Deus Ex Machina Advanced Writers Collective:
A vetted network of professional, advanced, and serious writers working in the literary arts and scripted film & television in the following mediums and genres: fiction/ novels, creative non-fiction/ personal essay, memoir, poetry, auto-fiction, hybrid/experimental, screenwriting, drama, dramedy, rom-com, musicals, sci-fi, fantasy, speculative fiction, historical fiction, kidlit, middle-grade, YA, LGBTQ, Queer, BIPOC, Asian, Latinx and more.

*This is a horror-free space (including all sub-genres of horror: comedy, speculative, thriller, true crime, etc.). No excessive gore, shock factor, or gratuitous violence.

I have an MFA from Goddard College. I am an author, editor and avid reader. My family is multi-cultural. I am liberal. I am a lover of poetry, outsider art and vintage typewriters and I am passionate about hybrid writing that refuses to commit to traditional genres and labels. Stories that boldly trespasses into unfamiliar territory & pieces that naturally blend with other art forms light me up. I enjoy turning the lens both inward and outward.
My other passions are The Divine Feminine, Eastern & Yogic Studies, not just the Asanas, but the continual and connected dance between our inner & outer landscapes.

Trans masculine writer, in a Poetry MFA program struggling to find community that understands my work centering around my trans experience. Looking for vulnerable like-minded individuals interested in putting together a manuscript and providing support and critique in the process.

I'm author of several published nonfiction titles (The Harmonium Handbook, Solving Stress, and two other self-published works, Finding Focus and Mystic Microsoft) and am a recently retired content developer from Microsoft where I published four hefty software development tomes over the years.

In addition to homeschooling my teenage son in his high school years, I'm now pursuing fiction and literary works that have been rolling around in my mind and have more ideas than I can possibly ever produce. My son is also interested in fantasy/sci-fi writing and we're working together on a novel-writing curriculum. Being new to the creative fiction scene, I'm actively studying both the craft and aspects of the writing business.

A particular interest of mine is exploring fiction that explores universal spirituality (in terms of an expansive awareness, higher consciousness, connection/devotion to a greater reality, etc.) vs. that which is more religious, sectarian, didactic, or occult in nature.

Hello, my name is Noah Riek. I was born and raised in York, Pennsylvania. I'm an author, composer, educator, and performer. My writing is mystical, eclectic, and lyrical. My work is influenced by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Sylvia Plath, Jonathan Stroud, and Saladin Ahmed, among others.

I hold a B.S. of Music Education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a M.A. of Fiction from Johns Hopkins University. I recently finished my first symphony, the Book of Modern Psalms, and I'm currently working on a fantasy novel titled The Era of Dread, a trombone concerto titled Persephone, and an EP.