Photo: Esther Dobson

The Team

Josh Seligman is the founding editor of Foreshadow.

Alina Sayre is an editor of Foreshadow.

Jarel Paguio is a co-host of Forecast.

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Authors

You can read the authors' full bios by clicking the links to their work.
You can find published works of some of our authors here.

Zaher Alajlani is a Syrian author, editor, researcher and translator living between Romania and Greece.
     1. Old Feelings (Fiction, February 2024)

Alan Altany is a septuagenarian college professor of religious studies.
     1. Grunewald's Crucifixion (Poetry, September 2022)
     2. Habit of Being Wise (Poetry, October 2022)
     3. The Seven Deadlies (Poetry, October 2022)
     4. From Here to Eternity (Poetry, February 2023)
     5. Gritty Grace: Alan Altany and Pilgrimage (Interview, June 2023)

Evan Amo is a minister and musician based in Denver, Colorado. 
     1. World Reborn (Music, April 2021)

Joy Axelson is a translation coordinator and poet.
     1. Sacred Gift (Poetry, January 2024)

Bill Ayres teaches Sunday school to five year olds. They ask good questions.
     1. The Parable of the Talents (Poetry, April 2022)

Matthew J. Andrews is a private investigator and writer from California.
     1. Jonah and the King (Poetry, March 2022)
     2. Contribution (Poetry, May 2022)
     3. Sodom (Poetry, March 2023)

Laura Arendt is a theopoet based in San Francisco, California.
​     1. Testify (Poetry, January 2022)
     2. Second-Hand World (Poetry, May 2022)
     3. Justice on Our Streets (Poetry, May 2022)

Roger B. 
     1. Away in the Hills (Poetry, October 2022)
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Katie Baker writes and lives in upstate New York.
      1. When God Calls Us Beyond the 9-to-5 (Non-fiction, October 2022)

Roger Belbin lives and writes in Cumbria, England.
     1. Worship in Covid Times (Poetry, February 2023)
     2. Journeying in Community: Roger Belbin and Pilgrimage (Interview, March 2023)

Joe Benevento is an author and poet and has taught as an English professor. 
     1. The Way to Bethlehem (Fiction, December 2023)

Joe Bisicchia is an award-winning mystical poet.
     1. Driving to Emmaus (Poetry, May 2024)
     2. Burning Bush (Poetry, June 2024)
     3. photographer of the broken (Poetry, July 2024)
     4. Living Arrangements (Poetry, August 2024)

Jane Blanchard is a native Virginian who lives and writes in Georgia, USA. 
     1. Liturgy (Poetry, November 2023)
     2. Continuum (Poetry, May 2024)

Michael Braswell is a retired university teacher and former prison psychologist.
     1. Peacemaking Boogie (Poetry, February 2024)
     2. Sunday Biscuits (Fiction, June 2024)     

Scott Braswell is an author.
     1. Sunday Biscuits (Fiction, June 2024)

Natasha Bredle is an emerging writer from Cincinnati, Ohio.
     1. The Answer (Poetry, May 2023)
     2. To the Forest (Poetry, June 2023)

Kellie Brown is a violinist, conductor, music educator and award-winning writer.
     1. Refrain (Poetry, January 2024)

Rachel Fulton Brown is a professor of history and an author. 
     1. Review: The Gospel According...to Mary by Carl Winderl (Book review, December 2022)

Philip Michael Bulman is a poet who lives in Maryland.
     1. Elegy for Desert Flowers (Poetry, July 2022)
​     2. Ascensions (Poetry, August 2022)
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Bryant Burroughs is a writer living in South Carolina.
     1. The Widow Whose Son Lived (Fiction, July 2022)
     2. The Youngest Day (Poetry, November 2022)
     3. The Widow's Psalm (Poetry, February 2023)
     4. The Leper and the Healer (Fiction, May 2023)
     5. Pearls of Ignatius (Poetry, August 2023)
     6. Song of the Star (Poetry, December 2023)
     7. A Long Walk Toward God (Poetry, January 2024)
     8. All the Dead Heard His Voice (Poetry, March 2024)
     9. Letters from Heaven (Poetry, June 2024)

Peter T. Cavallaro is a writer, poet, attorney, adventurer, theologian and nature photographer.
     1. Training Day (Poetry, October 2023)

Erin Clark is an American writer and priest living in London.
     1. Found poem: upon arrival at the Abbey (Poetry, July 2023)
     2. Orchard labyrinth, overgrown (Poetry, August 2023)
     3. and there is that Leviathan (Poetry, November 2023)
     4. Do they know it's Thomas Becket after all?​ (Poetry, December 2023)

Noah J. Craig is a poet based in Henderson, Nevada.
     1. Strength (Poetry, March 2023)
     2. Paramount, for the Speechless (Poetry, July 2023)
     3. A Writer's Prayer (Poetry, August 2023)
     4. Desert Ways (Poetry, August 2023)

Adrian David writes advertisements by day and short fiction by night.
     1. For I Have Sinned (Fiction, April 2023)

Michael Dean Clark is an author and editor based in the Los Angeles, California, area.
     1. No One Sees It Yet (Fiction, February 2021)

Sheila Dougal lives in the low deserts of Arizona with her husband and sons.
     1. Descent (Poetry, June 2023)
     2. Ode to the Day (Poetry, July 2023)
     3. Invitation (Poetry, August 2023)
     4. Advice for the Long Walk Home (Poetry, September 2023)
     5. On Looking Up (Poetry, October 2023)

Stephen D. Edwards is a fiction writer.
     1. Because He Lives (Fiction, April 2022)

Kelcey Ellis holds a Bachelor's degree in Family Life Studies, a Masters of Public Health and a Mild/Moderate Education Specialist credential.
     1. A Mother's Loss and the Father's Love (Non-fiction, January 2021)

Vern Fein, a retired pastor, is an octogenarian poet. 
     1. Spike of Light (Poetry, November 2023)

Phil Flott is a poet.
     1. Angels Kept Visiting (Poetry, September 2022)

Urzula Glienecke, PhD, is a Latvian theologian, artist and activist living in Scotland.
​     1. A Foretaste of the Kingdom (Non-fiction, April 2021)
     2. Life Lines (Art, May 2021)
     3. New Beginnings (Art, August 2021)

Jaden Goldfain is a writer and writing student based in California. 
     1. The Quarantined War of Young People (Poetry, February 2021)

Phyllis Green is an author, playwright and artist.
     1. Jesus on the Cross (Art, April 2022)
     2. God's Shining Light (Art, September 2022)

Mike Hall has been a teacher and is an author of two poetry collections.
     1. The Still (Poetry, July 2023)

Kay Harkins is a writer, educator, artist and musician living in San Diego, California.
     1. Off-Center (Poetry, February 2021)

Rick Hartwell is a retired middle-school teacher living in Southern California.
     1. My Street Brother (Non-fiction, October 2023)     

Kinley Hartz is a student at Azusa Pacific University, California. 
     1. diminuendo (Poetry, July 2023)

Tim Harvey is a pastor and writer based in Roanoke, Virginia.
     1. The Comfort that Comes to Those Who Mourn (Non-fiction, May 2021)
     2. ...And by What We Have Left Undone (Non-fiction, June 2022)
     3. Tend the Flock: The Pastoral Calling (Interview, July 2022)

Ron Hickerson is an academic advisor and writer.
     1. Resistance (Poetry, October 2022)
     2. What's the Job? (Poetry, October 2022)

Rick Hill is a writer and educator.
     1. The Transfiguration of Stan Neuman (Poetry, February 2021)

Evie Huang is an emerging author based in Southern California.
     1. I will fill this house with glory (Poetry, September 2023)
     2. Majesty (Poetry, May 2024)

Charles Hughes is a poet based in the Chicago, Illinois, area.
     1. Valediction (Poetry, May 2023)
     2. A Ragged Man Comes to Dinner (Poetry, March 2024)

Megan Huwa is a poet and writer in southern California.
     1. prison's prism (Poetry, July 2024)
     2. Glory, Us (Poetry, July 2024)

Terry Jarvis is a woodworker and author from England.
     1. I Found a New Life (Non-fiction, December 2021)
     2. Carving New Shapes from Old (Non-fiction, October 2022)

Bonita Jewel is a freelance writer and editor living in California with her family.
     1. Heart to Heart (Poetry, September 2023)
     2. Key to Faith (Poetry, October 2023)

Janina Aza Karpinska is a multi-disciplinary artist–poet from the south coast of England.
     1. Abide in Me, as I Abide in You (Art, August 2024)

Ryan Keating is a pastor and winemaker.
     1. Jonah Moves (Poetry, September 2022)
     2. Drawing from Deep Wells: Ryan Keating and Pilgrimage (Interview, February 2023)
     3. The Wine Remembers (Poetry, June 2023)
     4. Presence (Poetry, June 2023)
     5. Snapshot of a Man in Front of a Mural (Poetry, March 2024)
     6. God with Us (Poetry, May 2024)

Eileen R. Kinch is a graduate of Earlham School of Religion's ministry of writing programme and is a writer based in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. 
     1. Planting Forgiveness (Poetry, March 2021)
     2. If Anyone Asks (Poetry, March 2021)

Laurie Klein is an author and poet living in the Pacific Northwest.
     1. Private, as the Small of a Back (Poetry, October 2023)
     2. Predawn (Poetry, October 2023)
     3. Uphill (Poetry, October 2023)
     4. There must be a way to listen (Poetry, November 2023)
     5. What the Snail Said . . . (Eventually) (Poetry, April 2024)

Desmond Kon is an author and lecturer of creative writing.
     1. The One Happy Thing (Poetry, November 2023)

Kate Kort is an author living in Portland, Oregon.
     1. My Perfect Wife, Her Perfect Son by Joe Benevento (Review, January 2024)

Nicholas Kotar is an epic fantasy author and an Orthodox deacon.
     1. The Song of the Sirin (Excerpt) (Fiction, June 2021)

Kat Kovalevska is a writer living in London, England.
     1. The Coldest Day of the Year (Fiction, October 2022)

Abigail Leigh is a harpist and poet from Oregon.
     1. A Deeper Calling (Poetry, October 2022)
     2. The Mountain Sermon (Poetry, October 2022)
     3. The Fruitless Tenant (Poetry, October 2022)
     4. This Side of Heaven (Poetry, November 2022)
     5. My Wonder (Poetry, May 2023)

Caroline Liberatore is a poet from Cleveland, Ohio.
     1. Library Liturgy (Poetry, February 2022)
     2. Ecology (Psalm 84) (Poetry, August 2022)
     3. Unearthings (Poetry, September 2022)
     4. April Snowfall, a Mercy (Poetry, April 2023)
     5. Grievances (Poetry, June 2023)
     6. Seaside, OR (Poetry, November 2023)
     7. What Child (Poetry, April 2024)

Peter Lilly is a British poet, English teacher and community builder.
     1. Imagine the Water (Poetry, March 2024)

Saundri Luippold is a student of English and Spanish at Azusa Pacific University.
     1. Abraham and Isaac (Poetry, September 2023)

Michael Lyle is a poet living in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
     1. Wick of the Soul (Poetry, October 2022)
     2. Tennis Players (Poetry, October 2022)
     3. Yahweh (Poetry, October 2022)
     4. Family of God (Poetry, October 2022)
     5. "Carvered" for Christmas (Non-fiction, December 2022)
     6. Stuff that Happens while I Preach (Poetry, August 2023)

D.S. Martin is a poet and academic based in Ontario.
     1. Beginning & Beginning (Poetry, April 2023)
     2. Sweet Savour (Poetry, June 2023)
     3. Ruins Remind Us (Poetry, September 2023)
     4. Inferno (Poetry, October 2023)

Scot Martin teaches high-school English in southeast Michigan.
​     1. untitled (Poetry, October 2023)
     2. Bald-faced hornet (Poetry, February 2024)

Emma McCoy is a literature student and writer based in California.
     1. the third movement of Genesis (Poetry, January 2021)
     2. To Cross the Jordan (Poetry, June 2021)
     3. a voice in the darkness (Poetry, October 2021)
     4. swinging from an olive tree (Poetry, April 2022)

Linda McCullough Moore is a novelist and poet.
     1. A Little Thing I Wrote (Poetry, October 2022)
     2. Wait It Out (Poetry, October 2022)
     3. Untitled (Poetry, October 2022)
     4. The Counting (Poetry, February 2023)
     5. On the Nature of Forgiveness (Poetry, April 2023)
     6. Engaging the Heart: Linda McCullough Moore and Pilgrimage (Interview, May 2023)
     7. Asylum (Poetry, July 2023)

Julia McMullen is a poet living in the Midwest USA.
     1. Red Sea (Poetry, August 2023)
     2. Locusts (Poetry, September 2023)
     3. In the belly of the whale (Poetry, October 2023)

J.E. Misz is a clinical social worker and poet based in Goshen, Indiana.
     1. For Finding Your Way (Poetry, August 2023)

Dean Nelson is a journalist, professor and author based in California. 
     1. Finding Healing in Lockdown​ (Non-fiction, January 2021)

Doreen Nyamwija holds a business degree in entrepreneurship and is based in Uganda.
     1. Servant Leadership in Community (Non-fiction, May 2021)
     2. On Building a Team (Non-fiction, July 2021)

Ailisha O'Sullivan is a translator, editor and writer. 
     1. Christmas Eve (Poetry, December 2023)
     2. The Price of Prophecy (Poetry, December 2023)

Alexandra O'Sullivan is a wife, mother, and amateur poet from Texas.
     1. A Living Sacrifice (Poetry, April 2022)

Ada A. Ohnezeit is a poet and lifelong resident of Western Pennsylvania.
     1. Higher than I (Poetry, June 2024)

Anna Osmaston (1922–2021) was a WWII veteran and a beloved wife, mother and grandmother.
     1. Carefree (Poetry, August 2021)
     2. Starlight Night (Poetry, September 2021)

Carol Park is a teacher of English as a second language and a writer.
     1. Spiraling Songs (Poetry, May 2023)
     2. Bark Peeled Back (Poetry, July 2023)

Sandro F. Piedrahita is an American Catholic writer of Peruvian and Ecuadorian descent. 
     1. The Crucifixion of St. Peter (Part 1 of 2) (Fiction, August 2022)
​     2. The Crucifixion of St. Peter (Part 2 of 2) (Fiction, August 2022)
     3. A World for Abimael Jones (Part 1 of 2) (Fiction, March 2023)
     4. A World for Abimael Jones (Part 2 of 2) (Fiction, March 2023)
     5. A Jew and Her Cross (Part 1 of 2) (Fiction, April 2023)
     6. A Jew and Her Cross (Part 2 of 2) (Fiction, April 2023)
     7. God Alone Suffices (Fiction, June 2023)
​     8. Salvifici Doloris (Fiction, July 2023)
     9. That Person Whom You Know (Fiction, September 2023)
     10. The Slave and His Master (Fiction, September 2023)
     11. The Knight and Lady Poverty (Fiction, January 2024)
     12. The Crosses of Father Rutilio Grande (Fiction, April 2024)
     13. The Story of Prisoner 16670: A Radical Act of Love (Fiction, May 2024)
     
Rosemary Power is a medievalist and writer.
     1. The Lord of Creation in His Mother's Arms (Art, January 2021)
     2. In the Time of Covid-19 (Poetry, March 2021)
     3. The empty day (Poetry, March 2021)
     4. Another walks beside (Poetry, May 2021)
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Sarah Pryor is a writer based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
     1. The Scent of Creation: On Gardens and Greetings from Beyond (Non-fiction, March 2023)

Yevgeniya Przhebelskaya is a freelance writer and poet based in New Jersey.
     1. Imago Dei (Poetry, March 2024)

Jessamyn Rains is a mother of four young children who writes and makes music.
     1. How to Heal a Broken Heart in Four Easy Steps (Non-fiction, October 2023)

Lev Raphael is an essay and fiction writer.
     1. Revelation (Fiction, May 2022)

Royal Rhodes has taught religious studies and is a poet.
     1. A Road Through Ohio Spring (Poetry, April 2023)
     2. A Pilgrim's Song (Poetry, May 2023)
     3. Journey to Silence (Poetry, July 2023)
     4. Remember David (Poetry, July 2023)
     5. Magnolia (Poetry, October 2023)
     6. A Morning Walk into Light (Poetry, November 2023)
     7. A Crisis of Angels (Poetry, December 2023)
     8. Birth Night (Poetry, December 2023)
     9. Sweet the Wood, and Sweet the Nails (Poetry, May 2024)
     10. Incarnation (Poetry, July 2024)

Miriam Riad is a public school teacher and writer.
     1. Distance (Poetry, March 2023)
     2. Lost (Poetry, October 2023)

Ron Riekki is an author and poet.
     1. My eyes are going, but not gone (Poetry, February 2024)

Chris Roe is a poet from Norfolk, England.
     1. Dawn Trilogy (Poetry, August 2022)
     2. The Painter (Poetry, August 2024)

Nicole Rollender is a poet and editor.
     1. He Reaches for Me in Vespers (Poetry, August 2023)

Kathryn Sadakierski is an essay and poetry writer.
     1. The Story of Another Soul: Spiritual Motherhood as My Vocation (Non-fiction, July 2022)

H. Jacob Sandigo is a jester of Jesus from Placerville, California.
     1. Into the Mystery (Non-fiction and photography, July 2023)

Katie Sampias is a writer, wife and mother based in Australia.
     1. Sepphora's Choice (Fiction, September 2022)

Alina Sayre is an author, graduate student of theopoetics and editor of Foreshadow.
     1. Keeping Vigil (Poetry, March 2022)
     2. Vocation as a Gift (Interview, March 2022)
     3. Sleepwalker (Poetry, April 2022)
     4. Highway (Poetry, May 2022)
     5. Deep Gladness: Writing as a Vocation (Non-fiction, June 2022)
     6. Stone Church (Poetry, August 2022)
     7. Rosary (Poetry, August 2023)

Scott Schuleit is a poet, author and associate pastor.
     1. Dust (Poetry, July 2024)

Steven Searcy is an engineer and poet based in Atlanta, Georgia.
     1. Morning Prayer (Poetry, August 2022)
     2. Do What Cannot Be Left Undone (Poetry, September 2022)
     3. Being (Poetry, October 2022)
     4. Misjudged (Poetry, October 2022)
     5. In Terra (Poetry, February 2023)

Miriam Seligman
     1. Far Out in the Distance (Poetry, November 2021)
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Sam Seligman is a writer-folksinger. 
     1. The Holy City (Non-fiction, March 2021)
     2. The Strength of Gentleness (Interview, July 2021)

Susan Shea is a retired school psychologist living in a forest in Pennsylvania.
     1. Taking a Turn (Poetry, April 2024)

Janet Smith Post is a poet, novelist and children's writer.
     1. The Longing (Poetry, June 2024)

E R Skulmoski is a poet living in British Columbia.
     1. God, Tell Me What It Means (Poetry, October 2023)
     2. EMDR (Poetry, February 2024)

Michael Stalcup is a Thai American missionary living in Bangkok, Thailand.
     1. Sometimes Mercy (Poetry, September 2022)
     2. Covenant Prayer (Poetry, September 2022)
     3. Lines Last (Poetry, September 2022)
     4. Cultivating (Poetry, October 2022)
     5. I Know Not Where I Go (Poetry, April 2023)

​Scott Stevens is a composer. 
     1. Dawn Will Prevail (Music, December 2020)
     2. Perspective (Music, January 2021)
     3. Listening Inwardly (Interview, April 2021) 
     4. The Strength of Gentleness (Interview, July 2021)
     5. Depths (Music, August 2021)

Jack Stewart is an author of poetry.
     1. The Return (Poetry, September 2023)
     2. Camel and Needle (Poetry, October 2023)
     3. Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1) (Poetry, January 2024)
     4. Rest on the Flight into Egypt (2) (Poetry, January 2024)
     5. The Risk (Poetry, March 2024)

Mark D. Stucky has worked as a pastor and freelance writer.
     1. Consider the Birds (Poetry, January 2024)   

Joseph Teti is an emerging poet from Hyattsville, Maryland.
     1. Napping (Poetry, August 2023)
     2. Ohio Turnpike​ (Poetry, September 2023)
     3. Midnight Studying (Poetry, November 2023)

James A. Tweedie is an author, composer, performer and publisher.
     1. Joseph's Lullaby (Music, December 2023)
     2. Lullaby for Jesus (Music, December 2023)
     3. A Fool's Christmas (Music, December 2023)

Peter Venable is a writer of sacred and secular verse. 
     1. A Saturday's Quartet (Poetry, June 2023)
     2. Truth Is Subjectivity (Poetry, April 2024)
     3. Behold (Poetry, May 2024)
     4. Jesus' Face (Poetry, June 2024)
     5. Imago Dei (Poetry, July 2024)
     6. The Eye (Poetry, July 2024)

Jessica Walters teaches creative and academic writing in Langley, British Columbia. 
     1. The Sunday Blues (Poetry, February 2023)
     2. Reintegration and Rediscovery: Jessica Walters and Pilgrimage (Interview, March 2023)
​     3. Giotto's Kiss of Judas (Poetry, April 2023)
     4. A Liturgy of the Wilderness (Poetry, August 2023)

Sara Kyoungah White is a writer and editor living in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
     1. The Call of the Piet-My-Vrou: Remembering South Korea while on Safari (Non-fiction, February 2023)

Brooke Wickline is a writing and visual art student and writer based in California.
     1. you don't see what i see (Poetry, November 2021)
     2. Keystone (Poetry, September 2023)

Patty Willis is a minister, writer and artist based in Arizona.
     1. Pumping Station in the Desert (Poetry, July 2021)
     2. Openings (Poetry, May 2023)
     3. A Pastor's Psalm (Poetry, August 2023)

Emma Winchell is a writer and photographer.
     1. Epitaph (Poetry, July 2022)

Carl Winderl is a writer, author and educator.
​     1. At Judas' funeral (Poetry, March 2021)
     2. A Writer Is Always at Work (Part 1 of 2) (Interview, May 2021)
     3. A Writer Is Always at Work (Part 2 of 2) (Interview, June 2021)
     4. at the anti-tower (Poetry, June 2022)
     5. kneeling at the Manger (Poetry, December 2022)
     6. gazing at My son (Poetry, December 2022)

Alice Wisler is an author and writing workshop leader.
     1. Two Words Together (Non-fiction, September 2022)
     2. Larger than Pocket Faith (Poetry, June 2024)

Claudia Wysocky is a Polish writer and poet based in New York.
     1. The Seventh Column (Poetry, July 2024)
     2. You (Poetry, August 2024)

Susan Yanos is a spiritual director, writer and writing teacher based in east-central Indiana.
     1. God Who Sent the Dove Sends the Hawk (Poetry, January 2021)
     2. Love Song of the Anawim (Poetry, April 2021)
     3. Getting Unstuck: The Personal Story and the Spiritual Journey (Non-fiction, May 2021)
     4. Upon Turning Sixty in October (Poetry, October 2021)

Anthony S. Zimmer is a bi-vocational pastor.
     1. How to Be Christians When We Hate Our Job (Poetry, October 2022)
     2. The Waters and the Pilgrim (Poetry, September 2023)

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Photographers

Esther Dobson
     1. Epiphany (January 2021)
     2. Stipple (March 2021)
     3. Steadfast (March 2021)

Amiel Osmaston
     1. The Simple Offering (January 2021)
     2. Morning Light (February 2021)
     3. Tide (June 2021)
     4. Every Tree (June 2021)
     5. One (July 2021)

Carina Postolache
     1. Stronger (March 2021)
     2. Risen (April 2021)

Alex Selarque
     1. Fiery Sky (January 2021)

Jon Seligman
     1. Drift (February 2021)
     2. Upwards Bent (March 2021)
     3. Path (May 2021)

Miriam Seligman
     1. The Sandpiper and the Sea​ (December 2020)

Momiji Seligman
     1. Memory (May 2021)

Sam Seligman
     1. The Hush (January 2021)

Carole Spencer
     1. After the Storm (February 2021)

Justin Thompson
     1. Deep Down Things (February 2021)

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