Issue Thirty-Nine: Contributors

David Capps is a philosophy professor and writer living in New Haven, CT. He is the author of six chapbooks: Poems from the First Voyage (The Nasiona Press, 2019), A Non-Grecian Non-Urn (Yavanika Press, 2019), Colossi (Kelsay Books, 2020), On the Great Duration of Life (Schism Neuronics (2023), Wheatfield with a Reaper (Akinoga Press, forthcoming), and Fever in Bodrum (Bottlecap Press, forthcoming). His latest lyric essay is featured in Midnight Chem.

Julie Easley is a working-class poet from Saltburn in the UK. She is published in Anthologies from Ek Zuban Press, Kirjastus Luul, Slice of the Moon books, Dreich magazine,  Versification, Stone of Madness Press, Thrive Teesside, The Morning Star and Culture Matters. Her film poems are published by Icefloe Press and Darlington Pride. Julie can be found on YouTube, Spotify and BBC Tees Upload. Twitter: @JulieEasley

Bob Ellis is a retired financial services exec. He has lived and worked on three continents and swum in all the oceans of the world. He currently writes quirky short fiction from SW Florida. Recently publications include the Florida Writers Association Collections anthologies (four of the last five years, a top story in 2023) and The Florida Writer and Florida Weekly magazines. He has also been included in several online publications, including Witcraft and Friday Flash Fiction. Among the Headstones (an international anthology) named his story, Dead Person Collection, their top story in 2021. The stories Silicon Witchcraft and Confessing are featured in anthologies in December of 2024.

Amlanjyoti Goswami has written two widely reviewed books of poetry, River Wedding and Vital Signs, published by Poetrywala. River Wedding was shortlisted for the Sahitya Akademi Award. Published in journals and anthologies across the world, including Poetry, The Poetry Review, Penguin Vintage, Rattle, and Sahitya Akademi, he is also a Best of the Net and Pushcart nominee. He grew up in Guwahati and lives in Delhi.

Jonathan Holland was kicked out of a university for crappy grades and past-due tuition. After a fool-hearted attempt to sell weed to earn his way back into school, he ended up going to jail, getting white-privileged out, and overcoming homelessness on his way to becoming a full-time college lecturer. He’s a grateful graduate of the Helen Zell Writers’ Program and teaches writing at the University of Michigan.

R. A. Hinkle resides in middle Georgia. He holds a Master’s degree in theological studies from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology. Currently, he drives a semi-truck and writes his poems early in the morning before the sun rises as he drives. On good days, he remembers to write them down. His poetry has been previously published in Macrina Magazine. His socials are @hinkle3_trey

Denver Jermyn lives and writes in Toronto, Canada. His poetry has appeared in Vallum, The Fieldstone Review, In/Words, The Honest Ulsterman, and others. He was a runner-up in the 2022 Eden Mills Writers’ Festival Literary Contest and received first honourable mention in the 2012 Vallum Award for Poetry.

Tom Kelly is a north-east of England poet, short story writer, lyricist and playwright. He has had fourteen books of poetry, short stories and play published in as many years. His new collection WALKING MY STREETS has been recently published and re-printed by Red Squirrel Press.

John Kenny is a writer, editor and creative writing tutor living in Dublin, with short stories published in Uncertainties, Revival Literary Journal, The Galway Review, Emerald Eye, Transtories, Fear the Reaper and many other venues. His poetry has featured in Smashing Times and Every Day Poets, and is forthcoming in Prole.

M.P. Powers is a Floridian who works as a forklift driver in Berlin, Germany. He is the author of The Initiate (Anxiety Press, Fall, 2023) and Strange Instruments (Outcast Press, ’25). Recent publications include the Columbia Review, Black Stone/White Stone, Stone Circle Review, miniMag, and others. His artwork can be found on Twitter and Instagram @mppowers1132

Jane Wilson-Howarth has spent much of her professional life talking crap: working on public health campaigns to reduce that child-killer, diarrhoea. Her best-selling book is How to Shit Around the World. The Independent, Guardian and Setopati newspapers, Condé Nast Traveller, BBC Wildlife, Which Travel and Wanderlust, have published her work; she’s appeared live on BBC Breakfast, on BBC One’s Rip-off Britain and Sky TV. Currently she’s writer-in-residence in her local public library in Cambridge.
Find her at www.wilson-howarth.com or on Instagram as @longdropdoc.

Ping Yi writes poetry, travelogues and fiction, and is in public service. His work has appeared in Litro (Editor’s Pick), London Grip, Dreich, Meniscus, La Piccioletta Barca, Sideways, Vita Poetica, Poetry Breakfast and others, and is forthcoming in ONE ART, Harbor Review and Rising Phoenix Review. Ping Yi is from Singapore, and has lived in Cambridge, UK, and Boston, MA.