Susan Souza is a writer, author, singer, musician, and overall creative person who believes in the power of storytelling and artistic expression. Through books, music, and creative projects, Susan shares experiences, reflections, and inspiration with others. Her work is rooted… 

Katharine English grew up in the Midwest, where she developed a lifelong fascination with the hidden lives of ordinary people. Whether writing about the quiet corners of rural Kansas or the shifting silhouettes of New York City, she is drawn… 

A nerd. Every sci-fi or fantasy movie or novel gains my attention. Warhammer, Risk, Stratego, love it all. I am an avid historian with memberships in numerous clubs. But the greatest accomplishments in my life are being a father and… 

I was a chimney sweep—a service technician for forty years. I had a business with two locations and a hearth store when I retired. Chimney sweeps are the multi-tools of the trades. We need to have professional experience ranging from… 

I’ve often described himself as the product from a long line of storytellers. Aunts born in the 1890s could quote long passages of classical literature, poetry, and the Bible from memory. Dad was constantly telling jokes to illustrate points he… 

Sandra Fox Murphy grew up a “military brat” and was inspired to write while studying the beatnik poets. Her novels are historical fiction, to include the Fidelia McCord Series set in early Texas. Her current work, The Weight of Lost… 

An emerging poet drawn to the tender edges of existence—love that lingers, death that reshapes us, and the small, ordinary moments that reveal who we are. A collection of copyrighted poems that form a landscape of heartfelt emotions while stepping… 

Isobel de Border is a Melbourne-based diarist and writer of autofiction. Bella & Rami is her debut novel.

I was born in California, lived an entire life in Las Vegas, and eventually moved to Portland, Oregon with a girlfriend many girlfriends ago. I’ve been in the PNW for about nineteen years now and call it home.

Poet—nominated for Pushcart Prize—rabbi, teacher, attorney, vocalist.

Kate Campo is a pseudonym. The author is a primary care physician in New England, who grew up reading books and spending time by the ocean. She works in the greater Boston area and enjoys reading and writing on the… 

Hi. I’m Kayden. I’m a writer, professional overthinker, history nerd, gamer, coffee drinker, occasional chaos goblin, and Spider-Man enthusiast whose commitment to the bit probably passed “reasonable” several years ago.

Renee Bell grew up among the trees and mountains of the Pacific Northwest and has never really lost the habit of paying more attention to the edges of a map than the middle of it. She writes fantasy, YA and… 

WM Gunn is a native Texan who spent many years in the pharmaceutical industry and is now focused on writing. He is active in writing groups and volunteering with non-profit groups. He lives in his hometown in Texas with his… 

Brenda Cannon was born on a farm in Western Kentucky and most loved her pet calf and her horses. After graduate school, she developed a reading program for soldiers at Fort Campbell, KY called Eagle Prep. Her specialty was reading… 

I’m a graduate of Transylvania University—in Lexington, Kentucky, not Romania—where I met Aris, the charming Greek student I married at age nineteen. Three years later—that’s its own story—he introduced me to his parents and a small Greek island. I fell… 

Evelyn A. Fisher is an emerging children’s book author dedicated to crafting stories that spark curiosity and wonder in young readers. Oliver’s Garden is her debut book.

Born in Hong Kong and a true-blue son of La Salle College, an English Catholic school for boys, the author immigrated to Canada in his youth and established Canada’s first national Chinese-language television station. Before eventually settling in Toronto, he… 

Maria Karametou, a first-generation immigrant to the US from Athens, Greece, is a visual artist, writer, curator, and professor whose mixed media works have been exhibited internationally in numerous museum and gallery shows that, aside from the US, include Germany,… 

Jo Ann Kiser has previously published The Guitar Player and Other Songs of Exile, a collection of poignant short stories on leaving one’s childhood for elsewhere; A Young Woman from the Provinces, a novel about a Kentuckian’s odyssey to New…