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Sean Ryder holds a B.A. in English (Professional Writing) and is currently seeking an M.A. in English. He is an independent scholar, working on the poetry and illustrations of William Blake. His nonfiction short story “Ropes” appeared in the spring 2014 issue of Sleet Magazine. He writes fiction and nonfiction.
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Fran Wiedenhoeft is a writer, poet, mother, grandmother and 22-year Army veteran with service in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Desert Storm. Her work can be found in The Wisconsin State Journal, The War Writers Campaign, the 2015 Ariel Anthology, a collaborative peace poem in Praxis Magazine Online, the American Journal of Nursing, and Deadly Writers Patrol. She has been accepted for a residency at Write On Door County.
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C.L. Cohen: “I am the smoke which banishes sleep in the night.”—from Frank Herbert’s novel Dune. I have learned the world is not black and white. It is a sparkle of multiple colors to be embraced, not rejected. I write two blogs: “The Goal- Focused Writer” and “Dystopian Reviewer” and have finished my first novel, A Long Winter’s Night. I read for David Bright’s Gemini Magazine because it stimulates creativity so I continue growing.
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Rachel Shapiro is a freelance writer and editor. She has a master’s degree in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh. Her short stories have appeared in Story Shack, Hickory Stump, River River, and Flash Fiction Magazine. She is currently working on a fantasy novel, and she lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, where she helps run a writing group called Prose Society.
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Melissa Santos is a doctoral student in the Rhetoric and Composition program at the University of Rhode Island. She is also a part-time faculty member at Bridgewater State University, Massachusetts, where she earned her MA in English in 2012. She enjoys writing creative nonfiction and photography.
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Katherine Russell earned her B.A. in creative writing from SUNY Geneseo. She’s a double lung transplant survivor, a cellist and a freelance writer/editor. She has written poetry and nonfiction about life with cystic fibrosis, and her debut novel, Without Shame, will be available from FB Publishing in October 2015. She maintains a blog at www.katherinekeepswriting.com.
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Leah Cunningham is a graduate of SUNY Oswego with a B.A. in English and Creative Writing. She now lives in Jersey, Channel Islands, where she works as a public relations consultant for financial services firms and is a deputy editor at Global Fund Media. Her work has been published in the Great Lake Review and The Release. Read her blog “Wanderlust” at http://leahrenee09.wordpress.com/.
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Zoë Däe is a writer and editor who lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Her short stories have appeared in Every Day Fiction, Atlantis Magazine, and others. She is currently working on her first novel to avoid other pressing responsibilities. You can read her short fiction on her website, zoedae.com.
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Sandra Williams holds an M.Ed. in Secondary Education and a B.A. in English/Technical Writing. She has been teaching high school Language Arts for nine years. An aspiring writer, she enjoys novels and short stories. One of her favorite quotes is by Will Rogers: “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
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Chen Okafor is a Malaysian-born black writer who grew up in Moscow, Russia. Thanks to his parents he’s found his way to the States where he currently resides. When not digging into his Nigerian roots he can be found following the latest developments in Washington. It’s either that or traveling the country by train. Check out some of his poetry at Acharugo or An Ode to the Dream. Follow him on twitter @Chenthewriter.
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Christine Anglin is a writer and the founder of Single Life Ministries, Inc. She is the author of four bodies of work and has performed across the country in Washington, D.C., New York, Phoenix, Memphis, and Miami. She is the winner of the Storytellers Slam, Wordsplay Cafe Slam, and Bowery Poetry Slam. A proud graduate of the Howard University School of Business. She currently lives in Miami, Florida.
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Lydia Paige Boone holds an MA in English Literature from Northumbria University and a BA in English from Goldsmiths, University of London. Born in Florida, Lydia grew up in, and was entirely educated in England. She currently lives and works full time in metro Atlanta. She enjoys reading and writing short stories, hiking in state parks and national forests and listening to bluegrass music and punk-rock.
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Ted Berman holds a B.A. in Integrated Design, but at heart, and by trade, he is a writer. He is currently working on two novel projects, “Mahogany” and “Birds Have Magnets in Their Skulls.” He was born, raised, and currently lives in New York.
POETRY READER
Bertony Louis is a Haitian poet whose work bridges cultures, languages and continents. He is the author of Recovering the Horizons (L’Appeau Strophe, 2019) and the winner of 13 international poetry awards, including the Prize of the Jury at the Castello di Duino Poesia (Italy). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Harvard Review, Pinhole Poetry, North of Oxford Review, Entrevous (Canada), and Oupoli (France). He is a research scholar at Carnegie Mellon University and Writer-in-Residence at City of Asylum Pittsburgh. He writes in English and French.
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Chivonne Delgadillo earned a B.A. in English with a writing emphasis from Metropolitan State University of Denver. After working for many years at a job she did not like, she has since abandoned (most of) life’s responsibilities to focus on becoming a writer full-time. She wholly believes that if everyone spoke like they were in a Tennessee Williams play, the world would be a much more colorful place. She feels at home with all things horror but becomes distraught in the presence of grasshoppers. She is currently working on an assortment of writing projects that reflect her inner fears.
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Kevin Blanton is a graduate of Arizona State University with a B.A. in English. He is a mostly aspiring writer with a few credits to his name. Kevin enjoys reading novels and short stories. He likes the job he has now because it gives him ample opportunity to think of new things to write about.
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David Bright started Gemini Magazine in April 2009. His work has been published in The Café Irreal, The Iconoclast, The Cimmerian Journal, flashquake, Nuvein, TPQ Online, 100 Word Story, and elsewhere. A former cabdriver and postal worker, he co-founded Resumes, etc., a writing and career counseling company and managed it for several years. He is a graduate of UMass Boston.