Born in Mexico, Luis lives in California and works in Los Angeles. His poetryhas appeared in Blue Collar Review, Mad Swirl, Unlikely Stories, and YellowMama Webzine. His latest poetry book, Make the Water Laugh, was publishedby Rogue Wolf Press in 2021. His other books and chapbooks have been published by Deadbeat Press, Kendra Steiner Editions, New Polish Beat, Poet’s Democracy, Propaganda Press, Pygmy Forest Press and Ten Pages Press (ebook). Cat Food Dream My curiosity was killed by the cat. It mistook me for a mouse and took my head in its mouth. The cat was enormous and filled with mischief. It let … Continue reading Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal

On an unseasonably cool July morning in Chicago, equivalent to David Copperfield, Judge Santiago Burdon was born on a Friday.  The Bronte sisters, Keats, Burns and especially Dickens inspired his study of English Literature. He attended Universities in the United States, London and Paris focusing his studies on Victorian novels and authors. His short stories and poems have been featured in a variety of magazines, on-line zines and podcasts;  The Remnant Leaf, Stay Weird  and Keep Writing, The Dope Fiend Daily, Independent Writer’s Blog, Spillwords, The Beatnik Cowboy, Down in the Dirt Magazine, Eskimo Pie, The Stray Branch, Anti-Heroin Chic, … Continue reading Judge Santiago Burdon

I live in the house I was raised in, located in Fullerton, California, with my Wife, Jana, four cats and a small dog. I have been a professional Blues & Rock musician since 1965, performing and recording in Victoria, British Columbia and Southern California. From early 1969 to 1975 I was a landed resident in Canada due to my opposition to war in Vietnam and the draft. Begining to seriously write poetry and short stories in the late 1970’s, I’ve been published in Electrum, Voices International, Big Smoke and Streetlight Press. As well, I had a short non-fiction article published … Continue reading Robert Lesher

Dr. Sangita Swechcha has been an ardent lover of literature from an early age. She has published a novel ‘Pakhalieko Siudo’ (Washed Vermillion) and co-authored a collection of short stories ‘Asahamati ka Pailaharu’ (Hoofmark of Discord) before the collection of short stories ‘Gulafsanga ko Prem’ (The Rose: An Unusual Love Story). Her second novel is under publication and her short story collection is being translated into English. She has many short stories and poems published in various international journals, online portals, radio and television including Radio Nepal, Nepal Television, Capital FM, Global Literature in Library Initiative (USA), Your2Read (UK), Borderless … Continue reading Sangita Swechcha

Glenn Hubbard lives in Madrid, where he teaches an English which is often rather ugly. Perhaps for this reason he started writing poetry. He has had work published in a large number of online and paper journals. One of his poems was submitted for the Forward Prize in 2019 and this year he won the Bangor Literary Journal’s FORTY WORDS competition with his poem Thirlage. He can occasionally become a little obsessive about a poem but this is amply compensated for the marvelous experience of losing all sense of time while he writes. His poetry owes a great deal to that of … Continue reading Glenn Hubbard

Gordon Ferris is a Ballyshannon poet and writer, originally from Dublin but has lived in Donegal for thirty-eight years. He has had poetry and short stories published in A New Ulster, the Galway Review, Impspired Magazine and Hidden Channel ezine.      On the way.  I’m at the entrance to a busy Connolly Station looking in through the door at the top of the escalator above the Luas line terminus. The information-ticket office and ticket vending machines are in through the doors to my left.  My eyes are squinting trying to look up the hall at the timetable above the turnstile type … Continue reading Gordon Ferris

Andrew Scott is a native of Fredericton, NB. During his time as an active poet, Andrew Scott has taken the time to speak in front of classrooms, judge poetry competitions as well as had over 200 hundred writings published worldwide in such publications as The Art of Being Human, Battered Shadows and The Broken Ones. Andrew Scott has published five poetry books, Snake With A Flower, The Phoenix Has Risen, The Path, The Storm Is Coming and Searching andone book of photography, Through My Eyes.  Whispers Of The Calm is his sixth poetry book. To contact Andrew, email …andrewscott.scott@gmail.com http://twitter.com/JustMaritimeBoyhttp://andrewmscott.comhttp://www.facebook.com/andymscott … Continue reading Andrew Scott

Lori A Minor, editor of #FemkuMag, is a human rights activist living in Ohio. Her work has been featured in several journals including Prune Juice, The Heron’s Nest, and is/let. Lori has won awards including two shortlisted haiku for the Touchstone Award (2017, 2019). She is honored to be the finalist for the Sable Books Haiku Contest for Women (2020) for her forthcoming book Uprooted and to have given a presentation on social awareness in haiku at the 2019 Haiku North America Conference. Most recently, Lori was selected to have work appear in New Resonance 12 (Red Moon Press) and Haiku 2021 (Modern Haiku Press). Hot Girl Summer Popping Xanax … Continue reading Lori A Minor

When not writing poetry, Emalisa Rose enjoys crafting with macrame and doll making. She volunteers in animal rescue, and helps tend to a cat colony in the neighborhood. She lives by the beach, which provides much of the inspiration for her art.  Some of her poems have appeared in Writing in a Woman’s Voice, Spillwords and other fine places. Her latest collection is “On the whims of the cross currents,” published by Red Wolf Editions. Deliriously, dandelions Ready as rain, they stick to the script and the floorplans with the debut of Springtime. Five decades later, they still render a … Continue reading Emalisa Rose