Michael Hanner

Michael Hanner is an architect in Eugene, Oregon, USA. His poems are found in Timberline Review, Gargoyle, Southern Humanities Review, Rhino, Nimrod, Mudfish and others. His recent books are October, Adriatica and, under the moniker Forbisher Mandangle, a French guide book, Le Bugue, Black Périgord & Beyond. His other interests are: gardening, travel, English croquet, French cooking and Argentine tango.

Md Mujib Ullah

Md Mujib Ullah is an Assistant Editor of the Blue Tiger Review (A Journal of the UM-SJTU JI), and currently a PhD student of English Language and Literature at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His poetry and translation have been appeared or forthcoming in Poem (Routledge), Postcolonial Text (OHP), Galaxy , Blue Tiger Review, FreeXpresSion, Tuck Magazine & elsewhere. His academic research interests cover a wide range of area including Comparative and World Literature, Creative Writing, Globalization and Cultural Studies, Criticism, Media, and Translation. He is a member of Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA), International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), The International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) & Teaching and Education Research Association (TERA).

Mark J Mitchell

Mark J. Mitchell was born in Chicago and grew up in southern California. His latest poetry collection, Starting from Tu Fu, will published by Encircle Publications in September. He is fond of baseball, Miles Davis, Kafka and Dante. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, the activist and documentarian, Joan Juster, where he makes his meager living pointing out pretty things. Mark has published two novels and three chapbooks and two full-length collections so far.

Marguerite G Bouvard

Marguerite Guzman Bouvard is the author of ten poetry books, two of which have won awards, including the MassBook Award for Poetry. She has also written numerous non-fiction books on womens’ rights, human rights, and social justice. She is a former professor of Political Science and Poetry.

Katacha Diaz

Wanderlust and love of travel have taken Katacha Díaz all over the world to gather material for her stories. Among the children’s books she has authored is Badger at Sandy Ridge Road for the Smithsonian Institution’s Backyard series, and Carolina’s Gift: A Story of Peru for Soundprints’ Make Friends Around the World series. She lives and writes in a quaint little historic town at the mouth of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest.

Kalyani Bindu

Kalyani Bindu is an aspiring biologist working as a project assistant in the Indian Institute of Science. She forays into poetry, when at a loss of words. She has published a poetry collection, Two Moviegoers and 32 Others, and has written socio-cultural essays in White Crow Art Daily. Her poems have appeared in the Madras Courier, Indian Review, Navalokam and Bhashaposhini.

John Grey

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident. Recently published in Midwest Quarterly, Poetry East and North Dakota Quarterly, with work upcoming in South Florida Poetry Journal, Hawaii Review and the Dunes Review.

Jeff Schiff

In addition to That hum to go by (Mammoth books, 2012), Jeff Schiff is the author of Mixed Diction, Burro Heart, The Rats of Patzcuaro, The Homily of Infinitude, and Anywhere in this Country. Over two hundred poems of his have appeared internationally in nearly a hundred periodicals, including The Alembic, Grand Street, The Ohio Review, Poet & Critic, Tampa Review, The Louisville Review, Tendril, Pembroke Magazine, Carolina Review, Chicago Review, Hawaii Review, Southern Humanities Review, River City (The Pinch), Indiana Review, Willow Springs, and The Southwest Review. He is currently Interim Dean of the School of Graduate Studies at Columbia College Chicago.

Jagari Mukherjee

The winner of the Women Empowered Gifted Poet Award (2020), Jagari Mukherjee is the Founder and Chief Executive Editor of the literary journal, EKL Review, and the Editor-in-Chief of Narrow Road.  She has authored six solo collections of poetry—two chapbooks and four full-length volumes. Her most recent publication is Woman and the Moon (2024) by Hawakal Publishers. She has also edited an anthology titled Hubbies for Hawakal (2025).

Holly Day

Holly Day’s poetry has recently appeared in Plainsongs, The Long Islander, and The Nashwaak Review. Her newest poetry collections are In This Place, She Is Her Own (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press), A Wall to Protect Your Eyes (Pski’s Porch Publishing), Folios of Dried Flowers and Pressed Birds (Cyberwit.net), Where We Went Wrong (Clare Songbirds Publishing), Into the Cracks (Golden Antelope Press), and Cross Referencing a Book of Summer (Silver Bow Publishing).

Gale Acuff

Gale Acuff has had hundreds of poems published internationally, and is the author of three books of poetry. He has taught university English in the US, China, and Palestine.

Elizabeth Spencer Spragins

Elizabeth Spencer Spragins is a poet, writer, and editor who taught in American community colleges for more than a decade. Her tanka and bardic verse in the Celtic style have been published extensively in Europe, Asia, and North America. She is the author of With No Bridle for the Breeze: Ungrounded Verse (Shanti Arts Publishing) and The Language of Bones: American Journeys Through Bardic Verse (Kelsay Books).