Asha Anderson, born in the USA, currently living in Portugal, given to wandering. "Her lean output belies her hefty impact. How many atoms are in a nuclear bomb?"
Allen Ashley has been a regular contributor to "Sein und Werden" over the years and guest-edited the "Last Chance Filling Station" issue in 2021. Allen is an award-winning writer and editor and ex-President of the British Fantasy Society. Recent publications include work in "The World of Myth", "dyst", and the anthologies "Vital Signals" (NewCon Press) and "Musings of the Muses" (Brigids Gate). Allen is the founder of the advanced science fiction and fantasy group Clockhouse London Writers.
David Banks was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1943. He has been living abroad since 1975, for a short time in Iraq and since then in France, where he is now Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale. He has been writing and publishing poetry since the early 70s; his publications include Celt Seed, Selected Poems, (Poetry Salzburg, 2003), and Radicals, Poems 2002-2008, (Poetry Monthly, 2009). His other interests include choral singing and coastal rowing.
Robert Beveridge (he/him) makes noise (xterminal.bandcamp.com) and writes poetry in Akron, OH. Recent/upcoming appearances in Schuylkill Valley Journal, Contemporary Verse 2, and Ouch! Collective, among others.
Julie Blankenship is an artist in San Francisco, who makes paintings by hand, using nineteenth-century photographs. Her work has been published by Egaeus Press, in Poets & Writers Magazine, Vastarien Literary Journal, London Reader, Blood Bath Magazine, and Photo Trouvee Magazine. It has been featured in exhibitions including Museum of No Spectators at Burning Man. Her work was chosen to represent Silent Fire collaboration between Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Nasty Women Connecticut.
William Bowden is 22 years old and currently works in London. Having completed an Ba(Hons) at the University of Exeter, William has now started an MA in English at UCL. Previously published poems appear in the Canon's Mouth Magazine, Pulp Poets Press, The Phare Magazine, and the Crank magazine.
Alexis Child hails from Toronto, Canada; home to dreams and nightmares. Her fiction and poetry have been featured in numerous online and print publications. Her first collection of poetry, Devil in the Clock, a dark and sinister slice of the macabre is available on Amazon. Her second collection of poetry, Singing the Bones, is available on Amazon and from Cyberwit Publishing. Please Visit Alexis' YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg6S5u4yX73kA1ZWGnKaEBA/videos
Find her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alexis.child.7587
Juliet Cook is brimming with black, grey, silver, purple, and dark red explosions. She is drawn to poetry, abstract visual art, and other forms of expression. Her poetry has appeared in a peculiar multitude of literary publications. You can find out more at https://julietcook.weebly.com/
William Doreski lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He has taught at several colleges and universities. His most recent book of poetry is Dogs Don't Care (2022). His essays, poetry, fiction, and reviews have appeared in various journals.
Roy Duffield is an international writer, translator, and editor at Anti-Heroin Chic. He is a winner of the Robert Allen Micropoem Contest (2021) and was honoured to be chosen to perform his work at the 2019 Beat Literary Festival in Barcelona. His words have recently been seen entering such nefarious establishments as SurVision Magazine, The Nashville Review and Seppuku Quarterly.
Daniel Galef's first book, Imaginary Sonnets, is forthcoming from Word Galaxy/Able Muse Press this winter. It is a collection of persona poems, each one a verse monologue from the point of view of a different historical figure, literary character, or inanimate object. Subjects include Lucrezia Borgia, Wernher von Braun, the Hungarian obstetrician Ignaz Semmelweis, and Death. Individual poems in the book have been featured in the Atlanta Review, Measure, The Lyric, First Things, Modern Age, and Philosophy Now.
Jasper Glen is from Vancouver, BC. He holds a BA in Philosophy and a JD. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Posit, BlazeVOX, A Gathering of the Tribes, Amsterdam Quarterly, Cathexis Northwest Press, Tofu Ink, fauxmoir, NiftyLit, Phantom Kangaroo, and other journals.
Boris Glikman is a writer, poet and philosopher from Melbourne, Australia. He says: "Writing for me is a spiritual activity of the highest degree. Writing gives me the conduit to a world that is unreachable by any other means, a world that is populated by Eternal Truths, Ineffable Questions and Infinite Beauty. It is my hope that these stories of mine will allow the reader to also catch a glimpse of this universe."
Nick Hadfield writes prose while roaming the planet like a slow-motion nomad. After living for a decade in London, Japan and Andalucia, he now resides in Manila. When not writing, he reads, daydreams, cooks, cycles, naps, listens to music, and drinks beer
M. P. Haldern is a young writer, poet, and academic from the south coast of England. In their writing they seek to examine the nature of reality and how we relate to ourselves and one another through existentialist, surrealist, and political exploration.
Mark Hastings spent the first 2 years of his working life as a librarian at an intellectual newspaper where headlines included the classic 'Aliens turned my son into a fish finger' and has now spent the last 20 years as a University serials librarian dealing with Parking News, Knitting International and Sexually Transmitted Diseases. These are all journal titles, not personal afflictions.
Ceinwen E Cariad Haydon lives in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, and writes short stories and poetry. She has been widely published in web magazines and in print anthologies. She is a Pushcart and Forward Prize nominee. Her first chapbook 'Cerddi Bach (Little Poems), was published in 2019 by Hedgehog Press. She is developing practice as a participatory arts facilitator, mainly working with elders and intergenerational groups. She believes everyone's voice counts.
Martin Heavisides exists. He has even been published, in magazines as diverse as Frigg, Mad Hatter's Review, Oddball, Danse Macabre and The Linnet's Wings, and had staged readings of many of his efforts for the stage. Much of this is in the public record. Attempts to prove Martin Heavisides doesn't exist have persistently failed, and will fail at least until he ceases to.
Paul Hostovsky makes his living in Boston as a sign language interpreter. His poems have won a Pushcart Prize, two Best of the Net Awards, the FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize, and have been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and The Writer's Almanac.
Mike Huett is a UK writer living in Yorkshire. His work often explores issues related to death, disease and trauma, but sometimes he writes about miserable stuff as well. He is happy to try and answer any queries via e mail; at mikehuett@hotmail.com
Mark Howard Jones was born on the Ides of March in a south Wales town where it had once rained fish. He has appeared in Sein und Werden before and hopes to do so again. His latest collection, Star-Spawned: Lovecraftian Horrors and Strange Stories (Macabre Ink), can be found at all disreputable bookshops (and Amazon!) now.
Mark Kirkbride is the author of The Plot Against Heaven, Game Changers of the Apocalypse and Satan's Fan Club. His work has appeared in Neon Literary Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine, So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, the Morning Star and the Daily Mirror.
Zoltán Komor was born in June 14, 1986. He lives in Hungary. He writes surreal short stories and published in several literary magazines (Horror, Sleaze and Trash; Drabblecast; The Phantom Drift; Gone Lawn; Bizarro Central; Bizarrocast; Thrice Fiction Magazine; The Missing Slate; The Gap-Toothed Madness; Wilderness House Literary Review; Kafka Review, etc.) His latest novel, The Radiator Boy and The Holly Country was published by Potter's Grove Press in 2021.
Ellaraine Lockie's recent work has won both the Oprelle Publishing's Poetry Masters Contest and their Bigger Than Me Contest Award, Poetry Super Highway Contest, the Nebraska Writers Guild's Women of the Fur Trade Poetry Contest and New Millennium's Monthly Musepaper Poetry Contest. She teaches writing workshops and serves as Poetry Editor for the lifestyles magazine, LILIPOH.
Michael Loughrey is from London, and has sojourned in New York, Los Angeles and Paris.
The Parallax Groove https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-parallax-groove/michael-loughrey//9781784077181, a collection of Michael's short stories, was awarded Book Of
The Month by Hippocampus Press in New York. It's available from Waterstones, and
Foyles of London https://www.foyles.co.uk/witem/fiction-poetry/the-parallax-groove,michael-loughrey-9781784077181. Michael's short stories have been shortlisted three times for The Million Writers short story award. He is allegedly writing a novel.
Richard Magahiz tries to live an ordered life in harmony with all things natural and created but one that follows unexpected paths. His work has appeared recently at Star*Line, Dreams and Nightmares, Bewildering Stories, Danse Macabre, Otoliths, Uppagus, and Eye to the Telescope. His website is at https://zeroatthebone.us/
DS Maolalai has received nine nominations for Best of the Net and seven for the Pushcart Prize. His poetry has been released in three collections, "Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden" (Encircle Press, 2016), "Sad Havoc Among the Birds" (Turas Press, 2019) and Noble Rot (Turas Press, 2022)
A two-time, 2021 nominee for the Pushcart Prize and a 2022 nominee for the Best of the Net, John Muro is a resident of Connecticut and a lover of all things chocolate. He has published two volumes of poems: In the Lilac Hour (2020) and Pastoral Suite (2022). Both books were published by Antrim House and both are available on Amazon. John's poems have been published or are forthcoming in numerous literary journals, including Acumen, Barnstorm, Grey Sparrow, Sein und Werden, Sky Island and the Valparaiso Review. Instagram: @johntmuro.
Rich Murphy's "Meme Measure," a collection of poems will be published by Resource Publications at Wipf and Stock in 2022. His poetry has won The Poetry Prize at Press Americana twice Americana (2013) and The Left Behind (2021) and Gival Press Poetry Prize Voyeur (2008). Space Craft by Wipf and Stock also came out 2021. Books Prophet Voice Now, essays by Common Ground Research Network and Practitioner Joy, poetry by Wipf and Stock 2020. He has published nine other collections of poetry.
Andrew Myers (writing as A. N. Myers) is a North London based writer of speculative fiction. His recent short fiction credits include The Best of British Science Fiction 2021, BFS Horizons, Sein Und Werden, and the forthcoming Cosmic Crime Stories from Hireath Publishing. His flash fiction has appeared in 101Fiction, Speculative 66, Flash Frontier, and Bag of Bones. His YA science fiction novel, 'The Ides' is available from Amazon. He is a member of Clockhouse London Writers.
Cath Nichols' second collection, This is Not a Stunt (Valley Press, 2017) explores trans and disabled history and identities. Cath is disabled, autistic, queer and otherwise boringly white and middle class. She teaches creative writing at Leeds University but may give that up soon due to poor health and the disinterest of post-pandemic students in online modules (she has to work from home).
Toti O'Brien is the Italian Accordionist with the Irish Last Name. Born in Rome, living in Los Angeles, she is an artist, musician and dancer. She is the author of Other Maidens (BlazeVOX, 2020), An Alphabet of Birds (Moonrise Press, 2020), In Her Terms (Cholla Needles Press, 2021), Pages of a Broken Diary (Pski's Porch, 2022) and Alter Alter (Elyssar Press, 2022).
Andy Paciorek is an author and artist with particular interest in ghosts & dreams, the beautiful-grotesque, unheimlich noir, the dark & nocturnal, anomaly, lore and liminality.
Frederick Pollack is the author of two book-length narrative poems, THE ADVENTURE and HAPPINESS (Story Line Press; the former reissued 2022 by Red Hen Press), and two collections, A POVERTY OF WORDS (Prolific Press, 2015) and LANDSCAPE WITH MUTANT (Smokestack Books, UK, 2018). He has many other poems in print and online journals.
After years of impersonating a Systems Engineer, Ken Poyner has retired to watch his wife break world raw powerlifting records. Ken's four current poetry and four short fiction collections are available from www.barkingmoosepress.com and myriad places
JB Pravda: http://cordite.org.au/author/jbpravda/
I.B. Rad lives and writes in Dallas, Texas, and prior to that, in New York city, His work is widely published on the internet. He uses a variety of styles depending on subject and
desired effect. Given his background in composing civic poetry, he strives for clarity of
expression
Inspired by surreal aesthetics, Nelly Sanchez is a French collagist and writer specializing in late 19th century women's literature. She explores and questions female stereotypes and archetypes. She mixes and plays with symbols and colours to reveal the infinite interpretations of reality. Recently, she has been making sculptures and assemblages. Her artworks are often published as illustrations, as flyers or as coverbooks. Her new creations can be discovered on http://www.nellysanchez.fr or on instagram: nellysanchezcollagiste.
David Turnbull is a member of the Clockhouse London group of genre writers. He writes mainly short fiction and has had numerous short stories published in magazines and anthologies. His stories have previously been featured at Liars League London events and read at other live events such as Solstice Shorts and Virtual Futures. His near fiction novella HUSks is currently on release.
HB Waight is a writer living in London. They have published short stories in Litro, Confingo, Open Pen, Agenda, Sarasvati, The New Writer, Between These Shores (their story due for 2022 publication in this magazine has been nominated for next year's Pushcart Prize), Weyfarers, and others.
Bill Wolak is a poet, collage artist, and photographer who has just published his eighteenth book of poetry entitled All the Wind's Unfinished Kisses with Ekstasis Editions. His collages and photographs have appeared recently in the 2022 Rochester Erotic Arts Festival, the 2020 International Festival of Erotic Arts (Chile), the 2020 Seattle Erotic Art Festival, the 2020 Dirty Show in Detroit, the 2018 Montreal Erotic Art Festival, and Naked in New Hope 2018. He was a featured artist in Best of Erotic Art (London, 2021).
Mali Yates holds a BA in Middle Eastern Studies from SOAS and an MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from Oxford University. She is currently a doctoral student at UCL researching ritual and climate change in the Amazon. Her writing falls into the sci-fi/fantasy genres, often working with elements of absurdity and the surreal.
Mark Young was born in Aotearoa / New Zealand but now lives in a small town in North Queensland in Australia. His most recent books are Songs to Come for the Salamander: Poems 2013-2021, selected & with an introduction by Thomas Fink (Meritage Press & Sandy Press); Your order is now equipped for shipping (Sandy Press); & The Advantages of Cable (Luna Bisonte Prods).
