Every Breath Alight

Contributors

Meet the authors of our third anthology Every Breath Alight.

Mark Bruce is stardust, he is golden, he is a billion-year-old carbon (and he looks his age, too). Oh, and he’s a lawyer practicing in San Bernardino, California. This story makes the ninth appearance of Minerva James in various magazines and anthologies, including two Dandelion Revolution Press collections, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Black Cat Mystery Magazine and Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine. He lives in Barstow with a stuffed mermaid named Mariah and his writing support dragon, Ferdinand. You can read his adventures in writing at MarkBruceWriter.com 

Natalya Bucuy is a journalist and a writer who believes that if a story doesn’t come to you, you just have to go find it. That’s pretty much why she usually ends up in some kind of shenanigans. But, in the end, there is a story to take home and share with the world, so it’s all good. Natalya’s favorite way to find adventures is to travel—near or far, that doesn’t matter—especially with her two awesome teenage sons. She lives in a historic house in Doylestown, PA, where inspiration (and possibly some ghosts) live in the walls and help her write. 

Ashini J. Desai is a co-founder/editor for Dandelion Revolution Press and while she does not write for a living, she writes to live. Her poems have been published in anthologies Cities, Overplay/Underdone, as well as River Poets Journal, Philadelphia Poets, Thema, plus an Asian-American anthologies Word Masala, Yellow as Turmeric, Fragrant as Cloves. Her essays were included in the Nancy Drew Anthology and Labor Pains and Birth Stories. Her short story has been published in Not Quite As You Were Told and The Secrets We Keep anthologies. Follow her on Instagram @AshiniWrites to keep up with her latest inspirations and creative enterprises. 

Kalyani Deshpande was born in India and grew up in Zambia. Her work has been published in anthologies by Dandelion Revolution Press and Secret Library Press. She was also a finalist in the NC State Fiction Contest. Kalyani works in technology and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family. Learn more about her work on her website, www.kalyanideshpande.com and follow her on Instagram at @kalyani_writes.

Hayley E. Frerichs writes atmospheric, romantic fantasy in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. After graduating from Penn State with degrees in English and education, she fled adulthood and taught in southern Spain for a year. She loves to travel but is also content to stay at home with her sewing machine, tea kettle, and books. She is a co-founder and editor of Dandelion Revolution Press; her short stories were featured in their first anthologies, Not Quite as You Were Told and The Secrets We Keep. You can visit her website HayleyEFrerichs.com where she blogs about sustainable living and her many creative hobbies.

Paige Gardner is a lover of all things fiction. She enjoys writing novels, flash fiction, and short stories. Paige grew up in a small town outside Pittsburgh, studied at Penn State University, and moved to the Philadelphia area to pursue a career in nonprofit. She is the co-founder of Dandelion Revolution Press, and a member of the Bucks County Writers Group. Her words can be found in various literary magazines and anthologies, including DRP’s previous collections, “Not Quite as You Were Told,” and “The Secrets We Keep.” When Paige isn’t writing, she enjoys performing on stage, reading books of all genres, enjoying the company of close friends, and laughing. She doesn’t know how this collection found its way to your hands, but she’s glad it did. You can enjoy more of her words at paigegardnerwrites.com.

Emily Joyce Honer is a Bucks County-based writer of dark fantasy, gothic horror, and fairytale inspired fiction. She earned a BFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and works as a marketing assistant at Tor Books, the sci-fi/fantasy imprint at Macmillan Publishers. Find her on Instagram @all__the__books.

Jessica Kaplan enjoys writing flash fiction pieces and short stories in her free time. She is a teacher and loves befriending neighborhood cats, walking in nature, and smelling all the flowers.

Hunter Liguore is the award-winning author of Whole World in Nan’s Soup (Paterson Prize for Books for Young Readers Winner). A Professor of Writing at Lesley University, her work has appeared in Spirituality & Health Magazine, Anthropology & Humanism, Irish Pages, Mystery Magazine and more. A banned book collector, she can often be found roaming old ruins, hillsides, and cemeteries burying books for future generations. Visit www.hunterliguore.org.

Archita Mittra is a writer, editor, and artist, with a fondness for dark and fantastical things. Her work has appeared in Tor, Strange Horizons, Zooscape, Anathema Magazine, Hexagon, and elsewhere, and has been nominated for the Pushcart, best of the net, and other prizes. She completed her B. A. (2018) and M.A. (2020) in English Literature from Jadavpur University and has a Diploma in Multimedia and Animation from St. Xavier’s College (2016). When she isn’t writing speculative fiction or drawing fan art, she can be found playing indie games, making jewelry out of recycled materials, reading a dark fantasy novel, baking cakes, or deciding which new tarot deck to buy. She lives in Kolkata, India, with her family and rabbits.

Visit her website architamittra.wordpress.com, and Twitter and Instagram @architamittra.

Joy Overbrook is a short-story writer based out of Hatboro, PA. When she is not traveling by train or making brownies with her lovable husband and son, she enjoys a fulfilling career in process and project management. See more of her work online or in Dandelion Revolution Press’s debut anthology, “Not Quite as You Were Told.”

Nupur Shah (she/her) writes bisexually from Mumbai, India, where she is pursuing a Master’s in English. She has been previously published at Visual Verse, The POET Magazine and a few more places. She tweets @notyetposthuman. 

Yulia Tseytlin, a Doctor in Economics, have recently turned from academic to creative writing. She writes literary fiction and poetry, blending in her personal experiences as a woman, a mother, and an immigrant. Her prose and poems are published in The Other Side of Hope, Tint, Journal of Expressive Writing, and others.

Scarlet Wyvern is part poet, part girl, and part dragon. Since she was a young hatchling Scarlet has reveled in the written word. Wyvern is fascinated by mythology, especially that which concerns the fair folk and is utterly obsessed with the original Grimm fairy tales. When she is not busy writing or soaring through the sky lighting villages on fire, Wyvern delights in reading, photography, playing video games, singing karaoke and making snarky comments while sipping the blood of her enemies out of a crystal chalice.