Contributors Directory

A growing archive of authors and poets whose work appears in Lunara Nether.

Doug Raphael

Issue I: Between Ceasefires

Doug Raphael is an architect in Nova Scotia, Canada. His work has appeared in The Poetry Lighthouse, The Big Window Review, Oddball Magazine, Discretionary Love, The Groke, and more. He is enrolled in the creative writing program at Dalhousie University and is working toward making writing a full-time practice.

Cithara Patra

Issue I: Between Ceasefires

Cithara Patra lives in North Carolina and has written for several literary journals, including Poetries in English, Instant Noodles, and 50 Word Stories.

Max Wightwick

Issue I: Between Ceasefires

Max Wightwick is a writer living in South London. They have a short story collection, A Bigot’s Guide to Salvation, and also write novels and screenplays while working as a full-time video editor.

Nneamaka Ibeneme Onochie

Issue I: Between Ceasefires

Nneamaka Ibeneme Onochie is a writer, poet, playwright, and author. Her work has appeared in Kalahari Review, Literary Network, Adanna, Deep Overstock, International Human Rights Art Movement, Iskanchi Press, and Journal of African Youth Literature. She is the founder of the Fragile Feet Initiative.

Vishaal

Issue I: Between Ceasefires

Vishaal writes short stories and poems, mostly about memories. His work has appeared in ARTS by the People, Five on the Fifth, Ghudsavar, Kitaab, Hakara Journal, The Hooghly Review, Bare Bones Publishing, Panorama, The Perch Journal, The Kelp Journal, Vermilion, The Rush, Open Minds Quarterly, The Rainbow Poems, Antonym Mag, Good Printed Things, and Metonym Journal.

Jason Ryberg

Issue I: Between Ceasefires

Jason Ryberg lives part-time in Kansas City, Missouri, and part-time in the Ozarks near the Gasconade River, in the company of many strange and wonderful woodland creatures.

Lou Farnam

Issue I: Between Ceasefires

Lou Farnam is a Creative Writing student at Arkansas Tech University. Her work centers on love, grief, and the infallible humanity we all face, exploring the emotional costs of our choices.

Sam Hendrian

Issue I: Between Ceasefires

Sam Hendrian is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker, poet, and playwright striving to foster empathy through art. He writes personalized poems outside LA’s oldest independent bookstore and makes Chaplin-esque silent films about loneliness and human connection.

Paul Hostovsky

Issue I: Between Ceasefires

Paul Hostovsky is a Boston-based sign language interpreter and braille instructor. His poems and essays appear widely online and in print. He has won a Pushcart Prize and two Best of the Net Awards, and has been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Only Poems, and The Writer’s Almanac.

Viviane Fae-Moss

Issue I: Between Ceasefires

Viviane Fae-Moss (she/her) is a trans writer from the BFA program at Southern Oregon University. A fencer, writer, and baker, she looks for beauty in small places and is often found talking to trees, lizards, and rocks.

Buddy Devine

Issue I: Between Ceasefires

Buddy Devine is the pen name of cartoonish and writer Elijah Singer Brahmi. His work blends humor, counter-culture sensibility, and heartfelt storytelling, and his debut short story collection, ODDBALLS, explores queer identity, mental health, and outsider-ness.