Philip Kobylarz, On the Barbary Coast, Photograph
Contributor Notes, Issue #31
Morgan Boyer is the author of The Serotonin Cradle (Finishing Line Press, 2018) and a graduate of Carlow University. Boyer has been featured in Kallisto Gaia Press, Thirty West Publishing House, Oyez Review, Pennsylvania English, and Voices from the Attic. Boyer is a neurodivergent bisexual woman who resides in Pittsburgh, PA.
Judith Cody’s new poetry chapbook, Garden on an Alien Star System, was just published by Finishing Line Press. Currently, the Smithsonian Institute is displaying her poem posters on the official Smithsonian Institute Website. Her poetry is published in over 200 journals, and has won many national awards, including second prize in the national Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition. Centre College’s Norton Center for the Arts selected her poem from a competitive group from around the world for exhibition in a featured art gallery installation. Her poetry chapbook was a finalist in Bright Hills Press’s national competition. She has won Atlantic Monthly and Amelia awards; her poems were nominated for Best of the Net, quarterfinalists in the Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry and were cited for honorable mentions by the National League of American Pen Women. She edited the PEN Oakland anthology Fightin’ Words and wrote the internationally notable biography of composer Vivian Fine: A Bio-Bibliography and Eight Frames Eight, poems.
Sarah Daly is an American writer whose work has appeared in twelve literary journals including Umbrella Factory Magazine, Synchronized Chaos, The Olivetree Review, Blue Lake Review, and elsewhere.
Matt Dennison is the author of Kind Surgery, from Urtica Press (Fr.) and Waiting for Better, from Main Street Rag Press. His work has appeared in Verse Daily, Rattle, Bayou Magazine, Redivider and Cider Press Review, among others. He has also made short films with Michael Dickes, Swoon, Marie Craven and Jutta Pryor.
Leila Farjami is a poet, literary translator, and psychotherapist. In addition to publishing seven poetry books in Persian, her work has appeared in A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Apricity Magazine, Cathexis Northwest Press, El Portal, Euphony Journal, Flights, Hey, I’m Alive, Midwest Quarterly, Mudlark, Nonconformist Magazine, Nimrod Journal, Open Ceilings, Pennsylvania English, Poetic Sun, Poetry Porch, Press Pause Press, riverSedge: A Journal of Art and Literature, Silk Road Review, Spotlong Review, Sun, and whimperbang; was published by Tupelo Press for their 30/30 Project; and has been translated into Swedish, Arabic, Turkish, and French.
Arvilla Fee teaches English Composition for Clark State College and is the poetry editor for the San Antonio Review. She has published poetry, photography, and short stories in numerous presses, and her poetry book, The Human Side, was released December 2022. For Arvilla, writing produces the greatest joy when it connects us to each other.
George Freek’s poem “Enigmatic Variations” is currently nominated for Best of the Net. His poem “Night Thoughts” is also nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Michael Gaspeny’s Flight Manual: New and Selected Poems, has just been published by Unicorn Press. He is the author of the novella in verse The Tyranny of Questions and the prose novel A Postcard from the Delta as well as two chapbooks. His writing has gained several Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations. He won the Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize and the O. Henry Festival Short Story Competition. For hospice service in Greensboro, North Carolina, he received The Governor’s Award for Volunteer Excellence.
David A. Goodrum, writer/photographer, lives in Corvallis, Oregon. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Tar River Poetry, The Inflectionist Review, Passengers Journal, Scapegoat Review, SHARK REEF Literary Magazine, Tampa Review, among others. Other publications include a chapbook, Sparse Poetica (Audience Askew, early 2024), and a book, Vitals and Other Signs of Life (The Poetry Box, mid 2024). See additional work (poetry and photography) at www.davidgoodrum.com.
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Stand, Washington Square Review and Floyd County Moonshine. Latest books, Covert, Memory Outside The Head, and Guest Of Myself are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in the McNeese Review, Santa Fe Literary Review and Open Ceilings.
Andrew Rader Hanson lives in South Florida where he takes photos on weekly hikes, lifts weights, and reads history and philosophy. His work has been accepted by Clackamas Literary Review, Midway Journal, Spectrum Literary Journal, and more. He was also selected as a finalist for the Key West Literary Seminar’s Scotti Merril Poetry Award.
Poet and photographer Margaret B. Ingraham is the author of a poetry collection Exploring this Terrain (Paraclete Press, 2020); This Holy Alphabet, lyric poems based on her original translation of Psalm 119 (Paraclete Press, 2009); and a poetry chapbook, Proper Words for Birds (Finishing Line Press), nominated for the 2010 Library of Virginia Award in poetry. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in A Thin Slice of Anxiety, The Courtship of Winds, DASH Literary Journal, Door is A Jar Magazine, Evening Street Review, The Hollins Critic, MacGuffin, Medicine and Meaning, Mount Hope Magazine, Nonconformist Magazine, Off the Coast, Sage Cigarettes Magazine, Spiritus, Steam Ticket, THINK Journal, Third Wednesday, Umbrella Factory Magazine, Visitant Lit, and Valparaiso Poetry Review. Ingraham is the recipient of an Academy of American Poetry Award, a Sam Ragan Award, and numerous residential Fellowships at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Margaret has twice collaborated with internationally recognized composer Gary Davison, most notably to create “Shadow Tides,” a choral symphony commissioned by Artistic Director Gretchen Kuhrmann for Choralis to commemorate the tenth anniversary of September 11th and performed on that date in 2011 in Washington, DC. She holds a BA from Vanderbilt University, an MA in English from Georgia State University, and pursued doctoral studies in English (with an emphasis on English Romantic Poetry) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ingraham resides in Alexandria, Virginia.
Marc Janssen has been writing poems since around 1980. Some people would say that was a long time but not a dinosaur. Early decrepitude has not slowed him down much; his verse can be found scattered around the world in places like Pinyon, Slant, Cirque Journal, Off the Coast and Poetry Salzburg also in his book November Reconsidered. Janssen coordinates the Salem Poetry Project- a weekly reading, the occasionally occurring Salem Poetry Festival, and was a nominee for Oregon Poet Laureate. For more information visit, marcjanssenpoet.com.
Theric Jepson is a poet and novelist living in the San Francisco Bay Area—he can see the Golden Gate from his roof, if the fog allows. His latest book is Just Julie’s Fine, forthcoming in late 2023. His other work is linked to from thmazing.com/thbiblio.
Paul Jones is no longer a person of interest. A manuscript of his poems crashed into the moon’s surface in 2019 carried by Israel’s Beresheet Lander. In 2021, Jones was inducted into the NC State Computer Science Hall of Fame. His book, Something Wonderful, was published by Redhawk Press in 2021. Recently, Jones has published poems in Hudson Review, Tar River Poetry, NC Literary Review, as well as in earlier issues of Triggerfish Critical Review. http://smalljones.com
Phil Kirsch is a lifetime New Jersey resident who has been writing poetry for as long as he can remember. Attended Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference (1975); received MFA in Poetry from Goddard College, Vt. (1980). Past president of South Mountain Poets workshop. Published in Journal of New Jersey Poets, New Jersey Poetry Monthly, Green House, Phantasm and more recently, The Stillwater Review and Triggerfish Critical Review, among others.
Philip Kobylarz is an itinerant teacher of the language arts and writer of fiction, poetry, book reviews, and essays. He has worked as a journalist, a film critic, a veterinarian’s assistant, a deliverer of furniture, and an ascetic. He has volunteered at the Union City Historical Museum. His work appears in such publications as Paris Review, Poetry, The Best American Poetry series, Massachusetts Review, and Lalitamba. He also published a collection poetry entitled rues and a collection of short stories entitled Now Leaving Nowheresville. He spends his time in the East Bay, Huntington Beach, and in the monastery in which he lives with his cat KatdawgRocket 99, his dog Chibi, and any woman who is able to temporarily love him.
DS Maolalai has been nominated eleven times for Best of the Net, eight for the Pushcart Prize and once for the Forward Prize. His poetry has been released in three collections, most recently Sad Havoc Among the Birds (Turas Press, 2019) and Noble Rot (Turas Press, 2022).
Ron McFarland lives & writes from Moscow, Idaho, where he served 2 years as the state’s first Writer in Residence (1985-86). His most recent books are a literary biography, Gary Soto: A Career in Poetry and Prose (2022) and Professor McFarland in Reel Time: Poems & Prose of an Angler (2020). The genuine poet of the family, when she is not burning up pots is Georgia Tiffany, whose first full-length book of poems, Body Be Sound, will appear in September 2023.
Sharon Lopez Mooney, poet, is a retired Interfaith End of Life Chaplain, living in Mexico, part-time in Northern California. Mooney received a CAC Grant for rural poetry; and co-published a local anthology. She’s been a Best of the Net nominee, and given Editor’s Choice and Elite Writer Status honors. Her poetry collection, “Cantata for a Desert Poet” was released January 2024 by Arteildoia Press. Mooney’s poems, published nationally & internationally, appear in such publications as: The Blotter, Umbrella Factory, Visible Magazine, MuddyRiver Review, Revue{R}Évolution, Avalon Literary, Ginosko, California Quarterly, Galway Review, Existere,& Adelaide International. Currently, she facilitates poetry feedback workshops. Mooney’s poems are indexed at: www.sharonlopezmooney.com
Daniel Edward Moore lives in Washington on Whidbey Island. His poems have appeared in Spoon River Poetry Review, Phoebe, and others. His work is forthcoming in Sugar House Review, Action, Spectacle Magazine, The Meadow, The Chiron Review and Delta Poetry Review. His book Waxing the Dents, is from Brick Road Poetry Press.
Robert Nisbet is a poet from Wales who has a prizewinning pamphlet in his native country, and who has also been published by many US magazines, receiving Pushcart nominations from a few of them. Retired now from higher education, he is tutor to a creative writing class in a community theatre in Pembrokeshire.
David B. Prather is the author of We Were Birds (Main Street Rag Publishing, 2019), and he has two forthcoming poetry collections: Bending Light with Bare Hands (Fernwood Press, 2024) and Shouting at an Empty House (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2023). His work has appeared in many journals, including Prairie Schooner, OPEN: Journal of Arts and Letters, The Comstock Review, etc. He lives in Parkersburg, WV.
A poet, professor, and editor, Richard Ryal has worked in marketing and higher education. The beauty of his world still outmuscles his gloom so he sometimes stops for no reason. His recent publications include Notre Dame Review, The South Florida Poetry Journal, and Sheila-Na-Gig.
Mykyta Ryzhykh resides in Nova Kakhovka Citу, Ukraine. Winner of the international competition «Art Against Drugs», bronze medalist of the festival Chestnut House, laureate of the literary competition named after Tyutyunnik. Published in the journals Dzvin, Ring A, Polutona, Rechport, Topos, Articulation, Formaslov, Colon, Literature Factory, Literary Chernihiv, on the portals Literary Center and Soloneba, in The Ukrainian Literary Newspaper, in the almanac Syaivo. She received a scholarship from the President of Ukraine for young artists.
Mistee St. Clair is the author of the chapbook This Morning is Different, an Alaska Literary Award grantee, and has poems forthcoming in or has been published by The Common, Northwest Review, SWWIM Every Day, and more. She lives with her family and border collie in Juneau, Alaska, a northern rainforest, where she is an editor for the Alaska State Legislature. She can be found at misteestclair.com.
Zeke Sanchez is a writer/poet living in Tennessee. He won in-house competitions in The Critical Poet and has been published here in Triggerfish. His poetry may at times reflect his background: migrant worker, forest firefighter, Vietnam veteran, technical writer. The Shadows of Our Mind, a book of photography, done with retired NASA photographer Doug Stoffer, contains a number of Zeke’s poems. He’s also published The Fire With Two Dragon Smokes, a book about his experiences with a “Hotshot” Forest Crew in the Northwest and beyond.
Claire Scott is an award winning poet who has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work has appeared in the Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, New Ohio Review and Healing Muse among others. Claire is the author of Waiting to be Called and Until I Couldn’t. She is the co-author of Unfolding in Light: A Sisters’ Journey in Photography and Poetry.
Inigo Scrace is a poet and writer who lives in Lillehammer, Norway. When he is not writing, he is shoveling snow or listening to old Alice Coltrane records.
Terry Trowbridge’s poems have appeared in The New Quarterly, Carousel, subTerrain, paperplates, The Dalhousie Review, untethered, Quail Bell, The Nashwaak Review, Orbis, Snakeskin Poetry, Literary Yard, M58, CV2, Brittle Star, Bombfire, American Mathematical Monthly, The Academy of Heart and Mind, Canadian Woman Studies, The Mathematical Intelligencer, The Canadian Journal of Family and Youth, The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, The Beatnik Cowboy, Borderless, Literary Veganism, and more. His lit crit has appeared in Ariel, British Columbia Review, Hamilton Arts & Letters, Episteme, Studies in Social Justice, Rampike, and The /t3mz/ Review. Terry is grateful to the Ontario Arts Council for his first writing grant, and their support of so many other writers during the polycrisis.
Erin Wilson’s poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Main Street Magazine Rag, Potomac Review, EVENT, Freefall, Verse Daily, and Atlanta Review. Her first collection is At Home with Disquiet; her second, Blue (whose title poem won a Pushcart), is about depression, grief, and the transformative power of art. She lives in a small town on Robinson-Huron Treaty Territory in Northern Ontario, Canada, the traditional lands of the Anishnawbek. Her best days are spent with poetry, trees, and milkweed. She refuses to carry a cell phone.