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The Kicker
THE KICKER 1. I know I am never noticed except at moments like this. Three seconds remain on the clock. Over the last three hours, I have appeared on the field for approximately thirty seconds. Now, I stand alone on the right hash mark near the forty yard line, tossing…
Saturday Salutation
SATURDAY SALUTATION Saturday Brooklyn Mo(u)rning! At long last I bid you farewell. The sun has reached its noontime apex. Unadorned by clouds, its heat and light spill out across the boroughs of the world. Women of this past year! At long last I bid you farewell as well. You were…
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Angela Posey-Arnold
Angela Posey-Arnold is an award-winning published Christian author and retired RN. She lives with her husband of 20 years in a log home in beautiful northwest Alabama. Angela has been widely published, with two books, many short stories, articles, devotionals and poetry. Her work is featured in Faithwriters and Guideposts'…
Connie Lounsbury
Connie Lounsbury is an author and educator who lives in rural Monticello, Minnesota with her husband David. Many of her short stories have been published in the US and Japan and she has received many writing awards. Her latest nonfiction book, released by Borealis Books September 2007, is Reaching Past…
Katie Kimbro
Katie Kimbro is a middle school classroom teacher from Houston, TX. She spends her summers traveling abroad, volunteering at public schools and orphan homes. These travels to places such as Peru, Nepal, and Honduras have inspired her to write about her observations, both overseas and back home. She often shares…
Betty Jo Goddard
I've traveled a packed road since my birth in Windsor, Illinois. While on that road, I acquired a BS from Illinois State, an MA from the University of Colorado, and twenty-five years of teaching's bruises, successes, smiles, and love. I retired from teaching in 1983 and now live with my…
Desmond Meiring
Desmond Rice, pen-name Meiring as his mother was Huguenot. Kenya-born. Spent two years young in Jerusalem where his father was a top man in the British Palestine Police. School at Cheltenham, UK. Wrote matriculation aged 16 at Dunkirk, so his mother rescued him to South Africa. At 17 he joined…
Thomas Lee
Thomas Lee is an attorney and freelance writer born in Seoul, South Korea and currently living in Northern California. He writes short stories on various themes. His work has been published in the American Literary Review, AIM Magazine, Asian Pacific American Journal, Brink Lit, Kartika Review, Lullwater Review, Reed Magazine…
Russell Cera
Russ is a retired schoolteacher who lives in West Islip, New York with his wife Linda. Married for 36 years, Russ is very proud of his three adult sons and has fond memories of two golden retrievers and a German shorthair pointer. Russ's passions include the great outdoors, wolves and…
Karima Alavi
While working toward her Master's Degree in Asian Studies and History, Karima Alavi received one of ten Bicentennial scholarships to study language, history, and art in Iran. She returned to Iran in 1978 to teach English at the University of Isfahan, and became one of the few Americans who remained…
Paul Garrety
Paul Garrety says that “writing is the most fun you can have on your own”. For Paul balance is everything; that's why at 55 he's studying to become a yoga teacher. Balance is also important in his writing, with many stories crossing genres, often combining crime, sci-fi and fantasy. In…
Victoria Gouldthorp
I was born in Wisconsin and have lived my entire life here. I grew up just outside the small town of Afton. I have been blessed with a son, a daughter, and a stepson. I have two beautiful daughters-in-law, and five delightful grandchildren. I work as a Respiratory Therapist, and…
DS Winkle
DS Winkle has lived in Chicago most of her life. She works in Human Resources for a large financial institution. She and her husband love traveling, hiking and baseball. DS believes interactions between people are what make life interesting, and the key to happiness is not to take oneself too…
Barbara Orlowska-Westwood
Born in Poland I moved to Australia in 1979. Qualified as a physician I worked professionally in both countries. Since my retirement in 1998 I have enjoyed writing poetry and prose. My work has been published in Australia, Poland and America.
Raymond Trainor
I am retired, 67 years old, and started writing fiction about four years ago. I am married, have two grown children and live in Sun Lakes, AZ. I have just started writing short stories about young boys or teens. My main effort has been a novel titled The Summer of…
Erin Neil
A recent Master's graduate of Harvard University, Erin Neil strikes fear into the roots of thriving houseplants and is perpetually ten minutes late. A Bostonian for six years, Erin recently moved back to the rural hills of western Massachusetts, where the renegade cows in her backyard greet her every morning.…
Mary Caperton Morton
Mary Caperton Morton is a freelance writer and photographer as well as an avid hiker, backpacker and mountaineer. She spends her winters exploring New Mexico and summers in western Montana. Photos from her adventures, including The Suffer Fest, can be seen at www.marycapertonmorton.com.
Fred McGavran
A graduate of Harvard Law School, Fred McGavran defends psychiatric malpractice claims and represents veterans in claims against the Veterans Administration as counsel for Frost Brown Todd LLC in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Ohio Arts Council awarded him a $10,000 Individual Achievement Award in 2009 for a story that the Harvard…
Evelyn Krieger
Evelyn Krieger works as a learning specialist, writer, dance instructor, and homeschooling mom in Sharon, MA. Her writing credits include: Memoirs, Ink., Lilith, Writer's Digest, Family Fun, Teacher Magazine, and Reading Today.
Sally Hermsdorfer
Sally Hermsdorfer was born in Memphis, TN and has been a writer by avocation since elementary school. She is principal of Immaculate Conception High School for Girls in Memphis, TN. She has had nonfiction work published in The Catholic Digest and The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture.
Margo Frazier
I'm a native of Memphis, Tennessee, but relocated to Northeast Florida after joining the US Navy at the age of 33. My tenure as a Navy Photographer afforded me the opportunity to spend time in Sicily, Iceland, Germany, Bermuda and parts of New England before returning south to be near…
Ray Clark
Ray Clark is the co-author of Manitou Man: The World of Graham Masterton, nominated and short listed for both the British and World Fantasy awards in 1998. the author has also had a variety of short stories published both traditionally and electronically. The Lord of Misrule & Other Stories, his…
Johnmichael Simon
Johnmichael Simon was born in England, grew up in South Africa and has lived in Israel since 1963. He has published five books of poems and several collaborations with partner Helen Bar-Lev and other poets. His poetry has been awarded numerous prizes and honorable mentions and is published widely in…
James Dickson
A firefighter for the past 19 years, I've lived in Arizona most of my life. I discovered the joy of writing three years ago and hope to someday transform it from hobby to new career (getting too old for firefighting). I've written one novel and will begin my second soon.…
John Biggs
John Biggs is a Tasmanian writer who spent several years in Hong Kong, which results in a distinct Sino-Australian flavour to much of his work. He has published several award-winning short stories, including the occasional Tom Howard award, and four novels. His latest, Tin Dragons, is an historical romance about…
Dixon Hearne
Dixon Hearne is the author of a new book, Plantatia: High-toned and Low-down Stories of the South (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2009), and co-editor of two recent anthologies of Southern fiction. He is one of fifty authors selected to appear in Woodstock Revisited: 50 Far Out, Groovy, Peace-Loving, Flashback-Inducing…
Debbie Fox
Debbie Fox, a retired RN, is an award-winning writer and a St. Louis Writers Guild Member of Distinction whose work has appeared in books, magazines, and newspapers. After living in Southern California for twenty-five years, Debbie returned to her Midwestern roots in 2005 where she now lives in a small…
Gabriela Blandy
Gabriela Blandy has an MA with Distinction in Creative Writing. She co-runs a live reading event in London for both published and unpublished authors, and teaches 'Oration Skills for Writers' on several MA programs. She is currently working on a collection of short stories.
Suzanne Covich
Dr. Suzanne Covich, a poet, short story writer, public speaker, Human Rights activist and the first Australian teacher to win two National Excellence in Teaching Awards (NEITA), has been widely published in Australian literary journals, including Quadrant, Meanjin, Island, Southern Review and Northern Perspective. A recent winner of the Gold…
Linda Zabolski
Linda Zabolski lives in Kona, Hawaii, where she owns Captain Zodiac Rafting Adventures, along with her husband, Bill. She graduated from The University of Massachusetss/Amherst with a B.A. in French Literature. She then went on to receive a “Diplome D'Etudes Francaises” from the University of Grenoble, France. Linda loves to…
Mary Lou Simms
Mary Lou Simms is a reporter currently working under a national journalism grant. She has had stories published by Cat Fancy Magazine, The Minnetonka Review and McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. She is also working on an online comic strip, “The Geese of Tucker Lake”, and gathering material for a collection of…
Lance Mason
My work has appeared in The Packinghouse Review (2010, CNF), The Santa Barbara Independent (2010, political/sports journalism), upstreet (2007, travel memoir), City Works (2007, short story), Yellow Bricks and Ruby Slippers (2001, eclectic short fiction), SeaSpray Magazine (1997, sports), and Voices of Survival (Capra Press, 1982; anti-nuke anthology). I also…
Arielle Kaden
Arielle Kaden is a rising Junior at Randolph High School in New Jersey. She lives with her Mom, Dad, Sister, and Brother. She loves to write and when she is older she hopes to make writing her profession. She is thrilled to see her first short story “8 Missed Birthdays”…
Annie Eagleton
Born in Britain, I have spent much of my adult life abroad. I currently live in Vietnam and am a regular contributor to The Guide magazine. I am an English teacher and editor, lover of words, wildlife and the planet.
Mari Grana
Mari Grana left a California career in urban planning to move to New Mexico to write. She has published several books on women in medicine as well as on New Mexico history. Her memoir, Begoso Cabin, won the Willa Cather award in 2000.
Arlene Lidbergh-Jasper
Arlene Lidbergh-Jasper was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and has lived in Anchorage, Alaska, for the last forty years. She is a freelance writer and has been working on a set of Boston memoir stories. She meets with a writers' group once a week, and takes occasional workshops at UAA in…
M.T. Gabrick
My name is M.T. Gabrick. I am 51 years old and live in Peoria, IL. I teach writing, literature, and religion to junior high students at the Catholic school connected to my parish. I have been married to my husband Jim for 26 years. We have four daughters, ranging in…
Emily Jiang
The daughter of Chinese-American immigrants, Emily Jiang received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Saint Mary's College of California and a B.A. in English from Rice University. She is also a graduate of the Clarion Writers' Workshop in San Diego and the Napa Valley Writers' Conference. Her fiction has received…
Carla M. Zwahlen
Carla Zwahlen lives in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, where she plays keyboard at church and other events, and teaches private piano lessons. Her paintings hang in private collections in the United States and Europe. Currently, she is working on a nonfiction book project from which Guideposts Books and HCI Books have…
Judy Willman
Judy Willman was born in 1943 in a suburb of Seattle, Washington. She grew up in a family of 5 children and worked her way through 4 years at the University of Washington, earning a Bachelor of Science Degree in Home Economics Education. She married her childhood friend and high…
