C.D. Albin is the author of Axe, Fire, Mule, a canny and wise collection of Ozark Poetry. He he founded and edited Elder Mountain: A Journal of Ozarks Studies for years.
Patricia Averbach is the author of Resurrecting Rain, a novel whose middle-aged librarian loses her conventional life and rediscovers freedom.
Monica Barron is a poet and nonfiction writer. She published Prairie Architecture, a book of poems, with Golden Antelope Press in 2020. She produces literary programs for Lesbians WriteOn and is nonfiction editor at wordpeace, a digital social justice writing project. Her most recent magazine publications are in Screendoor Review and The Words Faire. She also works as a hospice volunteer in a variety of ways.
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.
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.
Constance E. Boyle collaborated with Granville, Perkins, and Waldstein on The Four Faces of Eve. Raised in New Jersey, she has spent most of her life in the Denver area; she worked for Denver Health as a physician assistant in adolescent medicine. (She has fond memories of facilitating a student improv theater troupe through the Lincoln Center.) A lifelong poet, she holds an M.F.A. in creative writing. Journal publications are numerous, and she has several poems in the anthology la forza di vita: caffeinated poems. Her poetry book Liberties was published by Plan B Press in 2024
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.
Timothy K. Conley twice served as Senior Fulbright Scholar in American Literature at the University of Vienna. In 2016 Cambria Press published Screening Vienna: The City of Dreams in English-Language Cinema and Television–his critical and cultural study of over 150 English-language films set in Vienna. He lives in Peoria, IL.
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.
Kajal Dass Beck, originally from West Bengal, studied art at the Government Art College in Kolkata, and directed the Surañjana School of Art and Craft. While traditional Indian designs is the subject of her first book, Nava Alpana: New Decorative Designs of India (2016), she has since widened her artistic perspective to encompass universal forms of contemplative expression during her residence in America. Following a landmark exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kolkata (1976), she has exhibited her batik and watercolor paintings at galleries in the United States and Canada.
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.
Steven Denehan, our Irish poet, is author of Days of Falling Flesh and Rising Moons. Mark Nevin characterizes Denehan as “a beautiful soul with a rare lightness of touch”
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. Gager has written over twenty books and regularly hosts interview podcasts with writers.
Aileen Gallagher wrote and illustrated Wandering Eyes, a collection of Poems about difficult topics, while still an undergraduate.
Alastor E. George was just 17 when Golden Antelope published People Are Puzzles. Currently a freshman in University. A budding polymath, he has an eye for detail, a sensitivity to the needs and symbol systems of others, and a talent for being both empathetic and objective built into his poems– a talent he’ll need in his planned career as a pediatric surgeon.
Robert Bates Graber, author of Plutonic Sonnets, four scholarly books, and many articles, is an emeritus professor of anthropology at Truman State University. If you don’t know what a Russian bigamist, a kleptomaniac, buckets of urine, and a place called French Lick have to do with the history of astronomy, Plutonic Sonnets is the book for you. In the words of Patrick Gillespie, “The audience for this book … will be one who enjoys Graber’s playful references to Greek Mythology … and his ability to sum up scientific grandiosity within the space of a sonnet.”
Brooke Granville collaborated with Boyle, Perkins, and Waldstein on The Four Faces of Eve. A closet poet for 50 years, Brooke writes about family and relationships. An adoptee in search of understanding for three decades, she met her birth mother only one time, briefly. It led to connecting with a large extended family. Brooke is currently writing her memoir about finding this family, the reactions and interactions of three generations.
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 and Gods of Four Mile Creek, is a first-class Ozark poet, and editor. His work with Ozark Poetry and Elder Mountain Journal have been stellar. University of Arkansas Press released his The Literature of the Ozarks: An Anthology.
Gretchen Johnson is the author of two novels, Single in Southeast Texas and Young Again.
George Koors has a masters of English from Truman State University and an MLIS from Catholic University of America. Always the Wanderer is his first Novel, he has taught English in the middle east and in several colleges and universities in the Washington D.C. area.
Dave Malone, author of You Know the Ones, also did our E-Books for several years.
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.
Petra Perkins collaborated with Boyle, Granville, and Waldstein on The Four Faces of Eve. She is a Colorado author of poetry, fiction, memoir, essay, humor, and scripts for screen and stage. After a 25-year career in aerospace engineering and management, she became immersed in more creative pursuits, especially in writing. Petra’s work is widely published and has won awards in multiple genres.
Jack Powers, author of Everybody’s Vaguely Familiar and Still Love, 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.
Larry Rodgers is a poet/songwriter and the author of live free or croak
Al Schnupp, author of Goods & Effects, grew up in a Mennonite community which has much in common with the one featured in this book. He grew up to be a dramatist, theater teacher, artist, set designer–and an advocate of diversity and inclusiveness.
Steven Schriener , co-author (with Allison Cundiff) of In Short, A Memory of the Other on a Good Day, is a poet and emeritus 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.
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. Now working with a larger publisher, he is no longer one of ours, but he’s still a wonderful writer whose work we fervently recommend.
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. Golden Antelope is preparing to publish her memoir in 2026.
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, was eighteen when we accepted her subtle poetry collection, To All the Yellow Flowers. Brilliant, queer, Muslim, she’s an actor as well as a musician, a performance artist as well as a careful thinker.
Gail Waldstein, M.D. collaborated with Boyle, Granville, and Perkins on The Four Faces of Eve. She was a pediatric pathologist for over 35 years, working at Children’s Hospital, Denver most of that time. A single-parent to three children, she began creative writing in the late ’90s. Her works have been published in numerous journals and anthologies and have won several awards.
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.
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