Poetry

Agnes Vojta grew up in Germany and now lives in Rolla, Missouri where she teaches physics at Missouri S&T and hikes the Ozarks. She is the author of Porous Land, The Eden of Perhaps, and A Coracle for Dreams (Spartan Press), and her fourth collection Love Song to Gravity has come out from Stubborn Mule Press in 2025.
Agnes is associate editor of Thimble Literary Magazine and host of the Poetry at the Pub reading series in Rolla. Her poems have appeared in a variety of magazines; you can read some of them on her website agnesvojta.com.

Nonfiction

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Fiction

Marlene Lee When she’s not reading, playing the piano, or talking to other writers, Marlene Lee holds down a table at a local coffeehouse confronting blank pages during business hours and postponing the inevitable with another cup of coffee.

Before writing full-time, she carted her stenotype machine from place to place (eventual settings for her fiction) in a moveable feast of reporting: Brookings, Oregon; Seattle, Washington; Chico, California; San Francisco; and New York City.  She now lives in Columbia, Missouri.

Earlier, before her freelance court reporting career, she taught high school, children’s special education, Freshman and Sophomore college English, and vocational school classes in stenotype. Always and in-between, she was writing short stories and novels, accumulating publishable manuscripts before being actually published in 2013.  (Lee’s fiction titles: The Absent Woman, Rebecca’s Road, Scoville, Limestone Wall, No Certain Home, published by Holland House books; Inner Passage, Collected Short Stories, published by Experiments in Fiction; Anna and Sebastian, published by Stephen F. Austin State University Press; and Middler, also published by SFA.)

Her author page can be found at marlenelee.wordpress.com.

Flash Fiction

Crystal D. Budy has a Master’s degree in psychology and utilizes her knowledge to develop flawed, layered characters.

She lives just outside Cleveland, Ohio with her husband of nearly twenty years and their clingy black cat, Monkey.

An avid reader since childhood and writer since she was old enough to pick up a pen, she enjoys writing (and reading) about romance and mystery, particularly when they’re combined.

You can learn more about Crystal at her website www.crystaldbudy.com