Jim Ross jumped into creative pursuits in 2015 after a rewarding career in public health research. With a graduate degree from Howard University, in nine years, he has published nonfiction, fiction, poetry, photography, hybrid works, interviews, and plays in nearly 200 journals on five continents. Photo publications include Alchemy Spoon, Barnstorm, Burningword, Camas, Feral, Invisible City, Orion, Phoebe, and Stonecoast. Photo-essays include DASH, Kestrel, Litro, NWW, Paperbark, Pilgrimage, Sweet, and Typehouse. Recently nominated for Best of the Net in Nonfiction and Art, he also wrote/acted in a one-act play and appeared in a documentary limited series broadcast internationally. Jim’s family splits time between the city and the mountains.
Madeline Eunji Lee is a freshman at the Spence School in New York. She is deeply interested in enhancing everyday life through art and design. By closely observing ordinary scenes—like crosswalks or school fields—she seeks to view them through an artist’s eye, uncovering deeper layers of meaning and potential use. Her work reflects a thoughtful approach to reimagining the familiar.
Mathieu Fournier is a French visual artist based in Paris. His work explores transitional spaces—between the real and the imagined, the intimate and the collective—through photography, digital art, and painting. He creates visual metaphors of emotional states and inner landscapes through the use of abstraction, layering, and poetic composition.
Veronica Scharf Garcia has exhibited extensively in South Florida, California, New Jersey, and Peru. She was awarded four residencies as an associate artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna, Florida, and the Deering Estate in Miami, Florida. She was also selected as a member artist at Oolite Art Center, Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, and the Bakehouse, Miami. She currently lives in Europe.
Todd J. Donery is a Minneapolis-based freelance photographer, photo assistant, camera operator, and stagehand. He earned his degree in photography and digital imaging at Minneapolis Community and Technical College. He has also attended Minneapolis College of Art and Design and studied film at Minneapolis Community College. Todd has had numerous solo and group exhibits of his photography and published photos in online journals and print publications. Todd has worked with musical acts to create album cover art, promo photos, event captures, and visuals for live performances. He enjoys working with start-ups and small businesses, photographing their products and personnel to help them establish their presence and grow their business. Todd also donates his time and talents to nonprofit organizations and fellow artists and is also a founding member of the Homewood Photo Collective in the Twin Cities. The submitted photographic works by Todd, Empty Night, and Quiet are examples of his taking a new look at what he sees almost every day in the world, capturing a moment in time that will never be seen the same. This persistence of vision allows us to understand in a new way that what we see every day looks different each time we see it.
Featuring: Issue 117, published January 2026, features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and visual art by Amy Agape, Lizbeth Bárcena, Joan E. Bauer, Tetman Callis, June Chua, Carlos Cunha, Steven Deutsch, John Dorroh, DM Frech, Avital Gad-Cykman, Jamey Hecht, Richard Holinger, Michael Horton, Dotty LeMieux, Priscilla Long, Grace Lynn, Robert Miner, Jim Ross, Fabio Sassi, Kyle Selley, Sarah Sorensen, Kimm Brockett Stammen, Billie Jean Stratton, Michelle Strausbaugh, Emma Sywyj, Cindy Wheeler, Holly Willis, Francine Witte, Holly Redell Witte, and Alina Zollfrank.
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