Alisa Alering

Their debut novel Smothermoss was deemed “Deliciously weird” by the The New York Times.

 


Claire Arbogast

Author of If Not the Whole Truth and Leave the Dogs at Home: A Memoir.

 


Merle Bachman

Poet, translator, and author of seven books. Her most recent title is So Many Warm Words: Selections from the Poetry of Rosa Nevadovska.

 


Joel Jacob Barker

Author and cartoonist. IG: jojabarker


Tony Brewer

Poet and audio artist. Executive Director of the Spoken Word Stage at the 4th Street Festival of the Arts and Crafts | Co-Producer of the Writers Guild Spoken Word Series and the Urban Deer Performance Series.

Author of over a dozen books and chapbooks. 2024 Literary Champion | Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards.


Greg Dawson

Author of Hiding in the Spotlight and Judgment Before Nuremburg.

 


James Dorr

Author of Avoid Seeing a Mouse: And Other Tales of the Real and Surreal and TOMBS: A Chronicle of Latter-Day Times of Earth.

 


Heidi Elaine Dowding

Poet and writer. Magical realist.

 


Richard Durisen

Astronomer, Author, and Poet.

 


C.C. [aka Carol] Edge

Author of Crossing the Line and Blood Terminal.

 


 

Samuel T. Franklin

Author of two books of poetry: Bright Soil, Dark Sun and The God of Happiness.

 


Kim Freeman

Children’s author. Her new book is Ice Cream Man: How Augustus Jackson Made a Sweet Treat Better.


Sara Frommer

Author of a variety of mystery novels. Her most recent books include Her Brothers Keeper and Death Climbs a Tree.

 


Eric Fuhrer

Queer, nonbinary poet, and playwright. Their book Gellar Studies, hailed as “exceptionally delectable and devastating” by Addie Tsai, creatively engages with the work of icon Sarah Michelle Gellar to unfold personal narratives of queer trauma.


Merrill Hatlen 

Award-winning filmmaker, photographer and writer. His most recent novel is The Bard & The Barman: An Account of Shakespeare’s Lost Years.

 


Todd Hosea

Author of several books including Steal the Reaper, which received the Military Writers’ Society of America Silver Medal in 2024.

 


Janine Harrison

Author of Turning 50 on El Camino de Santiago: A Solo Woman’s Travel JourneyWeight of Silence and If We Were Birds.

 


Joseph Kerschbaum

Poet. His books of poetry include Midnight Sunrise and Mirror Box.

 


Tanya Konerman

Children’s author, writing fiction and nonfiction in both prose and verse for kids ages 0-12. Tanya’s debut picture book, Mud to the  Rescue! How Animals Use Mud to Thrive and Survive, is a lyrical nonfiction look at the ingenious ways animals around the world use mud.

 


Lisa Kwong

Award-winning AppalAsian writer who writes poetry and creative nonfiction. Becoming AppalAsian is her 2022 book of poetry.

 


Karol Lagodzki

Polish-raised, American-educated writer. His short stories have ranged from hyper-realistic contemporary fiction to demon-filled fantasy. He is currently working on three novels.

 


Nancy Chen Long

Writer and poet. Her books of poetry include Wider Than the Sky and Light Into Bodies.

 


Jim Meeks-Johnson

Science fiction writer and author of the Entangled Galaxy series, which includes Vishnar’s Revenge, Umlack’s Legacy, and Enemy Immortal.

 


Annette Oppenlander

Award-winning writer, literary coach and educator. Her bestselling true WWII story, Surviving the Fatherland, won several awards in the U.S. and in Germany.

 


Joanne Passet

JP is a writer and avid knitter.

 


Patsy Rahn

Poet and photographer. She published a book of poetry entitled The Grainy Wet Soul in 2018.

 


Eric Rensberger

Eric is a local poet. He writes Local Poetry. Much of it is about the weather.

 


David Rhodes

Science fiction writer whose work includes Written in Stone and Blood Trail.

 


April Ridge

April Ridge lurks in the rural hilltops of Monroe County, Indiana listening for hints of poetry on the wind. Her debut poetry chapbook is Monstrous (Pure Sleeze Press, 2024) and her forthcoming first full-length collection is A Three Night Affair (Keeping The Flame Alive Press, Fall 2025).

 


 

Shana Ritter

Shana Ritter is a poet and writer. Her chapbook, Stairs of Separation was published by Finishing Line Press. In the Time of Leaving, a novel of exile and resilience, is set in late 15th century Spain and was published in 2019.

 


Tony Roberts a.k.a. John Prine

Author of a memoir entitled Delight in Disorder: Ministry, Madness, Mission, which aims to bridge faith and mental illness.

 


Jim Stark

Author of several books, including Great Lake Skipper.

 


Bronislava Volkova

Exile poet, who left Czechoslovakia in 1974 and lived over 40 years in the USA, where she became a Full Professor in the Slavic Department of Indiana University, Bloomington. Her books of poetry include: Where Everyone Leaves, Never to Return and And Drink We Will From Delectable Wells…

 


Rachel Williams

Rachel is a writer and poet.

 


Karen Wyle

Author and photographer. She writes science fiction, historical romance, afterlife fantasy, and nonfiction.

 


Hiromi Yoshida

Author of two full-length poetry collections, Green Roses Bloom for Icarus and Icarus Redux, and four poetry chapbooks, Icarus BurningEpicanthusIcarus Superstar, and Icarus Hieroglyph. She is a finalist for the New Women’s Voices Poetry Prize, and a semifinalist for the Gerald Cable Book Award.


Ira Zinman

Writer and filmmaker. Author of Shakespeare’s Sonnets and the Bible.

 

 

 


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