Sculpure by Barbara Danser
Writers
Carol A. Amato’s poetry appears in The Poet’s Touchstone, Poem Literary Journal, Tiny Seed Journal, and others. She was accepted in the 2024 Mutual Muses Ekphrastic Exhibition (Cultural Center of Cape Cod). A natural science educator, she wrote twelve children’s nature books published by Barron’s Educational Series (John Wiley). Carol enjoys spending time at her family’s camp in Rumney, New Hampshire.
Mona Anderson has lived in the New Hampshire countryside for 45 years with her husband, cats, and various other sentient beings. She is co-author of The Art of Building a House of Stone. Her work has appeared most recently in Gyroscope Review, Constellations, Northern New England Review, and others.
Mary Castelli is a member of Percheron Poets. She is a lover of New Hampshire’s trails, wildlife, and her four inspiring granddaughters. She enjoys watercolors and nature journaling.
William Doreski lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He has taught at several colleges and universities. His most recent book of poetry is Venus, Jupiter (2023). His essays, poetry, fiction, and reviews have appeared in various journals.
Moses Fisher is a student at Keene State College and is the 2024 winner of the Eder Award for Creative Writing, awarded by the College. He was raised in New Hampshire and currently works as a middle school theatre director in Keene. In his free time, he likes to read, fish, sing, and play guitar.
Carlene M. Gadapee’s poetry and critical reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in many publications, including Waterwheel Review, Gyroscope Review, Smoky Quartz, THINK, Allium, Vox Populi, and MicroLit Almanac. Her chapbook, What to Keep, will be released by Finishing Line Press in 2025. Carlene lives in northern New Hampshire.
Alexis Groulx is a writer living in New Hampshire; she has previously published work in Bridge Eight, Yes Poetry, Levitate, Tule Review, Missing Slate, and others. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
J. Kates is a minor poet and a literary translator who lives in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire. His website is jkates.net.
Michael Keshigian, from Londonderry, New Hampshire, has recently been published in The Comstock Review, Sierra Nevada Review, Young Ravens Literary Review, and Jerry Jazz Musician. His latest collections, What To Do With Intangibles, Into The Light, and Dark Edges, are available through Amazon. He has been nominated seven times for a Pushcart Prize and three times for Best of the Net.
A weekend visitor from New York City for years, Cynthia Knorr now lives full-time in Strafford, New Hampshire. She is the author of A Vessel of Furious Resolve (Finishing Line Press). Her poems have appeared in Hole in the Head Review, SWWIM Every Day, Ibbetson Street, Chiron Review, and many others.
Jessica Lahens spent her childhood in New Hampshire and has recently returned to her home state to raise her own children. She enjoys spending time outside and writing.
Mary Ann Mayer is the author of three poetry collections, and her work appears widely in literary journals. She lives in Sharon, Massachusetts, and Franconia, New Hampshire, with her husband, visual artist Carl Peter Mayer.
C.P. Night escaped the corporate grind after spending years working as a physicist. Inspired by the magic of the clear, dark skies above her rural New Hampshire home, she now shares her sci-fi and fantasy tales from her fictional universe, the Myriadu.
Catherine O’Brian is a poet, arts advocate, and educator. Her chapbook, Lucky to be Born in a House of Milk & Poems from The White Nightgown, was published in the Walking to Windward Series (Oyster River Press). She coordinates poetry programs and teaches poetry classes at the Twiggs Gallery in Boscawen. She lives in South Sutton, New Hampshire.
Eric Pinder taught for many years at Chester College of New England and the New Hampshire Institute of Art. His books about wilderness, wildlife, and weather include Cat in the Clouds, North to Katahdin, If All the Animals Came Inside, and Counting Dinos. He lives frugally in the woods in the shadow of Mount Washington.
Elaine Reardon is a writer, educator, and artist. Her first chapbook, The Heart is a Nursery For Hope, won first honors from Flutter Press in 2016. Her second chapbook, Look Behind You, was published by Flutter Press in 2019. Finishing Line Press is publishing her third chapbook September 2024. She enjoys swimming and kayaking in the Keene area. Visit her website at www.elainereardon.wordpress.com.
Pedro Sandín-Fremaint, a native of Puerto Rico, has lived in Peterborough, New Hampshire, since June 2020. A retired professor of French at the University of Puerto Rico, and of Spanish at the University of North Carolina-Asheville, he published And Yet . . . A Faith Journey (Resource Publications, an imprint of Wipf & Stock) in 2021.
Carla Schwartz’s poems have been widely published, including in The Practicing Poet (edited by Diane Lockward) and in her collections Signs of Marriage and Intimacy with the Wind. She lives half the year on Bear Island in Lake Winnipesaukee, Meredith, New Hampshire. You can find her at carlapoet.com or on YouTube, Twitter, or Instagram (@cb99videos).
Nancy Baillie Strong lives in Manchester, New Hampshire. She has workshopped with Jim Beschta at the Worcester (MA) Art Museum and participates in Susan Roney-O’Brien’s virtual workshop. Her poetry has been published in The Poets’ Touchstone and in Smoky Quartz Tenth Anniversary Anthology and Women’s Uncommon Prayers (2000) anthology.
Jody Wells, a native of South Sutton, New Hampshire, has been writing poems since high school. His poems have been published in numerous magazines, newspapers, and literary journals, including “Submarine Races,” which was published in Concrete Wolf. He currently lives in one of the oldest homes in South Sutton.
Artists
Steve Arcone has lived in New Hampshire since 1973 and now resides in West Lebanon. After researching permafrost, glaciers, and New Hampshire’s lakes for 43 years, he now has more time to macro-image the seemingly abstract and aesthetic natural forms of combined ice, water, and debris wherever science details appear incomprehensible.
Rebecca K. Brown is a New Hampshire based writer and artist. Her mixed media pieces are full of color and detail, and her photography celebrates the natural and built world, often from unusual angles to capture a mood that makes the viewer pause for a closer look. She offers classes at wildbirdcreative.com and uses poetry, blogging, photography, painting, and sketching to share her creativity.
Barbara Danser is a well-known artist, working in multiple media. Her paintings in pastel, acrylic, oil, watercolor, and encaustic portray her love of land and sky. Her bronze sculptures celebrate rejuvenation in nature, the universe-earth connection, Native American values, and joyful dance. A former teacher at Sharon Arts and the Currier Museum of Art, Barbara conducts painting workshops in New Hampshire.
Jes Davis is a New Hampshire native currently living in the Lakes Region with her daughter and working for a photography studio in Southern New Hampshire. She writes about life, grief, parent/child relationships, love, horror, onion rings, hypervigilance, and familiar places. @lakebottomwriting on Instagram and https://lakebottomletters.substack.com/
Kelly DuMar is a poet and photographer from the Boston area who spent vacations every summer for decades on Laurel Lake in the Monadnock region. Her images celebrate the beauty and organic complexity of nature from the habitat of her home on the Charles River and have been featured on the cover of many literary journals.
Ben Gelernter moved from California to New Hampshire in 1999. He lived in Bow with his family for 18 years and now lives in Concord.
Retired from an academic career as a biochemist, Frank Gorga has turned the focus of his creative efforts to photography. He photographs many subjects, including wildlife and the landscape. A part-time resident of the Granite State for many years, Frank now lives year-round in Antrim, New Hampshire. His website is www.frg-photo.com.
Born and raised in Northern New York, Tammy Higgins (she/her) is a poet, writer, and photographer currently living in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Her work appears in journals such as Amulet Poetry Magazine, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Carolina Muse Literary & Arts Magazine, and Anti-Heroin Chic. Tammy enjoys gardening, playing her Washburn electric guitar, and listening to heavy metal.
Born and raised in Nashua, New Hampshire, Maxwell Irwin has found a deep appreciation for all that the state offers. He pursued his passion for design and photography while attending Colby-Sawyer College. Having graduated from Colby-Sawyer in the winter of 2021, he now pursues his passion to create grounded and energetic art.
Scott Niemi is an award-winning Fitzwilliam-based artist who earned an M.F.A. in Visual Art from Florida Atlantic University. He has resided in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, since 2003 and currently works as a Teaching Professor in the BSDT program at Clark University. Scott has work in the corporate collections of the Essex Inn, UMass Ambulatory Center, and Clinton Hospital, among others.
Alison Deland Scott moved to the Monadnock Region in 1979. After graduating from Rhode Island School of Design in 1974, she joined the Publications Department at the University of Rhode Island. Upon moving to New Hampshire, Alison worked as a freelance designer and illustrator, designing college viewbooks, promotional materials, performance posters, and handouts. She takes photographs, studies creative writing, and enjoys hiking. Her work may be viewed on Instagram @ alisonascot.
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