Our Authors

C.D. Albin is the author of Axe, Fire, Mule, a canny and wise collection of Ozark Poetry.

Patricia Averbach is the author of Resurrecting Rain, a novel whose middle-aged librarian loses her conventional life and rediscovers freedom.

Monica Barron is the author of Prairie Architecture a very strong collection of richly imagined and environmentally sensitive poems. We’re linking you here to an essay published in WordPeace some years ago, by way of introduction.

Thomas Besom is the author of the anthropologically informed Child of the Snows. His novel tackles some of the toughest challenges humans face, in the process teaching important lessons about empires and the forces which they exert.

Lisa Brognano is the author of In the Interest of Faye, a “career romance” about a gallery curator whose sensitivity to art comes from the author’s experience.

Jerry Burger is the author of The Shadows of 1915, a psychologically rich novel about first and second generation survivors of the Armenian Genocide, immigrant families in California.

Geoffrey Craig is the author of The One-Eyed Man and Other Stories and of the historical novel, Shakespeare’s Younger Sister.

Allison Cundiff is the solo author of Otherings a collection of poems largely focusing on her experiences growing up in rural Missouri, and the co-author (with Steven Schreiner) of a collection, In Short, a Memory of the Other on a Good Day.

Shome Dasgupta is the author of Anklet and other stories, a set short connected tales with surrealist undertones, focusing mainly on a young American visiting his ancestral home in Kolkata.

Holly Day is the author of Into the Cracks, poems featuring tiny moments of pain edged with hope, or– if hope is too large a concept–with honesty.

Vivian Delmonico was the author of I’ll Be Seeing You, a novella set during and after World War II, and Myra, Lost and Found, a novel about a young adult who goes on complicated journeys to discover her heritage after growing up post-holocaust in an orphanage.

James Fowler is the author of The Pain Trader a two part collection of poems. one part on the Contemporary Ozarks, the other primarily set in the post-civil war south.

Mary Fox is the writer of The Last Skipjack, a novel set during the Civil Rights Movement in southern Maryland, tracing an inter-racial friendship through thick and thin, ending on a tragic note with the Cambridge riots of 1963.

Timothy Gager, author of Joe the Salamander projects his experiences as a social worker into his treatment of an autistic youngster and his family, relating to the reader the reality of neurodivergent thinking.

Aileen Gallagher wrote and illustrated Wandering Eyes, a collection of Poems about difficult topics, while still an undergraduate.

Mark Guerin turned an autobiography into a novel –You Can See More from Up Here – which recreates an adolescence involving race and class privilege in a Detroit auto-factory, self-realization, broken love, familial and inter-personal relationships, and forgiveness.

Phil Howerton, author of The History of Tree Roots, Is a first-class Ozark poet, and editor. Golden Antelope will be publishing his second collection pf poetry late this summer.

Gretchen Johnson is the author of two novels, Single in Southeast Texas and Young Again.

Dave Malone, author of You Know the Ones, also did our E-Books for several years.

T.P Bird is a retired industrial drafter/designer and a Christian minister. He’s published in a number of journals and a chapbook. Author of A loose Rendering: Time, Memory, & Other Considerations, a nostalgic and jovial self-mocking collection of poems with clever and questioning metaphors that are also comforting and familiar. It brings up existential questions about time, space, memory, and meaning become whimsical word puzzles, image-fests, and philosophical debates leading to an appreciation of the natural world and a deep yet cautious faith in a creator.

Bob Mielke’s Calling Planet Earth: Close Encounters with Sun Ra, features an original drama about the musician who claimed to have come from Saturn, plus a range of critical essays and an annotated discography.

Nancy Minor, Author of Malheur August, is a lifelong Oregonian, raised in Vale near the Malheur River. She knows the landscape, the people–the lonely child, the recluse, the woman who loves women. A graduate of Brigham Young University, she is now retired from teaching; she lives in Lake Oswego.

Jack Powers, author of Everybody’s Vaguely Familiar, is a writer and teacher who has published scores of poems and essays. Co-director of the Writing Center, he taught writing, English, special education and math at Joel Barlow High School for 38 years, and was also a Coach for RULER Implementation at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligences. For more, see https://www.jackpowers13.com/poetry/ .

Larry Rodgers is a poet/songwriter and the author of live free or croak

Steven Schriener , co-author (with Allison Cundiff) of In Short, A Memory of the Other on a Good Day, is a poet and teacher of creative writing at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. Widely published, he is author of several books, recipient of several poetry prizes.

Linda Seidel, author of a very lightly fictionalized memoir, The Belinda Chronicles, is a recently retired English professor and founding chair of the Women and Gender Studies program at Truman State University. Her other works include Mediated Maternity, a study of “bad mothers” portrayed in classic films.

Draupadi (Lalita) Singh, author of Ting Tang Tales, lives in Florida and Puerto Rico. She studies and practices a Vaishnava form of Hinduism, and values humor as a tool in working with human foibles.

Jacqueline St. Joan, author of the novel, The Shawl of Midnight, has been the founding editor of a feminist journal, a lawyer, a judge, a travel writer, a boundary breaker, and always a poet.

Randolph Splitter, author of the novel, The Third Man, was the American-born child of Holocaust survivors. A college professor whose first book analyzed Marcel Proust, Splitter is a dramatist who understands a lot more about life than most of us do.

Don Tassone is author of the novel Drive and two collections of short stories, Get Back and Small Bites. An advertising executive by trade, Tassone is especially good at helping readers and characters to like each other. That’s not an easy thing to do sometimes, but it’s important.

Raya Tuffaha, our youngest-ever author, wrote her subtle poetry collection, To All the Yellow Flowers, while still in her teens. Brilliant, queer, Muslim, she’s an actor as well as a musician, a performance artist as well as a careful thinker.

Lucinda Watson, author of The Favorite, understands privilege very well, having spent a lifetime exploring its effects on herself and her family. Her poems capture the conflicting expectations which some families face as they shape themselves and their children. Her understanding of how power and sexism work is acute, her empathy broad, her images exactly right.

Patricia Watts, author of The Frayer, has been an investigative journalist and writer most of her life; her sense of the uncanny, her understanding of evil impulses, her ability to look beneath the surface, are especially powerful.

Steve Wineman, author of Therapy Journal, has been a social worker specializing in mental health, a socially committed writer, a commentator on Boston’s WBUR. He understands the complex pasts which humans sometimes hide from, especially when those pasts include physical and sexual abuse.

John Young, author of the novel, When the Coin Is In the Air, and the sort story collection, Fire in the Field and Other Stories, has a special knack for clear-sighted, empathetic, and often humorous portraits of supposedly ordinary people.