Gabriela Marie Milton is an Amazon bestselling and award winning poet, and an internationally published author. She is the author of the #1 best-selling poetry collection Woman: Splendor and Sorrow: | Love Poems and Poetic Prose, and the author of Passions: Love Poems and Other Writings. She edited and curated the #1 bestselling anthologies Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women (EIF, 2022) and Hidden in Childhood: A Poetry Anthology (Literary Revelations, 2023).

Gabriela is the former editor of MasicadoresUSA. Her poetry and short prose have appeared in various magazines and anthologies. Under the pen name Gabriela M she was awarded 2019 Author of the Year at Spillwords Press (NYC). Her piece "If I say I love you" was nominated for 2020 Spillwords Press Publication of the Year (Poetic). On July 6, 2021, Gabriela was featured in New York Glamour Magazine. You can read her interview here: https://nyglamour.net/keep-going-greatness-always-encounters-resistance-gabriela-marie-milton/

Megha Sood is a Pushcart Nominated Award-Winning Poet, Editor, Author, and Literary Activist based in New Jersey, USA. She is an Associate Editor at MookyChick(UK), Life and Legends (USA), and Literary Partner in the project “Life in Quarantine'' with Stanford University, USA. Works featured in journals, including Poetry Society of New York, New York Public Library zine, NPR, WNYC Studio, PBS American Portrait, American Writers Review, Stanford Daily, Kissing Dynamite, Rising Phoenix Review, and many more.Blogs at https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/.Tweets at @meghasood16

Co-Editor of anthologies ( “The Medusa Project”, Mookychick) and (“The Kali Project, Indie Blu(e) Press).“The Medusa Project” has been selected as a digital payload to be sent to the moon in 2023 as part of the historical LunarCodex Project in collaboration with NASA/SpaceX.

She is a recipient of Poet Fellowship 2021 MVICW (Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing), 2020 National Level Winner Spring Mahogany Lit Prize, and Three-Time State-level winner of NJ Poetry Contest. Recipient of “Certificate of Excellence” from Mayor, Stephen Fulop, Jersey City. New Jersey.

She is a member of the United Nations Association- US Chapter (UNA-USA), National League of American Pen Women ( NLAPW), and Women’s National Book Associations (WNBA).

Performing venues includes New York Poetry Festival, Paterson Poetry Festival, Nuyorican Cafe, Hudson County Community College, Historic Apple Tree House, Newark Arts Festival, Panorama International Literary Festival, FEMINEN Turkey Arts Festival, and many more.

Jaya Avendel is a word witch from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, writing family into fantasy through poetry and prose. With writing published at a diverse range of online poetry magazines and journals, she is also a contributing poetess to many poetry anthologies, all of which appear here. She writes and dreams at www.ninchronicles.com

Gonzalo Adolfo is a Bolivian-American writer and author of the forthcoming poetic travelogues, Give Me a Home & I Walk the Earth, the novels, No Rush for Gold & Golden Rushes, and the mixed poetry & prose volume, Gone to War.

Chelsea Bunn is the author of Forgiveness (Finishing Line Press, 2019), which was a finalist for the New Mexico/Arizona Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Book Award, and the Paris Book Festival Award, a semi-finalist in the New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition, and received an honorable mention for the New England Poetry Club's Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize. Her poems appear in publications in print and online, including Best New Poets, The Iowa Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, and other journals and anthologies. She earned her MFA in Poetry and her BA in English at Hunter College, where she was awarded a teaching fellowship and a Norma Lubetsky Friedman Scholarship. A recipient of the Rita Dove Award in Poetry, the Charter Oak Award, and a New Mexico Writers Grant, she was twice awarded the Academy of American Poets Catalina Páez & Seumas MacManus Prize, was selected as Thinker in Residence by Art in Odd Places, was named a Best New Poet of 2018, and was a finalist for the Lit Fest Fellowship for Emerging Writers, Frontier Poetry's Industry Award, the Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize, the Marica and Jan Vilcek Prize for Poetry, and the Tom Howard Prize in Poetry. Her work has received recognition from The National Federation of State Poetry Societies, Poetry Society of America, The Alpine Fellowship Foundation, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, Georgetown Review, and elsewhere. Born and raised in NYC, she currently lives and teaches in New Mexico.

Vita Brevis Press is a bestselling small publisher dedicated to emerging and established poets, circulating their work in an online magazine and in physical anthologies. Vita Brevis Poetry Magazine publishes some of the best emerging poets out there, pairing their work with tonally relevant artwork.

About the Author: Ivor Steven

Ivor is a former Industrial Chemist, who then at 30 years old, became a plumber, until his recent retirement. In September 2000 he suffered a stroke and started writing poetry as part of his rehabilitation process. He has had numerous poems published, in on-line magazines such as, Vita Brevis. SpillWords, Drabble, Wolff Poetry Journal, Festival of Poetry, Slasher Monster Magazine, Fae Corps Publishing, Free Verse Revolution and Red Wolf Journal. He is an active member of the Geelong Writers Inc. and many of his poems are published in their Anthologies. In August 2019 he was appointed as a team member/barista with the ‘Go Dog Go Café’ on-line blog/magazine group. Between the years 1983 and 2012 Ivor was also the primary career for his wife, who suffered from the severe MS illness, and his devotion to her is evident throughout his poems

Brian Geiger is the chief editor of Vita Brevis Press.