Authors
Peter J. Dellolio
John Biscello
Taylor Thornburg
Mykyta Ryzhykh
John Biscello
Taos, New Mexico
Originally from Brooklyn, NY, John is an award-winning novelist, poet, performer, playwright, and screenwriter. He has lived in the high-desert grunge-wonderland of Taos, New Mexico since 2001.
He is the author of four novels; Broken Land, a Brooklyn Tale; Raking the Dust; Nocturne Variations; and No Man’s Brooklyn.He has also authored a collection of stories called Freeze Tag, two poetry collections (Arclight and Moonglow on Mercy Street) and a fable (The Jackdaw and the Doll, illustrated by Izumi Yokoyama). He also adapted classic fables, which were paired with the vintage illustrations of artist, Paul Bransom, for the collection: Once Upon a Time, Classic Fables Reimagined.
His fiction and poetry has appeared in 3:AM magazine, nthposition, the Tishman Review, Paris Lit Up, Kansas City Voices, Yuan Yang, and numerous other publications.
His produced, full-length plays include: LOBSTERS ON ICE, ADAGIO FOR STRAYS, ZEITGEIST, U.S.A., and WEREWOLVES DON’T WALTZ.
The Bride, a chamber film that he wrote and directed, debuted in May of 2024, and was an Official Selection of the Berlin Indie Film Festival and the Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival.
Peter J. Dellolio
Brooklyn, New York
Dellolio was born in NYC in 1956. He graduated from New York University in 1978.
He has had a variety of work published in over 110 literary magazines, journals, and anthologies, in print and online.
Since 2018, three of his poetry collections, a novel, and a novella have also been published. For poetry, the titles include: A Box Of Crazy Toys (Xenos Books); Bloodstream Is An Illusion Of Rubies Counting Fireplaces and Roller Coasters Made Of Dream Space (Cyberwit/Rochak Publishing). For novels & novella titles include: The Confession (Cyberwit/Rochak Publishing) and The Vigil (Type Eighteen Books). A short story
collection has been released called That’s Where You Go & Other Short Stories (Cyberwit/Rochak Publishing).
A collection of his one-act plays was published in 1983 by Dramatika Press.
Peter has taught language skills through art projects for LEAP in the NYC public school system. He lives in Brooklyn.
Nolan D. Insyte
Somewhere in the woods, Canada
Nolan D. Insyte is a pseudonym. His first novel was released in 2013. It was called The Beggar. There have been other limited releases of poetry before that time. One was called Poems from the Poorhouse and Behavioural Carcinoma.
His novel writing life began after his education in journalism was complete. Although trained in hard news, photojournalism and feature writing, he started out on the radio where he spent two years producing many shows, short news casts and recording bands. Since radio was transitioning to mp3 programmed broadcasts, he went into hard news. This had him moving across Canada, moving from one weekly or daily to another. The Beggar and In The Western Night are only two of several novels that came out of those times on the road or when he would stop for a period in a city to take a break from journalism.
Mykyta Ryzhykh
Tromsø, Norway
Mykyta Ryzhykh, an author from Ukraine, now lives in Tromsø, Norway. He was nominated (several times) for a Pushcart Prize and Touchstone Award and received a Ukrainian presidential scholarship for young authors. In 2022 he received a Ukrainian bachelor's degree in journalism and communications. In the same year his Ukrainian-language collection of poems "Liber liberi", was published in Gerda publishing. Mykyta was also a co-founder and curator of the literary competition #безпробiлiв (#withoutspaces) for Ukrainian teenagers.
His publishing credits include many literary magazines in Ukrainian and English: Tipton Poetry Journal, Stone Poetry Journal, Neologism Poetry Journal, Shot Glass Journal, QLRS, The Crank, Chronogram, Monday mag, Occulum, Cerasus Poetry Magazine, Sarka, Cacti Fur, Backchannels journal, Apocalipse confidential, Grey Sparrow Journal, O2 Haiku Literary Magazine, Packingtown Review, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, The Rabbit, The Inflectionist Review, Eunoia Review, Chewers & Masticadores, Masticadores USA, Feed the holy, The Big Windows Review, Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Third Wednesday, Dialogist, Consequence, Cool Beans Lit, WordCity Literary Journal, Poets Choice, BarBar, Slant: A Journal of Poetry, The Piker Press, Open: Journal of Arts & Letters, Orbis, Litbreak Magazine, Monterey Poetry Review, Pato journal, Five Fleas Itchy Poetry, Ranger magazine, Bending Genres Journal, Rat's Ass Review, Cajun Mutt Press, Ice Floe Press, minor literatures, Audience Askew Literary Journal, Open Sewers, Tokyo poetry journal, Spirit Fire Review, The Gravity of the Thing, Ballast Journal, Star 82 Review and others.
Mykyta’s two-lines verse (pr. published Password journal) was used as the title of a philosophical article by Terence Rajivan Edward (University of Manchester, PhD):
"Children's town
No one to fix a toy"
The Styrofoam Sandpaper Collective
Various locations
The Styrofoam Sandpaper Collective represents a group of visual artists from various places that function only under a group name to solidify a main goal: to archive various conceptual art projects. Projects like A Conversation in Pictures #3 would have been lost to time if it was not archived into a book format. These books will turn the ephemeral into something more lasting.
Taylor Thornburg
Chicago, Illinois
He is an author and essayist based in Chicago, Illinois. His fiction explores strange yet humane ways of being.
His fiction can be found in The Garfield Lake Review, L’Esprit Literary Review, Thirteenth Floor Magazine, Valley Voices, The Heartwood Literary Review, Disco Kitchen, and elsewhere.
