Currently Featured Authors
Erin McGrane
ERIN MCGRANE is an actress, musician, author, and professional development mentor. Erin appears in the Oscar-nominated film UP IN THE AIR alongside George Clooney and is known for her unforgettable cabaret and musical performances. Currently, Erin is authoring a spoken-word poetry project set to original music exploring anxiety, isolation, and hope. Erin was honored in KC Magazine’s "The 100: People who Make Life Better in KC" and is proud to say she misspent her youth singing in a rock band.
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Aubrey Green
Aubrey Green is a freelance editor, poet, and storyteller living just outside Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her work has appeared in The Talon Literary Journal and Brio magazine. She enjoys rewriting terrible movie plots and spent almost a year living in China. Coffee is her love language.
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Carra Leah Hood
Carra Leah Hood, Emerita of Writing and Associate Provost at Stockton University, writes in expository, academic, and creative genres.
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Ruth Weinstein
Since 1976, my husband and I have lived on a hardscrabble, 40-acre piece of Ozark land as back-to-the-landers, a group of very determined people. We still garden organically and largely rely on ourselves and our community for entertainment and inspiration. I am also a textile artist working in a wide variety of disciplines. My memoir, BACK TO THE LAND: ALLIANCE COLONY TO THE OZARKS was published by Stockton University Press in February 2020, and my poetry appears in print and online.
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Annie Klier Newcomer
When Annie Newcomer lost her brother, John Klier, Jewish Scholar and Russian Historian who lived and taught in London to misdiagnosed cancer in 2007, she was bereft. Writing saved her. Now she teaches Poetry and Play Writing at Turning Point, a center for the chronically ill associated with the University of Kansas. She endeavors to share this joy of the written word with others.
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Wendy Taylor Carlisle
Wendy Taylor Carlisle lives in the Arkansas Ozarks. She is the author of four books, including, The Mercy of Traffic, winner of the Phillip H. McMath 2020 Post-Publication Award and five chapbooks. Her work appears in Atlanta Review, Mom Egg Review, pacificREVIEW and this spring Doubleback Books reprinted her 2008 book, Discount Fireworks as a free download.
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Lynn Packham Larson
Lynn lives with her husband in a house that he built, where the edge of town meets the edge of the woods. She was raised in a big city, and now finds peace and inspiration walking the dog and hiking the trails near her home. The birding is wonderful, trees abundant, water plentiful. Lynn practices Yoga, shares what she learns with others and can't imagine aging without it. Lynn and her husband share the endless love in their hearts with their son, their daughter, their son-in-law, daughter-in-law, and their granddaughter.
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Matt Landig
Matt Landig, a former WCDH resident, recently completed a short play The Fat Trap and Five Stars, a series of comic monologues based on Yelp reviews. His piece Downward Facing What? won an honorable mention in this year's Erma Bombeck Writing Competition. His prize-winning poem Emotional Support Pig: A Love Story appears in the 2022 analogy Stories That Need to Be Told (available on Amazon). His short story Tummy, a contest finalist, has been analyzed in college courses. He lives in Los Angeles.
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Elizabeth G. Howard
Elizabeth G. Howard is poet, journalist, and digital marketing specialist. She founded Demand Poetry in 2008, writing original poetry at virtual and live at events on her Olivetti 33 typewriter. Her writing has been published in Boston Literary Magazine, American Craft, Bentlily among many others. She is member of the Writing Workshop Kansas City and a resident of the Writer’s Colony at Dairy Hollow. She calls Iowa, London, and Kansas City home.
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Bill McCloud
Bill McCloud is a poetry editor for the Right Hand Pointing literary journal and is the poetry reviewer for Vietnam Veterans of America. His poetry book, The Smell of the Light, reached #1 on The Oklahoman’s “Oklahoma Bestsellers List." His poems have appeared in Oklahoma Today and the Oklahoma English Journal. He is a faculty member of William Bernhardt’s annual WriterCon, presenting sessions on writing and publishing poetry.
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Jessica Hannon
My parents were young, divorced, broken people who raised me to do better than them. They wanted me to go to college and make lots of money. Instead got married at 19, had 5 kids before 30 and never finished school because I'm a rebel for one, and people have always been more important than things to me. I feel deeply and write passionately and hope that someone can relate to my writing and know they aren't alone, therefore, I also have company in this madness we call life.
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Abbi B.
Abbi B. is a college student who loves writing novels, short stories, and poetry. Her work has been featured in the Bluegrass Accolade. She was also a finalist in the high school short story division of the 2022 KET Young Writers Contest. As a Christian, Abbi loves to create art that speaks of hope and new beginnings. She hopes you feel refreshed as you read her work.
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Julie Peterson Freeman
Julie Peterson Freeman, née Wren Dubois, has been spotted in dark piano bars and tiny cafes in the oldest sections of cities around the world. At the beginning of her career, one was most likely to find her strolling the cobbled streets in the 18th Arrondissement of bohemian Paris. I spotted her arm in arm with the notorious Amantine Dupin (better known as George Sand), exiting Le Tagada, a quaint and popular bar among artists and eccentrics in the famed village of Montmartre. It was here where the flâneur was created. Bien sûr, none of this is true, except in Julie’s imagination.
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John Dorroh
John Dorroh has never caught a hummingbird or fallen into an active volcano. He has however, baked bread with Austrian monks and drunk a healthy portion of their beer. Five of his poems were nominated for Best of the Net. Others have appeared in over 125 journals, including Feral, El Portal, River Heron, and Kissing Dynamite.
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Pat Murphy McClelland
Pat Murphy McClelland has taught “Writing for Healing” at the UC/SF Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her poetry appears in: blynkt; Chronicles of Eve; Caravel Literary Journal; Minerva Rising; ARAS Connections: Image and Archetype; Altadena Poetry Review; Feile-Festa Literary Journal; Atlas Poetica; and Lines&Stars;her essays appear in the anthology The Mentor that Matters, in Snapdragon Literary Journal, and in Evening Street Review.
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Faune Vita
Faune Vita is a writer and artist from the Ozark Mountains who teaches writing at a small college in Western Massachusetts.
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Barbara Siegel Carlson
Barbara Siegel Carlson's third collection of poems What Drifted Here was published by Cherry Grove Collections in 2023. Her previous books are Once in Every Language (Kelsay Books 2017) and Fire Road (Dream Horse Press 2013). A chapbook Between the Hours was published in 2022. She is the co-translator of Look Back, Look Ahead, Selected Poems of Srečko Kosovel and co-editor of A Bridge of Voices: Contemporary Slovene Poetry and Perspectives. Carlson is a Poetry in Translation Editor of Solstice. She teaches in Boston and lives in Carver, Massachusetts.
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George Freek
George Freek's poetry has recently appeared in "Acumen"; "Miller's Pond"; "The Gentian Journal"; "Ink, Sweat and Tears"; and "The Whimsical Poet."
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Beth Hannah
Beth Hannah is a young writer living in Kansas City. She received a minor in Creative Writing from the University of Kansas and enjoys writing in her free time.
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Mia Marion
Mia Marion is a poet, writer, and citizen of a metropolis considered modern, currently residing in New York. She has been published in Thimble Literary Magazine.
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David Thornburgh
David was born in December of 1952. Mr. Thornburgh spent 40 years in the desert in Southern California, before moving to Northern California and then arriving in Durant Oklahoma, on December 25, 2007. Among other aspects of his life David is a poet. David pulls inspiration for his poetry from his life experiences, his political and social views, and his observations of life and the human condition. David heard about a local poetry gathering and is a proud member of Lost Street Poets.
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Sharleis Dunn
Just a half blind visionary waiting to see what’s gonna happen next…👀
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Holly Ellison
Born and raised in New York City. I have been lucky enough to live in various countries, including France, where I wrote lyrics for French up-and-coming singers and jingles for radio stations. I now enjoy retired life on a ranch in Northwest Montana.
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Daniel P. Stokes
Daniel P. Stokes has published poetry widely in literary magazines in Ireland, Britain, the U.S.A. and Canada, and has won several poetry prizes. He has written three stage plays which have been professionally produced in Dublin, London and at the Edinburgh Festival.
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Lourdes Dolores Follins
Lourdes Dolores Follins is a Black, queer, US-born woman who comes from a long line of survivors and working-class strivers. Her creative writing touches on themes such as notions of family, the consequences of keeping secrets, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds caused by racism. Her creative nonfiction, poetry, and fiction have appeared in Rigorous, Watermelanin, Medium, Feminine Collective, The Writing Disorder, Sinister Wisdom, Gertrude Press, Tahoma Literary Review, and elsewhere. In addition, Lourdes Dolores is also a psychotherapist for QTIPOC and a Yorùbá-Lukumí priest.
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Nidhi Agrawal
Nidhi’s writings and digital art have been featured by distinctive journals including Laurel Review, Altadena Libraries, University of North Dakota, Project Muse sponsored by John Hopkins University, Hobart Books, Orange Blossom Review (Florida College English Association), Writing Center at Washtenaw Community College, University of Illinois at Chicago, BYU College of Humanities and the Department of English, etc.
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Charles Templeton
Charles Templeton is the author of the best-selling, surreal historical novel, Boot: A Sorta Novel of Vietnam. When he is not singing at the Metropolitan Opera, you can find him in Eureka Springs, where he is currently an editor/publisher at eMerge, an online literary magazine. Charles wakes up daily and is thankful for the opportunity to offer creative literature to a diverse audience from emerging and established authors. He knows that whatever vicissitudes life throws at him, it will always be better than shovelin’ shit in the South China Sea.
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Dennis Etzel Jr.
Dennis Etzel Jr. lives with their spouse Carrie and their boys in Topeka, Kansas, where he teaches English at Washburn University. My Secret Wars of 1984 (BlazeVOX 2015) was selected by The Kansas City Star as a Best Poetry Book of 2015. Fast-Food Sonnets (Coal City Review Press 2016) is a 2017 Kansas Notables Book selected by the State of Kansas Library.
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Jonathan Chibuike Ukah
Jonathan Chibuike Ukah lives in the UK with his family. His poems have been featured in several literary magazines and anthologies. He is a winner of the Voices of Lincoln Poetry Contest 2022 and a finalist of the African Diaspora Award 2023.
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Calissa Kirilenko
Calissa is a writer and graduate student in the MFA program at the New School, concentrating in Fiction. Her work has been published in The Everygirl, Betches, and Frenshe. She currently lives in New York City.
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Ron Wallace
Ron Wallace is an Oklahoma native and currently an adjunct instructor of English at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, in Durant, Oklahoma. He is the author of ten books of poetry, five of which have been finalists in the Oklahoma Book Awards. He has just finished editing Bull Buffalo and Indian Paintbrush, a collection of Oklahoma Poetry, and his first novel, A Secret Lies in New Orleans was a finalist in the 2021 Oklahoma Book Awards for fiction.
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Jack Albert
Long time Eureka Springs resident, restaurateur, poet, justice junky, Jack Albert has appeared in many formats thoughout the decades. But most importantly, his culinary hotspots have been the scenes for artistic, holistic and political comradery from New York City to Northwest Arkansas.
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Lisa Madison Leraas
Lisa Madison Leraas is a Wyoming native who currently resides with her mandatory two dogs in Eureka Springs. She has a basement filled with unfinished paintings and manuscripts that she will one day finish when she retires from the real world.
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Joy Nevin Axelson
Joy Nevin Axelson earned a B.A. and an M.A. in French. She also attended Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. She’s the translation coordinator for GlobalFingerprints, the EFCA’s child sponsorship branch. Her translations of training materials are used at 14 international sites. She enjoys traveling with her husband and two older children.
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Daniel Lenois
Daniel Lenois graduated from Central Connecticut State University with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. Prior literary publications include Blue Muse, The Helix, and UnleashLit. In his spare time, Daniel enjoys traveling, listening to audiobooks, and playing video games with friends.
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Madison Hu
Madison Hu is a senior at Columbia University studying creative writing. She is an actor and writer.
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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Ph.D., the 2009-13 Kansas Poet Laureate is the author of 24 books, including How Time Moves: New & Selected Poems; Miriam's Well, a novel; Needle in the Bone, a non-fiction book on the Holocaust; The Sky Begins At Your Feet: A Memoir on Cancer, Community, and Coming Home to the Body. Founder of Transformative Language Arts, she leads writing workshops widely, coaches people on writing and right livelihood, and consults on creativity.
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A. Johnston
Allan Johnston earned his M.A. in Creative Writing and his Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Davis. His poems have appeared in over sixty journals, including Poetry, Poetry East, Rattle, and Rhino. He has published three full-length poetry collections (Tasks of Survival, 1996; In a Window, 2018; Sable and Selected Poems, 2022) and three chapbooks (Northport, 2010; Departures, 2013; Contingencies, 2015).
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Lea Ann Crisp
Lea Ann Crisp is an award-winning writer who has always loved writing poetry and short stories. She first began writing children’s books when she was a young mother. She has published two children’s books, We Need the Dark and Ryan’s Pirates.
Crisp received national recognition for her work in graphic design and advertising before transitioning to a second career in Human Resources and ultimately starting her own business. She resides in the Ozarks where she spends as much time as possible in nature and is an avid birder. Besides writing, she enjoys painting and cooking.
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Anna Gall
Anna Gall with her husband, Dean live in historic St. Charles, Missouri. Anna travels, gardens, cooks, teaches culinary classes at the local community college, antiques, reads, and writes two blogs on topics she is most passionate about, organic gardening, kitchen creations, home life, and wholeness as a woman. During her summer 2021 residency at the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow, Anna started her first book, a series of short stories with a culinary theme.
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Jessica Cloud
Jessica Neno Cloud was born and raised in Mobile, AL and now resides in Hartsville, SC with her husband Daniel and her two children. She earned her M.A. in English literature at The University of Southern Mississippi. Her poetry can be found online in eMerge magazine, the TEJASCOVIDO project and the online journal Former People. In print, her poem “After the Bath” appeared in Constellations magazine in 2019 and the poem “Stockpile the Sun” was published in the Langdon Review: TEJASCOVIDO in 2020.
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John Ganshaw
After 31 years in banking, John (he/him) retired to follow his dream of owning a hotel in Southeast Asia. This led to many new experiences enabling John to see the world through a different lens, leading him to write his story through essays, poetry, and a yet unpublished memoir. John’s work has appeared in Native Skin, Runamok Books/Growerly, Post Roe Alternatives, Fleas on the Dog, OMQ, Disabled Tales, Unlikely Stories, and many others.
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Jeanean Doherty
Jeanean Doherty is a wannabe author who penned short stories and journals for fun but wasn’t sure what to do with them. She dreamed of creating an epic novel “someday”—or, at least, a book a few people would enjoy reading. She recently discovered writers’ groups, conferences, and contests and was encouraged to be a winner in every competition she entered. Finally, she is hard at work writing an extensively researched historical narrative while writing shorter pieces to improve her writing craft.
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Kathryn Lorenzen
Kathryn Lorenzen is a career coach, creativity coach, songwriter, and poet. Her songs and recordings have appeared in feature films and TV series including The Americans and Last Man On Earth. With an earlier career in copywriting and marketing communications, she is now a career coach to freelance writers and artists seeking livelihood in support of their art. In partnership with Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, she is co-leader of Your Right Livelihood, and you can find more about Kathryn at kathrynlorenzen.com.
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Zeek Taylor
Zeek Taylor is a recipient of the Arkansas Governor's Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement. Best known for his stylized watercolors, he is also a storyteller, and author of two books. He has appeared twice on the NPR Tales from the South. A StoryCorps interview with Taylor aired on NPR’s Morning Edition show. He is the author of two memoirs, Out of the Delta and Out of the Delta II. The memoirs were combined into one volume and published under the title “Out of the Delta, the Anthology” by Sandy Springs Press. Taylor lives and works in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
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Kim McCully-Mobley
Kim McCully-Mobley is an alumni of the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow. A native of the Southwest Missouri Ozarks, she is an educator, storyteller, historian, consultant, freelance writer and public speaker. She serves as co-director of the Aurora Houn' Dawg Alumni & Outreach Center and recently earned national honors for her sense of place work and philanthropy in her community.
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Joanie Roberts
I am a retired teacher and live in the beautiful Ozarks on Lake Ann in Bella Vista, Arkansas. I think of myself as a beginning author, writer, and poet exploring the worlds of poetry, nature, and photography. I love to capture ordinary moments and reflect upon our natural world and its intersections with our daily life.
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Former Contributors
- Lela Tunnell
- A. Johnston
- Abbi B.
- Adrian Frost
- Aileen Bartlett
- Al Larson
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- Allison Landa
- Amy Taylor
- Anchal Singh
- Andrea A. Firth
- Ann Kathryn Kelly
- Ann Privateer
- Anna Gall
- Anna Robertson
- Annie Klier Newcomer
- Antonia Love
- Aubrey Green
- Audrey Kallenberger
- Barbara Siegel Carlson
- Belinda Bruner
- Beth Hannah
- Beverly Gordon
- Bill McCloud
- Brianne Grothe
- Bruce Robinson
- C.D. White
- Calissa Kirilenko
- Cara Bianca
- Carol Perenchio
- Carol Willis
- Carolyn Colmer
- Carolyn Dahl
- Carolyn-Anne Templeton
- Carra Leah Hood
- Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
- Cat Templeton
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- Chad Gurley
- Charles Templeton
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- Dennis Etzel Jr.
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- Peggy Harris Dionne
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- Sandra Jackson-Opoku
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- Sarah Butkovic
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- Sharleis Dunn
- Sharon Spurlin
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- Shin Yu Pai
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- Silence Dogood
- simone j. banks
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- Stephen Mead
- Steve Nelson
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- Suzanne McConnell
- Syakina Nour
- T. Daniel Wright
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- Tom Gorsuch
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- Violet Treadwell Hull
- Wendy Taylor Carlisle
- William Bernhardt
- William Jack Sibley
- Woody Barlow
- Yermiyahu Ahron Taub
- Zeek Taylor
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