Melanie Lynn Griffin is a freelance writer, teacher, and environmental communications specialist whose work has appeared in Sierra magazine, AARP Bulletin, Sojourners, and So To Speak Journal. She is a pastor at Cedar Ridge Community Church in Spencerville, Maryland, and leads writing workshops and contemplative retreats. Ms. Griffin holds an MA in Nonfiction Writing from …
Sandeep Kumar Mishra is an outsider artist, an international freelance writer and a lecturer . His works are artistic manifestation of his actual self and shows the heart for nature and its beautiful creations including human especially woman. He runs an academy called “Kishlaya Outsider Art Academy” in his home town to train the novice …
Greg Moglia is a veteran of 27 years as Adjunct Professor of Philosophy of Education at N.Y.U and 37 years as a high school teacher of Physics and Psychology. His poems have been accepted in over 300 journals in the U.S., Canada England, India, Australia, Sweden, Belgium and Austria as well as five anthologies. He is …
Charles is an emerging writer with a poem appearing in Anima Poetry Press, and now with this as his first fiction publication at Eckleburg. He’s currently enrolled in the Creative Writing BA program at ASU, and will have received his degree by the end of 2017. Eckleburg: What drives, inspires, and feeds your artistic work? …
Christine Stoddard is a writer and artist originally from Arlington, Virginia. She also is the founding editor of Quail Bell Magazine, an online and occasional print publication for real and unreal stories from around the world. Christine’s work has appeared everywhere from Cosmopolitan to the New York Transit Museum to the Tulane Review and beyond. …
Josh Medsker is a New Jersey writer, originally from Alaska. His work has appeared. Eckleburg: What drives, inspires, and feeds your artistic work? Josh Medsker: Right now what’s driving me is total fear. I started a poetry project in July called Medskerpedia. Every day I read an entry from the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and …
Jeannine Ouellette’s writing has appeared widely in magazines and journals and she has worked as a writer and editor at regional and national magazines. She has published four books, including the children’s picture book, Mama Moon, and she is a 2015 recipient of a Curt Johnson Award in fiction for her short story “Tumbleweeds” selected …
Evelyn Sharenov lives and writes in Portland, OR. She received degrees in literature and piano performance in NYC, where she grew up, and then returned to school to become a psychiatric nurse. Her fiction and essays have been published in Glimmer Train, Oregon Humanities Magazine, the New York Times, Fugue, Mediphors and other journals. She …
Darlene Pagán teaches creative writing and literature at Pacific University in Oregon. She published a poetry chapbook, Blue Ghosts (Finishing Line Press 2011), and a full-length collection, Setting the Fires (Airlie Press 2015). Individual poems have appeared in journals such as Field, Calyx, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Poet Lore, Hiram Poetry Review, and Hawaii Pacific Review, …
Eckleburg: What drives, inspires, and feeds your artistic work? Dawn S. Davies: Jaco Pastorius, Richard Fenyman, my family, people who jump off bridges for fun, people who can make art out of blocks of ice, bees, Mark Knopfler, the memory of my childhood Big Wheel, the person who told me I would never amount to …