Spring Issue I Contributors Biographies
Release Date: 2022/05/15
Gordon Linzner is founder and former editor of Space and Time Magazine, and author of three published novels and scores of short stories in F&SF, Twilight Zone, Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, and numerous other magazines and anthologies. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association and a lifetime member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America.
Yuan Changming hails with Allen Yuan from poetrypacific.blogspot.ca. Credits include eleven Pushcart nominations besides appearances in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17) & BestNewPoemsOnline, among nearly 1900 others. Recently, Yuan published his eleventh chapbook Limerence, and served on the jury for Canada's 44th National Magazine Awards (poetry category).
Maria Barnes is an author based in St. Petersburg, Russia. She has been writing fiction in English and Russian for over twenty years, and she has been studying literature and English online since 2018. Her work has been published in Sheepshead Review and Phantom Kangaroo.
Sofia Tantono is an Indonesian writer and curator whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Anak Sastra, Yuwana Zine (whose fifth issue she curated), Klandestin, Counter-Narratives and Neuro Logical; currently, she also writes for Glides, the magazine of her university's English department. She can be found on Instagram @sofias.writing and her blog.
Shannon Frost Greenstein (she/her) resides in Philadelphia with her children and soulmate. She is the author of “These Are a Few of My Least Favorite Things”, a full-length book of poetry available from Really Serious Literature, and “An Oral History of One Day in Guyana,” a fiction chapbook forthcoming with Bullsh*t Lit. Shannon is a former Ph.D. candidate in Continental Philosophy and a multi-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Her work has appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Pithead Chapel, Bending Genres, and elsewhere. Follow Shannon at shannonfrostgreenstein.com or on Twitter at @ShannonFrostGre.
Ion Corcos was born in Sydney, Australia in 1969. He has been published in Cordite, Meanjin, Wild Court, The Sunlight Press, and other journals. Ion is a nature lover and a supporter of animal rights. He is the author of A Spoon of Honey (Flutter Press, 2018).
Tanya Sangpun Thamkruphat is a Thai-Vietnamese American poet. She is the author of Em(body)ment of Wonder (Raine and Rose Co., 2021). Her writing appears in Button Poetry, Z Publishing House, Roi Fainéant Press, and elsewhere. Currently, she lives with her two feline overlords and partner in Southern California.
James B. Nicola’s poems have appeared in the Antioch, Southwest and Atlanta Reviews; Rattle; Barrow Street; Tar River; and Poetry East. His full-length collections are Manhattan Plaza (2014), Stage to Page (2016), Wind in the Cave (2017), Out of Nothing: Poems of Art and Artists (2018), Quickening: Poems from Before and Beyond (2019), and Fires of Heaven: Poems of Faith and Sense (2021). His nonfiction book Playing the Audience won a Choice award. He has received a Dana Literary Award, two Willow Review awards, Storyteller's People's Choice award, and eight Pushcart nominations—for which he feels both stunned and grateful.
Hayden Trenholm is an award-winning editor, playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was formerly publisher and managing editor of Bundoran Press. His first novel, A Circle of Birds, won the 3-Day Novel Writing competition; it was translated and published in French. His trilogy, The Steele Chronicles, were each nominated for an Aurora Award. Stealing Home, the third book, was a finalist for the Sunburst Award. Hayden has won five Aurora Awards – thrice for short fiction and twice for editing. In 2022 he is nominated for another Aurora for a novella he co-authored with his wife, Elizabeth Westbrook-Trenholm.
Aditi Kataria, age 25, lives in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. Her poems are scheduled to feature in The Wise Owl (2022). Her poems have also appeared in Visual Verse (Vol 9, Chapter 5), Ink Babies Llc. (Issue 1, 21), Blydyn Square Review (Fall, 21) and The Criterion (Vol 9, 2018). She considers herself as open, approachable, adaptable, curious and optimistic, with art, literature and culture as few of her sundry arenas of interest.
Gab Harvey was born on the 19th of January 1989 in Turin, Italy, and he is been based in England since 2013. Instead of learning English, he has forgotten how to speak Italian, so he now struggles to speak two languages. His work of fiction has been published in magazines and websites from Europe, the United States and Asia and has won some minor contests. Life Points is his debut novel. At the time of writing, he lives in Greater Manchester with his wife Anna and their cat Dana.
Taylor Bond is a writer and artist based out of East Asia. She is a graduate of Georgetown University’s English Literature Department, where she was a Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice Fellow and a recipient of the Bernard M Wagner Medal for Fiction. Currently she is a Japanese Culture Master's student at Waseda University.
Hugh’s stories have been published in the anthologies “All the Small Things”, “Hollow World: Origins,” and “Sheer: A Dark Fantasy Anthology”. His works have appeared on several websites and in various magazines including Departure Mirror, Short Story Town, and Sundamaged. He lives in London, England, and dreams of opening his own haunt.
Leslie Dianne is a poet, novelist, screenwriter, playwright and performer whose work has been acclaimed internationally in places such as the Harrogate Fringe Festival in Great Britain, The International Arts Festival in Tuscany, Italy and at La Mama in NYC. She received her BA in French Literature from CUNY and her poems have appeared in Noctivant Press, The Wild Word, Constellate Magazine, Moida and Trouvaille Review Her poetry was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize.