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Kashiana Singh (http://www.kashianasingh.com) calls herself a work practitioner and embodies the essence of her TEDx talk - Work as Worship into her every day. Her chapbook Crushed Anthills from Yavanika Press in 2020 is a journey that unravels memory through 10 cities. She proudly serves as a Managing Editor for Poets Reading the News, and her voice is read and heard on various international platforms. Kashiana’s first poetry collection is called, Shelling Peanuts and Stringing Words. Her newest full-length collection, Woman by the Door has just been released with Apprentice House Press.

Kashiana lives in North Carolina and carries her various geopolitical homes within her poetry.Besides being a learner of poetry, Kashiana’s last corporate assignment spanning 16 years was as Vice President, Health and Benefits Operations with Alight Solutions.

Pamela Hasan is the author of Poetic Lessons, a collection of poetry about love, loss, grief, and empowerment. She writes poetry using the pen name Poetic Hummingbird. Through poetry, Poetic Hummingbird uses melodic melodies and rhythmic rhymes to invoke conversations that are often difficult to approach. She is known for writing/reciting poetry for collegiate programs centered around diversity, equity, and inclusion. She poetically weaves words together to encourage her readers to pause and reflect on their individual experiences with love, grief, self-worth, and pain. She empowers her readers to have a grateful heart and an optimistic spirit and to love and live unapologetically, without hesitation or reservation. Poetic Lessons is available on Amazon. To order a signed copy of Poetic Lessons, visit https://poetichummingbirdpoetry.com/. A portion of the proceeds from Poetic Lessons is donated to Widows Closets Grieve Believe Achieve Rebuild Program, which provides financial assistance to help widows/widowers acquire the basic necessities for survival. Are you in need of a daily jolt of positivity? Follow Poetic Hummingbird Poetry on Facebook and Instagram for inspirational notes and poetic quotes that promote awareness and restore hope or send an email to @[email protected].

“People either become blessings or Poetic Lessons.”

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Kathrine Yets lives in St. Francis, Wisconsin, U.S. She is an avid educator and poet. Her poetry can be found in many literary magazines and anthologies, including Blue Heron Review, Universal Oneness Anthology, River & South Review, and 5th Wall Press. In 2017, she won the Jade Ring Award from the Wisconsin Writers' Association. She has two chapbooks, So I Can Write (Cyberwit) and The Animal Within (Unsolicited Press). Her new chapbook iLearn, iTeach is forthcoming from Cyberwit. When she is not teaching or writing, she can be found on the shores of Lake Michigan, taking walks with her husband.

Teresa Pearsall-Young is a native of Philadelphia, Pa, and was recently married to Pastor Anthony Young in 2021.

She graduated from Overbrook High School in Philadelphia & earned an Associate Arts Degree from Southern New Hampshire University in 2019. Teresa has an extensive background in the Customer Service Healthcare field.

Teresa surrendered her life to the Lord 22 years ago and has faced some struggles but has never given up on Christ. Teresa is a mother of one biological daughter, a grandmother of three, and a friend to many. God has blessed Teresa with a heart for helping people and the gifts of administrative help in the corporate world and ministry. Teresa is passionate about cooking; (ask folks about her potato salad and banana pudding) and most passionate about writing.

Her writing extends into instructional documentation, short stories, and, her favorite, poetry. Teresa has been writing since a young teen, authoring stories, plays, and songs. Her writing talents went to another level when she gave her life to Christ. She has prepared many theme-based poems and writings for women's conferences and family dedications and continues to

write about the wrongs and rights of life, always giving God the glory. ‘Seeds, Trees, Branches & Leaves, Teresa’s first book published in May 2021, is a compilation of poems and ‘stories’ summing up testimonies of life Before and After HIM, with the purpose of sharing how life’s journey and knowing Christ changed her life. The book is available on Amazon and other outlets.

Teresa continues in ministry circles, being fed in the word and creatively sharing what has been learned about Jesus and the Kingdom of God. She has a heart for hurting women and hopes to help them find healing from their pain by expressing what they have been carrying so it will no longer hinder their future progress.

LaToiya Whipple is the founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Life Coach of Rise Against The Odds LLC, a remote life coaching firm. I invite you to contact me to collectively discover techniques and tools; to transform your life personally and/or professionally. Let’s navigate to formulating a roadmap to wellness. 

LaToiya has been the keynote speaker for high school seniors heading to college. LaToiya Whipple, is a Preacher, College Professor, Motivational Public Speaker, Life Coach, and Author. LaToiya Whipple earned a Master's Degree in Education with an emphasis in Higher Education Leadership. In addition to having earned a  Master’s Degree in Nonprofit Leadership. Furthermore, she also has earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology. 

LaToiya can be contacted for bookings, life coaching, as well as motivational public speaking via email: [email protected], or on social media at  L Diamond Whipple on Instagram. “Broken, Crushed, Shattered, Mended, Healed: How to Survive a Broken Heart”,  is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble. Broken, Crushed, Shattered, Mended, Healed: How to Survive a Broken Heart by LaToiya Whipple MA BA, Paperback | Barnes & Noble..LaToiya Whipple is currently divorced with no children at the moment.

Teresa E. Gallion was born in Shreveport, Louisiana and moved to Illinois at the age of 15. She completed her undergraduate training at the University of Illinois Chicago and received her master’s degree in Psychology from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She retired from New Mexico state government in 2012.

Teresa is a seeker on a journey to work on unfolding spiritually in this present lifetime. Writing is a spiritual exercise for Teresa. Her passions are traveling the world and hiking the mountain and desert landscapes of the western United States. The land is sacred ground and her spiritual temple where she goes for quiet reflection and contemplation. She has published four books: Walking Sacred Ground, Contemplation in the High Desert, Chasing Light, a finalist in the 2013 New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards and her most recent book, Scent of Love, a finalist in the 2021 New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. You may preview her work at http://teresagallion.yolasite.com/

Natalia Lazarus, a woman for all seasons, is a talented, captivating, and alluring International Actor, Stage Producer, Director, and Acting Coach with over 30 years in the Entertainment Industry. She is Syd Field’s “docent” and one of the few in the world authorized to teach his screenwriting technique. Natalia was privileged to have studied with Syd for 6 years. Natalia Lazarus is the Artistic Director at the helm of The Promenade Playhouse and the CEO/Founder of the prestigious and highly revered Los Angeles Performing Arts Conservatory in Santa Monica, CA which celebrated its 25th Anniversary Year in 2021. Since 1996 the LAPAC has offered numerous programs - Acting, Screenwriting, Directing, Filmmaking, and Personal Growth technique that she created and developed. In continuing its celebratory year, the LAPAC was also granted full accreditation by the National Association of Schools of Theatre (N.A.S.T.), a fete more than 5 years in the making.

Lazarus, a woman with artistic, creative, and international flair, is currently exploring a new chapter in her extensive career as an author. Released on February14th, 2022, Natalia’s lyrical and poignant Debut is an Award-Winning, Autobiographical Love Story - in Verse - entitled My Love Affair: Thorns & Roses published by Central Park South Publishing. Natalia’s book rose to the Top 25 best-selling Poetry/Romance releases on Amazon in its first week. Delving into this new creative outlet with fervor, the book captures Natalia’s authentic emotions which were rooted from a whirlwind romance. The book will be released in English & French complimenting Natalia’s multi-lingual skills. (She speaks French, Spanish, Italian, and English fluently),

Melody S. Gee is the author of The Dead in Daylight (Cooper Dillon Books, 2016) and Each Crumbling House (Perugia Press, 2010), winner of the Perugia Press Prize. She is the recipient of Kundiman poetry and fiction fellowships, two Pushcart Prize nominations, and the Robert Watson Literary Prize. Her poems, essays, and reviews appear in Commonweal Magazine, Blood Orange Review, Lantern Review, and The Rappahannock Review. She is a freelance writer and editor living in St. Louis, Missouri with her husband and daughters.

"Melody Gee’s gorgeous poems offer both divine wounds and delicious consolations. At the intersections of the familial and the sacred, The Convert’s Heart is Good to Eat reminds us that what is created is also consumed. Beautiful, sensory, and aching, this collection reminds us that not all hungers are mortal ones." – Traci Brimhall, author of Our Lady of the Ruins

Caylin Capra-Thomas's works include the chapbooks Inside My Electric City (YesYes Books) and The Marilyn Letters (dancing girl press). Her latest work is Iguana, Iguana (2022). Her poems have appeared in journals including New England Review, Pleiades, Copper Nickel, 32 Poems, Hayden's Ferry Review, and many others. The 2018-2020 poet in-residence at Idyllwild Arts Academy, she now lives in Columbia, Missouri, where she is a PhD student in English and creative writing.

Alive to the beauty and anxiety of new worlds and people, Iguana Iguana imagines a tough and tender soundtrack for tumbleweeds in search of roots. Recursive, deliberate, and as adaptive as their titular lizard, these poems invite us to listen so as to better hear “...the sweet shriek / of those far-off trains you suspect are coming / to claim you. To lay open the hills you haven’t seen.” Caylin Capra-Thomas writes about understanding the strangers we meet and knowing the stranger within. In doing so, she maps a blueprint for "lay[ing] into the world / like it's good enough".

Gordon Ferris was born and raised in Finglas, a North West suburb of Dublin. In the early eighties, he moved to Donegal where he has lived ever since. He started writing in 2014 and has had many short stories and poems in publications including Hidden Channel, A New Ulster, The Galway Review, Impspired Magazine, and Lothlorien Poetry Journal. He has also won prizes in the summer 2020  HITA Creative Writing Competition for his poem 'Mother', and won the winter competition for his poem 'The Silence'.  Gordon was awarded a Poetry Town Bursary by Poetry Ireland.