Tipton Poetry Journal Peggy Aylsworth is a psychotherapist, living in Santa Monica, California. Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies throughout the U.S. and around the world, including The Wallace Stevens Journal. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. The sixth book of her poetry is soon to be published by Letters At 3 A.M. Press. A Pushcart nominee, Lana Bella is an author of two chapbooks, Under My Dark (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2016) and Adagio (forthcoming from Finishing Line Press), has had her poetry and fiction featured with over 230 journals, including California Quarterly, Chiron Review, Columbia Journal, Gravel, Plainsongs, Poetry Salzburg Review, Pure Slush, The Writing Disorder, Third Wednesday, and elsewhere, among others. Lana resides in the US and the coastal town of Nha Trang, Vietnam. Joe Bisicchia writes of our shared spiritual dynamic. An Honorable Mention recipient for the Fernando Rielo XXXII World Prize for Mystical Poetry, his works have appeared in Sheepshead Review, Balloons Lit. Journal, The Inflectionist Review, Black Heart Magazine, Dark Matter Journal, Poets Collectives Anthologies and others. The current public affairs professional in New Jersey is a former award winning television host who also taught high school English. His website is www.widewide.world and he is on Twitter at @TheB_Line: https://twitter.com/theb_line. Constance Brewer’s poetry has appeared or is upcoming in Harpur Palate, Dark Matter Literary Journal, The Linnet’s Wings, The Nassau Review, and in the New Poets of the American West anthology among other places. Constance is a co-editor for Gyroscope Review magazine, and is also the recipient of a 2016 Wyoming Arts Council Fellowship grant in poetry. Constance lives in Wyoming with a small but vocal herd of Welsh Corgis. Tony Brewer is a poet, spoken word performer, screenwriter, and sound effects artist from Bloomington, Indiana. He is chair of the Writers Guild at Bloomington and Executive Director of the Spoken Word Stage at the 4th Street Arts Festival, as well a member of the poetry performance troupe Reservoir Dogwoods and a regular reader for Anthology on WFIU Public Radio. He has three books of poetry: The Great American Scapegoat (2006), Little Glove in a Big Hand (Plan B Press, 2010), and Hot Type Cold Read (Chatter House Press, 2013). David G. Campbell is Professor Emeritus of art at George Fox University where he taught painting, printmaking, drawing and art history courses. He is the author of Seeing: When Art and Faith Intersect (2002) and Parktails (2012). His poetry and artworks have been published in a number of periodicals including Carcinogenic Poetry, Borderlands, RiverSedge, Rockhurst Review and In the Teeth of the Wind. His artwork is represented in collections such as The Portland Art Museum, Oregon State University, Ashforth Pacific, Inc. and George Fox University.
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