Find out more about the fabulous writers who have contributed to The Lemonwood Quarterly! We are greatly indebted to our past contributors.
Kevin B (he/they) is a writer and poet from New England. His work has been published in Esoterica, New Plains Review, Molecule, Havik, and Qu. He is the George Lila Award Winner for Short Fiction, and the Barely Seen Featured Poet of 2023. Kevin can be found on Instagram: KBJR0719 Their story, ‘Lavender Ink’ appears in the Spring 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Sophia Baryalai is an Afghan American writer based in Austin, Texas. Her fiction explores themes of aging, love after loss, and the quiet inheritances of womanhood. She is particularly interested in stories that honor tenderness, memory, and the lives of women often overlooked in literature. She is currently at work on a collection of stories about late-life transformation and emotional reclamation. Her story, ‘Let This Not Be the End of Me‘ appears in the Summer 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Steven Bryan Bieler worked in journalism and technology and in industries that will never be featured on Netflix. He won the 2022 Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest, judged by Allegra Goodman. He lives in Bellingham, Washington, with his wife, the mystery writer Deborah Donnelly, his books, and their dogs. Visit his somnolent writing blog: stevenbieler.com
His story, ‘Two Tickets to Gumstump’ appears in the Spring 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Shannon Brennen Ramdhan is based in the Lake-Erie-abutting suburbs of Cleveland, where she daily resists the urge to become a work-from-home hermit and forces herself to take long walks, lest she gather dust. She cut her writing teeth at Columbia College Chicago, earning her BA in Fiction Writing while working at an imports grocer on Chicago’s far north side (both contributed equally to her holistic education). She lived in Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco before returning to her home state of Ohio, where she thinks she’ll probably stay, because it’s quiet and she likes the birds there. She is currently raising children, working in marketing, and writing in the quiet moments in between. She is a member of Literary Cleveland, the Ohio Writers’ Association, and Pen Parentis. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The South Loop Review, Ink Stains, Story Tapes, and Golden Gate Mothers Group Magazine. You can find more of Shannon’s work at https://shannonbrennenramdhan.substack.com. Her story, ‘Goddess‘, appears in the Summer 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
S. D. Brown was born in Kingston, Jamaica. She received a B.A from The New School for Social Research in New York City, and a M.S. in Literacy from Adelphi University. Her short story entitled “A View from Across the Soursop Tree” was published in theAnthurium: University of Miami. Her work has appeared in Stockholm University’s Two Thirds North, University of Northampton’s Journal of Postcolonial Writing, and the Adelaide Literary Magazine. Several of her short stories have been published in The Caribbean Writer, including “Love with the Calypso Cricketer,” “Love and Decline Amid the Crown Heights Riots,” and “Another Country But The Same Ole Friggin’ Story.” S.D. Brown is a member of the International Women Writers’ Guild. Her story, ‘Heat‘ appears in the Winter 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Lucy Caird is new to writing, but recently had a short story published in BFS Horizons and came second place in LA’s Writers of the Future. She is a graduate of Curtis Brown’s mentor program for fiction writers, and the WriteMentor program. From the north of Scotland originally, Lucy has lived in Los Angeles for thirteen years. From a creative perspective, she is particularly fascinated by the delicate balance between humanity and the natural world. Drawing on vivid settings and emotional landscapes, she explores themes of resilience and isolation through stories that blur the boundaries between civilization and wilderness. Her story, ‘Company of Thieves‘ appears in the Summer 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Andrea Chesman is the author of more than twenty cookbooks, mostly focusing on preparing food from the garden and homestead. Her fiction has appeared in Green Mountains Review, TheBangalore Review, Fresh Ink,Blue Lake Review,Montana Mouthful, Sad Girls Club,The Offbeat, and Touchstone Literary Magazine, among others. It has been collected in two anthologies, Twisted, published by Medusa’s Laugh Press, which nominated her story for a Pushcart Prize, and in Inkwell Alchemy’s Whimsy: A Literary Antidote to Doom and Gloom. You can read more about her at andreachesman.com. Her story, ‘Her First Choice’ appears in the Spring 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Sean Cho A. is a writer from the Midwest. Sean’s story, ‘Artifacts of a Human System‘ appears in the Summer 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
David Cody is a graduate of Binghamton University, a retired civil servant and current track and cross-country coach at Binghamton High School in upstate New York. His short fiction has appeared in The Seattle Review, Mayday, Ragazine and other publications. His story “April Third” was featured in the 2021 gun violence anthology Humans in the Wild. Since 2019, he has served as an assistant editor for Narrative Magazine. He can be reached at davidcody15@yahoo.com. His story, ‘God is Still Speaking‘ appears in the Winter 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Nancy Cook runs “The Witness Project,” a program of community writing workshops in Minneapolis designed to enable creative work by underrepresented voices. A social practice artist, she is particularly focused on intersections of geography, history, and cultural heritage in her work, some of which has recently appeared in McNeese Review, Cutleaf Journal, and Gulf Coast Journal. Nancy’s pronouns are She/Her/Hers. You can find out more about Nancy and her work on her website NancyLCook.com. You can subscribe to her weekly blog by emailing nancycook.email@gmail.com. Her story, ‘When a Stranger Comes In‘ appears in the Winter 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Jeanine DeHoney’s writing has been published in Mused-The Bella Online Literary Review, Timbooktu, Mutha Magazine, Literary Mama, Please See Me, Jerry Jazz Musician, Rigorous Magazine, Soul In Space Magazine, Gemini Literary Magazine, Wow: Women on Writing, The Dirty Spoon Radio Hour and Journal, MER, No More Margins, and many other literary magazines. She is an essayist in anthologies by: Black Lawrence Press (Mamas, Martyrs, and Jezebels); Black Freighter Press (When We Exhale); BLF Press(Black Joy Unbound); and in Zora’s Den (The Fire Inside III). She was the 2014 winner and a 2022 semifinalist of the Brooklyn Arts and Film Festival Nonfiction Contest. She won first prize for prose in The Blossom Contest hosted by table//FEAST, Editor’s pick for Five Minutes Literary Journal, and has been second place or shortlisted in several other contests. Jeanine was named a 2022 Honor Award winner by Sleeping Bear Press’s Own Voices Own Stories Collection for her children’s picture book, published by Sleeping Bear Press in August 2025. Jeanine’s story, ‘The Photo Session‘ appears in the Winter 2026 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly and her ‘Sunday Supper’ can be found in the magazine’s Spring 2025 issue.
Lisa del Rosso originally trained as a classical singer and completed a post-graduate program at LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art), living and performing in London before moving to New York City. Her plays Clare’s Room and Samaritan have been performed Off-Broadway, while St. John was a semi-finalist for the 2011 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. Del Rosso’s latest play, Never Let You Go —published here in the adapted version Those Who We Keep— was given a reading at Theater for the New City, New York City, in April 2024. Her writing has appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, Etched Onyx Magazine, The Night Heron Barks, Ran Off with the Star Bassoon, The Chillfiltr Review, Serving House Journal, Vietnam War Poetry, The Huffington Post, Jetlag Café (Germany), and One Magazine (London/UK). Del Rosso was interviewed on Brian Lehrer’s WNYC radio program after her first book, Confessions of an Accidental Professor, was published in 2018. Her second book, You Are All a Part of Me, for which she also recorded the audiobook version, was published in 2021. In 2022, her essay “By Choice” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She is the recipient of a 2018 NYU (New York University) College of Arts & Sciences Teaching Award, where she currently teaches writing.
Website: http://www.ldelrosso.com/
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Her playscript, ‘Those Who We Keep‘ appears in the Spring 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Cynthia Dorfman lives in Berkeley California. She is a native of Shreveport, Louisiana, and a graduate of Harvard and UC Berkeley School of Law. Her writing, fiction and nonfiction, has been recognized by and/or appeared in publications including Glimmer Train, Gravel, Waterbridge Review, and California Lawyer. Cynthia’s story, ‘Fiction‘ appears in the Winter 2026 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Racheal Fest is a writer and critic based in Central New York. Her critical and creative work has appeared in venues such as Colorado Review, Entropy, Mediations, Jump Cut and Politics/Letters. Her manuscript, Future Ghosts of Pittsburgh, was longlisted for Alternating Current’s 2023 Electric Book Award in fiction. She hosts Writers Salon at Community Arts Network of Oneonta, a literary reading series featuring established and emerging writers local to the Catskills and beyond. At SUNY Oneonta, she teaches composition courses and supports faculty pedagogy. Her story, ‘Permission,’ appears in the Summer 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Mary Fontana split her formative years between the high deserts of central Washington and west Texas. Her first book, forthcoming from Orbis Books, is a narrative history of the borderlands house of hospitality for migrants and refugees where she has volunteered for the past two decades. Her writing has been nominated for Best of the Net and appeared in America, The Sun, Prairie Schooner, Rust + Moth, SWWIM, Moss, and elsewhere. A reader for the lit mag Only Poems, Mary now lives in Seattle with her husband and two children. She can be reached on Instagram: @maryfontanawrites and Bluesky: @maryfontanawrites.bsky.social Her story, ‘Rio Grande Roulette‘ appears in the Spring 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Steven Fromm is a Detroit native currently living in New Jersey. His work has appeared in several publications, including Terrain.org, Salamander, Permafrost, The Saturday Evening Post, and The Columbia Journal. His short play, “Sister Bea’s Full Branzino,” recently received a stage presentation in London; his short story, “Six Carp,” was recently adapted into a film. Steven’s story, ‘Kilometer‘ appears in the Winter 2026 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Eve Marie Gayley is new to fiction writing. She pays her bills by working multiple part-time jobs, including as an adjunct and in retail. She is currently completing her first collection of short stories, Sneaking Out the Front Door. Her story, ‘Are You a Seeker?‘ appears in the Fall 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Helene Grøn is a writer and researcher based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her work explores themes of migration, myth, and belonging through fiction, libretto, and poetic nonfiction. Helene has taught creative writing at the University of Copenhagen. Her writing has appeared in Dark Mountain, Peripeti, and in performances at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Her story, ‘I Hold‘ appears in the Fall 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Matthew Hand lives in Cumming, Georgia, where he writes fiction that examines people who live under judgment—moral, divine, or self-imposed—and who find that mercy rarely arrives as comfort. A writer and community theatre actor, Hand approaches storytelling as both confession and performance, asking what faith looks like after certainty has failed. His short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Susurrus, Half and One, The Watershed Journal, Rock Salt Journal, Rooted Literary Magazine, Tales from the Crosstimbers, and NECKSNAP. His story “A Test of Our Bodies for the Resurrection” was nominated for the PEN/Dau Award, and Intimacy Coordination was longlisted for the 2025 CRAFT Short Fiction Prize. When he isn’t writing, he can often be found on stage—or in the quiet after the curtain falls. His story, Performative Normalcy During Times of Crisis appears in the Fall 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Eli Hastings describes himself as ‘a privileged, cisgender, invisibly queer, white male (and working on it).’ He is a psychotherapist and author of two books, Falling Room (2006), and Clearly Now, the Rain (2013). Shorter works have been published in The Rumpus, The Cimarron Review, Huffpost, and Sky Island Journal, plus he has contributed to several anthologies, including Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex, and Power (2013), and Seattle: City of Literature (2015). Eli was profiled (in a non-policing way, he assures us) by KUOW and The Seattle Times as one of “13 for 13: Artists Changing the Landscape of the Arts in the Northwest.” His story, ‘Trespass‘ appears in the Fall 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Sean Heffron has been writing and publishing since 2006, mostly commercial fiction. He published “The Skinny On Your First Year in College” for Rand MediaCo., won an honorable mention in the “Weird Christmas” Flash Fiction contest, and self-published three novels. He is currently working on the third novel in a three-book deal from Aethon Books, and took a break between books two and three to write this piece, Tails of the Eighth Year. Sean works as an Assistant Dean and a writing instructor at a university in New England. He is inspired by his family, who enjoy all things outdoors. Sean tells us, “We’re like a small pack of lumberjacks, sans the beards.” His story, ‘Tails of the Eighth Year‘ appears in the Winter 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Toby Jaffe has been published in The Baffler, New Republic, American Prospect, and elsewhere. Their story, ‘Katie: A Collection of Clippings‘ appears in the Winter 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Yuriana Kim was born in South Korea and raised in the US. She has a BA in English with a Creative Writing emphasis from UCLA, and an MA in Spiritual Psychology. Her writings have been published or performed in France. This is her first North American publication. Her story, ‘My Avatar‘ appears in the Spring 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
M.A. Kyriacou is an NHS doctor and aspiring writer. When she is not poking people with needles or penning romantic fiction for nobody to read, she is keeping her plants well hydrated at her flat in east London. M.A. Kyriacou can be contacted about her writing and other opportunities via email at kyriacouam@gmail.com. Her story, ‘On Tenderness‘ appears in the Winter 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Simone Martel is the author of the novel A Cat Came Back, a memoir titled The Expectant Gardener, and a story collection, Exile’s Garden. Simone was born in Oakland, CA. After studying English at U.C. Berkeley, she created and operated an organic tomato farm in the Central Valley. This experience inspired her novel-in-progress, Zarzamora, a finalist in the Grindstone International Novel Prize. You can find out more about Simone and her work on her website Simone Martel. Her story, ‘The Case Against Wanda‘ appears in the Winter 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Shaun Anthony McMichael is the Pushcart-nominated author of the novel WHISTLE PUNK FALLS (Alternative Book Press, 2025); THE WILD FAMILIAR short stories (Cowboy Jamboree Press, 2024); and the poetry collection JACK OF ALL…(New Meridian Arts, 2024). Over 120 works of his writing have been published in literary journals such as The Chicago Tribune, Bellingham Review, and Adroit Journal. Since 2007, he has taught writing to students from around the world, in classrooms, juvenile detention halls, mental health treatment centers, and homeless youth drop-ins. He lives in Seattle with his wife and son where he attends church most Sundays. In addition to teaching English to immigrants and refugees at a public high school, he hosts an annual literary arts reading series, Shadow Work Writers. You can read more of Shaun McMichael on Blue Sky, @shaunmcmichael.bsky.social, and Instagram: samcmichael, and Shaun Anthony McMichael: Writer. Educator. Editor. His story, ‘END STAGE‘ appears in the Winter 2026 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Janine Milne is a Literature and Creative Writing graduate from the University of South Africa. She has somehow accumulated five dogs in her mountain cottage near the sea and is thus a full-time dog slave while earning her bread from freelance writing. Her short stories have been published in the Short Sharp Story Anthology and the Bloody Parchment Horror Anthology. 2017 winner of the MacGregor Poetry Prize, Janine Milne’s poetry can also be found in three volumes of the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award Anthology. She is currently toiling on her first novel. Her story, ‘The Good Life of Agnes (Rocky) Balboa‘ appears in the Spring 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Email: jj.em55@gmail.com
Dustin Moon is a writer from Vancouver Island, B.C. with a Bachelor of Arts in Writing from the University of Victoria. His work has appeared in Freefall Magazine, Pulp Literature, Fusion Fragment, The Good Life Review, The New Quarterly, and others. He lives in Victoria with his husband and their nonstop dogs. Dustin uses He/Him pronouns. He can be reached on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/dustinmoon.bsky.social. His story, ‘Sybil and Thanksgiving 2019‘ appears in the Winter 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Laura Mullen has been published as a regular contributor to The New York Times and in various literary journals including Pangyrus, After Dinner Conversation, Literary Mama, ContempLit and The Rome Review. She chairs the board of the literary arts organization, Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures, and she is currently seeking representation for her debut novel. More of her writing can be found at www.lauramullenwrites.com. Her story, ‘Eventually‘ appears in the Summer 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Jzurnee Myers obtained a BA in Political Science and English with a minor in leadership studies from Columbia College (SC) in 2024, and is currently enrolled in Winthrop University’s English MA program. Jzurnee works as a graduate assistant in Winthrop University’s Writing Center. Jzurnee’s story, ‘Rashida Steps Out‘ appears in the Summer 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Zoe Pappenheimer is a designer and illustrator living in Western Massachusetts. She is the artist behind Fearless Fashion Magnetic Dolls (Chronicle Books, 2025) and her work has been featured in I.D. Magazine, Frankie Magazine and Uppercase Magazine. Her fiction has appeared in Georgia College’s Arts & Letters Journal, where she was named the winner of their prize for fiction. She was a finalist for the Missouri Review‘s Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize and longlisted for Ploughshares Emerging Writers Contest. Her story, ‘Your Brain is Just Fine‘ appears in the Fall 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Roger Parris is a playwright, poet, retired social worker, and actor based in New York City. Roger’s work in theater began in 1968 as an actor. As he became more seriously involved in the performing arts, Roger began writing poetry, plays, short stories, and play adaptions of his short stories. He also taught acting and creative writing. Roger’s poetry has been published in the poetry anthologies Revelry and Brilliant Flame, among others. In 2010, he received an AUDELCO award in the category of Pioneer Artist for his body of work in theater. Many of his plays have been produced, primarily in New York. Roger is a contributing author for Gallery & Studio Arts Journal and is currently writing a play, Moment’s Notice. His play, ‘Urges‘ appears in the Fall 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Becky Petterson holds a Bachelor of Science in Communication from Southern Oregon University. She won Apple in the Dark’s 2025 flash fiction competition, and was a finalist in Mslexia’s 2024 short fiction competition. Her work appeared in The Pile Press Journal, and Peach Fuzz, and is forthcoming in Hoot, and Flash Fiction. She has worked as an independent bookseller and for a small literary press. Her story, ‘Goose Boil‘ appears in the Spring 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
John RC Potter (he/him/his) is an international educator from Canada who lives in Istanbul. He has experienced a revolution (Indonesia), air strikes (Israel), earthquakes (Turkey), boredom (UAE), and blinding snow blizzards (Canada), the last being the subject of his story, “Snowbound in the House of God”, published in Memoirist. The author’s poems, stories, essays, articles, and reviews have been published in various magazines and journals. His story, “Ruth’s World” was a 2023 Pushcart Prize nominee, and his poem, “Tomato Heart” was nominated for the Best of the Net Award. The author’s gay-themed children’s picture book, The First Adventures of Walli and Magoo, is scheduled for publication. He is a member of the League of Canadian Poets. Recent Publication: John RC Potter’s poem “Heimat” appeared in March 14, 2025 – Overgrowth
Website: https://johnrcpotterauthor.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JohnRCPotter
His story, ‘Clara Von Clapp’s Secret Admirer‘ appears in the Spring 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Sheri Reynolds is the author of seven novels (the best known: The Rapture of Canaan, thanks to Oprah’s Book Club; the most recent: The Tender Grave, published by Bywater in 2021). She’s also published a full-length play and other shorter works. Sheri teaches humanities classes at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC, and returns to Cape Charles, VA, each summer, to write and float on the Chesapeake Bay. You can find more of Sheri’s work at www.sherireynolds.com. Her story, ‘Covenants‘ was awarded the 2025 Charlotte Ann Porter Prize of $1000 for the year’s best short story. Covenants appears in the Summer 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Eric Roe’s stories have won Chautauqua’s Editors Prize and The Bellingham Review’s Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction, have been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes, and have appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies, including Story, Redivider, december, and Best American Fantasy. Eric Roe lives in Chapel Hill, NC, and is the editorial assistant at The University of North Carolina’s Marsico Lung Institute. Eric spent a decade working in a Wisconsin meat-packing plant, and that experience is where “The Line” comes from. Eric’s story, ‘The Line‘ appears in the Summer 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Colorwise, Elizabeth Rosen is an autumn. She mourns the loss of Tab, and is convinced that Carl Sagan, Kurt Vonnegut, and Mr. Rogers were modern-day prophets. Her stories have appeared in places such as North American Review, Baltimore Review, Pithead Chapel, Flash Frog, and New Flash Fiction Review. She still wants her MTV. Find more of her work at www.thewritelifeliz.com. Her story, ‘Thirteen Dogs‘ appears in the Summer 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Nicole Rosevear’s work has appeared in North American Review, Bennington Review and VoiceCatcher, as well as the anthologies City of Weird: 30 Otherworldly Portland Tales and Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin. She teaches fiction, composition, and literature at Clackamas Community College. Her story, ‘Rats‘ appears in the Winter 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Skylar Siben is a writer and director working in theatre, film, and television. In 2024, Party Princess had its premiere at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, where it received the StageCrafts Spotlight Series Encore Award. Much Ado About Rushing, her adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic comedy set in Greek life, was a quarterfinalist in the ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship 2024. Originally from San Diego, Skylar graduated from the University of Michigan in 2021 with a degree in Theatre Performance: Directing. Since moving to Los Angeles, she has had the opportunity to work on shows such as Gaslit (UCP/STARZ), Tulsa King (Paramount+), True Lies (20th Century Television) and Monarch (Fox Entertainment). Her play, ‘Party Princess‘ was awarded The Lemonwood Quarterly’s 2025 Hononegah Mack Prize of $500 for best play. ‘Party Princess’ appears in the Fall 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Scott Bradley Smith’s fiction has appeared in Subtropics and Hawaii Pacific Review. His awards include First Prize in the Pittsburgh City Paper Short Fiction Contest and Honorable Mention in the Tucson Weekly Fiction Contest. He is the author of five produced plays and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona in Tucson. Scott grew up in Lancaster County—part of “Pennsylvania Dutch Country”—and now lives in Pittsburgh. His story, ‘Gelassenheit‘ appears in the Fall 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
D. P. Snyder is a bilingual writer, poet, critic, and literary translator from Spanish. Her writing has been published in Luvina, Two Lines Journal, World Literature Today, and Ploughshares, among others, and she is the Latin American Fiction editor for Exile Quarterly (Canada). Her story “La puerta secreta” was a finalist in the International Short Story Competition San Miguel Writers Conference (2020), and her essay “A Bone’s Story” was a finalist in the Medium Essay Challenge (2021). She focuses her translation practice on writing by women, and the trials of women are central to her own fiction and poetry. Her published books in translation include Meaty Pleasures by Mónica Lavín, Arrhythmias by Angelina Muñiz-Huberman, and Scary Story by Alberto Chimal. She lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina. You can read more of D.P. Snyder on her website, and follow her on BlueSky: dpsnyder.bsky.social, FB: @dorothy.pottersnyder, and IG: @dpsnyder_writer. Her story, ‘A Necessary Assumption‘ appears in the Winter 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Haley Souders holds a BFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College and an MFA in Creative Writing Fiction from Bowling Green State University, where she served as an assistant editor at Mid-American Review and Winter Wheat Coordinator. Her work has been published in Wilderness House Literary Review and is forthcoming in Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment. Haley is currently an adjunct instructor in English at Ohio Northern University. Her story, ‘The Scarecrow, the Snake, and the Case of Internet Fame‘ appears in the Winter 2026 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Hillary Adrienne Stern is a fiction writer living in Bethesda, Maryland. She holds an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her debut novel, The Garment Maker’s Daughter, was selected as an editor’s choice by the Historical Novel Society. Her story, ‘The Poughkeepsie Exit‘ appears in the Winter 2026 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Danielle Swanson, an enrolled member of the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma, is a writer living in Atlanta, Georgia. She worked as a print journalist and attended the American Indian Journalism Institute before teaching college writing courses for the majority of her career. Danielle has a Masters in Professional Writing and American literature. Currently, she is studying Pilates, making TikTok posts, and spending time with her daughter’s dog, Mr. Darcy, while focusing on her creative pursuits. Her story, ‘Tradish‘ appears in the Fall 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Jayanti Tamm is the author of the critically-acclaimed memoir, Cartwheels in a Sari: A Memoir of Growing Up Cult (Crown.) Her story, ‘Your Sperm is Showing‘ appears in the Fall 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Angela Townsend is an eleven-time Pushcart Prize nominee, twenty-one time Best of the Net nominee, and the winner of West Trade Review‘s 704 Prize for Flash Fiction. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Arts & Letters, Blackbird, Five Points, Fourth Genre, The Iowa Review, JMWW, The Offing, SmokeLong Quarterly, trampset, and Witness. Her story, ‘Like Cats‘ appears in the Winter 2026 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Lisa Trumble currently resides in Upstate New York, although her heart belongs to the Northwoods of Wisconsin. She earns her rent money by managing technology projects but devotes much of the rest of her time to writing fiction. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Ashland University. You can find more of Lisa’s writing on Bluesky: @lctwrites.bsky.social. Lisa’s story, ‘Aunts‘ appears in the Winter 2026 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Virginia Watts is the author of poetry and stories found in The MacGuffin, Epiphany, CRAFT, The Florida Review, Reed Magazine, Pithead Chapel, Eclectica Magazine, and Rhino among others. Her debut short story collection Echoes from the Hocker House was short listed for 2024 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize, selected as one of the Best Indie Books of 2023 by Kirkus Book Reviews, and won third place in the 2024 Feathered Quill Book Awards. Please visit her at https://virginiawatts.com/. Virginia’s story, ‘The Pine‘ appears in the Winter 2026 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Shi Quan Yap is a Singaporean writer whose stories are forthcoming or have appeared in The Hopkins Review and Singapore Unbound. He was recently awarded Honourable Mention for the Golden Point Award, Singapore’s premier creative writing competition for short story and poetry, and he has received support from the Disquiet International Literary Program and the Kenyon Writers Workshop. His story, ‘Sour Days‘ appears in the Winter 2026 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.