Contributors

C.R. Arrow

C.R. Arrow’s work has appeared in Colorado Review, The Right Way to be Crippled and Naked: The Anthology of Disability Fiction, A capella Zoo, Cleaver, Eunoia Review, Prometheus Dreaming, and elsewhere.

Elizabeth Berlin

Elizabeth Berlin is a writer, Reading Specialist-teacher, and children’s advocate working in Tucson, Arizona; she has deep family-roots in southeastern Michigan. Her fiction and nonfiction work has been featured in “Calyx,” “Room” (Canada), and “Storyteller” through the Society of Southwestern Authors. Her nonfiction piece, “Storage,” will appear in “Hunger Mountain Review” early this spring.

Anita Cantillo

Anita Cantillo is the pen name of Shawn Bowers, and there’s a funny story behind it, but we don’t have that kind of time. Anita/Shawn was born in Costa Rica and currently resides in Charlotte, NC where she teaches in the English Department at Queens University of Charlotte. Her work has appeared in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Juke Joint, Pilgrimage, and Azahares, among other journals.

Laura Foley

Laura Foley’s most recent poetry collection is: Everything We Need: Poems from El Camino (2022). Why I Never Finished My Dissertation received a starred Kirkus Review, was among their top poetry books of 2019, and won an Eric Hoffer Award. Her collection It’s This is forthcoming from Fernwood Press. Her poems have won numerous awards, and national recognition—read frequently on The Writers Almanac; appearing in American Life in Poetry. Laura lives with her wife, Clara Gimenez, among the hills and streams of Vermont. 

Dennise Gackstetter

Dennise Gackstetter is a visual artist, writer, and educator whose current day job is Principal Lecturer in the Department of Art & Design at Utah State University. Her artwork has been exhibited in many venues regionally and nationally. Her writing has been published nationally and regionally including Studio Potter magazine and A Celebration of Cache Valley Voices. She has taught in public schools, colleges, and universities regionally, nationally, and internationally including Japan, Cuba, and Czech Republic. Always interested in narrative, she seeks the stories hidden beneath the surface and in the folds of everyday life. 

Rachael Greene

Rachael Greene is a nonfiction writer from Southern Appalachia. She received an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Queens University of Charlotte. Her work can be found in the Southern Review of Books, Another Chicago Magazine, The Masters Review, and Mulberry Literary. She is currently working on her first book about growing up in rural North Georgia. Find her on Instagram @greenepen.

Andrew Joseph Kane

Andrew Joseph Kane’s fiction has appeared in Arts & Letters, Chicago Review, CutBank, Eckleburg, Failbetter, Greensboro Review, Grist, Juked, and Vassar Review. He has an MFA from Warren Wilson.

Eric Rasmussen

Eric Rasmussen serves as Sundog Lit’s fiction editor, as well as editor of the regional literary journal Barstow & Grand. A lifelong western Wisconsin resident, he has placed short fiction in North American Review (2022 Kurt Vonnegut Prize runner-up), Fugue, The MacGuffin, and Pithead Chapel, among others. He is currently seeking representation for his first novel.

Amy Scheiner

Amy Scheiner has had work appear in Longreads and The Southampton Review, the latter of which was was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Literature, was a contributor to the Sewanee Writer’s Conference. Amy is currently seeking representation for her memoir.

Pasquale Armenante

Pasquale Armenante was born in Salerno, Italy, in 1995. He took part in several exhibitions in Rome, Naples, Florence, Bergamo, London. His first solo exhibition took place in 2016. That is when he showcased his first series from which he will then escape from, freeing himself from minimization in his main series InTheRoom. He graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence, with a dissertation on Glitch Art. After the outbreak of Covid-19 Pasquale worked on human memory by mixing his and others’, creating a workart displayed in FRAC Museum. He is currently studying Multimedia Arts in the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome. He chose a number as name: “16116”, what a better way to reflect the predominance that possession holds on human essence?

Lino Azevedo

Lino Azevedo was born to Portuguese immigrants near the city of San Francisco, California. Like most small children, Lino enjoyed creating from the soul with simple tools like pencil and crayon. Being a painter herself, his mother saw the potential and let him try his hand with her oils and brushes. These formative years set him up for a life-long career in the arts. Lino obtained a bachelor’s degree from San Jose State University and his master’s degree from Winthrop University. He has taught art at the university level for the past 9 years and currently is a Foundations Professor at Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia. He is an award-winning artist whose work has been exhibited internationally and published in multiple journals and magazines. 

Kaloni Borni

Kaloni believes her pieces of art displayed a good range of colors and vibrancy. There is no recipe for how she makes them but believes that’s what makes it a great collective. It could be described as one creative melting pot. Most of her artworks were inspired by various things that include emotional intimacy, explorative identity, mental health, and euphoric nostalgia. When creating the pieces feedback and viewer’s interpretation of what it means to them is what she hopes to invoke.

Francesca Busalla

Monika Galland

Sarah Gomez

My collection is about home allowing rest from the performance caused by perception. Burrowed in blankets, the immediate public who judges my body dissipate, and I forget of the microscope I am under. My field of view widens from the intricate measurements of eye symmetry and gum lines, to grandiose operas of color, laughter, and chisme. My body begins to increase in sizes greater than allowed, and I watch as items take part. A throne of comfort, worn socks, red jacket, crunched quilts. Under one roof, we reflect each other by using one bed, one towel, and one bowl. Our likeness is celebrated with lights, fabrics, and colors. A fire soon to be smothered beyond the front door. 

Edward Lee

Edward Lee is an artist and writer from Ireland. His paintings and photography have been exhibited widely, while his poetry, short stories, non-fiction have been published in magazines in Ireland, England and America, including The Stinging Fly, Skylight 47, Acumen and Smiths Knoll. He is currently working on two photography collections: ‘Lying Down With The Dead’ and ‘There Is A Beauty In Broken Things’. He also makes musical noise under the names Ayahuasca Collective, Orson Carroll, Lego Figures Fighting, and Pale Blond Boy. His blog/website can be found at https://edwardmlee.wordpress.com 

Jim Still-Pepper

Jim Still-Pepper is from Ohio. He is a counselor working with troubled, at-risk youth. He leads workshops throughout the United States. He is honored to have work appear in Driftwood Press, Mud Season Review, The Sunlight Press, Typehouse, Unstamatic, Forbes and US News and World Reports. 

Alana Solin

Alana Solin is a writer from New Jersey. She is currently the Poetry Editor of the online literary magazine Nat. Brut. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Second Factory, Tyger Quarterly, jubilat, and elsewhere. 

Robin Young

Borrego Springs, California artist Robin Young’s keen eye guide her viewers into her own semi-readymade world. Creating micro card size art to large life-sized pieces, 3D sculptures, outdoor murals and art installations. Robin’s interests are in the weird, macabre, different, unusual, strange, bizarre, out of this world kind of stuff from the television shows she grew up on, Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Night Gallery, etc. Her collage piece here is made from recycled vintage magazine clippings assembled on card stock.

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