Author Biographies

Ace Boggess

Ace Boggess is author two poetry books, most recently, The Prisoners (Brick Road, 2014). He is an ex-con, ex-husband, ex-reporter, and completely exhausted by all the things he isn't any more. His writing has appeared in River Styx, Rattle, J Journal, Southern Humanities Review, and many other journals. He lives in Charleston, West Virginia.

Katrenia Busch

Katrenia Busch is a licensed assisted living administrator, licensed nurse, mother of two and published poet. She has been published in Literature Today, The Screech Owl, and is a healthcare contributor for senior care quest on "how to improve healthcare." She enjoys reading philosophical studies and spending time with her husband and children outdoors.

Susana H. Case

Susana H. Case's newest book is 4 Rms w Vu (Mayapple Press, 2014). She is the author of four full-length poetry collections and four chapbooks, including The Scottish Cafe, which was re-released in a Polish-English version, Kawiarnia Szkocka, by Opole University Press. She is a Professor at New York Institute of Technology. http://iris.nyit.edu/~shcase/

Douglas Currier

Douglas K Currier is a former college professor who has published in the past in Laurel Review, Dominion Review, The Café Review, Black River Review, Fish Stories, Mockingbird, Writer-To-Writer, Mangrove, Lake Region Review, and Ibis Review to name a few. His work appears in the anthology, Onion River: Six Vermont Poets. Daniel Lusk, ed, 1997. He lives in Burlington, Vermont.

Barbara Daniels

Barbara Daniels’ Rose Fever: Poems was published by WordTech Press and her chapbooks Moon Kitchen, Black Sails and Quinn & Marie by Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press. She received three Individual Artist Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the most recent in 2014.

George Freek

George Freek is a poet/playwright living in Belvidere, IL. His poetry has recently appeared in 'Penumbra'; 'Mud Season'; 'The Chiron Review'; 'The New Plains Review'; 'The Stillwater Review'; 'Te Foliate Oak'; 'Dewpoint Journal'; and 'The Samizdat Literary Journal'. His plays are published by Playscripts, Inc.; Lazy Bee scripts; and Off The Wall Plays.

Carol Gloor

Carol Gloor has been writing for forty years, mostly poetry. Her work has appeared in many places, most recently in the anthology In Transit, in the print journals East on Central and Habitat, and in the online journals Front Porch Review and TwoCities Review. She has upcoming work in the print journals Crone Magazine and Kerf. Her poetry chapbook, Assisted Living, was published on Finishing Line Press in 2013.

Erren Kelly

Erren Kelly has had his work published in numerous magazines and literary journals in print and online, in America and all over the world. Mr. Kelly received his BA in English from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Kelly lives in Seattle.

J.S. Kierland

J.S. Kierland is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and the Yale Drama School. He has published over sixty short stories in journals that range from Playboy, Fiction International, Emry's, Colere, and many others. A collection of his short stories has been published by Underground Voices titled 15. Underground Voices has also published his novella Hard to Learn as an ebook.

Pamela Laskin

Pamela L. Laskin is a lecturer in the English Department, where she directs the Poetry Outreach Center. Poetry collections include: Remembering Fireflies and Secrets of Sheets (Plain View Press); The Bonsai Curator and Van Gogh;s Ear ; (Cervena Barva Press), Daring Daughters/Defiant Dreams (A Gathering of Tribes) and The Plagiarist (Dos Madres Press). Several children’s books have been published as well: Visitation Rites (Diversion Press) and Homer The Little Stray Cat (Red Balloon Press), which is the most recent.

Martin H. Levinson

Martin H. Levinson is a member of the Authors Guild, National Book Critics Circle, and the book review editor for ETC: A Review of General Semantics. He has published 8 books and numerous articles. His poems have appeared in The Potomac Review, BRICKRhetoric, Occupoetry, Specter Magazine, First Literary Review East, WestWard Quarterly, Boston Poetry Magazine, Literary Mama, Third Wednesday, Message in a Bottle, Still Crazy, and Mindset Poetry. He holds a PhD from NYU and lives in Forest Hills, New York.

Bruce McRae

Pushcart nominated Bruce McRae is a Canadian musician with over 900 poems published around the world. His first book The So-Called Sonnets is available via Silenced Press and Amazon. To see and hear more poems go to "BruceMcRaePoetry" on Youtube.

Dehryl Mason

Dehryl Mason is currently exploring the way into what seems to be Part Three of her life. Part One seems to have been that growing-up-and-trying-to-find herself phase before Part Two: Parenthood. Now an empty-nester divorcée, she explores how to live gratefully, mindfully, and more simply. She blogs about this and her sabbatical from work as a psychologist in Alabama at exploringthepath.com.

Peter Mladinic

Peter Mladinic lives in southeast New Mexico and teaches at New Mexico Junior College. His poems have been published in numerous magazines in the U.S. His two books of poetry, Lost in Lea and Dressed for Winter, were published by the Lea County Museum Press. Also, he is president of the Lea County Humane Society.

Dave Morrison

Hailed as 'A hearty weed in the garden of American poetry,' Dave Morrison's poems have been published in literary magazines and anthologies, and featured in Writer’s Almanac and Take Heart. Morrison has published ten books of poetry, including Clubland (poems about rock & roll bars in verse and meter, Fighting Cock Press 2011) and Shake Hands With Your Heart (JukeBooks 2015), plus a CD (Poetry Rocks - Mishara Music 2015).

Robert Parham

Robert Parham’s work has appeared in the Georgia Review, South Carolina Review, Shenandoah, Rolling Stone, America, Barrow Street, Northwest Review, and many other publications. He recently retired as Dean of Arts and Sciences at Augusta State University. He co-edits the Southern Poetry Review.

Mark Parsons

Mark Parsons's poems have recently been published or are forthcoming in SubTerrain, Iodine Poetry Journal, Wisconsin Review, Emerge, Zymbol, and elsewhere. He received his MFA from the University of Arizona. He lives in Yokohama, Japan.

Charles Rammelkamp

Charles Rammelkamp's latest poetry collection, Mata Hari: Eye Of The Day, has just been published by Apprentice House at Loyola University in Baltimore. In 2014, Finishing Line Press published a poetry chapbook, Mixed Signals. Rammelkamp is the prose editor at BrickHouse Books in Baltimore and edits The Potomac, an online literary journal -- http://thepotomacjournal.com

J. Tarwood

J. Tarwood has been a dishwasher, a community organizer, a medical archivist, a documentary film producer, an oral historian, and a teacher. Much of his life has been spent in East Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. He has published three books, And For The Mouth A Flower, Grand Detour, and The Cats In Zanzibar, and his poems have appeared in magazines ranging from American Poetry Review to Visions. He has always been an unlikely man in unlikely places.

Rosemary Volz

Rosemary Volz has had her short stories published in Blueline, Event and Another Chicago Magazine. She has twice won first prize in the Flagler County Art League Poetry contest. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, graduated from Queens College, and now lives in Ponce Inlet, Florida. She is currently associated with the Tomoka Poets