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Tricia Marcella Cimera
Tricia Marcella Cimera is a Midwestern poet with a worldview. Published works have appeared in places ranging from the Buddhist Poetry Review to The Ekphrastic Review. Her micro-chapbook called GO SLOW, LEONARD COHEN was released through the Origami Poems Project. She maintains a cedar poetry box named The Fox Poetry Box in her front yard.
Gerald Micheal Guglielmo
Gerald Micheal Guglielmo was born in Chicago and spent his youth in the northwestern suburbs of Chicago. After taking a break from college to join the Illinois Air National Guard, he went on to earn a B.S. from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Minnesota. He went on to have a brief career in physics and a long career in software development, support, and management. Although always interested in creative expression, his interest in creative writing did not emerge until 2017. Since then, he has written short stories in various genres, including science fiction, fantasy, and the supernatural. He hopes to have a fiction story published in a local writers group anthology later this year, and he is actively working on the third book in a science fiction trilogy about a civilization where everyone lives nine lives. He currently resides in Geneva and still walks on the edge of curbs sometimes because he never really grew up.
Patrick Parks
Patrick Parks is author of a novel, Tucumcari, and has had fiction, poetry, reviews and interviews appear or forthcoming in a number of places, including The Writing Disorder, TYPO: The International Journal of Prototypes, Change Seven, Ocotillo Review, Bridge Eight, Full Stop, Southeast Review, Six Sentences, The Millions, Another Chicago Magazine, Heavy Feather Review, Grey Sparrow, Sledgehammer, Chattahoochee Review, and OxMag. He is a graduate of the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop, the recipient of two Illinois Arts Council artist grants, and lives with his wife near Chicago. More at patrick-parks.com.
Joe Phelan
A Geneva native, Joe Phelan returned to the Fox Valley in 2022, after a 7-year exile. He now resides in St. Charles, where he lives with his wife, sons, and intrepid rescue poodle. Joe’s poetry has appeared in Ekstasis Magazine, Maudlin House, LIT Magazine and After Hours: A Journal of Chicago Writing and Art.
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Tricia Marcella Cimera
Gerald Micheal Guglielmo
Patrick Parks
Joe Phelan
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