Contributor Bios — August 2026
Sarah Barbo writes about family, identity, and sense of place. Her work has been published in Hippocampus, River Teeth’s Beautiful Things, In a Flash, and Ekphrastic Review, and nominated for Best Small Fictions. Find her in the Colorado mountains and at www.sarahbarbo.com.
Kenneth Boyd, an award-winning writer, is a neurodivergent poet and former jazz musician. He is disabled but uses his perspective to enrich his writing. His poetry appears in the Burningword Literary Journal, The Ekphrastic Review, Wayfarer Magazine, Empyrean Literary Magazine, eMerge Magazine, Flora Fiction, Unlost Journal, The Haikuist, and elsewhere. He is a winner of a Royal Palm Literary Award, Empyrean Poetry Competition, and Penumbra Poetry Contest. Grasshopper Dreams (2023) is his debut poetry collection. Kenneth is a graduate of the UCLAx Creative Writing Program and a former Assistant Poetry Editor at Southland Alibi magazine. His work can be found on the web (www.bardopoetry.com) and Instagram (@BardoPoetry). He embraces life in the sustained warmth of the sun and is inspired by fine jazz, fine art, and fine pork pie hats.
Jeanne Cannizzo is an anthropologist, artist and sometimes a poet. In 2021 Bog Treasure with Irish poet Eileen Casey was published by Arlen House, Dublin. Her sculpture was shown in Neoneanderthals, for which she also wrote the catalogue and wall text, at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, 2019. Returning to her native Canada after retiring from the University of Edinburgh, she continues to write and make objects.
E. Doyle-Gillespie is a poet and writer from Baltimore, MD who has always enjoyed storytelling, myth, and folklore. He holds a BA in History from George Washington University, and an MLA from Johns Hopkins University. Find more of his work at https://edoylegillespie.com/.
Teresa Duggan loves taking unexpected photos on the streets of Baltimore City or elsewhere, and making collages or other artistic experiments. This is her tenth pairing of The Light Ekphrastic, which is her favorite art game ever. She feels a little weird writing about herself in the third person, but hopes you’ll visit these links if interested: Baker Artist Portfolio, Instagram, Flickr , or this Baltimore Banner article.
Maximillian Gregg is a Baltimore based artist and writer. They use surrealism and expressionism to show the ineffable parts of human existence, making eye-catching and vibrant works of art. Their art tends towards the visceral and queer, but they ultimately hope to show the beauty in life. See more of their work here.
Living on a five-acre farm in rural southcentral Kentucky, Michele LeNoir is an eclectic creative whose literary work deeply intersects with visual art. Her poetry has been displayed within her visual artwork at the Frist Art Museum. Dedicated to refining her craft, she is a Katerina Stoykova Boot Camp alumna and a participant in the Hindman Settlement School’s Appalachian Writers’ and Songwriters’ Workshops. Her writing has appeared in Yearling, Kentucky Monthly, and several anthologies. Beyond her creative practices, Michele is passionate about research, life-coaching former refugee students, and reading Kentucky poets. She fills her days with gardening and sharing rural life with her family—especially her grandchild, Quinn—along with a horse, a dog, and a handful of rescued cats. Follow her multidisciplinary journey on Instagram @michelelenoir1.
Sarah Magida is an artist in Baltimore City, MD. Her work covers topics such as a dwindling support of knowledge, subverting the patriarchy, snakes as transformational healing guides and so much more. She explores ideas in paint and fiber art to coalesque in dramatic works of art.
Tamizh Ponni VP is an ambivert and a stoic art buff who loves to express her skills through literature, visual arts and music. She is an educator and sees learning as a life-long process. Tamizh’s articles, poems, stories and paintings have also been published in many anthologies, digital journals, and educational blogs. Tamizh spends most of her free time painting, reading, writing articles, stories and poems, playing piano and watching documentaries/movies.
George H. S. Singer is a professor emeritus in the Department of Education at UC Santa Barbara where he worked from 1995 to 2021. In his private life he is a published poet, furniture maker, father, and fan of golden-haired retrievers.
