Night Picnic Press
OUR AUTHORS
Poet. University professor in the US, China, and Palestine. Widely published in national and international literary journals. Author of three books of poetry: Buffalo Nickel, The Weight of the World, and The Story of My Lives. Zababdeh, Palestine.
Review board member of Bewildering Stories. Author of three books, numerous short stories, and poems. Background in foreign intelligence and international sales. Resides in Fairfield, CT, USA.
Academic. Poet. Published in POSTblank and Genre: Urban Arts. Monterey, CA, USA
Writer. Poet. Professional Tarot Reader. Avid Traveler. Boston, MA, USA.
Data Scientist. Writer. Horror enthusiast. Work featured on The NoSleep Podcast. Manchester, England.
Educator. Forthcoming poetry collection is Hush. Published in Oxford Magazine and Invisible City. New York, NY, USA.
Author. Essayist. Former recording artist. Industrial welder. Laramie, WY, USA.
Playwright. Horror writer. Dedicated library patron. Author of funny and spooky stuff. Long Beach, CA, USA.
PhD in creative writing. Associate prose editor for A-Minor. Published in American Short Fiction, 100 Word Story, Gone Lawn, and Southword. Albion, MI, USA.
Writer. Artist. Curator at Silas Plum Art. Halfway, VA, USA.
Editor and translator. Her stories have appeared in publications both in Italy and in the US. Rome, Italy.
Teacher. Writer. Published in Coffin Bell Journal and Whispers to Roars Magazine. Nashville, TN, USA.
Poet. Retail supervisor. Student at UCF. Published in High Shelf Press and Into the Void. Palm Coast, FL, USA.
A philosophy professor. Not a misanthrope. New Haven, CT, USA.
Investor & Entrepreneur. Poet. Published in Tiger Moth, Communion, Last Leaves, and others. Brooklyn, NY, USA.
Performer. Poet. Playwright. Published in Lyrical Iowa (2021). Chicago, IL, USA.
Writer of horror fiction and poetry. Avid reader. Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
Writer. Musician. Filmmaker and coder. Published in Verbal Magazine and Thrice Fiction. Helsinki, Finland.
Writer. Teacher. Professional eater. This is Tim’s first publication. Milledgeville, GA, USA.
Writer. Biologist. Science lover. Author of crime and science fiction novels. Boise, ID, USA.
Poet. Has read poetry throughout the US as well as with Siberian poets in Novosibirsk, Russian Federation. Duvall, WA, USA.
Law student. Writer. Gem collector. Outdoor enthusiast. Cincinnati, OH, USA.
Columbia University graduate and historian with a Ph.D. from the City University of New York. Author of We Can Always Call Them Bulgarians. New York, NY, USA.
Poet. Writer of Short Stories. Boxing Competitor. Father. Comic Book Geek. Niagara Falls, Canada.
Writer. Writing instructor at the Loft Literary Center. Author of over 30 nonfiction and poetry books. Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Poet. Kayaker. Hiker. Retired curator of Historic Maps at Princeton University. Author of two books of poems and several works on cartography. Port Townsend, WA, USA.
Fiction writer. MFA, Lesley University. Published in Pangyrus and Narrative Magazine. Narrative Magazine story contest finalist Spring 2020, Fall 2021. Providence, RI, USA.
Founder and co-publisher of South Florida Poetry Journal SoFloPoJo. Published in more than 300 literary magazines. His latest poetry collection is Festival of Dangers Ideas (Unsolicited Press). Delray Beach, FL, USA.
Poet. Digital artist. Twice Pushcart Prize nominee (2019, 2020). Anthologized in several collections, including Uno (Verian Thomas, 2002) and New York City Haiku (NY Times, 2017). Fairfield, CT, USA.
Writer of short stories, poems, columns, novels, and songs that are often set in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Poet. Novelist. Screenwriter. Playwright . Performer. New York, New York, USA.
Professor Emeritus, Keene State College. Author of three critical studies and seven books of poetry. Peterborough, NH, USA.
Owner of a small chain of retro-arcade bars. He has garnered several recent acceptances and will appear in several upcoming anthologies. London, UK.
Student. Poet. Published in anthologies: Otoliths, Persian Sugar in English Tea, and Curly Mind. Wiltshire, England.
Has taught poetry and writing for institutions including Boston University, Lesley University, and Tufts University. His MFA is from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. IA, USA.
Translator. Multiple Award-winning Director, Writer, Founder of Swerkl Branding Studio. Cyprus.
Writer, cat person, nature enthusiast. Current Master's student in early American history. Providence, RI, USA.
Poet. Published in Coffin Bell Journal and Glassworks Magazine. St. Louis Park, MN, USA.
Author of short stories collection, The Widows and Orphans Fund (SFA Press), and three poetry chapbooks. Published in River Styx, Nimrod International Journal, and Water ̴ Stone Review and other journals. Winner of the North American Review James Hearst Poetry Prize. East Norriton, PA, USA.
British-Italian. Educator. Editorial board member at Triggerfish Critical Review. Author of Marcia Gioie. Published in Alba, Bombay Gin, Danse Macabre, Poetry Salzburg Review, Grey Sparrow Journal, Menacing Hedge, The Honest Ulsterman, Straylight, Orbis, and elsewhere. Leicestershire, England, UK.
Widely published award-winning author. Physician. Gilbert, AZ, USA.
Published author with MFA in motion picture and television production from UCLA. San Diego, CA, USA.
Writer. Traveler. Blues/Fusion dancer. Author of debut novel, The Deception Artist published by Myriad Editions. Oakland, CA, USA.
Poet and fiction writer. UCA MFA alum, current student at Texas Tech University. Published in Drunk Monkeys, The Shore, and elsewhere. Lubbock, TX, USA.
Writer. Retired teacher of English and writing at Boston University Academy and Harvard Extension School. Author of five books of fiction and nonfiction. Boston, MA, USA.
Retired English teacher. Francophile. Fiction writer. Published in the Beloit Fiction Journal, Fourth Genre, and elsewhere. Riverside, IL, USA.
Nurse. Emerging writer. Colorado Springs, CO, USA.
Market researcher. Writer. Nominated for the 2017 Best of the Net Anthology. Published in Kenneth Warren’s Lakewood House Organ and online. Bayside, NY, USA.
Writer. Traveler. Aspiring Novelist. Published in Wanderlust Journal, Burnt Pine Magazine, and Hippospit Travel Blog. Stanhope, NJ, USA.
Animator. Educator. Author of strange and unique short stories, full-length novels, non-fiction texts, and comics. A tenured Associate Professor at Columbia College Chicago. Gary, IN, USA.
Author of The Amnesia Girl, Graveyard Girls, and others. Published in Dig Two Graves, Coffin Bell Journal, and others. Oneida, NY, USA.
Australian poet. Published in That, Dunes Review, Poetry East, North Dakota Quarterly, Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, Thin Air, Dalhousie Review, and Failbetter. Johnston, RI, USA.
Writer. High School Teacher. Published in Embark Literary Journal and Planet Scumm Magazine. Bay Area, CA, USA.
Writer. Naturalist. Educator. Published in Sky Island Journal and The Thieving Magpie. Ferndale, MI, USA.
Author. Adjunct Professor of English. Upstate New York, USA.
Writer. Reader. Works on a novel. Born in Sweden, living in Paris, France.
Wine Salesman. Published in The Lowestoft Chronicle and The Nonconformist. Brooklyn, NY, USA.
Writer. Graduate Student at Radford University. Tabletop Gaming Enthusiast. Blacksburg, VA, USA.
Poet. Fiction writer. Published in Night Picnic Journal and The Showbear. Newnan, GA, USA
Marine Corps Veteran. MFA Candidate at the University of Tampa. Winner of The 2018 Wainright Award for Poetry. Jacksonville, FL, USA.
Poet, fiction writer and literary essayist. Published extensively in the USA, UK, India, and China. London, UK.
Retired journalist. Heroes are Montaigne, Swift, Borges, Didion. Trying to follow in their footsteps. London, England.
Mathematician. Data scientist. Writer. Mooresville, NC, USA.
Writer. Teacher. Durable Medical Equipment Technician. Published in The Kenyon Review Online, New World Writing, and The Hong Kong Review. Assistant Professor of English at Tougaloo College in Jackson, MS, USA.
Playwriter. Screenwriter. Author. Singer-Songwriter. Published in numerous journals & anthologies, several plays and films produced, noted short story writer/author, and award-winning singer, songwriter. Holly Springs, NC, USA.
Writer. Citizen of the Comanche Nation. Published in The Nasiona and The Gold Mine. Lawton, OK, USA.
Urban planner. Writer. Poet. Published in Poetry Quarterly. Bishop, CA, USA.
Academic. Short story writer. Pushcart Prize nominee. Published in Into the Void and Raconteur. Edinburgh, Scotland.
Poet, novelist, editor, and former President of the Houston Council of Writers. Cleveland State University scholarship winner for creative writing. Author of two poetry books. Kingwood, TX, USA.
Writer. Publishing industry marketer. Graduated with a BA in history from University of California, Los Angeles. New York, NY, USA.
Writer. Poet. A Bukowski & Palahniuk enthusiast. Published in Continue the Voice and Pure Slush publications. Las Vegas, NV, USA.
Writer. Poet. Lover of Ovid. Published in The Esthetic Apostle, The Write Launch, and La Piccioletta Barca. Wanaque, NJ, USA.
Studied creative writing as an undergraduate at the University of Texas at San Antonio. San Antonio, TX, USA.
Alyona Kondratyeva
Ural State Pedagogical University graduate (Russia). Freelance Translator and Editor. Avid language learner. Resides in every country ready to welcome her (currently France).
Petro Kovaliv
Writer. Freelance Translator and Editor. Transcreator. Lviv, Ukraine.
Published in American Literary, Toho Journal, Gravitas, and Paragon Press' Echo Journal. Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Writer. Filmmaker. Photographer. Editor-in-Chief of Pyre Magazine. Published in The Camber Magazine. Veteran of the United States Air Force. Graduate of Missouri State University. Nixa, MO, USA.
Award-winning poet. Combat veteran. Author of six books. Ontario, Canada.
Writer. Musician. Author of one book of short fiction. Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Writer. Software engineer. Student at Michigan State University. East Lansing, MI, USA.
Musician. Writer. Audio engineer. Humboldt State University graduate. Resides in McKinleyville, CA, USA.
Writer. Student. Perpetual beginner. Liverpool, England.
Poet. Playwright. Short story writer. Avid reader. Melbourne, Australia.
Playwright and award-winning filmmaker. Writer of the full-length produced play Conversations With A Chimpanzee and the interactive theater show Let’s Make A Movie. Also wrote and directed the award-winning short-film HORIZON. USA.
Editor. Poet and writer. Librarian. Graduate student at York St. John University. Published by Edge magazine and Angles magazine online. Jarrow, England.
Writer. Philologist. Former journalist. Sochi, Russia.
Poet. Writer for The Common Cause Journal. Kansas City, MO, USA.
Dramatist. Poet. Scribe. Published in Good Men Project and Flatbush Review. New York, NY, USA.
Writer. Painter. Adjunct professor. Published in Hyperborea and Ghostbird. Chattanooga, TN, USA.
Writer. English Teacher. Author of the fantasy novel The Last Survivors. Timisoara, Romania.
Lover of words. Poet. Author. Published poetry collection Home and chapbook Death: A Love Story. Laurel, MD, USA.
Short story writer. Philanthropist. Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.
Physician. Scientist. Professor. Head of Neuropathology (Surgery Department) at Yale School of Medicine. Author of two books of poetry: Out of Order and One / Divided by Zero. New Haven, CT, USA.
Father. Husband. Tile Man. Author of two self-published books. Previously published by Dodging the Rain. Nashua, NH, USA.
Writer. Educator. Bibliophile. Post-baccalaureate student at University of California-Berkeley. Addison, IL, USA.
Writer. Former literacy teacher for the Peace Corps. Fiction Editor for The Cypress Dome magazine. Studied Creative Writing at the University of Central Florida. Published in Big Muddy. Dallas, TX, USA.
Undergraduate at the University of Southern California. Her work has appeared in The Catalyst and Um…Magazine. Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Poet. Studio manager for sculptor Mark di Suvero. Published in Brief Wilderness, Cider Press Review, Doubly Mad, Evening Street Review, The Opiate, Oxidant Engine, Plainsongs, Slant, and Visitant Lit. Long Island City, NY, USA.
Reader. Pants-Roller. Fraud. Journal editor and student of history and literary theory in Southeastern Virginia. Baltimore, MA, USA.
Hawaii-born writer. Cinema and basketball enthusiast. Stories in The Coachella Review, Drunk Monkeys, and Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine. St. Paul, MN, USA.
Writer. Aspiring ecologist. Graduate of Santa Clara University. Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Earthling. Maker. Aspiring Human. Poems in print in Artemis, Whistling Shade, and Sixfold. Saint Paul, MN, USA.
Author of six books of poetry. Published in various literary magazines in the U.S. and abroad. Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Writer. Creative Writing Student. Published in The Writing Disorder Literary Journal. Rochester, NY, USA.
Associate Editor of the South Florida Poetry Journal. Professor Emeritus. Author of eight books of poetry. Over two hundred of her poems have appeared in national journals and anthologies, including Grabbed. Hollywood, FL, USA.
Anna Novikova
Translator, creative writer, and marketing specialist. Odesa, Ukraine.
Artist. Poet. Writer. Flaneur. Irkutsk, Russian Federation.
Writer. Painter. Musician. Student of Psychology & Spanish at Minnesota State University Moorhead. Moorhead, MN, USA.
Poet. Writer. Promoter of literature to anyone who will listen. Toronto, Canada.
Writer. Poet. Twelve-year veteran of the Marine Corps. UCLA Word commandos Creative Writing Workshop. Pomona, CA, USA.
Fiction writer. English teacher. Graduate of Concordia University's Communication Studies and Creative Writing programs. British Columbia, Canada.
Farmer. Antiques dealer. Poet and fiction writer. Published in Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel and Now & Then:
The Appalachian Magazine. Olive Hill, KY, USA.
Writer. Mental health advocate. Published in The Global Societies Journal. Seattle, WA, USA.
Writer. Poet. Artist. Graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy and Minneapolis College of Art & Design. Published by Pangolin Press, Redbird Chapbooks, Poet's Night Out. MI, USA
Poet. Artist. Outdoorsman. Father. Born and raised in Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, Forge, Poetry, Osiris, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. Poetry collection The Family of Man Poems published by Cholla Needles Arts & Literary Library (2021). NY, USA.
Writer. Graduate of Sewanee: The University of the South, Class of 2019. Birmingham, AL, USA.
Writer from southern Ohio. Published in Meat for Tea, GRIFFEL, Lupercalia Press’ VULCANALIA ’21, and others. OH, USA.
Writer. Poet. Playwright. Sunday newspaper columnist and award-winning journalist. Author of two forthcoming books. Dyer, IN, USA.
Emerging writer with MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma. Published in Wanderings Magazine and Red River Review. Lacey, WA, USA.
Writer. Poet. Author of Blueberry Man, Tchaikovsky Family Books. Co-translator of Maria Shelyakhovskaya’s Being Grounded in Love: A History of One Russian Family. Jeju Island, Republic of Korea.
Former editor of the California State Poetry Quarterly. Published three books of poems. Sacramento, CA, USA.
Writer. Animator. Cross-stitcher. Recent child prodigy. Author of three novels. Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Writer of short stories and novels. Nuclear rocket scientist. Published in mojo. Seattle, WA, USA.
Writer. Photographer. Published in numerous literary journals on three continents. Los Angeles, CA, USA
Student at Arizona State University. Poet. Published in From Whispers to Roars. Phoenix, AZ, USA.
Mental health advocate. Writer. Yoga enthusiast. Published in The Coachella Review and NAILED Magazine. Charlotte, NC, USA.
Writer. Avid Moviegoer. Published in Friday Flash Fiction and The Were-Traveler. London, England.
Slovak philosopher. Writer. Poet. Author of eight books of poetry. Published in several journals and anthologies including Variant Literature and Whispering Prairie Press. Prague, Czech Republic.
Author of short stories and visual art. Published in more than forty languages. Ghent, Belgium.
Husband. Father. Middle school science teacher. Lector at his church. Published in Prime Number and Crack the Spine. Urbana, IL, USA.
Editor. Writer. Chocolate enthusiast. Published in SORTES Magazine. Spokane, WA, USA.
Kamil Sariyev
Translator. Writer. Baku, Azerbaijan.
Playwright. Actor. Teacher. Plays published in Pioneer Drama, Original Works Publishing, Brooklyn Publishing, Heurer Publishing, Green Room Press. Meriwether Publishing, and Stage Rights, a Broadway Licensing imprint. Baltimore, MD, USA.
Writer. Dedicated supporter of reversing Pluto's demotion from planetary status. Published by Brave New World, Psychopomp, Cagibi, and others. São Paulo, Brazil.
Pushcart Prize nominee and a finalist in nine other poetry contests. Autor of four poetry books in Bulgarian. She published in Nashville Review, LIT, Agenda Poetry, Poetry South, London Grip, and many other literary journals. London, United Kingdom.
Editor. Writer. Published in CHEAP POP, Gone Lawn, and New Plains Review. Littleton, CO, USA.
Writer. Guitar player. Skier. Husband and father of three. Gonic, NH, USA.
Mother. Poet. Former teacher. Published in Green Ink Poetry and Lamplit Underground. Norman, OK, USA.
Translator. Expert in the field of military equipment. Graduated with a Master of Arts degree from the Russian Military University in Moscow. Moscow, Russia.
Writer of poetry & fiction. Proud member of the Rockford Writers’ Guild. Published in the Rockford Review, Del Sol Review, Missouri Review, and other literary magazines. Skokie, IL, USA.
Julia Solomakha
Translator. Teacher. Editor. Musician. MD in Kaluga State University. Obninsk, Russia.
High school teacher. Graduate student at SUNY Brockport. Resides in Cohocton, NY, USA.
Fiction editor at B O D Y. Prague, Czech Republic.
Poet. Fiction writer. Playwright. Author of twenty books (five poetry collections, thirteen short story collections, two novels). Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire graduate. Tugboat captain. His poems have appeared in Crosswinds, Stoneboat, and Penn-sylvania English. Malibu, CA, USA.
Writer. Student. Lover of the strange and unusual. Previously unpublished. New Orleans, LA, USA.
Student. Published in The White Wall Review, The Raw Arts Review, Coffin Bell, and The Penultimate Peanut. Mission Viejo, CA, USA.
Managing Editor & Art Director of Night Picnic. Published scholar, writer, and illustrator. Educator. Designer. New York, NY, USA.
Author. Environmentalist. Published in The Guardian, Coffin Bell Journal, Harvard Square Editions, and Dreamers Creative Writing. Brussels, Belgium.
Poet. Translator. His work appeared in The Liberated Ulises Almanac, The East Village, and Red Seraph. Albuquerque, NM, USA.
Writer. This is Steven’s first publication. Lockport, NY, USA.
Writer. Hiker. Undergraduate student at UMass Amherst. Longmeadow, MA, USA.
Indiana University and William Carey University Graduate. Alto. Poet. Animal person. Former teacher. Lover of languages. Wanderer. Wonderer. Moss Point, MS, USA.
Writer. Artist. English and art history student at Western Washington University. Oak Harbor, WA, USA.
Writer. Published by Referential Magazine, Constellations, Windmill, Feminine Collective, The Valley Review, The Tower Journal, and other magazines. Nutley, NJ, USA.
Writer. Artist. Fan of horror and esotericism. Moscow, Russian Federation.
Writer. Poet. English Teacher at Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy. Published in a number of online and print literary magazines and journals, including Scarlet Leaf Review and Mothers Always Write. Hartford, CT, USA.
Writer. High school teacher. Flat track motorcycle racer. Dad. Published in Exhuming Alexandria and the SunLit Fiction podcast. Sacramento, CA, USA.
Writer. Published in Oakwood Magazine and Woman's World Magazine. Grand Island, NE, USA.
Poet. Mixed media artist. Autodidact. Logophile. Published in Healing Muse, Fairy Tale Review, Thief, Duende, Rust+Moth, Rock & Sling, et al. Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Retired, National Library of Medicine, NIH, USA. Widely published in literary magazines and author of two poetry books. Mosaic artist. Washington, DC, USA.
Husband. Father. Short fiction writer. Recent publications appeared in The Book Smugglers Den and Parhelion. Hampshire, England, United Kingdom.
Writer. Editor. Adjunct Professor. Published in various literary journals and anthologies. Saco, ME, USA.
Poet. Fan of magick, comics, and music. Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Explorer. Outdoor enthusiast. Free spirit. New York, NY, USA.
Author of one published poetry collection, a few more in the works. Most well when livened by language and nature. Northern Ontario, Canada.
Writer. Poet. Essayist. Novelist. Wanderer. Collector of the contrary. Author of four novels and two books of poetry. Anchor Point, AK, USA.
Writer. Artist. Action sports enthusiast. Musician. Student of English at Utah State University. Paul, ID, USA.
Writer. Published short fiction in Bookends Review and Split Lip. Author of a novel, SISTER CITY, from Coffeetown Press. Bloomington, IN, USA.
Writer. TV Watcher. Creator of fiction of all shapes and sizes. Graduate of Harvard University with a B.A. in History in 2018. Washington D.C., USA.
Writer. Student at Queen's University. Published in the Dillydoun Review. Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Editor-in-Chief of Night Picnic. Biologist. Poet. Writer. Professor at BMCC, the City University of New York. New York, NY, USA.
Playwright. Student of film and computer science at Yale University. Published in Alexandria Quarterly, Polyphony Lit, and others. St. Louis, MO, USA.
*Indicates a Night Picnic nomination for the Pushcart Prize