Marlis Manley Broadhead, a former college instructor of all forms of written communication except Braille, has award-winning short stories and poems in literary magazines—including Kansas Quarterly, Mikrokosmos, Crosscurrents, and Kansas Women Writers. Her debut novel, Trophy Girl, published by Black Rose Writing, was awarded the William Faulkner second prize in 2018. Her second book, Is That Your Mother Calling? Advice That Echoes Down Through the Ages, was based on research of hundreds of people sharing stories of advice they remembered and its effects on their lives.
An Interview with Jack Shannon
Basically a huge nerd, Jack Shannon's love of history and the macabre have combined in Brigandine, his first full-length dark fantasy novel. When not writing, he enjoys historical reenactment, TTRPGs, wargaming, spoon carving, brewing mead, and soap making. Time permitting, he is also a husband and father to two small children. He lives in Surrey.
An Interview with Kelli Kassoff
Kelli Kassoff is a writer of prose and poetry. Diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, her writing is based on moments in her life and firsthand experiences. She pushes the parameters of mediocrity, aiming to bend the rules of writing. She creates visceral images that readers can feel. Kelli lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband JK, three children + three bonus children, and Fred the Dachshund. When she is not writing or reading, she is spending her time outside in the sunshine (or the rain) with Fred.
An Interview with Billy Greer
A true student of the pop culture sphere, B. D. Greer has been absorbing just about every form of media from a young age. Whether it's legendary novels like Blood Meridian or Fight Club, Edgar Allen Poe’s oeuvre, movies, anime, folklore, or even video games, he’s not afraid to harvest and curate favored elements from the unlikeliest sources.
An Interview with Nyx Faelynn
A full-time student and carer, I’ve loved writing my whole life. I have a problem with procrastination and fixating on a task that is definitely not the one I’m supposed to, so I’ve only recently finished the final draft of my novel.
An Interview with Rebecca Bischoff
Rebecca Bischoff is the award-winning author of several novels, including a YA novel titled The French Impressionist, a historical middle-grade mystery, The Grave Digger, a humorous middle-grade novel, Hole in the Rock, and a YA historical mystery, Streets of Shadow. Rebecca loves to read everything from mysteries to paranormal to historical novels. She tends to research quirky and little-known facts from the past and loves anything that might make her laugh. A dedicated Anglophile, Rebecca loves watching BBC shows and reading mysteries that take place in the British Isles.
An Interview with Ericka Jordan
Ericka Jordan is a recent NMSU undergraduate with a degree in English Language, Literature, and Culture, as well as a minor in Creative Writing. She has a deep love and passion for writing of all sorts but is particularly fond of poetry, believing that it connects individuals of all walks of life through shared experiences and emotions.
An Interview with Sean O’Leary
Emerging from the vibrant streets of Brooklyn, NY, where he first entered the world, O’Leary’s journey has been nothing but remarkable, serving as a true inspiration. Raised within a family deeply connected to their German and Irish heritage, O'Leary's formative years in Brooklyn were characterized by a profound inquisitiveness about the world and a keen intellect, leading him to graduate from the esteemed Brooklyn Technical High School at the tender age of 17.
An Interview with Jasmine Griffin
Jasmine Griffin (she/her/they/them) is a black queer writer based in Cincinnati, and a teaching artist with Women Writing for (a) Change, Clarion West, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, and Hugo House. Jasmine previously held roles with Lighthouse Writers Workshop, the Mercantile Library of Cincinnati, and Carve Magazine. Jasmine was recently published in Sage Cigarettes, Writer's Digest, midnight & indigo, Coffin Bell, Vast Chasm Magazine, Eunoia Review, Random Sample Review, Cincinnati Refined, Genre: Urban Arts, and Cleaning up Glitter.
An Interview with Thom Cree
Thom Cree is a writer, poet, and screenwriter. His debut screenplay, Seagull, from the collection Briefs, earned him Quarter-Finalist victory in the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Winter 2024. His work has been published in literary journals worldwide and his science fiction novella, Eidetic, features in Temple Dark Books’ Channel the Dark Anthology. His previous work, The Man Who, is an epic collection of tales of morality, love, violence, and depravity set against beautifully evoked landscapes of nineteenth-century America's West; tombs and sacred temples of Egypt and Nubia; and the internal machinations of British Intelligence.