Editorial Team
Contributors
Abel Saldana
Abel Saldaña is a writer who traces the lines between memory and healing, gathering fragments of city light, ancestral echoes, and small everyday miracles into his work. He currently resides in Orange County, California with his wife and two cats.
Anindita Adhikari
Anindita Adhikari is a graduate in philosophy.
Antony Wu
Antony Wu is an academic and essayist, and his work has appeared in The Kosciuszko Review, Rabbit Hole, and academic journals.
Barbara Siegel Carlson
Barbara Siegel Carlson is the author of What Drifted Here (Cherry Grove 2023) and two earlier collections. Current is forthcoming from Lily Poetry Press Books. She is a poetry in translation editor at Solstice LitMag.
Ben Ajaero
Ben Ajaero is Executive Editor at Ninth Heaven, with a passion for fostering cultural and spiritual growth through poetry, philosophy, and thoughtful content.
Chidinma Nwanoka
Chichi oversees Ninth Heaven’s communications with clarity and intent. A writer interested in psychology and law, she has won slam poetry competitions, delivered a featured performance, and won the Sydney Eistedfodd Australian Poem category.
D. Walsh Gilbert
Dual citizen of the Republic of Ireland and the United States, D. Walsh Gilbert lives on a former sheep farm at the foot of Talcott Mountain. She serves with Riverwood Poetry Series and is co-editor of "Connecticut River Review."
Dr. Nigel Cundy
Dr Nigel Cundy was educated in Theoretical Physics at Oxford, and has held research positions in Germany and South Korea. He also studies links between contempoary physics and classical philosophy.
Elise Powers
Elise Powers is a Seattle-based poet whose work explores identity, womanhood, and the sacred ordinary. Her debut collection, The Size of Your Joy, is forthcoming from Central Avenue Publishing in spring 2026.
Elizabeth Celeste Fidela Bailey
Elizabeth is a writer, researcher and programmer. Her rural upbringing is woven into all aspects of her work: decoding and unravelling mythologised and idealised depictions of rurality and existence while celebrating the ordinary and the everyday.
Emily Sledge
Emily Sledge is a born and bred bluegrass poet and screenwriter. She resides in Kentucky and is currently a graduate student at the University of Louisville.
Fr. Dn. Charles Joiner
Fr. Deacon Charles serves at the Saint George Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Greenville, SC
Gusky
Gusky is a multidisciplinary artist and writer working in the USA. He has exhibited throughout the countyr, and his work is featured in private and public collections. Learn more at gusky.art.
Iris Aung
Multidisciplinary artist exploring tensions of identity, power and belonging. Raised between cultures and places, Iris’s work evokes being both attached to and alien from environments she inhabits.
John Leonard
John Leonard is an Australian poet with five widely published poetry collections in Australia, the UK, and the US. His work is translated internationally. His novel Shakespeare in Virginia was published in London in 2024.
Julia Clark
Julia Clark is a poet, reviewer, and academic based in Sydney, Australia on Ku-ring-gai and Darug land. Her work has appeared in Cordite Poetry Review, Plumwood Mountain, and SCUM Mag. If she’s not reading or writing, she’s at the theatre.
Krystle Eilen
Krystle Eilen is a poet currently attending university. Her work has appeared in Eunoia Review, Stone Circle Review, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Quibble Lit, and The Argyle Literary Magazine, among others. You can find her @ iccaruso on Instagram.
M.V.
Big fan of David Hume
Masashige Akioka
Masashige is Chief Editor @ Ninth Heaven. Law & Physics student @ UNSW concerned with re-enchantment and it's interface with Politics & Science. He has written poetry for the USYD Journal Jeremy.
Maya B.
A multidisciplinary artist and aspiring writer. Their work often focuses on the insignificant or overlooked, and reaches for hope— however distant it feels.
Nicholas Andreyev
Nicholas Andreyev is a reader and a walker. His writing aspires to depict the obstacles which frustrate human connection, and the necessity to overcome them.
Nicholas Osiowy
Nicholas Osiowy is an aspiring writer, poet and journalist living on Gadigal land. His work has appeared in publications like Booker, Pulp, Honi Soit, 1978 and the Sydney Morning Herald.
Paris Kastanias
Hi! I'm Paris and I'm passionate about philosophy, mathematics and computer science.
Prof. Clancy Martin
Clancy Martin is UMKC's Professor of Philosophy. A Guggenheim fellow and Thomas Jefferson Award winner, he has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times, The Paris Review, Harper’s, The Atlantic, NOON and many other major magazines and journals.
Prof. Michael Cholbi
Professor Michael Chobli holds a Chair in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. His research spans ethics, including death and dying, work and labour, punishment, Kantian ethics, paternalism, and moral psychology.
Ruby Davis
Ruby Davis is an undergraduate student in writing and anthropology. You can find her poems and short stories published or upcoming in The Page Gallery, The Vincent Brothers Review, The Meat Puppet, Grain of Salt, and others.
Sanjeev Sethi
Sanjeev Sethi has authored eight poetry collections. His poems have been published in over thirty-five countries and appear in more than 500 journals and anthologies.
Sophie Johnstone
Sophie Johnstone studies Advanced Science (Biotechnology) at UNSW. Her work explores science and philosophy, inspired by Aristotle and Spinoza, and guided by a belief in curiosity, virtue, and creation as expressions of human flourishing.
Sreelekha Chatterjee
Sreelekha Chatterjee is a poet from New Delhi, India. Her poems have appeared in Madras Courier, Setu, among others. Her poems and short stories have been published in over 18 countries and translated into Korean and Romanian languages.
Theodore Heil
Theodore Heil is a writer living in New York City. His poems have been published in Farewell Transmission, Book of Matches Literary Journal, and elsewhere. He is currently an Editorial Fellow at A Public Space.
Zary Fekete
Zary Fekete grew up in Hungary. He enjoys books, podcasts, and many many many films.