(Listed alphabetically by surname)
Baltimore native, Jeffrey Park currently lives in Munich, Germany, where he works at a private secondary school and teaches business English to adults. His latest poems have appeared in Subliminal Interiors, Mobius, Punk Soul Poet, The Corner Club Press, FortyOunceBachelors and elsewhere.
Born in 1983, Amit Parmessur lives Quatre-Bornes, Mauritius, and is one of the editors of poetry magazine The Rainbow Rose. His poems have appeared in around 100 literary magazines, such as Ann Arbor Review, Burnt Bridge, Black-Listed Magazine, Calliope Nerve, Damazine, Front Porch Review, The Houston Literary Review, and many others. He was nominated for the 2011 Pushcart Award. In 2007 his poetry collection "The Words I Loved" was published locally. His book on blog entitled "Lord Shiva & Other Poems" was published in July 2011 by The Camel Saloon.
Andrew Penland was born in Lexington, KY, and has lived in North Carolina most of his life. He is currently working in an art supply warehouse and selling his artwork online. He is also working on two zines, Object and Irreal.
Julio Peralta-Paulino is a writer currently at work on several projects. Some of his recent work is featured in Jack Magazine, Notebook, Metro Seven, Interpoetry.
Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, Forge, Poetry, Osiris, The New Yorker and elsewhere. His most recent collection is The Giibson Poems published by Cholla Needles, 2019. For more information including free e-books and his essay Magic, Illusion and Other Realities, please visit his website at www.simonperchik.com.
To view one of his interviews please follow this link /www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSK774rtfx8.
Nik Perring is a short story writer and author from the UK.His stories have been published in many places in the UK and abroad, in print and online. More about Nik at www.nikperring.com.
Kenneth Pobo has been published in various e-zines (Ixion, Riding The Meridian, Snakeskin, Red Lamp). He wrote his first poem when he was fifteen, and he says that gardens and their inhabitants and visitors are important for his writing. His online chapbook called Final Stages will be coming out from Funky Dog Publishing.
Douglas Polk is a poet living in the wilds of central Nebraska with his wife and two boys, two dogs and four cats. Polk has had over 200 poems published in over 60 publications.
Fabrice Poussin is the advisor for The Chimes, the Shorter University award winning poetry and arts publication. His writing and photography have been published in print, including Kestrel, Symposium, La Pensee Universelle, Paris, and more than 60 other art and literature magazines in the United States and abroad.
Debra Purcell writes: "I am a self taught artist from Lakewood, Ohio who has been painting for approximately 5 1/2 years. I approach the canvas each time with a complete and simple image of the forms and theme for my painting. I work mostly in acrylic but do sometimes use watercolors and oils. No matter what is going on in my life at the begining of a painting, I am motivated by a spiritual joy that I hope to convey in each piece. For example in my painting, Ventana, I invite the viewer to see the world through one of my windows. I try to share the window that contains my vision of the world. All my paintings attempt to do this. Each time that I begin a painting, I watch my image change as the work interacts with art itself. A language has emerged for me and I enjoy a playful dialog with each attempt. The discipline of the craft is met with the interactive joy of the now-ness of each piece. Over the last few years, I have learned a new color alphabet inspired by the experience of creating. I found images for water, trees, and flowers that have repeated themselves for me and appear in my work like archetypes of the essence of these things. I see color as the soul of the painting and the form as the body that carries the soul to life. I find this all spiritual. The color and forms take their own direction like a little girl playing dress up with her mother's clothing. It is very important to me to allow the color and form to do this. My design and discipline is to make it work by being true to the image I am trying to convey."