Yuan Changming, 8-time Pushcart nominee and author of 5 chapbooks (including Kinship [2015] and The Origin of Letters [2015]), began to learn English at 19 and published monographs on translation before moving to Canada. Currently editing Poetry Pacific with Allen Qing Yuan in Vancouver, Changming has since mid-2005 had poetry appearing in 1059 literary publications across 36 countries.
Christopher J. Roe, painter and poet has been painting for over forty years and writing seriously for five years. He has written thirty-nine volumes of poetry as well as his memoir, Dead Rainbows, and a novel, Death of a Poet. He runs a monthly poetry workshop at the Hail library in Warren. He was a Pushcart Prize nominee
Daniel Blokh is a 14-year-old creative writer living in Birmingham, Alabama. His work has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing awards, Cicada magazine, Foyle young poets, and more.
Elke Sommers is an Austrian-American writer who specializes in historical fiction.
Gary Beck has 11 published chapbooks. His original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway. His poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines. He currently lives in New York City. www.garycbeck.com
Keith Moul’s poems and photos are published widely. Finishing Line Press released a chap called The Future as a Picnic Lunch in 2015.
Laverne Frith is a widely published, award-winning poet who lives in Sacramento, California, USA. He has extensive background as a researcher, poetry columnist, book reviewer for New York Journal of Books, and is co-founder of Ekphrasis—A Poetry Journal, which has been in publication for almost twenty years. His most recent full-length collection is The Evaporating Hours (AuthorsPress 2015).
Loretta Diane Walker, a three time Pushcart nominee, has published three collections of poetry. Loretta was recently elected as Statesman in the Arts by Odessa’s Heritage Council. Her manuscript Word Ghetto won the 2011 Bluelight Press Book Award.
Marc Woodward is a poet and musician living in the remote English West Country. His recent chapbook "A Fright of Jays" is available from Maquette Press: http://andybrown5.wix.com/maquette
Metod Češek (1981) is a published poet, publicist and translator. His haiku have been awarded at the Modern Haiku journal and nominated for the Touchstone Individual Poem Award. www.metodcesek.com
