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Rebecca Baumgarten has a bachelors and masters in English from Texas A&M University, where she studied religion, myth, and history in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. She hopes to bring back rhyme and mythopoetry.
Lynn Glicklich Cohen lives in Milwaukee, where she writes poetry, feeds birds and squirrels, takes long walks along the river and lakefront, and tries, in spite of everything, to hope for the best. Her poems have been published in several literary magazines, and "Handyman" was previously published in Cantos. She is grateful to Whistling Shade for supporting her work. She can be reached at lynnglicklichcohenpoet.com.
Ray Corvi writes poetry.
Mary Ann Dimand lives and works in Colorado, where she is turning a small horse property into a farm. No cabbages, though. She battles through a siege of bindweed growing fruit, herbs, and other vegetables.
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Sheepshead Review, Stand, Washington Square Review and Floyd County Moonshine. Latest books, Covert, Memory Outside The Head and Guest Of Myself are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in the McNeese Review, Santa Fe Literary Review and Open Ceilings.
King Grossman is a sojourner, social justice activist, nonviolent revolutionary, novelist, poet, writer of short prose, as well as a children’s story. His poems and short prose have appeared or are forthcoming in Delmarva Review, Bear Review, The Round, Licking River Review, Crack the Spine, Forge, Tiger’s Eye, Burningword, Ignatian, Drunk Monkeys, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, and many others. He’s working on his fifth novel. He lives in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California with his wife, Lisa; dog, Bogart; and sun conure parrot, Sunny.
David Groulx is a poet from Canada. His next poetry book, Solus Urger Voyager will be published in 2023.
Soidenet Gue is a writer based in Florida with a penchant for writing about families. His short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Washington Square Review LCC, The Concrete Desert Review, Bridge Eight, Maudlin House, and elsewhere. Currently, he’s at work on a story collection. Find him on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/soide.fred/.
Patrick Cabello Hansel is the author of the poetry collections The Devouring Land (Main Street Rag Publishing), Quitting Time (Atmosphere Press) and Breathing in Minneapolis (Finishing Line Press). His website is: www.artecabellohansel.com.
Patrick Kennedy's poetry has appeared in The Road Not Taken, The Literary Hatchet, The Rotary Dial, and Blue Unicorn. His first book of poems, West of House, was released in 2019.
Cameron Morse (he, him) is Senior Reviews editor at Harbor Review and the author of eight collections of poetry. His first collection, Fall Risk, won Glass Lyre Press's 2018 Best Book Award. His book of unrhymed sonnets, Sonnetizer, is forthcoming from Kelsay Books. He holds an MFA from the University of Kansas City-Missouri and lives in Independence, Missouri, with his wife Lili and three children.
Mary Newton is a writer and retired teacher. She currently lives in Ohio but grew up in California where she attended UCLA and San Francisco State University. Her work addresses women's issues and has been published in The MacGuffin, Evening Street Review, October Hill and other journals.
James Anderson O'Neal spent many years as a trial lawyer at a major national law firm. He is a board member and frequent volunteer with the Advocates for Human Rights, an international human rights organization. With his wife Sally and two Labrador retrievers, he divides his time between the Twin Cities and Lake Vermilion, Minnesota. He is the author of three novels published by Three Ocean Press of Vancouver, Canada. They are Riley and the Great War; Riley and the Roaring Twenties; and The Devils Came In From The Country. See
www.jamesandersonealbooks.com.
Ruth Ann Pszwaro is a poet, writer, and visual artist who works in mixed media drawing. She is the Artistic Director of a small artist colony on the North Shore of Lake Superior where she lives with her husband and two boys. Ruth Ann's work has been published in Ekstasis, Geez magazine, on MNartists.org, and in the compilation, Welcoming the Stranger (Regent College Publishing).
Jeanne Rana has been published in El Portal Literary Journal, California Writers Club Literary Review, Marin Poetry Center Anthology, Feather River Bulletin, Flights, Prism Review, and elsewhere. She received a Poets & Writers grant for her performance and workshop in 2019 for the Plumas Arts Council in Quincy, CA. Jeanne sings Sufi devotionals and runs a Sufi center with her husband.
Tony Rauch has four books of short stories published - I'm right here (spout press), Laredo (Eraserhead Press), Eyeballs growing all over me . . . again (Eraserhead Press), and What if I got down on my knees? (Whistling Shade Press).
Carol Rucks has been published in West Branch, Muse, Poetry Quarterly, Whistling Shade, San Pedro River Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of the poetry collection Evidence of Rain, published by Nodin Press. Two more collections are in circulation. She lives in Minneapolis.
William Snyder has published poems in Atlanta Review, Poet Lore, and Southern Humanities Review among others. He is retired from teaching writing and literature at Concordia College, Moorhead, MN.
Kevin Stebner is a senior engineering technician for a global technology corporation in the Twin Cities. He writes memoir and encourages others to "Trust your instincts and pursue your passions". He lives with his remarkable wife, Kiki G. They were married in 2003.
Justin Teerlinck is an occupational therapist in the Tacoma, Washington area, where he is learning how to place his writing skills and sense of the absurd in service to people with disabilities. His response to most standardized test questions is, “Meow don't know this theoretical construct. Meow try again please?”
Joel Van Valin is the publisher of Whistling Shade. His first poetry chapbook, The White Forest, was published in 2018 by Prolific Press. He lives with his wife, twin sons, and Naughty Cat in St. Paul, and really does enjoy love poetry.
Les Wicks has toured widely and seen publication across 37 countries in 16 languages. His 15th book of poetry is Time Taken - New & Selected (Puncher & Wattmann, 2022).