Contributors Directory

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

Rueben De'Marco

Issue 2: Rise and ruin

Rueben De'Marco is a twenty-one year old poet from Birmingham, England. He loves classical poetry and reimagining or revitalising ancient figures to convene and discourse with the modern world.

J. Nishida

Issue 2: Rise and ruin

J. Nishida is active in her local poetry community as an organizer, teacher, editor, and performer. She is a co-host of the long-running Thursday Night Poetry Jam in Gainesville, FL.

Salvatore Difalco

Issue 2: Rise and ruin

Sicilian Canadian poet and storyteller Salvatore Difalco writes from Toronto

Lily Stagner

Issue 2: Rise and ruin

After fifteen years of honing her craft through fanfiction, Lily Stagner is now transitioning to original fiction. She writes driven by an innate, vital need to share her stories and musings with the world.

H oney Nara

Issue 2: Rise and ruin

Honey Nara is an award-winning poet and recipient of the 2026 Glendon F. Swarthout Mentorship Fellowship. Her widely published work explores themes of identity and faith, appearing in notable journals like Waymark and Rowayat.

Caroline Wellman

Issue 2: Rise and ruin

Caroline Wellman is a Best of the Net nominee and author of the poetry chapbook Presences. Based in Illinois, her latest literary works are featured in Haymaker and table//FEAST.

Christy Wise

Issue 2: Rise and ruin

Christy Wise is the author of Tangible Terrain and an MFA graduate from the University of Reno Lake Tahoe. A Best American Essays notable writer, her poetry is widely published in journals like Gyroscope Review.

Eli Noel

Issue 2: Rise and ruin

Eli Noel is an author previously published in several literary magazines. He is a student at the University of Nebraska Kearney.

Catherine Mariner

Issue 2: Rise and ruin

Catherine Mariner is a poet and artist from Dorset, England. Her work explores landscape, memory, history and the natural world.

Sophie Roy

Issue 2: Rise and ruin

Sophie Roy is currently studying Political Science. She is a French-Taiwanese writer. Her work is focused on overlapping identities, nostalgia and the emotions we leave attached to objects around us. Her work has been published by Cambridge Poetry, The Creative Process, The Opiate and Itchysilk’s The Itch.

Ken Whitson

Issue 2: Rise and ruin

Words came late to Ken Whitson, arriving only after he’d lived enough to find them and failed enough to make them interesting. And then—from the intersections of a life lived almost always askew—they spilled forth. Ken’s been gathering them at linktr.ee/KWhitsonWrites ever since.

T.S. Carney

Issue 2: Rise and ruin

T.S. Carney is a special education teacher whose prolific writing is featured in numerous literary journals including Your Impossible Voice and Maudlin House. His diverse body of work spans poetry, prose, and philosophical commentary.

Tyler Campbell

Issue 2: Rise and ruin

Tyler Campbell is a dual MA/MFA candidate at McNeese State University. He has previously received an MA from Auburn University at Montgomery. His writing and research focus around speculative fiction that is typically centered around life and the human experience. In his free time he likes to play tabletop games and watch horror movies with his wife, Saki

Vera Podell

Issue 2: Rise and ruin

Vera Podell is a Russian-born writer and photo artist. She writes in three languages, which are English, Russian and German. Vera's art primarily focuses on the topics of memory and power in their different forms. Her writing has been published in multiple literary journals, including "The Yesterday Review", "AC|DC Journal", "Ouch! Collective", "InterrobangLit" and others.

Dale Scherfling

Issue 2: Rise and ruin

Dale Scherfling is a full-time writer and poet, a former newspaper sportswriter, editor, and photographer, and a retired U.S. Navy photojournalist. He teaches creative writing and photography at the college level, and his work has appeared in The Monterey Poetry Review, Chiron Review, San Diego Poetry Annual, and other journals

Meg Barns

Issue 2: Rise and ruin

Megan Barnard is a New Jersey-based writer whose work explores identity, memory, coming-of-age, and shaping the world's perspective of marginalized voices. She holds a BFA in Fashion Marketing and Management with a minor in Writing from the Savannah College of Art and Design. She is currently working on a collection of essays and short fiction