Cynthia Bernard’s 70th birthday managed to catch up with her late last year, even though she did an impressive job of growing out her hair and wearing tie-dye dresses at music festivals. At least this didn’t force her to leave her home — on a hill overlooking the ocean, about 25 miles south of San Francisco — nor her wonderful husband, who sees her through loving eyes (okay, vision fades with age, okay, isn’t that nice for an older couple?). She’s winding down a long and often satisfying career as a classroom teacher, grades 6-12 maths and science, plus many years teaching incarcerated youth and adults. She teaches part-time now, online from home, one student at a time, leaving her lots of time for the joys and the frustrations of writing.
Her poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction have been published in a number of journals and anthologies, including Multiplicity Magazine, Heimat Review, The Beatnik Cowboy, The Journal of Radical Wonder, Witcraft,The Bluebird Word, Passager, Persimmon Tree, Poetry Breakfast, and Verse-Virtual. She was selected by Western Rivers Conservancy to serve as the Poet-Protector of Deer Creek Falls in the northern Sierra Nevada foothills.
Our weekly podcast features the stories from recently published issues, often narrated by the authors themselves.
Margaret lives the good life on a small piece of rural New South Wales Australia, with an amazing man, a couple of pets, and several rambunctious wombats.
...
My time at Nambucca Valley Community Radio began back in 2016 after moving into the area from Sydney.
Geraldine Borella writes fiction for children, young adults and adults. Her work has been published by Deadset Press, IFWG Publishing, Wombat Books/Rhiza Edge, AHWA/Midnight Echo, Antipodean SF, Shacklebound Books, Black Ink Fiction, Paramour Ink Fiction, House of Loki and Raven & Drake
Ed lives with his wife plus a magical assortment of native animals in tropical North Queensland.
Tim Borella is an Australian author, mainly of short speculative fiction published in anthologies, online and in podcasts.
Sarah Jane Justice is an Adelaide-based fiction writer, poet, musician and spoken word artist.
Barry Yedvobnick is a recently retired Biology Professor. He performed molecular biology and genetic research, and taught, at Emory University in Atlanta for 34 years. He is new to fiction writing, and enjoys taking real science a step or two beyond its known boundaries in his
Sarah Pratt is an avid fiction writer and a Marketing Consultant.
Emma Louise Gill (she/her) is a British-Australian spec fic writer and consumer of vast amounts of coffee. Brought up on a diet of English lit, she rebelled and now spends her time writing explosive space opera and other fantastical things in
Merri Andrew writes poetry and short fiction, some of which has appeared in Cordite, Be:longing, Baby Teeth and Islet, among other places.
Chuck McKenzie was born in 1970, and still spends much of his time there.
Mark is an astrophysicist and space scientist who worked on the Cassini/Huygens mission to Saturn. Following this he worked in computer consultancy, engineering, and high energy research (with a stint at the JET Fusion Torus).
Alistair Lloyd is a Melbourne based writer and narrator who has been consuming good quality science fiction and fantasy most of his life.