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.

John W. Leys was first moved to write song lyrics after being introduced to the Beatles and Bob Dylan when he was a teenager. A chance encounter with a radioactive fountain pen turned him into a ukulele playing poet, a curse he’s had to live with for decades.

The greatest influences on his poetry have been Lord Byron, Leonard Cohen, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Catullus, Erica Jong, and a chemical imbalance in his brain.

John’s first poetry collection, The Darkness of his Dreams, was published in 2019. His second book, Whispers of a One-Eyed Raven: Mythological Poetry, followed the next year. He’s also been published in anthologies from Indie Blu(e) Publishing, one of which he helped edit. He often wonders, in the third person, if anyone reads the Author Bios, or if he’s just wasting his time trying to be clever.

When not writing poetry, John can usually be found playing one of his many ukuleles or feeding the crows & ravens in the park.

Grace R. Reynolds is a native of the great state of New Jersey, where she was first introduced to the eerie and

strange thanks to local urban legends of a devil creeping through the Pine Barrens. Since then, her curiosity with

things that go bump in the night bloomed into creative expression as a dark poet, horror, and thriller fiction

writer.

When Grace is not writing she can be found dreaming up macabre scenarios inspired by the mundane realities of life. Her short fiction and poetry has been published by various presses, including Brigid's Gate Publishing, Creature Publishing, Dark Matter Magazine, Death Knell Press, and more.She is the author of two poetry collections, Lady of The House (2021) and The Lies We Weave (2023), both released by Curious Corvid Publishing.

Connect with Grace on Instagram and Twitter as @spillinggrace, or her website: www.spillinggrace.com.

Pooja Priyamvada is an author, columnist, professional translator, content & language consultant. Currently she is Academic Director at International Institute of Mass Media (IIMM) Delhi. She has been a facilitator of an online course- “Leadership & Management in Health” offered by University of Washington since 2021.

She has translated Manav Kaul’s Rooh: A novel to English (2023) & Joseph Murphy's The Power of the Subconscious Mind to Aapke Avchetan Mann ki Shakti (2022) published by Penguin, A Night in the Hills, a collection of short stories by Manav Kaul published by Westland Books (2019) and Caregivers' Handbook for Down's Syndrome published by Sangati Foundation (2021). Her ebooks Mental Health: A Primer and Lessons for Life from Death:Papa & I and translation Land of Ghosts: Iceland & JP: From Nayak to Loknayak are available on Amazon Kindle.

She has been awarded 50 Inspiring women 2022 award by Fox Story India and India Prime Women Icon awards 2022 by Foxclues. She has also been awarded Shiksha Gaurav Puruskar by Universal Mentors Association in 2023.She is a part of the organising team of Kritya International Poetry Festival and has been actively organising theatre and reading workshops at the National Museum, New Delhi

She is also an awarded bi-lingual blogger, formerly also radio announcer and lecturer. She is a trained psychological/mental health first aider, emotional wellness corporate trainer, mindfulness and grief facilitator, reflective listener, mental health researcher and suicide prevention and awareness activist. She has been associated and published at reputed national & global portals and anthologies. Both her blogs have been awarded several times consecutively at the Orange Flower Awards.

She has an M.Phil. in English from Panjab University and speaks vociferously about issues of gender, identity, and marginalisation at several International platforms and mediums.She has taught Disability Competencies using poetry to Medical Students in UCMS Delhi and actively conducts mental health awareness and emotional wellness talks, webinars, workshops and programs at several forums. She has been featured amongst “10 Indian Women Bloggers you must follow” and “25 writers whose work readers enjoyed the most” at Women’s Web in 2018 and also in “Most empowering moments by Indian women” by SheThePeopleTV.