Idowu Odeyemi is a Nigerian poet and essayist. He is the winner of the 2019 Merak Magazine Annual Recognition Literay Awards for Best Poem of the year. He was shortlisted for the 2018 Nigerian Students Poetry Prize. He is a reader at Perhappened magazine and Chestnut review.

HIDDEN, PART TWO

Sam Norman has been teaching high school for 17 years at Bacon Academy in Colchester, CT. His works have appeared in Verse-Virtual, Amethyst, Down in the Dirt Red Eft, and Praxis. Sam Recently published his first book, Still Here, Through Kelsay Press. Most of Sam’s recent poetry focuses on a terrible tragedy. Sam’s son, Ben, just 20 years old, lost his life in a weather-related traffic accident on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2018. Sam lives in Coventry, Connecticut with his wife Teri, their children, Becca and Daniel, a bunch of chickens, and their beloved dogs, Cloudy and Ripple.

Author:
Ceinwen E Cariad Haydon

Ceinwen lives near Newcastle upon Tyne, UK and writes short stories and poetry. She is widely published in online magazines and in print anthologies. Her first chapbook was published in July 2019: ‘Cerddi Bach’ [Little Poems], Hedgehog Press. Her first pamphlet is due to be published in 2020. She is a Pushcart Prize and Forward Prize nominee (2019) and has an MA in Creative Writing from Newcastle University, UK (2017). She believes everyone’s voice counts

Jeffrey Zable is a teacher and conga drummer who plays Afro-Cuban folkloric music
for dance classes and Rumbas around the San Francisco Bay Area. His poetry, fiction, and non-fiction have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines and anthologies. Recent writing in Academy of the Heart and Mind, Ariel Chart, Boston Literary Magazine, Pensive Stories,Third Wednesday, Untitled Writing, The Nonconformist, Corvus, Misery Tourism, and many others.

Jeffrey Zable is a teacher and conga drummer who plays Afro-Cuban folkloric music for dance classes and Rumbas around the San Francisco Bay Area. His poetry, fiction,and non-fiction have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines and anthologies.
Recent writing in Academy of the Heart and Mind, Ariel Chart, Boston Literary Magazine, Pensive Stories, Third Wednesday, Untitled Writing, The Nonconformist, Corvus, Misery Tourism, and many others.

Linda M. Crate’s works have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies both online and in print. She is the author of seven poetry chapbooks, the latest of which is: the samurai (Yellow Arrow Publishing, October 2020). She’s also the author of the novel Phoenix Tears (Czykmate Books, June 2018). Recently she has published three full-length poetry collections Vampire Daughter (Dark Gatekeeper Gaming, February 2020), The Sweetest Blood (Cyberwit, February 2020), and Mythology of My Bones (Cyberwit, August 2020).

Jane K. Collins is a California tech, media and marketing professional who is trying not to be afraid to quit her day job. Animal lover, tree hugger. I used to hate cilantro but now I can tolerate it. Embrace the change.

Ed is a teacher and the author of the poetry chapbook ‘Sauteing Spinach With My Aunt’ (Desert Willow Press, 2018). He was recently selected as a featured poet for the July 2020 issue of Cathexis Northwest Press. Other words can be found in or are forthcoming from Water/Stone Review, Hippocampus Magazine, The American Journal of Poetry, Sky Island Journal, Trampset, One Teen Story, Perhappened, Parentheses, & more. Readers can follow him on Twitter (@EdDoerrWrites), read his TV blog (overstuffeddvr.com), and visit his website (eddoerr.com)