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Carol Fricke is a retired teacher and coach from Derry Township School District in Hershey, Pennsylvania. She grew up in Fryburg, a small town. After high school, she attended Indiana University of Pennsylvania where she competed on their gymnastics team....

Darryl Johnson’s poetry and essays have appeared in regional and national journals. A recipient of the Missouri National Education Association’s Horace Mann Award, Darryl is a former Missouri Teacher of the Year and member of the National Teachers Hall...

Author Fred Berl is a US Navy veteran and an Adjunct Professor at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. Recently retired from Los Alamos National Laboratory, he was a senior manager leading complex, high-risk projects in the...

Surviving Her Silence is a story of a young Black African American Woman’s resilience and perseverance through colorism, inferiority complex, self-doubt, and Domestic Violence. From childhood, Shante’ knew that she was different with sweaty hands and the ability to...

Lana Duncan-Hartgraves is a multifaceted spiritual guide, author, educator, artist, illustrator, Reiki Master, Herbalist, Hypnotist, gardener and Farm Owner dedicated to helping others awaken their inner wisdom.A psychic medium and channeler, she communicates with Guides, Angels, and Pleiadians, offering insights that bridge the...

Donna Myer was born and raised in the small town of Seneca, Illinois, along the Illinois River. She is a part of the now-diminishing baby-boomer generation, but as such, is grateful to have been part of a culture where...

JK Miller is the pen name of Karen Miller, a wife, mother, and retired teacher who has always loved books and children.  During the pandemic, Karen began writing for a local paper, Southland Voice. This allowed Karen to improve...

Born into a family of writers, Dilobar Ortiqova has a passion for literature from the early ages. Her previous works mostly included poems and short stories. Living in different countries, starting from Central Asia to Japan, Singapore, and USA, they ultimately...

In 2017, Samantha Burgett was running a teen program in Northwest Indiana, when she noticed several of her youth demonstrating new negative behaviors after having been incarcerated in the local juvenile detention center for a short period of time....

Becky Cortesi-Caruso has dedicated twenty-six years to being employed in public education. A former school social worker, she eventually made the leap of faith into school administration and is currently an Executive Director of Special Education. Becky earned a Master’s...

Bogdan Sopterean was born on October 1, 1980, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, which is located in the beautiful region of Transylvania—yes, the region where Dracula was born. When he began middle school, he started to practice martial arts, which helped him...

Vova Kosinskiy was born under the symbol of the Moscow Olympics in a Ukrainian provincial town of the USSR.“I endured the hardships of the economic crisis of the ’90s and poverty, surviving through small-scale trade and self-improvement. Books were my...