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The poetry of Kathy B. Austin has been included in the anthology, From the Tower, as well as two Wright Memorial Public Library anthologies, and their journal Glide. Her poems have appeared in The Writing Path I anthology published by the University of Iowa Press, the online Buddhist Poetry Review, Poppy Road Review, and various local publications such as Flights.
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Amelia Danielle Bailey has appeared in Sinclair Community College’s Flights, received The Gary Mitchner Poetry Prize, and was a winner of the DML True Colors Writing Contest. Her work is forthcoming in the Oyster River Pages anthology, Composite Dreams.
The Light Tears Loose by KB Ballentine was published last year by Blue Light Press. Her work is also published in the Crab Orchard Review and Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, In Plein Air (2017) and Carrying the Branch: Poets in Search of Peace (2017). Learn more at www.kbballentine.com.
Velma Lee Barber organizes, cleans, peer counsels, and pushes for social change when she’s not writing. Her first novel, Getting to Grace, was released in December 2020 under the pen name, Lee Barber.
Rita Coleman resides in rural Greene County, Ohio. She has published two books of poetry, Mystic Connections (2009) and And Yet (2017). Her degrees include a B.A. and an M.A. from Wright State University with a concentration in Creative Writing.
Ed Davis has immersed himself in writing and contemplative practices since retiring from college teaching. Time of the Light, a poetry collection, was released by Main Street Rag Press in 2013. His latest novel, The Psalms of Israel Jones (West Virginia University Press, 2014), won the Hackney Award for an unpublished novel in 2010.
Maureen Fry lives on a 150-acre organic farm/nature preserve in Champaign County. Her poetry has appeared in a number of journals; her poem, "The Way It Is," was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She retired in 2009 from a 30-year career at Wittenberg University.
The poetry of David Lee Garrison has been published widely, featured by Ted Kooser on his American Life in Poetry, and read on The Writer’s Almanac and the BBC. His latest book is Light in the River (Dos Madres Press, 2020). His reviews have appeared in New Letters, North Dakota Quarterly, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and others.
Audrey Hackett is a poet and news reporter. She holds an M.F.A. in poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and lives and works in Yellow Springs, OH.
The sonnet collections of Betsy Hughes include: Breaking Weather (winner of the Stevens Poetry Manuscript Competition, National Federation of State Poetry Societies Press, 2014), Bird Notes (Finishing Line Press, 2017), and Forest Bathing (Antrim House Books, 2019).
SM Ling (Stella) grew up in Beavercreek, Ohio and now spends half her time in California. She paints, collages and sculpts in mixed media. Her work has shown at the Richmond Art Gallery, the Chico Art Gallery and has illustrated several poetry books including To The Tower dedicated to Conrad Balliet.
Recently, Wayne State University Press published The Shape of Regret by Herbert Woodward Martin. His Aria: Nobody Know premiered in New York City at The Schonburg Research Center and Library in The Langston Hughes Auditorium.
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Vera Grace Menafee is a young poet and activist from Dayton, Ohio. She has been published in Deerfield Academy's literary journal, Albany Road. She is currently attending Oberlin College, where she majors in Africana Studies and Creative Writing.
When Pete Mitas isn't writing the sequel to his best-selling "Betty the Yeti and the Yodeling Samurai," he enjoys underwater skeet shooting with his neighbors, Roscoe, Barney, Bubba, Dutch, Clem, and Phlegm.
Anne Randolph has poetry published in Snowy Egret, Mock Turtle Zine, The Comstock Review, Iconoclast, Cloudbank, and The Listening Eye, among others. Her chapbook, Growing in Light, was published in 2018.
Julie Riley is an artist of representational expressionism. Her work has been shown at The Contemporary Dayton (formerly Dayton Visual Arts Center), The Orphanage Gallery, Tejas Gallery, Carillon House, Dayton Society of Artists (juried, Honorable Mention), Art Bus, and other locations in Dayton, Columbus, and Cincinnati.
Esther Rohm is a wandering bard whose short stories, poetry, and haiku have appeared in several literary journals. Her poem "Uncaged" was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. When she's not telling tales, Esther assists a merry band of public servants in Dayton, OH.
Kerry Trautman is a poetry editor for the online journal Red Fez. Her poetry books are Things That Come in Boxes (King Craft Press, 2012), To Have Hoped (Finishing Line Press, 2015), Artifacts (NightBallet Press, 2017), and To be Nonchalantly Alive (Kelsay Books, 2020).
MJ White was awarded the Paul Laurence Dunbar Poetry Prize in 2006, and in 2012, the Antioch Writers’ Workshop’s Judson Jerome Poetry Prize and scholarship. Billy Collins chose one of her poems as the adult winner of Borders’ 2009 national online poetry contest. Her first book, How the Universe Says Yes to Me, was published by Main Street Rag Press in 2017.
Debra Williamson teaches English at Edison State Community College and is part of the Yellow Springs Poets group.
Kathy B. Austin’s poetry appears in the anthology, From the Tower, Wright Memorial Public Library anthologies and their journal Glide, The Writing Path I anthology published by the University of Iowa Press, Poppy Road Review, and various local publications such as Flights.
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Steve Broidy is an emeritus professor of education at Missouri State University and Wittenberg University. He is the author of the chapbook Earth Inside Them and the editor of the collection From the Tower: Poetry in Honor of Conrad Ballet (Main Street Rag Publishing).
E. Bowers is a writer in Dayton, Ohio. She has a BA in English, Creative Writing and a BM in Music Education from Wright State University. Bowers interned as Managing Editor for Mad River Review from 2018 – 2019. Her work has appeared in Rogue Agent & ActiveMuse.
Rita Coleman resides in rural Greene County, Ohio. She has published two books of poetry, Mystic Connections (2009) and And Yet (2017). Her degrees include a BA and an MA from Wright State University with a Concentration in Creative Writing.
Zoey Deibel is an 11 year old member of the Junior Optimist Leadership Club. She is an avid reader who enjoys volleyball, swimming, crafting, art, shopping, writing, baking, gardening, and having fun with STEM projects.
Cathryn Essinger is the author of four books of poetry. Her fourth book, The Apricot and the Moon was published in 2020 from Dos Madres Press. Her forthcoming chapbook, Wings, is about raising Monarch butterflies. Her poems were nominated for Pushcarts and “Best of the Net,” featured on The Writer's Almanac, and reprinted in American Life in Poetry.
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Maureen Fry’s poetry has appeared in a number of journals; her poem, "The Way It Is," was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She retired from Wittenberg University, where she was director of the Writing Center and taught a variety of writing courses and seminars.
David Lee Garrison was named Ohio Poet of the Year in 2014 for his book, Playing Bach in the DC Metro, the title poem of which was featured by Poet Laureate Ted Kooser on his website, “American Life in Poetry,” and read on the BBC in London. His new book is Light in the River (Dos Madres Press).
Erica Goulart is a Fine Art photographer living in Dayton, Ohio. Her photographic series Altered Environments has been shown at The Contemporary Dayton and K12 Gallery & TEJAS. During the quarantine, taking a photo a day has helped her to document and process these strange times we are all experiencing.
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Andrew Justice Holden is a Dayton-based poet. He graduated from Wright State University
Ingrid Halpin is ten years old. She loves space, nature, and bird watching. When she grows up she wants to be the first girl on Mars.
For 30 years, Betsy Hughes taught English at the Miami Valley School, where she fostered her own appreciation of literature and creative writing while she learned from her students. Three of her sonnet collections have been published: Breaking Weather (winner of the Stevens Poetry Manuscript competition, National Federation of State Poetry Societies Press, 2014); Bird Notes (Finishing Line Press, 2017); and Forest Bathing (Antrim House Books, 2019).
A recovering engineer, Scott King is currently refocusing on artistic pursuits that he set aside too long ago.
Erica Manto-Paulson’s poetry has appeared in Belt Publishing’s forthcoming Dayton Anthology, The Northern Appalachian Review, and Flights. Her poetry has been featured on WYSO’s Conrad’s Corner and the Cincinnati Poet Laureate’s project, Postcards From the Pandemic. Erica is a lifelong Ohioan and proud Daytonian.
Recently, Wayne State University Press published The Shape of Regret by Herbert Woodward Martin. His Aria: Nobody Know was premiered in New York City at The Schonburg Research Center and Library in The Langston Hughes Auditorium.
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Julianne (Jules) Marzluff is a sophomore at Centerville High School. She has always loved writing and has written many stories and essays, but this is her first piece to be published. She is incredibly grateful for this opportunity and is excited to create more stories in the future.
When Pete Mitas isn't writing the sequel to his best-selling "Betty the Yeti and the Yodeling Samurai," he enjoys underwater skeet shooting with his neighbors, Roscoe, Barney, Bubba, Dutch, Clem, and Phlegm.
Arnecia Patterson lives, works, and writes in the center of the universe, Dayton, OH. She is a lifelong Ohioan and Dayton Strongtonian, by way of Cincinnati, her hometown. Patterson teaches composition and creative writing at the University of Dayton.
Ron Rollins is a writer and artist who lives in Kettering.
Jake Sheff is a pediatrician in Oregon. He's married with a daughter and six pets. Poems of Jake’s are in Radius, The Ekphrastic Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Cossack Review, and elsewhere. His chapbook is Looting Versailles (Alabaster Leaves Publishing).
Eryc Perez de Tagle is a Brooklyn-based photographer and native Ohioan. He was recently featured in the Dayton Daily News and Good Morning America for his volunteer work photographing Fairborn City School’s graduating preschool class.
Seth Wade is an artist and educator, teaching painting at Stivers School for the Arts and drawing at the University of Dayton. While primarily identifying as a visual artist, he shoots from the hip, occasionally hitting a few words.
Kathy B. Austin creates collages, mixed media paintings, and mini-books using her photography and poetry, as well as acrylics, collected images, quotes, and ephemera. Her art has been displayed most recently at Harmony Creek Church and Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio.
Anna Cates is a graduate of Indiana State University (M.A. English and Ph.D. Curriculum & Instruction/English) and National University (M.F.A. Creative Writing). Her first collections of poetry and fiction, The Meaning of Life and The Frog King, were published by Cyberwit Press, and her second poetry collection, The Darkroom, by Prolific Press.
Rita Coleman writes poetry and memoir in rural Greene County, Ohio, and has two books of poetry, Mystic Connections and And Yet. Rita holds a B.A. and an M.A. in English Literature, with a concentration in Creative Writing, from Wright State University.
Leah W. DeAloia teaches writing and literature courses at the University of Dayton. She also writes poetry, short stories, and personal essays, and is currently making what she hopes are final edits to her first psychological thriller, Words to Die By.
Robert Flavin graduated from Chicago Loyola in 1968 and then served for four years in the military. He taught high school mathematics full-time for 32 years and then taught darkroom photography part-time for several years as an adjunct instructor of art at Sinclair Community College. He is currently a part-time adjunct instructor of mathematics at the University of Dayton.
Matthew Frazier, philosopher and writer, is in college.
Maureen Fry lives on a 150-acre organic farm/nature preserve in Champaign County. Her poetry has appeared in a number of journals; her poem, "The Way It Is," was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She retired in 2009 from Wittenberg University, where she was director of the Writing Center.
The poetry of retired Wright State University Professor David Lee Garrison has appeared widely in journals and anthologies, and two poems from his book Sweeping the Cemetery were read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer’s Almanac. He won the Paul Laurence Dunbar Poetry Prize in 2009 and was named Ohio Poet of the Year in 2014.
Furaha Henry-Jones was a 2018 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award recipient and is serving as Sinclair College's Poet Laureate.
For 30 years, Betsy Hughes taught english at the Miami Valley School. Three of her sonnet collections have been published: Breaking Weather (winner of the Stevens Poetry Manuscript competition, National Federation of State Poetry Societies Press, 2014); Bird Notes (Finishing Line Press, 2017); and Forest Bathing (Antrim House Books, 2019).
Dana Knott is the library director and core faculty at Antioch University Midwest in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Poetry, Parhelion, Flights, Bitter Oleander, and Emrys Journal, among other places.
Kip Knott’s is the author of four poetry chapbooks, the most recent being Afraid of Heaven (Mudlark). His first full-length collection of poetry—Tragedy, Ecstasy, Doom, and So On—is forthcoming from Kelsay Books in 2020. Currently, he teaches composition and literature at Columbus State Community College in Columbus, Ohio.
Nathan Lipps lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio and teaches at Central State University. He is the author of the chapbook, The Body As Passage, and his work can be found in various journals.
Recently, Wayne State University Press published The Shape of Regret by Herbert Woodward Martin. His Aria: Nobody Know was premiered in New York City at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York, NY.
Jes McMillan completed her first mosaic at age 16 in a high school art class. Jes founded the Mosaic Institute of Greater Dayton in 2015. In the last 4 years, she has lead the organization to create over 20 murals, painted and mosaic, with the community.
Traci Musick received her B.A. from Marshall University in Huntington, W.V., and an M.A. in english and creative writing from Southern New Hampshire University. Currently, she teaches high school english in southern Ohio. Her work recently appeared in the literary journal Fourth & Sycamore.
Christy Lynne Trotter is an adjunct english instructor at Sinclair Community College. Previously published in Mock Turtle Zine and Flights, she’s currently working on a mystery novel series, with the first book, Quiet Doesn’t Last Forever: A Walking Limb Novel, Book 1, soon to be released. Christy Lynne is also a freelance editor and writer.