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Author
Bios
Abhik
Shome
is
a
singer-‐songwriter,
author
and
poet
from
New
Delhi,
India.
His
creative
writings
are
bilingual
in
nature,
as
he
writes
in
both
Hindi
and
English.
His
genres
include
-‐
Prose,
Free
Verse,
Haiku,
Tanka,
Flash
Fiction
and
Short
Stories.His
works
have
been
published
in
various
National
and
International
literary
magazines,
such
as
-‐"Spirits"
The
official
journal
of
Indiana
University
North
West
(USA),
Writers
and
lovers
studio
(Taiwan),
Essence
of
Eternal
Happiness
(An
Amazon
India
listed
Bestselling
anthology),
Ignire
by
Crystal
concept
(India)
and
websites
such
as
www.poetrybits.com
(A
3000+
strong
web
and
social
poetry
community,
of
which
he
is
an
admin).
Apart
from
his
music
and
poetry,
he
has
also
completed
work
on
his
first
novel.
His
writings
aim
at
presenting
an
alternate
overtone
to
life,
with
flavours
of
Cosmic
nihilism.
Marc
Carver-‐
No
Biography
Submitted
Desirée
Jung
is
a
Canadian-‐Brazilian
writer
and
translator.
Her
background
is
in
creative
writing,
literary
translation,
film
and
comparative
literature.
She
has
received
her
MFA
in
Creative
Writing
and
PhD
in
Comparative
Literature
from
the
University
of
British
Columbia,
in
Vancouver,
Canada.
She
has
published
translations,
poetry
and
short
stories
in
Exile,
The
Dirty
Goat,
Modern
Poetry
in
Translation,
The
Antigonish
Review,
The
Haro,
The
Literary
Yard,
Black
Bottom
Review,
Gravel
Magazine,
Tree
House,
Bricolage,
Hamilton
Stone
Review,
Ijagun
Poetry
Journal,
Scapegoat
Review,
Storyacious,
The
Steel
Chisel,
Loading
Zone,
Belleville
Park
Pages,
among
others.
Her
website
is
www.desireejung.com
Keith
Moul’s
poems
are
widely
published.
Recently
two
chaps
have
been
released:
The
Grammar
of
Mind
(2010)
from
Blue
&
Yellow
Dog
Press
and
Beautiful
Agitation
(2012)
from
Red
Ochre
Press.
He
also
publishes
photos
widely.
In
fact,
in
2010
a
poem
written
to
accompany
one
of
his
photos
was
a
Pushcart
nominee.
Broken
Publications
published
full-‐length
collection
of
poems/photos
called
Reconsidered
Light
and
his
latest
chap
called
To
Take
and
Have
Not.
Peter
Grieco
The
author
teaches
writing
at
Niagara
University
and
lives
and
plays
in
Buffalo,
NY,
his
native
city