Jim Ross jumped into creative pursuits in 2015 after a rewarding career in public health research. With graduate degree from Howard University, in eight years he’s published nonfiction, fiction, poetry, photography, hybrid, and plays in 175 journals on five continents. Photo publications include Barnstorm, Bombay Gin, Burningword, Camas, Columbia Journal, DASH, Feral, Stoneboat, Stonecoast, Typehouse, and Whitefish, with Glassworks, Peatsmoke, and Phoebe forthcoming. Jim’s text-based photo-essays include Barren, DASH, Kestrel, Ilanot Review, Litro, NWW, Sweet, Typehouse, and Wordpeace. He recently wrote/acted in a one act play and appeared in a documentary limited series broadcast internationally. Jim and family split time between city and mountains.
Lisa Rigge is an artist living in Pleasanton, CA. She is a photographer whose photographs and/or collages have been published in The Sun Magazine, LensWork, Passager Books Pandemic Diaries, and 3Elements. Her articles, poetry and/or journal writing have been published in Passager Books Pandemic Diaries, Dream Time Magazine, and The Rose in the World. Along with being passionate about doing artwork, she enjoys hiking and taking road trips with her husband and her dog, Sheeba.
Paul Rabinowitz is an author, poet, photographer and founder of ARTS By The People. His works appear in The Sun Magazine, New World Writing, Evening Street Press, The Montreal Review and elsewhere. Rabinowitz was a featured artist in Nailed Magazine in 2020 and Mud Season Review in 2022. He is the author of The Clay Urn, Confluence and Limited Light, a book of prose and portrait photography, which stems from his Limited Light photo series, nominated for Best of the Net in 2021. His poems and fiction are the inspiration for 5 award winning short films. His first book of poems called truth, love and the lines in between (Finishing Line Press) is due out in 2023. paulrabinowitz.com
Eun Seo Kim is a junior attending North London Collegiate School in Jeju island, Korea. She collaborates fine art with philosophical themes, presenting personal stories or opinions with her painting. She developed her art skills into mixed media forms by learning photography and computer software tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. She recently won a competition in 2022 EarthX dealing with environmental issues. As a finalist, she exhibited her artwork at the EarthX expo in Texas. She is planning to expand her creativity, perspective and interests by applying and approaching various themes and aspects of art and continue to pursue her passion.
Min Sung Park is a junior attending Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts. Min Sung has been working on product designing in the past and he wishes to continue working on product designing, and art as well as his interests on world issues and making new ideas.
Featuring:
Issue 115, published July 2025, features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and visual art by Christina Borgoyn, Cyrus Carlson, Laurence Carr, Marina Carreira, Kimmy Chang, Lisa Delan, Todd J. Donery, J.M. Emery, Louis Faber, Mathieu Fournier, Veronica Scharf Garcia, Alaina Hammond, Marcy Rae Henry, Bethany Jarmul, Joseph Landi, Mary Dean Lee, Madeline Eunji Lee, Zoé Mahfouz, Juan Pablo Mobili, Arthur Pitchenik, Timothy L. Rodriguez, Jim Ross, Susan Shea, Dave Sims, Rome Smaoui , Lisa Lopez Smith, VA Smith, Dana Stamps, II, Angela Townsend, Lucinda Trew, Thomas Vogt, Holly Willis, Dylan Willoughby, Stephen Curtis Wilson, Jessie Wingate, and Jean Wolff.
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