Visual Art

City River

Aaron Lelito is a visual artist and writer from Buffalo, NY. In his photographic work, he is primarily drawn to the patterns and imagery of nature. His images have most recently been published in The Hand Magazine, Peach Velvet Mag, and High Shelf Press, with upcoming publication in Freshwater Review and About Place Journal. He is editor in chief of the art & literature website Wild Roof Journal and teaches English at a community college. His website is aaronlelito.com.

Nikola Tesla Boulevard, 2020

Ashley Taylor Brown is an artist and photographer with a background in Art History who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her work explores the relationships between the photographic image, language, and the incorporeal. Current projects explore the mass migration of communication, human experience, and memory to the digital world, and the implications therein.

The Sun Also Rises

Christopher Woods is a writer and photographer who lives in Chappell Hill, Texas. He has published a novel, THE DREAM PATCH, a prose collection, UNDER A RIVERBED SKY, and a book of stage monologues for actors, HEART SPEAK His photographs can be seen in his gallery –http://christopherwoods.zenfolio.com/ . His photography prompt book for writers, FROM VISION TO TEXT, is forthcoming from PROPERTIUS PRESS. His novella, HEARTS IN THE DARK, is forthcoming from RUNNING WILD PRESS.

One Tree Remains

River São Francisco

Reporter photographic and visual artist, Guilherme Bergamini is Brazilian and graduated with a degree in journalism. For more than two decades, he has developed projects with photography and the various narrative possibilities that art offers. The works of the artist dialogue between memory and social-political criticism. He believes in photography as the aesthetic potential and transforming agent of society. Awarded in national and international competitions, Guilherme Bergamini has participated in collective exhibitions in thirty countries.

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Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah, who is an algebraist and artist, lives in the southern part of Ghana, in Spain, and in the Turtle Mountains, North Dakota.

In the Closet at the Museum

Jim Zola is a poet and photographer living in North Carolina. His next book of poetry published by Main Street Rag is titled Erasing Cabeza de Vaca.

All children, except one, grow up.

Raised simultaneously by David Bowie and Virginia Woolf, Natascha Graham is a fiction writer, artist, and screenwriter who lives with her wife in a house full of sunshine on the east coast of England. Her work has been previously published in Acumen, Litro, Flash Fiction Magazine and The Gay and Lesbian Review. She can be reached on Instagram: @Vitaswoolf, Twitter @Someofherparts, and email: nataschagrahamwriter@gmail.com.

man_city

Ni Petrov was born in 1986 in Barnaul (Siberia, Russia), graduated from The Altai State Technical University The Architecture and Design Institute in 2010, and has been living and working in St.Petersburg (Russia) since 2012.

Asphalt Islands

Harry James has been a farmer, soldier, civil servant, glass artist, opportunistic photographer and a writer. He currently lives in Kentucky with his wife who designs and creates jewelry.

Faded Memories

Aurelie Crisetig (b. 1992) is a Swiss photographer and visual artist. She uses photography as a tool to explore the alteration of human memory in a world overwhelmed by digital entities. Working both with film and digital photography, her works reflect on the constant use of mechanical recordings, especially in public and cultural places. After graduating with a BA in Art History and Film Studies in Lausanne, she completed an 8-week photography programme at the New York Film Academy in New York. In 2018, she graduated with an MA Photography from UAL: University of Arts, London.

The Smoker

Adrienne Christian is a poet & writer, and fine art photographer. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Hayden’s Ferry Review, CALYX, phoebe, The Los Angeles Review as The Editor’s Choice, and dozens other journals and magazines. She is the author of two poetry collections, 12023 Woodmont Avenue (Willow Books, 2013) and A Proper Lover (Main Street Rag, 2017). She is a fellow of both Cave Canem and Callaloo Writing Residencies. In 2007, she won the University of Michigan’s Five Under Ten Young Alumni Award. In 2016, she was a finalist for the Rita Dove International Poetry Award. In 2018, she won the James Gaffney/Society of American Poets Outstanding Poetry Award. In 2019, she won the Marie Sandoz/Prairie Schooner Short Story Award.

Exiled from Main Street

Alex Stolis lives in Minneapolis; he has had poems published in numerous journals. Recent chapbooks include Justice for all, published by Conversation Paperpress (UK) based on the last words of Texas Death Row inmates. Also, Without Dorothy, There is No Going Home from ELJ Publications. Other releases include an e-chapbook, From an iPod found in Canal Park; Duluth, MN, from Right Hand Pointing and Left of the Dial from corrupt press. The full-length collection, Postcards from the Knife Thrower was runner up for the Moon City Poetry Prize in 2017. His chapbook, Perspectives on a Crime Scene was recently released by Grey Border books, and a full-length collection, Pop. 1280, is forthcoming from Grey Border books.

Vicksburg Battlefield

Jay Waters is a photographer and writer from McCalla, Alabama. His emphasis is on simplicity and serendipity, so all of his photos are from his phone, with minimal processing. He looks for the happy coincidence of life, light and camera. Jay’s photos have been published a number of print and online journals. More work at noodlePhotos.com.

The Candle

George Stein has been published in Midwest Gothic, which is now on hiatus, as well as After Hours, the Fredericksberg Literary and Art Review, NUNUM, and most recently Ember Chasm. He can be reached on Instagram as @steincapitalmgmt and @_dark__muse_ and has a website that he posts to occasionally, georgelstein.com. His best email is georgelstein@gmail.com.