Jamie Houghton is a poet and teaching artist living in Oregon. Her work has appeared most recently in Thief Magazine and Picaroon Poetry, and her chapbook, Burn Site in Bloom, was released by Musehick Publications in 2017.
At Home and Hero, Volume 4, Issue 1
Interview
Review, Burn Site In Bloom, Volume 4, Issue 2
Mary Hanrahan is an artist and poet living in East Lansing, Michigan. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in counseling. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Modern Haiku, Frogpond,The Merrimack Review, Bottle Rockets Press, Sonic Boom,Hedgerow: a journal of small poems, The Cherita, The Ghazal Page and elsewhere.
Residual Value, Volume 4, Issue 1
Interview
Jessica Gigot is a poet, teacher and farmer in the Skagit Valley of Washington and her family runs a small farm called Harmony Fields that grows organic herbs and raises sheep. Her first book of poetry, Flood Patterns, was published in November 2015 with Antrim House Books. Her poems have also been published in Poetry Northwest, Floating Bridge Press, The Ekphrastic Review, About Place, and Pilgrimage. She has a PhD in Horticulture from Washington State University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Seattle Pacific University.
Night Fire, Volume 4, Issue 1
D.G. Geis has an undergraduate degree in English literature from the University of Houston and a graduate degree in philosophy from California State University. He is the author of Fire Sale (Tupelo Press/Leapfolio) and Mockumentary (Main Street Rag). Most recently, his poetry has appeared in The Irish Times, Fjords, Skylight 47 (Ireland), A New Ulster Review (N. Ireland), Crannog Magazine (Ireland), The Moth, (Ireland), Into the Void (Ireland), Poetry Scotland (Open Mouse), Ink and Letters, Crab Creek Review, Cleaver, and Under the Radar (Nine Arches Press UK). He was the winner of the 2017 Firman Houghton Prize and was shortlisted for both the 2017 Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize (Ireland) and the 2017 Percy French Prize (Strokestown International Poetry Prize, Ireland). He divides his time (unequally) between Houston, Galveston, Dublin, and the Hill Country of Central Texas.
Free Survival Guide; Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals; Weatherman; On this date in the year 410, Rome was sacked by the Visigoths; and Ars poetica; Volume 4, Issue 1
Interview
Cynthia Gallaher, a Chicago-based poet and playwright, is author of three poetry collections and two chapbooks. Most recently, she made a 10-city book tour with her nonfiction guide & memoir Frugal Poets’ Guide to Life: How to Live a Poetic Life, Even If You Aren’t a Poet, which won a National Indie Excellence Award. The Chicago Public Library lists her among its “Top Ten Requested Chicago Poets.” Follow her on Twitter at @swimmerpoet and on her Facebook page at @frugalpoets.
Yoga Teacher Stokes the Sauna, Volume 4, Issue 1
Interview
Robert Ford lives on the east coast of Scotland. His poetry has appeared in both print and online publications in the UK and US, including Antiphon, Dime Show Review, Butcher’s Dog and San Pedro River Review. More of his work can be found at https://wezzlehead.wordpress.com/
Little Grey Cloud, Volume 4, Issue 1
Maureen Daniels teaches English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, where she is also a doctoral fellow in creative writing. She is an editorial assistant for Prairie Schooner and Western American Literature. Her work has recently been published in Sinister Wisdom, Wilde Magazine, Gertrude Press, and the South Florida Poetry Review.
Fire Chasers, Volume 4, Issue 1
Barbara Daniels’ book Rose Fever was published by WordTech Press and her chapbooks Black Sails, Quinn & Marie, and Moon Kitchen by Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press. Her poetry has appeared in Prairie Schooner, WomenArts, Mid-American Review, The Literary Review, and many other journals. She received three Individual Artist Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Inside a Song, a Sea, Volume 4, Issue 1
Interview
Ann Colcord writes in the Boulder county area of Colorado, where she has lived since 1978. Colcord has kept her poetry a well-guarded compulsion, separate from her more professional pursuits in the world of business. Her poetry seeks connection between commonalities in nature, human and non-human, land and culture at a deeper existential level.
Feeling the Fire Nearby, Volume 4, Issue 1
Antonia Clark has published a chapbook, Smoke and Mirrors, and a full-length poetry collection, Chameleon Moon. Her poems have appeared in numerous print and online journals, including 2River View, The Cortland Review, Eclectica, The Pedestal Magazine, and Rattle. A medical writer and editor, she has also taught poetry and fiction writing and manages an online poetry forum, The Waters. Toni lives in Vermont, loves French picnics, and plays French café music on a sparkly purple accordion.
Winter Haiku, Volume 4, Issue 1
The Magnolia Review 