Artists

Zara Al-Noah lives in the UK and is a medic in the NHS. She is happiest in wellies, exploring the countryside with her husband and two small children. Her mixed heritage includes Iraqi descent. This, alongside her extensive travels, is the basis of her passion for writing. Flooding A Matchbox is her first collection of poetry.

Books: Flooding a Matchbox

Silas Denver Melvin (2000) is a queer, transmasculine poet from Southern N.H. As an introverted Gemini, he's been writing ever since he learned how to hold a pencil. At 20, he's published poetry with several outlets. Grit is his first collection of poems to be published.

Books: Grit

Kate Gough is a Canadian based poet and a member of the online poetry community. Her work modernizes romantic literary sensibilities and explores recovery to trauma and living with chronic illness. She has participated in a community poetry event “Escapril” three times, releasing poetry every day for a month. She has been published in several online journals, including the Latte Edit and Nightingale and Sparrow, as well as in her local community in Disability Pride Alberta, and in the YYC Portraits of People project.

Books: Cottage in a Mirror

Chloe Hanks is an emerging poet from Worcestershire. With the desire to absolve female villains from the patriarchal lens, her writing destabilizes stereotypes and reinvents what is familiar. Her work has appeared in a number of anthologies, including the recent debut from Fawn Press, and she was the winner of the V Press Prize for Poetry in 2020. She is currently studying for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham.

Books: I Call Upon the Witches

Christina Hennemann is the author of the poetry pamphlet “Illuminations at Nightfall” (Sunday Mornings at the River, 2022). She won the Luain Press Poetry Competition and was shortlisted in the Anthology Poetry Award as well as the Onyx Fall Contest. Her work is published in The Moth, Brigids Gate Press, Tír na nÒg, Campfire Poets, Goats Milk, Querencia and elsewhere. She is based in the beautiful West of Ireland.

Books: Illuminations at Nightfall

Sarah (she/her) is a queer poet based in Colorado. She graduated from the Savannah College of Art & Design with a BFA in Sequential Art, where she also studied Creative Writing in the South of France. She is the author of chapbooks The Oceanography of Her and Anti/Muse, and the digital zine I Can Make A Love Poem Out Of Anyone. As a survivor of sexual assault and PTSD, she runs Beyond The Veil Press, advocating for mental health awareness and art as therapy.

Books: One Thousand Good Answers

Sofiya Ivanova is originally from Moscow, Russia, but lives in Boulder, Colorado. Having faced the challenge of assimilating to a new culture, the trauma of a house fire and overcoming Lyme disease, she first published her work at 14 in a Sunday Mornings anthology. Now a junior in high school, she’s launched a solo collection titled Hindsight. Her poetry is full of sapphic love, tactile imagery and the vivid portrayal of growing up. In her free time, she loves to write music, bike, and spend time with her family.

Books: Hindsight

John James (alias F.J. Page) is a Warwickshire based musician, author, poet, playwright, teacher and fashion enthusiast. His poetry has always been tinged with his love of music; in particular the blues.

Books: Blues in the Suburbs

Kaci Skiles Laws wrote her first haiku in third grade about a giraffe. Years later, she wrote her first accomplished poem about her barn cat, Tinkerbell, who later died after getting attacked by her brother’s Jack Russell. The day her mom came to tell her the news she already knew. As a little girl, she was perceptive and sensitive in ways her mom respected as true insight, while other, insensitive people didn’t believe her or called her dramatic.

Books: Summer Storms

Jai M Louissen is a Scottish-born poet, now living via London in the coastal natural beauty of The Netherlands. Having spent time composing songs and music as a singer, recording artist and performer, her work began as a longing to be closer to her own inner world.

Books: A Vision of Orchids

Emily Perkovich is from the Chicago-land area. She is an Art Evaluator for Persephone's Daughters, and she spends her free time in the city with her family. Her work strives to erase the stigma surrounding trauma victims and their responses. Her piece This is Performance-Art was a finalist for the 50th New Millennium Writings Award, and she was featured in The Divine Feminist Anthology from Get Fresh Books Publishing.

Books: Godshots Wanted

Jude Raed is a Palestinian-Jordanian poet, writer and language enthusiast. She likes Labaneh with mint on toast, collecting books and sci-fi movies. Her work revolves around utilizing the beauty of language. She found solace in words, and the way stories live forever-so she made that her full-time job, writing poetry and stories about friendship, anger, freedom, companionship, loss, deep love for hidden beauty, nature, finding courage and hope, and childhood nostalgia for everything magic.

Books: Cough Syrup

Faye Alexandra Rose (she/her) is a prose writer and poet from the midlands, UK. Her work has been published by multiple magazines and has even appeared on a spoken word podcast on Spotify. She is a Magazine Editor at small leaf press and has recently graduated with a first-class degree in Creative and Professional Writing and English Literature from the University of Worcester, and is due to continue onto her Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham.

Books: Pneuma

Shay Rose is pursuing a PhD in Biochemistry in Galway, Ireland. Poetry keeps her sane. She uses it throughout her day in the lab, reading and writing during incubation times. Science poetry makes up a large part of her personal writing and has also spurred an involvement in the online poetry journal Consilience, which publishes peer-reviewed science poetry. However, not all poetry is science-inspired; much is heavily influenced by childhood summers spent at her grandparent’s ranch in Montana, her journey between jobs and countries, and musings on philosophy, religion, and art.

Books: Time Wears Boots & Other Poems

Rebecca is a poet and a carer based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. She is the author of several poetry collections. She started writing stories when she was just a little girl as a way to have grand adventures. After graduating from secondary school, she signed up to study written media at the Academy of Journalism in Tilburg, but a brain aneurysm put a premature end to her journalistic aspirations. Since then, Rebecca started using words to make sense of the world and to heal.

Books: Portraits of Girls I Never Met, The Lady from across the Sea, You Were Married When I Met You, The Care Home

Sean Tierney is a poet and solar etched printmaker currently based in Florida. Born and raised in New England, Sean developed a love for nature that permeates nearly all of his written works. In 2009, he became involved with Ra Press of Vermont and released six collections of poetry in the Green Mountain and Adirondack regions.

Books: Ground Pearls

Emma Williamson is a fiction writer and poet from Toronto, whose short fiction has been published in Dark Moon Digest and Toasted Cheese Literary Journal, and whose poetry has appeared in several anthologies. She has received various writing prizes, including being selected as a finalist for Canada's prestigious 2020 Alice Munro Short Story Prize. In addition to working on her debut psychological thriller, Williamson is also developing other writing projects and raising a family with her husband in Toronto.

Books: Rebirth

Howard Young is a poet and artist from East Sussex, who lives in a small house near the sea with his wife, children and too many typewriters. He loves walking, art, poetry, films, music, novels, the sea, Ancient Greece, existentialism, our old apple tree, the countryside and cricket.

Books: To Know the Way Back