Carla M. Cherry – New York, USA
Carla M. Cherry is a veteran English teacher studying for her M.F.A. in Creative Writing at The City College of New York. Her poetry has appeared in Random Sample Review, MemoryHouse, Bop Dead City, Anti-Heroin Chic, 433, The Racket, and Raising Mothers. She has written five books of poetry: Gnat Feathers and Butterfly Wings, Thirty Dollars and a Bowl of Soup, Honeysuckle Me, These Pearls Are Real, and Stardust and Skin.
Lorraine Caputo – Latin America
Lorraine Caputo is a wandering troubadour whose poetry appears in over 300 journals on six continents, and 19 collections – including Notes from the Patagonia (dancing girl press, 2017), On Galápagos Shores (dancing girl press, 2019) and Escape to the Sea (Origami Poems Project, 2021). She also authors travel narratives, articles, and guidebooks. Her writing has been honored by the Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada (2011) and nominated for the Best of the Net. Caputo has done literary readings from Alaska to the Patagonia. She journeys through Latin America with her faithful knapsack Rocinante, listening to the voices of the pueblos and Earth.
Amb. Maid Čorbić – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Europe
Maid Čorbić is a 21 yr old poet from Tuzla. He is a moderator for WLFPH (World Literature Forum Peace and Humanity) in Bhutan, a forum for humanity and peace in the world. He is an editor and selector for the First Virtual Art portal led by Dijana Uherek Stevanovic, that aims to bring together poets from around the world.
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Ayan Chakraborty – India
Ayan Chakraborty is a PhD Research scholar and a Junior Research fellow at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He comes from Kolkata, West Bengal in India. He is a student of English Literature and enjoys poetry and fiction. He has published several critical academic articles in his sphere of work that mostly concern philosophical linguistics and political philosophy.
Deborah Cutler – Missouri, USA
Debbie Cutler, a writer of more than 30 years, has been published in numerous mainstream and literary magazines, including Cirque Literary Magazine, Wingless Dreamer, Journal of Expressive Writing, The Dewdrop, and others. She currently works at the University of Missouri, writing for seven departments in the College of Arts and Science. She was the former editor of Alaska Business and Alaska magazines.
W Roger Carlisle – Alabama, USA
W Roger Carlisle is a 75-year-old, semi-retired physician. He currently volunteers and works in a free medical clinic for patients living in poverty. He is on a journey of returning home to better understand himself through poetry. He hopes he is becoming more humble in the process.
Urmi Chakravorty – Bangalore, India
Urmi Chakravorty is a former educator and freelance writer whose articles, short stories and poems have found space in The Hindu, The Times of India, multiple social and literary platforms, and over twenty national and international anthologies. Reviewing and editing are areas she dabbles in. Urmi has won national awards for her poetry and writing on LGBTQIA issues. She believes in the therapeutic power of words. More often than not, her pieces enclose a slice of her soul. Her other interests include music, and playing godmother to community/street dogs.
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Moonmoon Chowdhury – Amsterdam, Netherlands
Moonmoon Chowdhury is a poet and writer. Her work has been previously published or is forthcoming in Borderless Journal, Tell Me Your Story, A second cup of Tea by The Hive Publishers, The Pine Cone Review, Sylvia Magazine, Sonic Boom Magazine, Amethyst Review, and more. She is currently based in Amsterdam.
Douglas Colston – Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia
Douglas Colston – who finds himself approaching his mid-50s and living at the Sunshine Coast in Australia – has played in Ska bands, picked up university degrees, supported his parents during terminal illnesses, married his love, fathered two great children, had his inheritance embezzled, transitioned into Counselling as a vocation and experienced chronic mental and physical illnesses consequential to workplace harassment. Now, among other things, he is pursuing a PhD.
Ada Cheng – Chicago, Illinois, USA
An educator-turned artist, speaker, and community builder, Dr. Ada Cheng has utilized storytelling to illustrate structural inequities, raise critical awareness, and build intimate communities. Committed to amplifying and uplifting marginalized voices, she has created numerous storytelling platforms for BIPOC and LGBTQIA community members to tell difficult and vulnerable stories. Dr. Cheng has been a speaker for Illinois Humanities Road Scholars Speakers Bureau since 2019. She is named 2023-24 Lund-Gill Chair in the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences at Dominican University. Her interests encompass academia, storytelling/performance, and advocacy.
Joey Clutario – Manila, Philippines
Jose V. Clutario earned his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing degree at De La Salle University in 2017. His poems have been published in Kritika Kultura Anthology of New Philippine Writing in English, Philippines Free Press, Literature Today, and The Muse International Journal of Poetry. He currently teaches creative writing and literature courses at the Department of English, Foreign Languages, and Linguistics under the College of Arts and Letters of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
Linda M. Crate – Pennsylvania, USA
Linda M. Crate (she/her) is a Pennsylvanian writer whose poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews have been published in a myriad of magazines both online and in print. She has eleven published chapbooks the latest being: fat & pretty (Dancing Girl Press, June 2022), and three micro-chapbooks Heaven Instead (Origami Poems Project, May 2018), moon mother (Origami Poems Project, March 2020), and & so I believe (Origami Poems Project, April 2021). She is also the author of the novella Mates (Alien Buddha Publishing, March 2022).
Christie Cochrell – California, USA
Christie Cochrell’s work has been published by Catamaran, Lowestoft Chronicle, Cumberland River Review, Tin House, and a variety of others, also receiving several awards and Pushcart Prize nominations. Chosen as New Mexico Young Poet of the Year while growing up in Santa Fe, she’s recently published a volume of collected poems, Contagious Magic. She lives by the ocean in Santa Cruz, California—too often lured away from her writing by otters, pelicans, and seaside walks.
Emecheta Christian – Lagos, Nigeria
Emecheta Christian is a talented and dedicated writer with a passion for storytelling and a commitment to social justice. With a background in literature and creative writing, Emecheta brings a unique voice and perspective to his work. Whether crafting fiction, non-fiction, or poetry, Emecheta’s writing is always thought-provoking and evocative, tackling important issues and exploring the human experience in all its complexity. In addition to his writing, Emecheta is also actively involved in various social and cultural organizations, working to promote equality and understanding in his community.
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Clarissa Cervantes – California, USA
Clarissa Cervantes is an outdoor travel photographer. Clarissa also supplies freelance travel articles on a variety of travel destinations for newspaper, blogs, websites, and magazines such as USA Today and LA Times. Clarissa’s photo gallery includes images from all over the globe, where she finds inspiration to share her images with others through her creative lens, inviting the viewer to question, explore more, and look closer at the world around them.
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Thomas Cannon – Wisconsin, USA
In August 2021, Thomas Cannon was selected as the inaugural Poet Laureate of Oshkosh, WI. He is the author of the books The Tao of Apathy and Shattered. His poems and short stories have been published in various journals such as Midwestern Gothic and Corvus Review. He has two chapbooks- Wisconsin Time and Our Oshkosh. He and his wife have three children and two grandkids.
Shaoni Chakraborty – Kolkata, India
Growing up in the world of Rabindranath Tagore is blessing not many have. An Indian by birth, she has been in love with words ever since she can remember, although she always felt that the magic of the classics is impossible to recreate. Stepping into her early twenties, she strongly held onto her roots of a simple Bengali. Her words spill like a butterfly’s wings on paper, and she absolutely adores the freedom of expression that it allows. Writing is her peace.
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Renee Cronley – Manitoba, Canada
Renee Cronley is a writer and nurse from Manitoba. She enjoys long walks in the cemetery and hates when people chew with their mouths open. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Chestnut Review, PRISM international, Off Topic, Love Letters to Poe, and several other anthologies and literary magazines.
Isobel Copley – England
Isobel writes what she sees all around her, the people, the places, and the senses. She is a graduate of the University of Leicester and the proud owner of an idyllic second-hand bookshop in France.
Find more at The English Bookshop, Facebook and Instagram.
Tanja Cilia – Malta, Europe
Tanja Cilia is Maltese, Mediterranean and European. Her writing career began through happenstance, serendipity, and necessity. She has been writing, editing, proofreading, and translating, in Maltese and English, for more than half a century. She works with local and foreign companies, as well as individuals, and writes children’s stories, speeches, and advertising copy, and does ghost-writing. A cause close to her heart is Beads for Babies (Malta); fund-raising in aid of the Ursuline Creche, in Sliema, Malta. This is making, upcycling, recycling, remodelling, and mending costume jewellery.
Ann Chinnis – Virginia, USA
Ann Chinnis lives in Virginia, has been an Emergency Physician for 40 years and is a student at the Writers Studio in New York. Her poetry has been published in The Speckled Trout Review, Around the World: Landscapes & Cityscapes and Sledgehammer and is forthcoming in Drunk Monkeys and Didcot Writers.
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Ram Chandran – India
Ram Chandran has been a corporate lawyer by profession and a haijin for the past couple of years. His works have been published in various haiku publications including failed haiku, World Haiku Review, The Haiku Foundation, and Asahi Shimbun. His Haiga gallery is hosted by The Haiku Foundation. He has written more than 1200 poems in various Japanese short poetry forms.
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Sean Cahill-Lemme – Chicago, Illinois, USA
Sean Cahill-Lemme is an English tutor from the Midwest who has storytelling in his blood. When Sean isn’t writing stories, he is composing music or performing on stage. He takes his inspiration from the everyday truths of life and believes there is no greater pleasure than moving people with art.
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth.” -Oscar Wilde
Tulip Chowdhury – Masssachusetts, USA
Tulip Chowdhury is a long-time educator and writer. She has authored multiple books, which are available on Amazon, Kindle, and Barnes and Noble. Tulip currently resides in Massachusetts, USA.
Find more on Tulip’s Facebook and LinkedIn. Find Her books: Visible, Invisible and Beyond, Soul Inside Out, and a collection of poetry entitled Red, Blue, and Purple.
Jackie Chou – California, USA
Jackie Chou has published two collections of poetry, “The Sorceress” and “Finding My Heart in Love and Loss.”
John Chapman – Michigan, USA
John Chapman is a retired counselor, EdD in Counseling Psychology. Career counselor with teenagers for thirty years., after retirement, worked part-time as a career counselor at Kalamazoo Valley Community College. Taught. Part time at Western Michigan University. He resides in Kalamazoo, MI, and has published three chapbooks and has a YouTube channel, Poemography,
narrated words with graphic images. John is currently battling cancer while pursuing creative endeavors.
Necia Campbell – Vermont, USA
Necia Campbell is a writer from Vermont who also edits pro bono in her free time. Her work has been published in Twisted: A Horror Anthology and Unseal Your Best Life: Poems Revealing, Past, Present and Perfect Moments with an additional two pieces in forthcoming, but as yet untitled, poetry anthologies.
Randy Cook – Illinois, USA
Randy Cook is an IT specialist by profession, but has a long history of involvement with music and theater. He has been a church organist for nearly thirty years, has accompanied various school and community choral groups, and has been involved in several community theater productions, either on stage or in the pit as accompanist. In recent years, Randy has been featured in the YouTube series “The Deadersons” as Frank Stein, and the comedy podcast series “Doctor Who’s Line Is It … Anyway”, (re-)voicing several iconic Doctor Who characters.
Cathy Cole – Chicago, Illinois, USA
Catherine is a native of Chicago, Illinois and this is her first voice acting role. She attended Whitney Young Magnet High School where she was a member of the concert choir and also had several background stage roles with the company the schools theater group.
Sreelekha Chatterjee – New Delhi, India
Sreelekha Chatterjee lives in New Delhi, India. Her flash fiction was included in Wigleaf’s Top 50 Longlist 2024. Her short stories have appeared in York Literary Review, Flash Fiction North, Friday Flash Fiction, National Flash Fiction Day, Borderless, Usawa Literary Review, Storizen, Five Minutes, 101 Words, Bulb Culture Collective, The Wise Owl, Prachya Review, Literary Cocktail Magazine, and in numerous anthologies such as Fate (Bitterleaf Books, UK), Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul series (Westland Ltd, India), Wisdom of Our Mothers (Familia Books, USA), and several others.
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Justin Creps – Ohio, USA
First Prize FICTION Winner in MockingOwl Roost Contest 2024
Justin is an engineering teacher and cross country/track coach from Ohio. Although his passion for writing originated in grade school, he started taking the craft more seriously in the spring of 2020 and began hosting a podcast called Writing in Progress. When he’s not writing dramatic speculative fiction (or whatever genre was prompted by the most recent competition) you’ll likely find him training for his next marathon or being as present as possible with his wife and two sons.
Brenda Cox – Southern Europe (US Citizen)
Brenda Cox grew up in a small suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio, in the United States, but she lived most of her adult life in Asia, where she served as a humanitarian aid worker. She began writing later in life to vent and to help her make sense of the world. She now enjoys writing fiction, often with a bit of magic mixed in. Her writing often reflects her experiences, and her characters are influenced by those she has met along the way. Brenda is retired and resides in Europe with her husband. She enjoys traveling, photography, swimming, reading, and writing.
Find more of Brenda’s work on her website.
Chelsea Aloma Cogan – Georgia, USA
Honorable Mention POETRY in MockingOwl Roost Contest 2024
Chelsea Aloma Cogan is a historian who enjoys bringing new interpretations of women’s stories and everyday lives to light. She has a BFA in theatre performance and directing from Columbus State University and a graduate certificate in collections management and care from the George Washington University. Chelsea is a produced playwright and has a passion for storytelling. Her work in living history has allowed her to explore many crafts of the past including blacksmithing, open hearth fire cooking, bookbinding, and leatherworking. When not writing, she enjoys sewing and spending time with her family. This is her first publication.
C. Dan Castro – Connecticut, USA
C. Dan Castro enjoys writing mystery, fantasy, and thriller stories. He has stories accepted or published by Black Cat Mystery Magazine, Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine (U.S.), Sherlock Holmes Magazine (UK), Thrill Ride the Magazine, and more! When not composing stories, Dan tweets writing tips, dreams of traveling again, or studies languages to imbue his stories with je ne sais quoi. Whatever that means. He lives in Connecticut, where he’s making a final polish on his first novel, a middle-grade fantasy.
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