Authors

Michael Cadieux was born and raised in the Northern Rocky Mountains of Montana. Until the 1940’s, the land was a benign paradise that was home to a diverse range of plants and animals, including man. By the end of WWII, mining and timber interests, with the blessing of federal and state lawmakers, began systematic cutting […]

Mugi Takei was born in New York and moved to Japan when her parents decided to return to their homeland. She studied painting at Massachusetts College of Art, and received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. In 2001, she traveled to Brussels, Belgium to study French, Russian history and philosophy. Two years later she

Nathan Douglas Hansen served the U.S. Army as an Arabic Linguist and Combat Flight Medic. While working as a feature writer and investigative journalist in the newspaper industry, he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Currently, Hansen teaches World Literature, Classic Literature, Poetry, and Creative Writing at an at-risk boarding school located in Northern Arizona.

Pamela Mills (1956-2004) grew up in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. After majoring in English and Drama at the University of Cape Town, she got her first professional job as stage manager and actress at South Africa’s first non-racial theater, The Space Theatre, which was co-founded by Athol Fugard. Her first play, A Matter of Time

Patricia Catto was born in Auburn, New York, of Italian immigrants. She is the author of Wife of GeronimoÕs Virile Old Age: Poems, and many stories, articles and essays. For 20 years, Patricia taught literature at Kansas City Art Institute, Her courses in Folk Literature of the World continue to be her signature and reveal

Dr. Pedram Navab is a neurologist and sleep medicine specialist who currently resides in Los Angeles. He also holds a graduate degree in English/Modern Culture & Media and a J.D., having been educated at Stanford and Brown. Without Anesthesia is his debut novel. Dr. Pedram Navab is the author of Without Anesthesia. About the book “Without

Rick Whitaker is the author of Assuming the Position: A Memoir of Hustling and The First Time I Met Frank O’Hara: Reading Gay American Writers. He is Concerts and Theatre Manager of The Italian Academy at Columbia University, New York. Rick Whitaker is the author of An Honest Ghost. From the author “I’m an adopter, not

Rosetta J. Ballew-Jennings is most at ease amidst the moxie of old houses and cemeteries. She is fond of home concoctions and remedies, half-begun projects, and made-for-television movies. Her MFA is from Texas State University, and she currently lives in historic Saint Joseph, Missouri. This is her debut poetry collection. Ballew-Jennings is the author of Is

Roxanne Carter received her MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University in 2008, and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University of Denver in 2011. Her work has appeared in Tarpaulin Sky, Fact-Simile, Drunken Boat, La Petite Zine, and Sidebrow among others. She lives in Ohio, where she blogs. Carter is the author of Glamorous Freak.

Sharon White’s book, Vanished Gardens: Finding Nature in Philadelphia, won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs award in creative nonfiction. She is also the author of two collections of poetry, Eve & Her Apple and Bone House. Her memoir, Field Notes, A Geography of Mourning, received the Julia Ward Howe Prize, Honorable Mention, from