Bios

W Goodwin

W Goodwin is a writer and visual artist bound by blood and experience to air and salt water. Goodwin graduated from UCLA, undertook graduate studies in biochemistry, traveled the world for decades, taught high school and university-level sciences, raised two children and founded two businesses. These days, the author is intrigued by the notion of transitional events set in specific ecotones.

 

Annie Shepherd

Annie Shepherd received a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Houston as an Inprint Fellow and an MFA in Creative Writing from Texas State University. Before getting into fiction writing, she taught English as a Second Language in China. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in North American Review, the Greensboro Review, and North Dakota Quarterly, among others. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Grove City College. When not writing and teaching, she enjoys hiking, songwriting, shuffleboard, and playing with her cat, Scout.

 

Maryann Corbett

Maryann Corbett is the author of six books, most recently The O in the Air (Franciscan University Press). Her work has appeared widely in journals on both sides of the Atlantic, including 32 Poems, Rattle, and the Los Angeles Review of Books in the US and the Dark Horse and PN Review in the UK. Her poetry has won the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize and the Richard Wilbur Award, has been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and the Poetry Foundation website, and was included in The Best American Poetry 2018.

 

Brooke Clark

Brooke Clark is the author of the poetry collection Urbanities and the editor of the epigrams website the Asses of Parnassus. Twitter: @thatbrookeclark.

 

 

Reagan Upshaw

Reagan Upshaw works as an art dealer and appraiser in Beacon, New York. A book of his selected poems, In the Panhandle, was published by Kelsay Press in 2023.

 

 

Roy Isen

Roy Isen’s writing has been published in Flash Fiction, Slackjaw, Jokes Literary Review, and Gravel (defunct). He is a participant in the Greater Philadelphia Wordshop Studio; as a volunteer, Isen teaches prison inmates how to make better decisions to help them gain control over their lives and develop a more positive self-image. He is a retired Emmy award-winning videographer and an avid traveler (favorite journey: Bhutan).

 

 

Dylan Night

Dylan Night is a writer and artist residing in North County, San Diego, with his partner and stepchild. An espoused Californian and outdoor enthusiast, his hobbies include hiking the scenic surrounding landscape and taking up as much surf and sun as possible where he lives. As an impressionist and former medical professional, and self-described “student of the human condition,” he prides himself on layered storytelling with edge, and is currently undertaking his next novel.

 

 

Jean Rover

Jean Rover is novelist and short story writer. She is the authorof Touch the Sky, a novel about a missing child in Oregon’s backcountry, and its sequel, Ready or Not. Her writing has received awards or recognition from Writer’s Digest, Short Story America, Willamette Writers, Oregon Writers Colony, and the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC). Her work has appeared in various literary magazines and anthologies, including the Saturday Evening Post’s Great American Fiction Contest Anthology.

 

Stephen Kampa

Stephen Kampa, the poetry editor for Able Muse, holds a BA in English literature from Carleton College and an MFA in poetry from Johns Hopkins University. His first book, Cracks in the Invisible, won the 2010 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize and the 2011 Gold Medal in Poetry from the Florida Book Awards. His second book, Bachelor Pad, appeared from the Waywiser Press. His poems have also been awarded the Theodore Roethke Prize, first place in the River Styx International Poetry Contest, and four Pushcart nominations.

 

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