Our Authors

Kajal Dass Beck, author of Homo Articus originally from West Bengal, has widened her artistic perspective to encompass universal forms of contemplative expression during her residence in America. 

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 personal experiences studying art galleries across the world.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Steven Denehan, our Irish poet from County Kildere, is author of Days of Falling Flesh and Rising Moons. Mark Nevin characterizes Denehan as “a beautiful soul with a rare lightness of touch”

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.

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.

George Koors, author of Always the Wanderer is a bi avant-garde novelist and musician based in The District of Columbia. He has worked in academia for many years as a writing professor and librarian.

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.

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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.

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.

T.P. (Tom) Bird, author of A Loose Rendering: of Time, Memory, and Other Considerations, is a retired industrial drafter/designer and Christian minister. He has published in a number of journals and is the author of a chapbook as well as three full collections.

Timothy Conley, author of Dreaming Vienna, was Senior Fulbright Scholar in American Lit at the University of Vienna. His 2016 Screening Vienna is a critical and cultural study of English films set in Vienna.

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

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.

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

Phil Howerton, author of The History of Tree Roots, is a first-class Ozark poet, and editor. His second book, Gods of four mile creek, will be released Nov. 1st.

Shari Lane, lawyer, teacher, and author of Two Over Easy All Day Long, believes in the power of stories to build bridges, as we see through another’s eyes, and feel through the beating of another’s heart. 

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.

Jacqueline St. Joan is the author of The Shawl of Midnight, the sequel to My Sisters, Made of Light. Her writing intersects the fields of law and literature with the voices of contemporary protest and reconciliation. She has a law degree and a Master’s in creative writing. A lifelong feminist and a social justice activist. Profits from her books go to Pakistan

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.