Jeff Kirby – Illinois, USA
Jeff Kirby (he/him) is an avid doer of things, and can often be found on a bike in downtown Chicago, with a cup of coffee at hand. Jeff is a fan of Chicago, podcasts, witty comedies, and professional wrestling, and is just beginning to get his mojo back as a writer. He very occasionally Tweets.
Chelsie Kreitzman – Kentucky, USA
Chelsie Kreitzman lives in Kentucky with her husband, two young sons, and a tuxedo cat named Cookie. Along with reading and writing, she loves animals, outdoor activities, and spending time with her family. She has published poetry in several literary journals, including Poetic Sun and The Purpled Nail.
Katrina Kaye – Southwest United States
Katrina Kaye is a writer and educator living in Albuquerque, NM. She hoards her published writings on her website ironandsulfur.com and is seeking an audience for her ever-growing surplus of poetic meanderings. She is grateful to anyone who reads her work and in awe of those willing to share it.
Donna Kathryn Kelly – Illinois, USA
Donna Kathryn Kelly practiced law for many years in the Illinois criminal justice system. After spending the first decade of her legal career as a criminal defense attorney, Kelly worked as a felony prosecutor in McHenry County, Illinois. Kelly is the author of the crime novel, Cop Eyes, a murder mystery concerning a northwest suburban Chicagoland area public defender, Cheney Manning, whose police officer husband is shot and killed in the line of duty. Cop Eyes is available for purchase on Amazon.com.
Laurie Kolp – Texas, USA
Laurie Kolp is an avid runner and lover of nature living in southeast Texas with her husband, three children, and two dogs. She is the author of Upon the Blue Couch and Hello, It’s Your Mother. She enjoys writing found poetry because it creates restraints and unleashes inhibitions at the same time. Laurie is currently working on a project to honor her father, who passed away in 2021.
Gurupreet K. Khalsa – Alabama, USA
Gurupreet K. Khalsa is a current resident of Mobile, Alabama, having lived previously in Ohio, Washington State, India, New Mexico, and California. She holds a Ph.D. in Instructional Design and is a part time instructor in graduate education programs. Her work has appeared in The Poet, TL;DR Press, New York Quarterly, Far Side Review, Necro Productions, IHRAF Publishers, Aurora Journal, Last Leaves, Delta Poetry Review, Ricochet Review, Pure Slush, and other online and print publications. Several poems have won awards. She lives with her husband of a billion years, and a sweet cat.
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Mary Kennelly – Ireland
Her previous books include; ‘Sunny Spells, Scattered Showers’, Carroll R. & Kennelly M. Glenwood Press, 2004, ‘From the Stones’, Fitzmaurice B. & Kennelly M. Evensong Publications, 2010, ‘Catching Bats Takes Patience’, Kennelly M. Liberties Press, 2015, ‘Splinters’, Fitzmaurice B. & Kennelly M. Evensong Publications, 2017, ‘Into the Grey’, Kennelly M. Evensong Publications, 2022. Her work has appeared in several collections and anthologies and Mary has been published in newspapers, magazines and e-zines. She has edited several publications. She lives by the advice given by her grandfather, “Take it easy, and if you can’t take it easy, take it as easy as you can.”
You can find Mary on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and her website.
Tim Kahl – California, USA
Tim Kahl is the author of four books of poems, most recently Omnishambles (Bald Trickster, 2019). He is also editor of Clade Song. He builds and plays flutes and plays guitars, ukuleles, charangos and cavaquinhos as well. He currently teaches at California State University, Sacramento, where he sings lieder while walking on campus between classes.
Find more from Tim on his website, on Soundcloud, or at Clade Song.
Vartan Koumrouyan – Paris & Philippines
Vartan Koumrouyan lives in Paris and on the island of Palawan, Philippines.
Find more on Vartan’s YouTube.
Susan Kraft – North Carolina
Susan is a writer, and a yoga and mindfulness teacher. Previously, she spent 20 years directing the Dance Oral History Project at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. These days she is working on a memoir about the events that led to her leaving New York City; what she was looking for, and what she found.
Find more on Susan’s website.
saskia kirkegaard – London, England
saskia kirkegaard is a poet who divides her time between London and Bristol. She has previously been published in a young writer’s anthology and in ‘That’s What She Said magazine.’ The themes that crop up most commonly in her writing are nature, relationships, body image, and mental health. When she isn’t writing, she’s either climbing or drawing (or scrolling through the endless social media void!).
You can find her art on Instagram.
Theresa Kohlbeck Jakobsen – Germany
Theresa Kohlbeck Jakobsen (they/them) is a German creative who, after spending ten years in the noisy party metropolis Berlin, moved to an archipelago in the centre of the North Atlantic. Exchanging the dirty streets of Germany’s biggest city with the wild, untamed nature of the Faroe Islands. The challenges of living in another country were a propulsion to their creativity. Theresa’s works were exhibited and published internationally. Right now, Theresa is working for the student magazine STUDENTLIV and finishing their Master’s in Nordic Language and Literature at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Find more on Theresa’s website, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Alshaad Kara – Mauritius
Alshaad Kara is a Mauritian poet who writes from his heart. He won first place for the Boney Cultural Center Valentine’s Day Poetry Competition 2024 and was also a winner of the Flapper Press Poetry Café Valentine’s 2024 Juliet Poetry Contest. His latest poems were published in “Salt Pages”, “Inner Child Press” and “Missives”.
Find more on Alshaad’s Instagram.