Vyacheslav Konoval is a Ukrainian poet whose work is devoted to the most pressing social problems of our time, such as poverty, ecology, relations between the people and the government, and war. His poems have appeared in many magazines, including Anarchy Anthology Archive, International Poetry Anthology, Literary Waves Publishing, Sparks of Kaliopa, Reach of the Song 2022, Diogenes for Culture Journal, and many more. Vyacheslav’s poems were translated into Spanish, French, Scottish, Italian, and Polish languages. His poems were presented at the War Art Project. He is a member of the Federation of Scottish Writers.

Mykyta Ryzhykh is a poet from Ukraine. Winner of the international competition ‘Art Against Drugs’, bronze medalist of the festival Chestnut House, laureate of the literary competition named after Tyutyunnik. Nominated for Pushcart Prize. The poet’s poems have been published in magazines and on the portals Soloneba, Littsentr, in the Ukrainian Literary Gazette, Bukovynsky Journal, in Stone Poetry Journal (USA), Tipton Poetry Journal (USA), divot poetry journal (USA), Alternate Route (07/2022, USA), dyst journal (USA), Better Than Starbucks Poetry & Fiction Journal (USA), Allegro Poetry Magazine (USA), Littoral Press (UK).

Lynne Goldsmith’s first poetry collection, ‘Secondary Cicatrices’, won seven honors. ‘By Light and Hidden Matter’ is her latest poetry collection. Two of her children’s picture books each won an honor and two of her photos in the 2022 Nature Conservancy International Photography Contest of over 100,000 entries were picked as judges’ “Favorites” (nonwinning) in the climate and plants/fungi categories. Lynne also has another photo published with Tiny Seed Literary Journal that’s soon to be published in their upcoming book anthology.

Lynne Goldsmith’s first book, ‘Secondary Cicatrices’, won the 2018 Halcyon Poetry Prize, was a 2019 Finalist in the American Book Fest Awards, a 2020 Human Relations Indie Book Award Gold Winner, a new Finalist Award in the International Book Awards, and a Distinguished Favorite in the NYC Big Book Awards . Her poetry has been published in Backchannels Journal, Spillway, Thimble Literary Magazine, Environmental Magazine, Red Planet Magazine, among others, with upcoming poems in Tiny Seed Literary Journal and Scotland’s 2020 Geopoetry Conference program. Her poetry book ‘Secondary Cicatrices’ recently won a Book Excellence Finalist Award. Her self-published children’s book is a Royal Dragonfly Award Winner—Honorable Mention for Picture Books 5 & Younger.

Eleni Cay is a Slovakian-born poet living in England and Norway, and writing in English, Slovak, French, Norwegian and Spanish.. Her award-winning first collection ‘A Butterfly’s Trembling in the Digital Age’ was published by Cakanka in Slovakia, Parthian Books in the UK and Hein Verlag in Germany. Eleni is also known for her filmpoems, dancepoems and multimedia poetry, which have been screened at international festivals and featured on Button Poetry. These three poems are taken from her latest collection ‘Love Algorithm’, originally published by The Black Spring Press Group, 2021, London.