Romance Magazine Vol. 02 No. 10

Contributors

Lucy Black is an educator. She studied creative writing at the undergraduate level and later earned an M.A. in nineteen-century British fiction. She studied at the Sage Hill school of writing and the Humber College school of writing. She recently completed her first novel on the plight of Irish emigrants in 1870s Ontario which has been edited by Canadian writer, Donna Morrissey. Lucy received the Writer of Distinction award from Humber College for this manuscript. Her short stories have been published by Cyphers Magazine, Fast Forward Fiction, Temenos Fiction, Forge, under the gum tree, Forge, The Hawaii Review, Vintage Script, and Gargoyle.

Randeep Wadehra is an independent columnist, blogger, poet and author. A collection of his short stories, Walls & Other Stories, was published in 2004. His poetry collection, Singing Through the Nightmare, was published by the Ukay Publishing Company in 2011. His stories and poems have been published in India, Canada, the UK and the USA. Find more from Wadehra here: http://randeep-wadehra.blogspot.com/

Willer de Oliveira is a native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He earned his PhD in materials science and engineering from Virginia Tech, and works as a chemical engineer in Sacramento, California. He has coauthored six technical US patents in the field of material science and engineering. His scientific papers have been published in the Journal of Polymer Science and Macromolecules, among other publications. His creative writing has appeared in Chicago Quarterly Review, Brazzil, Stepping Stones, and Independent Ink Magazine.

Mattison Miertschin, born in El Paso, Texas, she has been attending New Mexico State University under the hopes of becoming a teacher. Currently a senior, she has been apart of many organizations on and off campus while staying involved with her favorite, The Literacy Club. She has worked at her local library for two years now and volunteered her time recording books onto C.D.s and cassette tapes for schools in need, she continued this project for more than two years and entitled it, Her Love For Literacy. Always carrying a journal, Mattison decided this story must be written down.

Connie Vigil Platt has gone kicking and screaming from writing on cave walls to the electronic age. She is now published in Australia, Canada, England and Japan as well as the United States.