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S.R.Justin
  • "BALLADRIES" A Bundle of dreams, hopes and of life and wants. A collection of poetry. This book project began in 2018 through a project called Compassion Channel under the NSS club of Don Bosco College, Kohima. Being introduced to the NSS club as a part of the college extracurricular activities opened worthy opportunities such as this project. Organized camps in the adopted villages, competitions and social works brought us close to the society around us. Likewise, through this book; we would also like to bring our readers closer to the world of poetry.

 
Sagar Krishna
  • Sagar Krishna was born in 1993 in Pune, Maharashtra. He is a native of Kerala. His mother being in the army, he did his schooling from all over India, and currently is pursuing B.Sc Economics from Symbiosis School of Economics, Pune. His interests span world literature, music and cinema. Sagar is also an amateur film critic. Future Reflections is his first compiled publication.

 
Saket Suman
  • Saket Suman is perhaps among the youngest poets of India. with a strong passion for writing and respect for human sentiments, his works outrank many for they carry a strong poetic force that directly appeals to the hearts of the readers. Born in the state of Bihar, he has spent most of his days in Kurseong, Darjeeling while pursuing his studies in Jnaneshwar memorial academy. the days spent in his school along with some of his best friends and teachers are the most memorable ones in his entire lifetime so far.

 
Saksham Singhal
  • Saksham Singhal is a VI standard student of Delhi Public School, Gurgaon. Saksham is an avid reader with diverse interests including Science Fiction, Mysteries & Adventure and Scientific Literature. He has keen interests in Science and Mathematics and has achieved special recognition in state as well as national level competitions.  Writing short stories and poems started as his way of expressing his learnings and emotions, and he has written many short stories and poems. 

 
Sakshi Lakhotia
  • Sakshi Lakhotia is an Indian poet, blogger and content writer. Born in 1998, Sakshi is currently studying Communication and Mass Media in Mumbai, Maharashtra. She received her secondary education in Dehradun and Gurgaon, where she graduated with an International Baccalaureate Diploma. She believes that her time in boarding school helped her fondness towards poetry writing grow. Sakshi loves to walk, solve Sudoku puzzles and watch American TV series in her pastime. Sakshi's writing is not only a reflection of her personal experiences but also her imagination. Her motive is to educate and entertain through her writing.

 
Salin Gopinathan
  • The poems included in My Acquaintance with an economist and other poems by Salin Gopinathan reveal absolutely regular cadence of style.  The choice of the images in these poems is lively and picturesque.  It is worthy of note that the fully concise  expression of the poet is visible in these poems.

 
Sally Brunk
  • Sally R. Brunk has been published in the anthologies: Sharing Our Stories of Survival: Native Women Surviving Violence, Quill & Parchment: Motherhood, How Can You Say We Are Not Related?, Voice on the Water: Great Lakes Native America Now, The Way North: Upper Peninsula New Works, Here: Women Writing on Michigan’s Upper Michigan, And Here: 100 Years of Upper Peninsula Writing, 1917-2017. Sally has her own book of poetry entitled The Cliffs: Summer Soundings (Paintings by Jim Denomie).

 
Salvatore Buttaci
  • Salvatore Buttaci is an obsessive-compulsive writer who plies his craft many hours a day. His poems, stories, articles, and letters have appeared widely in publications that include New York Times, U. S. A. Today, The Writer, Cats Magazine, and Christian Science Monitor. He was the recipient of the $500 Cyber-wit Poetry Award in 2007.

 
Sam Eisenstein
  • Phd in comparative literature from UCLA. Retired after sixty years as English professor at a very secondary school, Los Angeles City College, with time out for a Fulbright in Japan, classes at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich Switzerland, and for another masters degree in family counseling. Many publications from various publishers. Wife Bettyrae, retired interior decorator, children: step-son David Alan Wallace, eye surgeon, Chana Ellen, veterinarian. Dog: Luke, border collie extraordinaire. Reading is a passion, as is ancient to very modern music. People who are forced to face very extraordinary situations are the ones who attract my attention.
 
Sam Rasnake
  • Sam Rasnake's poetry, fiction, and non-fiction have appeared in Spillway, Wigleaf, The Drunken Boat, Poets/Artists, FRiGG, Necessary Fiction, OCHO, Literal Latté, Pithead Chapel, Switched-on Gutenberg, The Southern Poetry Anthology, MiPOesias Companion 2012, BOXCAR Poetry Review Anthology 2, and Best of the Web 2009. He has served as a judge for the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize, University of California, Berkeley, and as an editor for Blue Fifth Review. Rasnake is the author of Cinéma Vérité (A-Minor Press) and Inside a Broken Clock (Finishing Line Press).

 
Samarendra Patra
  • Samarendra Patra, aged 18 is a first year student of B.Tech-Mechanical Engineering in the prestigious SRM UNIVERSITY, Chennai. He was brought up in a small township of NALCO named Damanjodi means “Paharon ka Sangam-the unification of the hills”.

 
Sameer Lowlekar
  • Sameer is an engineering graduate and currently working in software industry. He is a nature loving and spiritually inclined person. He loves to use writing as a way of expressing his experiences and observations of journey called life.

 
Samir Zaidi
  • Samir Zaidi is a story teller, a disciple of true love and a believer. But, his work mainly contains heartaches and sad endings, which may possibly stem from personal experiences or just the myths he s attracted to.

 
Samo Kreutz
  • Samo Kreutz lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He began to write as an eight-year-old boy, when he wrote his first story (and later a poem). One day his parents told him that simply by writing he cannot earn enough for a decent life, so he replied that he will become a writer and a joiner. Now, at the age of forty-five, he is not yet a joiner (nor a carpenter), but the Bachelor of Economics, who besides poetry and short stories, also writes novels and haiku (since 2011). He is the author of nine books (three of them are haiku books), all published by the Ekslibris, publishing house in Ljubljana. His work has appeared in various Slovenian literary magazines, anthologies, on national Radio, and on several international websites (e- and printed journals).

 
Samujjwal Dey
  • Born in 1994, in a middle class Bengali family in Shillong, Meghalaya, Samujjwal Dey is a student of Law in Shillong Law College. He did his schooling from Laban Bengalee Boys' H.S School in Shillong and was placed in high first division in both the board examination. He graduated from St. Edmunds College, Shillong with a first class Honours in Zoology in the year 2014. Samujjwal has developed great interest in art, music and literature. He loves people and nature. He tries to find answers to several questions that come to his mind about nature, life and society. In his first attempt to write a book, he has compiled his ideas in the form of 60 poems on life, love, death, nature and human relations.

 
Sana Rafiq
  • Sana Rafiq has been published in Mary Pat Fisher's book Women in Religion. She is currently the newsletter editor at LiteraryMary.com, as well as manages her e-zine The Neglected Ratio. She was also published by Jenifer Wills in a digital publication of LiteraryMary entitled Don't Call Me Plath: twelve outstanding women of the small press. She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Educational Leadership (Curriculum and Instruction) from the University of Phoenix.

 
Sanchit Jain
  • I am Sanchit Jain, 18 years old teenager, just completed 12th from Delhi International School, Indore. I am originally from Amritsar, but at present I live in Indore. I don't have any big academic degree. I reflect more and more on every topic and every thing around me. This gives me technique to express it in poems. Through my poems, I want every one to feel positive in everything.

 
Sandra J. Lindow
  • Sandra J. Lindow is the author of eight books of poetry. She worked as a teacher for forty-five years, including twenty-five years as a reading and writing specialist at a treatment center for emotionally disturbed children and adolescents and ten years as an adjunct university professor. Presently she is semi-retired. She teaches, writes, edits and competes with wildlife for the pleasure and sustenance of her vegetables and perennials. She lives on a hilltop in Menomonie, Wisconsin.

 
Sanober Khan
  • Sanober Khan is a Mumbai-based poet and freelance writer. Her work has been published in various journals, including the Taj Mahal Review and the First Literary Review-East. In 2012, her first book "A touch, a tear, a tempest' was shortlisted for the Muse India National Literary Awards. She enjoys reading poetry from around the globe as much as she enjoys writing them.

 
Santanu Halder
  • A teacher by profession and a poet at will - Santanu Halder was born and brought up in a small town named Bongaon, near Kolkata, West Bengal. He has done M.A in English Literature and teaching university students for 6 years. A scholar, a translator,an interviewer and a bilingual poet writing in both Bengali and English, Santanu Halder has already authored three books, these are - (1) American Literature for WBSU Students, (2) Old English Literature in a Nutshell and (3) a book on translation. 

 
Santhi Krishnan
  • Santhi Krishnan has been in the field of creative writing and content editing for more than a decade. Her versatility as a writer can be gauged through the wide-ranging projects she has been associated with hitherto in the changing and challenging matrix of writers. The present compilation is a spectrum of her poems which are rich in relations and resplendent with the blooms as well as blots of life. She has an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Kerala and upgraded her computer proficiency with short term courses .She has a pretty long stint of entrepreneurship to her credit, being a partner in her husband s business ventures which broadened her horizons and enhanced her soft skills.

 
Santosh Kalwar
  • Santosh Kalwar (born September 7, 1982) is a poet, writer, and young researcher. He is a self-published Nepalese writer who writes in English about truth, love, and relationships. He has published thirteen books, as well as authored a number of newspaper columns and articles.

 
Santosh Kumar
  • Dr. Santosh Kumar (b. 1946) is a poet, short-story writer and an editor from India; DPhil in English; Chief Editor of an international literary journal Taj Mahal Review; several awards; member of World Poets Society (W.P.S.); member of World Haiku Association, Japan; published poetry in Indian Verse by Young Poets (1980), World Poetry (1995 & 1996), The Fabric of A Vision (2001), The Still Horizon (2002), The Golden Wings (2002), Voyages (2003), Symphonies (2003), New Pegasus (2004), Explorers (2004), Dwan (USA), Promise (Purple Rose Publications,USA), TMR 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 & 2007). He has also edited sixteen World Poetry Anthologies, and four books of World's Great Short Stories. He is also the author of a collection of poems entitled Helicon (Cyberwit, 2006, India, ISBN 81-901366-8-2). He is able to achieve masterly poetic effects full of a singular beauty and rhythmical artistry in his new collection New Utopia. Wikipedia

 
Santosh Kumar Karimilli
  • Mr. SantoshkumarKarimilli (b. 29th August 1988) is a Founder & Director of “Tao Educare” (A Vocational Training Institution of Spoken English). He has an M.A in English from Andhra University. He has also two P.G Diplomas in English language & Linguistics and Functional English from Andhra University. He did B.Ed in Special English from A.U. He also obtained two certificate courses in “Gandhian studies and Social exclusion and Inclusive policy” from Andhra University.

 
Sapan Shah
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    Sapan Shah is a Pune, India based web developer who likes to write poetry among many other interests. He found out early that his real obsession is with writing and creativity, although his eagerness to do multiple things at once has often given him sleepless nights. Over the last 2 decades, he has written hundreds of poems, composed songs and has also released a full-length music album as part of a band. His work has been published in local newspapers, poetry anthologies, and has also been recorded on a compact disc featuring other poetic works.

 
Sarah Crabtree
  • Sarah Crabtree has been writing on and off for over twenty years with varying success. She had a novel longlisted in a fantasy competition a number of years ago. Real life got in the way of any literary dreams, but recently she seems to have got her writing mojo back.

 
SARAVAN MAHESWER
  • Saravan Maheswer made his writing debut when he was a College Student.  “Smashana Boomi” a Short Play in Malayalam won a prize for its presentation from the College he recalls. He wrote a film script when he was 17 years old. Titled “Empty Horizons A Head” ( Munnil Soonyamam Chakravalam) this script was published as a book in 1987. The well known Hindi Music Director Padmabhooshan Naushad, the well known Malayalam Actor Late. Padmasree. Thikkurissi Sukumaran Nair and Film Director G.S. Paniker had written prefaces for the book.

     

 
Saru Singhal
  • A Company Secretary by profession, Saru writes poems, articles and stories on varied topics. Her creativity in both English and Hindi has received commendable response in a short period of time. Her work has been showcased on many National and International forums. To learn more about her and be current with her writings, you can visit www.sarusinghal.com

 
sathyanarayana
  • Sathyanarayana was born on 12fth June, 1958 at Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India. He did his bachelor’s degree in Sciences and Masters in law. For a brief period he practiced as an advocate in Nellore and then joined the Government of India. He is now working as Deputy Superintendent of Salt at Nellore. Sathyanarayana has been writing poetry since 1987.

 
Sayumi Kamakura
  • Sayumi Kamakura was born in Kochi Prefecture, Japan, 1953. She began composing haiku while a student at Saitama University and studied haiku under the guidance of Toshiro Nomura and Sho Hayashi. In 1988, she won the Oki Sango Prize. The lyrical style of her haiku attracted attention, and in 1998 she established the haiku magazine "Ginyu" with Ban'ya Natsuishi, and has been its Editor since that time. She has attended international haiku or poetry festivals held in Japan, Slovenia, Portugal and Bulgaria. In 2001, she won the Modern Haiku Association Prize. Her published haiku collections include: Jun (Moisture, 1984), Mizu no Jujika (Water Cross, 1987), Tenmado kara (From the Skylight, 1992), Kamakura Sayumi Kushu (Haiku of Sayumi Kamakura, 1998). Hashireba haru(Run to Spring, 2001), She co-authored Gendai Haiku Panorama (1994), Gendai Haiku Handbook (1995), Gendai Haiku Shusei Zen 1 Kan (Contemporary Haiku Anthology in One Volume, 1996), etc. She also published, in both Japanese and English, A Singing Blue: 50 Selected Haiku (2000). Her haiku has been translated into English, Greek, Russian, Bulgarian, Portuguese and Korean. She is a member and Treasurer of the World Haiku Association. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9_z0D5IZ6E

 
Scott Laudati
  • Scott Laudati is the author of Hawaiian Shirts In The Electric Chair (Kuboa Press), Camp Winapooka (Bone Machine, Inc.) and Bone House (Bone Machine, Inc.). He has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize - once in fiction and twice in poetry. His poems, short stories, and essays have appeared in dozens of literary journals and online magazines including The Bitter Oleander, The Columbia Journal, Trebuchet-Magazine, Thought Catalog, The Adirondack Review, The Stockholm Review of Literature, The Good Men Project, Fjords Review, and many others. Scott lives in New York City with his schnoodle, Dolly. Visit him on social media @ScottLaudati

 
Scott Thomas Outlar
  • Scott Thomas Outlar lives and writes in the suburbs outside of Atlanta, Georgia. He has been a weekly contributor for the Dissident Voice newsletter since 2014, and during that time has published poetry, essays, and articles in more than 300 literary venues around the world. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. He was a recipient of the 2017 Setu Magazine Award for Excellence in the field of literature. Selections of his poetry have been translated into Afrikaans, Albanian, Dutch, French, Italian, Persian, and Serbian. Of Sand and Sugar is Outlar's sixth collection of poetry.

 
Sean Lause
  • Sean Lause is a professor of English at Rhodes State College, Lima, Ohio, United States. His poems have appeared in Taj Mahal Review, The Minnesota Review, The Alaska Quarterly, Another Chicago Magazine, European Judaism, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Illuminations and Poetry International. He has published two books of poems, Bestiary of Souls(FutureCycle Press, 2013) and Wakeful Fathers and Dreaming Sons (Orchard Street Press, 2018). His work has received five Pushcart Prize nominations.

 
Sebastian Johakin
  • “(…) Sebastian Marcus Labeo Boahz Johakin est l'un des hétéronymes de Fernando Messias. Sébastien est né le 24 juin 1923, dans la ville de Berne. Fils d’Antonio Johakin Magalhães Sebastian et d’Ivonne Boahz Mendes Labeo. Diplômé en droit de l'Université de Vienne. Doctorat en relations internationales de l'Université de Paris et post-doctorat en droit de l'Université de Columbia. Il a été professeur à l'Université de Paris et de Columbia. 

 
Seema Sharma
  • Seema is an artist who loves painting, bird watching, travelling and cooking. A mother of three, her work touches both the traditional and modern aspects of art. All the artwork for the book has been contributed by Seema. You can visit her website at www.art.seema.biz

 
Seth Brown
  • Seth Brown is a freelance writer living in the beautiful Berkshires, where he plays board games, eats sushi, and writes his award-winning humor column "The Pun Also Rises" for the Berkshire Eagle. He is the author of six books including From God To Verse, a line-by-line rhyming translation of the Torah.

    His poetry has appeared in Red Planet Magazine, Light, Apt Literary Magazine, Rogue Particles, The Providence Journal, The Washington Post, various other publications, and most frequently, at live poetry events around the Berkshires.

    His website is RisingPun.com.

 
Shahina
  • Shahina, born and brought up in the beautiful valley of Kashmir, Srinagar, did her schooling from Presentation Covent School, Srinagar and then left for Russia for higher studies. She did her Bachelors, Masters and then Ph.d in Russian Language and Literature from Patrice Lumumba Friendship University, Moscow, Russia. While doing Ph.d , she started working in a Swiss Trading company in Moscow as the Manager of the company. She did computer designing courses also from Moscow and is presently working as a Freelance Graphic and Jewelry Designer, Illustrator and Writer.  She has written a series of story books for children with the same characters named as 1, 2, 3 but in different situations and circumstances. While reading her story books, children gain knowledge as well.

 
SHAILJA KUMAR
  • Shailja Kumar developed a passion for reading and writing in her early childhood as she was exposed to the literary works of great writers. This influenced her thinking and helped her establish the directives for life. Shailja has been writing poems since her college days. Some were published in literary magazines. She is an artist and sculptor, who has held solo exhibitions in Houston, USA and Argentina.

 
Shailja Kumari Srivastava
 
Shamita Harsh
  • Shamita is a 19 year old author at heart and freelance writer by profession, a college student of Mass Communication. She lives with her parents in Dehradun, the tinsel town she grew up in, right alongside her babies, her best friends who were born and brought upin the amazing town: the Creepy Cuties. A born writer at heart, she owes it to her dad for the lineage of writing, for the inkling toward the creative! 

     

 
Shamsud Ahmed
  • Shamsud Ahmed is an accomplished poet and has authored many books, including ‘I Am Dirty; I Need Washing,’ which has been critically acclaimed and has got an overwhelming response from the readers. He has been writing Poems and Short stories for local Journals and newspapers for a long time. These days he is busy scripting Prime Time TV show   ‘Zindagi.Com’ which is going to be aired soon. www.iamdirtyineedwashing.blogspot.in

 
Shanu Goyal
  • I'm an Indian and was born on 28th Sep, 1974 in Moradabad, a small town of Uttar Pradesh. As a child I had high expectations from myself. Though my ambition was to become a doctor but I ended up doing my post graduation in Business Administration. I worked with several organizations but never felt satisfied working under someone. After my marriage I joined my husband in his export Business.

 
Shariq Us Sabah
  • Shariq Us Sabah is best selling poet of THE SUBDUED SOUND. He is a writer from New Delhi, India and has two books to his credit.

 
Sharmagne Leland-St. John
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    Sharmagne Leland-St. John, 15 time Pushcart Prize nominee, is a Native American author, poet, concert performer, lyricist, artist and filmmaker. 

    She is the Editor-in-Chief of the 19-year-old  literary and cultural arts journal Quill and Parchment.com. Sharmagne spends time between her home in the Hollywood Hills, in California, her fly fishing lodge on the Stillaguamish River in the Pacific Northwest, a hacienda/ writer’s retreat in Taos, N.M and a mini villa in  Tuscany.  She is the founder of fogdog poetry in Arlington, WA and tours the United States, Canada, and England, as a performance poet. 

    She is widely anthologised and her poetry and short stories appear as well in many online literary journals.  She has published 4 books of poetry Unsung Songs (2003),  Silver Tears and Time (2005), Contingencies (2008),  La Kalima (2010), and co-authored a book on film production design. Designing Movies: Portrait of a Hollywood Artist(Greenwood/Praeger 2006).

    Sharmagne is editor of Cradle Songs: An Anthology of Poems on Motherhood (2012,) winner of the 2013 International Book Award Honouring Excellence in Mainstream and Independent Publishing as well as one of four finalists for the NIEA. (National Independent Excellence Award).

     

 
Sharmagne Leland-St. John
  • Sharmagne Leland-St. John, 19 time Pushcart Prize nominee, is a Native American poet, concert performer, lyricist, artist and film maker. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the 17-year-old literary and cultural arts journal Quill and Parchment.com. Sharmagne spends time between her home in the Hollywood Hills, in California, her fly fishing lodge on the Stillaguamish River in the Pacific Northwest, a casita/writer's retreat in Taos, N.M and a mini villa in Tuscany. She tours the United States, Canada, and England, as a performance poet. She is widely anthologised and her poetry and short stories appear as well in many on-line literary journals. She has published 5 books of poetry Unsung Songs (2003), Silver Tears and Time (2005), Contingencies (2008), La Kalima (2010), A Raga for George Harrison (2020) and co-authored a book on film production design. Designing Movies: Portrait of a Hollywood Artist (Greenwood/Praeger 2006). Sharmagne is editor of Cradle Songs: An Anthology of Poems on Motherhood (2012,) winner of the 2013 International Book Award Honouring Excellence in Mainstream and Independent Publishing as well as one of four finalists for the NIEA. (National Independent Excellence Award).
 
Sharon Berg
  • Sharon Berg is a poet, a fiction author, and an historian of First Nations education in Canada. She's published her poetry in periodicals across Canada, as well as in the USA, Mexico, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, India, and Australia. Her first two books were poetry published by Borealis Press (To a Young Horse, 1979) and Coach House Press (The Body Labyrinth, 1984). This was followed by two audio cassette tapes from Gallery 101 (Tape 5, 1985) and Public Energies (Black Moths 1986). She also published three chapbooks with Big Pond Rumours Press in 2006, 2016 & 2017. Her fiction appeared in journals in Canada and the USA. Porcupine's Quill released her debut fiction collection 'Naming the Shadows' in the Fall of 2019. Her cross-genre history 'The Name Unspoken: Wandering Spirit Survival School' was published in 2019 by Big Pond Rumours Press and received a Bronze 2020 IPPY Award for Best Regional Nonfiction in Canada East. She lives in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada.
 
Sharon Waller Knutson
  • Sharon Waller Knutson is a retired journalist who was born in Montana and now  lives in Arizona. She has published ten poetry books including My Grandmother Smokes Chesterfields (Flutter Press 2014,) What the Clairvoyant Doesn’t Say and Trials & Tribulations of Sports Bob (Kelsay Books 2021) and Survivors, Saints and Sinners and Kiddos & Mamas Do the Darndest Things (Cyberwit 2022) and The Vultures are Circling (Cyberwit 2023.) Her work has also appeared in more than 50 journals.

 
Shawn P. Madison
  • The UnderClass Slinger flew low over the gray fields of swaying valthia that covered the vast flat plains of Diabloniqa. Vice Lord Durabe Kistellian snickered as the ugly gray and black lines of Outpost Diablo swam into view, just barely visible in its cradle nestled at the base of the Distended Mountains. Everything on the planet was gray and drab, including the sky, and Kistellian already found himself wishing for the luxuries of his ManorHome on Transutian, before ever stepping foot on to the coarse and rocky terrain of this place.

 
Shefali Shah Choksi
  • I teach Literature and Composition at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. I have an M.A. (English) and M.Phil (Women’s Studies) from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Vadodara (Gujarat, India) and have lived in Florida since 1988, when I first immigrated to Miami from Mumbai.

 
Shekhar Tiwari
  • Born in a small village, Kairia under  Bhagalpur district of Bihar, Shekhar Tiwari is  a veteran poet, political thinker and entrepreneur of high repute. Highly inspired by  renowned poet, Suryakant Tripathy "Nirala", he, in his poetry, advocates freedom from internal bondage, social taboos, duality of social customs. His poems are resonant with inner voice for love and philosophy of life with eternal quest for liberation of soul from the bondage of the mundanes. He is a pragmatic poet whose poetic thoughts take shape while in transit between India and Washington D.C. America.

 
Shirley Bolstok
  • Shirley Bolstok was born and raised in Denver, Colorado. “My parents are Holocaust Survivors. Writing has always been an integral part of my life. I like writing about the shifting of our existence, whether it is ethereal, emotional or physical. I have had many publications of my work in newspapers, anthologies and online magazines and now have the opportunity to consolidate it in a volume of poetry.

 
Shivani Doshi
  • Even the effect says…nostalgia I came with this poetry compilation which consists of different poems which captures life of different people, through words, it is basically about the phases that a person goes through, heartbreaks, friendships, new dreams and much more. It basically transcends a person to a different world. Every poem will touch that cord of heart which some day had those feelings. Some will fall in love, some may feel the loss and some may feel alive. 

 
Shouvik Hore
 
Shravan
  • Shravan Kumar Gururajan is a poetry hobbyist and a passionate content writer who has worked with several journals and magazines at work places. Being a professional in the field of Information Technology, the author has had flair for writing since the young age. 

 
Shreya Chatterjee
  • A writer by profession and a poet at will- Shreya Chatterjee was born in Kolkata in 1985 and was brought up in Bihar and Kolkata alike. She is educated at G.D. Birla Centre for education, Presidency College, Kolkata and University of Calcutta.

 
Shubhaangi Kundalkar
  • Shubhaangi Kundalkar enjoys being in nature, and is an avid traveller at heart. She also has a passion in penning down her thoughts. She works for a Fortune 500 company, and is also into the area of training students on how to study better to earn excellent grades through her Way 2 Success workshops. She lives in Kharach (Gujarat).

 
Shweta Khanna
  • Born and brought up in the 'City of Nawabs'- Lucknow, I had a poetic bent of mind from an early age. With time, I developed a passion for writing, with poetry being my forte. A Masters degree in life sciences and Bachelors in education did not deter me from being an avid lover of Literature. To be a hands-on mother to my little ones and to further pursue a career in writing made me quit my job as a teacher in an International School.

 
Siddhant Goel
  • Siddhant Goel is a Class XII student from Delhi Public School, Gurgaon. An extremely intellectual and gifted writer, Siddhant is passionate for subjects like Literature and Economics. No wonder, he spends a majority of his time reading novels or analysing fiscal policies! A compassionate individual, he values relationships and considers his family, friends and those around him as his greatest priorities in life. 

 
Siddhartha Garg
  • Siddhartha is a small town guy working in one of the leading industrial areas of the nation today. A journey that started with a handful of poems in the childhood never had the intentions to aim to be a writer someday. He started taking writing as his passion only when the shadow of love crafted the real Sid inside him. Starting off with a romantic novel, Sid promises to focus more on the non fiction books in future to raise the issues around the nation that people fear to talk about. He thinks some has to step forward and throw some light on them and he accepts his pen to be the biggest weapon in his armory. Join him in his fight! Love story!!! "You read those words and you think,its another run of the mill saga with a couple of broken hearts or a concocted love triangle,well ,when love is involved there are bound to be broken hearts but everyone has a different tale to tell and this is my tale,the one i lived,the one which taught me what love really is and the one which i want the world to know about,because love is complicated but its still beautiful."

 
Sofia Hällgren
  • My name is Sofia Hellgren and I´m 37 years old and have been Writing since I was a kid. I Believe in the supernatural and am good at telling fortunes. I am a poet by heart and it´s the one thing that helped me to survive. I love dogs and nature, since I Think it heals if we´re in harmony with it. I´m psychic and can see ghosts and Believe in them, I hope you will enjoy these poems, since they´re all I got.

 
Sohail Akhtar
  • Sohail is a poet at heart and has already authored two books, which can be found on Amazon. His work mostly revolves around love. Currently he is working on his third book. He is a loving father of five beautiful children and aspires to be a bollywood script writer.

 
Somesh R. Doddi
  • Mr. Somesh R. Doddi was born in India, living in usa and a graduate of Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, USA. He is a candidate for the nobel prize in medicine (two works; human gene therapy...

 
Soulful Heart
  • Soulful Heart alias Waheeda Khan also known as Zaiba Khan at her in- laws place, lives in a beautiful coastal city called Karwar which was named by Tagore as South Kashmir. She is married and has two children. Soulful heart was born in Karwar but grew up in completely different places. Her father worked in Paper mill, so she first joined her nursery in Assam till her 4th standard.

 
Sourya Reddy
  • Living in New Delhi, Sourya Reddy is an emerging poet with acute political awareness. In this collection, he insists that the readers experience lives that are alien to their own

 
Sridatta Gupta
  • Hailing from the ‘City of Joy’, Kolkata and currently residing in Mumbai, Sridatta Gupta is a writer by passion. She writes to express those thoughts that she is unable to speak out loud and yearns to reach out to the world at large, who has become emotionally numb. The Broken Cloud is her debut work, gives an insight of her perspective towards life and the various experiences it offers.

 
Srishti Singh
  • Born to Rajput parents and brought up by the wonderful city of Chandigarh. An engineer by qualifications and a poet for life who believes the world would be a better place if all mankind was categorized based on an individual's interest in art, music, theater and literature rather than pedestals of caste, color, sex, status and nationality. A frequent traveler and lover of still standing and fallen monuments, she bases her old soul poetry on these ruins.

 
Stanley H. Barkan
  • STANLEY H. BARKAN is the editor/publisher of Cross-Cultural Communications, a small literary-arts, non-commercial press, which started as in Institute at LIU’s Brooklyn Center in 1971. To date, it has produced some 500 book titles, and 500 broadsides and postcards in 60 different languages, and has organized and participated in numerous university and international poetry festivals, including in Macedonia, Poland, Puerto Rico, Sicily and the United Nations in New York. His own work has been translated into 31 different languages and published in 31 collections, several of them bilingual (Albanian, Armenian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, Farsi, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Sicilian, Spanish, Urdu). His latest books include, Crossings, translated into Russian by Aleksey Dayen; Brooklyn Poems and Sutter & Snediker (2016); Gambling in Macáu and No Cats on the Yangtze, both translated into Chinese by Zhao Si(2017); and Strange Seasons, translated into Urdu by Naila Hina & Face of Time / Fytra e Kohës,: New & Selected Poems by Stanley H. Barkan, translated into Albanian by Jeto Kelmandi (both 2023). He was the 1991 New York City’s Poetry Teacher of the Year (awarded by Poets House and the Board of Education) and the 1996 winner of the Poor Richard’s Award, “The Best of the Small Presses” (awarded by the Small Press Center), for “25 years of high quality publishing.” In May 2006, he was invited by Peter Thabit Jones, editor of The Seventh Quarry, to be the first solo featured poet at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea, Wales. In 2016, he was awarded “best poet” in China. In 2017, he was awarded the Homer European Medal of Poetry & Art. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley H. Barkan

 
Steen Andersen
  • Steen Andersen was born in 1946. He holds an MA in English and Danish from the University of Copenhagen and was a senior master at Køge Sixth Form College until his retirement in 2017. His publications include a monograph on the Danish-Norwegian writer Aksel Sandemose and seventeen books of poetry, two of which are in English.

 
Stefanie Bennett
  • Stefanie Bennett has published over a dozen volumes of poetry, a libretto and a novel. She has tutored in The Institute of Modern Languages (James Cook University), acted as a publishing editor, and worked with Arts Action for Peace [No Nukes]. Of mixed heritage [Irish/Italian/ Paugussett-Shawnee] she was born in Townsville, Queensland, Australia in 1945.
 
Stephanie Somers
  • Stephanie's interest in poetry began at the age of 15 and has always helped her express herself along with composing original songs/lyrics and music. She has written several poems, and has 2 other published poems, "Dry Slender Glass.", Taj Mahal Review (June 2005), and "Proposal," The Still Horizon, Anthology of Poems (2002). She is from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and currently lives and teaches in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.

 
Stephen Gill
  • 1999 is an unforgettable year for me. One reason is Shrine that was released by World University Press. Even in 2008, after nine years, Shrine resurrects the traumatic feelings, touching the spots of deep pain from the days of the partition of India.

 
Stephen Shepherd
  • Stephen Shepherd earned his BA and MA degrees in English from Northern Michigan University and his MFA in Creative Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. He has taught college writing for over thirty years, and his first novella, The Last Chord Concert, received a major review in Publishers Weekly. Most recently, a collection of 71 reflective essays, God: The Power Source of Everything, was published in 2018. In addition, Mr. Shepherd was a former voting member of the Grammy's, based on six CDs consisting of 68 original songs. His two most recent albums Escape Is Not A Place and Livin' On Borrowed Time rose to #1 on the US Roots Music Chart. Mr. Shepherd lives in Cedar Rapids with his wife and their cat Charlie in Iowa s Creative Corridor.

 
Steve Goldsmith
  • Steve Goldsmith, as a child, would travel around the country with a mobile vampire-killing kit … just in case. He no longer fears vampires, but he does still love the macabre, the eerie, and has an imagination constantly simmering with new story ideas. He now lives in Birmingham, England, and is training to become a sign language interpreter.

 
STEVE HIGGINS
  • I come from Manchester in the north west of England. I am semi-retired and work for the emergency services part time. I have written a novel called Floating in Space which is available on Amazon and I write a weekly blog at www.stevehigginslive.com focussing on books, classic film and humour.

 
Steve Jackson
  • Steve Jackson has a BA degree in English Literature from the University of Colorado, USA. He's an internationally published poet. The Harbor is his third book of poems. Two previous books, Wade in the Water and An Affair in the Valley were published by Los Angeles Poet Press.

 
Steve Owen
  • Steve Owen has a PhD in creative writing and literature from the University of Utah, an MFA in creative writing from Notre Dame University, and he's taught composition, literature, and creative writing for 11 years. His writing has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes (2020 and 2021), and he has received four awards for his fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. His writing investigates language's oppressive effects on cognition, empathy, and identity. His short fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and critical analysis have been published by a number of print and online journals, including: Phantom Drift, The Notre Dame Review, decomP magazinE, Otis Nebula, Quarterly West, Typehouse, Flatmancrooked’s Slim Volume of Contemporary Poetics, and The Bend.

 
Steven Carter
  • Steven Carter is a retired emeritus professor of English. He is the only two-time winner of UNESCO's Nuove Lettere International Poetry and Literature Prize. In 2010 he was awarded the Eric Hoffer Foundation's Montaigne Medal. Snow Moon, his chapbook of haiku/haibun, was recently released by Alba Publishng.

 
Steven Sher
  • A native of New York City, poet Steven Sher (aka Shlomo Yashar) has lived in Jerusalem since 2012. His writing (primarily poetry, but including short fiction, folktales, essays, satire and features) has appeared in hundreds of publications worldwide and in 16 previous books including, most recently, Contestable Truths, Incontestable Lies (Dos Madres Press, 2019). Recent appearances include Veils, Halos & Shackles: International Poetry on the Oppression and Empowerment of Women; Proposing on the Brooklyn Bridge: Poems about Marriage; The Second Genesis: an Anthology of Contemporary World Poetry; and New Voices: Contemporary Writers Confronting The Holocaust. In 2018, he received the Glenna Luschei Distinguished Poet Award. He has also taught at many universities, led many writing workshops and served as an editor or consultant across the print media/publishing/literary spectrum since the 1970s. In 2017, he co-edited arc, an Israeli literary magazine featuring many of the best Anglo writers in the country.

 
Steven Translateur
  • Steven Translateur's work has appeared in a variety of publications including APHELION, BEAKFUL, FOXGLOVE JOURNAL, MIND IN MOTION, and NEXT PHASE.

 
Stoianka Boianova
  • We met during the student years in Plovdiv's literary clubs. He studied Bulgarian Philology, I - Physics. We rarely exchanged a word about the literary process, and hinted of mutual sympathy. And just that. Our different lectures and exercises has separated us. He recognized me after 25 years at a meeting of the Union of Bulgarian Writers in Sofia. He presented himself. I knew about his books and publications. Perhaps he too. I had sent the companion to my life in the heavenly realms. I knew he had divorced. In my memory I could see his face as ever. There were no naughty curly hair, that could be recognized him from afar. The eyes shone with curiosity and affection. The voice - careful, gentle, exciting. The meeting lasted for several minutes - he had to leave with the Plovdiv group. I stayed with my emotions in Sofia. After a year and a half we married through the Bright Week. The heavens had decided for us to be together.

     

     

 
Stuti Dhyani
  • The author is an engineer by education, a patent analyst/attorney by profession, a lawyer in the making, but a writer at heart.  Based in Delhi, she hails from the misty mountains of Uttarakhand. She is a fun loving person and an independent soul who lives in the moment, but can get very introspective at times. She intends to undertake almost all the adventure sports in her life and travel less travelled places round the world. 

 
Subimal Palit
  • The author at has come across large number of women. Among them notably his mother. His experience sums up "By and large most women suffers from oppression in men dominated society. Worst suffers are in Islamic countries." His conviction is now confirm from about 70 Pen Pals choose from all over the world.

 
Sudhanshu Bakshi
  • Sudhanshu Bakshi: comes from a humble background, born at Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, India and was one of the eight siblings. Later, he did his post-graduate from IIT, Kharagpur and has been a Petrophysicist and a Petroleum Exploration & Development professional.

 
Sulabha Naik
  • Academician, writer, poet, examiner, freelance journalist and an eminent scholar, Mrs. Sulabha Naik excels in each of these roles. Mrs. Sulabha Naik started her scholastic career as Principal, Bal Niketan, 9BRD, Air Force Primary School, Air Force Station, Lohegaon, Pune. She is a M. Phil ( English ) from University of Pune and has taught in various reputed colleges in Mumbai and Pune, establishing a great rapport with her students over the years. She also taught Soft Skills in the Corporate Sector in Pune. She published her literary book titled A Feminist Perspective on the Fiction of Virginia Woolf in 1998. She was awarded a full scholarship in September, 1994 by the English Speaking Union, UK to attend an International Seminar on Art, Literature and Music in 19th Century England and France at The Centre International d Etudes, Pedagogiques, Sevres, Paris, France.

 
Sumana Iyer
  • A teacher by profession since the last twenty years, Sumana Iyer spends her free time pondering about life and various experiences and the lessons that it brings. Her flair for writing and her passion to express through words soon allowed her to channelize her energies and put across her innermost feelings through poetry. 

 
Sumirasko
  • Sumirasko, a wonder poet of all times, novelist and philospher in the young age of twenties. Born on Ist June 1973 in Sindri, Dhanbad. Sumirasko composed thousands of mystic poems, dealing many facts of eternal Life, enchanting students, public, professors, scholars of Universities alike. Birthday of Sumirasko is celebrated in Patna with enthusiasm after his departure on 3-3-95. Rajendra Sahitya Parishad is organising the event continuously every year. Global readers have attraction towards Sumirasko lyrics, writings etc.

 
Sumit Daga
  • Sumit Daga, A writer of the Hindi poems, currently working in Product management team in Torrent pharmaceuticals Limited at Ahmadabad, basically from Jhalawar district of rajasthan. He done his schooling from Jhalawar did Bachelor of Pharmacy from Vikram University, Ujjain. He is writing Hindi poetry since he was in 11th standard; his college cum hostel life provided a favorable environment to strengthen his ability to write poems. He usually write on the topics of burning issues of the country, home, loneliness, success, love & the practical things which a person experiences in different stages of life.

 
Sumit Goreja
  • A former soft skill trainer, copywriter and correspondent, everything Sumit Goreja is today is because of his heuristic learning. He holds a degree in literature and is a voracious reader; expressing his thoughts through words has always been his passion. From his experiences and achievements, he firmly believes that fancy degrees play no role in an accomplishment of one s goal as far as there is a strong desire, passion and will to achieve it.

 
Surbhi Grover
  • Surbhi Grover, an aviation enthusiast, is currently pursuing her graduation from Hindu College. She loves to travel and write. Born and raised in Delhi, she has been writing poetry since she was 9.

 
Surbhi Thukral
  • Surbhi Thukral is a corporate marketer turned aspiring writer. During her professional experience as a Marketer, she had stints with corporations in India and the UK. After gaining success in business writing, she is now determined to make a mark in the field of creative writing, which she describes as her true passion. She has become a compulsive writer who dedicates many hours a day to fulfill her passion for creative writing. She holds Masters in Business & Management from the University of Strathclyde, UK. Surbhi’s work has been published in Harvests of New Millennium, Taj Mahal Review and EWR: Short Stories.

 
Surendra Prasad Srivastava
  • Surendra Pd. Srivastava, born at Azamgarh, did his college & law from Allahabad, started practising at Azamgarh, later on shifted to Gorakhpur Commissioner's court. Participated in various social and political activities since his youth, had an opportunity to meet several national socialist leaders of his time.

 
Surina Jain
  • Born in the year 1990 in Ajmer, Rajasthan, Surina completed her schooling from six different schools in different cities owing to her dad's transferable job. A graduate from Jadavpur University, kolkata, she has been writing for 9 years now. This is her first book of poems to be published and hopes to publish many more with the support of her reading audience, her parents and her publishers.

 
Sushil Thapa
  • Sushil Thapa is a renowned artist of Nepal. Interested in painting from a young age, he is self taught and art is his passion. He does paintings in oil and acrylic, though pen and ink is his forte. His main subjects are the people of his country from different ethnic backgrounds. He was attached to the Centre for Victims of Torture (CVICT), Kathmandu for thirteen years and through his art works supported various Human Rights campaigns.

 
Sushrut A. Badhe
  • Born to doctor parents in 1990 and after graduating in Mechanical Engineering from P.E.C , Puducherry in 2011, the author was very much impressed with the work of Sri.M.R.Damle, PhD Naturo Ayurvediya Therapy and Founder President Midam Charitable Trust.

 
Susi Clare
  • Susi Clare was born in Nottinghamshire and educated in Mansfield, Birmingham and London. Her travel articles have been published in English-language magazines, The Guardian and The Telegraph, and she has worked as a translator for Italian magazines, painters, sculptors, photographers, poets and a publishing house in Varese. She has been placed, highly/commended and short-listed in several poetry competitions and has been published in anthologies, magazines and on line. The Man who brought Copper and Gold is her first poetry collection.

 
Suzie Palmer
  • Suzie Palmer began writing her life story and poetry in 1999 at 28 years of age. She was encouraged to write after a mystical encounter with a unique Indian sage. ‘You are a writer; you must write’ he told her ‘you must write about your life – true truth – a story describing this is how I won this battle. People like reading about other people’s lives, and they’ll like reading about yours. You’ll also write poetry, teaching people how to be happy even if they can’t run and jump’.

 
Swarupa Chavan
  • Born and brought up in Mumbai, Swarupa works as a Deputy General Manager with one of the leading Agro Chemical Manufacturing companies. Apart from being a rank holder in Packaging Technology, Swarupa has done her MBA and has achieved several accolades in her professional field.

 
Swati Singh Sambyal
  • Words can change perceptions; they have the power to cause a world war, just like they can melt the most ruthless heart. Words fascinate me. A poet at heart and a romantic by soul, I see things the way the world doesn't.I am constantly evolving and as a writer I believe in the simple. Music and words define me. The words I use spring from my everyday observations, my curiosities and the unusualness that surround objects and people around me.

 
Sweta Srivastava Vikram
  • Sweta Srivastava Vikram (www.swetavikram.com) is a Pushcart nominated-poet, novelist, author, essayist, columnist, and blogger. She is the author of three chapbooks of poetry, Because All Is Not Lost (Modern History Press); Kaleidoscope: An Asian Journey of Colors (Modern History Press); and Clearing the fog (upcoming from Modern History Press). She is also the co-author of two poetry collections, Whispering Woes of Ganges & Zambezi (Cyberwit) and Not All Birds Sing (Cyberwit). Niyogi Books will publish her first fiction novel, Perfectly Untraditional, in 2011. Her first nonfiction book of prose and poems, tentatively titled, Mouth full, will be published in the UK in 2012. Her musings have also appeared in several anthologies, literary journals, and online publications across six countries in three continents. A graduate of Columbia University, she lives and writes in New York City and reads her work across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Sweta also teaches creative writing workshops. Follow her: On Twitter (@ssvik) or Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/Words.By.Sweta)

 
Sylvia Forges-Ryan and Sandra Olenik
  • All poems haiku reveal an impressive vitality or mental power of the poet. The value of these poems for all readers is perennial. Most important from the literary point of view, the style of the poet has a richness of effect that creates an enduring fascination.