John Casquarelli is the author of two full-length collections, On Equilibrium of Song (Overpass Books 2011) and Lavender (Authorspress 2014). He is an English Instructor at CUNY Kingsborough. In addition to teaching, John serves as Editor for Otter Magazine (http://ottermagazine.com/) and Overpass Books (http://overpassbooks.org/). He was awarded the 2010 Esther Hyneman Award for Poetry and the 2015 Petite
John Kross is an aspiring poet who lives and works in Dallas, Texas. He has been fortunate enough to be published several times previously, In the 2012, 2013 and 2014 “Best Of” anthology Storm Cycle from A Kind of a Hurricane Press, and most recently in the 2014 print anthology Something’s Brewing and the 2015 print anthology Petals Read More
Kaushal K Srivastava started my academic career as a Lecturer in Physics, Patna University, in 1967. During the past forty years I have worked at Universities in India, Australia, Britain, and the United States; and finally retired from Bhagalpur University (Bihar) after serving as the Professor and Head of the Department of Physics for many years. Post-retirement he
Nalini Priyadarshni is a poet, writer, editor and amateur photographer. Her work has appeared at Up the Staircase Weekly, eFiction India, Mad Swirl, Crescent Magazine, The Riveter Review, Writes & Lovers Café, The Gambler, Camel Saloon, Earl of Plaid, CUIB-NEST-NIDO, and The Open Road Review besides numerous anthologies including I Am Woman, Awakening of She, Art of Being
Poornima Laxmeshwar is an MBA in finance and works as content writer for a living. Her haiku and poems have appeared in several magazines and anthologies. She resides in the garden city Bangalore, India.
Preeta Chandran is the author of ‘The Painted Verse’, a book of poetry and painting, co-created with painter Pankaj Kumar Saxena. Preeta has been published in ‘Suvarnarekha’, an Anthology by the Poetry Society of India, and recently in a newspaper, The Hans India. She has also been published in ‘The Dance of the Peacock’, an anthology of English
Robert Nisbet, a writer from Wales, UK, was for some years an associate lecturer in creative writing at Trinity College, Carmarthen. Some of his short stories appear in his collection Downtrain (Parthian, 2004) and in the anthology Story II (Parthian, 2014), his poems in magazines like The Frogmore Papers, The Interpreter’s House, Dream Catcher, The Journal, Scintilla and
Ruth Egan is an Irish poet living in Dublin, Ireland. She has had work published in Baby BEEF Zine and was one of the winners of the Liberties Festival 2013 poetry competition in Dublin.
Ruth Sabath Rosenthal is a New York poet, well published in literary journals and poetry anthologies throughout the U.S. and, also, internationally. In October 2006, her poem "on yet another birthday" was nominated for a Pushcart prize. Ruth has 4 books of poetry available for purchase on Amazon.com (U.S.A.): “Facing Home” (a chapbook), “Facing Home and Beyond,” “little,
Sankari Prasad Sarkar had his degree in Science and in Metallurgical Engineering. He was born when World War II was in full fury and an all-out struggle for Indian Independence was going on. He had been engaged in the production of defense equipments, in industry as a consultant and finally in Bharat Heavy Electricals limited till his retirement
