About

Ellisen Blair is a young artist and writer living in Ohio. She is currently pursuing her bachelor’s in fine arts at the University of Cincinnati. She makes art in the areas of text, printmaking, and sculpture. Her work is inspired by a range of concepts from environmentalism to human emotion.

Sio Sandra Jaya was born in Bengkulu 1981, currently residing in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. Jaya’s artwork takes a critical view of social, political, and cultural issues, reflecting on various unconsciousness of an impact that occurs in the community whether there is an element of intentional or unintentional, involving various kinds of subjects, such as the body, buildings, and the surrounding environment.

Instagram: @si_abang_biru

Evie Groch, Ed.D. is a Field Supervisor/Mentor for new administrators in Graduate Schools of Education. Her opinion pieces, humor, poems, short stories, recipes, word challenges, and other articles have been widely published in the New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Contra Costa Times, The Journal, Games Magazine, and many online venues. Many of her poems are in published anthologies. Her short stories, poems, and memoir pieces have won her recognition and awards. Her travelogues have been published online with Grand Circle Travel. The themes of travel, language, immigration, and justice are special for her.

Shane Smith is a self-taught painter and sculptor, born in St. Andrews, Jamaica (January 12th, 1999), then moving to Brooklyn, New York with his Family in 2009. The majority of his work are figurative depictions of nature, animals and people. After a year and a half studying Fashion design at SUNY Buffalo State, he decided to focus on painting and sculpture full time.

Website: www.shanesmith.net

Instagram: @mr.shane.smith

Jack M. Freedman is a poet and spoken word artist from Staten Island, NY. Publications featuring his work span 15 countries. These include USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, France, The Netherlands, Ukraine, Nigeria, South Africa, Mauritius, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Singapore, and Thailand. Under the pseudonym Jacob R. Moses, he penned the full-length poetry book, Grimoire (ii Publishing, 2021).

Website: www.poetryofjacobmoses.com

Instagram: @jacobreubenmoses

Facebook: @jacobmosespoet

Maria Brudasca is a visual artist based in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Her artistic formation includes a BA and MA in graphic arts and a PhD on the subject of Visual Culture at the University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca. Brudasca’s work is based in drawing, and the main fields which she explores through it are graphic arts, animation, illustration, bookmaking, performance and artistic non-formal education. Her work naturally gravitates towards observing, understanding and transforming the relationship with others. Brudasca’s main interests as an artist are centered around the power of stories, patterns of thought and discovering treasures lying beneath the surface of rather common behaviors and things.

Websites: www.coroflot.com/maria_brudasca | www.vimeo.com/mariabrudasca

Instagram: @mariabrudasca_drawings

Facebook: @visualsomething

Walid Abdallah is an Egyptian poet and author. He is a visiting professor of English language and literature in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Germany and the USA, his poetry includes “Go Ye Moon”, “If you were here”, “Dream”, and “My heart still beats”. His books include Shout of Silence, Escape to the Realm of Imagination, My Heart Oasis and Man Domination and Woman Emancipation, and his co-translations with Andy Fogle of Farouk Goweda’s poetry have previously appeared in Image, RHINO, Reunion: Dallas Review, and Los Angeles Review. These translations won prestigious prizes in the USA like “Cause”, “Egypt’s Grief”, and “Strangers Cross“.

Josh Poole is a visual artist from Lexington, Virginia. His work has appeared in Air Mail Magazine, The Rockbridge Advocate, The Woody Creeker, World of Myth, and many other publications.

Travis Wellman: is the Operations Manager of the Stonerose Interpretive Center and Eocene Fossil Site where he play’s with fifty-million year old rocks. Travis met Josh on a science discussion board in 2014 and have been co-writing since 2017 with a focus on science-fiction and fantasy. Travis is currently co-authoring the second edition of Fossil Plants of Republic: A Guidebook with Dr. Kathleen Pigg and Dr. Melanie DeVore.

Instagram: @shlunka

Francisco Zarate’s work explores connections that range from the foundational imagery of my childhood in Colombia, my memory of the black and indigenous, deciphering my identity as an artist, creating a visual narrative influenced by the past and looking to the future. These concepts arise from Francisco’s early childhood, dreams, an image or word that activates a universe, taking shape before or during the process of creation, is never something static, but rather something in constant growth and movement. Each material he uses has an emotional background, a meaning and a story, which builds his own symbolic universe in context.

Website: http://frankxarate.com/

Instagram: @frank.xarate

Emil Čolić is a Yugoslavia-born, Australia-raised, Amsterdam-dwelling Kiwi. During the day he works as a Copy and Game Writer. At night, he writes short fiction, and helps run Strange Birds, a thousand-strong MeetUp group for writers the world over.

Website: http://emils.work

Twitter: @emilcholich

Born in Russia, La Hun does not recognize as a nationality but her own body. She likes to paint on the ground and explore the inner causes of her present through the zodiac, dreams and memory. She trained in classical school, therefore she had to empty her head and unlearn the forms for art and painting.

Website: www.lahunart.com

Instagram: @ksenia_la_hun

Emily Reid Green’s poetry has appeared in various publications, including: Gravel, Of Rust and Glass, 1932 Quarterly, The Pangolin Review, Eunoia Review, and The Ekphrastic Review. Her poems have been on exhibit at Lit Youngstown and Beyond Words , an exhibit with Prizm Creative Community in Toledo’s McMaster Gallery. Her first chapbook Still Speak was published in 2019 by Writing Knights Press. She has also been a sponsored poet with Tiferet Journal and their annual poem-a-thon. Emily lives in Toledo, Ohio with her family.

Olena Kayinska, is an artist based in Lviv, Ukraine. She works with naїve or pure art techniques, paired together with deep philosophical and psychological senses. Her fields of research are finding of inner peace, post-trauma recovery, human inborn kindness, and love as the driving force of Universe. Olena’s paintings-dreams take the observers inside, to the subconscious, to the core. Trying to find the inner self, the observer wanders through the imaginary world, fantastic forests, filled with symbolic images and archetypical symbols, inhabited with mysterious creatures, each of which provides a guide to the final destination – our heart. Her aim is to make people happier.

Website: https://en.olena-kayinska.com/

Instagram: @olena_kayinska_art

Facebook: @olena.kayinska