Contributors ~ Riddled with Arrows 1.3

Jeremiah O. Agbaakin is a Nigerian poet, essayist and editor. His poetry interrogates the boundaries of identity, sexuality, divinity and poetry. He was shortlisted for the 2017 Korea-Nigeria Poetry Prize. He has works forthcoming and published on South Florida Poetry Journal, Poetry Pacific, Sentinel Quarterly (UK), Silver Pen (Indiana), Kalahari Review, Praxis Magazine, African Writer,Antarctica Journal, Prachya Review, Wagon Magazine, Pulse Nigeria and elsewhere.” 

In an alternate life, Muse Lord is a pompous god who has all the global events in check. In reality, he’s gladly enslaved to cooking both words and food, none of which he thinks he does well. He hopes to finally summon the courage to learn how to ride a bicycle.

 

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Mary Alexandra Agner writes of dead women, telescopes, and secrets.  Her poems, stories, and nonfiction have appeared, respectively, in The Cascadia Subduction Zone, Shenandoah, and Sky and Telescope, among others.  She can be found online at pantoum.org 

Agner’s “Serif” first appeared in Illumen (Spring 2015)

 

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Amy Baskin’s work is featured in Fire Poetry Journal, The Ghazal Page, Postcard Poetry and Prose, Dirty Chai, and more. She is a Kay Snow Award recipient for her poem “About Face.” She has worked on revision with Oregon poet laureate Paulann Petersen and Renee Watson of “I, Too, Collective,” and participates in generative groups hosted by Allison Joseph and Jenn Givhan.

Amy has frequent one-sided conversations with the Dearly Departed. One might think she would do well to curb this, but wouldn’t it be rude to interrupt them mid-thought? Why not let them have their say? She does her deep listening in autumn, and they return the favor each spring.

 

Baskin’s “Ouija Séance” first appeared on the author’s blog (Spring 2015)

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F.J. Bergmann edits poetry for Mobius: The Journal of Social Change (mobiusmagazine.com) and imagines tragedies on or near exoplanets. Work appears irregularly in Analog, Asimov’s, Polu Texni, Pulp Literature, Silver Blade, and elsewhere. More dystopian first-contact narratives are available in A Catalogue of the Further Suns, which won the 2017 Gold Line Press poetry chapbook contest. fibitz.com

F.J. Bergmann is plagued by fears that, in the event of immortality, eventually all her poems will be merely the result of cryptomnesia.

 

Bergmann’s “Absence” first appeared in Abyss & Apex (January 2016)

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Frank Coffman is Professor of English, Journalism, and Creative Writing at Rock Valley College in Rockford, Illinois. He has published weird, horrific, supernatural, and speculative poetry in a variety of journals and magazines. He founded the Weird Poets Society Facebook site. He selected, edited, and did commentary on Robert E. Howard: Selected Poems.

 

 An avid golfer, Frank has lately been playing only old-time, hickory-shafted golf, using the old style clubs and balls—the modern game getting too technologized. He is a Field Investigator for the Mutual UFO Network [MUFON].

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William Doreski lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire (USA). He has published three critical studies. His poetry has appeared in many journals. He has taught writing and literature at Emerson, Goddard, Boston University, and Keene State College. His new poetry collection is A Black River, A Dark Fall (Splash of Red, 2018).

 

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Karen Greenbaum-Maya, retired clinical psychologist, German major, two-time Pushcart nominee and occasional photographer, no longer lives for Art but still thinks about it a lot. Since she returned to poetry in 2008, her work has appeared in journals and anthologies including Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Comstock Poetry Review, Off the Coast, Otoliths, Naugatuck Poetry Review, and, Measure. Kattywompus Press publishes her two chapbooks, Burrowing Song and Eggs Satori. Kelsay Books publishes her book-length collection, The Book of Knots and their Untying. She co-hosts Fourth Sundays, a poetry series in Claremont, California. For links to work on-line, go to cloudslikemountains.blogspot.com

 

Karen Greenbaum-Maya’s first full sentence was, “Look at the moon!” She makes better pie crust than your grandma. 

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Markus ‘Star’ Harwood-Jones is a white, queer, mad, trans, space-case and day-dreamer, living in Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee territories. Star’s work focuses on the importance of justice, community, healing, and radical love, working as an author, illustrator, and film-maker. Their main artistic works include the all-trans documentary Mosaic, the Confessions of a Teenage Transsexual Whorezines, and the collection of short stories known as Everything & All At Once. Learn more at starkisscreations.com.

 

Star’s “The Story Swallowers” first appeared in The Broken Pencil (February 2017)

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Liam Hogan is an Oxford Physics graduate and award winning London based writer. Abandoned in a library at the tender age of 3, he emerged blinking into the sunlight many years later with an aversion to loud noises and a head full of words. His twisted fantasy collection, Happy Ending Not Guaranteed, is published by Arachne Press. Find out more at happyendingnotguaranteed.blogspot.co.uk or tweet @LiamJHogan . He dreams in Dewey Decimals. 

 

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Babo Kamel’s poems have appeared in literary reviews in the US, Australia, and Canada. Some of these include Painted Bride Quarterly, Abyss & Apex, The Greensboro Review, Alligator Juniper, The Grolier Poetry Prize, Contemporary Verse 2, Rust +Moth, Mobius, a Journal of Social Change, and 2River Review. She was a winner of The Charlotte Newberger Poetry Prize and is a Pushcart nominee. She has work forthcoming in Pantheon Magazine, Redactions Poetry & Poetics, Mizmor L’David AnthologyLines+Stars, Origins, and dreams&nightmares. She can be reached at: babokamel.com

 

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Eileen Malone is widely published as a poet and story teller and lives in the coastal fog at the edge of the San Francisco Bay Area where, retired from teaching for the California Poets in the Schools and local California Community Colleges, she devotes her time to writing her own edgy stuff and trying to get it out there, at last. Learn more at eileenmalone.us

Eileen also founded and now directs the Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition (in its 25th year) and a voting member of the Northern California Book Reviewer Awards.

 

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Mariev, Erie Matriarch has published in print and online venues, including  Farrago’s Wainscot, Indigenous Fiction, Serendipity, The Bad Version, Shadows of the Mind Anthology, Fiction Brigade, Writing That Risks, Red Bridge Press, Real Lies, Zharmae Press, Tortured Souls, Scarlett River Press, Up, Do; Flash Fiction by Women Writers, Flapperhouse, Two Sisters Publishing and Advances in Parapsychological Research(Saybrook). Her website is THE ERIE IS COMING:   MarievFinnegan.yolasite.com

As was her Mama and her Mama before her, Mariev is Matriarch of the Erie, a tribe notorious for intense psychic abilities and higher awareness.  And a disposition for difficulty with authority. She is a gonzo non-fiction magical realism writer and mystic intuitive. She lives on the dead end of Erie Street on the edge of the Erie Canal in a Gothic house with her grandson, Jacob Stump, an owl named Who? , a three-legged dog, Bloody Stump  and a cat, Erie.

 

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Michelle Muenzler, known at local science fiction and fantasy conventions as “The Cookie Lady”, writes fiction both dark and strange to counterbalance the sweetness of her baking. Her short fiction and poetry can be read in numerous science fiction and fantasy magazines, and she takes immense joy in crinkling words like little foil puppets. If you wish to lure her out of hiding, you can friend her on Facebook or chase her down at a local SF/F convention where she will ply you with hundreds of home-baked cookies while gleefully describing the latest horror she’s written. She supposes you could also contact her at michellemuenzler.com, but she finds electronic cookies far less tasty than real ones.

 

Muenzler’s “The Stories They Tell” first appeared in Horror D’oeuvres (July 2014).

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Gregory L. Norris lives and writes from the outer limits of New Hampshire. He recently penned the novelization of the classic made-for-TV movie, THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW: INTO INFINITY (Anderson Entertainment), which he watched as an eleven-year-old boy in the living room of the enchanted cottage where he grew up. Follow his literary adventures at gregorylnorris.blogspot.com.”

Norris loves coffee, cats, and his emerald-eyed muse. Writing, he often emotes, is the heart that beats inside his heart.

 

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Ken Poyner’s collections of short fiction, Constant Animals and Avenging Cartography, and his latest collections of poetry, Victims of a Failed Civics and The Book of Robot, can be obtained from Barking Moose Press, barkingmoosepress.com.  He serves as bewildering eye-candy at his wife’s power lifting affairs.  His poetry lately has been sunning in Analog, Asimov’s, Poet Lore; and his fiction has yowled in Spank the Carp, Red Truck, Café Irreal.  kpoyner.com.

 

While himself a 278 pound recreational weight lifter, Ken’s wife is a 97 pound world champion powerlifter who holds approximately 20 world records.  They look bizarre together, and have to convince people she is the powerlifter.  Some refuse to believe it. Ken’s had to accept her registration packages at contests and pass them to her.

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Michael M. Rader is an engineer and father who writes in the infinitesimal slivers of time between those responsibilities. His work has been featured on Pseudopod Podcast, Fiction Vortex magazine and in the Corvidae anthology through World Weaver Press. Additionally, he has an improvised comedy podcast called We’ll Get It Right Next Yearwhere he and a friend spend a year speculating about the plot of a movie based on its title.

While he’s very proud to be featured in this publication, the pinnacle of Michael’s creative output is and always will be when the PBS television show Zoom produced a heavily bowdlerized adaptation of a play he sent in to the show when he was twelve.

 

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Helen Ruggieri lives in Upstate New York (way, way upstate) where she teaches a writing workshop at the African American Center.  She has a book of poems from Mayapple Press – The Kingdom Where No One Keeps Time.   HelenRuggieri.com.

 

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Wendy Taylor Carlisle lives and writes in the Arkansas Ozarks. She is the author of two books, Reading Berryman to the Dog and Discount Fireworks (both Jacaranda Books) and five chapbooks, the most recent They Went to the Beach to Play (LoCoFo Chaps, 2017).  Her work has been anthologized in The Poets Grimm, (Storyline Press) and elsewhere and is available on line and in print. For more information, check her website wendytaylorcarlisle.com.

Wendy lives in a mountain cabin that started tiny and became plenty with a husband, David, who has always been plenty. They share two huge (ish) rescue dogs of uncertain parentage and a black cat. They do not share an eccentric turn of mind, that’s all Wendy’s.

 

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Bill Thomas is a cartoonist who attended Edinboro University, studying biochemistry and graphic arts.  He opted for a career as an artist and also does film and video work.  He started cartooning with his brother Bob and has been doing it for over 15 years, appearing in numerous publications.

 

Bill is also a martial artist who loves Japanese and Chinese artwork.

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Thomas R. Winward is an engineer and an avid pursuer of all things sci-fi, fantasy and weird. When not juggling his many hobbies, he spends his time trying to warp his children into gamers. His first published story “Light” was recently released in Gathering Storm Magazine.

 

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