RED DASHBOARD - Key Persons
Aiden MacGregor strained with every movement to keep his grip on the ocean and his life-The Maiden-head Mask is a tale of adventure as a Valkyrie, a gypsy, a ships Captain and its crew do all they can to keep Mac swimming in adventure.
Anita Haas is a teacher and writer living and working in Madrid, Spain. She has published three books on film, as well as articles, poems, and short stories, in both English and Spanish.
Anthony Roberts is a veteran of Baltimore and Afghanistan. He is an Adjunct Professor of Writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University where he is also on the staff of The Literary Review. He is a graduate of The New School in New York City with a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing. His poetry has appeared in The Other Voices Literary Anthology, Southerly Literary Journal, and has been translated in Czech, Persian, Bengali, Hebrew, and Italian. He presently resides in Alexandria, NJ. In a home with beautiful views and interlocking fields of fire.
Barry Basden lives in the Texas hill country with his wife and two yellow Labs. He edits Camroc Press Review, and is coauthor of Crack! and Thump: With a Combat Infantry Officer in World War II. His shorter work has been published widely, both online and in print.
Barry Gross views the world around him in a unique way with his book Angled Portraits-his observances like, "After Reading Genesis," Thought it odd that it took only six days to create our world. Remember, the seventh was an off day. Why rush? Why not take your time? Barry chooses wit to round out what we all think, but adds a touch more to make the reader think. He refers to the last independent bookstore, kneeling in dim light, and starving poets, and there are plenty of those. This book is full of both poetry and prose, a mixing of notebooks fat with ink and graphics, of salesmen who know better than to dwell, possibly a sign of weakness. And then there is that old-ass name, Agatha, who knows no better than to challenge such an observer. Don't forget the food section, Barry's Bachelor Stew, and other treats that fill the stomach, wanton recipes as the mind slurps the words from with-in the pages of this book. "For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding. It is the deepest part of autobiography."
Bill Plank earned his Associates Degree in Visual Arts from Mercer County Community College, and attained his Bachelor's Degree in Art Education from Trenton State College. After teaching for twenty-five years, he retired to form his own art business, Plank Art Designs, selling a variety of merchandise such as prints and note cards using his original designs. Bill continues to produce award- winning art in Mercer County today. He is now honing his skills in writing fantasy fiction
Bruce Colbert is an actor, filmmaker and author of two novels, a short story volume and four poetry collections. He divides his time between Chicago and the Gulf Coast. Bruce has published other works of poetry and his poems and short stories have appeared in various magazines.
Charles Cox worked at Texas Instruments in Midland as an electronics technician for ten years. They closed the plant so for the next twenty years he taught high school algebra and geometry in Odessa, Texas with a three-year stint teaching G.E.D. classes in a medium security prison.
He and his wife raised three great children: one has a degree in finance but is currently a housewife in Anchorage, Alaska; his other daughter has a Phd. in music and teaches in Waco and Ft. Worth, Texas; his son is a mechanical engineer in Houston, Texas. They have three beautiful grandchildren that all live in Alaska. Mr. Cox is currently retired and he and his wife live in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas.
Cheryl Moore began writing poetry in 1980, and is a long-time resident of Monmouth County, New Jersey. She has been published in several literary magazine and publications, including Sensations Magazine, Sinister Wisdom, Sojourner, The River, and Torch to the Heart. Cheryl won the 2005 Carol Mohr Wimberg Memorial Award from the New Jersey Poetry Society for "As a Mourning Poet," and a 2005 Pushcart Prize nomination for "A Winter Poem." Waterpaths is her first published poetry collection, bringing four decades of Cheryl's poetry together for the first time in book form.
Dennis Daly lives in Salem, Massachusetts with his wife Joanne. They have four adult children. Daly graduated from Boston College and has an MA in English Literature from Northeastern University. He has published three books of poetry: The Custom House (Ibbetson Street Press, 2012), Sophocles' Ajax, a Modern Translation (Wilderness House Press, 2012), and Night Walking with Nathaniel, (Dos Madres Press, 2014). Among other jobs, Daly has worked as a dockworker, Union Leader of a 9000 member industrial local, a city department head, and a community corrections director. Visit his blog at dennisfdaly.blogspot.com.
Derrick Paulson received his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Minnesota State University, Moorhead, 2011, and is currently pursuing his secondary teaching licensure in Communication Arts and Literature at St. Cloud State University. His works of poetry and prose have appeared in print and online in 365 Tomorrows, Annapurna, Canary, Disingenuous Twaddle, Orion Headless, The Gander Press Review, The Red Weather Journal, and elsewhere. He is a writer and teacher.
Ed Zahniser was born in DC, raised in Hyattsville, MD, and served in the US Army in the US and Korea (1968 - 1970). On his return to DC, he co-founded Some Of Us Press, was poetry editor of Wilderness magazine and an associate poetry editor of Antietam Review. His poems have appeared in over 100 literary magazines in the US and UK; he is the author of four full-length books, most recently At Betty's Restaurant Thomas Shepherd Loves Danske Dandridge and The Shepherdstown Sonnets (Four Seasons Books, 2014) and Mall-hopping with the Great I AM (Somondoco Press, 2006); and three chapbooks, most recently Slow Down and Live, a collaboration with artist and designer Heather Watson of Pernot & Tatlin (2011). His Some Of Us Press book, The Ultimate Double Play, was his first published book, released in 1974.
Zahniser lives in Shepherdstown, WV, where he is the co-founder and poetry editor of the all-volunteer community quarterly The Good News Paper. He edited the anthology In Good Company: 27 Poets Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of Shepherdstown and has hosted an annual fundraiser for his local public library for multiple years. With Karen Z. Bettacchi, he published the nonfiction book Ways to the Wilderness (Atlantis Rising Communications, 1998).
Zahniser recently retired from the National Park Service Publications Group in Harpers Ferry, WV after 35 years of service. In that capacity he lectured widely and led seminars on wilderness preservation topics.
Hailing from Texas, Elizabeth Akin Stelling is a force of nature. She is a wife, mother, chef, a writer, an activist, and insomniac. She is managing editor of Z-composition Magazine, and has works published in vox poetica, Referential Magazine, Linden Literary Journal, Curio Poetry, Wordgathering, Wild River Review, Tuck Magazine, Texas Observer, and culinary trade magazines. Chef E's food poetry has been heard on CroptoCuisine Radio
Frankie Lopez, Jr. is a poet and freelance photographer from New Jersey. He is the founder of his own photography business, Flo Photography, and also currently works as the art director for Red Dashboard LLC Publishing, where he has multiple books to his credit.
Frankie also was the co-coach of Vineland High School's poetry slam competition team for two years, where he mentored hundreds of young people in beginning, and then perfecting, their own craft of poetry. He still mentors many of the students today, and has been dubbed the "Poetry Dad". Frankie performs his own poetry around his hometown, and has helped run numerous coffee house open mics. Currently, he resides in his hometown where he continues to mold his own voice through his photography, graphic art, and poetry.
Gerald Yelle earned his MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has worked in factories, computer rooms and customer service. He currently teaches high school English. His book of poems, The Holyoke Diaries was published in 2014 by Future Cycle Press. He is a member of the Florence (MA) Poets Society, and lives in Amherst with his wife and sons. Find out more about the author- www.geraldyelle.blogspot.com
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Grant Guy was born and raised in Western Canada, growing up and living in Winnipeg. Grant is a Winnipeg writer, playwright, theatre director and designer, having designed and directed productions across Canada. He has written a number of plays for his theatre company Adhere + Deny (1999 to 2014). His plays for A+D include Still Walking, Song For Simone and an adaptation of Paradise Lost. In his work on the idea of the Old West have appeared in his monologues during the 1980s and '90s. He returned to the Western theme with his un-produced play Westward Ho, which eventually was turned into the short story The Go-Devil. He is continuing to write short stories, poems and subjective travelogues on the Canadian and American Old/New West history and myths. Grant's writings have appeared in Prairie Journal of Canadian Poetry, Paper Wait, Canadian Dimension, Poolside, The Harold, the New Democrat, the Commonwealth, Flashpoint, Northern Light, Mid-continental and Lexica. He has written responses on art exhibits for Ace Art, Plug in Gallery and the Winnipeg Art Gallery. He has conducted readings of his work in the Winnipeg area. In 2004 he was selected for the Manitoba Arts Council's Award of Distinction.
His works have appeared in many forms, but officially Johnny Ringo was serialized in Cowboy Poetry Press.com print anthology, Unbridled.
Gregory Patton has always thought of himself as a cowboy-he's told stories to friends around the campfire for years, or cowboy poetry. Greg's friends have encouraged him to continue doing so along the way. They would always say another good one Doc."
Greg was born in Parsons Kansas on a farm just northeast of town. His folks have always had horses and it was just natural for him to become a cowboy. Although he does not work as a cowboy full time, it is the cowboy code, and the life style that he loves. Later the family moved North of Parsons in a neighborhood just outside of town. All the children in that neighborhood had horses, that's the way they got around.
He is a graduate of Parsons High School and Labette Community College. He has raised and rode horses all of his life. He and his wife Debbie live on a small ranch the South Branch Ranch east of Parsons. They have known each other for years and both enjoy the love of horses and the ranch life.
Heather M. Browne is a faith-based psychotherapist and recently emerged poet, recently nominated for the Pushcart Award, published in Lost Coast Review, Lake, the Orange Room, Boston Literary Review, Page & Spine, Eunoia Review, Poetry Quarterly, The Poetry Bus, Red Fez, The Muse, An International Journal of Poetry, Deep Water Literary Journal, Electric Windmill, Maelstrom, Apeiron, mad swirl, Knot, Dual Coast and many more. Her chapbook, We Look for Magic and Feed the Hungry has been published by MCI. She won the Nantucket Poetry Competition in 2014, and was a semifinalist in Casey Shay chapbook competition. Red Dashboard released her first collection, Directions of Folding, this is her second and of faith-based poetry. Recently widowed from her love of 24 years, she lives with her 2 amazing teens, and can be found frolicking in the waves.
John Berry is a native Virginian living and working in the Northern Shenandoah Valley. A highly skilled, self-taught woodworker, he has made his living as a carpentry contractor for over 30 years, most of that time as the president and chief source of labor for his company Woodwise Inc. Always a writer, John has found a renewed passion for his love of poetry through the simple act of giving himself permission to be happy and to joyfully explore life without guilt by living in the moment. It is in that moment that John found the courage to write freely, unattached to outcomes, exploring the craft purely for the joy of doing so. John Berry's work has been published in Vox Poetica, The Yellow Chair Review, Disorder (a Red Dashboard publication) The Green Silk Journal, Crow Hollow 19 and The Good News Paper. John hosts the Shenandoah Poetry Alliance Open Mic on the second Wednesdays of every month at the Handley Library in Winchester Virginia. With his beloved wife Brenda, they live happily and gratefully enjoying the fruits of a simple spiritual life, and are faithful lovers of the unexplored byway or patch of woods never walked with their two Yorkies, Molly and Lily.
Jonathan Warren's tight collection Umbrella Weather is a poignant collection of Poetry: observations, wonderings and well-crafted words. This collection is a near to heart echoing of minutes, moments and memories - conclusions and questions that remain. Warren gifts and guides-a journey worth taking. -John J McKenna, author of Sessions
Jonathan Warren is a thirty-seven year old musician and teacher. He and his band, Jonathan Warren and the Billygoats tour nationally and are currently underway recording their fifth album (to see tour schedule and learn more visit http://jonathanwarrenmusic.com) Sometimes his words surface as poetry and are published in magazines such as Confrontation, Z-Composition, Blackheart, Flash Fiction Magazine, The Write Room, Entropy, Toucan Magzine, Everyday Weirdness, and other magazine. Two of his songs have been featured in Pauly Shore's documentary "I'm still here." He was selected to read his poetry at Death Rattle Writer's Festival in October 2016. Jonathan is inspired by rainfall and sunsets and finding quiet places where no one else will find him. Jonathan's favorite color is orange, not bright like the fruit but burnt like autumn, and his lucky number is two. He has a recurrent dream about flying and is convinced that he will one day; that is flying around like Superman, not in an airplane. Not that he has anything against airplanes, or flying in them.
Joshua Gray was born in the mountains rural Northern Virginia, outside Washington DC. He grew up in Alexandria VA, two miles from the nation's capital and spent most of his adult life in the suburbs of the city. He attended Warren Wilson College the mountains of western North Carolina, where he also spent the first few years of married life.
Always in love with the mountains, he now lives in Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, India with his wife and two sons.
He has been published in many journals, including Poets and Artists, Mipoesias, Blind Man's Rainbow, Front Range Review, Iconoclast, Zouch Magazine and many others. For two years he was the DC Poetry Examiner for Examiner.com where he wrote reviews of poetry collections by local poets as well as articles on the local poetry scene. He is active on Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon and many other social media sites.
His first book Beowulf: A Verse adaptation With Young Readers In Mind was written for his oldest son when he was six, but as the title implies, it can be enjoyed by an older audience, including adults. It is available in softcover, hardback and electronic versions.
He is also the editor of Pot And Sticks, a collection of poems by Charles A. Poole, a reclusive man who lived a "Waldon" life similar to Henry David Thoreau. Poole's poetry at times reminds Gray of Emily Dickinson, at other times of Ernest Hemingway.
He second book The Principles of Belonging is a book-length poem based on a true story, and his his third book Mera Bharat is a collection of poems about his experiences in India. Both books are published by Red Dashboard, LLC.
Kathleen Glassburn earned an MFA from Antioch University, Los Angeles. She works as an editor, is an author, and currently lives near Seattle with her husband, three dogs, a cat, and a 45-year-old turtle. She is Managing Editor of The Writer's Workshop Review. www.thewritersworkshopreview.net For further information, please see her website: www.kathleenglassburn.com
Kevin Casey is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the University of Connecticut, Kevin Casey has contributed poems to recent editions of Paper Nautilus, Rust + Moth, decomP, Frostwriting, Canary, and other publications. He currently works at a small college in Maine, where he enjoys fishing, snowshoeing and hiking
Kevin Heaton writes with passion from his love for a land, its people, their obsessions- his, and from a gallery of memories. In addition to Spirit of the Buffalo his chapbooks include, Measured Days (Heavy Hands Ink Press, 2010), Breaking Ground (MLM Press, 2011), Chronicles (Finishing Line Press, 2012), and Family's Family (Aldrich Publishing, 2013). His poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Guernica, Raleigh Review, Beecher's Magazine, Crannóg, and many other fine publications. Three times nominated for the Pushcart Prize, he has also received nominations for Best of the Net, and Best New Poets 2013. You can find more information and additional books by Kevin at http://kevinheatonpoetry.webstarts.com/.
A native of Philadelphia, PA, L. Garvey Thomas is an electronics technician by day and a writer by night. His writing credits include: The Chaffin Journal, Conceit Magazine's The Bracelet Charm, and The Commonline Journal. In February 2013, he received his certificate from the Long Ridge Writer's Group: Breaking into Print Program. He is currently working on his first novel, "Sometimes Heaven, Sometimes Hell." When he's not writing, he likes to read, listen to music, paint, and most notably, take orders from his cat, Jedi. Follow him on Instagram at lgthomas0813
Leroy is a late-comer Cowboy Poet and has been published in Cowboy Poetry Press, their anthology Unbridled, and has had an article in Morning Chores and Soda Fountains, along with a book published by Hometown Memories, Early Times of Marble Falls, Texas, where he lives and works alongside cattle, goats, and for Sweet Berry Farm.
Matthew Kirshman lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife and two daughters. He is an English teacher, but before that had a varied career-telephone repairman, bartender, and cook, to name a few. His fiction has appeared in many journals and on-line magazines.
Molly Middleton Meyer is an acclaimed poet and the founder of Dallas-based, Mind's Eye Poetry. She works with dementia patients using a facilitation method that stimulates memories and imagination, empowering those for whom so much is being lost. Middleton Meyer has garnered nationally media attention as she challenges societal attitudes about the capabilities of those who are living with Alzheimer's disease. She received her MFA from Lesley University in 2014. Author's Link: www.mindseyepoetry.com
Nate Maxson was born in Cleveland, Ohio sometime towards the end of the last millennium. Having discovered poetry as a boy the way other people find drugs or religion, he has not looked back since. He lives and writes in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Nina Romano earned a BS from Ithaca College, an MA from Adelphi University and an BA and an MFA in Creative Writing from Florida International University. She lived in Rome, Italy, for twenty years where many of her poems and stories are set. Romano is fluent in Italian and Spanish. She has taught English and Literature as an adjunct professor at St. Thomas University. She is a lover of history and a world traveler, recently returned from, China, Cuba, Brazil and the Amazon River, and Poland.
Accompanying his mom and dad to Heritage Park in Calgary exposed Poppa Mac to a life as it was in the 1800's. Poppa Mac fell in love with the Cowboy way of doing things. It is this lifestyle Poppa Mac still embraces today. Ranching with his brother in the foothills of Alberta, only fueled his commitment to all things Cowboy. You can still find Poppa Mac, on horse-back, whether in a pasture working cattle, on a relaxing trail ride or in a rodeo arena delivering God's Message. Poppa Mac is the founder and past president of The Canadian Rodeo Wranglers Association, and can be found working in rodeo arenas throughout Western Canada. In recent years, he has spent time entertaining rodeo audiences with his antics and stories as Poppa Mac the Rodeo Clown. Poppa Mac, entertains audiences at trail rides, rodeos, cowboy churches, concerts and cowboy gatherings all over Western Canada and the United States His writing style reflects his outlook on life which (comes from his unique perspective). Poppa Mac's poems are written from his experiences and have an honesty that only someone who has lived the cowboy life could capture. Poppa Mac is a Cowboy Chaplain with the Cowboy Chaplains of America (Cowboys for Christ) a member of the Western Music Association (western wordsmith chapter) and a member of the Alberta Cowboy Poetry Association. He also has a Push Cart Prize nomination under his belt
Reynald Arthur Perry is a native of southern New Jersey, born in Vineland, and currently resides in Millville. He is twice over a graduate of Rutgers University, with a BA in English and History from Rutgers College in New Brunswick, 1993 and an MA in English from Rutgers Graduate School in Camden, 2008. Since 2002, he has taught English at Vineland High School, from which he graduated in 1988 and has taught for Fairleigh-Dickinson's Community College Partnership Program at Cumberland and Gloucester County Colleges.
Rita Anderson, a member of Poets and Writers, Academy of American Poets, and ScriptWorks, has an MFA Creative Writing and an MA Playwriting. A published and award-winning writer.
Robert Walker Krenz has a B.A. from SJ State University and has published poems, and can be found in various magazines as Innisfree Poetry Journal, Cowboy Poetry Press, and Connected Riding Newsletter.
Robert is married, has four adult children, two horses, loves dogs, and bonsai. He has lived in the Santa Cruz area since 1974 as well as Oregon for three years, and was a Social Worker for the Counties of Los Angeles and Santa Cruz.
Ronald E. Hignite is a former educator who has published a number of books. After growing up in Connersville, Indiana, he attended East Carolina University in Greenville, NC where he obtained a B.A. Degree and Master's Degree in Education. He began writing poetry in the 70's and published his first book of poetry in 2009. Since that time, he has published to date twelve books which include his first novel, a crime thriller, titled The Devil's Damsel. In addition to his current book, Pictures in Poems, his books include Reflections of the Soul, Visions of the Mind, The Crooked Road and More, The Beatitudes in Poems, The Ten Commandments in Poems, A Time to Live and a Time to Die, Christ's Miracles in Poems, The Animal Alphabet, The Animal Alphabet/El Alfabeto Animal and Where Has Gramma Gone? All of his books are available online. He has also recorded four audio books of poetry with Listen and Live Audio, Inc. of Union City, New Jersey. He currently resides with his wife, Diane, in Greenville, NC.
Rosalyn Marhatta spends her life in poem dreams, at open mics, and with friends and family. She has an MA in play writing and an MS in instructional technology. She has traveled the world and spent much time in Nepal and Saudi Arabia struggling with different cultures and finally embracing them. She has garnered three Pushcart nominations and one Best of the Net nomination. Her work appears in numerous literary magazines including Change Seven, Referential, Mused, Vox Poetica and Silver Birch Press as well as anthologies including Kakalak 2014 and Fire and Chocolate. This is her first chapbook. She lives in Greensboro, NC.