Jim Ross jumped into creative pursuits in 2015 after a rewarding career in public health research. With graduate degree from Howard University, in eight years he’s published nonfiction, fiction, poetry, photography, hybrid, and plays in 175 journals on five continents. Photo publications include Barnstorm, Bombay Gin, Burningword, Camas, Columbia Journal, DASH, Feral, Stoneboat, Stonecoast, Typehouse, and Whitefish, with Glassworks, Peatsmoke, and Phoebe forthcoming. Jim’s text-based photo-essays include Barren, DASH, Kestrel, Ilanot Review, Litro, NWW, Sweet, Typehouse, and Wordpeace. He recently wrote/acted in a one act play and appeared in a documentary limited series broadcast internationally. Jim and family split time between city and mountains.
Lisa Rigge is an artist living in Pleasanton, CA. She is a photographer whose photographs and/or collages have been published in The Sun Magazine, LensWork, Passager Books Pandemic Diaries, and 3Elements. Her articles, poetry and/or journal writing have been published in Passager Books Pandemic Diaries, Dream Time Magazine, and The Rose in the World. Along with being passionate about doing artwork, she enjoys hiking and taking road trips with her husband and her dog, Sheeba.
Paul Rabinowitz is an author, poet, photographer and founder of ARTS By The People. His works appear in The Sun Magazine, New World Writing, Evening Street Press, The Montreal Review and elsewhere. Rabinowitz was a featured artist in Nailed Magazine in 2020 and Mud Season Review in 2022. He is the author of The Clay Urn, Confluence and Limited Light, a book of prose and portrait photography, which stems from his Limited Light photo series, nominated for Best of the Net in 2021. His poems and fiction are the inspiration for 5 award winning short films. His first book of poems called truth, love and the lines in between (Finishing Line Press) is due out in 2023. paulrabinowitz.com
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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