Meet Our Authors
Welcome to our Meet the Authors page — the home of every writer published through Impspired (2025) . Here you can discover the diverse voices that make up our community, explore their stories and poetry, and learn more about the people behind the words. Each author’s profile includes links to their latest releases, making it easy for you to browse and purchase their newest work directly from this page.
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Chris D’Errico’s writings, music, and visual art have appeared in various analog and digital mediums for the last three decades; most recently in Wild Roof Journal, Panoply, a Literary Zine, and Dipity Lit Mag. "Realistic Meat Substitute” is his first full-length poetry collection. D'Errico is the author of several poetry chapbooks including: "The Meat Game” (Thunder Sandwich), "Debris Of Hearts” (OffCenter Press), "Vegas Implosions & Exterminator Chronicles” (Virgogray Press), and "Ministry of Kybosh" (Virgogray Press). He has worked as a line cook, a neon sign maker, and an exterminator, among other vocational adventures. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, D'Errico lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he studied photography at UNLV and earned a Certificate in Cannabis at the College of Southern Nevada. Active in the Las Vegas art, poetry and performance scene, D’Errico’s latest project is with Rat’s Ass Productions, managing the indie/experimental music project, Dungaree Toga
“In a world of easy answers and synthetic truths, Realistic Meat Substitute asks what’s left of the soul when everything else is artifice and imitation.”
—Randomly Chosen AI Chatbot, after prompts by the book’s author to construct a blurb for the back cover of Realistic Meat Substitute*
*AUTHOR’S NOTE: ABSOLUTELY NO POEMS CONTAINED IN THIS BOOK
WERE MADE USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
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Five-year-old Erbie Murat moved to London from Cyprus in 1956, and has lived and worked in this country ever since, attending school at Highbury Grammar, attending Southgate College, and The Open University. Erbie moved to Peter bough, in north Cambridgeshire over fifty years ago with his first wife, where he was heavily involved with his first three sons, three mortgages and several community focussed jobs in London, Cambridge, Leicester, Huntingdon and St Neots.
Erbie moved to the Fens nearly thirty years ago, after a long history of community involvement and voluntary work in Peterborough, whilst commuting to his various jobs: including serving as a senior city councillor for Peterborough City Council; running for Parliament for the City; and running for the European elections for North East London, whilst working for the London Borough of Islington managing homeless hostels.
He has been actively involved with the community in Guyhirn, Wisbech and across Fenland District that has included Chair of Wisbech Community Development Trust, Chair of Guyhirn Village Hall Trust, Vice Chair of Fenland Links, and six years as Town Clerk for Wisbech. He has for many years been the face of volunteering across the Fenland district by volunteering himself as the Manager of the Volunteer Centre Fenland, recruiting volunteers in and around March, Chatteris, Whittlesey, and Wisbech, and working closely with many charities and not- for-profit organisations. Erbie has also enjoyed working with Citizens Advice in several roles, including as a specialist financial advisor. He currently teaches children how to play chess in Wisbech library on Tuesday afternoons, amongst many other such interesting activities.
This collection of poetry and such like stuff
Is dedicated to those amongst us who
Truly, believe in Liberal Democracy
Where an elected Government
Mustn’t discriminate against
Selected people or groups
And justice - must apply
Without fear or favour
Protecting our human rights such as
Free speech & freedom of assembly
Providing collective security - fairly
Ensuring equality of opportunity
And economic & social benefits
Such as free health services
Free access to education
And free social care
And employment
This does not include people who fake news
Expressing their hate filled social media views
Promoting the kind of diatribe - sounding tough
Such as the lies spewing out of Baby Fart’s mouth
Lisa Kinney was born and raised in Laramie, Wyoming. She has a B.A. and a J.D. from the University of Wyoming., and an M.L.S. from the University of Oregon. She was director of the Albany County Public Library, owner of Summit Bar Review, which taught Wyoming and federal law to attorneys taking the bar exam, partner with Corthell and King, and financial advisor with AIG/VALIC/Corebridge. She spent 10 years in the Wyoming State Senate, serving as Minority Leader for part of the 10 years. During her Senate term, she gave birth to two children, Shelby Kinney-Lang, and Eli Kinney-Lang. She was the first female to give birth while a State Senator. She has a third child, Cambria Zellmer and is married to Rodney Lang.
Lisa wrote a book on lobbying for the American Library Association, co-authored several books on the civil rights of individuals with mental illness and developmental disabilities for Wyoming Protection and Advocacy. She co-authored by providing photographs for four books with her poet sister Majel Gardzelewski: “Moving on—A Compilation of Kinney Family History,” 1998, and 3 books published by Impspired Publishing, Lincoln, UK: “Annalope Café” 2022, “Altered Perspectives” 2024 and “Invocation for America” 2025. She is working on a book interviewing and photographing individuals from Ft. Washakie, Lander and Riverton, Wyoming which will be published.
She had two photographic exhibits at the University of Wyoming: Buildings and Reflections, and Roadkill. She is grateful to have been baptized in the Laramie River.
Majel and her husband of nearly 55 years, Allen, live in Loveland, Colorado, where as parents and grandparents of amazing individuals, they spend time watching sports and school activities of their grandkids. The author and her sister, Lisa Kinney, co-authored the books, Annalope Cafe, published by Impspired Publishing in 2022 and Moving On, Kinney Family History, 2023, as well as Altered Perspectives in 2024, and most recently Invocation for America, 2025. May God be honored as the one who provides the inspiration and ability to present the artistic expression of thought and meditation through poetry and photos.
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'The photos and poems in this book are a unique collaboration between two sisters who explore the mysteries, delights and sadness of time and family.
Majel’s writing is full of clever turns of phrase - “mourners will find comfort in the morning”- while Lisa’s photos capture the beauty of nature and the incongruities of human behavior.
Together, Lisa and Majel create a heartfelt and stirring search for meaning, which will leave you thinking about your own life and family, your own love and loss, and your own quest to make peace with it all.
- Mary Schmich
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The idea for this tribute came while Jae and I were sat on a bench outside Papworth hospital waiting for Steve to finish his baked potato.
It was two weeks before he received his new heart, and we thought it would be a fitting tribute for him to hear from those he has mentored or helped or published… just how much we all appreciate his efforts… and time… and most of all… his unwavering encouragement.
We couldn't include everybody, as the book would be several volumes long and thicker than a Tory M.P so please don't feel as if you don't belong to this.
The writers inside are representative of all of us all.
And so Jae's and my thanks go to everyone. To all of you who have given your time and effort to make this book - something he will cherish… you write here for everybody Steve has ever helped.
And some of you, like me, only write because of him.
For Steve. X
- Robbie Taylor
Our publisher, Steve Cawte’s name is never usually
on the front of the book.
So we put him on the back of this one.
A heart transplant doesn’t define Steve but what he means
to writers he has helped does. He’s been the pulse of the Lincoln poetry scene for many years now and through Impspired Press, has inspired writers worldwide.
Through all the poetry, prose, plays, pieces and publishing
which Steve has helped into existence over the years… he’s
been the beating heart of writing itself.
And although he is not at all vein...
We hope he knows this book is about him.
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Sandra Arnold lives in New Zealand. She is the author of five books including The Ash, the Well and the Bluebell, Mākaro Press, NZ; Soul Etchings, Retreat West Books, UK; and Sing no Sad Songs, Canterbury University Press, NZ. Her novella-in-flash The Bones of the Storywill be published in the UK by Impspired Books in mid-2023. Her short fiction has been widely published and anthologised and has received nominations for The Best Small Fictions, Best Microfictions and The Pushcart Prize. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from Central Queensland University, Australia.
In Below Ground, we are introduced to a wide range of scenarios and characters. What happens in the tiny minutes of life’s encounters – a stop at a café while waiting for a car repair, a mother whose child is being asked to leave the school, and a mysterious “fever woman.” Each story sets us square in its very specific world, a world of birds and old photos and after-funeral bonfires. And for all of its variety, Below Ground weaves a gorgeous tapestry, each story a strand elegantly fusing with the others surrounding it. Arnold is a writer of such exquisite clarity and imagination that you will want to read one more story and then another and then another. A truly beautiful read.
‒ Francine Witte, author of Radio Water
With Below Ground, Sandra Arnold has masterfully written an authentic and deeply engaging flash collection, exploring the losses, the quest for understanding, and the yearnings which sometimes collide and coexist in us all.
‒ Robert Scotellaro, author of Quick Adjustments and Ways to Read the World
Sandra’s best collection to date is worthy of a major prize. Her creativity has incredible range, beautiful writing, and covers timeless themes of love and loss, redemption, escaping to nature, and pasts intermingling with the present. She shows readers the complexity of reality, and they will want to read her stories over and over, allowing her creativity to soak into their souls.
‒ Niles Reddick’s newest flash collection is If Not for You from Big Table Publishing
Humor, tragedy, unexpected conclusions, Below Ground by Sandra Arnold has it all. She is a top New Zealand writer providing readers with universal truths of life, love and hate, bad acts and retribution. Once you read the first story you will not want to stop until you have finished these addictively glorious stories from a master writer whose use of language and plot leaves the reader in awe.
‒ Zvi A. Sesling, Author of Secret Behind the Gate and Wheels
Moments in the lives of ordinary people, sharply-observed. This is a beautifully written collection from a seasoned writer with a masterful command of dialogue - Memorable!
‒ Karen Schauber The Group of Seven Reimagined: Contemporary Stories Inspired by Historic Canadian Paintings (Heritage House, 2019), Editor/Author - a flash fiction anthology
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Tim had always wanted to be a writer, but one thing held him back: he couldn't type. The hunt-and-peck model only works if you make no mistakes. All the manuscripts he produced had gaping holes made by hard erasers, surrounded by speckles of White-Out. So he gave up writing and learned to be a carpenter. Then in the 1980s, someone invented the word processor with its Backspace and Delete keys. Tim set out to make up for lost time. Since then he has written the book and lyrics for two stage musicals (one of them, Fat Tuesday, received a nice production in Chicago), a dramatic stage play, five screenplays, a novel (Headfirst: A Novel of the Sixties), and his latest book, Skating with Shirley, a memoir in forty-nine whimsical stories.
Get ready to lace up your skates and join the author on a journey through life's awkward, amusing, and touching moments in Skating with Shirley and Other Stories.
Growing up in Laramie, Wyoming in a family full of characters, Pelton writes stories that go from small-town nostalgia like Kick the Can to hilarious sagas such as The Pelton Family Goes Boating. As he grows up, the author's horizons expand across Wyoming, and eventually to Los Angeles and Chicago. Still, he never loses that small-town sense of humor and eye for detail.
With a knack for finding comedy and insight in even the most mundane situations, the author's unique perspective will either have you laughing out loud or wondering where that lump in your throat came from. Skating with Shirley and Other Stories is the perfect collection for anyone who both appreciates the wonder and absurdity of everyday life and enjoys a good laugh.
