Our Authors

KAJAL DASS BECK, author of Homo Articus (2023) is originally from West Bengal, India; a widely respected student and teacher of traditional Bengali arts and crafts, she has widened her artistic perspective to encompass universal forms of contemplative expression during her residence in America. Back in 2016, our sister press, Blazing Sapphire, published her Nava Alpana: New Decorate Designs of India.  

T.P. (TOM) BIRD, author of A Loose Rendering: of Time, Memory, and Other Considerations (2022), 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.

CONSTANCE E. BOYLE collaborated with Brooke Granville, Petra Perkins, and Gail Waldstein on The Four Faces of Eve (2025). Raised in New Jersey, she has spent most of her life in the Denver area; she worked as a physician assistant in adolescent medicine for many years, coordinating the Lincoln High School-Based Health Center, where she facilitated student improv theater. A lifelong poet, she holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from Goddard, authored chapbooks, Double Exposure and Liverties, and has published widely in PMS (poemmemoirstory), Sliver of Stone, and the anthology, la forza di vita; caffeinated poems. An associate Clinical Professor Emeritus at University of Colorado Anshutz Medical Campus, she is currently working on a memoir and writing poetry and short fiction.

LISA BROGNANO is the author of In the Interest of Faye (2017), a “career romance” about a gallery curator whose sensitivity to art comes from the author’s personal experiences studying art galleries across the world.

JERRY BURGER is the author of The Shadows of 1915 (2019), a psychologically rich novel about first and second generation survivors of the Armenian Genocide, immigrant families in California.

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.

GEOFFREY CRAIG is author of a stunningly timely collection of short stories, The One-Eyed Man and Other Stories (2018), and a historical novel, Shakespeare’s Younger Sister (2019), plus other novels, including one in verse. Over ten of his one-act plays have been produced. His background is remarkable: Peace Corps, Harvard MBA, Santa Clara MA in history. He had a successful career in banking before turning full time to writing. (See “Geoffrey Craig ’65” for a good interview.)

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. mostly set in Kolkata, 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 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”

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.

ALASTOR GEORGE was just 17 and a high school senior in 2025 when Golden Antelope published People are Puzzles. Currently studying pre-med at Winston Salem State University, Al grew up in five states. He’s written fan fiction, danced, designed costumes, done cosplay, performed in musicals, participated in protests, come out. He’s read widely, dabbled in languages, mastered making youtubes. An eye for detail, a sensitivity to the needs and symbol systems of others, and a talent for being both empathetic and objective inhabit his poems and paintings.

ROBERT BATES GRABER, author of Plutonic Sonnets, four scholarly books, and many articles, is an emeritus professor of anthropology at Truman State University. He lives with his wife, Rose, in Kirksville, MO, where he enjoys backyard astronomy and classic guitar. As fellow poet Patrick Gillespie puts it, “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!

BROOKE GRANVILLE collaborated with Boyle, Perkins, and Waldstein on a collection of “seasoned senior” poetry, The Four Face of Eve (2025). A closet poet for fifty years, she writes about family and relationships. As an adoptee in search of understanding for three decades, she finally met her birth mother only one time, briefly–but that meeting led to connecting with two half-siblings, an aunt and twelve first cousins. She is currently writing her memoir about finding this family, the reactions and interactions of three generations on both sides of the story.

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 (2015) and The Gods of Four Mile Creek (2023) is a first class Ozark farmer, poet, teacher and editor. He’s a cornerpost of contemporary Ozark studies.

GRETCHEN JOHNSON is the author of two Golden Antelope novels, Single in Southeast Texas  (2017) and Young Again (2021), and has had two other novels published, along with numerous poems and short stories. Born in Minnesota, she now teaches at Lamar University in Texas. She’s great at helping readers see how complicated, stormy, and enlightening college life can be–for students, teachers, and bystanders.

GEORGE KOORS is an avant-garde novelist and musician based in The District of Columbia. His debut novel, Always the Wanderer (2015, 2025) is a “braided trilogy ” set mainly in Saudi Arabia where, after college, Koors taught English and studied culture. He has worked in academia for several years as a writing professor and librarian and is now entering a PhD program focused on cultural interactions. His second novel, Sing Lazarus, came out recently.

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. 

DAVE MALONE–author eight books of poetry including You Know the Ones (Golden Antelope, 2017)–is a versatile and resourceful Ozark writer and filmmaker. His most recent work, a short film titled Maud (2026) updates Tennyson’s famous narrative poem, matching its Victorian class conflicts to contemporary social and economic challenges. The acting is exquisite, as is the attention to detail. (Malone converted e-books for Golden Antelope for a very good decade.)

BOB MIELKE, author of Calling Planet Earth: Close Encounters with Sun Ra (2019) is professor of film studies, African American literature, and popular culture at Truman State University. In his earlier Adventures in Avant-Pop (Naciketas, 2013), Mielke studied seven late 20th century musical artists, including Sun Ra, the jazz musician who claimed to have come from Saturn. Here, Mielke updates his deep study of Sun Ra and adds an original play dramatizing Ra’s surreal world. The play, Discipline 27-II: A Cosmo-Drama in Two Acts, has been successfully staged.

NANCY MINOR, Author of Malheur August (2018), 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.

LESLEY MAHONEY O’CONNELL, author of Ripple Effects and Other Stories (2026) works in communications, marketing, and digital strategy; she has studied at Boston’s GrubStreet and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. Her fiction has appeared in Post Road, Psychopomp, and Solstice, and earned honorable mentions from Glimmer Train and Carve. She lives on the South Shore of Massachusetts with her husband and son. (Click on title for author interview.)

PETRA PERKINS collaborated with Boyle, Granville, and Waldstein on The Four Faces of Eve (2025). 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 writing. Petra’s work is widely published and has won awards in multiple genres, including the Faulkner-Wisdom Poetry Gold Medal and a Pushcart Prize nomination in Creative Nonfiction. 

JACK POWERS, author of Everybody’s Vaguely Familiar (2018)and Still Love (2023), is a writer and retired 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 ROGERS is a poet/songwriter and the author of Live Free or Croak (2017). A Vietnam veteran with an Ozarks background, he has seen much, and found words that clearly express much of what makes us human. He now lives in Oklahoma with his artist wife, close to children and grandchildren.

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 for 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 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 (2020), is a 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. She recently moved to San Francisco.

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 is no longer a Golden Antelope author, though we were proud to have been first publishers of his novel, The Third Man (2022). The American-born child of Holocaust survivors, a college professor, dramatist, activist, and author of five novels, his first book analyzed Marcel Proust. The Third Man demonstrates the sorts of decisions and indecisions which shaped “human, all too human” actions in Austria and England during the 1930s and 1940s. Splitter understands life more deeply than most of us do. A larger publisher should be re-releasing the book soon.

JACQUELINE ST. JOAN is the author of a memoir, Your Verdict: A Judge’s Reckoning with Law and Loss (2026), two Pakistan-based novels including The Shawl of Midnight (2022), and scholarly books on law, a poetry collection, and much more. 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. In Your Verdict, she reflects on three decades of her life. Her interracial marriage in 1967 led to a quiet rupture within her family; later, as a judge, her rulings brought her both respect and criticism. She writes of cases that linger long after the gavel falls, of moments when the law offers no clean answer, and of the personal toll which controversial decisions take. Moving between courtroom and home in memoir, novels, and other writing, she explores how gender, sexuality, race, conscience, history and responsibility shape the choices we make and the costs we bear.

DON TASSONE is author of the novel Drive (2017) and two collections of short stories, Get Back (2017) and Small Bites (2018). 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 still in college when we published her subtle poetry collection, To All the Yellow Flowers (2020). Now, a few years later, she remains brilliant, queer, Muslim, and more. She’s an actor, director, and writer, as well as a musician, performance artist, and careful thinker.

LUCINDA WATSON, author of The Favorite (2020), 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.

GAIL WALDSTEIN, M.D., along with Constance Boyle, Brooke Granville, and Petra Perkins created the poetry collection, The Four Faces of Eve (2025). Waldstein was a pediatric pathologist for over 35 years, working at Children’s Hospital Denver, single-parenting three children for 15 of those years. She began creative writing in the late ‘90s, winning multiple fellowships, and awards for fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry. Her work appears in numerous places. Her poetry chapbooks, AfterImage and The Hauntings won prizes. Her essay collection, To Quit this Calling, Firsthand Tales of a Pediatric Pathologist, and her essay, “Warehousing the Elderly,” are especially relevant to Waldstein’s “Face” in The Four Faces of Eve.

PATRICIA WATTS, author of The Frayer (2017), 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.

STEVEN WINEMAN, author of Therapy Journal (2017), 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 (2019), and the sort story collection, Fire in the Field and Other Stories (2021), has a special knack for clear-sighted, empathetic, and often humorous portraits of supposedly ordinary people.