Tabula Rasa Review

Glenn Mori has a master’s degree in music composition, works as a CPA, and plays in local jazz groups, but he spends most of his free time editing his writing. Recent publications include “One More Day”, in Stone Pacific,  “High School Sweethearts”, in The Literary Times, as well as the novella Water for TsaTsa in the RIZE Novella Anthology, Volume 1, and the personal essay “We Let Our Father Die” for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Author of six chapbooks, Isabella J Mansfield (she/her) is an award-winning and internationally acclaimed poet. Known as much for her charismatic and powerful poetry readings as she is her deeply personal poems, Mansfield’s work shines a light on depression and anxiety, intimacy, grief, physical and mental health, and disability issues. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, three-time Best of the Net Nominee, Write Bloody McCarthy Prize
Honorable Mention, and Ritzenhein Emerging Author Award Winner, Isabella is always looking for ways to bring a little humor into her poetry, and is almost never sorry to make you cry. She lives in Howell, MI with her husband and son.

Her chapbooks include:

• Hurt Sounds (Finishing Line Press)
• At Arm’s Length – 10th Anniversary Edition (self-published)
• The Hollows of Bone (Finishing Line Press)
• lemon (self-published)

Jade Hidle is a Vietnamese-Irish-Norwegian writer and educator. She is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Her travel chapbook, The Return to Viet Nam, was published by Transcurrent Press in 2016, and Hair: A Lai Mỹ Memoir was released by Texas Tech University Press in 2025. Her work has also appeared in  Poetry Northwest, Southern Humanities Review, Craft Literary, among other journals. She was also a featured writer on the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network’s diacritics.org.

Michelle Meyer writes poetry and micro flash fiction. She is the author of The Trouble with Being a Childless Only Child (Cornerstone Press, 2024) and The Book of She (2021). Individual poems have appeared in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, ONE ART, Pearl Press, Tabula Rasa Review, Welter, and elsewhere. Flash pieces have appeared or are forthcoming in 100-Word Fiction, 50-Word Stories, and Ink in Thirds. In addition, Michelle has written, directed, and produced one-act plays and skits for children and adults. She was also the winner of the 2024 Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Triad Ekphrastic Challenge, and is currently growing a large veggie garden in western Wisconsin.

Paul Ilechko is a British American poet and occasional songwriter. He was born in Barnsley in the north of England, and attended Royal Holloway College, University of London, for his Bachelor’s degree.  He now lives with his partner in Lambertville, NJ. His work has appeared in many journals, including The Bennington Review, The Night Heron Barks, Atlanta Review, Permafrost, and Free State Review. His first full-length book, “Fragmentation and Volta”,  was published in 2025 by Gnashing Teeth Publishing. His second book is planned for 2026 publication by Sheila-Na-Gig. He reads for Marrow Magazine.