Authors
Elizabeth Creith
has been a storyteller and visual artist for as long as she can remember. She has made her living as a printmaker and potter, and has written four humor columns. She reads fantasy, folklore, history, paleontology, archaeology, science, poetry and almost anything she can get her hands on about art. She also practices bookmaking (with pages, not ponies), paper engineering, painting and printmaking. Elizabeth lives in a hundred-year-old farmhouse surrounded by roses and forest with her husband, cat, koi and a lot of wildlife.
Peter J. Dellolio
has published three poetry collections (A Box Of Crazy Toys, Bloodstream is the Illusion of Rubies Counting Fireplaces, and Rollercoasters Made of Dream Space). His writing has appeared in magazines and journals, including poetry, fiction, one-act plays, and film criticism. He graduated from NYU and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Michael Loyd Gray
is an invited member of the Society of Midland Authors and has published six novels and more than forty short stories. He earned an MFA from Western Michigan University, a bachelor’s from the University of Illinois, and has taught at universities and colleges. Gray lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he collects electric guitars, roots for the Chicago Bears, and tries to keep up with two cats, Suzie Lucifer and Yoda Lucifer.
Erin Jamieson
(she/her) holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Miami University. Her writing has been published in over eighty literary magazines, including a Pushcart Prize nomination. She is the author of a poetry collection (Clothesline, 2023) and four poetry chapbooks. Sky of Ashes, Land of Dreams is her first novel. She also produces gaming commentary for life simulation games on her YouTube channel, Simmer Erin.
Katie O'Rourke
Katie grew up in New Hampshire and went to college in Massachusetts.
She’s been calling herself a writer since the second grade when her teacher had the class bind their stories with patterned paper and put them on display in the library. She has published four novels and a collection of short stories.
She’s spent the last twenty years in Tucson where she lives with her sweet yellow lab and even sweeter boyfriend.
Kathleen Rhodes
was born and raised in Oregon and has worked in the healthcare field for eighteen years. As a therapist then Registered Nurse and finally, a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, her experiences working in outpatient clinics, jails, emergency rooms, and addictions services have provided invaluable insights into the human psyche. When she’s not writing or deep into a book, Kathleen enjoys Oregon’s wine country with her husband and daughter.
Micah Thorp
is a physician and writer in Portland, Oregon. His first novel, Uncle Joe’s Muse, won a 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Award and a Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award. A sequel, Uncle Joe’s Senpai, was published in 2023. His writing has been published in Cleaver Magazine, Fictional Cafe and Blind Corner.
Mary Vensel White
is the author of The Qualities of Wood, Bellflower, Starling, and Things to See in Arizona. She’s also an editor, a publisher, and an English and writing professor. She’s involved with her local writing community, most notably as the current president of the California Writers Club, Orange County branch.
Tracy Wise
spent her childhood in Asia due to her father’s aid work. She currently writes university presidential speeches, campus communications, and news stories in California’s Inland Empire. She holds a BA in Theatre and Spanish and an MA in Cultural Studies. A life-long, passionate reader, she designs social media for the Friends of her local Redlands public library in her free time.
