clinical supervision, loss and grief, poetry and identity development, women and the midlife transition, mentoring, and clinical training. She has written on relationships and meaning-making in Bruce Springsteen’s work for several years and is now focusing on his significance to his female fans.  Her book with Dr. Donna DiCello, Daughters, Dads, and the Path through Grief: Tales from Italian America, based on interviews with over 50 women, several of them published poets, writers, and artists was published in 2015.  Presenting on and engaging in conversation with people on the issues included in this book such as loss and mourning, father and daughter relationships, Italian American culture, the role of all cultures in families and loss, stereotypes, and religion and spirituality is at the center of her work right now.  Poetry and spirituality have sustained her since childhood.  Lorraine has poems featured in Journey of the Wounded Soul.

Shahé Mankerian has poems featured in Lullabies & Confessions.

Monica Mansilla, PhD, contributed poems to Stay Awhile and Capturing Shadows.

Jayne Marek contributed a poem to A Walk with Nature.

Suzanne Rogier Marshall has a poem in A Walk with Nature.

From English teacher to management trainer to retiree, Carolyn Martin, PhD, has journeyed from New Jersey to Oregon to discover Douglas firs, months of rain, and perfect summers. Her poems and book reviews have appeared in publications throughout North America and the UK including “Stirring,” “CALYX,” “Persimmon Tree,” “How Higher Education Feels,” and “Antiphon.” Her third collection, Thin Places, is slated for release by Aldrich Press in Fall 2017. Carolyn contributed poems to Our Last Walk and Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Lynn Martin’s poetry has appeared in numerous publications including Calliope, River City Review, South Florida Review, The Garden State, Green Mountains Review, Connecticut Review, Earth’s Daughters, Sweet Annie Press, Chrysalis Reader, Passager,and Friends Journal.  She has four chapbooks: The latest is Living Diversity. Lynn has poems featured in A 21^st Century Plague.

Lisa Masé (she/her and they/them) writes about family, food, geography, and the invisible thread that weaves them. She teaches poetry workshops for Vermont’s Poem City events, co-facilitates a writing group, and translates poetry. Her poems have been published by Open Journal of Arts and Letters, Jacard Press, the Long Island Review, K’in Literary, Inlandia Review, Press 53, and Silver Needle Press, among others. Lisa contributed a poem to A Walk with Nature.

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Deborah Mashibini-Prior teaches English Composition as an adjunct instructor for River Valley Community College and Sothern New Hampshire University from her home in Enfield, New Hampshire.  In addition to her inclusion in Connoisseurs of Suffering,  her poetry has been published in online and print journals and anthologies including Bloodroot Literary Magazine, HEArtOnline, Postcard Poems and Prose, The Harwood Anthology, American Society: What Poets See, Untamed Ink, Drum Voices Revue, and No Vacancy: A Voice for Those Without One.  She also has an essay in What Does it Mean to be White in America (2LeafPress 2016).  Mashibini-Prior’s work engages with and reflects on experiences with poverty, race, homelessness, and other social issues based on her own experiences and those of people she worked with during her 25+ years with nonprofit organizations serving people with disabilities and those who were homeless in New Mexico, New York City, St. Louis, and South Africa. She has a poem included in Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Andrew Shattuck McBride contributed a poem to Our Last Walk.

Mary McCarthy has poems included in Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Chelsea McCarty contributed a poem to Capturing Shadows.

Stephen Mead, a resident of New York, is a published artist, writer, and maker of short-collage films and sound-collage downloads, some of which can be seen on his Amazon author page. His latest Amazon release is an art-text hybrid, According to the Order of Nature (We too are Cosmos Made), a work that takes to task the words which have been used against LGBT folks from time immemorial. In 2014, he began a webpage to gather links of his poetry being published in such zines as Great Works, Unlikely Stories, Quill & Parchment, and other sources in one place: Poetry on the Line, Stephen Mead. Stephen has a poem included in Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Natalia Mello contributed a poem to Journey of the Wounded Soul.

Robin Michel contributed a poem to Our Last Walk.

Amy Miller’s writing has appeared in literary journals such as  Bellingham Review, Nimrod, Permafrost, Rattle, and ZYZZYVA as well as Asimov’s Science Fiction, Fine Gardening, and The Poet’s Market. She won the Cultural Center of Cape Cod National Poetry Competition, judged by Tony Hoagland, the Jack Grapes Poetry Prize from Cultural Weekly, and the Kay Snow Award for Fiction, and has been a finalist for the Pablo Neruda Prize and the 49th Parallel Award. Her most recent poetry chapbooks are I Am on a River and Cannot Answer (BOAAT Press), Rough House (White Knuckle Press), and White Noise Lullaby (Cyclone Press). A longtime book editor, she lives in Ashland, Oregon, where she works as the publications project manager for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and blogs at writers-island.blogspot.com. Amy’s has a poem feature in Our Last Walk.

Pamela Mitchell is a nurse consultant in geriatric care in Bend, OR. Her work has been included in several anthologies including Intensive Care: More Poetry and Prose by Nurses and The Healers Burden: Poetry and Prose by Health Professionals. Her chapbook Finding Lost Pond was published in 2021 by Finishing Line Press. She had poems featured in A 21^st Century Plague.

Jesse S. Moats contributed a poem to Capturing Shadows.

Michael Moats, PsyD, is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice that primarily works with military personnel and their families. His passion lies in working with clients who are learning to redefine their lives and create new meaning, especially those dealing with grief and loss in its many forms. Dr. Moats has two books to his credit and is working on a third, as well as numerous journal articles, poetry, and book chapters on various topics including existential psychology, multicultural issues in psychotherapy, international psychology, grief, and suicide. Dr. Moats has poems featured in several volumes of the Poetry, Healing, and Growth Series including A Walk with Nature, Stay Awhile, Capturing Shadows, Journey of the Wounded Soul, Our Last Walk, and Lullabies & Confessions.

Judith H. Montgomery contributed a poem to Capturing Shadows.

Michael Moos has published four poetry books including The Idea of the Garden, winner of the Richard Snyder Poetry Prize from Ashland University Poetry Press (2018). He has received poetry awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Minnesota State Arts Board, and the McKnight Foundation. He was poet-in-residence for the Academy of American Poets, and his work has appeared in numerous publications. He had poems featured in A 21^st Century Plague.

Dave Morehouse contributed a poem to Our Last Walk.

Joan Moritz has been published in numerous print and online journals, including Bellevue Literary Review, Blue Lyra, Gyroscope Review, Kosmos Journal, Poetica, Pontoon Poetry, and The Fourth River; and in two anthologies. Retired from a career crunching numbers, she now crunches words, transcribes books into braille, and sings out loud as often as possible. She lives in Seattle. She contributed a poem to A Walk with Nature.

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Sean Murphy has a poem included in Rising Voices.

Gloria Murray has published in various literary journals, including The Paterson Review, for which she won an Editor’s Choice Award, as well as in Poet Lore, Oberon, the Pittsburgh Quarterly, and others. Gloria had poems featured in A 21^st Century Plague.

Molly Murray writes to build bridges, inspire empathy and wonder, and to capture the beauty of this vanishing world. She is the author of Today, She Is (Wipf & Stock, 2014), a creative nonfiction account of recovery from severe traumatic brain injury, and the Outdoor Editor of Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel. Her stories, poetry, and essays have appeared in publications including Litro, Ruminate, Third Wednesday, and The Wayfarer; one of her poems was nominated for a 2019 Pushcart Prize. She posts creative inspiration on Instagram: @miss_diagnosis_.  Molly has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

Lylanne Musselman has poems featured in Our Last Walk.

Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD, has poems featured in Capturing Shadows and Journey of the Wounded Soul.

Anne Ness has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

Patricia A. Nugent has a poem included in Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan has a poem included in Capturing Shadows.

Toti O’Brien was born in Rome and lives in Los Angeles, where she makes a living as a self-employed artist, performing musician, and professional dancer. Her work has most recently appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Moth, Hypertext, and Atticus. She contributed a poem to Connoisseurs of Suffering and A Walk with Nature. 

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Kathy O’Fallon is a psychologist living and working in Fallbrook, CA, avocado capital of the world.  She has published poems and short stories in numerous literary journals, magazines, and anthologies, as well as three chapbooks. Kathy has poems featured in Connoisseurs of Suffering and A Walk with Nature.

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Ellen O’Leary is a writer in northern California.  Her essays have appeared in numerous local, national, and international publications, including Financial Times, Hemispheres Magazine, The East Bay Monthly, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Chronicle Review.  Her essay “Nine Rooms and a View” was the 2^nd Place Prose Winner in the anthology Home and her essay “Snow Is Falling” was included in the anthology Snowflakes and Memories.  Her poems have appeared in Blue Arc West: An Anthology of California Poets and California Quarterly.   Please visit her website: www.maureenellenoleary.com for publication details.  An east coast (Boston) transplant, she earned her Ph.D. in English at Berkeley and was a tenured professor at Diablo Valley College for more than twenty-five years before retiring in 2018.   She can be contacted at maur.oleary@gmail.com.  Ellen contributed a poem to A Walk with Nature.

David Olsen won the Cinnamon Press Poetry Collection Award in 2015. His third full-length collection, After Hopper & Lange, was published in 2021 (Oversteps Books). A poet, playwright and fiction writer, he lives in Oxford, UK. He has a poem included in A 21^st Century Plague.

Jennifer O’Neill has poems featured in Rising Voices.

Iris Orpi contributed a poem to A Walk with Nature.

Alexandra O’Toole contributed a poem to Capturing Shadows.

Nick Owen contributed poems to Journey of the Wounded Soul.

Judith Pacht has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

Carl “Papa” Palmer of Old Mill Road in Ridgeway, VA now lives in University Place, WA. He is retired military, retired FAA, and now just plain retired without a wristwatch, alarm clock, or Facebook friend. Carl, president of The Tacoma Writers Club and Franciscan Hospice volunteer,  is a Pushcart Prize and Micro Award nominee.   MOTTO: Long Weekends Forever. He has poems featured in Our Last Walk, Connoisseurs of Suffering, & Lullabies & Confessions.

Erica Palmer, PsyD, contributed poems to Capturing Shadows and Journey of the Wounded Soul.

Pratik Pandya contributed a poem to A Walk with Nature.

Scott F. Parker contributed a poem to A Walk with Nature.

Carrie Pate contributed poems to Stay Awhile, Capturing Shadows, and Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Ericka Pate contributed a poem to Capturing Shadows.

C. Richard Patton published his first poems in Grains of Sand in the 1970s. More recently his work was featured in The Valley Planet, an arts and entertainment publication in his adopted home of Huntsville, Alabama where he runs a table tennis club, builds software professionally, and designs polyhedral dice games for Chipsterzone Games. He has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

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Autumn J. Patz contributed to A Walk with Nature.

Stacy Pendergrast has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

Jackie Peters contributed a poem to Our Last Walk.

Laurie Phillips has a poem included in Capturing Shadows.

Evin Phoenix has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

Marge Piercy has written 17 novels including The New York Times bestseller Gone To Soldiers; the national bestsellers Braided Lives and The Longings of Women; the classics Woman on the Edge of Time and He, She and It; and Sex Wars. Among her 20 volumes of poetry are The Hunger Moon: New & Selected Poems 1980–2010, and Made in Detroit. She is the recipient of four honorary doctorates and is active in antiwar, feminist, and environmental causes. Marge has poems featured in A 21^st Century Plague.

Heidi Pinson contributed a poem to Stay Awhile.

Shelly Lynn Pizzuto contributed poems to Capturing Shadows,  Journey of the Wounded Soul, A Walk with Nature, andRising Voices.

Rachel Porias contributed a poem to Rising Voices.

Andrea Potos has a poem included in Silent Screams.

Yasna C. Provine has poems included in Stay Awhile and Journey of the Wounded Soul.

Katie Quarles has a poem included in Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Diana Raab has a poem featured in Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Rosanna Radding contributed a poem to Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Burt Rashbaum lives in Colorado, where he writes poetry and fiction and plays keys with the band The CBDs. His publications are Of the Carousel (The Poet’s Press, 2019), Blue Pedals (Editura Pim, 2015), Century of Love (2000, non-fiction), Becoming an American (2000, short fiction), and two novels, Tears for My Mother (2010) and The Ones that I Know (2015). He’s been anthologized in XY Files: Poems on the Male Experience (Sherman Asher Publishing, 1997), The Cento: A Collection of Collage Poems (Red Hen Press, 2011), Art in the Time of Covid-19 (San Fedele Press, 2020), Meet Cute Press #2 (meetcutepress.com, 2021), American Writers Review: Turmoil and Recovery (San Fedele Press, 2021), and Storms of the Inland Sea: Poems of Alzheimer’s and Dementia Caregiving (Shanti Arts, 2022, in press). He has poems featured in A 21^st Century Plague.

Juanita Ratner contributed poems to Capturing Shadows, Journey of the Wounded Soul,  A Walk with Nature, and Lullabies & Confessions.

Portia Rawles contributed a poem to Rising Voices.

Elaine Reardon has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

Jennie Reichman writes and performs songs and poems that document a life tied to the natural world and intimate human relationships. Her poetry has been published in the literary magazine Saxifrage and in The Best of Write Action Tenth Anniversary Anthology. She lives in Vermont. Jennie has poems featured in A 21^st Century Plague.

Marcella Remund has a poem included in Connoisseurs of Suffering and Lullabies & Confessions.

Nance Reynolds discovered the joy and reward of writing poetry a few years ago. Living in the lush and colorful Northwest, much of her work has origins in the natural world. Nance spent younger years raising a family and learning about humanity from her view as an RN in psychiatric and women’s services units. Exploring artistic expression and recognizing the power of our creative spirit has been a significant theme throughout her life. Blending visual and kinesthetic curiosity led her to the field of dance and choreography as a young woman and presently she is a therapist, active yoga practitioner, writer of poetry, and beginning tapestry artist. Nance has her MSW from Portland State University and is an Existential-Humanistic psychotherapist in Portland and Eugene Oregon. She attended Saybrook University to study Existential-Humanistic Psychology.  She contributed poems to Stay Awhile, Capturing Shadows, Journey of the Wounded Soul, Our Last Walk, and Rising Voices.

Michele Riedel has been published in Streetlight Magazine, North of Oxford, Third Wednesday, MCV Literary Messenger, and River City Poets Anthology. She loves to attend critiques, workshops, and open mic events and is involved with Richmond, VA.’s River City Poets, and James River Writers writing communities. Michele taught Reading and English as a second language in elementary schools and loves the written word. She has contributed two poems and to Lullabies and Confessions. Her first chapbook titled Descent is forthcoming this spring by Finishing Line Press. She has poems featured in Lullabies & Confessions.

Cindy Rinne creates fiber art and writes in San Bernardino, CA. She was Poet in Residence for the Neutra Institute Gallery and Museum, Los Angeles, CA. She has created fiber art for over 30 years, exhibiting internationally. Cindy collaborates in Performance Poetry using her own costume creations based on her books. Cindy is the author of several books: Letters Under Rock with Bory Thach, (Elyssar Press), Moon of Many Petals (Cholla Needles Press), and others. Her poetry appeared or is forthcoming in: Anti-Herion Chic, Unpsychology Magazine, MORIA, several anthologies, and others. Find out more at www.fiberverse.com Cindy has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

Jeannie E. Roberts contributed a poem to A Walk with Nature.

Susan Roche contributed a poem to A Walk with Nature.

Juliet Rohde-Brown PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist and faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She has contributed to several psychological journals as well as presented internationally. She maintains a small private psychotherapy practice in Carpinteria, CA. In her free time, she enjoys creating art in a variety of mediums. Correspondence may be sent to: jrohdebrown@pacifica.edu. She has contributions included in Silent Screams.

M. S. Rooney has a poem included in Silent Screams and A Walk with Nature.

Kat V. Rosemond contributed poems to Capturing Shadows, Journey of the Wounded Soul, A Walk with Nature, and Rising Voices.

Cynthia Rosa contributed a poem to Silent Screams.

Melinda Rose has a poem included in Rising Voices.

Roseanna Gaye Ross a nationally recognized educator and trainer, Professor Emerita St. Cloud State (MN) University’s Department of Communication Studies, is a storyteller, communication consultant, conflict coach, and mediator, and has authored a number of articles and books in related areas.  She is a member of the Minnesota Poetry Therapy Group and Story Arts of Minnesota.  Roseanna contributed a poem to A Walk with Nature.

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Charles Rossiter has poems featured in Lullabies & Confessions.

Melinda Rothouse has a poem included in Capturing Shadows.

Shawn Rubin, PsyD, is a licensed psychologist in private practice. He teaches and supervises from an integrative existential-humanistic and contemporary psychoanalytic orientation. He serves as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology and is President of the Society for Humanistic Psychology (APA Division 32). Dr. Rubin is certified in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy by the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute.  He previously served as the Coordinator of Clinical Services to Children & Families at Catholic Social Services of Wayne County in Detroit. In his private practice, Dr. Rubin treats children and their parents, adolescents, adults, and LGBTQ populations. He contributed a poem to Capturing Shadows.

Helen Ruggieri has a new book from Wood Thrush Books, Camping in the Galaxy: Haibun and other Writings about the Natural.  She teaches a writing workshop for the African American Center for Cultural Development. Helen contributed a poem to A Walk with Nature.

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Kathryn Sadakierski’s writing has appeared in Critical Read, Halfway Down the Stairs, Teachers of Vision, The Voices Project and elsewhere. She has a poem featured in A 21^st Century Plague.

Monir Saleh contributed a poem to Journey of the Wounded Soul.

Frank Salvidio has published poetry in various journals and anthologies. He is the author of Between Troy & Florence, Inventing Love: A Sonnet Sequence, and translator of Sappho of Lesbos and Dante. He has a poem featured in A 21^st Century Plague.

Jeff Santosuosso has a poem included in Lullabies & Confessions.

Mary Harwell Sayler’s credits include over 30 books in all genres published by traditional, indie, and educational publications, one of which received the annual award for nonfiction from the American Library Association. Mary has a poem in A 21^st Century Plague.

Rona Dale Schenkerman has a poem included in Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Eva M. Schlesinger has poems featured in Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Sharon Scholl has a poem included in Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Karen Schubert is the author of The Compost Reader (Accents Publishing) and five chapbooks including Dear Youngstown(Night Ballet Press) and I Left My Wings on a Chair, winner of the Wick Poetry Center Chapbook Prize. Her poetry and creative nonfiction appear in numerous publications, and her awards include an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. She is director of Lit Youngstown in Ohio. Karen has a poem included in A 21^st Century Plague.

Stephen Schwei is a Houston poet with Wisconsin roots, published in Wax Poetry & Art, Beneath the Rainbow, Hidden Constellation, Borfski Press, and New Reader Magazine.  A gay man with three grown children and four wonderful grandchildren, who worked in Information Technology most of his life, he can be a mass of contradictions.  Poetry helps to sort all of this out. For more information, visit his website at  www.stephenschwei.com Stephen has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

Lynn Scozzari contributed a poem to A Walk with Nature.

Whitney Scott is an author, editor, book designer, and, for the last 25 years, a reviewer of bound books and audiobooks for the American Library Association’s BOOKLIST Magazine. Her poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction have been published internationally, earning her listings in Contemporary Authors and Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers. A member of the Society of Midland Authors, she performs her work at colleges, universities, arts festivals, and literary venues throughout the Chicago area and has been featured as a guest author in the Illinois Authors Series at Chicago’s Harold Washington Library. Scott was awarded the 2009-10 Writer-in-Residence Award from Bensenville Public Library and judged the 2010 and 2015 National Federation of Press Women writing competitions. For the last quarter-century, she has served as president of the Chicago-based TallGrass Writers Guild, and has edited Outrider Press’ acclaimed “Black-and-White” series of annual anthologies containing writings from national and international authors; the series is now in its 24th year. Whitney has a poem in A Walk with Nature.

Katrina Lynn Sczesny has poems included in Silent Screams.

Derrick Sebree, Jr., contributed to A Walk with Nature.

Katherine DiBella Seluja has a poem included in Silent Screams.

Scott Seward has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

Stephanie Shafran lives in Western MA. Her prose and poetry have appeared in several anthologies and journals. Her 2020 chapbook “Awakening” is available by phone order from Broadside Books in Northampton MA. Her website is stephanieshafran.wordpress.com. Stephanie’s poem “After ‘Story’ by Richard Blanco” is featured in A 21^st Century Plague.

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Ben Shank has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

Sharon K. Sheppard has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

Irene Sherlock is a marriage and family therapist. Her poems, essays and short stories have been published in various literary magazines, and her poetry chapbook, Equinox, was published by Finishing Line Press. Irene has a poem included in A 21^st Century Plague.

Enid Shomer contributed a poem to Our Last Walk.

Sarah Shotland contributed poems to Silent Screams.

Sally Showalter has a poem included in Our Last Walk.

Shoshauna Shy is the author of The Splash of Easy Laughter and four other poetry collections, two of which won an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Wisconsin Library Association. Shoshauna Shy’s poems have appeared in a variety of anthologies, journals and magazines, inspired videos, and even decorated the hindquarters of city buses. She has work forthcoming and/or recently published courtesy of Naugatuck River Review, Montana Mouthful, and Sunlight Press. A fiction author as well, one of her flash pieces was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and then selected for the Best Microfiction 2021 series by Pelekinesis Press. Shoshauna contributed poems to Lullabies & Confessions.

Ndaba Sibanda’s poems have been widely anthologised. Sibanda is the author of The Gushongo Way, Sleeping Rivers, Love O’clock, The Dead Must Be Sobbing, Football of Fools, Cutting-edge Cache: Unsympathetic Untruth, Of the Saliva and the Tongue, When Inspiration Sings in Silence, and Poetry Pharmacy. His work is featured in The Anthology House, in The New Shoots Anthology, and in The Van Gogh Anthology, and A Worldwide Anthology of One Hundred Poetic Intersections. Some of Ndaba`s works are found or forthcoming in Page & Spine, Peeking Cat, Piker Press, SCARLET LEAF REVIEW, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, the Pangolin Review, Kalahari Review, Botsotso, The Ofi Press Magazine, Hawaii Pacific Review, Deltona Howl, The song is, Indian Review, Eunoia Review, JONAH Magazine, Saraba Magazine, Poetry Potion, Saraba Magazine, The Borfski Press, Snippets, East Coast Literary Review, Random Poem Tree, festival-of-language, and Whispering Prairie Press. Sibanda’s forthcoming book Notes, Themes, Things and Other Things: Confronting Controversies, Contradictions, and Indoctrinations was considered for The 2019 Restless Book Prize for New Immigrant Writing in Nonfiction. Ndaba`s other forthcoming book Cabinet Meetings: Of Big And Small Preys was considered for The Graywolf Press Africa Prize 2018. Sibanda`s other forthcoming books include Timbomb, Dear Dawn And Daylight, Sometimes Seasons Come With Unseasonal Harvests, A Different Ballgame, and The Way Forward. He contributed a poem to A Walk with Nature.

Michelle Sideroff was born in 1987.  Michelle Sideroff grew up in a blended family with the background of Linda Ronstadt’s Spanish ballads and the hits of Dino. In 2005 on the tail of a dime, Michelle Sideroff journeyed toward entrapment in New Mexico from the City of Roses.  Along this road, they call vida, her passion for writing was ignited with the contradictions of her silence paling in comparison to the loudness on paper as she and her pen danced to their rhythm. Michelle Sideroff found her calling as a therapist and her career is focused on caring for people with trauma. Michelle’s world is a library filled with thousands of diverse journeys of inspiring and thriving travelers.  The heartbeat and pulse behind Michelle’s writing are offering a nurturing and accepting space where trauma, vulnerability, struggles, strengths, pain, love, compassion, and growth can coexist. She contributed poems to Stay Awhile and Journey of the Wounded Soul.

Kai Siedenburg has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

Vanessa Sinclair has a poem included in Rising Voices.

Tracy Lee Sisk contributed poems Capturing Shadows, Journey of the Wounded Soul, and Rising Voices.

Kelsey Smith contributed poems to Rising Voices.

J. D. Smith has a poem included in Our Last Walk.

Steven K. Smith contributed a poem to Our Last Walk.

Thomas R. Smith teaches at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. His poetry collection, Storm Island, appeared in 2020 (Red Dragonfly Press). He has also published a prose book, Poetry on the Side of Nature: Writing the Nature Poem as an Act of Survival. He has a poem included in A 21^st Century Plague.

Maura Snell has a poem featured in Our Last Walk and Lullabies & Confessions.

Betsy Snider is a retired attorney who lives on a lake in rural New Hampshire with her cat Sophie and the ghosts of her many dogs.  When she is not swimming or hiking, she writes poetry and has volunteered as a CASA Guardian ad Litem for abused and neglected children. She was first published in the ground-breaking anthology, Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence (Naiad Press, 1985).  She is a winner of the 2015 Blue Light Book Award for her book of poems, Hope is a Muscle (Blue Light Press, 2015). Her poetry has been published in a variety of journals and anthologies, most recently in Amore: Love Poems (Imagination Press, 2016); Our Last Walk (University Professors Press, 2016); River of Earth and Sky: Poems for the 21st Century (Blue Light Press, 2015); Poet Showcase (Hobblebush Press, 2015); and Love Over 60: an anthology of women’s poems (Mayapple Press, 2010).  Like Kay Ryan, Betsy grew up wanting to be a stand-up comic or folk singer.  But she still can’t remember punch lines or stay on key.  For more information, visit her website, betsysnider.com. Betsy had a poem included in Our Last Walk.

Sarah Snyder has a poem featured in Rising Voices.

Dana Sonnenschein contributed a poem to A Walk with Nature.

Lali Sri is the author of Atma Bodha (O Books, 2012), a collection of Indian poetry in English translation. Her work has appeared in Fiction International, the New York Quarterly, Daedalus, and Epiphany, among other publications, and her poetry was anthologized in Before the Dawn (Rhode Scholars Press, 2019). She teaches literature and creative writing at CUNY’s Borough of Manhattan Community College. Lali has a poem featured in A 21^st Century Plague.

Sandy Stark contributed a poem to Our Last Walk.

Carole Stedronsky has poems featured in Connoisseurs of Suffering.

John E. Steele has a poem included in Silent Screams.

Amanda Stephan has poems featured in Silent Screams.

Alison Stone has published six full-length collections of poetry. They Sing at Midnight won the 2003 Many Mountains Moving Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Barrow Street, Poet Lore, and other journals and anthologies. She is a recipient of the New York Quarterly’s Madeline Sadin Award. Allison has a poem featured in A 21^st Century Plague.

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George Such contributed a poem to A Walk with Nature.

Diana Norma Szokolyai is a writer and Executive Artistic Director of Cambridge Writers’ Workshop. She is the author of the poetry collections Parallel Sparrows (honorable mention for Best Poetry Book in the 2014 Paris Book Festival) and Roses in the Snow (first runner-­up Best Poetry Book at the 2009 DIY Book Festival). She has a hybrid piece called “Affirmations of a Romani Woman” forthcoming in an anthology of Romani Feminist writing. She has collaborated with several musicians and composers. Her poetry-music collaboration with Flux Without Pause led to their piece “Space Mothlight” hitting #16 on the Creative Commons Hot 100 list in 2015 and is curated in WFMU’s Free Music Archive. Szokolyai’s work has been recently reviewed by The London Grip and published in The Fiction Project, Quail Bell Magazine, Lyre Lyre, The Fiction Project, The Boston Globe, Dr. Hurley’s Snake Oil Cure, and Up the Staircase Quarterly, as well as anthologized in Our Last Walk, The Highwaymen NYC #2, Other Countries: Contemporary Poets Rewiring History, Always Wondering, International Who’s Who in Poetry 2012 and Teachers as Writers. She is currently at work on three books and recording an album of poetry & music. She contributed a poem to Our Last Walk.

Ann Christine Tabaka was nominated for the 2017 Pushcart Prize in Poetry, has been internationally published, and won poetry awards from numerous publications. She is the author of 9 poetry books.  Christine lives in Delaware, USA.  She loves gardening and cooking.  Chris lives with her husband and two cats. Her most recent credits are Burningword Literary Journal; The Write Connection; Ethos Literary Journal, North of Oxford, Pomona Valley Review, Page & Spine, West Texas Literary Review, The Hungry Chimera, Sheila-Na-Gig, Pangolin Review, Foliate Oak Review, Better Than Starbucks!, The Write Launch, The Stray Branch, The McKinley Review, Fourth & Sycamore. Ann has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

Margo Taft Stever’s four poetry collections include The Lunatic Ball (Kattywompus Press, 2015), The Hudson Line (Main Street Rag, 2012), Frozen Spring (2002; winner of the Mid-List Press First Series Award for Poetry), and Reading the Night Sky (winner of the 1996 Riverstone Poetry Chapbook Competition; Introduction by Denise Levertov). Her full-length collection, Cracked Piano, will be published by CavanKerry Press in 2019. Her articles and book reviews have appeared in the Connecticut Review, Minnesota Review, Rain Taxi Review, Home Planet News, New Delta Review, Calyx, and Poets & Writers, among other places. Her poems have appeared widely in literary magazines and in numerous anthologies including Blackbird, Salamander, Prairie Schooner, New England Review, Cincinnati Review, Rattapallax, Webster Review, Women Write Resistance; Dire Elegies; Chance of a Ghost; The Breath of Parted Lips, Volume II; and No More Masks. She is the founder of The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center and the founding and current co-editor of Slapering Hol Press (www.writerscenter.org). For more information, please see www.margostever.com. Margo has a poem featured in Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Damon Taylor has a poem included in Silent Screams.

Sofia L. Taylor is a consultant and author specializing in marketing, management, psychology, creativity, and entrepreneurship. Since 2000, Ms. Taylor has founded a business, worked in advertising, and worked in clinical psychology settings as a research assistant and psychological assessment technician. Ms. Taylor holds a Bachelor’s Degree of Business Administration in Marketing from ITESM, an MBA from UDEM, and a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology from the American School of Professional Psychology. In addition, Ms. Taylor is certified by Harvard University in Technologies of Education and by Georgetown University in Project Management. She is a chef by Culinart, culinary school, and has studied corporate image and visual arts. Ms. Taylor has been a member of the American Psychological Association and is a Founding Member of MALI – Mexican American Leadership Initiative, a part of the US Mexico Foundation. She is also the recipient of the CONACYT scholarship award. Currently, Ms. Taylor is working on her doctoral dissertation focusing on existential entrepreneurship. She resides with her husband and dog in Alexandria, VA. You can follow her on LinkedIn. Her poem “Our Angel” was recently published in the book Our Last Walk.

Maria Terrone is the author of the poetry collections Eye to Eye (Bordighera Press, 2014); A Secret Room in Fall (McGovern Prize, Ashland Poetry Press), and The Bodies We Were Loaned (The Word Works), as well as a chapbook, American Gothic, Take 2. Her work, which has been published in French and Farsi and nominated four times for a Pushcart Prize, has appeared in magazines, including Poetry, Ploughshares, The Hudson Review, and Poetry International and in more than 25 anthologies. Since 2015, she has been the poetry editor of the journal Italian Americana. Also a writer of creative nonfiction, Terrone has had her work published in Witness, Green Mountains Review, Litro ((U.K.), Briar Cliff Review, The Common, Potomac Review, Evansville Review, and Kestrel. A native New Yorker, she was one of 10 Queens-based authors commissioned by the Guggenheim Museum to write for its performance project, “stillspotting  nyc.” www.mariaterrone.com. Maria has three poems featured in Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Debbie Theiss contributed a poem to Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Paul Thiel has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

Venita “Vee” Thomas is a graduate of (The) University of Cincinnati and Xavier University where she has earned a Bachelor of Science in Human Resource Management, Master of Labor (Law) & Employment Relations, as well as Master of Education, respectively. Venita’s is The Executive Director of the Greater Cincinnati Veteran Women’s Alliance. Venita acknowledges the time served in the United States Army as the catalyst for learning great leadership skills and her soon to be released book and titled, Please Take a Drink of Water, which focuses on the art of transitioning from the military into civilian life. Venita understands the process of reintegration of military to civilian life due to a medical discharge. “I love to continue to serve my country by serving females who are veterans or non-veterans and are ready to have the best life possible,” states Venita. Additionally, Venita serves individuals prepared to make the leap to becoming entrepreneurs. Venita loves the life of being a Chief Servant Officer, conference speaker, consultant, encourager, and instructor. In May, 2019 Venita was published in Forbes online magazine with an article that describes one of her passion for serving women. You can find out more about Venita at https://vthomas.academia.edu/. Venita has a poem featured in Rising Voices.

Vincent Tomeo has published poetry in The New York Times, Comstock Review, Mid-American Poetry Review, and other publications. His book My Cemetery Friends: A Garden of Encounters at Mount Saint Mary in Queens, New York, was published in 2020 and received honorable mention in the Rainer Maria Rilke International Poetry Collection. He has a poem included in A 21^st Century Plague.

Elizabeth Tornes contributed a poem to A Walk with Nature.

Amelia Isabel Torres has poems included in Stay Awhile and Capturing Shadows.

Moira Trachtenberg is a poet, fiction writer, and visual artist. Her poetry has been published in numerous journals and publications, including Kyoto Journal, Carve, and Tikkun Daily. Her work has been showcased in Writing the Walls at Hudson Valley MOCA and performed at the Emotive Fruition theater collaborative in New York City. Moira has a poem featured in A 21^st Century Plague.

Lisa Xochitl Vallejos, PhD, LPC, is a licensed professional counselor and holds a Master of Arts from Regis University and a PhD in Psychology with a specialization in Existential, Humanistic, and Transpersonal psychology from Saybrook University. Lisa has served on the board of directors of the Society for Humanistic Psychology as a student representative, serves as a peer reviewer for the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, and is active in many initiatives and task forces. Lisa is a professor, consultant, and writer whose work has been seen on Fox, CNN, elephant journal, and many other popular sites. Lisa is a published writer, poet, and artist and is the founder of Gabriel’s Gift, a 501©3 that supports families with a child who has a congenital heart defect. Lisa has poems featured in Stay Awhile, Capturing Shadows, Our Last Walk, and Lullabies & Confessions.

Ryan Van Lenning has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

Manu Ibaoglu Vaughn contributed a poem to Journey of the Wounded Soul.

Emily Vieweg, MFA, is a poet and playwright originally from St. Louis, Missouri. Her work has been published in Foliate Oak, The Voices Project, Red Weather Literary Magazine, Soundings Review, Art Young’s Good Morning, Proximity Magazine, and more. Emily’s debut chapbook Look Where She Points is available from Plan B Press. She lives in Fargo, North Dakota where she is a mother of two, pet parent, data processor, and adjunct English instructor. You may find Emily on Twitter at @EmilyJVieweg or by email at Emily.Vieweg@gmail.com. Emily contributed a poem to Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Tony Vick is the author of Secrets from a Prison Cell: A Convict’s Eyewitness Accounts of the Dehumanizing Drama of Life Behind Bars (Cascade Books, 2018).  His work has appeared in Keep Watch With Me, A Daily Advent Reader for Peacemakers; Where the River Bends; and Turning Teaching Inside Out: A Pedagogy of Transformation for Community-Based Education. He is incarcerated in Tennessee. Tony has a poem featured in A 21^st Century Plague.

Jon Vreeland is a writer, poet, journalist, and musician. He was born in Long Beach California and raised in Huntington Beach by his birth parents. Vreeland’s memoir The Taste of Cigarettes was accepted by Vine Leaves Press this year and will be available sometime in mid-late 2018. His writing also appears on Rebelle Society, East Fork, Sun and Sandstone, Plain Brown Wrapper, and Painted Cave, and he has two poetry chapbooks: Laughing in Your Sleep and Poems about Delicious Embryos and Such. Vreeland works at Santa Barbara City College as an English tutor where he was also president of the Writer’s/Poet’s Club when he attended as a student. His major influences are Charles Bukowski, Jim Morrison, Darby Crash, God, his parents, and his two beautiful daughters, Mayzee and Scarlett. Vreeland is married to the beautiful artist Alycia Vreeland, who is the illustrator of his chapbooks. You can visit jonvreeland.com to read his favorite publications and blog, also get updates on his up and coming release of his very first major book deal. Jon contributed a poem to Connoisseurs of Suffering and Silent Screams. 

Claire Vogel Camargo has a poem included in Our Last Walk.

Esther Muthoni Wafula has poems featured in Rising Voices.

Keith Wallace has a poem featured in Rising Voices.

Michael Waterson has a poem included in Lullabies & Confessions.

Bernadine (Dine) Watson contributed a poem to Rising Voices.

Phyllis Wax writes on a bluff overlooking Lake Michigan, in Milwaukee. She has been widely published in journals and anthologies both in print and online. Her work has been exhibited around the state of Wisconsin in poet/fiber artist collaborations. She has read her poetry on the radio, and in bars, coffeehouses, and libraries. Reach her at: poetwax38@gmail.com. She has three poems in Lullabies & Confessions.

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Susan Weaver is a former bicycling journalist and travel writerwho lives in Allentown, Pennsylvania, with her husband and three cats. Often inspired by nature and the outdoors, she writes poetry in free verse and two Japanese-inspired forms, tanka and tanka prose. She is tanka prose editor for Ribbons, journal of the Tanka Society of America. She also cultivates poets on fly fishing, as poetry editor for Lehigh River Watch, a local newsletter. Her own poems have appeared in numerous literary journals and in anthologies, most recently Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania, Earth: Our Common Ground, Imperfect – Poems About Mistakes: An Anthology for Middle Schoolers, and Local News: Poetry About Small Towns. Susan contributed a poem to A Walk with Nature.

Miriam Weinstein has published poetry in several anthologies including Reflections on Home: The Heart of All That Is; A Little Book of Abundance; and Broken Atoms in Our Hands. Her chapbook Twenty Ways of Looking was published in 2017 (Finishing Line Press). Miriam has a poem included in A 21^st Century Plague.

Patricia Wellingham-Jones has poems included in Lullabies & Confessions.

Julie Ann Wenglinski contributed a poem to A Walk with Nature.

Richard Widerkehr’s work has appeared in Rattle, Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily, Arts & Letters, Crab Creek Review,  Raven Chronicles, Measure, Atlanta Review, and others.  He earned his M.A. from Columbia University and won two Hopwood first prizes for poetry at the University of Michigan.  His new book is In The Presence Of Absence (MoonPath Press).  He’s worked as a case manager with the mentally ill and, later, taught writing workshops at the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference. He contributed to A Walk with Nature.

Kimberly Weikert. The mountain bodyguards of the Allegheny foothills have held her in place all her life. So, with much sullenness, she stayed close to home even when she wanted to leave. St. Bonaventure University gave her a liberal arts education from a Franciscan perspective and graduated her with a B.A and M.A. She has written grants, run workshops, attended conferences, taught college, raised children, held the courage of her convictions, and even had a poem or two published (Mom’s Egg, Rat Ass Review, Lullabies and Confessions). Yet she has never lived more than fifty feet from where she sits right now. Kimberly has a poem included in Lullabies & Confessions.

Susan White has a poem included in Rising Voices.

Joan Wiese Johannes from Port Edwards, Wisconsin has four chapbooks, including Sensible Shoes, the 2009 winner of the John and Miriam Chapbook Competition sponsored by the Alabama Poetry Society, and He Thought the Periodic Table Was a Portrait of God, published by Finishing Line Press. Winner of the 2011 regional poetry writing award from the Mississippi Valley Poetry Society, she has also received awards in contests sponsored by Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, The WI Academy Review, Peninsula Pulse, Free Verse, and English Journal. Her poems have been published in journals and anthologies, including Revise the Psalm, Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks; Our Last Walk: Using Poetry to Grieve and Remember our Pets; Celestial Musings: Poems Inspired by the Night Sky; The Beer, Wine, and Spirits  Anthology; and Allegro & Adagio Dance Anthology. With her poet/artist husband Jeffrey, she co-edited the 2012 WI Poets’ Calendar and the Winter, 2019 issue of Bramble. Their most recent collaboration is a chapbook of her humorous crown of sonnets, Happily After After, illustrated with his whimsical art. They are currently working on a full-length poetry manuscript, Married Filing Jointly. In addition to writing poetry, Joan composes for the Native American-style flute and enjoys including her music in her readings. Joan contributed poems to Our Last Walk and A Walk with Nature.

Daniel Williams has been widely anthologized. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in poetry, and several of his poems are in the time capsules at Yosemite. He has a poem included in A 21^st Century Plague.

Eric Windhorst is a registered psychotherapist, educator, writer, and (re)searcher who recently completed a PhD in the field of Ecopsychology. Eric’s dissertation explores how gifted adults experience ecological self (i.e., nature connectedness)—and how such experiences relate to both mental health and pro-environmental behavior. Eric currently dedicates much of himself to running a nature-infused counseling & coaching private practice. He is also an adjunct professor of geography and environmental studies. You can learn more about Eric and his work at ericwindhorst.ca. Eric has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

Robin Winter contributed a poem to Our Last Walk.

Karen Wolf has a poem included in A Walk with Nature.

Elizabeth Wolfson has poems featured in Stay Awhile.

Ken Wolman is a retired technical writer and teacher from the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts. He holds a PhD in English from Binghamton University (1976) and has been writing and publishing poetry only since 1990. He was awarded a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Poetry Fellowship in 1995. He contributed poems to Our Last Walk.

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Anne Harding Woodworth is the author of five books of poetry and four chapbooks. Unattached Male was published by Poetry Salzburg in 2014. An excerpt from her chapbook, The Last Gun, won the 2015-2016 COG Poetry Award, judged by A. Van Jordan, and it was animated by students at Cogswell College (www.cogzine.com/watch). Her poetry, book reviews, and essays appear widely in print and digital journals in the United States and abroad, such as Painted Bride Quarterly, Crannog, Innisfree Poetry Journal, Poet Lore, TriQuarterly, and Cimarron Review. She has an MFA in poetry from Fairleigh Dickinson University and is a member of the Poetry Board at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, where she lives when she is not at her cabin in Cedar Mountain, NC. You can find out more about Ann at www.annehardingwoodworth.com. She contributed a poem to Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Paul T. P. Wong, PhD, contributed poems to several volumes of the Poetry, Healing, and Growth Series including Stay Awhile, Capturing Shadows, and Journey of the Wounded Soul.

Christopher Woods has a poem included in Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Hajnalka Kurti Woosley is an author, educator, and mother of a brilliant fourth grader. Born in Romania, she earned her Elementary Teaching Degree from Colegiul National Ioan Slavici in Szatmárnémeti and her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, traveling, and making pottery. She is an active volunteer counselor for a local Community Outreach Project designed to provide emotional and educational support for single mothers and their children. She resides in Brandermill, Virginia with her son. Hajnalka contributed a poem to Journey of the Wounded Soul.

Laura Wright has poems featured in Rising Voices.

Sherri Wright lives in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, after a career in education at universities and the Federal government. Running, yoga, and volunteering at a center for people experiencing homelessness, all figure into her writing. Her work has been published in a variety of online and print journals and recently in three books: What I Didn’t Know, District Lines Volume IV, and Our Last Walk (from the Poetry, Healing, and Growth Series).

Heather Wyatt contributed a poem to A Walk with Nature.

Jennifer Yancey has a poem featured in Rising Voices.

Brenda Yates grew up on military bases. After Florida, Tennessee, Delaware, Michigan, Massachusetts, Japan, Hawaii, etc., she settled in Boston, then Los Angeles. Author of Bodily Knowledge (2015), her poems, hybrids, interviews, and reviews appear in Aji; American Journal of Poetry; Askew; Bending Genres; Blueline; California Quarterly; Catamaran; Chaparral; DASH; great weather for MEDIA; Ilanot; Illuminations; KPFK Radio (Why Poetry); Kattywompus; Manifest West; Mason’s Road; Mississippi Review; Naugatuck; Oyster River; Panoply; Pink Panther; Postcard Poems; Sliver of Stone; Spillway; National Veterans Foundation.org. Anthologies include: So Luminous; Blue Arc West; Beyond the Lyric Moment (all Tebot Bach); City of the Big Shoulders (University of Iowa Press), Coast to Coast (FootHills Publishing); compassionanthology.com; Essential (Underground Writers Association); Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry (Scarlet Tanager); Hoosier Lit (Geeky Press); Local News: Poetry (MWPH); Louisville (Belt Publishing); Southern Poetry: Tennessee (Texas Review Press); Unmasked (Weeping Willow); 1001 Nights (Coffee Cartel); Painted Poetry & Painterly Poetics (Joost De Jonge), Waters Deep (Split Rock) and in Australia, China, England, India, Ireland, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, and Portugal. Notable awards: Best of the Net and Pushcart nominee; Kyoto, Letheon, Princemere, Sundress, Wolverine and Robinson Jeffers finalist; Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center and Patricia Bibby Memorial Prizes. Brenda has poems featured in Lullabies & Confessions.

Darya L. Zabelina has a poem included in Connoisseurs of Suffering.

Andrena Zawinski born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA, lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her most recent poetry collection, Landings, (Kelsay Books, Hemet, CA) presents poems that embrace, in original ways and with deep-rooted emotional power, the worldwide condition of women, immigrants, and the working class alongside a reverence for the natural world. Her poetry reflects her background as the daughter and granddaughter of steelworkers and coal miners, as a veteran teacher of writing, and her feminism. Her two previous award-winning collections of poetry are Something About (Blue Light Press, San Francisco, CA), a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, and Traveling in Reflected Light (Pig Iron Press, Youngstown, Ohio), a Kenneth Patchen Prize in Poetry. She has also authored six small volumes and is editor of Turning a Train of Thought Upside Down: An Anthology of Women’s Poetry (Scarlet Tanager Books, Oakland, CA). Her widely anthologized poems have received accolades for free verse, form, lyricism, spirituality, and social concern. She is Features Editor at PoetryMagazine.com and founded and runs the San Francisco Bay Area Women’s Poetry Salon. She has contributed poetry to A Walk with Nature.

Marilyn Zelke Windau is a former elementary school art teacher who enjoys painting with words. Her free-verse poems have appeared in many printed and online venues and in several anthologies. An award-winning author, she has had four books of poetry published to date: Adventures in Paradise (2014, Finishing Line Press), Momentary Ordinary (2014, Pebblebrook Press), Owning Shadows (2017, Kelsay Books), and Hiccups Haunt Wilson Avenue (2018, Kelsay Books). A Wisconsin poet, she adds her maiden name when she writes to honor her father, who was also a writer. She has poems featured in A Walk with Nature, Our Last Walk, and Lullabies & Confessions.

Yvonne Zipter is the author of the full-length collection The Patience of Metal (a Lambda Literary Award Finalist) and the chapbook Like Some Bookie God. Her poems have appeared in numerous periodicals over the years, including Poetry, Southern Humanities Review, Calyx, Fogged Clarity, Crab Orchard Review, Metronome of Aptekarsky Ostrov (Russia), Bellingham Review, and Spoon River Poetry Review, as well as in several anthologies. She is also the author of two nonfiction books: Diamonds Are a Dyke’s Best Friend and Ransacking the Closet. In addition, she wrote a syndicated humor column on lesbian life called “Inside Out,” which ran for ten years in newspapers from Washington, DC, to Oklahoma City to San Diego after its debut in Chicago’s Windy City Times. Her published poems are currently being sold in two poetry-vending machines in Chicago, the proceeds from which are donated to a nonprofit arts organization called Arts Alive Chicago. She recently retired from being a manuscript editor at the University of Chicago Press. Yvonne has a poem featured in A Walk with Nature. (Photo by Brian McConkey)

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