Shawn Casselberry

Nonfiction & Publishing Editor

Shawn sees the world through stories. He has written fiction and nonfiction books including the novel The Hemingway Bible (2024), Wound Man: A Poetry Chapbook (2025), and a book of dark fiction short stories called Strange Fire (Story Sanctum Publishing, 2022). His day job is working for a mental health company, but his passion is writing and helping others publish their writing. He loves exploring different genres, but is especially drawn to creative nonfiction, memoir, and mind-bending stories with unexpected endings. You can see his latest writings on his website: shawncasselberry.com. 

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Krin Van Tatenhove

Fiction Editor & Image Creator

Krin Van Tatenhove is a writer, visual artist, and spiritual adventurer. His 40 years of professional writing experience have led to countless articles and 17 books. With so much despair in the world, he likes reading and writing redemptive stories that lead us back to hope. He is married, has four children, and lives with his wife and disabled adult son in San Antonio, Texas. To learn more about his background and download many of his projects, visit Krinvan.com.

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Jen Casselberry

Publishing Editor & Graphic Designer

Jen is a cofounder of Story Sanctum Publishing and has worked on over 30 book projects with emerging and veteran authors. As Publishing Editor, she enjoys reading speculative fiction, sci-fi, and honest, vulnerable memoirs. In addition to being a graphic designer, Jen is a painter, sculptor, and mixed media artist. Through both representational and abstract means, her work explores themes of power, vulnerability, beauty, and violence. You can visit her artist website at: jencasselberry.com. 

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Soter Lucio

Fiction Editor

Soter Lucio is a great-grandmother from the mountainous region of Trinidad, W.I.
where folk legends abound. She works as an ironer by day and writes horror stories at
night. She lives alone so there are no distractions except for the occasional ghost who gives her writing a boost. She loves reading writing and listening to soca music and
calypso. Country and western is also right there at the top. Her goal is to have one thousand short stories published and two novels. She’s
working on the first one. She’s been published by Sirens Call Publications, Weird Mask, Story Sanctum, Culture Cult, Migla Press and Wicked Shadow Press. Soter also has a collection, The
Ghosts of Charuma Forest, published by Stratton Press. FaceBook Soter Lucio
X/Twitter @JanSoter.

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Kelly Wright

Image Creator

Kelly Wright is a visual artist specializing in AI-generated and mixed media illustrations, with work published in Mindstream and exhibited in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. By day, she is an operations and Responsible AI consultant. Outside of work, she finds inspiration in nature, museums, beautiful architecture, and bookstores. She loves spending quiet evenings snuggled up with her cat, a cup of hot green tea, and a good book. You can connect with Kelly and explore her artwork on Bluesky at: prismasolves.bsky.social.

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Joel Klepac 

Editor-at-Large

As a kid, Joel loved listening in on the adults who were telling stories and has not lost the joy of human connection found in the sharing of a good tale. He spends time exploring consciousness, connectedness and the felt experience of living in a mysterious and beautiful world through encaustic painting, drawing, writing and a day job as a mental health therapist. He spent his early career in Eastern Europe working with at-risk youth, showing paintings in the local art guild gallery and eating still warm bread with salty cheese with jam on top. He is the cofounder/editor of Story Sanctum, a platform dedicated to sacred story-telling. You can connect with Joel through his website www.joelklepac.com.​

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REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS

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​Manuel A. Alindogan, Jr. or Jun A. Alindogan is presently the Academic Director of the Expanded Alternative Learning System of Empowered East, a Rizal-province based NGO in the Philippines and is the founder of Speechsmart Online where his published writings are also posted, alongside English test preparation programs that the site offers. He is a member of the Freelance Writer's Guild of the Philippines (FWGP) and has been published at storysanctum.org, allyourstories.com, anaksastra.com, uglywriters.com, transitdialog.com, cafedissensuseveryday.com, voxpopuliph, the University of the Philippines' The Reflective Journal, Gantala Press Zine on cats, borderlessjournal.com, and literaryyard.com. He loves reading non-fiction novels, inspirational books, and travel guides.

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John F. Miglio is a freelance writer and the author of the dystopian thriller, Sunshine Assassins. 

His articles have appeared in a variety of publications, including Los Angeles Magazine and LA Weekly.  His most recent articles have been featured in Story Sanctum, the Seattle Star, Behemoth Biennial, Wand’rly, Truthout, Op/Ed News, the Democratic Underground, Counterpunch, and Hippocampus Magazine. 

He has been interviewed as a guest author on Air America Radio and Radio Power Network; two of his short stories have appeared in Tales from the Vault: A Story Sanctum Anthology (Volumes II & III).​

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Mary Jo Rabe writes science fiction, modern fantasy, historical fiction, and crime or mystery stories, generally displaying a preference for what she defines as happy endings. Ideas for her fiction come from the magnificent, expanding universe, the rural environment of eastern Iowa where she grew up, the beautiful Michigan State University campus where she got her first degree, and the Black Forest area of Germany with its center in Freiburg where she worked as a librarian for 41 years before retiring to Titisee-Neustadt. News about her published stories is posted regularly on her blog: https://maryjorabe.wordpress.com/ 

She indulges in sporadic activity on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/rabemj) and BlueSky (maryjorabe.bsky.social).

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Matias Travieso-Diaz: Born in Cuba, Matas migrated to the United States as a young man. He became an engineer and lawyer and practiced for nearly fifty years. After retirement, he took up creative writing. Over two hundred and forty of his short stories have been published or accepted for publication in anthologies, magazines, blogs, audio books, and podcasts. One of his four novels, an autobiography entitled Cuban Transplant, and four anthologies of his stories have also been published. His most recent novel, The Last War of Independence has just been completed. He enjoys writing and reading short stories, especially those with a historical or philosophical bent.

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Carol Zapata-Whelan has a PhD in Comparative Literature (UCLA) and teaches Spanish/Hispanic literature at California State University, Fresno. Her nonfiction has appeared in Newsweek, Hispanic Link News Service, Story Sanctum, Adelaide International Literary Magazine, as well as in narrative medicine publications, such as The Brown Journal of Medical Humanities, University of Florida College of Medicine's H.E.A.L., and Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical Humanities. She has contributed fiction to literary anthologies Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California (Santa Clara University Press), Love You to Pieces: Creative Writers on Raising a Child with Special Needs (Beacon),  Kaleidoscope: Exploring the Experience of Disability through Literature and the Fine Arts, Story Sanctum, Adelaide International and collaborative work in NYU Grossman School of Medicine's Agora. Her book Finding Magic Mountain: Life with Five Glorious Kids and a Rogue Gene Called FOP (Hatchette) also in Mandarin, Korean, elicited a (Kung Fu) movie in Asia. Her first children's story is The Wish Sisters (Lighthouse). She lives in California's Central Valley with her husband and son, who has the rare musculoskeletal disorder Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP), which affects one in two million individuals:   http://www.ifopa.org

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