Cover image: "Reliquary for the Green World: Burning Bush" by E.A. Bagby
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Visual Art, Poetry, and Prose
Jeremiah Gilbert
Jeremiah Gilbert is an award-winning photographer and avid traveler based out of Southern California. He likes to travel light and shoot handheld. His travels have taken him to over eighty countries spread across five continents. His photography has been published internationally, in both digital and print publications, and has been exhibited worldwide. His hope is to inspire those who see his work to look more carefully at the world around them in order to discover beauty in unusual and unexpected places. He can be found on Instagram @jg_travels.
Erika Girard
Erika B. Girard is a graduate of Saint Leo University in Florida with her B.A. in English Literary Studies and a minor in Hospitality Management. Originally from Rhode Island, she loves her family, friends, faith, and finding suitable words to express concepts beyond herself. She claims writing, proofreading, and photography as some of her greatest passions and says, “Challenge yourself to great things. If you find something you can’t do, try harder.”
Khalil Elayan
Khalil Elayan is a Senior Lecturer of English at Kennesaw State University, teaching mostly World and African American Literature. His other interests include finishing his book on heroes and spending time in nature on his farm in north Georgia. His poems have been published in A Gathering of the Tribes Magazine, Dime Show Review, About Place Journal, and The Esthetic Apostle. Khalil’s most recent works appear in bluntly magazine and Snapdragon Journal of Art and Healing. The dominant subjects of Khalil’s poetry are trauma’s effects on children and eco-poetry.
Christine Gallagher Kearney
Christine Gallagher Kearney is working on a novel about a German war bride who contracts polio and must learn to walk again while contending with her guilt. As an OpEd Project Fellow, she has published in places like Driftless Magazine, Fortune, ForbesWoman and Cara Magazine. She is the former Irish American News food columnist where she wrote about her gastronomic experiences in Belfast and interviewed chefs, bakers and distillers from around the world. Visit her on Instagram @cgallagherkearney.
Sarah Kilgallon
Sarah Kilgallon is a Boston-based photographer and writer. Her work has been published in The Bark Magazine, The Ekphrastic Review, and Harvard Bookstore Flash Fiction Anthologies. View her recent work at www.sarahkilgallon.com and on Instagram @sarah_kilgallon_photography.
Allen Koshewa
A professional educator, Allen Koshewa has also explored several genres of writing. His first major publication, an ethnography, appeared in 1999 when his book Discipline and Democracy: Teachers on Trial was published by Heinemann. Since then, he has co-edited a professional journal, written poetry for chapbooks, and has had articles, short memoirs, and nonfiction published in various journals and magazines including Language Arts, Kyoto Journal, and Epicure and Culture. Since 1992, he has co-directed the International Writing Project. He resides in Shanghai, China and also pursues photography which is showcased on koshewa.com.
Rachel Glass
Rachel Glass currently lives in Scarborough, England and has been writing since she was sixteen. She has had several poems published on the Poetry Society’s website and a poem was featured in an anthology published by Valley Press. An additional poem will be included in a charity anthology published by Riza Press in the near future. She shows a particular interest in emotional themes such as love, loss, and mental health. Rachel hopes to release her first collection within the next few years. She is usually found writing, drinking hot chocolate and wearing glittery shoes.
E. A. Bagby
E. A. Bagby is a multidisciplinary artist based in Chicago. Her writing has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, as well as on stage with Strange Tree Group and Sansculottes. She has composed music for many theatrical productions, most recently American Myth Center’s Ballad of R & J, and she fronts the band Liz + the Baguettes.
Reliquary for the Green World is a collection of nature studies motivated by urgency about the climate crisis. It arranges fallen natural relics as though they were in a catacomb or shrine, prodding the viewer to consider a world that has outlived trees.
Daniel Flosi
Daniel Flosi is an American poet and artist living in the greater Seattle metro area. He is a husband and dad. He believes that the more we identify with the general roles we make up, instead of individual particulars, the more commonality we will find with one another. He has work published in Vita Brevis and Prometheus Dreaming. He is currently working on his manuscript. More of his work can be found at https://www.entertainedamerican.com.
John Barrett
Educated in England, John Barrett resides in Canada. His work and other adventures have taken him to the far regions of the world to experience many different cultures, including conflict areas, where human volatility and disregard for the planet’s environment are at risk. Amongst his publications are Wanderlust, Our Canada Magazine, The Poetry Institute of Canada, Polar Expressions, Sentinel, Meat for Tea, and Burningword.
- Instagram: @john.a.barrett
Jennifer MacBain-Stephens
J. MacBain-Stephens lives in the Midwest and is the author of four full length poetry collections: Your Best Asset is a White Lace Dress (Yellow Chair Press, 2016), The Messenger is Already Dead (Stalking Horse Press, 2017), We’re Going to Need a Higher Fence (tied for first place in the 2017 Lit Fest Book Competition), and The Vitamix and the Murder of Crows (Apocalypse Party, 2018). Her recent work can be seen at or is forthcoming from The Pinch, Black Lawrence Press, Quiddity, Prelude, Cleaver, Yalobusha Review, Zone 3, and Grist. Find her online at: https://jennifermacbainstephens.wordpress.com.
Emerson Little
Emerson Little is pursuing a degree in Digital Art and Media Production at Whittier College. He works as a student photographer for the Whittier College Office of Communications, photos editor for the Quaker Campus and video columnist for the Fullerton Observer. His photos of the southwest have appeared in the Sagebrush Review, Greenleaf Review, saltfront and Burningwood Literary Journal. Emerson’s passion for landscape photography has led him to specialize in the strange and the unusual.
Gerard Sarnat
Gerard Sarnat won the Poetry in the Arts First Place Award plus the Dorfman Prize, and he has been nominated for a handful of recent Pushcarts plus Best of the Net Awards. Gerry is widely published in academic-related journals, plus national and international publications. He’s authored the collections Homeless Chronicles (2010), Disputes (2012), 17s (2014), and Melting the Ice King (2016). Gerry is a physician who has built and staffed clinics for the marginalized as well as a Stanford professor and healthcare CEO. Currently he is devoting energy and resources to deal with global warming. Gerry’s been married since 1969 with three kids plus six grandsons and is looking forward to future granddaughters. His website is gerardsarnat.com.
Dianalee Velie
Dianalee Velie is the Poet Laureate of Newbury, New Hampshire where she lives and writes. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, and has a Master of Arts in Writing from Manhattanville College, where she has served as faculty advisor of Inkwell: A Literary Magazine. She has taught poetry, memoir, and short story at universities and colleges in New York, Connecticut and New Hampshire and in private workshops throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. She is the author of five books of poetry, Glass House, First Edition, The Many Roads to Paradise, The Alchemy of Desire, Ever After, and a collection of short stories, Soul Proprietorship: Women in Search of Their Souls.
Jeremiah Gilbert
Jeremiah Gilbert is an award-winning photographer and avid traveler based out of Southern California. He likes to travel light and shoot handheld. His travels have taken him to over eighty countries spread across five continents. His photography has been published internationally, in both digital and print publications, and has been exhibited worldwide. His hope is to inspire those who see his work to look more carefully at the world around them in order to discover beauty in unusual and unexpected places. He can be found on Instagram @jg_travels.
