Shana Bulhan Haydock is biracial (half South Asian, half white.) A 21 year old South Asian queer disabled writer of colour, she grew up mostly in India. Currently living in Massachusetts, USA, Shana works as a freelance writer and artist. In her words, “I read a lot, and my apartment is full of my ever-growing collection of books. I am fond of sudden bursts of urgent writing in notebooks, as well as careful reevaluation of previously written poems. I have been published in the “Open Spaces India” collaborative anthology project with
Kinaara literary magazine,
Cosmoqueer zine, and
Motif Mag literary magazine. I am passionate about identity politics and social justice. I am dedicated to learning about the many different peoples and beings who have lived and live throughout time. I am invested in understanding and respecting their/our social histories. In the course of my learning so far, I have also realized that identity labels and constructs can be both significantly important and severely limiting. However, I think poetry can be an expression of endless fractals of experience.”
Christine Green,
a resident of Brockport, NY, is a freelance writer who also runs a personal assistant business throughout Western New York State. Published in
Story Bleed (Blog Nosh), Genesee Valley Parent, aaduna, the
Democrat and Chronicle, and the American Cancer Society’s
Choose You Blog, Christine contributed creative non-fiction and poetry to
Mother Muse:
A Collection of Poetry & Prose Celebrating the Joys & Challenges of Motherhood as well as
Motherly Musings. Ms. Green initiated (and coordinates) the monthly Different Path Gallery Reading Series in Brockport, NY where she and colleagues keep the literary arts alive and well.
Ms. Green invites you to visit her blog: http://grownupsarelikethat.blogspot.com
Natalie Geiger is currently a long-term English substitute teacher for the Central Dauphin School District in south central Pennsylvania. Previously, she attended Lebanon Valley College for English Education and published poetry in the campus literary journal,
Greenblotter. Besides writing poetry, Natalie enjoys outdoor activities, playing guitar and reading new books. She has enjoyed traveling around the world and visiting Germany, Scotland, France and Switzerland. In addition, she was able to study abroad in Ormskirk, England. The inspiration for her poem "Climbing the Coaster" came from her part-time job as a ride operator at an amusement park.
Ronald M. Gauthier
is an author and librarian living in Atlanta. He has short fiction and nonfiction published in
the Witness Literary Journal, Cigale Literary Journal, the Times-Picayune, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the Atlanta Voice, Library Journal, the BCALA Journal,
Quarterly Black Books Review and
Deep South Magazine. His short story,
Modern Black Boy, a finalist in theGlimmer Train Short Story Contest
, will be published in the March 2013 issue of
the Long Story. His collection of short stories was a finalist in the Flannery ’O Connor Short Fiction Contest. He is the author of
Killing Time: an 18 Year Odyssey from Death Row to Freedom that won the Innocence Project Media Award, the Indie Award for Best Fiction, and it was selected by the
Chicago Sun Times as one of the best books of 2010.
Cyd Charisse Fulton is a graduate of New York University, and was nominated for the 2012 Pushcart Prize. Her work is featured in the
Stand Your Ground anthology and
Dovetail anthology. Cyd’s poems have also been featured in
aaduna,
Where We Meet: Our Love of Stories fundraiser, New York University Bronfman Center’s
Loss Exhibit, NYU Gallatin School’s
Writers in Progress Forum, NYU’s
2012 Literary and Visual Arts Festival, Hudson County Community College’s 2012 and 2013
Poetry and Spoken Word event, the
2013 Ecodisciplinary Conference, The Seward House Museum’s
First Friday gala, Louder Arts Poetry Slam, the Cave Canem Foundation, and
Feeding Off of the North Star the 100th Anniversary of the death of Harriet Tubman gala to celebrate her legacy.
