Candice Louisa Daquin is a Psychotherapist and writer living in America's Southwest. Originally from Europe, she made a career in the publishing sector before re-training in Psychotherapy and now divides her time between both. Daquin is author of her own poetry and prose and editor of many anthologies and multiple single author books. Daquin is currently Senior Editor at Indie Blu(e) Publishing. Editorial Partner for Blackbird Press. Poetry Editor with The Pine Cone Review and Parcham Literary Magazine and Writer-in-Residence for Borderless Journal. She regularly edits poetry and prose collections. Daquin edited the successful anthology; SMITTEN This Is What Love Looks Like, Poetry By Women For Women, which won Finalist in the National Indie Excellence Awards and was an Amazon #1 best seller. Likewise, Daquin co-edited We Will Not Be Silenced, which also became an Amazon #1 best seller. More recently Daquin co-edited The Kali Project, Invoking The Goddess Within, Indian Women Speak, which has become a worldwide success and won Finalist with NIEA. Her latest poetry collection, Tainted by the Same Counterfeit, was published in 2022 by Finishing Line Press.

Angie Shea (A. Shea) is an Indie writer and artist from Georgia.  She attended Auburn University  and holds a Masters degree in Psychology from Liberty University.  The mother of two grown boys, Angie is now focusing on pursuing her dream of writing and art.

Poetry has been a part of her life since early childhood when she first began writing. An avid reader in her teens, classic literature and poets stole her heart. The inspiration for her own work being her struggles with chronic illness and past trauma and the importance of not only surviving but soaring.

When not working on her writing or art , Angie enjoys the outdoors, art museums, travel, reading and relaxing with her dogs.  One of her favorite mottos is from Friedrich Nietzsche  “Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.”

Megha Sood is a Pushcart Nominated Award-Winning Poet, Editor, Author, and Literary Activist based in New Jersey, USA. She is an Associate Editor at MookyChick(UK), Life and Legends (USA), and Literary Partner in the project “Life in Quarantine'' with Stanford University, USA. Works featured in journals, including Poetry Society of New York, New York Public Library zine, NPR, WNYC Studio, PBS American Portrait, American Writers Review, Stanford Daily, Kissing Dynamite, Rising Phoenix Review, and many more.Blogs at https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/.Tweets at @meghasood16

Co-Editor of anthologies ( “The Medusa Project”, Mookychick) and (“The Kali Project, Indie Blu(e) Press).“The Medusa Project” has been selected as a digital payload to be sent to the moon in 2023 as part of the historical LunarCodex Project in collaboration with NASA/SpaceX.

She is a recipient of Poet Fellowship 2021 MVICW (Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing), 2020 National Level Winner Spring Mahogany Lit Prize, and Three-Time State-level winner of NJ Poetry Contest. Recipient of “Certificate of Excellence” from Mayor, Stephen Fulop, Jersey City. New Jersey.

She is a member of the United Nations Association- US Chapter (UNA-USA), National League of American Pen Women ( NLAPW), and Women’s National Book Associations (WNBA).

Performing venues includes New York Poetry Festival, Paterson Poetry Festival, Nuyorican Cafe, Hudson County Community College, Historic Apple Tree House, Newark Arts Festival, Panorama International Literary Festival, FEMINEN Turkey Arts Festival, and many more.

Ashley Jane is an indie author from Alabama. She is a former Inmate Substance Abuse Counselor with research published in Crime and Delinquency magazine. She has also been featured on various poetry sites. Currently, she moves between consulting and building books for others. She does everything from account set up to covers. When not working and crafting, she still enjoys research, and you’ll often find her alternating between reading poetry books and psychological studies. While from the South, her heart still lives in Washington DC (or the Caribbean.) She loves music concerts and true crime dramas. She lives with her husband and their one child, a rescue cat named Shadow Monkey.

Ashley has been writing off and on since childhood, but she only started sharing her words a few years ago. She is the co-founder of FallsPoetry prompt, which runs on both Instagram and Twitter. She also co-hosts DarkLines and DrugVerse prompts on Twitter.

She has three individual books of poetry: Love, Lies and Lullabies; The Mums are Filled with Melancholy; and All Darkness and Dahlias. Her work can also be found in several anthologies, including Solace, We Will Not Be Silenced, Poetry Pills, and Wildflower Warriors.

Meg Baines hails from the beautiful east coast of Canada. Writing since a very young age, she recently decided to share her words with the world. Her debut book, Interstellar Love Songs and Melancholic Melodies, shares her love of space and the beauty that is love, as well as the darker side, the stark contrast of melancholy that is heartbreak.

Meg has an autistic daughter who is her moon and stars, a houseful of animals, and is currently completing a degree in Chemical Engineering.

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F.I. Goldhaber's words capture people, places, and politics with a photographer's eye and a poet's soul. As a reporter, editor, business writer, and marketing communications consultant, they produced news stories, feature articles, editorial columns, and reviews for newspapers, corporations, governments, and non-profits in five states. Now paper, plastic, electronic, and audio magazines, books, newspapers, calendars, broadsides, and street signs display their poetry, fiction, and essays. Left Fork press published 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒓 𝒊𝒔 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒆? -- a collection of political statements in poetic form -- in September, 2022.

In addition, F.I. shared their words at events throughout the Pacific Northwest and on the radio. They appeared at venues such as Wordstock, Oregon Literary Review, PDX SynesthiA, bookstores, libraries, coffee shops, bars, and community colleges; gave presentations on subjects as diverse as marketing, writing erotica, and building volunteer organizations; and taught Introduction to Indie Publishing at Portland Community College and as a weekend intensive.

http://goldhaber.net/

Christine E. Ray is an indie author and freelance editor who lives outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. An avid writer of fiction and poetry in her teens and 20’s, Christine returned to creative writing after a long hiatus in 2016 when she launched her blog Brave and Reckless on WordPress. Christine's greatest literary influences include Sylvia Plath, John Steinbeck, Jane Austen, and J.K. Rowling. While other little girls dreamed of being a princess, Christine dreamed of being Sarah Jane Smith. She is still waiting for the Doctor to arrive.

She’s a member of the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective, Blood Into Ink, Go Dog Cafe, and Whisper and the Roar. In 2018, Christine founded Indie Blu(e) Publishing with writer Kindra M. Austin.