Sandra has a B.A. and M.A. in English literature from U.C.L.A., and an M.A. in Religious Studies from the Lancaster Theological Seminary. She has taught college-level courses in literature, creative writing, composition, and technical writing in Southern California and Pennsylvania. Her most recent poetry chapbooks are available online. She is also the author of Experiential English and Language Play. Sandra is the founder and co-owner of The Write Launch, an online literary magazine, and bookscover2cover, a book review site.
Julie Elizabeth Powell has published 25 books to date, in a variety of genres and lengths. She is also a contributor to the Mind’s Eye series of anthologies of poetry…
Rana Abdulfattah is a Syrian writer in exile. She grew up in a Damascus suburb in Syria and studied English literature in Damascus and the USA. Her debut poetry collection, Tiger and Clay - Syria Fragments, is part memoir and reminiscence, part meditation and critique.
Wade Stevenson was born in New York City in 1945 and his first book Beds (McCall Publishing Co., 1970) was a poetry best seller. Other books followed, including The Little…
If ever there were a modern poet reminiscent of the troubadour of yore, Wade Stevenson would be this poet. Suffused with the themes of the troubadour canso—unrequited love, sexual desire,…
An avid reader of fantasy and science fiction novels all his life, J. Michael Radcliffe published his first novel The Guardian’s Apprentice in 2010. He lives with his family in…
There is great value in reading a book about books, and The End of Your Life Book Club is no exception. This book is different in one respect, however. It…
Consider 9/11 and the Arab Spring of 2011 as opposing bookends to a decade of repression, fear, and fetishized violence. 9/11—the worst terrorist attack on United States soil—killed nearly 3,000…
The mind—or body or self—is central to Amina Cain’s storytelling. This is the way it is with Creature, her collection of fourteen stories: elusive, introspective, intuitive. Stylistically, Cain absolves the…
Kim Schultz is a Chicago based author, actor and refugee advocate. In 2009, she traveled to the Middle East as an artist/activist to meet with Iraqi refugees, falling in love with Omar and forever changing her life.