Issue 3: Dreams
For our third issue we wanted to know what your dreams are made of. Artists and writers sent us their visions of the future, unconscious thoughts, and greatest ambitions. Dreams are endless; you never really know where they will lead.
Liswindio Apendicaesar is an Indonesian writer who loves poetry and short stories. He is involved in Pawon Literary Community in Indonesia and is a member of the editorial board of Pawon Literary Bulletin. In 2019 he was invited to Bengkulu Writers Festival and South Tangerang Literary Festival. In the same year he joined Intersastra’s translator team for the Unrepressed issue. His latest poems were published in Fahmidan Journal and Mixed Mag.
Keech Ballard was born in Seattle, raised in Los Angeles, and lives in Las Vegas. Recent/forthcoming examples of his writing may be unearthed at Ellipsis Zine, Gnashing Teeth Publishing, Kalonopia Collective, Magnus Effect Review, and Antipodean SF.
Brittany Bjorndal is a rolling stone who loves the sea. She earned her B.A, B.Ed., and Certificate of Creative Writing at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. She was the recipient of the TWS Emerging Writer Scholarship in 2015, which supported her participation in Vancouver SFU's commendable writing program, The Writer's Studio. Originally from Vancouver, Canada, she currently resides in Bali, Indonesia.
Crystal Bowden is a poet, collagist, and writing coach living outside Atlanta. She prefers to hide away in the woods, chugging coffee, covered in cats. You can find her poetry and collage work featured in Dreamers Magazine, Unlost Journal, Humankind Zine, and zines from Riotgrrl Press.
Hayley-Jenifer Brennan is an emerging writer and poet from Ireland. She is inspired by the Moon, the Star, the Winter, and the Rain. She hopes there is a touch of magic in everything she writes.
Elliott Carter wants to make poems that are landscapes of solace. (Most of the time). She is a student at the University of Virginia, majoring in poetry writing. There, she has also competed on and coached the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational team. Her poems speak on her experiences as a trans woman who is a survivor of relationship abuse, depression, and recovery. Though weary of storylines that appear to be linear, she hopes, with poetics, to encourage the insight that may lead to a more mended life.
Keshe Chow is a Malaysian-born Chinese Australian that lives in Melbourne with three humans and two cats. She has written for animal-related magazines and academic journals. Recently, her prize-winning short story was published in the Perito Anthology 2020.
Christina Ciufo is a passionate writer in poetry, short stories, flash fictions, fables, and completing her first novel. After graduating Sacred Heart University with a BA in English, she continued to expand her writing abilities at Manhattanville College’s MFA Creative Writing Program and by May 2017, graduated with an MFA degree in Creative Writing. She completed Sacred Heart University's Education Program in December 2018 with a MAT in Teaching in both elementary and secondary. She is currently a Sunday School Teacher at St. Timothy's. She has appeared in numerous magazines including Spillwords, Ovunque Siamo, Nymphs, Vamp Cat Magazine, Nightingale & Sparrow, Truly Review, Mookychick, Door is a Jar Magazine, Twist in Time Magazine, Moonchild Magazine, The Wolf Feeds Poetry, Crêpe & Penn, Marias at Sampaguitas, Cauldron Anthology, dream walking, Selcouth Station Magazine, The Wild Literary Magazine, Speculate This Magazine, Analogies & Allegories Literary Magazine, and The Clay Literary Magazine.
Seirce Mhac Conghail is a student of English and Irish at Trinity College Dublin. Their work has featured in New Critique, Anser Journal, and Dodging the Rain, among others.
Jason de Koff is an associate professor of agronomy and soil science at Tennessee State University. He lives in Nashville, TN with his wife, Jaclyn, and his two daughters, Tegan and Maizie. He has published in a number of scientific journals, and has over 60 poems published or forthcoming in literary journals in his first year of publishing poetry.
Jake De Meio-Tatti is a freelance artist in Tropical Far North Australia. His inspiration comes from the unique and diverse land that he lives in surrounded by nature. He also has a big love for fairytales and folklore.
Ed Doerr is a teacher and the author of the poetry chapbook 'Sauteing Spinach With My Aunt' (Desert Willow Press, 2018). He was recently selected as a featured poet for the July 2020 issue of Cathexis Northwest Press. Other words can be found in or are forthcoming from Water/Stone Review, Hippocampus Magazine, The American Journal of Poetry, Sky Island Journal, Trampset, One Teen Story, Dreams Walking, Perhappened, Parentheses, & more. Readers can follow him on Twitter (@EdDoerrWrites), read his TV blog (overstuffeddvr.com), and visit his website (eddoerr.com).
Margot Douaihy, PhD, is the author of Scranton Lace (Clemson University Press) and Girls Like You (Clemson University Press), a Lambda Literary Finalist. Her writing has been featured in PBS NewsHour, Colorado Review, North American Review, The Florida Review, Mystery Tribune, South Carolina Review, Madison Review, Adirondack Review, and Wisconsin Review.
Brianna R. Duffin is a writer of poetry, novels, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. She studies English at Rosemont College with the hope of earning an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in Publishing in a few years' time. She lives in Philadelphia, PA and has been published in literary magazines such as Turnpike. She also shares her work on Medium @briannarduffin.
Hannah Edge is a 37-year-old pansexual, autistic poet based in the Midlands, England. Her poetry and short stories have featured in Girl 2 Girl (a Diva Magazine anthology), Poetry Pool 3, In The Red and Little Giants Magazine. She was shortlisted for the 2019 National Poetry Day #speakyourtruth competition with her poem, Autistic Sensibilities. Her debut collection “Those Days, These Days” is available from 1st Jan 2021.
Melanie Eisner lives in Takoma Park, MD and is a psychotherapist in private practice. Melanie received an MA in Social Sciences with a focus in Cultural Psychology and Masters in Social Work from the University of Chicago. She has been writing and drawing for many years. This is her first published work of visual art.
Kelly Esparza is a graduate from the University of Arizona with a B.A. in English and a B.A. in Creative Writing. She is the author of The World as Seen Through My Eyes (Kindle Direct Publishing, 2019) and the co-author of Out of This World! (Make Way for Books, 2020). Her work has also appeared in 433 Magazine, Dwelling Literary, and The Mark Literary Review.
Ivanka Fear is a Slovenian born writer and former teacher residing in midwestern Ontario, Canada. She holds a B.A. and B.Ed., majoring in English and French literature, from Western University. Her poems and short stories appear in or are forthcoming in Spadina Literary Review, Montreal Writes, Spillwords, Commuterlit, Canadian Stories, Adelaide Literary, October Hill, Scarlet Leaf Review, Polar Borealis, Lighten Up, Bewildering Stories, The Sirens Call, Utopia Science Fiction, The Literary Hatchet, Wellington Street Review, Aphelion, Sad Girl Review, Tales From the Moonlit Path, Muddy River Poetry Review, Unfading Daydream, Understorey, Suspense Magazine, Close to the Bone, and Drunken Pen Writing. She has completed her fifth mystery/suspense novel, and is currently looking for an agent. You can read more about her at https://ivankafear.wix.com/mysite
Chloe Gorman is a poet & short story author based in Cheltenham, UK. Her poetry explores gothic & romantic themes aiming to bring a dark beauty to her work. She has had several poems published in journals including Black Bough, Pink Plastic House, Mookychick & Royal Rose.
N. E. Griffin lives in Arlington, VA and works for the federal government. She is a lifelong writer and poet whose work recently appeared in the Constellate Literary Journal and the Dear Leader Tales anthology by Feral Cat Publishers. She also has a piece of flash fiction forthcoming in the Pages Penned in Pandemic print collective by Kayla King Books. You can follow her on Instagram and Twitter @n_e_griffin.
Adilene Hernández is a queer Latina poet, writer, and educator based out of Atlanta, GA. She was accepted as a Fall 2020 HUES Scholar and is an alumna of the In Surreal Life Poetry Workshop, Winter Tangerine, and the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop. She is currently studying for her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Her work has been published in “Faceless Brown Masses” (Tintero Projects, 2020) and she is currently at work on her first YA novel and her first poetry book. She can be found on Twitter @hernandezadili
Anisha Kaul is a poet with Masters in English Literature, presently living in New Delhi, India. Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in Briefly Zine, Ink Drinkers Poetry, From the Farther Trees, Glitchwords, The Indian Feminist Review, Dwelling Literary, Kingz Daily, The Minison Project, Beir Bua Journal, Small Leaf Press, Analogies & Allegories Literary Magazine, and Visual Verse, among others. She is also a budding researcher and is currently working to pursue the same. You can reach out to her on twitter @anishakaul9.
Aisling Kearney lives in Dublin. She recently completed her BA in Bioengineering in Trinity College Dublin. When she isn't writing and crushing rat femurs for research, she enjoys cooking and listening to true crime podcasts.
Conor Kenny lives in the West of Ireland where he tries to write flash and short fiction and comics. Occasionally, he manages it, probably in spite of himself.
Gurupreet K. Khalsa is a current resident of Mobile, Alabama, having lived previously in Ohio, Washington State, India, New Mexico, and California. She is a former English teacher and holds a Ph.D. in Instructional Design. She is a part time professor for online graduate courses in Education.
Lynn M. Knapp is a poet, teacher, and musician. She is the author of Giving Ground (2017), a book of lyric and narrative poetry celebrating one of the oldest neighborhoods in the Pacific Northwest. The grit, grime, and unexpected beauty of the central city inspire her life and her writing.
Dr. Sneha Krishnan (b.1987) trained to be a researcher in the interstices of development, health and disasters. One day she grew tired of the world of research that converted people's life stories into data and evidence, and instead dived deep into the world of telling stories with prose, poetry and photographs. Her poetry, essays and stories have been published in The Conversation, Helter Skelter, Belongg, Jaggery Lit, Feminism in India, Medium and The Wire. She has a PhD in Environment Engineering from University College London.
Jacqueline Kudler lives in Sausalito, California and teach classes in memoir writing and literature at the College of Marin in Kentfield. Her poems have appeared in numerous reviews, magazines, and anthologies. Her first full length poetry collection, Sacred Precinct, was published by Sixteen Rivers Press, San Francisco, in 2003; her second, Easing into Dark, in 2012. She was awarded the Marin Arts Council Board Award in 2005, and the Marin Poetry Center Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010.
Rafiat Lamidi is a Nigerian artist who loves poetry and photography. She is also an escapist who finds solace in books, films and television series.
Joyce Liu is a teenage poet from Ottawa, Canada. When she's not writing she can be found taking long walks in the woods and watching Formula 1 races. More of her work can be found in released and upcoming issues of The Hearth, Anser Journal, and Burning Jade Literary & Arts Magazine, as well as at https://colourofinfinity.tumblr.com/
Leah McCay is a twenty-three year old inspiring writer, who hopes to someday share with the world the words and the stories, which exist inside the creative landscape of her mind. Born and raised in Ireland, Leah is a recent graduate of English Literature from Queen's University Belfast.
Dr. Pallavi Narayan's visual art has been published in Nightingale & Sparrow, The Lumiere Review and Beyond Words Literary Magazine. Her articles, poetry, and book and performance reviews have been published in literary journals including Scroll, The Curious Reader, Kitaab, Esplanade Singapore, Impermanent Earth, Jala, Jotted by Bound India, The Initial Journal, We Are A Website, Muse India, The Book Review and Commonwealth Business News, and anthologies such as Mixtape by Genre: Urban Arts (forthcoming), Poetry in the Time of Coronavirus, Asingbol: An Archaeology of the Singaporean Poetic Form, SingPoWriMo 2015, 40 Under 40: An Anthology of Post-Globalization Poetry and Dilli: An Anthology of Women Poets of Delhi.
Dr. Pallavi Narayan's visual art has been published in Nightingale & Sparrow, The Lumiere Review and Beyond Words Literary Magazine. Her articles, poetry, and book and performance reviews have been published in literary journals including Scroll, The Curious Reader, Kitaab, Esplanade Singapore, Impermanent Earth, Jala, Jotted by Bound India, The Initial Journal, We Are A Website, Muse India, The Book Review and Commonwealth Business News, and anthologies such as Mixtape by Genre: Urban Arts (forthcoming), Poetry in the Time of Coronavirus, Asingbol: An Archaeology of the Singaporean Poetic Form, SingPoWriMo 2015, 40 Under 40: An Anthology of Post-Globalization Poetry and Dilli: An Anthology of Women Poets of Delhi.
Dr. Pallavi Narayan's visual art has been published in Nightingale & Sparrow, The Lumiere Review and Beyond Words Literary Magazine. Her articles, poetry, and book and performance reviews have been published in literary journals including Scroll, The Curious Reader, Kitaab, Esplanade Singapore, Impermanent Earth, Jala, Jotted by Bound India, The Initial Journal, We Are A Website, Muse India, The Book Review and Commonwealth Business News, and anthologies such as Mixtape by Genre: Urban Arts (forthcoming), Poetry in the Time of Coronavirus, Asingbol: An Archaeology of the Singaporean Poetic Form, SingPoWriMo 2015, 40 Under 40: An Anthology of Post-Globalization Poetry and Dilli: An Anthology of Women Poets of Delhi.
Dr. Pallavi Narayan's visual art has been published in Nightingale & Sparrow, The Lumiere Review and Beyond Words Literary Magazine. Her articles, poetry, and book and performance reviews have been published in literary journals including Scroll, The Curious Reader, Kitaab, Esplanade Singapore, Impermanent Earth, Jala, Jotted by Bound India, The Initial Journal, We Are A Website, Muse India, The Book Review and Commonwealth Business News, and anthologies such as Mixtape by Genre: Urban Arts (forthcoming), Poetry in the Time of Coronavirus, Asingbol: An Archaeology of the Singaporean Poetic Form, SingPoWriMo 2015, 40 Under 40: An Anthology of Post-Globalization Poetry and Dilli: An Anthology of Women Poets of Delhi.
Dr. Pallavi Narayan's visual art has been published in Nightingale & Sparrow, The Lumiere Review and Beyond Words Literary Magazine. Her articles, poetry, and book and performance reviews have been published in literary journals including Scroll, The Curious Reader, Kitaab, Esplanade Singapore, Impermanent Earth, Jala, Jotted by Bound India, The Initial Journal, We Are A Website, Muse India, The Book Review and Commonwealth Business News, and anthologies such as Mixtape by Genre: Urban Arts (forthcoming), Poetry in the Time of Coronavirus, Asingbol: An Archaeology of the Singaporean Poetic Form, SingPoWriMo 2015, 40 Under 40: An Anthology of Post-Globalization Poetry and Dilli: An Anthology of Women Poets of Delhi.
Yamini Negi is a full-time student and part-time memes dealer. Her poetry tries to express the inner turmoil that feels personal, but has a universal identity. When not writing, she can be found reading in some corner of her world. Her work was recently published in Re-side Zine.
Allene Nichols is an avid teacher, writer, backpacker and photographer. Her photography has appeared in Lifting the Sky: Southwestern Haiku and Haiga and Unearthed. Her poetry has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including: Veils, Halos, and Shackles and Impossible Archetype. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English-Teacher’s Education at Mississippi University for Women.
Allene Nichols is an avid teacher, writer, backpacker and photographer. Her photography has appeared in Lifting the Sky: Southwestern Haiku and Haiga and Unearthed. Her poetry has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including: Veils, Halos, and Shackles and Impossible Archetype. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English-Teacher’s Education at Mississippi University for Women.
Allene Nichols is an avid teacher, writer, backpacker and photographer. Her photography has appeared in Lifting the Sky: Southwestern Haiku and Haiga and Unearthed. Her poetry has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including: Veils, Halos, and Shackles and Impossible Archetype. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English-Teacher’s Education at Mississippi University for Women.
Allene Nichols is an avid teacher, writer, backpacker and photographer. Her photography has appeared in Lifting the Sky: Southwestern Haiku and Haiga and Unearthed. Her poetry has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including: Veils, Halos, and Shackles and Impossible Archetype. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English-Teacher’s Education at Mississippi University for Women.
Mandira Pattnaik's work has appeared in Eclectica, Panoplyzine, Not Very Quiet, New World Writing, Passages North, Watershed Review and EllipsisZine. She is a BotN, Pushcart and Best Microfiction nominee this year. Poetry is forthcoming in Variant Lit, Prime Number Magazine, West Trestle Review among other places.
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad is an Indian-Australian artist, poet, and pianist. Her recent artworks have been showcased in Otoliths, 3 AM Magazine, and The Amsterdam Quarterly, and on the covers of Ang(st) the body zine, Pithead Chapel, Uppagus, and The Rat’s Ass Review. New works are forthcoming in Kalopsia Lit, Fish food, Brown Bag Online, and elsewhere. She co-edits the Australian literary journal Authora Australis.
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad is an Indian-Australian artist, poet, and pianist. Her recent artworks have been showcased in Otoliths, 3 AM Magazine, and The Amsterdam Quarterly, and on the covers of Ang(st) the body zine, Pithead Chapel, Uppagus, and The Rat’s Ass Review. New works are forthcoming in Kalopsia Lit, Fish food, Brown Bag Online, and elsewhere. She co-edits the Australian literary journal Authora Australis.
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad is an Indian-Australian artist, poet, and pianist. Her recent artworks have been showcased in Otoliths, 3 AM Magazine, and The Amsterdam Quarterly, and on the covers of Ang(st) the body zine, Pithead Chapel, Uppagus, and The Rat’s Ass Review. New works are forthcoming in Kalopsia Lit, Fish food, Brown Bag Online, and elsewhere. She co-edits the Australian literary journal Authora Australis.
Ismim Putera (he/him) is a poet and writer from Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. His works have appeared in numerous on-line literary journals and is forthcoming in Men Matters Online Journals and Paper Djinn Lyric: An Anthology of Speculative Poetry. His debut poetry chapbook "Tide of Time" (Mug and Paper Publishing) will be published in January 2021.
Julia Retkova is a King’s College London graduate student with two degrees in Literature and Digital Studies. When not working on an app that connects foreigners with their family overseas, she's lucky enough to be running a small literary journal called Nymphs. She was born in Ukraine, but grew up in the south of Spain. She loves reading books in the sun and writing when everyone’s asleep.
Hannah Rovska-Strider is an MFA candidate at Stony Brook University. She lives in Southampton, NY with her unusually large collection of vintage Halloween decorations and a nice raccoon who taps on her window every night at 3 am.
Shane Schick's most recent poems have been published or are forthcoming in Red Adler Review, Gossamer Lit, Dwelling Literary and others. He is the founder of a publication about customer experience design called 360 Magazine, host of The Owned Media Observer podcast and a fashion blogger at Menshwere.ca. He lives in Toronto. More: ShaneSchick.com/poetry. Twitter: @shaneschick
Hibah Shabkhez is a writer of the half-yo literary tradition, an erratic language-learning enthusiast, and a happily eccentric blogger from Lahore, Pakistan. Her work has previously appeared in Bandit Fiction, Shot Glass Journal, Across The Margin, Panoplyzine, Feral, Literati Magazine, and a number of other literary magazines. Studying life, languages and literature from a comparative perspective across linguistic and cultural boundaries holds a particular fascination for her.
Ankita Sharma is a writer and artist from India. She has authored four titles. Her works have been published in various anthologies and lit mags including 'Lakdi Ka Pul'- I & II, BRAG, Versification Zine, Melbourne Culture Corner, Green Ink Poetry and the like. Her artworks have appeared on the cover pages of a few Indian and international books. She stays active on Instagram- ankita.s.26 and Twitter-AnkitaSharma_26
K.T. Slattery was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and grew up just across the state line in Mississippi. A graduate of Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama, she now lives in the West of Ireland with her husband and an ever-increasing amount of rescue pets. Her poetry and prose have been published in Ropes Literary Journal, Nightingale and Sparrow, The Siren’s Call, Three Drops from a Cauldron, Planet in Peril Anthology, The Blue Nib, Impspired, The Wellington Street Review, Analogies and Allegories, and Streetcake. She was shortlisted for the 2019 Nightingale and Sparrow Chapbook Competition and has was longlisted for the 2018 and 2019 Over the Edge New Writer of the Year. Most recently she received a special mention in the 2020 Desmond O’Grady Poetry Competition. Her debut poetry collection will be published by Hedgehog Press in September 2021.
Sam Smith is passionate about the power of poetry and, in the words of Denise Riley, wrote to ‘earth her heart’ after losing both her parents in the Covid Pandemic. A Person Centered Therapist with a special interest in Bibliotherapy, she lives and works in Hampshire, England. Sam has had work published by Ice Floe Press and Post Script, and was recently shortlisted for The Folklore Prize.
Mitchell Solomon studied Writing, Marketing, and Economics at Washington University in St. Louis, where he earned his B.S. in 2011. He now works in marketing in San Francisco. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Near Window, Pages Penned in Pandemic: A Collective, Under the Wires, and GLITCHWORDS.
Bri Stoever is an MFA candidate at Iowa State University studying Creative Writing and Environment. She is most interested in the connection between humans and their environments including the natural world, society, and our own minds. Her work has been published in Sequel, the Indianola Review, Mineral Lit Mag, and upcoming in Auroras & Blossoms.
Ana Sun (pronounced “Soon”) writes from the edge of an ancient town along the River Ouse in the south-east of England. She spent her childhood in Malaysian Borneo, and has lived on two other islands prior to moving to the UK. In another life, she might have been a musician, an anthropologist—or a botanist obsessed with edible flowers.
Ana Sun (pronounced “Soon”) writes from the edge of an ancient town along the River Ouse in the south-east of England. She spent her childhood in Malaysian Borneo, and has lived on two other islands prior to moving to the UK. In another life, she might have been a musician, an anthropologist—or a botanist obsessed with edible flowers.
Irmak Taner is learning how to share what she sees and what she dreams. She is an anthropologist, photographer and lover of sunlight on water.
Libby Taylor is a 20-year-old writer from Britain. She studies English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Lincoln and works as a contributing writer for magazines/newspapers such as The Linc, The Indiependent and The Collective Magazine. She loves to write short stories and recently published her very own poetry book, Ethereality. Her star sign is Leo.
Anna Thorne is an American abstract photographer whose work focusses on the mystical nature of light. She also works with poetry and short stories as another medium to share her belief that within each of us there is a light of eternal peace waiting to be discovered.
Sher Ting has lived in Singapore for 19 years before spending the next 5 years in medical school in Australia. She has work published/forthcoming in Trouvaille Review, Eunoia Review, Tunafish Journal and Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine, among others. She is currently an editor of a creative arts-sharing space, known as INLY Arts. She writes at downintheholocene.wordpress.com and tweets at @sherttt
Manuel Valero is a Latino twenty-two-year-old raised in Central Florida. He enjoys Broadway musicals, painting outdoors, and high-stakes board games. His writing consists of poems, short stories, and flash fiction.
Sarah Jean Valiquette is a queer white settler living and working on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. She is an actor, an internationally published poet and photographer, and the creator and curator of the (re)markable project. She has a BFA from the University of Victoria and has studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and the Banff Centre for the Arts. Her work has been published by Oratorealis Magazine, Queer Dot, Sapphic Writers Collective, Raven Review, Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine, Dog House Press, Emotional Alchemy, Cotelydon, Viscaria, Memoira Magazine, Porridge Magazine, and more- as well as in her first chapbook “Little Rebellions” which came out in 2019. You can find her online at www.sarahjeanvaliquette.com and on Instagram at @essjay.v
Hye-won Yoo is a 16-year-old girl that attends Washtenaw International High School in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Ever since she could remember, she has taken refuge in between the comforting lines of stories. Writing and reading have always been where she could truly express herself and she hopes to help others feel the same way. When she isn't writing short stories or working on her novel, she can be found hanging out with her friends, cuddling with her dog Dorito, or reading a textbook on psychology.
Danae Younge is a young-adult, biracial writer currently pursuing a BA at Occidental College. Her work has been internationally recognized and is published/forthcoming in Pulp Poets Press, Susquehanna Review, Vita Brevis Magazine, Palette Point, Rogue Agent Journal, Mason Street Magazine, and others. She was a national winner selected by the Live Poets Society of New Jersey to be featured in Just Poetry!!! Literary Magazine and was awarded third place in the It’s All Write international competition. You can read more of Danae’s writing at www.danaeyounge.com