AMY BOYD - “Landed”
Amy Boyd is a professor of botany, ecology, and evolutionary biology at Warren Wilson College. Scientist by training, educator by profession, and artist by nature, she lives in Swannanoa, North Carolina, nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
greg clary - “wheel covers”
Greg Clary is a retired college professor who was born and raised in Turkey Creek, West Virginia, and now resides in the northwestern Pennsylvania Wilds. His photographs have been published in The Sun Magazine, Looking at Appalachia, Rattle, Hole in the Head Review, Tiny Seed Literary Journal, The Watershed Journal, Dark Horse, Change Seven, Detour Ahead, Bee House Journal, Appalachian Lit, Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel, North/South Appalachia, The Ear, Bluestone Review, Stick Figure Poetry, Rubbertop Journal, and many other publications. His writing and poems have appeared in The Rye Whiskey Review, The Bridge Literary Arts Journal, Northern Appalachia Review, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Waccamaw Journal, Rusty Truck, Anti-Heroin Chic, Sterling Clack Clack, Trailer Park Quarterly, Tobeco, Clinch, and North/South Appalachia: Poetry and Art, Vol 1.
kelly dumar - “foliage reflection charles river” and “graffiti impression charles river”
Kelly DuMar is a Boston based poet, playwright and photographer who leads creative writing workshops in person and online. She has published three poetry chapbooks, and her poems and photos are published in Bellevue Literary Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Thrush, Glassworks and more. Kelly produces the monthly Open Mic for the Journal of Expressive Writing. Her daily blog, #NewThisDay, features nature photos from her daily walks on the Charles River with reflections on the writing life. Her website it kellydumar.com
bianca giglio - “rabbit killer”
Bianca Giglio is a twenty-one-year-old university student and queer feminist based in Montreal. She is in the process of completing a B.Sc. in Biology and a B.A. in Women’s Studies. She spends her spare time volunteering, reading young adult fantasy novels, and writing poetry about love and death. Her work appears in Sunspot Literary Journal.
mark hurtubise - “bad choices”, “purple slumber”, “Clouds in a dream”, and “overseer”
Mark Hurtubise. During the 1970s, numerous works were published. Then family, teaching, two college presidencies and CEO of a community foundation. After a “four-decade” hiatus, he is attempting to create again from the Pacific Northwest by balancing on a twig like a pregnant bird – hoping to give multiple births to diverse forms of creativity. Within the past four years, his poetry, nonfiction, microfiction, essays, and photography have appeared in such locales as Apricity; Adelaide, Literary Award; 50 Give or Take; Star 82; Deep Overstock; pacificREVIEW; Modern Haiku; Grub Street; Humana Obscura; Burningword; Aji Magazine; Wayne Literary Review; Penumbra, Editors’ Pick; Frogpond; Aura Literary Arts Review, Artist Spotlight; Ponder Review; Montana Mouthful; Superpresent; Taj Mahal Review; december; Stanford Social Innovation Review; Alliance; Sludge; University of San Francisco, Alum News, Interview; and Monovisions Black & White Photography, Honorable Mention Awards (2020 & 2021).
beverly rose joyce - “barred stains”, “heron on a mission”, “deer lick cave 2”, and “train over the viaducts”
Beverly Rose Joyce lives in Brecksville, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, with her husband, Carl, and their two daughters, Mallory and Samantha, along with their two dogs, Shadow and Reggie. She holds a BA in English from Baldwin-Wallace University and a MA in English from Cleveland State University, and she was a public high school English teacher for sixteen years.
Jane Langan - “Control” and “roof light”
Jane Langan takes photographs. She is originally from a village in Shropshire but has lived in London and now lives in Birmingham. She enjoys taking photos of anything from wildlife to urban landscapes. Occasionally, she does prom and wedding photography for friends. She originally learned photography from her parents who had a dark room under the stairs, now she sticks to digital. Jane is also a writer of poetry and fiction and has an MA in creative writing. She recently published an anthology of poetry on Amazon called, Blood Kisses. If you Google @Muddynosugar you will find Jane’s social media and blog.
edward lee - “zigzag fence”
Edward Lee is an artist and writer from Ireland. His paintings and photography have been exhibited widely, while his poetry, short stories, non-fiction have been published in magazines in Ireland, England and America, including The Stinging Fly, Skylight 47, Acumen and Smiths Knoll. He is currently working on two photography collections: Lying Down With The Dead and There Is A Beauty In Broken Things. He also makes musical noise under the names Ayahuasca Collective, Orson Carroll, Lego Figures Fighting, and Pale Blond Boy. His blog/website can be found at https://edwardmlee.wordpress.com
David murphy - “sea stacks 1”, “sea stacks 2”, bleak wild desolate shore”
David Murphy won the Seaton Fellowship for Creative Writing in 2006. He served as the editor-in-chief of Touchstone, a literary magazine published by Kansas State University. He is a skateboarder, conservationist, and writer.
steven ostrowski - “vigil”
Steven Ostrowski has published artwork in many literary journals, including Lily Poetry Review (cover art), Stone Boat (cover art), Another Chicago Magazine, and The William and Mary Review. He is also a widely-published poet and fiction writer.
Artist Statement: I agree with Flannery O’Connor that the task of the artist is to deepen mystery. That is what I attempt to do in all my artistic endeavors.
jemma leigh roe - “the trees dreaming”, “the soul is a chosen landscape”
Jemma Leigh Roe studied art at the Université Paris-Sorbonne and received a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from Princeton University. Her poems and artwork have appeared in The Ilanot Review, Thin Air Magazine, Canyon Voices, Young Ravens Literary Review, Feral: A Journal of Poetry and Art, and others.
sean sexton - “Image 1”
Sean Sexton was born in Indian River County and grew up on his family's Treasure Hammock Ranch. He divides his time between taking care of a 600-acre cow-calf and seed stock operation, painting, sculpting and writing. He is married to artist Sharon Sexton, and they live on the ranch in a house they built with their hands. He has kept daily sketch and written journals since 1973. He is author of Blood Writing, Poems, Anhinga Press, 2009, The Empty Tomb, University of Alabama Slash Pine Press, 2014, Descent, Yellow Jacket Press, 2018, and May Darkness Restore, Poems, Press 53, 2019.
susan solomon - “home” and “small house”
Susan Solomon is a freelance paintress living in the Midwest. Her paintings are in the permanent university collections of Metropolitan State and Purdue. Her work is a search for a light in the dark.
james reade venable - “ferris wheel in ghent”
James Reade Venable’s work is largely focused on the ability to invoke feelings visually, crossing genres and boundaries. His work ranges from Fine Art to Photojournalistic.