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Allison Boyd Justus
Allison Boyd Justus’ poetry has appeared in Penwood Review, Nibble, Eunoia Review, Madcap Review, Quail Bell, Calliope, and Contemporary American Voices. A 2015-16 Middle Tennessee Writing Project Fellow, Allison teaches language arts and serves as the gifted education facilitator for Eagleville School.


David Leo Rice
David Leo Rice is a writer and animator from Northampton, Massachusetts, currently living in New York City. His stories have appeared in Black Clock, The Collagist, Birkensnake, Hobart, The Rumpus, The New Haven Review, Identity Theory, Nat. Brut, and elsewhere. A Room in Dodge City is his first novel. He has a B.A. in Esoteric Studies from Harvard University and can be found at raviddice.com and at @raviddice on Twitter.


Carmen Lau
Carmen Lau has had stories published in Catapult, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Fairy Tale Review, and other journals. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from UC-Davis. Her story, “Nothing Has Changed about Me,” was chosen as one of Wigleaf’s Top 50 Very Short Fictions, and her story, “Ghost,” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. The Girl Wakes is the winner of the Electric Book Award and is the author’s first book. Find her at her website and at @artemisathene on Twitter.


 
Eric Shonkwiler
Eric Shonkwiler has had writing appear in Los Angeles Review of Books, The Millions, Fiddleblack, [PANK] Magazine, Midwestern Gothic, and elsewhere. He was born and raised in Ohio, received his MFA from University of California Riverside as a Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellow, was selected as a New River Gorge Winter Writer-in-Residence in West Virginia, and has lived and worked in every contiguous U.S. time zone. His debut novel, Above All Men (MG Press, 2014), won the Coil Book Award for Best Book in the Independent Press, was chosen as a Midwest Connections Pick by the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association, and was included as a Best Book of the Year selection on multiple lists, including The Next Best Book Club’s and Chicago Book Review’s. His second novel, 8th Street Power & Light, was released by MG Press in October 2016. He is the winner of the Luminaire Award for Best Prose, was a finalist in the Best Small Fictions Prize and Pen 2 Paper Fiction Prize, and has formerly served as Regional Editor for LARB, a reader for [PANK], and Editor-in-Chief and Fiction Editor for Crate Magazine. Find him at ericshonkwiler.com and at @eshonkwiler on Twitter.


 
Schuler Benson
Schuler Benson’s fiction and poetry have appeared in The Idle Class, Kudzu Review, The Pinch, Little Fiction, Hobart, and elsewhere. He has been nominated for a Best of the Net Award, a Million Writers Award, and three Pushcart Prizes, and he placed second in The Fallen Sky Review’s 2013 Speculative Fiction Launch Contest. He completed his undergraduate studies at University of Arkansas and received his MA from Coastal Carolina University. The Poor Man’s Guide to an Affordable, Painless Suicide is his first book. You can find him on Twitter at @schulerbenson.

A. Jay Adler
Cynthia Anderson
Diana Andrasi
Leah Angstman


A. Jay Adler
A. Jay Adler, a New Yorker always, is Professor of English, Emeritus at LA SW College. He earned his BA, with concentrations in English lit, philosophy, and film at City University of NY, and his MA and MPhil degrees in English literature from Columbia University. Travel—by air, sea, locomotive, cable, four wheels, two wheels (motorized and muscle-driven), and by foot—remains a passion. The former poetry editor for the now-defunct West magazine, Adler writes in various genres of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry and has written for the theater and won awards for screenwriting. Academic specializations include: British and American Modernism, the novel, James Joyce studies, rhetoric and composition, argumentation, and critical thinking. Adler’s blog, the sad red earth, is one venue for his political and cultural commentary, where he pays special attention to the analysis of arguments. A 1989 interviewee for a junior fellowship in the Harvard Society of Fellows, Adler was awarded a 2002 residency grant in poetry from the Vermont Studio Center. Among several screenplays, What We Were Thinking Of has won several awards, including second prize at the 1998 Maui Writers Conference Screenwriting Competition. During his 2008-09 sabbatical year, Adler traveled the country by motor home, documenting Native American life. Adler’s article, “Aboriginal Sin,” was included in the anthology, Global Viewpoints: Indigenous Peoples, from Greenhaven Press.


Cynthia Anderson
Cynthia Anderson lives in the Mojave Desert near Joshua Tree National Park. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Askew, Dark Matter, Apercus Quarterly, Whale Road, Knot Magazine, and Origami Poems Project. She is the author of six collections: In the Mojave, Desert Dweller, Mythic Rockscapes/Barker Dam, Mythic Rockscapes/Hidden Valley, and Shared Visions I and II. She frequently collaborates with her husband, photographer Bill Dahl. Cynthia co-edited the anthology A Bird Black as the Sun: California Poets on Crows & Ravens. Find her at her website.


Diana Andrasi
Diana Andrasi completed her studies in philology at the University of Bucharest, followed by a master’s degree and a PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Montreal. While researching for her doctoral thesis on the subject of thought-image as a poetry device (at the beginning of the 20th century), she became interested in research projects linking contemporary poetry to urban legends, political ideologies, and global cultural development. She’s written articles, poems, and essays in both English and French. She lives in the far west of the Montreal Island with all her books and significant ones. Find her at her website.




 
 
Leah Angstman
Leah Angstman is an amateur historian and transplanted Michigander, unsure of what feels like home anymore. She is the recent winner of the Loudoun Library Foundation Poetry Contest and Nantucket Directory Poetry Contest and was a placed finalist in the Bevel Summers Prize for Short Fiction (Washington & Lee University), Pen 2 Paper Writing Competition (in both Poetry and Fiction categories), Saluda River Prize for Poetry, Blue Bonnet Review Poetry Contest, Baltimore Science Fiction Society Poetry Contest, and West Coast Eisteddfod Poetry Competition. She has earned three Pushcart Prize nominations and serves as Editor-in-Chief for Alternating Current Press and a reviewer for Publishers Weekly. Her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction has appeared in numerous journals, including Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, Tupelo Quarterly, Electric Literature, Midwestern Gothic, Atticus Review, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Slice Magazine, and Shenandoah. You can find her at leahangstman.com and on Twitter at @leahangstman.

Charles Bane, Jr.
L. S. Bassen
Schuler Benson
Mike Bernicchi
Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal
Sean Brendan-Brown
Garrett J. Brown
Mary Buchinger


 
Charles Bane, Jr.
Charles Bane, Jr., is the author of several collections of poetry, including the recent The Ends of the Earth: Collected Poems (Transcendent Zero Press, 2015), as well as I Meet Geronimo and Other Stories (Avignon Press, 2015) and Three Seasons: Writing Donald Hall (Collection of the Houghton Library, Harvard University). He created and contributes to The Meaning Of Poetry Series for The Gutenberg Project. You can find him at charlesbanejr.com.



L. S. Bassen
L. S. Bassen lives in Lincoln, Rhode Island, and is a 2011 Finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction Award; 2009 winner of the Atlantic Pacific Press Drama Prize; Fiction Editor at Prick of the Spindle; poetry and fiction reviewer for Horse Less Press, Small Beer Press, The Rumpus, Drexel University’s Press 1, The Brooklyner, Big Wonderful Press, Melusine, NewPages, and Galatea Resurrects; Literary Life blogger at Sobriquet Magazine; and reader for Electric Literature. She has had both poetry and fiction published in many literature journals, including Kenyon Review, American Scholar, Minnetonka, and Persimmontree, and is a prize-winning, produced, and published playwright (Samuel French, ATA in NYC, OH, NC), and commissioned co-author of a WWII memoir by the Scottish bride of Baron Kawasaki. Find her at lsbassen.com.


 
Schuler Benson
Schuler Benson’s fiction and poetry have appeared in The Idle Class, Kudzu Review, The Pinch, Little Fiction, Hobart, and elsewhere. He has been nominated for a Best of the Net Award, a Million Writers Award, and three Pushcart Prizes, and he placed second in The Fallen Sky Review’s 2013 Speculative Fiction Launch Contest. He completed his undergraduate studies at University of Arkansas and received his MA from Coastal Carolina University. The Poor Man’s Guide to an Affordable, Painless Suicide is his first book. You can find him on Twitter at @schulerbenson.



Mike Bernicchi
Mike Bernicchi is an American poet, curator, and teacher living and working between Southwest Florida and Brooklyn, New York. His works, most recently appearing in ELKE, Apeiron Review, and War, Literature & the Arts, focus on the degradation of memory through time. Bernicchi’s poems attempt to reconcile the fragility of human memory through the manipulation of traumatic events. He now enjoys teaching Literature at an alternative high school in Southwest Florida, where his students say his class is “dumb flame.” Read some of Michael’s work here, and find him on Twitter at @mcbernicchi.



Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal
Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal lives in West Covina, California and works in the mental health field in Los Angeles. He was born in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. His first book of poems, Raw Materials, was published by Pygmy Forest Press, and Kendra Steiner Editions will publish his next chapbook. His poetry has appeared in English and Spanish in many print and online journals.







 
Sean Brendan-Brown
Sean Brendan-Brown is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and currently resides in Olympia, Washington. A medically-retired Marine, he is the author of three poetry chapbooks (Everything Repeated Many Times, King of Wounds, West Is a Golden Paradise), a poetry collection (No Stopping Any Time), a fiction chapbook (Monarch of Hatred), and a short story collection (Brother Dionysus). He has published with The Notre Dame Review, Wisconsin Review, Indiana Review, Texas Review, Poetry East, Southampton Review, Common Ground Review, and The University of Iowa Press anthologies American Diaspora and Like Thunder. He is the recipient of a 1997 NEA Poetry Fellowship and a 2010 NEA Fiction Fellowship.


Garrett J. Brown
Garrett J. Brown’s Manna Sifting won the Liam Rector First Book Prize from Briery Creek Press. His essay, “Galileo in the Uecker Seats,” was a listed Notable Essay in the Best American Essays of 2014. Garrett’s work has appeared in Poetry East, Summerset Review, TriQuarterly, and Black Warrior Review. He teaches creative writing at Anne Arundel Community College in Maryland. You can find him at his website.







 
Mary Buchinger
Mary Buchinger is the author of two collections of poetry, Aerialist and Roomful of Sparrows. Her poems have appeared in AGNI, Gargoyle, Nimrod, Salamander, Slice Magazine, The Cortland Review, The Massachusetts Review, as well as in journals in Canada, England, Ireland, France, The Netherlands, and elsewhere. She was invited to read at the Library of Congress and in The Netherlands, and received the Daniel Varoujan and Firman Houghton Awards, multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations, a Norton Island Residency, and the Charter Oak Award for Best Historical. Originally from Michigan, where she grew up on a small family farm, she was a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador and earned a doctorate in applied linguistics from Boston University. Currently, Mary is Co-President of the New England Poetry Club and Professor of English and Communication Studies at MCPHS University in Boston, Massachusetts; she lives in Cambridge with her husband, two sons, dog and two cats. You can find her at her website.

Harry Calhoun
R. Joseph Capet
Jared A. Carnie
Paula Cary
Alan Catlin
CEE
Christina Elaine Collins
Jesseca Cornelson


Harry Calhoun
Harry Calhoun passed away on October 31, 2015. Before that, Harry survived three broken ribs and three marriages. He endured countless jobs, wrote a ton of articles and other works, and had a few dozen books and chapbooks of poetry published. His books and chapbooks include I knew Bukowski like you knew a rare leaf; The Black Dog and the Road; Something Real; Near daybreak, with a nod to Frost; Retreating Aggressively into the Dark; The Insomnia Poems; Maintenance and Death; Retro; How Love Conquers the World; and Failure Is Unimportant. His career has included Pushcart Prize nominations, a Sundress Best of the Net nomination, and publications in Lily, Abbey, Orange Room Review, Gutter Eloquence, Faircloth Review, Thunder Sandwich, and others. Harry lived in Raleigh with his wife, Trina, and his dogs, Hamlet and Harriet.


R. Joseph Capet
R. Joseph Capet is a poet and theologian living in Monmouth, Oregon, whose work in multiple languages has appeared in journals and magazines as diverse as decomP, The Montreal Review, American Journal of Biblical Theology, and Sennaciulo. He currently lays up treasures on Earth teaching English to students in Latin America and treasures in heaven teaching Esperanto to anyone who will learn, while serving as poetry editor for P. Q. Leer.






Jared A. Carnie
Jared A. Carnie recently left the Outer Hebrides. He can be found at jaredacarnie.com.











Paula Cary
Paula Cary is a poet, living with a wannabe pirate in Green Cove Springs, Florida. Her chapbooks include Agapornis Swinderniana (Dancing Girl Press, 2012) and Sister, Blood and Bone (Blood Pudding Press, 2013). She reviews other writers at her blog, Poet Hound, and she hopes to spread the love of poetry through her work online and through her sidewalk-chalk art on her driveway.







 
 
Alan Catlin
Alan Catlin worked at his unchosen profession as a barman for 34 years in college bars, banquet houses, restaurants, a nightclub, hotels, and a neighborhood Irish bar, the latter for the last 25 years of his so-called career. He has published thousands of poems and stories since the mid-70s and has over sixty-five chapbooks and full-length books of prose and poetry to his credit. His most recent full-length collection is Alien Nation, a compilation of four thematically interconnected chapbooks. Among his many awards and citations are 20 Pushcart Prize nominations. He is currently the poetry editor of the online journal, Misfit Magazine.


 
CEE
CEE is a failed short story writer, failed novelist, and failed playwright. In the early 2000s, he developed Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, forcing him, by 2007, to fall back to the shorthand of poetry. Over 600 of his poems have since seen or will see some form of media. He has been printed in such diverse publications as bear creek haiku, Jerry Jazz Musician, Children, Churches and Daddies, Tales of the Talisman, The Storyteller, Barbaric Yawp, The Iconoclast, Poiesis Review, and Dreams and Nightmares. His poem, “It’s An Old Story,” received a Pushcart Prize nomination in 2009. He is the author of 17 chapbooks, including 12 times 12 equals Gross, Und ihr Habt Doch Gesiegt (You Have Finally Won), I Am Not Sydney Carton, tomB Baby (with Hot Robert Toddy), and Gunther, and he has been included in the international mailers of Marymark Press.


 
Christina Elaine Collins
Christina Elaine Collins is an MFA candidate and Honors Award recipient in fiction at George Mason University. Her stories and poems have appeared in various literary periodicals and anthologies, including Jabberwock Review, Weave Magazine, and NonBinary Review. In addition to three Pushcart Prize nominations, she has received Finalist and Special Mention awards in several literary competitions such as the 2014 Katherine Paterson Prize at Hunger Mountain, the Heavy Feather Review 2013 Featured Fiction Chapbook Contest, and the Gambling the Aisle 2013 Chapbook Competition. She has been a writer-in-residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, as well as the Art Commune program in Armenia.


Jesseca Cornelson
Jesseca Cornelson, an associate professor of English at Alabama State University, is currently working on a book-length collection of documentary poems based on Alabama history. Her critical work appears in The Great Recession in Fiction, Film, and Television: Twenty-First Century Bust Culture. Her poetry has recently appeared in Cellpoems, Salamander, Platte Valley Review, and The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. She keeps company with two adventure hounds and enjoys hiking and kayaking in Alabama’s stunning natural spaces. Find her at difficulthistory.wordpress.com.


Justin Lawrence Daugherty
John Paul Davies
K. M. Dersley
Doug Draime
Aleathia Drehmer


Justin Lawrence Daugherty
Justin Lawrence Daugherty lives in Atlanta and is the Co-Publisher of Jellyfish Highway Press.











John Paul Davies
John Paul Davies is originally from Liverpool, UK, and has had work published in Crannóg, The Manchester Review, The Interpreter’s House, Rosebud, Grasslimb, Orbis, The Pedestal, QU Literary Magazine, Apex, and Grain. In 2016, he was runner-up in the Cheshire Prize for Literature, and won the Penguin Ireland Short Story Competition. He organizes a regular creative writing group in Navan, which can be found on Twitter at @Crow_Rd_Writers.






K. M. Dersley
K. M. Dersley lives in Framlingham, Suffolk, England, and has had poems and articles published in Poetry Review, London Magazine, The Rialto, Zygote in My Coffee, Thunder Sandwich, Laura Hird, Word Riot, and others. He has performed his work in London, Cambridge, Colchester, Chelmsford, and at the Wessex Festival and the Dulwich Festival. His books include Sketches by Derz, Between the Alleyways at the World’s Fair, and Management Gold Not Me. Find him on Facebook.






Doug Draime
Doug Draime passed away on February 17, 2015. Before his death, he emerged as a poet, short-story writer, and playwright in the literary ‘underground’ in Los Angeles in the late 1960s. His latest book was More Than the Alley, a full-length poetry collection from Interior Noise Press. Also available are three chapbooks: Los Angeles Terminal: Poems 1971-1980 (Covert Press), Rock ‘n’ Roll Jizz (Alternating Current), and an online chap, Speed of Light (Right Hand Pointing). Draime lived in Medford, Orgeon, and was awarded PEN grants in 1987, 1991, and 1992. During the last few years before his death, he had been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes.




Aleathia Drehmer
Aleathia Drehmer lives in Painted Post, New York, and is the former editor of the flash-fiction website, In Between Altered States, and the art editor for the online journal, Regardless of Authority. In a previous life, she produced a print zine called Durable Goods and edited for Full of Crow Press and Zygote in My Coffee. Her work has been published extensively in the small press, both online and in print. Her most recent poetry collection, You Find Me Everywhere, is available from Alternating Current. Aleathia’s future is pointed toward the deep country where she hopes to see the world for what it is and put it down in words. Find her at her website.


Michael Estabrook
Gary Every


Michael Estabrook
Michael Estabrook lives in Acton, Massachusetts, and is finally free, after 40 years of working for “The Man” and sometimes “The Woman.” No more useless meetings under fluorescent lights in stuffy, windowless rooms. He can concentrate instead on making better poems and on pursuing his other interests, including: history, art, music, theater, opera, and his wife, who is still the most beautiful woman he has ever known. Find him on Facebook.






 
Gary Every
Gary Every writes poetry, nature essays, fiction, and science fiction. He has been nominated for the Rhysling Award for the year’s best science fiction poem six times. As a journalist, he has won regional awards for articles such as “The Apache Naichee Ceremony” and “Losing Geronimo’s Language,” both of which are included in his book, Shadow of the OhshaD. He has two science fiction novellas available: Inca Butterflies and The Saint and the Robot. Find him at garyevery.com.


Jason Fisk


Jason Fisk
Jason Fisk is a husband, a father of two, and a teacher, living in the suburbs of Chicago. He is the author of a collection of short stories, Hank and Jules; a collection of micro-fiction published by Chicago Center for Literature and Photography, Salt Creek Anthology; a collection of poetry published by Six Gallery Press, the fierce crackle of fragile wings; and two poetry chapbooks published by Alternating Current, The Sagging: Spirits & Skin and Decay. Find him at jasonfisk.com.




Tyler Gillespie
Lawrence Gladeview
Nathan Graziano
Andrei Guruianu


Tyler Gillespie
Tyler Gillespie is the palest Floridian you’ll ever meet. His poems appear in Apogee Journal, Columbia Poetry Review, [PANK], Juked, Exposition Review, Hobart, and Prelude, among other places. Find him at his website.










Lawrence Gladeview
Lawrence Gladeview is a barroom raconteur and the author of two poetry collections. His writing has been published in magazines around the world, and his books are stocked on the shelves of independent bookstores and university libraries. Lawrence lives and writes in Denver, Colorado with his wife, Rebecca. Find him at lawrencegladeview.com.








Nathan Graziano
Nathan Graziano is a high school teacher with an MFA in fiction writing from The University of New Hampshire. He is the author of three collections of poetry, Not So Profound (Green Bean Press, 2003), Teaching Metaphors (Sunnyoutside, 2007), and After the Honeymoon (Sunnyoutside, 2009); two collections of short prose, Frostbite (GBP, 2002) and Hangover Breakfasts (Bottle of Smoke Press, 2012); and several chapbooks of fiction and poetry. His work has appeared in numerous literary publications and websites, such as Word Riot, The Hawaii Review, The Good Men Project, Night Train, Rattle, and Nerve Cowboy. His short story, “Fishbone,” was a finalist for The Norman Mailer Award in 2011, and he has a trophy to prove it. In his spare time, he enjoys writing bios about himself in third person that make it seem like any of this crap matters. Find him at nathangraziano.com.


Andrei Guruianu
Andrei Guruianu was born in 1979 in Bucharest, Romania. He is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry and prose, and currently teaches in the Expository Writing Program at New York University. You can find him at his website.






Ed Hamilton
George Held
Anthony G. Herles
Kevin M. Hibshman
Justin Hyde


Ed Hamilton
Ed Hamilton lives in New York City, and is the author of Legends of the Chelsea Hotel: Living with the Artists and Outlaws of New York’s Rebel Mecca (Da Capo, 2007) and the short story collection, The Chintz Age: Tales of Love and Loss for a New New York (Červená Barva Press, 2015). His fiction has appeared in various journals, including Limestone Journal, The Journal of Kentucky Studies, River Walk Journal, Exquisite Corpse, Modern Drunkard, Lumpen, Omphalos, Bohemia, Poetic Story: An Anthology, and in translation in Czechoslovakia’s Host. His nonfiction has appeared in Experienced: Rock Music Tales of Fact and Fiction (Vagabondage Press LLC, 2011), as well as in Chelsea Now, The Villager, The Huffington Post, and other local NYC newspapers.


George Held
George Held is a seven-time Pushcart Prize nominee, a three-year Fulbright lecturer in Czechoslovakia, and a teacher of English at Queens College for 37 years. His poems, short stories, book reviews, and translations have appeared in such places as Circumference, Commonweal, Confrontation, and The Notre Dame Review, and on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac, as well as in over two dozen anthologies. Held’s 17 poetry collections include Beyond Renewal, After Shakespeare: Selected Sonnets, and Neighbors, Books 1 and 2: animal poems for children, illustrated by Joung Un Kim. George lives in Greenwich Village, with his wife, Cheryl. Find him at georgeheld.blogspot.com.



Anthony G. Herles
Anthony G. Herles is a retired New York State English teacher. He taught English at the high school level for 30 years and also taught English as an adjunct lecturer for 20 years at Dutchess Community College in Poughkeepsie. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Happy, PEN Works, Words of Wisdom, New Authors Journal, The Hartford Courant, The Poetry Explosion Newsletter (PEN), Barbaric Yawp, New England Writers Network (NEWN), The Blind Man’s Rainbow, Poiesis Review, Timber Creek Review, River Poets Journal, The Storyteller, Jaw Magazine, The Writer’s Post Journal, The Lyric, and others. Four chapbooks are available from Alternating Current: Fourteen Singles, Poughkeepsie Icehouse, Men Stuff, and Bob Barker Died.


Kevin M. Hibshman
Kevin M. Hibshman was born in Philadelphia on the now-defunct Naval Base; his father was serving as a medic there. The family moved two years later to Lititz, Pennsylvania, where he spent the remainder of his childhood. Life in a sequestered village was alienating, and Kevin sought refuge in music and poetry. His first influences included rock poets, Lou Reed, Jim Morrison, and Patti Smith. Later, he fell under the spell of the Beats and began to take writing seriously. Kevin performed in a few rock bands and music projects during the late 80s/early 90s. He has edited his own poetry magazine, Fearless, for nearly twenty years, as it transformed from print zine to eZine. Over the past two decades, Kevin has released many chapbooks and broadsides, and his poems, reviews, and collages have been published in numerous magazines worldwide. His most recent chapbook, Incessant Shining, was published by Alternating Current in 2011. Kevin resides in Pennsylvania with his artist partner, William, and his cat, Siouxsie. Find him on Facebook.


Justin Hyde
Justin Hyde lives in Des Moines, Iowa, and works in a women’s halfway house.










Merilyn Jackson
Luther Jett
Allison Boyd Justus


Merilyn Jackson
Merilyn Jackson attended Temple University, got married, had two kids, divorced, remarried, owned two cheese/gourmet food shops, divorced, married the love of her life, and since 1996, has been The Philadelphia Inquirer’s principal dance critic. She writes for many publications on dance, theater, and literature, especially Eastern European fiction, politics, and poetry—altogether more than 800 published works because she’s never stopped writing. The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts awarded her food-driven novel-in-progress, O Solitary Host, a Literature Fellowship. A chapter of the novel appeared in The Massachusetts Review in the ‘Food Matters’ fall 2004 issue. In 2005, she received an NEA Critics’ Fellowship to Duke University. Her poetry has been published, most recently, in Exquisite Corpse, The Rusty Nail, and Broad Street Review. In 2012, she attended poetry workshops at Colgate University and Sarah Lawrence College, working with poets Peter Balakian and Tom Lux, respectively. Find her work at primeglib.com.


Luther Jett
Luther Jett lives in Washington Grove, Maryland, and has recently completed his first novel. His poetry has been published in numerous journals, including The GW Review, ABRAXAS, Beltway, Innisfree, and Main Street Rag. His poetry performance piece, “Flying to America,” debuted at the 2009 Capital Fringe Festival in Washington D.C. He was also a winner in the 2011 Moving Words Poetry Competition in Arlington, Virginia. Find him at lutherjett.com.






Allison Boyd Justus
Allison Boyd Justus’ poetry has appeared in Penwood Review, Nibble, Eunoia Review, Madcap Review, Quail Bell, Calliope, and Contemporary American Voices. A 2015-16 Middle Tennessee Writing Project Fellow, Allison teaches language arts and serves as the gifted education facilitator for Eagleville School.






Emily Kiernan
Patrick Kindig
Noel King
Tricia Knoll
Miodrag Kojadinović


Emily Kiernan
Emily Kiernan is the author of a novel, Great Divide (Unsolicited Press). Her work has appeared in American Short Fiction, [PANK], The Collagist, Redivider, and other journals. She is a prose editor at Noemi Press and a fiction editor at Rivet: The Journal of Writing That Risks. She lives in Pittsburgh with her man and her dog. Find her at her website.







Patrick Kindig
Patrick Kindig recently graduated from Michigan State University, where he studied German and English with a concentration in creative writing. His poetry and fiction have been published in or are forthcoming in Prairie Margins, The Offbeat, and The Red Cedar Review.









Noel King
Noel King was born in and lives in Tralee, Ireland. His poems, haiku, short stories, reviews, and articles have appeared in magazines and journals in thirty-seven countries. His poetry collections are published by Salmon Poetry: Prophesying the Past (2010), The Stern Wave (2013), and Sons. He has edited more than fifty books of work by others. Anthology publications include The Second Genesis: An Anthology of Contemporary World Poetry (A.R.A.W., India, 2014).





Tricia Knoll
Tricia Knoll is an Oregon poet who spent decades doing communications work for the City of Portland. Her poetry has been nominated for six Pushcart awards and appears widely in national and international journals and anthologies. She focuses often on poetry of place, lyric poetry, and recently on political themes. She maintains a daily haiku-writing practice. Her chapbook, Urban Wild (Finishing Line Press, 2014), looks at human interactions with wildlife in urban habitat and includes crows, spiders, and the elephant in the zoo. Ocean’s Laughter (Aldrich Press, 2016) takes its title from a line in Pablo Neruda’s Book of Questions, “Do you not also sense danger in the sea’s laughter?” It records environmental change witnessed over twenty-five years of owning a home in the small Oregon north coast town of Manzanita. In Summer 2017, The Poetry Box publishes Broadfork Farm, poems growing out of farmsitting experiences over many years on a small family-owned organic farm in Trout Lake, Washington, on the slopes of Mt. Adams. Knoll’s website maintains links to dozens of poems published online.


Miodrag Kojadinović
Miodrag Kojadinović is a Canadian-Serbian poet, prose writer, journalist, translator, interpreter, and photographer. He has undergraduate degrees from Serbia and Canada, postgraduate ones from Serbia, the U.S., the Netherlands, and Hungary, and has worked at universities/colleges in Norway, Mainland China, the Netherlands, Serbia, and Macau. His writing, in a wide range of genres, has been published in thirteen languages in Canada, Serbia, the U.S., France, Russia, China, England, Holland, Spain, Slovenia, India, Macau, Scotland, Croatia, Australia, Germany, Israel, Austria, and Montenegro. He has also appeared in three documentaries (one of which was about himself as a globetrotter seeking a place under the Sun). Find him on Wikipedia.

Llanwyre Laish
Alexis Larkin
Phillip Larrea
Carmen Lau
Brian Le Lay
Stephanie Liden
Lyn Lifshin
Helen Losse
Raymond Luczak


Llanwyre Laish
Llanwyre Laish’s formative years were filled with the fairytales and myths of Britain and Ireland. As an adult, she spent nine years sandwiched between gargoyles and rare books, racking up degrees in Medieval and Victorian stories. Her work has appeared in Spark: A Creative Anthology, The Lantern Journal, and Inaccurate Realities. She currently teaches both literature and history.







Alexis Larkin
Alexis Larkin’s short fiction and poetry has appeared in Circa, Copperfield Review, Fat City Review, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Barnstormer, Pea River Journal, Prompt Literary Magazine, and Treehouse. She is a member of SCBWI and Bergen County’s KidLit Talespinners. She can be reached at her website.








 
Phillip Larrea
Phillip Larrea is the author of Our Patch (Writing Knights Press), We the People (Cold River Press), and his brand new collection, Part-Time Job (Sybaritic Press). He serves on the Advisory Board of the Sacramento Poetry Center and edits the annual print anthology, Sacramento Voices.






Carmen Lau
Carmen Lau has had stories published in Catapult, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Fairy Tale Review, and other journals. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from UC-Davis. Her story, “Nothing Has Changed about Me,” was chosen as one of Wigleaf’s Top 50 Very Short Fictions, and her story, “Ghost,” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. The Girl Wakes is the winner of the Electric Book Award and is the author’s first book. Find her at her website and at @artemisathene on Twitter.






Brian Le Lay
Brian Le Lay is a poet and a sociology student in Boston, Massachusetts. His poems have recently appeared in The Orange Room Review, Word Riot, and Gutter Eloquence. Find him at his website.










Stephanie Liden
Stephanie Liden was born and raised in Northern Minnesota. She received her B.A. in journalism and recently her M.A. in English from the University of North Dakota, where she completed her thesis-style portfolio, entitled “Americanization and Assimilation,” in which she presents a critique of popular immigration narratives in American Literature. She contributed as a reader for North Dakota Quarterly and the student-run literary magazine, Floodwall. Liden is currently living in a small Minnesota farming community and continues to write.




 
Lyn Lifshin
Lyn Lifshin lives in Vienna, Virginia, and has written more than 125 books and edited four anthologies of women writers. Her poems have appeared in numerous poetry and literary magazines in the U.S., and she has given more than 700 readings. Lyn has appeared at Dartmouth, Skidmore, Cornell University, Shakespeare Library, Whitney Museum, and Huntington Library, and has been Poet-in-Residence at the University of Rochester, Antioch, and Colorado Mountain College. She is the winner of numerous awards, including the Jack Kerouac Award for her book, Kiss the Skin Off. She is also the author of Another Woman Who Looks Like Me (Black Sparrow Press), the prize-winning The Licorice Daughter: My Year with Ruffian (Texas Review Press), Before It’s Light (Black Sparrow), Cold Comfort (Black Sparrow), Persephone (Red Hen), A Girl Goes into the Woods (NYQ Books), and many more. Find her at lynlifshin.com.


Helen Losse
Helen Losse lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and is the author of three full-length poetry books, Facing a Lonely West and Seriously Dangerous (Main Street Rag), and Better with Friends (Rank Stranger Press), and three chapbooks. A former English teacher, Helen has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize and three times for a Best of the Net award, one time of which she was a finalist. She was Poetry Editor for The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature and is now its Poetry Editor Emeritus. Her poems have been anthologized in In the Arms of Words: Poems for Disaster Relief; Washing the Color of Water Golden: A Hurricane Katrina Anthology; and Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont. She holds a BSE from Missouri Southern State University and an MALS from Wake Forest, where she wrote her thesis on Martin Luther King, Jr. Find her at helenl.wordpress.com.


Raymond Luczak
Raymond Luczak is the author and editor of 19 books. His most recent titles include The Kiss of Walt Whitman Still on My Lips and QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology. His next book, The Kinda Fella I Am: Stories, will come out in the fall of 2017. His work has been nominated seven times for the Pushcart Prize. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and online at raymondluczak.com.





Angela Consolo Mankiewicz
Hosho McCreesh
Frankie Metro
Heather K. Michon
Yasmin Khan Murgai


Angela Consolo Mankiewicz
Angela Consolo Mankiewicz lives in Los Angeles, California, and has published four chapbooks; the most recent are An Eye, published by Pecan Grove Press, and As If, Published by Little Red Books–Lummox. Angela’s publications include: Poets/Artists, Full of Crow, Long Poem Magazine (UK), PRESA, Montserrat, Re)Verb, Sketchbook, Seldom Nocturne, Istanbul Literary Review, Arsenic Lobster, Temple/Tsunami, Butcher Block, Slipstream, Chiron Review, The Hawaii Review, Cerberus, Karamu, Lynx Eye, Pemmican, Blind Man’s Rainbow, and ArtWord. Other recognitions include two Pushcart Prize nominations and 1st and Grand Prizes from Trellis Magazine, JerseyWorks, and Amelia. Her children’s stories, The Grummel Book, have been reissued on CD by Shoofly; and Laura Hanson, a novella, was serialized by ESC! Magazine. She has also been the Contributing Editor and Regional Editor, respectively, for the small (now defunct) journals, Mushroom Dreams and The New Press Quarterly. Her chamber opera, One Day Less, music by D. Javelosa, was performed at the Broad 2nd Space in Santa Monica, California. Find her at poetacmank.blogspot.com.


Hosho McCreesh
Hosho McCreesh is currently writing and painting in the gypsum and caliche badlands of the American Southwest. He has work appearing widely in print, audio, and online. His books are available from Bottle of Smoke Press, Mary Celeste Press, Sunnyoutside, Orange Alert Press, and Alternating Current; broadsides are available from 10pt Press; art prints are available at society6.com. Find him at hoshomccreesh.com.







Frankie Metro
Frankie Metro is one-third of the editorial team at Kleft Jaw Press and writes music, book, and event reviews for Unlikely Stories Episode: IV. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and has been published in numerous online and print anthologies and journals. His first poetry chapbook, The Anarchist’s Blac Book of Poetry, was published by Crisis Chronicles Press.







Heather K. Michon
Heather K. Michon is an essayist and historian living in the green hills of Central Virginia. Her work has appeared in Salon, The Washington Post, and other publications. Her essay, “The Night Watch: Creativity in the Dim,” developed out of new research on the effect of dim light on creativity, but turned into a short historical survey on just how much human artistry has been born and nurtured, mushroom-like, in the dark. Find her at her website.






 
Yasmin Khan Murgai
Yasmin Khan Murgai is an English writer of Irish and Pakistani heritage. Her writing is inspired by her work as a BBC journalist, her travels, and family history. Her stories have been published in collections from Kind of Hurricane Press, Dirty Chai Magazine, and National Flash Fiction Day. You can find her on Twitter at @msyasminkhan.



GennaRose Nethercott
Normal


GennaRose Nethercott
GennaRose Nethercott is a poet, performer, and folklorist from the woodlands of Vermont, currently residing in Boston. Her recent work has appeared in The Offing, Rust + Moth, Cleaver, and Maudlin House, among others. She was named the grand prize winner of Spark Creative Anthology’s poetry contest and the Lindenwood Review’s flash fiction contest. She writes poems-to-order for passersby on a 1952 Hermes Rocket typewriter, a collection of which was released by Honeybee Press in 2015.





Normal
With presently 550–600 pieces published between 1992 and 2015 (without the Internet), Normal remains “one of the last American primitives” [self-described] in the underground press. His most recent book, I See Hunger’s Children: Selected Poems 1962–2012, was published by Lummox Press in 2012.





James O’Brien
Shauna Osborn


James O’Brien
James O’Brien lives in New York City, and holds a PhD in Editorial Studies from the Editorial Institute at Boston University, where he researched and edited Bob Dylan’s other-than-song writings. He is engaged in a bibliography for Oxford University Press, covering writings about the filmmaker John Cassavetes. His journalism, short stories, and poetry are published in numerous journals and magazines. Find him at jamesobrien.cc.






Shauna Osborn
Shauna Osborn is a Comanche/German mestiza who works as an instructor, wordsmith, and community organizer in Albuquerque. She received her Master of Fine Arts from New Mexico State University in 2005. Shauna has won various awards for her academic research, photography, and poetry. Recently, she received a National Poetry Award from the New York Public Library. Find her at her website.





Diane Payne
Robert L. Penick
Pearl Pirie
David S. Pointer
D. A. Pratt


Diane Payne
Diane Payne’s most recent publications include: Map Literary Review, Watershed Review, Tishman Review, Whiskey Island, Kudzu House Quarterly, Superstition Review, Burrow Press, Dime Show Review, Lime Hawk, and Cheat River Review. She has work forthcoming in The Offing, Elke: A little Journal, Souvenir Literary Journal, and Outpost 19. Diane is the author of Burning Tulips (Red Hen Press) and is the MFA Director at University of Arkansas at Monticello.





Robert L. Penick
Robert L. Penick has had poetry, prose, and essays appear in over 100 literary magazines, including The Hudson Review, The North American Review, and Quiddity. He works with the mentally ill in Louisville, Kentucky. Find him on Facebook.









Pearl Pirie
Pearl Pirie is a food columnist, a book reviewer, and the author of three full-length collections of poetry: the pet radish, shrunken (BookThug, 2015), been shed bore (2010), and Thirsts (2011), the latter of which won the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. She lives in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and has a micropress called phafours. Find her at pearlpirie.com.







 
David S. Pointer
David S. Pointer is an American political poet living in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. In Spring 2012, he was asked to become an advisory panel member at Writing For Peace. This organization teaches world peace writing to young people ages 13-19. David’s two most recent political poetry books are The Psychobilly Princess and Sundrenched Nanosilver. His recent anthology publications include: Serial Killers 2, Poe-It!, Poiesis Review, and elsewhere. Find him on Facebook.




D. A. Pratt
D. A. Pratt lives in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and has short articles on Charles Bukowski and Henry Miller published, as well as a number of other poems, many of which have been composed at Earl’s South, where Pratt can sometimes be found with a pad of paper.







Misti Rainwater-Lites
David Leo Rice
Charles P. Ries
Christopher Robbins
Jennifer Roche
Francine Rubin
Robert James Russell


Misti Rainwater-Lites
Misti Rainwater-Lites is the author of several collections of poetry and fiction, most recently: Bullshit Rodeo, available from Epic Rites Press. She resides in San Antonio, and you can find her at her website.










David Leo Rice
David Leo Rice is a writer and animator from Northampton, Massachusetts, currently living in New York City. His stories have appeared in Black Clock, The Collagist, Birkensnake, Hobart, The Rumpus, The New Haven Review, Identity Theory, Nat. Brut, and elsewhere. A Room in Dodge City is his first novel. He has a B.A. in Esoteric Studies from Harvard University and can be found at raviddice.com and at @raviddice on Twitter.






 
Charles P. Ries
Charles P. Ries’ narrative poems, short stories, interviews, and poetry reviews have appeared in over two hundred print and electronic publications. He has received four Pushcart Prize nominations for his writing and is the author of six books of poetry. He was awarded the Wisconsin Regional Writers Association Jade Ring Award for humorous poetry and is the former poetry editor of Word Riot and ESC!. Ries is also the author of The Fathers We Find, a somewhat-fictionalized memoir of his growing up on a mink farm in Southeastern Wisconsin. His work is archived in the Charles P. Ries Collection at Marquette University. A citizen philosopher, he lived in London and North Africa after college, where he studied the mystical teachings of Islam known as Sufism. In 1989, he worked with the Dalai Lama on a program that brought American religious- and psycho-therapists together for a weeklong dialogue. He has done extensive work with men’s groups and worked with a Jungian psychotherapist for over five years, during which time he learned to find meanings in small things. He is also a founding member of the Lake Shore Surf Club, the oldest freshwater surfing club on the Great Lakes.


Christopher Robbins
Christopher Robbins grew up in the state of ecstasy. He watched a lot of Voltron and Buster Keaton. His favorite Stooge is Curly Joe. Find him on Twitter.











Jennifer Roche
Jennifer Roche is a poet, writer, editor, and occasional collage artist who lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. Her work has appeared in The Rain, Party, & Disaster Society; Ghost Ocean; and Anthology of Chicago. Her first chapbook of poems, 20, is forthcoming from Alternating Current Press. Jennifer is also the founder of the Ode to Fury Found Poetry Workshop, which she first held at the Chicago Public Library. She can be found at her website and on Twitter.






Francine Rubin
Francine Rubin is the author of the poetry chapbooks, City Songs (Blue Lyra Press) and Geometries (Finishing Line Press). You may find her online at her website.











Robert James Russell
Robert James Russell is a Pushcart Prize-nominated author and the co-founding editor of the literary journal, Midwestern Gothic. His work has appeared in Pithead Chapel, Crime Factory, WhiskeyPaper, Joyland, Thunderclap! Magazine, The Collagist, and Gris-Gris, among others. His first novel, Sea of Trees, is available from Winter Goose Publishing. Find him at robertjamesrussell.com.





Constance Sayers
Janette Schafer
Angie Jeffreys Schomp
Robert Schuler
Claudia Serea
Neil Serven
Denis Sheehan
Eric Shonkwiler
Jon Sindell
Vic Sizemore
Kirby Anne Snell
Kaye Spivey
Alex Stolis
Jane Stuart


Constance Sayers
Constance Sayers received her master of arts in English from George Mason University and graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor of arts in writing from the University of Pittsburgh. She attended The Bread Loaf Writers Conference where she studied with Charles Baxter and Lauren Groff. Her short stories have appeared in Souvenir and Amazing Graces: Yet Another Collection of Fiction by Washington Area Women. A media executive at Atlantic Media (publisher of The Atlantic), she’s twice been named one of the “Top 100 Media People in America” by Folio and was included in their list of “Top Women in Media.” She has completed a rural noir novel, Rustic Mournings.


Janette Schafer
Janette Schafer is a classically trained opera singer who has performed as a soloist for opera companies, theater houses, universities, and orchestras throughout the United States and Europe. As a writer, her poems, nonfiction articles, and stories have appeared in over 30 literary journals, magazines, and newspapers. A collection of her poetry, Other Names and Places, was published in 2004. Her play, Mad Virginia, on the suicide of Virginia Woolf, recently debuted in Pittsburgh, produced by OM Productions. Janette is also Founder and Artist Director of aMUSEd artist cooperative. Lastly, she sings with the most fun groups of people you could hope to meet, in two local Pittsburgh garage bands: One O’Clock Monday and The Middle Ages. She lives in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, with her husband and cats. Find her at operajan.xanga.com.


 
Angie Jeffreys Schomp
Angie Jeffreys Schomp lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, and has been writing poetry since the age of six. She studied English Literature and Creative Writing at Hollins University. She also studied linguistics at University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, for one lucky semester. Angie now cares for her father’s health full time. Since college, she has worked for Open Hand Publishing, LLC, tended the flocks at a public school after-school care program, privately nannied for a couple years, and chosen to spend most of her spare time gardening and hanging with her dog. Strangely, this timeline lends itself to lots of the good, bad, sometimes the ugly, too, in writing.


Robert Schuler
Robert Schuler is an Emeritus Professor of English, retired after 45 years of teaching. He is now studying flowers, birds, the wind, history, life. And continuing to write. His most recent book of poems, The Book of Jeweled Visions, is available from MWPH Books. He lives in Menomonie, Wisconsin, and is now at work on several more collections of poems. Find him on Poets & Writers.







Claudia Serea
Claudia Serea is a Romanian-born poet who immigrated to the U.S. in 1995. Her poems and translations have appeared in 5 a.m., Meridian, Harpur Palate, Word Riot, The Red Wheelbarrow, Apple Valley Review, and many others. She was nominated two times for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She is the author of Angels & Beasts (Phoenicia Publishing, Canada, 2012), A Dirt Road Hangs from the Sky (8th House Publishing, Canada), and the chapbooks: The System (Cold Hub Press, New Zealand, 2012), With the Strike of a Match (White Knuckles Press, 2011), and Eternity’s Orthography (Finishing Line Press, 2007). She co-edited and co-translated The Vanishing Point That Whistles: An Anthology of Contemporary Romanian Poetry (Talisman Publishing, 2011), and translated from the Romanian: Adina Dabija’s Beautybeast (Northshore Press, 2012).


Neil Serven
Neil Serven lives and works as a dictionary editor in Western Massachusetts. His stories have appeared in Washington Square, Beloit Fiction Journal, Ayris, Cobalt, Atticus Review, and elsewhere. Find him at neilserven.com.










Denis Sheehan
Denis Sheehan lives in Boston, Massachusetts, and has been the editor/publisher of Askew Reviews zine for about 15 years … and counting. His junk has appeared in Chiron Review, Gonzo Parenting, Gloom Cupboard, Astoria, Jersey Beat, In Between Altered States, AVN Magazine, and others, aside from his mother’s fridge. He is the author of A Nobody’s Nothings, The Longsberry Letters, and Track Wreckard 1-14. Unfortunately, more books are on the way. Find him at boneprint.com.






 
Eric Shonkwiler
Eric Shonkwiler has had writing appear in Los Angeles Review of Books, The Millions, Fiddleblack, [PANK] Magazine, Midwestern Gothic, and elsewhere. He was born and raised in Ohio, received his MFA from University of California Riverside as a Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellow, was selected as a New River Gorge Winter Writer-in-Residence in West Virginia, and has lived and worked in every contiguous U.S. time zone. His debut novel, Above All Men (MG Press, 2014), won the Coil Book Award for Best Book in the Independent Press, was chosen as a Midwest Connections Pick by the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association, and was included as a Best Book of the Year selection on multiple lists, including The Next Best Book Club’s and Chicago Book Review’s. His second novel, 8th Street Power & Light, was released by MG Press in October 2016. He is the winner of the Luminaire Award for Best Prose, was a finalist in the Best Small Fictions Prize and Pen 2 Paper Fiction Prize, and has formerly served as Regional Editor for LARB, a reader for [PANK], and Editor-in-Chief and Fiction Editor for Crate Magazine. Find him at ericshonkwiler.com and at @eshonkwiler on Twitter.


 
Jon Sindell
Jon Sindell writes prose of every length, essays, and humor. His long-story collection, Family Happiness, was published in 2016; his flash-fiction collection, The Roadkill Collection, in 2014. Jon practiced law for twenty-plus years, with an emphasis on civil rights litigation, and is now a full-time personal humanities tutor. He curates the reading series Rolling Writers, and lives in San Francisco with his wife and near his fledglings. Much of his writing appears at jonsindell.com. [Photo by Kenneth Finberg]



Vic Sizemore
Vic Sizemore’s short fiction and nonfiction are published or forthcoming in StoryQuarterly, Southern Humanities Review, storySouth, Connecticut Review, Blue Mesa Review, Sou’wester, PANK Magazine, Silk Road Review, Atticus Review, Reed Magazine, Superstition Review, Entropy, Eclectica, Ghost Town, and elsewhere. Excerpts from his short story cycle, Eternity Rowboat, are published or forthcoming in Connecticut Review, Portland Review, Drunken Boat, Prick of the Spindle, Burrow Press Review, Pithead Chapel, and Letters. Sizemore’s fiction has won the New Millennium Writings Award, and been nominated for Best American Nonrequired Reading and two Pushcart Prizes. You can find Vic at his website.


Kirby Anne Snell
Kirby Anne Snell has had poems published in Crab Orchard Review, Flyway, Measure, and Think Journal. She received her MFA in Poetry from the University of North Carolina–Wilmington. A Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Micronesia, 2009-2011), Kirby currently lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and works as an editor. Find her on Twitter.







Kaye Spivey
Kaye Spivey is a writer who lives in the Pacific Northwest with her fiancé and two cats, Pi and Mulan. Her roaming lifestyle has inspired much of her writing and helped shape her appreciation of close friends and family. She first published her poetry chapbook, An Isolated Storm, in 2015. Her writing has been previously published in several literary journals including Written River, Sterling Mag, Ghostlight, The Penwood Review, Northwest Boulevard, and For Books’ Sake. Find her at kayespivey.wordpress.com.





Alex Stolis
Alex Stolis lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and has had poems published in numerous journals. He is the author of Justice for All (Conversation Paperpress), a chapbook based on the last words of Texas Death Row inmates, and A Cabal of Angels (Red Bird Chapbooks), a collaborative chapbook with artist Susan Solomon. An e-chapbook, From an iPod found in Canal Park; Duluth, MN, was also recently released by Right Hand Pointing. He has been the recipient of five Pushcart Nominations.






Jane Stuart
Jane Stuart lives in a family home in Greenup, Kentucky, that is now in the middle of a nature preserve. Her writing interest is poetry—traditional forms (cinquain, sonnet, villanelle, haiku, tanka) and some free verse. She enjoys making bread, doing counted cross-stitch, making cross-stitch quilt tops, and observing nature.






William Taylor, Jr.
Travis Turner


William Taylor, Jr.
William Taylor, Jr., currently lives and writes in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco. His books of poetry include Words for Songs Never Written and The Hunger Season. An Age of Monsters, his first book of fiction, is available from Epic Rites Press, along with his latest book of poetry, Broken When We Got Here, and The Blood of a Tourist, a collection of new poems, is available from Sunnyoutside Press. Find him on Facebook.






Travis Turner
Travis Turner writes fiction and teaches literature at the University of Alabama. Son of the Blackbelt. Lover of good bourbon and better storytelling. Find him on Facebook.









John Vicary


John Vicary
John Vicary has been a contributor to more than sixty compendiums in his career and is a Pushcart-nominated author. He is the submissions editor at Bedlam Publishing and also co-founded the editing business The LetterWorks. He enjoys playing piano and lives in rural Michigan with his family. You can read more of John’s work at his website.







Holly M. Wendt
Donovan White
Rodney Wilhite
Laura Elizabeth Woollett
Amy Wright


 
Holly M. Wendt
Holly M. Wendt is an assistant professor of English at Lebanon Valley College, where she directs the college’s visiting writers’ series, “Writing: A Life,” and teaches creative writing, medieval studies, and sports literature courses. Her writing has appeared in Barrelhouse, Gulf Stream, Memorious, The Rumpus, and elsewhere, and she has received fellowships from the Jentel Foundation and the American Antiquarian Society. She is an editor for The Classical and a contributor to Baseball Prospectus’ “Short Relief” column. Holly can be found on Twitter and at her website.


Donovan White
Donovan White made a living as a carpenter while enrolled in a Creative Writing program and wrote short fiction on nights and weekends. Then, he worked as an editor and wrote nothing but headlines and captions. Now, he manages software development and writes poetry on nights and weekends and on breaks in his workday commute. Whenever he starts feeling mature, or smart, or sophisticated, sooner or later he remembers that he’s had only a few great loves in his life, and three of them were dogs. He lives in Lowell, Massachusetts, and his work has surfaced in Silenced Press, Nibble, Word Riot, Poiesis Review, and Durable Goods, among others. Find him on Facebook.



Rodney Wilhite
Rodney Wilhite is a poet and educator living in Fayetteville, Arkansas. His poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from Cream City Review, Pleiades, Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review, Puritan, and elsewhere.










 
Laura Elizabeth Woollett
Laura Elizabeth Woollett is a Perth-born author, editor, and aspiring screenwriter, living in Melbourne, Australia. Her first novel, The Wood of Suicides, was published in 2014 by The Permanent Press, and her short story collection, The Love of a Bad Man, was published in August 2016 by Scribe Australia. Since 2012, she has been a fiction editor for Voiceworks. Find her at her website.




Amy Wright
Amy Wright is the author of two poetry collections and five chapbooks. Her work has appeared in Kenyon Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, DIAGRAM, Tupelo Quarterly, and Brevity. Find her online at awrightawright.com.






Paula Anne Yup


Paula Anne Yup
Paula Anne Yup has written poetry since her childhood in Arizona, and later at Occidental College; her MFA is from the Vermont College program. Her 100+ poems have appeared in anthologies, including, Feather, Fins & Fur, Earth Beneath, Sky Beyond, A Kiss Is Still a Kiss, What Book!?, and journals, including Earth’s Daughters, Off the Coast, California Quarterly, and Mid-American Review. Her first book, Making a Clean Space in the Sky, was recently published by Evening Street Press. She has lived in the Republic of the Marshall Islands for a decade and sometimes gets homesick, even in paradise.


Elizabeth Zuckerman


Elizabeth Zuckerman
Elizabeth Zuckerman has had work published in Timeless Tales Magazine, the Pink Narcissus Press anthology Rapunzel’s Daughters, and NonBinary Review. Her history-teacher parents were thrilled when she learned to enjoy battlefields and historical markers. She lives in Trenton, New Jersey, where she blogs about myths in her free time. Find her on Twitter.







Cynthia Anderson
“Queen of the Mist” poem

Leah Angstman
“Best Books of 2016” booklist; “Our Favorite Libraries” booklist; “Our Favorite Small Presses” booklist; “Black Writers Who Influenced Us” booklist; “Our 13 Scariest Books for Friday the 13th” booklist; “Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2015” booklist; “Best Books of 2014” booklist; A Quiet Learning Curve review; Teaching Metaphors review; The Zoo, a Going (The Tropic House) review; It Is Winter review; Marymark Give-Out Sheet Series: February 2013 review; ZYX #63 review; More Than the Alley review; Café Rosetta review; Durable Goods #79 & #80 review; Suicide Porn review; From the Marrow #79 review; Finding Solace in the Wind review; Media Junky #12 review; Facebook review; Two Torch Singers review; I knew Bukowski like you knew a rare leaf review; Detective Stories review; Must #5: Deviations review; Ko IV review; Norman Cristofoli interview; Price Reduced Again review; Falling Up review; Beyond the Cliffs review; Nothing Unrequited Here review; Behind the Rhododendron review; Vishnu: The Train Ride to You review; 37 Psalms from the Badlands review; Labour of Love, Vol. 32 review; Nibble #8 review; Falling Forward review; Cokefishing in Alpha Beat Soup, July 2009 review; From the Marrow #74 review; R. Emolo Give-Out Sheets, June 2009 review; For Dave Church, Poet: A Tribute #3 in Memoriam review; It’s Not Enough of Elvis review; For All These Wretched, Beautiful, & Insignificant Things So Uselessly & Carelessly Destroyed … review

Luke Maguire Armstrong
“Best Books of 2014” booklist

Rilla Askew
“A Secret History: The Tulsa Race Riot” essay

Charles Bane, Jr.
“I Meet Geronimo” short story; “Summer of the Horseshoe Crab” short story

Schuler Benson
“The Poor Man’s Guide to an Affordable, Painless Suicide” short story; “A Hindershot of Calion” short story

Mike Bernicchi
“we move as dust” poem

Ryan W. Bradley
“Best Books of 2014” booklist

Sean Brendan-Brown
“Titanic” poem

Anthony Breznican
“Best Books of 2014” booklist

Mary Buchinger
“vii. (the leviathan)” poem

Jared A. Carnie
“Reign” poem

Kevin Catalano
Wendy C. Ortiz interview; JJ Koczan interview; “Our Favorite Poets” booklist; Joe Samuel Starnes interview; “Our Favorite Small Presses” booklist; xTx interview; “Women Writers Who Influenced Us” booklist; “Black Writers Who Influenced Us” booklist; “Our 13 Scariest Books for Friday the 13th” booklist; Nick Ripatrazone interview; “Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2015” booklist

Alan Catlin
“Ernest Hemingway and Hugh Casey, the Artist and the Ballplayer” poem

CEE
Transmitter interview

Leland Cheuk
King of the Worlds review; Single Stroke Seven review

Laura Citino
Be Cool review; “Women Writers Who Influenced Us” booklist; “Black Writers Who Influenced Us” booklist; “Our 13 Scariest Books for Friday the 13th” booklist; “Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2015” booklist

Sarah Cole
“Keep Working on Love” essay

Britta Coleman
“Lonesome Dove and Literary Love” essay

Christina Elaine Collins
“The Romanov Family Portrait” poem

Sheldon Lee Compton
“Best Books of 2014” booklist

Aubrie Cox
“A Haiku Primer” craft essay

Daniel Crocker
Transmitter interview

Justin Lawrence Daugherty
“What World We Build after All That’s Burned Away” short story

Richard Derus
“5 Novels to Be Thankful Came out in 2016” booklist; “5 Novels by 21st Century Warriors” booklist; “5 Alternate History Novels about American Politics” booklist; “5 Novels about Immigrants and a Damn Good Question for Donald Trump” booklist; “3 Nonfiction Ice Stories to Remind You of How Winter Used to Be” booklist; “5 Snowy Escapes from Summer Climate Change” booklist

Angele Ellis
Transmitter interview

Jonathon Engels
Transmitter interview

Steve Essick
“Best Books of 2014” booklist

Casey Francis
“Best Books of 2014” booklist

Shira Glassman
“My Lady Crushes in Fiction” booklist

Margaryta Golovchenko
The Dragon Behind the Glass review; Dirty Pretty Things review; Blood Season review; Wasps in a Golden Dream Hum a Strange Music review; Don’t Let It End Like This Tell Them I Said Something review; The Hatred of Poetry review; Bodies Vs. review; Ghosts Still Walking review; Pond review; Loneliness Is the Machine That Drives the World review

Andrei Guruianu
“Cause Célèbre” poem

Joel Hans
“Our Lacks, in the Shape of Fairy Tales” essay

Natalie S. Harnett
“Best Books of 2014” booklist

Trish Harris
“Best Books of 2014” booklist

Smith Henderson
“Best Books of 2014” booklist

Lori Hettler
KMA Sullivan interview; Nic Esposito interview; Adam Robinson interview; Tara Cheesman interview; Joseph G. Peterson interview; Z. Rider interview; “Our Favorite Poets” booklist; “Our Favorite Libraries” booklist; “Our Favorite Small Presses” booklist; “Our 13 Scariest Books for Friday the 13th” booklist; “Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2015” booklist; “Best Books of 2014” booklist

Julia Hy
Battle Scars review; Sister, Blood and Bone review; Unexplained Fevers review; “In Celebration of Tolkien Reading Day” essay; The Insomnia Poems review; The Intimacy Archives review; The Roadkill Collection review; The Imagination of Lewis Carroll review; The Abortionist’s Daughter review; The Bones of Us review; How We Are Human review; Shenanigans! review; “Top Five Books That Became Movies in 2014” booklist; “She Moved and Didn’t Take Anything with Her” poem; “Our 13 Scariest Books for Friday the 13th” booklist; “Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2015” booklist

Jackie James
“Best Books of 2014” booklist

Amanda Jean
“Growing Up Reading Queer: The Legacy of Tragic Endings” essay; “Black Writers Who Influenced Us” booklist; “Our 13 Scariest Books for Friday the 13th” booklist; “Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2015” booklist

H. R. H. Kane
“Words Like Water” poem

Noel King
“Sewing” poem

Al Kratz
“My Favorite Novels of the Year: Staff Picks” booklist; Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song review; 8th Street Power & Light review; The Fugue review; “Ghosts” short story; “Our Favorite Poets” booklist; “Everybody’s Got Something to Hide” poem; “Our Favorite Small Presses” booklist; Participants review; Find Me review; “Women Writers Who Influenced Us” booklist; Above All Men review; My Very End of the Universe review; “Black Writers Who Influenced Us” booklist; “Our 13 Scariest Books for Friday the 13th” booklist; The Hook and the Haymaker review; “Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2015” booklist; Nobody Special, The Death of Johnny Salinger review; Stay Close, Little Ghost review; “Best Books of 2014” booklist

Stephanie Liden
“Inheritance” short story

Lyn Lifshin
“My Father Tells Us about Leaving Vilnius” essay

Jason McCall
“Free Comic Book Day Is about the Community” poem

David M. Morton
“Best Books of 2014” booklist

Amanda Mourning
“Best Books of 2014” booklist

Yasmin Khan Murgai
“Out of the dust, light and power” short story

Justin Muschong
“The Measure of Success” essay

Normal
“the thing is, you see” poem; “mob of one” poem

David Olimpio
The Zone of Interest review; “When It Comes to E-Readers, I’m Happy to Be Nature’s Guinea Pig” essay; “Best Books of 2014” booklist

Diane Payne
“Walking” short story

Steph Post
Anthony Breznican interview; “Zombies Don’t Care about Your Gender: The Badass Women of The Walking Dead” essay; “Best Books of 2014” booklist

Misti Rainwater-Lites
“Our Favorite Poets” booklist; “Our Favorite Libraries” booklist; “Shalom” poem; “Our Favorite Small Presses” booklist; “Women Writers Who Influenced Us” booklist; “Black Writers Who Influenced Us” booklist; “Our 13 Scariest Books for Friday the 13th” booklist; “Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2015” booklist

Ashley Ruggirello
“The Ever-Evolving Cycle: On REUTS Publications” spotlight

Constance Sayers
“Tennessee” short story

Laura Ellen Scott
“Bright and Shiny: My Pitmad Success Story” essay; The Juliet audio excerpt

Eric Shonkwiler
The Good Divide review; Bottomland review; Gesell Dome review; “Our Favorite Small Presses” booklist; Above All Men audiobook excerpt; Winterswim review; “Black Writers Who Influenced Us” booklist; “Our 13 Scariest Books for Friday the 13th” booklist; “Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2015” booklist; Chindi short story; A Tree Born Crooked review; “Best Books of 2014” booklist; Sunlight at Midnight, Darkness at Noon review; An Age of Monsters review; Sweetgrass review; But Our Princess Is in Another Castle review; Liliane’s Balcony review; North Dixie Highway review; At the End of Time review

Pat Siebel
“Best Books of 2014” booklist

Jon Sindell
“Emerald Beauties” short story

Vic Sizemore
“Riders on the Storm” short story

Kaye Spivey
“Herding Autumn” poem

Sarah Stockton
“Best Books of 2014” booklist

Cetoria Tomberlin
Fairytales for Wilde Girls review; Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals review; Retreating Aggressively into the Dark review; Ruby True review; Clothed, Female Figure review; The Proof of the Honey review; “Our Favorite Poets” booklist; “Synesthesia” poem; “Our Favorite Small Presses” booklist; “Women Writers Who Influenced Us” booklist; “Black Writers Who Influenced Us” booklist; “Our 13 Scariest Books for Friday the 13th” booklist; “Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2015” booklist; “Best Books of 2014” booklist

Nicole Tone
Origins of the Universe and What It All Means review; “Our Favorite Poets” booklist; “Our Favorite Small Presses” booklist; “Women Writers Who Influenced Us” booklist; Agapornis Swinderniana review; “Our 13 Scariest Books for Friday the 13th” booklist; “Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2015” booklist; A Deep & Gorgeous Thirst review; John Berryman Is Dead review; “Best Debuts of 2014” booklist; “Best Books of 2014” booklist

Nathaniel Tower
“What to Do When Your Published Stories Disappear” essay

Lex Williford
“Cherries or Cherry Bombs: Balancing Risk & Understatement in Flash Fiction” essay

Laura Elizabeth Woollett
“Eva (Excerpt: Part 1, Munich)” short story

Amy Wright
“Nobody plays in firehydrant fountains but Tegs Turpin” poem

Theodora Ziolkowski
“The Strangest Things Have Yet to Come: Meditations on Home and Control, Preservation and Endurance in Fairy Tales” essay

Maria Zubair
“Best Books of 2014” booklist



This authors listing currently only includes authors with work published in journals or books from our post-2013 paperback catalog and from our online journal, The Coil. We are in the process of updating our backcatalog and converting all our pre-2013 publications to paperback and ebook. Pre-2013 chapbook authors will be added as their updated print publications become available. Authors from previous online journals will be added as their work is moved over to The Coil.