Editorial Staff
Who are we?
There is a small cadre of volunteers who put both Roses & Wildflowers and her elder sister Coreopsis Journal of Myth & Theatre together. We acknowledge these passionate and dedicated folk here with gratitude.
Lezlie Kinyon, Ph.D., Editor
Writer, Scholar, Poet, Working Artist. Maker of community and magic.
Editor of Coreopsis Journal of Myth & Theatre and Roses & Wildflowers Magazine
Has recently taken up bird watching.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/lezliethepoet
Lezlie may be contacted at: “Editor” at [email protected]
Denise Dumars, MA, Author Liaison
Throughout her prolific writing career Denise Dumars has written and published poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews in journals such as Terra Incognita, Cinefantastique, and Talebones. She is a columnist for Star*Line, the journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and a peer reviewer for Coreopsis: A Journal of Myth and Theater. She has also published two collections of short stories; two non-fiction books, including The Dark Archetype (with Lori Nyx), and numerous chapbooks of poetry, the most recent of which is Letting in the Dark (Yellow Bat Press). Denise teaches a variety of English courses in Southern California colleges. https://deniseddumars.com/
Nashay Jones, Arts Editor
Award winning artist. “Artist. Knitter. Writer. Nerd. Queer AF. In love with my blackness…and yours.”
Peggy Wheeler, Poetry
Peggy was one of only twelve students (and the only undergraduate) chosen to study with Robert Pinsky, former Poet Laureate of the United States. She won first prize awards for two poems from an Evergreen Women’s Press nationwide poetry contest. Her poetry received honorable mentions from the judges of a Los Angeles Poetry Festival and The Academy of American Poets. Her poem Du Fu was nominated for a Rhysling award for Best Science Fiction Poem. She’s led adult poetry and fiction writing critique groups and workshops in both Colorado and California.
In 2018, her novel, The Splendid and Extraordinary Life of Beautimus Potamus, won a coveted Audible’s Reviewer’s Choice Award. Her publisher, Dragon Moon Press, released Peggy’s fifth novel in Summer 2019. The Raven’s Daughter was Peggy’s debut novel. Peggy and her husband, Steve, along with their dogs, live in northern California. Her five novels are available at all the usual outlets.
She has led creative writing critique groups in both Colorado and California since the 1980s, and she taught poetry as a guest teacher for a charter school. Her poetry has won several small press awards, and in the 1990s, her work was shortlisted for the Rhysling and The Academy of American Poets awards. You may contact Peggy at [email protected].
Helena Domenic, MFA Artist in Residence (a yearly position)
Helena Domenic is an accomplished painter, writer, and mystic who has shown her work in Philadelphia, New York, across the United States and in Egypt and South Africa. Helena was born in Vicenza, Italy where she was exposed to great works of art from a very early age. After viewing the Sistine Chapel ceiling at the age of eighteen months, her mother predicted she would become an artist. She holds a BFA from Kutztown University, an MA in Art Education from The University of the Arts, and an MFA from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont.
Rodney Shaclkleford, Do., Ph.D. Academic Chair
Associate Professor of Pathology, University of South Alabama
Stanley Krippner, Ph.D. Advisor
Professor Stanley Krippner stands as a true trailblazer in the realm of consciousness exploration, pushing boundaries by delving into cross-cultural perspectives and the intriguing realm of non-ordinary experiences that boldly challenge conventional paradigms. With an extensive body of work, he is an award winning prolific author (Personal Mythology and Varieties of Anomalous Experience), and an esteemed researcher, diving into diverse subjects such as dreaming, psychedelics, creativity, shamanism, parapsychology, and trauma.
William Baldwin
William Baldwin is a long-time board member of South Bay Writers and the California Writers Club. He is the author of the novel Soul Flight, the collection Autumn Leaves, Spring Rain…Lightning!, and the forthcoming novel The Path Between.
Independent author of Alternate Universe/Portal fantasy. “I’m also an avid family historian (the non-Native side of the family’s been in North America since the early 1600s), and I’ve been known to dress up like it’s the mid-1800s and educate the public about the Hudson’s Bay Company on the Pacific Coast as a volunteer historic reenactor.”
Copy and line editors for 2024 are:
New Orleans Based artist, performer, deathworker, ritualist.
https://www.lauriedietrich.com/
Kyra reads and edits social science and social science fiction from her home on the land and water of the Duwamish and Coast Salish peoples, in Seattle. She writes only postcards.
Jack Ruttan is a Canadian TV scriptwriter, freelance journalist, and illustrator with a sense of humour, and a fresh take on the world.
Priya Sridhar
Dana Corby
Eleanor Hudson
Orly Mizrahi, Ph.D.
The Intrepid Editors and Readers for Autumn 2024 Issues are:
Welcoming Sean M. Sanford is a native (northern) Californian and has been living in San Francisco for about 17 years. He is in the MFA program at SFSU, where he received his BA for Creative Writing. He has been taking photos and writing fiction & non-fiction for Lowcard skateboarding magazine since 2008. He co-founded a local music blog for which I was the sole writer called Rockward Silence. He also wrote fiction for Defiant Scribe for the duration of its online publication. He’s written non-fiction articles for Broke-Ass Stuart. He writes book reviews for Horror DNA and Night Worms. He’s also had fiction, poetry, photography and art featured in SFSU’s Transfer Magazine, for which he had previously served as Poetry Editor and Co-Editor in Chief. His wife owns a storefront in San Francisco called Effin Relax, for which Sean is the sole employee.
First Reader Ian Grey is a writer and Gaming Doyen in Berkeley Ca.
Priya Sridhar Copy Editing, First Reader
Priya is a 2016 MBA graduate and published author, Priya Sridhar has been writing fantasy and science fiction for fifteen years, and counting. Capstone published the Powered series, and Unnerving Press published Offstage Offerings. Priya lives in Miami, Florida with her family. You can find her on Medium where she runs the Permanent Nerd Network and at SUPERJUMP.
Peggy Wheeler, Poetry editor
Peggy A. Wheeler. M.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing/Poetry Emphasis is an author of “fantastical fiction.” Her five novels are available on Amazon and all the usual outlets. One of her novels, “The Splendid and Extraordinary Life of Beautimus Potamus,” won the Goodreads Reviewer Award. She has led creative writing critique groups in both California and Colorado, and she taught poetry as a guest teacher for a northern California charter school. Her poetry has won several awards, and in the 1990s, her work was shortlisted for the Rhysling and The Academy of American Poets awards. You may contact Peggy at [email protected].
Denise Dumars, Poetry, First Reader, and Author Liaison
is a retired college English professor, literary agent, and librarian. She has a new chapbook of poetry, Animal Gnosis, coming soon from Alien Buddha Press, and her most recent poetry chapbook, Mars Maundering, from Space Cowboy Press, is nominated for the Elgin Award. She lives in L.A.’s beautiful South Bay region and has just returned from Worldcon in Glasgow.
Lezlie A. Kinyon, Editor in Chief is a poet, artist and scholar of the humanities. She lives in Berkeley, California, where she edits Coreopsis Journal of Myth & Theatre. She’s been known to write poetry and fiction as L. Ann Kinyon, and goes by @LezliethePoet Instagram. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/lezliethepoet
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