Ethel Stirman

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Ethel Stirman is a 64 year-old wife, mother, and grandmother. In her time, she has worked as a metallurgical chemist, run a small retail business, and taught English in a secondary school, ending her working life as a consultant for Durham Local Authority. Her interests include local history and heritage, lawn bowls, reading, and writing. She belongs to Easington Writers and to Hartlepool Writers and has contributed stories and poetry to several ventures. She is now working on her first novel.

Childhood Memories, Volume 3, Issue 2
Book release, Not a Minute on the Day: A story of life in the Durham Coalfields

Buffy Shutt

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Buffy Shutt lives and works in Los Angeles. She spent most of her adult life marketing movies. Now she writes full time. She’s studied creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College. She has published one novel and co-authored a book of non-fiction with her best friend and college roommate. Her short stories have appeared in Red Fez and Bird’s Thumb.

Breakthismf.com, Volume 3, Issue 2 (Pushcart Nomination)(Winner of the Magnolia Review Ink Award)
Interview

Ruth Sabath Rosenthal

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Ruth Sabath Rosenthal is a New York poet, well-published in literary journals and poetry anthologies throughout the U.S. and also in Canada, France, India, Israel, Italy, Romania, and the U.K. In 2006, Ruth’s poem “on yet another birthday” was nominated for a Pushcart prize. Ruth has authored five books of poetry: Facing Home (a chapbook), Facing Home and Beyond, little, but by no means small, Food: Nature vs Nurture, and Gone, but Not Easily Forgotten. These books can be purchased on Amazon.com. For more about Ruth, please feel free to visit her websites www.newyorkcitypoet.com, http://bigapplepoet.com, and her blog site http://poetrybyruthsabathrosenthal.com

Deflating Farce & Fancy, Volume 3, Issue 2
Interview

John Timothy Robinson

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

John Timothy Robinson is a mainstream poet of the expressive image and inwardness from the Kanawha Valley in Mason County, West Virginia. His poetics was developed in the tradition of James Wright, Rita Dove, Donald Hall, Marvin Bell, Maxine Kumin, WS Merwin, Tess Gallagher and Robert Bly among many others. John’s works have appeared in ninety journals throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and India. He is also a published printmaker with sixty-four art images and photographs appearing in nineteen journals, electronic and print in the United States, Italy, and Ireland.

Kanawha, Volume 3, Issue 2
Interview

Crow Wisdom and Setting Hibiscus, Volume 5, Issue 2

Meg Reynolds

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Meg Reynolds is a poet, artist, and teacher living in Burlington, VT. She holds her BA in English and Arts and Visual Culture from Bates College and her MFA in poetry from Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine. Her work has been published in Pine Street Poets and Pomeroy Street Poets Anthologies through Honeybee Press as well as Gravel Journal, Prelude Journal, Wildage Press, Prime Number Magazine, and the anthology Monster Verse: Poems Human and Inhuman. She is the co-director of writinginsideVT, an organization that offers supportive writing instruction at the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in Burlington, VT.

Clothes, Volume 3, Issue 2

Brian Orth

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Brian Orth holds an MFA from Wichita State University and works part time as assistant editor of Tell Tell Poetry. His poems have appeared in Bayou, Broadsided Press, Cutthroat, The Midwest Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is currently at work on his first collection, The Year of the Pallbearer.

Albuquerque International Balloon Festival, 2014, Volume 3, Issue 2
Interview

Wilda Morris

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Wilda Morris is an award-winning poet who leads poetry workshops for adults and children. A past president of both Illinois State Poetry Society and Workshop Chairperson of the latter, she has published widely in journals and websites. Her interests include walking in the woods or wetlands and travel. Her blog at http://wildamorris.blogspot.com/ provides a contest for other poets each month.

Early Spring in the Woods, Volume 3, Issue 2
Fall, 1950s, Volume 4, Issue 1

Jesse Minkert

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Jesse Minkert lives in Seattle. In 2008, Wood Works Press published his collection of microstories, Shortness of Breath & Other Symptoms. His work has appeared in about fifty journals. Finishing Line Press will release his collection, Rookland, in 2017. He is a 2016 Pushcart nominee.

October and Chain Link Fence, Volume 3, Issue 2
Interview
Review, Rookland, Volume 4, Issue 2