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“To be an artist is to believe in life.” – Henry Moore.

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Cynthia Atkins

She has taught English and Creative Writing, most recently at Blue Ridge Community College. Atkins earned her MFA from Columbia University, and fellowships and awards from various organizations. She is an Interviews Editor at "American Microreviews and Interviews". Atkins was born and raised in Chicago, IL and currently lives on the Maury River of Rockbridge County, Virginia, with artist Phillip Welch and their family. Her website is here.

Josip Novakovich

Josip Novakovich emigrated from Croatia to the United States at the age of 20. He has published a dozen books, including a novel, April Fool's Day (in ten languages), four story collections (Infidelities, Yolk, Salvation and Other Disasters, Heritage of Smoke) and three collections of narrative essays as well as two books of practical criticism. His work was anthologized in Best American Poetry, the Pushcart Prize and O. Henry Prize Stories. He has received the Whiting Writer's Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, the Ingram Merrill Award and an American Book Award, and in 2013 he was a Man Booker International Award finalist. He teaches creative writing at Concordia University in Montreal.

Mikhail Iossel

Mikhail Iossel came to the US, from the former Soviet Union, in 1986, and started writing in English in 1988. Back in Leningrad, USSR, he worked as a research engineer and was an underground (samizdat) writer and literary-journal editor.
In the US, he graduated with an MA in English/Creative Writing from the University of New Hampshire and subsequently was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University. Prior to moving to Canada in 2004, Mr. Iossel had taught creative writing at the University of Minnesota, New York University, St. Lawrence University, and Union College.
In 1998, he founded Summer Literary Seminars: one of the world’s largest and most innovative independent international literary programs, holding conferences in Russia, Kenya, Lithuania, Italy, and elsewhere.

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Robert Anderson

Robert Anderson, Flannery O'Connor Award winner in 1999, for Ice Age, is also the author of Little Fugue (2005), published by Random House. He lives in New York City and teaches writing at the Nationwide Master Institute in Flushing, Queens.

Robert Coe

Robert Coe is a writer living in New Jersey. His journalism has appeared in The New York Times Sunday Magazine and Arts & Leisure section, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Esquire, New York, and The Village Voice. Coe’s first book, Dance in America, was the official companion to PBS’s long-running and much-acclaimed "Dance in America" television series. JOCK: A Memoir of the Counterculture, about his years as a distance runner at Stanford University, was released 2015. His latest book, SURVIVORS OF A FUTURE that never happened, a cultural review 1974 - 1994, is due to be released 11.01.22.

Tamas Dobozy

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Tamas Dobozy is a professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. He lives in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. He has published four books of short fiction, When X Equals Marylou, Last Notes and Other Stories, Siege 13: Stories (which won the 2012 Rogers Writers Trust of Canada Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for both the Governor General’s Award: Fiction, and the 2013 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award), and most recently, Ghost Geographies: Fictions. He has published over seventy short stories in journals such as One Story, Fiction, Agni, and Granta, and won an O Henry Prize in 2011, and the Gold Medal for Fiction at the National Magazine Awards in 2014.

Cynthis Atkins

Cynthia Atkins is the author of Still-Life With God, In The Event Of Full Disclosure and Psyche’s Weathers. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including "Alaska Quarterly Review", "American Letters & Commentary", "Apogee", "Bloomsbury Review", "BOMB", "Caketrain", "Chelsea", "Seattle Review", "Cleaver Magazine", "Cortland Review", "Cultural Weekly", "Denver Quarterly", "Diode", "Good Foot", "Florida Review", "Green Mountains Review", "New York Quarterly", "North American Review", "Seneca Review", "Tampa Review", "Tinderbox", "Thrush", "Sou'wester", "Valparaiso Review", and "Verse Daily". She has taught English and Creative Writing, most recently at Blue Ridge Community College. Atkins earned her MFA from Columbia University, and fellowships and awards from various organizations. She is an Interviews Editor at "American Microreviews and Interviews". Atkins was born and raised in Chicago, IL and currently lives on the Maury River of Rockbridge County, Virginia, with artist Phillip Welch and their family. Her website is here.

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Nathalie Guilbeault

Human interaction, the study of its intricacies, remains the central focus of Nathalie Guilbeault’s attention and work. With Inhaled, she offers a very personal interpretation of a toxic dynamic in which two worlds collide, depicting with depth and attention to the emotional distress, the traps that we ourselves willingly, at times, place in order to grow. In this romantic thriller, where sex is both used as a weapon and a cure, Nathalie exposes with great lucidity, the dangers of getting entangled with a person whose character has been poisoned by narcissistic and sociopathic traits. Holding a Master in Management Sciences from Montreal’s Hautes Etudes Commerciales and certifications in both business and life coaching, Nathalie now writes from her hometown of Montreal.

D. Z. Stone

D. Z. has authored No Past Tense: Love and Survival in the Shadow of the Holocaust (2019), and co-authored A Fairy Tale Unmasked: The Teacher and the Nazi Slaves (2021), both published by Vallentine Mitchell Publishers. She has reported for the The New York Times and News¬day, and recently made her fiction debut with a short story in Coolest American Stories 2022 (Coolest Stories Press). A graduate of the College of William and Mary, she holds a master’s from Columbia University.

Stephan Vanfleteren

Stephan Vanfleteren was born in Kortrijk in 1969. He studied photography at the Institut Saint-Luc in Brussels from 1988 to 1992. He had never owned a camera before. But he is dyslexic and traditional teaching is very difficult for him. He says that after eliminating all professions, all he could do was photograph. But photography also required a lot of work from him 1 .

In 1993, while waiting to do his military service , he traveled to New York where he mainly practiced street photography . "New York was important", he writes, "It was my ticket to the professional world".

He is married to Natacha Hofman, “his muse but also his harshest critic”. They live in Veurne with their three sons.

JJ Levine

JJ Levine is a Tiohti:áke / Montreal-based artist working in intimate portraiture. Levine is holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Photography from Concordia University. Mostly known for the series Queer Portraits, Alone Time, and Switch. Levine has been honoured with several awards and received grants from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts. Levine’s work has been exhibited at galleries and art festivals across Canada, the United States, and Europe. As well Alone Time and Switch have been featured in art magazines, journals, and newspapers internationally. Levine’s artistic practice balances a radical agenda with a strong formal aesthetic.