Bruce McRae, a Canadian musician, is a Pushcart nominee with over a thousand poems published internationally. He has performed across Canada and the U.K., and has been on a number of CDs. His latest book, An Unbecoming Fit Of Frenzy is available now on Amazon and through Cawing Crow Press.
The Dog Said and Who’d Be a Weatherman, Volume 2, Issue 2
Kalyn Maria is sixteen-years-old and a sophomore in high school. She started writing poetry at a young age, and is eager to emerge as a new writer. Maria writes a lot of her poems about love and its ups and downs, as well as poems about her own experiences.
Simply Money, Volume 2, Issue 2
Capotă Daniela Lăcrămioara studied Public Relations and Communication at Danubius University in Galati, Romania. She had a drawing exhibition “Mystery and shapes” and graphics “The fascinating leaf,” “Rustling in ink.” She is interested in haiku, Japanese stampa, sumi-e, watercolors, poetry, and literature. At the moment she is a member of the Romaniankukai group.
Evergreen and Tree of Life, Volume 2, Issue 2
Laurie Kolp has poems appearing in Whale Road Review, concis, Rust + Moth, Bracken, Up the Staircase, PITH, and more. Lover of running, almonds, and key lime pie, Kolp is forever in search of the best word. She is author of the poetry collection Upon the Blue Couch (Winter Goose Publishing) and chapbook Hello, It’s Your Mother (Finishing Line Press). She lives and teaches in Southeast Texas with her husband, three children, and two dogs. Learn more at http://lauriekolp.com.
Letting Go Attempt #10, Volume 2, Issue 2
After the Kiss, Volume 4, Issue 1
Interview
Hillary Kobernick writes poetry for both performance and the page. She holds a Master’s of Divinity, meaning she has, in fact, mastered the divine. She currently pastors a small church outside Chicago. Her poetry has appeared in literary magazines in the U.S. and Canada, including Bellevue Literary Review, Barely South, Ellipsis, and decomP. Her work can always be found at http://hillarykobernickpoetry.tumblr.com/.
Quits, Volume 2, Issue 2
Robert D. Kirvel, a 2016 Pushcart Prize nominee for fiction and a 2015 ArtPrize winner for creative nonfiction, has published stories or essays in the UK, New Zealand, Germany, and a dozen U.S. literary journals, such as the Columbia College Literary Review.
Dear Miss Hines, Rosie Missed School Because Nittins Had Kittens and She Ate the Placenda Which Made Her Sick, Volume 2, Issue 2
Jean A. Kingsley earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University, and lives in Rochester, New York. She is the recipient of the 1995 Academy of American Poets Prize, a finalist for “Discovery”/The Nation and The Constance Saltonstall Foundation of the Arts Fellowship. Her poems have appeared in numerous national literary journals, and she won a poetry book award for Traceries from ABZ Press in 2014, selected by C. D. Wright. She is a recent reviewer for the Antioch Review and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Scurf of Memory, Volume 2, Issue 2
Katrina Johnston is the winner of the CBC/Canada Writes True Winter Tale. Works of short fiction may be found at several online sites and a couple of print issues. She lives in Victoria, BC, Canada. The goal of her fiction is to share a human journey and to explore together.
Speaking of Lillian, Volume 2, Issue 2
A.J. Huffman has published thirteen full-length poetry collections, fourteen solo poetry chapbooks, and one joint poetry chapbook through various small presses. Her most recent releases, The Pyre On Which Tomorrow Burns (Scars Publications), Degeneration (Pink Girl Ink), A Bizarre Burning of Bees (Transcendent Zero Press), and Familiar Illusions (Flutter Press) are now available from their respective publishers. She is a five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, a two-time Best of Net nominee, and has published over 2600 poems in various national and international journals, including Labletter, The James Dickey Review, The Bookends Review, Bone Orchard, Corvus Review, EgoPHobia, and Kritya. She is the founding editor of Kind of a Hurricane Press. You can find more of her personal work here: https://ajhuffmanpoetryspot.blogspot.com/
Notes to the Wind, Volume 2, Issue 2
Wolf, I Think About Concrete, Attached to a Lamp Post, and The Phenomenon of Bones, Volume 4, Issue 2
Ann Howells has edited Illya’s Honey since 1999, recently taking it digital: www.IllyasHoney.com and alternating issues with a new co-editor. Her publications are: Black Crow in Flight (Main Street Rag, 2007), the Rosebud Diaries (Willet Press, 2012), Under a Lone Star (Village Books Press, 2016), and upcoming: Letters for My Daughter (Flutter Press, 2016), and Cattlemen & Cadillacs, an anthology of Dallas/Ft. Worth poets she is editing (Dallas Poets Community Press, 2016). Her poems appear widely among small press and university journals.
Watermelon Summer and Orchid and Rose, Volume 2, Issue 2
The Magnolia Review 