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Chaim ben Avram (Joshua Lazarus) is a poet from Philadelphia. A graduate of Temple University (BA) and the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City (MA), Lazarus currently attends Sarah Lawrence’s MFA-Writing program. He lives and writes in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. You can find his most recent poetry online at the Boiler Journal and printed in LUMINA Volume XII. He welcomes correspondence and can be reached at repairingtheword@gmail.com.
C. Wade Bentley teaches writing at Salt Lake Community College. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Cimarron Review, Best New Poets 2007, New Ohio Review, Western Humanities Review, Subtropics, and Rattle, among others.
J. Adam Collins was born and raised in the foothills of West Virginia and relocated to Portland, Oregon, in 2010. He can be found performing at various open mics and spoken word events around the city, including the Portland Poetry Slam and the Stone Soup reading series. Having recently completed his Master in Book Publishing with Portland State University, Adam is currently an associate editor with Night Owls Press, based in San Francisco. Print and online publications include, but are not limited to Red Ochre Literature, Floating Bridge Press Review #5, Pathos Literary Magazine, and Cactus Heart Press.
Colin Dodds grew up in Massachusetts and completed his education at The New School in New York City. Norman Mailer wrote that Dodds’ novel The Last Bad Job showed “something that very few writers have; a species of inner talent that owes very little to other people.” Dodds’ novels What Smiled at Him and Another
Broken Wizard have been widely acclaimed by critics and readers alike. His screenplay, Refreshment – A Tragedy, was named a semi-finalist in 2010 American Zoetrope Contest. Two books of Dodds’ poetry--The Last Man on the Moon and The Blue Blueprint—are available from Medium Rare Publishing. Dodds’ writing has also appeared in a number of periodicals, including The Wall Street Journal Online, Folio, Explosion-Proof,Block Magazine, The Architect’s Newspaper, The Main Street Rag,The Reno News & Review and Lungfull! Magazine. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife Samantha.
Mitch Grabois has poetry and short fiction that has appeared in over seventy literary magazines, most recently The Examined Life, Memoir Journal, and Haggard and Halloo. His novel, “Two-Headed Dog” was published in April by Dirt e-books, founded by NY agent Gary Heidt.
Nathaniel Lee Hansen has had poetry and fiction appear in such publications as Rose Red Review, Slurve, Bluestem, Bryant Literary Review, The Evansville Review, and South Dakota Review, among others. He is the founder and editor of the online literary quarterly, The Blue Bear Review. He also serves as the editor of Windhover: A Journal of Christian Literature.
William Ogden Haynes is a poet and author of short fiction from Alabama who was born in Michigan and
grew up a military brat. His book of poetry entitled Points of Interest appeared in 2012 and is available on Amazon. He has also published nearly forty poems and short stories in literary journals and his work has been anthologized multiple times. In a prior life he taught speech-language pathology at Auburn University and authored six major professional textbooks.
Ryan Hilary was born in Ireland 29 years ago. He was raised in London and New York. He has a B.A. in English from Vassar College, and an M.A. in Systematic Theology from Union Theological Seminary in NYC. He is currently occupied as a peer worker for the Western Massachusetts Learning Consortium, where he is a small part of a large movement to reimagine how society identifies and categorizes mental illness. He has had poems and/or fiction published by 40z Bachelors, Junk, The Wilderness Review, Vox Poetica, BlazeVOX, Midway Journal, and Breath and Shadow Journal. Feel free to check out adimdemocracyofghosts.blogspot.com, or email him directly at diaryofawriter2.0@gmail.com.
Emilio Iasiello is the author of the nonfiction book “Chasing the Green”. He has published short fiction and poetry in numerous academic and literary journals such as Buffalo Spree Magazine, The Larcom Review, Oasis, New York Review,Iron Horse Literary Review, The California Quarterly, The Washington Review, and The Wilshire Review, among others. An avid screenwriter, he has optioned several screenplays five of which have been produced into independent films. He currently lives in Virginia with his wife and beautiful daughter.
John McKernan is now retired after teaching 200 years at Marshall University. He lives – mostly – in West Virginia where he edits ABZ Press. His most recent book is a selected poems “Resurrection of the Dust”. He has published poems in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review, Field, and elsewhere.
Toti O’Brien is a poet, artist and performer born in Rome, Italy and living in L. A. She has published two anthologies of short stories (“Africa”, 1990 and “Reversed Memories”, 2004), a collection of essays (“Lanterna Magica”, 2001) and two children books in her native language. She has contributed for about a decade to many Italian underground magazines, in print and online. She is quite present on the L.A. poetic scene, in features and open readings. Some of her poetry (in English) has been published in the US (Womb Magazine, San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly) and in Europe (11/9 Webstreaming Poetry, Sveske Literary Magazine, Knjizevne novine Literary Gazette).
Richard King Perkins II is a state-sponsored advocate for residents in long-term care facilities. He has a wife, Vickie and a daughter, Sage. His work has appeared in hundreds of publications including Prime Mincer, Sheepshead Review, Sierra Nevada Review, Fox Cry, Prairie Winds and The Red Cedar Review.
Steve Prusky is a native of Detroit. He has been a resident of Las Vegas for the past twenty-seven years. His fiction has been featured in Flash Fiction Offensive, Out of The Gutter, Whistling Fire, Foundling Review, Orion Headless, Eunoia Review, The Legendary, and others.
John Richmond has “wandered” for a good portion of life- seen many things and lived with many people. Mostly, they were females, but one male stands out because the violent countryside where they shared the run-down ante-bellum house, necessitated sleeping with a pistol. (Though there were no “women with guns,” there was one particularly irate father who after downing a couple of bottles of bourbon with his wife- we’re talking rural Georgia- decided to take the pistol that sat on the table between them and go shoot “poor ole” John Richmond. Fortunately for John, the mother got to the gun first and shot her husband [she liked John].) Recently- and safely- John Richmond is “exiled” in his basement office where he writes and discusses the state of the world with his coonhound buddy- Roma.
Miriam Sagan is the author of twenty-five books, including the poetry collection MAP OF THE LOST (University of New Mexico Press.) She founded and directs the creative writing program at Santa Fe Community College. Her blog is Miriam's Well (http://miriamswell.wordpress.com). In 2010, she won the Santa Fe Mayor's award for Excellence in the Arts.
Terry Sanville lives in San Luis Obispo, California with his artist-poet wife (his in-house editor) and one plump cat (his in-house critic). He writes full time, producing short stories, essays, poems, an occasional play, and novels. Since 2005, his short stories have been accepted by more than 170 literary and commercial
journals, magazines, and anthologies including the Picayune Literary Review, Birmingham Arts Journal, and The MacGuffin. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for his story “The Sweeper.” Terry is a retired urban planner and an accomplished jazz and blues guitarist – who once played with a symphony orchestra backing up jazz legend George Shearing.
Peter L. Scacco has poetry that has appeared in The Circle Review, Pirene’s Fountain, Rose & Thorn Journal, Schuylkill Valley Journal, and Shadow Road Quarterly, among others. He is the author of the illustrated poetry chapbooks “Chiaroscuro” and “A Quiet Place”, and the illustrator of “A Few Good Greek Myths” by Michael O’Brien. His woodcuts have appeared in numerous publications in print and online. He has lived and worked in New York, Paris, Tokyo, and Brussels, and he now resides in Austin, Texas. His art can be seen at www.scaccowoodcuts.com.
Matthew A. Taub is a writer and lawyer living in Brooklyn, NY. His work has appeared in Absinthe Revival, The Weekenders, and Foliate Oak Literary Magazine. He is currently working on his first novel, “DEATH OF THE DYING CITY”, a panorama of New York City’s rapid gentrification and multiple ethnic enclaves through rotating character-driven vignettes, all of which are connected by an imperiled lawyer-protagonist. Excerpts appear at www.delusionalaspiringwriter.com.
C. Wade Bentley teaches writing at Salt Lake Community College. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Cimarron Review, Best New Poets 2007, New Ohio Review, Western Humanities Review, Subtropics, and Rattle, among others.
J. Adam Collins was born and raised in the foothills of West Virginia and relocated to Portland, Oregon, in 2010. He can be found performing at various open mics and spoken word events around the city, including the Portland Poetry Slam and the Stone Soup reading series. Having recently completed his Master in Book Publishing with Portland State University, Adam is currently an associate editor with Night Owls Press, based in San Francisco. Print and online publications include, but are not limited to Red Ochre Literature, Floating Bridge Press Review #5, Pathos Literary Magazine, and Cactus Heart Press.
Colin Dodds grew up in Massachusetts and completed his education at The New School in New York City. Norman Mailer wrote that Dodds’ novel The Last Bad Job showed “something that very few writers have; a species of inner talent that owes very little to other people.” Dodds’ novels What Smiled at Him and Another
Broken Wizard have been widely acclaimed by critics and readers alike. His screenplay, Refreshment – A Tragedy, was named a semi-finalist in 2010 American Zoetrope Contest. Two books of Dodds’ poetry--The Last Man on the Moon and The Blue Blueprint—are available from Medium Rare Publishing. Dodds’ writing has also appeared in a number of periodicals, including The Wall Street Journal Online, Folio, Explosion-Proof,Block Magazine, The Architect’s Newspaper, The Main Street Rag,The Reno News & Review and Lungfull! Magazine. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife Samantha.
Mitch Grabois has poetry and short fiction that has appeared in over seventy literary magazines, most recently The Examined Life, Memoir Journal, and Haggard and Halloo. His novel, “Two-Headed Dog” was published in April by Dirt e-books, founded by NY agent Gary Heidt.
Nathaniel Lee Hansen has had poetry and fiction appear in such publications as Rose Red Review, Slurve, Bluestem, Bryant Literary Review, The Evansville Review, and South Dakota Review, among others. He is the founder and editor of the online literary quarterly, The Blue Bear Review. He also serves as the editor of Windhover: A Journal of Christian Literature.
William Ogden Haynes is a poet and author of short fiction from Alabama who was born in Michigan and
grew up a military brat. His book of poetry entitled Points of Interest appeared in 2012 and is available on Amazon. He has also published nearly forty poems and short stories in literary journals and his work has been anthologized multiple times. In a prior life he taught speech-language pathology at Auburn University and authored six major professional textbooks.
Ryan Hilary was born in Ireland 29 years ago. He was raised in London and New York. He has a B.A. in English from Vassar College, and an M.A. in Systematic Theology from Union Theological Seminary in NYC. He is currently occupied as a peer worker for the Western Massachusetts Learning Consortium, where he is a small part of a large movement to reimagine how society identifies and categorizes mental illness. He has had poems and/or fiction published by 40z Bachelors, Junk, The Wilderness Review, Vox Poetica, BlazeVOX, Midway Journal, and Breath and Shadow Journal. Feel free to check out adimdemocracyofghosts.blogspot.com, or email him directly at diaryofawriter2.0@gmail.com.
Emilio Iasiello is the author of the nonfiction book “Chasing the Green”. He has published short fiction and poetry in numerous academic and literary journals such as Buffalo Spree Magazine, The Larcom Review, Oasis, New York Review,Iron Horse Literary Review, The California Quarterly, The Washington Review, and The Wilshire Review, among others. An avid screenwriter, he has optioned several screenplays five of which have been produced into independent films. He currently lives in Virginia with his wife and beautiful daughter.
John McKernan is now retired after teaching 200 years at Marshall University. He lives – mostly – in West Virginia where he edits ABZ Press. His most recent book is a selected poems “Resurrection of the Dust”. He has published poems in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review, Field, and elsewhere.
Toti O’Brien is a poet, artist and performer born in Rome, Italy and living in L. A. She has published two anthologies of short stories (“Africa”, 1990 and “Reversed Memories”, 2004), a collection of essays (“Lanterna Magica”, 2001) and two children books in her native language. She has contributed for about a decade to many Italian underground magazines, in print and online. She is quite present on the L.A. poetic scene, in features and open readings. Some of her poetry (in English) has been published in the US (Womb Magazine, San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly) and in Europe (11/9 Webstreaming Poetry, Sveske Literary Magazine, Knjizevne novine Literary Gazette).
Richard King Perkins II is a state-sponsored advocate for residents in long-term care facilities. He has a wife, Vickie and a daughter, Sage. His work has appeared in hundreds of publications including Prime Mincer, Sheepshead Review, Sierra Nevada Review, Fox Cry, Prairie Winds and The Red Cedar Review.
Steve Prusky is a native of Detroit. He has been a resident of Las Vegas for the past twenty-seven years. His fiction has been featured in Flash Fiction Offensive, Out of The Gutter, Whistling Fire, Foundling Review, Orion Headless, Eunoia Review, The Legendary, and others.
John Richmond has “wandered” for a good portion of life- seen many things and lived with many people. Mostly, they were females, but one male stands out because the violent countryside where they shared the run-down ante-bellum house, necessitated sleeping with a pistol. (Though there were no “women with guns,” there was one particularly irate father who after downing a couple of bottles of bourbon with his wife- we’re talking rural Georgia- decided to take the pistol that sat on the table between them and go shoot “poor ole” John Richmond. Fortunately for John, the mother got to the gun first and shot her husband [she liked John].) Recently- and safely- John Richmond is “exiled” in his basement office where he writes and discusses the state of the world with his coonhound buddy- Roma.
Miriam Sagan is the author of twenty-five books, including the poetry collection MAP OF THE LOST (University of New Mexico Press.) She founded and directs the creative writing program at Santa Fe Community College. Her blog is Miriam's Well (http://miriamswell.wordpress.com). In 2010, she won the Santa Fe Mayor's award for Excellence in the Arts.
Terry Sanville lives in San Luis Obispo, California with his artist-poet wife (his in-house editor) and one plump cat (his in-house critic). He writes full time, producing short stories, essays, poems, an occasional play, and novels. Since 2005, his short stories have been accepted by more than 170 literary and commercial
journals, magazines, and anthologies including the Picayune Literary Review, Birmingham Arts Journal, and The MacGuffin. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for his story “The Sweeper.” Terry is a retired urban planner and an accomplished jazz and blues guitarist – who once played with a symphony orchestra backing up jazz legend George Shearing.
Peter L. Scacco has poetry that has appeared in The Circle Review, Pirene’s Fountain, Rose & Thorn Journal, Schuylkill Valley Journal, and Shadow Road Quarterly, among others. He is the author of the illustrated poetry chapbooks “Chiaroscuro” and “A Quiet Place”, and the illustrator of “A Few Good Greek Myths” by Michael O’Brien. His woodcuts have appeared in numerous publications in print and online. He has lived and worked in New York, Paris, Tokyo, and Brussels, and he now resides in Austin, Texas. His art can be seen at www.scaccowoodcuts.com.
Matthew A. Taub is a writer and lawyer living in Brooklyn, NY. His work has appeared in Absinthe Revival, The Weekenders, and Foliate Oak Literary Magazine. He is currently working on his first novel, “DEATH OF THE DYING CITY”, a panorama of New York City’s rapid gentrification and multiple ethnic enclaves through rotating character-driven vignettes, all of which are connected by an imperiled lawyer-protagonist. Excerpts appear at www.delusionalaspiringwriter.com.
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WINTER 2012 VOLUME 1 NUMBER 4
Tony Burfield lives with his wife in the Rocky Mountains and works at the Boulder Public Library. His poetry has recently appeared in the Lilliput Review, Progenitor, and Occupoetry. His collection Canid won the Green Fuse Press 2010 chapbook contest.
Toby F. Coley completed his PhD in Rhetoric and Writing from Bowling Green State University (OH) in 2011 and now teaches courses in Rhetoric and Composition, British Literature, Advanced Composition, and Advanced Rhetoric at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. His research investigates the connections between writing, ethics, digital media, and religion. His creative writing explores many things and he has published poetry and short stories in various outlets including the Fiction Week Literary Review and The Windhover: a Journal of Christian Literature.
Joachim Frank, a German-born scientist and writer, moved in 1975 to Albany, New York and recently (2008) relocated to New York City. He took writing classes with William Kennedy, Steven Millhauser, Eugene Garber, and Jayne Ann Philipps. He has published several short stories and prose poems in Lost and Found Times, The Agent, Inkblot, Heidelberg Review, Groundswell, Peer Glass, and Open Mic, all print. He wrote three novels, still unpublished. Several pieces of short fiction and poetry were published online, by elimae, 3711 Atlantic, Cezanne's Carrot, Brilliant, Eclectica, Offcourse, The Noneuclidean Cafe, Ghoti Magazine, Duck and Herring Co. Pocket Field Guide, Hamilton Stone Review, and Raving Dove. Bartleby Snopes just accepted one of his short stories for their new project on Post-Experimentalism, to come out this summer. His work as a scientist (Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University) has been published in over 200 peer-reviewed articles and six books.
Christine Haverington has a bachelor’s degree in English from Williams College and a doctorate in English literature from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She teaches ancient literature, writing, and ESL. She has published books and articles on a variety of topics and has been a closet poet all her life. Christine, her partner, sculptor Stephen Federico, and their spaniel Charlie reside on Aquidneck Island in Rhode Island.
Sandra Kolankiewicz has poems and stories that have recently appeared, or been accepted by, Gargoyle, Per Contra, Solo Novo, New Plains, Monkeybicycle, Cortland Review, 2River, Anomalous, Inertia, and SNReview. Turning Inside Won the Fall Black River Prize at Black Lawrence. Blue Eyes Don't Cry won the Hackney Award for the Novel. I hope you like these poems.
George Korolog is an active member of The Stanford Writers Studio. He has had his work published in numerous print and online journals such as Forge, Punchnel’s, Poets&Artists, Red River Review, Poetry Quarterly, Connotation Press, Naugatuck River Review, Willows Wept Review, Corvus, Contemporary Haibun, Red Ochre Literature, Stone Highway Review, Riverbabble, Blue Fifth, Grey Sparrow Journal, Blue Lake Review, The Centrifugal Eye and many others. His poem, “From tending sheep to confusion on the Amtrak 10:50” won second prize ($1,000) in the prestigious 2011 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest. He was a runner up in the 2012 in the Contemporary American Poetry Prize for his poem, “Soul Stone.
Marina Rubin has three chapbooks: Ode to Hotels came out in 2002, followed by Once in 2004, and Logic in 2007. Her work had appeared in hundreds of magazines including 13th Warrior Review, Asheville Poetry Review, Dos Passos Review, 5AM, Nano Fiction, Coal City, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Jewish Currents, Lillith, Pearl, Poet Lore, Skidrow Penthouse, The Portland Review, The Worcester Review and many more. She is an associate editor of Mudfish. She has been nominated for the Pushcart. She lives in New York where she works as a headhunter on Wall Street while writing her fourth book, a collection of flash fiction stories. Her website is www.marinarubin.com.
Sam Silva has poetry in print magazines including, but not limited to Samisdat, The ECU Rebel, Sow's Ear, The American Muse, St. Andrews Review, Dog River Review, Third Lung Review, Main St. Rag, Charlotte Poetry Review, Parnasus...most (but not all) of these magazines are now defunct. For the Past four years his magazine portfolio has grown by and large on line including Rio Del Arts, Megaera, Big Bridge, Views unplugged, Comrade Magazine, Ken Again and at least thirty others. Over the years four small presses have published a total of nine chapbooks by Sam Silva ...these, being Third Lung Press, M.A.F. Press, Alpha Beat Press, Trouth Creek Press. Brown and Yale Universities solicited many of these chapbooks for their libraries. These chapbooks were well received in newspaper reviews by Shelby Stephenson, Ron Bayes, Steve Smith, and the late poet laureate of North Carolina Sam Ragan. Silva has ebooks available without cost atPhysikgarden.com. He has well over 300 poems archived in online magazines. He was nominated a total of seven times by three small presses and has a full length collection of poetry called Eating and Drinking based on a royalties contract signed with Bright Spark Creative available for order at any online bookstore and has other full length poetry books available at www.lulu.com. Three spoken word CDs of Sam Silva's have been marketed through CDBaby.
Stephen Williams holds a BA in creative writing from the University of California Riverside where he won the Chancellor's Performance Award for excellence in fiction. His work has appeared in Carnival and Mosaic Literary Magazine. He serves as an editor for Rind Literary Magazine and is the host/scriptwriter for Boy Wonder Reviews on youtube.com.
Toby F. Coley completed his PhD in Rhetoric and Writing from Bowling Green State University (OH) in 2011 and now teaches courses in Rhetoric and Composition, British Literature, Advanced Composition, and Advanced Rhetoric at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. His research investigates the connections between writing, ethics, digital media, and religion. His creative writing explores many things and he has published poetry and short stories in various outlets including the Fiction Week Literary Review and The Windhover: a Journal of Christian Literature.
Joachim Frank, a German-born scientist and writer, moved in 1975 to Albany, New York and recently (2008) relocated to New York City. He took writing classes with William Kennedy, Steven Millhauser, Eugene Garber, and Jayne Ann Philipps. He has published several short stories and prose poems in Lost and Found Times, The Agent, Inkblot, Heidelberg Review, Groundswell, Peer Glass, and Open Mic, all print. He wrote three novels, still unpublished. Several pieces of short fiction and poetry were published online, by elimae, 3711 Atlantic, Cezanne's Carrot, Brilliant, Eclectica, Offcourse, The Noneuclidean Cafe, Ghoti Magazine, Duck and Herring Co. Pocket Field Guide, Hamilton Stone Review, and Raving Dove. Bartleby Snopes just accepted one of his short stories for their new project on Post-Experimentalism, to come out this summer. His work as a scientist (Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University) has been published in over 200 peer-reviewed articles and six books.
Christine Haverington has a bachelor’s degree in English from Williams College and a doctorate in English literature from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She teaches ancient literature, writing, and ESL. She has published books and articles on a variety of topics and has been a closet poet all her life. Christine, her partner, sculptor Stephen Federico, and their spaniel Charlie reside on Aquidneck Island in Rhode Island.
Sandra Kolankiewicz has poems and stories that have recently appeared, or been accepted by, Gargoyle, Per Contra, Solo Novo, New Plains, Monkeybicycle, Cortland Review, 2River, Anomalous, Inertia, and SNReview. Turning Inside Won the Fall Black River Prize at Black Lawrence. Blue Eyes Don't Cry won the Hackney Award for the Novel. I hope you like these poems.
George Korolog is an active member of The Stanford Writers Studio. He has had his work published in numerous print and online journals such as Forge, Punchnel’s, Poets&Artists, Red River Review, Poetry Quarterly, Connotation Press, Naugatuck River Review, Willows Wept Review, Corvus, Contemporary Haibun, Red Ochre Literature, Stone Highway Review, Riverbabble, Blue Fifth, Grey Sparrow Journal, Blue Lake Review, The Centrifugal Eye and many others. His poem, “From tending sheep to confusion on the Amtrak 10:50” won second prize ($1,000) in the prestigious 2011 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest. He was a runner up in the 2012 in the Contemporary American Poetry Prize for his poem, “Soul Stone.
Marina Rubin has three chapbooks: Ode to Hotels came out in 2002, followed by Once in 2004, and Logic in 2007. Her work had appeared in hundreds of magazines including 13th Warrior Review, Asheville Poetry Review, Dos Passos Review, 5AM, Nano Fiction, Coal City, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Jewish Currents, Lillith, Pearl, Poet Lore, Skidrow Penthouse, The Portland Review, The Worcester Review and many more. She is an associate editor of Mudfish. She has been nominated for the Pushcart. She lives in New York where she works as a headhunter on Wall Street while writing her fourth book, a collection of flash fiction stories. Her website is www.marinarubin.com.
Sam Silva has poetry in print magazines including, but not limited to Samisdat, The ECU Rebel, Sow's Ear, The American Muse, St. Andrews Review, Dog River Review, Third Lung Review, Main St. Rag, Charlotte Poetry Review, Parnasus...most (but not all) of these magazines are now defunct. For the Past four years his magazine portfolio has grown by and large on line including Rio Del Arts, Megaera, Big Bridge, Views unplugged, Comrade Magazine, Ken Again and at least thirty others. Over the years four small presses have published a total of nine chapbooks by Sam Silva ...these, being Third Lung Press, M.A.F. Press, Alpha Beat Press, Trouth Creek Press. Brown and Yale Universities solicited many of these chapbooks for their libraries. These chapbooks were well received in newspaper reviews by Shelby Stephenson, Ron Bayes, Steve Smith, and the late poet laureate of North Carolina Sam Ragan. Silva has ebooks available without cost atPhysikgarden.com. He has well over 300 poems archived in online magazines. He was nominated a total of seven times by three small presses and has a full length collection of poetry called Eating and Drinking based on a royalties contract signed with Bright Spark Creative available for order at any online bookstore and has other full length poetry books available at www.lulu.com. Three spoken word CDs of Sam Silva's have been marketed through CDBaby.
Stephen Williams holds a BA in creative writing from the University of California Riverside where he won the Chancellor's Performance Award for excellence in fiction. His work has appeared in Carnival and Mosaic Literary Magazine. He serves as an editor for Rind Literary Magazine and is the host/scriptwriter for Boy Wonder Reviews on youtube.com.
FALL 2012 VOLUME 1 NUMBER 3
Byron Beynon ("A Disappearing Landscape", Chapbook) lives in Wales. His poems have appeared in numerous publications including Planet, Agenda, Chicago Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, Quadrant, The
Independent, Landfall (New Zealand), London Magazine, and Wasafiri. Recent collections include “Cuffs” (Rack Press, 2008) and “Nocturne In Blue” (Lapwing Publications, 2009), both launched at the Dylan Thomas Centre. He has been co-editor of the poetry magazine, Roundyhouse. He was also involved in coordinating the Wales' contribution to the poetry anthology “Fifty Strong” (Heinemann), which was a project to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the South Bank Centre's poetry library at the Royal Festival Hall, London. Recent poems have appeared in the anthology “Evan Walters: Moments of Vision” (Seren Books, 2011).
Frank Butler, Jr. ("Exodus of the Shadows", Chapbook) graduated from the writing program at UNH in 1978, studying with Charlie Simic. Since graduation he has devoted private time to writing when time permitted, but he has focused professionally on founding, building and running high tech companies. Currently, he is President and CEO of Proxios, a cloud computing company which he founded in 1999.
Nika Cavat ("Orcas in Puget Sound", Chapbook) is a long time English teacher at a private school in Santa Monica, CA, and a free-lance writer who has, over the years, written and published across the genres from literary and art reviews and criticism, to short fiction, poetry, and interviews. Before teaching, she worked in documentary, feature film and television in a myriad of positions. She specializes in mythology, food activism, and story-telling in all its forms. She lives in Venice, CA with her daughter, Aurora, and their hedgehog, Cheerio.
Nandini Dhar ("Reading Recipes" and "Refining Our Palates", Prose) has poems that have appeared or are forthcoming in Prick of the Spindle, lingerpost, Palooka, Existere, PANK, Pear Noir and SOFTBLOW. A Pushcart nominee, Nandini grew up in Kolkata, India. Currently, she is a Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature at University of Texas at Austin, and lives in Austin, Texas.
Saria Idana ("Root Tracing", Poetry) is a writer, singer and actor originally from New York and currently based in the SF bay area where she teaches writing and acting to teens and is pursuing an MFA. Her poetry has appeared in the Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, numerous chapbooks, compilation albums with Hatrix and Doubblestandart and on her own album Homeless in Homeland, released July 20012. Homeless in Homeland is also an evening length solo theater show about urban Jewish American identity and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and is based on a trip Idana took to the Middle-East. In the show she weaves poetry with dance and plays seventeen characters, American, Palestinian and Israeli. The show will
next appear November 17th and 18th 2012 at La Pena (www.lapena.org) in Berkeley. www.sariaidana.com.
Charles S. Kraszewski ("Pennsylvania" and "South of Bixby Bridge", Poetry), poet and translator. His works have appeared in many literary magazines, from The New Yorker and The Antaeus through the California Quarterly, Poetry South, and Illya's Honey. His most recent book of criticism is Irresolute Heresiarch: Catholicism, Gnosticism and Paganism in the Poetry of Czesław Miłosz, published in May, 2012 by Cambridge Scholars Press (UK). A collection of his poems entitled Diet of Nails will be published in 2013 by Cervena Barva Press.
Samuel Morris ("Six Shooter Kid and the Girl with Eyes on the Moon", Prose) lives in Cambridge, England, where he writes, drinks tea, and pokes rivers with a stick for the amusement of tourists. His book 'Cold Turkey and the Case of the Missing Crime' is available from any easy-bullies retailer. His website is www.unexplodedtruths.com.
Randy Phillis ("Mid-Life", Poetry) has work that has appeared in a wide range of journals, including Iowa Review, Denver Quarterly, Florida Review and South Carolina Review. He has also published two books with small presses. He teaches writing and American Literature at Colorado Mesa University, where he also edits Pinyon.
Andrew Spencer ("Judgment Day Finally Reaches the Deep South", Poetry) has poetry that has appeared or is forthcoming in New Plains Review, Coe Review, Chaffey Review, and Cartographer, and he has co-authored a book accepted for publication by 23 House Publishing titled “Murder in Jefferson: The 1868 Stockade Case,” which recounts the true story of a racially charged shootout and murder trial in
Reconstruction-era Texas.
Jessica Tyner ("For My Father", Poetry) is originally from Oregon, USA, a member of the Cherokee Nation, and has been a writer and editor for ten years. Currently, she is a senior copy writer for Word Jones, a travel writer with Mucha Costa Rica, a copy editor at the London-based Flaneur Arts Journal, and a contributing editor at New York’s Thalo Magazine. She has recently published short fiction in India’s Out of Print Magazine, and poetry in Slow Trains Literary Journal, Straylight Magazine, Solo Press, and Glint Literary Journal. Her first novel has been picked up by Swift Publishing House. She lives in San José, Costa Rica.
Martin Willitts, Jr. ("Flowering Rosebushes", Chapbook) retired as a Senior Librarian in upstate New York. He is a visual artist of Victorian and Chinese paper cutouts. He was nominated for 5 Pushcart and 2 Best Of The Net awards. He has 23 chapbooks and 3 full length books of poetry including “How to Find Peace” (Kattywompus Press, 2012), “Playing The Pauses In The Absence Of Stars” (Main Street Rag, 2012), “Waiting For The Day To Open Its Wings” (UNBOUND Content, 2012), and “No Special Favors” (Green Fuse Press, 2012).
Independent, Landfall (New Zealand), London Magazine, and Wasafiri. Recent collections include “Cuffs” (Rack Press, 2008) and “Nocturne In Blue” (Lapwing Publications, 2009), both launched at the Dylan Thomas Centre. He has been co-editor of the poetry magazine, Roundyhouse. He was also involved in coordinating the Wales' contribution to the poetry anthology “Fifty Strong” (Heinemann), which was a project to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the South Bank Centre's poetry library at the Royal Festival Hall, London. Recent poems have appeared in the anthology “Evan Walters: Moments of Vision” (Seren Books, 2011).
Frank Butler, Jr. ("Exodus of the Shadows", Chapbook) graduated from the writing program at UNH in 1978, studying with Charlie Simic. Since graduation he has devoted private time to writing when time permitted, but he has focused professionally on founding, building and running high tech companies. Currently, he is President and CEO of Proxios, a cloud computing company which he founded in 1999.
Nika Cavat ("Orcas in Puget Sound", Chapbook) is a long time English teacher at a private school in Santa Monica, CA, and a free-lance writer who has, over the years, written and published across the genres from literary and art reviews and criticism, to short fiction, poetry, and interviews. Before teaching, she worked in documentary, feature film and television in a myriad of positions. She specializes in mythology, food activism, and story-telling in all its forms. She lives in Venice, CA with her daughter, Aurora, and their hedgehog, Cheerio.
Nandini Dhar ("Reading Recipes" and "Refining Our Palates", Prose) has poems that have appeared or are forthcoming in Prick of the Spindle, lingerpost, Palooka, Existere, PANK, Pear Noir and SOFTBLOW. A Pushcart nominee, Nandini grew up in Kolkata, India. Currently, she is a Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature at University of Texas at Austin, and lives in Austin, Texas.
Saria Idana ("Root Tracing", Poetry) is a writer, singer and actor originally from New York and currently based in the SF bay area where she teaches writing and acting to teens and is pursuing an MFA. Her poetry has appeared in the Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, numerous chapbooks, compilation albums with Hatrix and Doubblestandart and on her own album Homeless in Homeland, released July 20012. Homeless in Homeland is also an evening length solo theater show about urban Jewish American identity and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and is based on a trip Idana took to the Middle-East. In the show she weaves poetry with dance and plays seventeen characters, American, Palestinian and Israeli. The show will
next appear November 17th and 18th 2012 at La Pena (www.lapena.org) in Berkeley. www.sariaidana.com.
Charles S. Kraszewski ("Pennsylvania" and "South of Bixby Bridge", Poetry), poet and translator. His works have appeared in many literary magazines, from The New Yorker and The Antaeus through the California Quarterly, Poetry South, and Illya's Honey. His most recent book of criticism is Irresolute Heresiarch: Catholicism, Gnosticism and Paganism in the Poetry of Czesław Miłosz, published in May, 2012 by Cambridge Scholars Press (UK). A collection of his poems entitled Diet of Nails will be published in 2013 by Cervena Barva Press.
Samuel Morris ("Six Shooter Kid and the Girl with Eyes on the Moon", Prose) lives in Cambridge, England, where he writes, drinks tea, and pokes rivers with a stick for the amusement of tourists. His book 'Cold Turkey and the Case of the Missing Crime' is available from any easy-bullies retailer. His website is www.unexplodedtruths.com.
Randy Phillis ("Mid-Life", Poetry) has work that has appeared in a wide range of journals, including Iowa Review, Denver Quarterly, Florida Review and South Carolina Review. He has also published two books with small presses. He teaches writing and American Literature at Colorado Mesa University, where he also edits Pinyon.
Andrew Spencer ("Judgment Day Finally Reaches the Deep South", Poetry) has poetry that has appeared or is forthcoming in New Plains Review, Coe Review, Chaffey Review, and Cartographer, and he has co-authored a book accepted for publication by 23 House Publishing titled “Murder in Jefferson: The 1868 Stockade Case,” which recounts the true story of a racially charged shootout and murder trial in
Reconstruction-era Texas.
Jessica Tyner ("For My Father", Poetry) is originally from Oregon, USA, a member of the Cherokee Nation, and has been a writer and editor for ten years. Currently, she is a senior copy writer for Word Jones, a travel writer with Mucha Costa Rica, a copy editor at the London-based Flaneur Arts Journal, and a contributing editor at New York’s Thalo Magazine. She has recently published short fiction in India’s Out of Print Magazine, and poetry in Slow Trains Literary Journal, Straylight Magazine, Solo Press, and Glint Literary Journal. Her first novel has been picked up by Swift Publishing House. She lives in San José, Costa Rica.
Martin Willitts, Jr. ("Flowering Rosebushes", Chapbook) retired as a Senior Librarian in upstate New York. He is a visual artist of Victorian and Chinese paper cutouts. He was nominated for 5 Pushcart and 2 Best Of The Net awards. He has 23 chapbooks and 3 full length books of poetry including “How to Find Peace” (Kattywompus Press, 2012), “Playing The Pauses In The Absence Of Stars” (Main Street Rag, 2012), “Waiting For The Day To Open Its Wings” (UNBOUND Content, 2012), and “No Special Favors” (Green Fuse Press, 2012).
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Elena Botts ("Apparitions", Poetry) grew up in Maryland, and currently lives in Northern Virginia. She is still attending school. She likes to run. And write. She’s working on a poetry chapbook with a small press editor. She has been accepted for publication into many literary magazines this past year. These include Tipton Poetry Journal, BSN, Seeding the Snow, Conceit Magazine, and Amulet. She was also accepted into an anthology through a contest.
Alessandro Cusimano ("Visionnaire", Prose), an expressivist poet, freely refers to the peripheral and irregular languages, drawing on the dialects, the slangs, the various sectorial and technical form of expressions, recreated with personal inventions and varying intensity, in every moment of his literary production. He has appeared recently on the international literary stage, some of his writings have been published by The Cynic Online Magazine, RED OCHRE LiT, Decanto Magazine, Weirdyear, Streetcake Magazine, Anotherealm, Deadman’s Tome, Black Cat Poems, Orion’s Child Magazine, Bewildering Stories, FOLLY Magazine, Exercise Bowler, and Numinous Magazine.
Brandon Daily ("Dark Horse Boy Soldier", Prose) lives in Southern California with his wife, Amanda. Two of his short stories (“The General” and “A Lovely”) have been accepted for publication in the upcoming edition of Prick of the Spindle magazine, and another short story (“Darkening”) has been accepted for publication in RiverLit Magazine. His play, “South of Salvation,” has also been selected as a finalist in the National One-Act Playwriting Contest held by CAST Players in Beaumont, CA and will be performed in June 2012. Brandon is currently finishing his first novel, “Return to Eden.”
David Fraser ("Rattle in the Wind", Chapbook) lives in Nanoose Bay, on Vancouver Island. He is the founder and editor of Ascent Aspirations Magazine, since 1997. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including “Rocksalt, An Anthology of Contemporary BC Poetry”. He has published four collections of poetry, “Going to the Well” (2004), “Running Down the Wind” (2007) and “No Way Easy”, (2010), “Caught in My Throat”, (2011) and a collection of short fiction, “Dark Side of the Billboard” (2006). To keep out of trouble he helps develop Nanaimo’s spoken-word series, WordStorm. www.wordstorm.ca. David is a full member of the League of Canadian Poets and has performed his poetry in British Columbia, Ontario and Switzerland.
Rich Ives ("As a Weapon the Oar is Useless", Prose) has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Trust, Seattle Arts Commission and the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines for his work in poetry, fiction, editing, publishing, translation and photography. His writing has appeared in Verse, North American Review, Massachusetts Review, Northwest Review, Quarterly West, Iowa Review, Poetry Northwest, Virginia Quarterly Review, Fiction Daily and many more. In 2011 he was a finalist in poetry at Mississippi Review, as well as a nominee for the Pushcart Prize and a double nominee for Best of the Net. He is the 2012 winner of the Creative Nonfiction Prize from Thin Air magazine. The Spring 2011 Bitter Oleander contains a feature including an interview and 18 of his hybrid works.
Michael Lee Johnson ("Carl Sandburg, Idols in the Sand, and Galesburg Shacks", Poetry) is a poet and freelance writer from Itasca, Illinois. His new poetry chapbook with pictures, titled “From Which Place the Morning Rises”, and his new photo version of The Lost American: from Exile to Freedom are available at: http://stores.lulu.com/promomanusa. He also has two chapbooks, and has been published in over 23 countries. He is editor/publisher of four poetry sites, all open for submission, which can be found at his web site: http://poetryman.mysite.com.
Dustin Junkert ("A Quiet Lunch", Chapbook) started writing in order to impress girls. Most girls aren’t all that impressed by writing, he has found. But here’s hoping. Dustin lives in Portland, OR. He recently had an essay published in the New York Times, and poems in The Journal, South Carolina Review, the minnesota review, Weber, Georgetown Review, GW Review, and New Delta Review.
Tyrel Kessinger ("An Absence of Scientific Nomenclature", Chapbook) lives, works and writes in Louisville, Kentucky. There’s the wife, two dogs, cat and all the other trappings of a fairly normal life. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in 3:AM Magazine, Red Fez, Grey Sparrow Journal, and Burning Word, among many others. In early 2011, he won the Literary LEO Magazine award for fiction. Recently, he’s found a home as a Contributing Editor for Black Heart Magazine and Naissance Chapbooks has published his chapbook “when the river is hungry, the river eats.”
Sandra Kolankiewicz ("The Way You Will Go", Poetry) has had poems appear or are forthcoming in New Plains Review, Monkeybicycle, Rhino, Cortland Review, Chaffey Review, Atticus, Anomalous Press, Noctua, WomenArts Quarterly, RED OCHRE LiT, Psychic Meatloaf, Solo Novo, Bellingham Review, and SNReview. “Turning Inside Out” won the Black River Prize and is available from Black Lawrence Press. “Blue Eyes Don't Cry” won the Hackney Award for the Novel.
Mark J. Mitchell ("Cell Phone Sestina: Retail Scene", Poetry) studied writing and medieval literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz with Raymond Carver, George Hitchcock, Barbara Hull and Robert M. Durling. His work has appeared in the anthologies “Good Poems, American Places” (Viking/Penguin), “Line Drives” (Southern Illinois University Press), “Hunger Enough” (Puddinghouse Press), and “Zeus Seduces the Wicked Stepmother in the Saloon of the Gingerbread House” (Winterhawk Press). His chapbook, “Three Visitors” won the 2010 Negative Capability Press International Chapbook competition and will be published later this year. His poems have also appeared in many magazines over the last twenty years, including J Journal, kayak, Blue Unicorn, Black Bough, Santa Barbara Review, Pearl, Runes, Buddhist Poetry Review, and Poem.
C.L. Sostarich ("Our Patches are Stitches with Wire", Chapbook) is a forty-something freelance writer and poet who lives in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. Though her various odd jobs, four children and husband keep her fairly busy, she is also a not-so-much in the closet video game freak, World of Warcraft guild master, amateur photographer, and purveyor of fine sarcasm.
Alessandro Cusimano ("Visionnaire", Prose), an expressivist poet, freely refers to the peripheral and irregular languages, drawing on the dialects, the slangs, the various sectorial and technical form of expressions, recreated with personal inventions and varying intensity, in every moment of his literary production. He has appeared recently on the international literary stage, some of his writings have been published by The Cynic Online Magazine, RED OCHRE LiT, Decanto Magazine, Weirdyear, Streetcake Magazine, Anotherealm, Deadman’s Tome, Black Cat Poems, Orion’s Child Magazine, Bewildering Stories, FOLLY Magazine, Exercise Bowler, and Numinous Magazine.
Brandon Daily ("Dark Horse Boy Soldier", Prose) lives in Southern California with his wife, Amanda. Two of his short stories (“The General” and “A Lovely”) have been accepted for publication in the upcoming edition of Prick of the Spindle magazine, and another short story (“Darkening”) has been accepted for publication in RiverLit Magazine. His play, “South of Salvation,” has also been selected as a finalist in the National One-Act Playwriting Contest held by CAST Players in Beaumont, CA and will be performed in June 2012. Brandon is currently finishing his first novel, “Return to Eden.”
David Fraser ("Rattle in the Wind", Chapbook) lives in Nanoose Bay, on Vancouver Island. He is the founder and editor of Ascent Aspirations Magazine, since 1997. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including “Rocksalt, An Anthology of Contemporary BC Poetry”. He has published four collections of poetry, “Going to the Well” (2004), “Running Down the Wind” (2007) and “No Way Easy”, (2010), “Caught in My Throat”, (2011) and a collection of short fiction, “Dark Side of the Billboard” (2006). To keep out of trouble he helps develop Nanaimo’s spoken-word series, WordStorm. www.wordstorm.ca. David is a full member of the League of Canadian Poets and has performed his poetry in British Columbia, Ontario and Switzerland.
Rich Ives ("As a Weapon the Oar is Useless", Prose) has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Trust, Seattle Arts Commission and the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines for his work in poetry, fiction, editing, publishing, translation and photography. His writing has appeared in Verse, North American Review, Massachusetts Review, Northwest Review, Quarterly West, Iowa Review, Poetry Northwest, Virginia Quarterly Review, Fiction Daily and many more. In 2011 he was a finalist in poetry at Mississippi Review, as well as a nominee for the Pushcart Prize and a double nominee for Best of the Net. He is the 2012 winner of the Creative Nonfiction Prize from Thin Air magazine. The Spring 2011 Bitter Oleander contains a feature including an interview and 18 of his hybrid works.
Michael Lee Johnson ("Carl Sandburg, Idols in the Sand, and Galesburg Shacks", Poetry) is a poet and freelance writer from Itasca, Illinois. His new poetry chapbook with pictures, titled “From Which Place the Morning Rises”, and his new photo version of The Lost American: from Exile to Freedom are available at: http://stores.lulu.com/promomanusa. He also has two chapbooks, and has been published in over 23 countries. He is editor/publisher of four poetry sites, all open for submission, which can be found at his web site: http://poetryman.mysite.com.
Dustin Junkert ("A Quiet Lunch", Chapbook) started writing in order to impress girls. Most girls aren’t all that impressed by writing, he has found. But here’s hoping. Dustin lives in Portland, OR. He recently had an essay published in the New York Times, and poems in The Journal, South Carolina Review, the minnesota review, Weber, Georgetown Review, GW Review, and New Delta Review.
Tyrel Kessinger ("An Absence of Scientific Nomenclature", Chapbook) lives, works and writes in Louisville, Kentucky. There’s the wife, two dogs, cat and all the other trappings of a fairly normal life. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in 3:AM Magazine, Red Fez, Grey Sparrow Journal, and Burning Word, among many others. In early 2011, he won the Literary LEO Magazine award for fiction. Recently, he’s found a home as a Contributing Editor for Black Heart Magazine and Naissance Chapbooks has published his chapbook “when the river is hungry, the river eats.”
Sandra Kolankiewicz ("The Way You Will Go", Poetry) has had poems appear or are forthcoming in New Plains Review, Monkeybicycle, Rhino, Cortland Review, Chaffey Review, Atticus, Anomalous Press, Noctua, WomenArts Quarterly, RED OCHRE LiT, Psychic Meatloaf, Solo Novo, Bellingham Review, and SNReview. “Turning Inside Out” won the Black River Prize and is available from Black Lawrence Press. “Blue Eyes Don't Cry” won the Hackney Award for the Novel.
Mark J. Mitchell ("Cell Phone Sestina: Retail Scene", Poetry) studied writing and medieval literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz with Raymond Carver, George Hitchcock, Barbara Hull and Robert M. Durling. His work has appeared in the anthologies “Good Poems, American Places” (Viking/Penguin), “Line Drives” (Southern Illinois University Press), “Hunger Enough” (Puddinghouse Press), and “Zeus Seduces the Wicked Stepmother in the Saloon of the Gingerbread House” (Winterhawk Press). His chapbook, “Three Visitors” won the 2010 Negative Capability Press International Chapbook competition and will be published later this year. His poems have also appeared in many magazines over the last twenty years, including J Journal, kayak, Blue Unicorn, Black Bough, Santa Barbara Review, Pearl, Runes, Buddhist Poetry Review, and Poem.
C.L. Sostarich ("Our Patches are Stitches with Wire", Chapbook) is a forty-something freelance writer and poet who lives in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. Though her various odd jobs, four children and husband keep her fairly busy, she is also a not-so-much in the closet video game freak, World of Warcraft guild master, amateur photographer, and purveyor of fine sarcasm.
SPRING 2012 VOLUME 1 NUMBER 1
CL Bledsoe ("Hard Work and Clean Living", Chapbook) is the author of the young adult novel, Sunlight, three poetry collections, (Want/Need), Anthem, and Leap Year and a short story collection called Naming the Animals. His chapbook, Goodbye to Noise, is available online at www.righthandpointing.com/bledsoe. A minichap, Texas, was published by Mud Luscious Press. His story, “Leaving the Garden,” was selected as a Notable Story of 2008 for Story South’s Million Writer’s Award. He’s been nominated for the Pushcart Prize 3 times. He blogs at Murder Your Darlings, http://clbledsoe.blogspot.com. Bledsoe has written reviews for The Hollins Critic, The Arkansas Review, American Book Review, Prick of the Spindle, The Pedestal Magazine, and elsewhere. Bledsoe lives with his wife and daughter in Maryland.
J.R. Campbell ("Then We See" & "The Politician's Weakness", Poetry) is a native of Amherst, Texas, and graduate of West Texas A&M University who has worked as a reporter and photographer at eleven newspapers in Texas, Colorado, and Missouri. His stories and poems have been in magazines including TPQ Online, Ascent Aspirations, The Cortland Review, Poems Niederngasse, Poetry Life & Times, Paradigm Journal, Red Lion Sq., Machinery Press, The Smoking Poet, and Ancient Heart.
Joe Cappello ("Beautifully Tragic Richard", Prose) has been writing short stories, plays, poetry and essays about families and the workplace for most of his working life. His recent fiction has focused on work and what it really means to us. From bagel day on Friday's to dealing with the monotony of crowded freeways, he tries to find the meaning behind what we do each day in the name of making a living. He invites you to read more of his work at:www.wordsearchers.org.
Nabin Kumar Chhetri ("A Girl From Hiroshima", Poetry) is a Nepalese poet. He graduated with a degree of M.Litt in Novel from the University of Aberdeen. His poems have received awards all over the world, including recognition in Italy, Israel and Nepal. His poetry has been published in Weyfarers (UK), Ricepaper Magazine (Canada), Penny Dreadful (USA), The Sun (India), Nosside Poetry Anthology (Italy), Quest (India), Spinny Babbler (Nepal), Mawaheb (Canada), Poetry Quarterly (China), Fade Poetry Journal (UK), Cynic Magazine (USA), and Tower Journal (USA). Look for forthcoming publications in The Single Hound (USA), Reverie Poetry Journal, and the Amnesty International Anthology (UK).
Nandini Dhar ("Intergenerational", Poetry) has poems that have appeared or are forthcoming in Prick of the Spindle, lingerpost, Palooka, Existere, PANK, Pear Noir and SOFTBLOW. A Pushcart nominee, Nandini grew up in Kolkata, India. Currently, she is a Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature at University of Texas at Austin, and lives in Austin, Texas.
Robert Earle ("Terror, Torture, Truth", Prose) has degrees in literature and writing from Princeton and Johns Hopkins and spent twenty-five years as a diplomat, focusing on a wide variety of subjects in Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. His stories have appeared in dozens of online and print magazines and a few anthologies. He has published a novel, a memoir of a year in Iraq, and a study of North American interdependence. His next two stories are coming out this summer in The Commons (Amherst) and Wart, Literature, and Art (the U.S. Air Force Academy).
Sandra Florence ("Grief and Deception", Poetry) received her Masters in English/Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, and has been writing and teaching in Tucson Arizona for the last thirty some years. She taught at the University of Arizona for eighteen years, and in a number of community education sites working with refugees, the homeless, adolescent parents, women in recovery, and juveniles at risk. She has published scholarly articles on Writing and Healing, and Writing and Pubic Dialogue. Additionally, she published creative work in Sandscript, Amphibi, InDigest, Red Booth Review, Write From Wrong Literary Magazine, Women in REDzine, The Mom Egg, and others. She currently teaches writing and literature at Pima Community College in Tucson, Arizona.
Dawnell Harrison ("The Night", Poetry) was born and raised in Washington state. She possesses a BA in Business Administration from the University of Washington. Her first chapbook entitled “Voyager” received great reviews. In her new chapbook entitled “Love & Death” she knits two topics together that are never far from one’s mind – love and death. Her third book, “The Fire Behind My Eyes”, is available also on amazon.com. She now resides in Sandpoint, Idaho with her cat, Casanova.
Lauren Hayes ("Little Keys", Poetry) is 18 years old and lives in St. Louis, Missouri. Writing has always been a part of her life, but her interest in poetry only sparked with the recent Creative Writing class she took. Music is another passion of hers and it inspires her writing. This is her first publication.
Irene Inatty ("They Tell Me His Name Was Jay", Prose)is the Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning literature and arts magazine Miambiance. She is currently a student at Miami Dade College. This represents her first publication.
David Manning ("Chains and Stores", Prose) lives with his wife in Nashville, TN. He has previously been published in anderbo, The Bat City Review, and Fiddleblack, and has stories forthcoming in Echo Ink Review and Constellations.
Austin McCarron ("Visionary Cities", Chapbook) is from New Zealand but has lived in London for many years. Poems appeared in various magazines in the U.K., France, Canada and the United States, such as Great Works, Visionary Tongue, Neon Highway, Message in a Bottle, Red Ceilings Press, The Recusant, Van Gogh’s Ear, After Tournier, California Quarterly, Word Salad, Camel Saloon, Yes Poetry and others.
Robert Joe Stout ("Nothing Left: Interview with Rosario Gabino", Prose) has written about Mexico for a variety of publications, including America, The American Scholar and Notre Dame Magazine. He lives in Oaxaca and was a member of two Rights Action emergency human rights delegations. His most recent book, “Why Immigrants Come to America: Braceros, Indocumentados and the Migra” was published in 2008 by Praeger.
Martin Willitts Jr. ("Living Room" & "Love in in Your Future", Poetry) retired as a Senior Librarian in upstate New York. He is a visual artist of Victorian and Chinese paper cutouts. He was nominated for 5 Pushcart and 2 Best Of The Net awards. He provided a poetry workshop at the 2012 Massachusetts Poetry festival. His recent chapbooks are “Why Women Are A Ribbon Around A Bomb” (Last Automat, 2011), “Secrets No One Wants To Talk About” (Dos Madres Press, 2011), “How to Find Peace” (Kattywumpus Press, 2012), “Playing The Pauses In The Absence Of Stars” (Main Street Rag, 2012), and “No Special Favors” (Green Fuse Press, 2012).
Changming Yuan ("Epilogues", Poetry), 4-time Pushcart nominee and author of Chansons of a Chinaman, grew up in rural China and published several monographs before moving to Canada. With a PhD in English, Yuan teaches independently in Vancouver and has had poetry appear in nearly 490 literary journals/anthologies across 19 countries, including Asia Literary Review, Best Canadian Poetry, BestNewPoemsOnline, Exquisite Corpse, London Magazine, Poetry Kanto, Salzburg Review, SAND, and Taj Mahal Review.
J.R. Campbell ("Then We See" & "The Politician's Weakness", Poetry) is a native of Amherst, Texas, and graduate of West Texas A&M University who has worked as a reporter and photographer at eleven newspapers in Texas, Colorado, and Missouri. His stories and poems have been in magazines including TPQ Online, Ascent Aspirations, The Cortland Review, Poems Niederngasse, Poetry Life & Times, Paradigm Journal, Red Lion Sq., Machinery Press, The Smoking Poet, and Ancient Heart.
Joe Cappello ("Beautifully Tragic Richard", Prose) has been writing short stories, plays, poetry and essays about families and the workplace for most of his working life. His recent fiction has focused on work and what it really means to us. From bagel day on Friday's to dealing with the monotony of crowded freeways, he tries to find the meaning behind what we do each day in the name of making a living. He invites you to read more of his work at:www.wordsearchers.org.
Nabin Kumar Chhetri ("A Girl From Hiroshima", Poetry) is a Nepalese poet. He graduated with a degree of M.Litt in Novel from the University of Aberdeen. His poems have received awards all over the world, including recognition in Italy, Israel and Nepal. His poetry has been published in Weyfarers (UK), Ricepaper Magazine (Canada), Penny Dreadful (USA), The Sun (India), Nosside Poetry Anthology (Italy), Quest (India), Spinny Babbler (Nepal), Mawaheb (Canada), Poetry Quarterly (China), Fade Poetry Journal (UK), Cynic Magazine (USA), and Tower Journal (USA). Look for forthcoming publications in The Single Hound (USA), Reverie Poetry Journal, and the Amnesty International Anthology (UK).
Nandini Dhar ("Intergenerational", Poetry) has poems that have appeared or are forthcoming in Prick of the Spindle, lingerpost, Palooka, Existere, PANK, Pear Noir and SOFTBLOW. A Pushcart nominee, Nandini grew up in Kolkata, India. Currently, she is a Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature at University of Texas at Austin, and lives in Austin, Texas.
Robert Earle ("Terror, Torture, Truth", Prose) has degrees in literature and writing from Princeton and Johns Hopkins and spent twenty-five years as a diplomat, focusing on a wide variety of subjects in Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. His stories have appeared in dozens of online and print magazines and a few anthologies. He has published a novel, a memoir of a year in Iraq, and a study of North American interdependence. His next two stories are coming out this summer in The Commons (Amherst) and Wart, Literature, and Art (the U.S. Air Force Academy).
Sandra Florence ("Grief and Deception", Poetry) received her Masters in English/Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, and has been writing and teaching in Tucson Arizona for the last thirty some years. She taught at the University of Arizona for eighteen years, and in a number of community education sites working with refugees, the homeless, adolescent parents, women in recovery, and juveniles at risk. She has published scholarly articles on Writing and Healing, and Writing and Pubic Dialogue. Additionally, she published creative work in Sandscript, Amphibi, InDigest, Red Booth Review, Write From Wrong Literary Magazine, Women in REDzine, The Mom Egg, and others. She currently teaches writing and literature at Pima Community College in Tucson, Arizona.
Dawnell Harrison ("The Night", Poetry) was born and raised in Washington state. She possesses a BA in Business Administration from the University of Washington. Her first chapbook entitled “Voyager” received great reviews. In her new chapbook entitled “Love & Death” she knits two topics together that are never far from one’s mind – love and death. Her third book, “The Fire Behind My Eyes”, is available also on amazon.com. She now resides in Sandpoint, Idaho with her cat, Casanova.
Lauren Hayes ("Little Keys", Poetry) is 18 years old and lives in St. Louis, Missouri. Writing has always been a part of her life, but her interest in poetry only sparked with the recent Creative Writing class she took. Music is another passion of hers and it inspires her writing. This is her first publication.
Irene Inatty ("They Tell Me His Name Was Jay", Prose)is the Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning literature and arts magazine Miambiance. She is currently a student at Miami Dade College. This represents her first publication.
David Manning ("Chains and Stores", Prose) lives with his wife in Nashville, TN. He has previously been published in anderbo, The Bat City Review, and Fiddleblack, and has stories forthcoming in Echo Ink Review and Constellations.
Austin McCarron ("Visionary Cities", Chapbook) is from New Zealand but has lived in London for many years. Poems appeared in various magazines in the U.K., France, Canada and the United States, such as Great Works, Visionary Tongue, Neon Highway, Message in a Bottle, Red Ceilings Press, The Recusant, Van Gogh’s Ear, After Tournier, California Quarterly, Word Salad, Camel Saloon, Yes Poetry and others.
Robert Joe Stout ("Nothing Left: Interview with Rosario Gabino", Prose) has written about Mexico for a variety of publications, including America, The American Scholar and Notre Dame Magazine. He lives in Oaxaca and was a member of two Rights Action emergency human rights delegations. His most recent book, “Why Immigrants Come to America: Braceros, Indocumentados and the Migra” was published in 2008 by Praeger.
Martin Willitts Jr. ("Living Room" & "Love in in Your Future", Poetry) retired as a Senior Librarian in upstate New York. He is a visual artist of Victorian and Chinese paper cutouts. He was nominated for 5 Pushcart and 2 Best Of The Net awards. He provided a poetry workshop at the 2012 Massachusetts Poetry festival. His recent chapbooks are “Why Women Are A Ribbon Around A Bomb” (Last Automat, 2011), “Secrets No One Wants To Talk About” (Dos Madres Press, 2011), “How to Find Peace” (Kattywumpus Press, 2012), “Playing The Pauses In The Absence Of Stars” (Main Street Rag, 2012), and “No Special Favors” (Green Fuse Press, 2012).
Changming Yuan ("Epilogues", Poetry), 4-time Pushcart nominee and author of Chansons of a Chinaman, grew up in rural China and published several monographs before moving to Canada. With a PhD in English, Yuan teaches independently in Vancouver and has had poetry appear in nearly 490 literary journals/anthologies across 19 countries, including Asia Literary Review, Best Canadian Poetry, BestNewPoemsOnline, Exquisite Corpse, London Magazine, Poetry Kanto, Salzburg Review, SAND, and Taj Mahal Review.
