From Long Island diners to Victorian murderers and small-town French cross-dressers, these writers and poets will transport you as far as the written word can carry you. The Saltimbanque Review: we've been putting the "er" in "literature" since 2016.

J. Boyett is the author of several novels, such as The Little Mermaid: A Horror Story, Ironheart, and The Unkillables, a zombies-vs.-cavemen opus.