James Calemine’s books include The Local Stranger, Insured Beyond The Grave, Insured Beyond The Grave Vol. 2, The Road To Hell and Ghostland America. His essay about the Georgia Sea Island Singers earned a place in the Smithsonian’s “New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots” tour. A prolific author of essays, interviews and his signature dispatches, Calemine’s […]
Bradley Sides
August 20, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Bradley Sides is the author of two short story collections, Those Fantastic Lives and Crocodile Tears Didn’t Cause the Flood. His fiction appears at BULL, Ghost Parachute, Necessary Fiction, Psychopomp, Superstition Review, and elsewhere. His stories have been nominated for Year’s Best Weird Fiction and featured on LeVar Burton Reads. Bradley holds an MFA from […]
Danielle Heckenkamp
July 29, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Danielle Heckenkamp is an author and freelance writer with a B.A. in Political Science. She contributes to a variety of media publications – discussing faith, family, book reviews, history, and literature. She is the co-author of an etiquette and manners book published in April 2013. Heckenkamp is a classical educator with a focus on writing […]
Deborah-Zenha Adams
June 17, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Deborah-Zenha Adams is an award-winning author of novels, short fiction, CNF, and poetry. She served as executive editor of Oconee Spirit Press for ten years, and is currently a reader for Boomerlit. When not writing, sauntering, or practicing yoga, she partners with historical societies and yoga studios throughout the southern United States to conduct her signature […]
Dreama Frisk
April 1, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Dreama Frisk, born and raised on McCann’s Run, WV, won first place in the Northern Virginia Writers poetry contest (2021). She also convened Ice Writers in Romney, WV. Her poetry collection, Ivory Hollyhock is on reserve in Arlington, VA Library Writers Center, cited as “a slice of history and its importance to the understanding of Appalachian […]
Michele Wirt
February 1, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Michele Wirt is a long-time faculty in the humanities and visual arts with the College of Central Florida. A resident of Citrus County since 1974, fan of swamp literature and film, such as Feral State set right here in my home town. Member of various local arts and historical groups, mother of two, enjoys studio […]