JANINE MACRIS has spent most of her life writing, weaving narrative and poetry and fiction. Her Socratic nature guides her lifelong love for peoplewatching and eavesdropping; her Twain-like love of the written word fosters her lifelong knack for speaking in metaphor and resolution. She is a teacher who writes and a student who risks. She has published a couple poems and continues talking through her working memoir, Sinning at my Son ' s Baptism and Other Tales of Guilt. She is excited to be a part of The Quiet Circle ' s inaugural issue.
DEREK OWENS directs the Institute for Writing Studies at St. John’ s University( New York). Information on his art, writing, and teaching can be found at derekowens. net.
EMILY PEIFFER earned her Master of Fine Arts degree from Bowling Green State University, where she was a recipient of the Irina Ratushinskaya Freedom Book Award. She has also received an Academy of American Poets University and College Poetry Prize. She lives in Michigan with her husband and their timetraveling cat.
CHARLES RAMMELKAMP is Prose Editor for BrickHouse Books in Baltimore, where he lives, and edits The Potomac, an online literary journal – http:// thepotomacjournal. com. His photographs, poetry and fiction have appeared in many literary journals. His latest book is a collection of poems called Mata Hari: Eye of the Day( Apprentice House, Loyola University), and another poetry collection, American Zeitgeist, is forthcoming from Apprentice House in 2017.
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