Halcyon Days - Issue 20

Contributor Bios
Halcyon Days—Issue 20
Bruce Levine, a 2019 Pushcart Prize Poetry Nominee, has spent his life as a writer of fiction and poetry and as a
music and theatre professional. Over three hundred of his works are published in over twenty-five on-line journals
including Ariel Chart, Friday Flash Fiction, Literary Yard; over thirty print books including Poetry Quarterly, Haiku
Journal, Dual Coast Magazine, Tipton Poetry Journal, and his shows have been produced in New York and around
the country. Six eBooks are available from Amazon.com. His work is dedicated to the loving memory of his late wife,
Lydia Franklin. A native Manhattanite, Bruce lives in New York with his dog, Gabi. Visit him
at www.brucelevine.com.
Charlene Langfur is a southern Californian, an organic gardener, a Syracuse University Graduate Writing Fellow and
my recent publications include poems in Weber: The Contemporary West, Emrys, Inlandia, The North Dakota
Quarterly.
Dr. Emory D. Jones is a retired English teacher who has taught in high schools and various community colleges. He
has four hundred and eight credits including publication in such journals as Voices International, The White Rock
Review, Free Xpressions Magazine, The Storyteller, Modern Poetry Quarterly Review, Gravel, Pasques Petals, The
Pink Chameleon, and Encore: Journal of the NFSPS. He is retired and lives in Iuka, Mississippi, with his wife,
Glenda. He has two daughters and four grandchildren.
Gaiyle J. Connolly, a poet and artist from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, has numerous publications to her credit, some
of them prize-winning. They appear in local and international periodicals and journals. Her collection of poetry,
Lifelines, which she also illustrated, was published in 2015. Her background of several ethnicities, love of art and
travel and devotion to social justice are reflected in her work. Her readership includes Canada, the United States,
Mexico and India. She is Past President of the Tower Poetry Society in Hamilton and has been active in poetry groups
in Mexico. She is at the moment working on her second book of poetry for which once again she will provide
illustrations. As a change of pace, she is trying her hand at short story writing inspired by her childhood years spent in
rural Quebec.
Jane Briganti lives and works in New York City. Her poetry has been frequently published by Creations Magazine
and has appeared in journals including WestWard Quarterly, Better Than Starbucks, Spillwords and Leaves of Ink.
She believes poetry is the soul's way of communicating with itself.
Monique Berry lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She is the founder of Halcyon Days and Founder’s Favourites,
and is working on a book of inanimate object 1st-person povs based on her previous magazine Perspectives.
Nolo Segundo is the pen name of a retired teacher, 73, who chose it for the way it rolls off the tongue. Though he wrote
some poetry in his 20's as well as an unpublished novel inspired by the time he taught ESL in Phnom-Penh in 1973-74
(leaving a year before the time of the Killing Fields), for some reason he stopped writing altogether for over 30 years. For
an equally obscure reason, 'they', the poems, began arriving in his conscious mind about 5 years ago. Since then he's had
over 50 published online/in print by literary magazines in the U.S. Britain, and even one in India. Married for 40 years, the
only other interesting aspect to his life besides his years teaching, including 3 years in the Far East, was an NDE he had at
24 whilst almost drowning in a Vermont river that shattered his former materialist world view [as in believing only matter
is real]. For 1/2 a century he has known that beneath his conscious mind and its counterpart, the unconscious, lies an
endless, eternal consciousness that has always existed, and that what we call the world, the Universe, is permeated by a far
greater and largely unknowable Mystery.'