Winter Issue I Contributors Bibliographies

Vanessa Santos was born and raised on a tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic. Eventually she exchanged one fairytale setting for another and now lives in Scotland (though still by the sea) and spends as much of her time as possible devouring stories, creating stories, and wandering the endless Scottish woods.

Derek Parker is a freelance writer who lives in South Korea and Australia.

Hibah Shabkhez is a writer of the half-yo literary tradition, an erratic language-learning enthusiast, and a happily eccentric blogger from Lahore, Pakistan. Her work has previously appeared in Plainsongs, Microverses, Sylvia Magazine, Better Than Starbucks, Post, Wine Cellar Press, and a number of other literary magazines. Studying life, languages, and literature from a comparative perspective across linguistic and cultural boundaries holds a particular fascination for her.

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Penumbra, Poetry Salzburg Review and Hollins Critic. Latest books, “Leaves On Pages” and “Memory Outside The Head” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Lana Turner and International Poetry Review.

Nick Clements is an emerging writer from Santa Cruz, California. He currently resides in the Pacific Northwest.

Abuchi Modilim is an Igbo-born storyteller and playwright. His writing has appeared in No Tokens Journal, Kalahari Review, Abandon Journal, and is forthcoming in Jellyfish Review, the State University of New York Praxis: Journal of Gender and Cultural Critiques, and elsewhere. He is the curator of Enyo: An Anthology of Contemporary African Plays, and the winner of the 2021 Arojah Students Playwriting Prize for his play In Saint Mulumba. Currently, he is studying English and literary studies with a minor in Theatre and film studies, at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

Franco Amati is a speculative fiction writer from New York. You can find more of his work at francoamatiwrites.com

Keith Kennedy is a Pushcart and Rhysling nominee writing out of Vancouver. He has more than sixty professional credits, including recent publications at Pinyon Poetry, Goat's Milk Magazine and Decomp Journal. He is represented by Jon Michael Darga at Aevitas Creative.

Nick Young is an award-winning retired journalist whose career included twenty years as a CBS News correspondent. His writing has appeared in the San Antonio Review, Short Story Town, CafeLit Magazine, Sein und Werden, Fiery Scribe Review, Sein und Werden, 50-Word Stories, Pigeon Review, Flyover Country and Vols.

Abhijato Sensarma is an 19-year-old student from Kolkata, India. He's on the verge of stepping into the real world, which does not prevent him from writing about fictional ones whenever he can. His works have been published in ESPNCricinfo, Havok, and McSweeney's Internet Tendencies among other publications in the past. He can also be reached on Twitter @ob_jato.

Betsy Selvam is from Vellore, South India. She has been previously published in After the Pause, Oyster River Pages, and Door is A Jar, among other places.

DJ Tyrer is the person behind Atlantean Publishing and has been widely published in anthologies and magazines around the world, such as Amok! and Stomping Grounds (both April Moon Books), Altered States II (Indie Authors Press), Altered Europa (Martinus Publishing), and Destroy All Robots (Dynatox Ministries), and issues of Startling Stories, Planet Scumm, Broadswords and Blasters, and Awesome Tales, and in addition, has a novella available in paperback and on the Kindle, The Yellow House (Dunhams Manor). DJ Tyrer's website is at https://djtyrer.blogspot.co.uk/ DJ Tyrer's Facebook page is at https://www.facebook.com/DJTyrerwriter/ The Atlantean Publishing website is at https://atlanteanpublishing.wordpress.com/

Deborah L. Davitt was raised in Nevada, but currently lives in Houston, Texas with her husband and son. Her poetry has received Rhysling, Dwarf Star, and Pushcart nominations and has appeared in over fifty journals, including F&SF and Asimov’s. Her short fiction has appeared in Analog and Galaxy’s Edge. For more about her work, including her novels, short stories, and her Elgin-nominated poetry collection, The Gates of Never, please see www.edda-earth.com.

Anshritha views the world through a lens of fiction. Her experience with storytelling began when she was five and was asked where the box of chocolates disappeared. Her work has found home or is forthcoming in Twenty-Two Twenty-Eight, The Future Fire Magazine and Low Down Dirty Vote, a crime fiction anthology.

Sarah Law lives in London and is an Associate Lecturer for the Open University. She has published six poetry collections, and her first novel is forthcoming from Wipf and Stock in 2022. She edits the online journal Amethyst Review.