Kristin Rivers is a published short story/fiction writer, blogger and book reviewer from Chicopee who loves cats, music, travel and nature photography. She graduated from Smith College in 2016 and Read More
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World War Corona Gardening by Nancy Saporta Sternbach
Nancy Saporta Sternbach lives in Northampton, is a Straw Dog member, and is a recently retired member of Smith College’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Her current projects include a Read More
May Comes Tomorrow by Melenie Freedom Flynn
Melenie Freedom Flynn’s essay “Message From Your Inmate” recently won the annual nonfiction contest at Vela Magazine. A recipient of a MacDowell Colony Fellowship and Djerassi Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, she lives Read More
Metamorphosis – What Changing Seasons Mean for Our Changing World by Maya Laur
Maya Laur is a rising first-year at Brown University, from Wendell, Massachusetts. She is proud to have grown up in Western MA – a place that’s shaped her passion for Read More
New Skin by Joan Kalus
Joan Kalus: I am a retired psychotherapist living in Western Mass and Florida who started writing poems at a memorial for a partner seven years ago. Poetry has become my Read More
SHELTER by Carolyn Benson
Carolyn Benson, a member of Straw Dog, lives at Lathrop Community in Easthampton. Moving to Western Massachusetts over 20 years ago, she discovered Pat Schneider and the AWA method, traveled Read More
Pass the Remote by Jonathan Kahane
Jon Kahane lives in Hampshire County and is a retired Psychology Professor. He has published many articles in refereed journals, as well as textbook chapters and numerous columns and letters Read More
Antidote to the Pandemic by Phyllis B. Katz
Phyllis Katz moved from Norwich, Vermont to Northampton recently . She is a member of the Straw Dogs Literary Guild. She has just finished her fourth book of poems, Ghost Read More
Out of This World by Ella Nathanael Alkiewicz
Ella Nathanael Alkiewicz is a Labrador Inuk advocate, marketer, poet, scholar, and writer. She holds an MFA from Lesley University. She wrote this fiction to highlight the needs and hopes Read More
The Slow Hug by Rythea Lee
Rythea Lee is a Massachusetts performance artist, musician, writer, activist and therapist. Her most recent achievement is a 20-episode YouTube series called Advice From A Loving Bitch that pairs with Read More