Above Image by Gary Higgins
Marian Brooks Recently retired, Marian has begun writing short fiction. Her work has appeared in Curly Red Stories, One Million Stories, Thick Jam, Linnett's Wings and others.
Chelsey Clammer received her MA in Women's Studies from Loyola University Chicago. She has been published in THIS, The Rumpus, Atticus Review, Sleet, The Coachella Review and Make/shift among many others. She received the Nonfiction Editor's Pick Award 2012 from both Revolution House and Cobalt, as well as a Pushcart Prize nomination.You can read more of her writing here.
Holly Day is a housewife and mother of two living in Minneapolis, Minnesota who teaches needlepoint classes in the Minneapolis school district. Her poetry has recently appeared in The Worcester Review, Broken Pencil, and Slipstream, and she is a recent recipient of the Sam Ragan Poetry Prize from Barton College. Her book publications include Music Composition for Dummies, Guitar-All-in-One for Dummies, Notenlesen für Dummies Das Pocketbuch, and Music Theory for Dummies, which has recently been translated into French, Dutch, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, and German. Her novel, “The Trouble With Clare,” is due out from Hydra Publications in 2013.
Jon Epstien is a contributor to The Judean and a member of The Los Angeles Poets and Writers Collective. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Forge, the Pierce College Voices Collective, Out On The Stoop, Poetic Diversity, and Poetry Superhighway. After a failed education, and fourteen years of dead end jobs and drug related crime, Epstein found sobriety. Today, he shares a life with his wife Kelly of 25 years in San Fernando Valley, California, and remains sober and active in a Twelve Step program, twenty six years and counting.
Grant Flint has appeared in Story Quarterly, The Nation, The King’s English, Poetry, Weber, Amelia, Slow Trains, Common Ties, and 37 other print and online journals. He was memoir winner in the 2007 "Soul Making Literary Contest," and appeared in the 2007 "Writer’s Digest Short Story Competition Collection". He was nominated for the 2009 Pushcart Prize.
Roland Goity lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he writes in the shadows of planes coming and going from SFO. His stories can be found in Fiction International, The Raleigh Review, Word Riot, Compass Rose, PANK, and more recently in The MacGuffin, Menacing Hedge, Bluestem, and Defenestration."
Kyle Hemmings has been published in Wigleaf, Storyglossia, Elimae, Match Book, This Zine Will Save Your Life, and elsewhere. . His latest collection of prose/poetry is Void & Sky from Outskirt Press. He lives and writes in New Jersey.
Gary Higgins is a photographer-artist from Alexander, Arkansas. He began taking photographs at the age of 14, using a film camera handed down by his brother. He seldom poses his subjects, allowing the image to form naturally. He then adds his own distinctiveness to achieve the final version.
Jack Hill works in recycling, edits Crossed Out Magazine, and lives in Northern California.
Kevin Hogg is a husband, father, teacher, writer, and Chicago Cubs fan. He was a winner in the 2005 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest and has published poetry with inner art journal and Mouse Tales Press. His favorite things include raccoons, the Smithsonian Institution, and George Orwell novels. His future goals include riding a gondola in Venice, completing a marathon, and learning to throw a boomerang.
Bryce Journey teaches composition at Iowa Western Community College. He recently finished an MA in English with focuses in Creative Nonfiction and American Literature. His creative work has been represented for sale in Hollywood and his poetry, creative nonfiction, and short fiction has appeared in thirteen different literary magazines. His comedy won him a film credit in Mike Nelson (of MST3K fame) and crew’s RiffTrax Live: Reefer Madness project. When he’s not entertaining his three-year-old son, Luke Ender, he likes watching bad movies with his wife, Laura, satiating his passion for board gaming, and increasing his skills as an amateur yo-yo enthusiast.
Joe Kapitan frequents northern Ohio, passing himself off as an architect. His short fiction has been published online and in print. He was invited to a war once, but kept to the edges.
Martin Kiel Since retirement, Marty Kiel has revisited his interest in literature, particularly poetry, and has participated actively in poetry writer’s workshops and local writer’s groups. He also enjoys painting, wood and stone carving, astronomy, and camping with his family in their small motor-home.
Conor Kelley was born in Seattle, WA, and played college baseball as an undergraduate while earning his BA in English literature from the University of Dubuque. His work has appeared in various publications in both the United States and Ireland. He is a staff writer for the fantasy sports site DobberSports.com. This spring, he will be published in Slow Trains literary journal and The Tenth Muse literary magazine. Conor is currently seeking representation for his first full-length work, a baseball instructional book.
Robert S. King's poems have appeared in hundreds of journals. He has published three chapbooks (When Stars Fall Down as Snow, Garland Press 1976; Dream of the Electric Eel, Wolfsong Publications 1982; and The Traveller’s Tale, Whistle Press 1998). His full‐length collections are The Hunted River and The Gravedigger’s Roots, both from Shared Roads Press, 2009).
Logan Larson Is an eighth grade student from Roosevelt Middle School. This is the first time he's ever submitted his work for publication. He's in advanced ILA, and is currently working on writing other short stories. In his free time, he likes to play baseball, basketball, and football.
Pete Madzelan resides in New Mexico with his wife and cat, Manny. Currently has fiction in The Dying Goose. Photography in San Pedro River Review, Catcus Heart, convergence: journal of poetry and art, and Vine Leaves Literary Journal; and forthcoming in Bellingham Review, Pachinko, and BRICKrhetoric. Has had fiction and poetry published in literary journals, including Cigale Literary Magazine, Bellowing Ark, Wind; essays in a variety of publications including the Santa Fe Reporter and Minor League News.
Lydia Matheny is an English Education major at Southeast Missouri State University. Her previously published works include "Spider's Cradle" in the magazine Halfway Down the Stairs and "Starvation Index" in the magazine Eskimo Pie.
Peter McMillan is a freelance writer and ESL instructor who lives on the northwest shore of Lake Ontario with his wife and two flat-coated retrievers. In 2012, he published his first book, Flash! Fiction.
Brandon Meyers lives and writes in colorful Colorado. He is co-author of the novels The Missing Link, Dead and Moaning in Las Vegas, and the forthcoming The Sensationally Absurd Life and Times of Slim Dyson. He also co-writes the web-comic A Beer for the Shower.
Tracie Morell is just a poet on a mission to engage a meaningful discourse about the treachery of beauty, and she’s eager to talk to anyone who is willing to discuss how terrible angels are.
Suzanne O'Connell volunteers with the American Red Cross and was presented with the Candlelight Award as the District Mental Health Volunteer of the Year. She has assisted in recovery during fifty-six disasters, including floods, fires, building collapses, train derailments, and the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
Brigita Orel has had her stories and poems published in Foliate Oak Literary Journal, Cantaraville, Autumn Sky Poetry, Islet, and other print and online magazines and collections. In 2010, she was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She studied writing at Swinburne, Australia, and she lives and creates in Slovenia. Discover more at Brigita's blog.
Chad Curtis Rose has been writing poetry for 26 years, and is currently working on compiling a collection of his works to present in book form. He is also nearing completion on his memoirs of enduring the trials and tribulations of Bipolar Disorder.
Catherine Batac Walder's writing appears in Fine Books and Collections, M-Brane SF, The Big Jewel and more. Born and raised in the Philippines, she moved across Norway, Finland and Portugal for a European MPhil. scholarship. She worked as a research group administrator at the Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, until her first child was born. You can learn more about Catherine here.
Melissa Wilson is an instructor in the Education Department at UAM. She loves to write poetry, fiction, and non-fiction.
Steve Wing lives in Florida under shifting skies. His photography and writing have appeared in Foliate Oak, BluePrint Review, Qarrtsiluni, and other on line journals.
Kirby Wright was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is a graduate of Punahou School in Honolulu and the University of California at San Diego. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Wright has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and is a past recipient of the Ann Fields Poetry Prize, the Academy of American Poets Award, the Browning Society Award for Dramatic Monologue, and Arts Council Silicon Valley Fellowships in Poetry and The Novel. He was the 2011 Artist in Residence at Milkwood International, Czech Republic.
Marian Brooks Recently retired, Marian has begun writing short fiction. Her work has appeared in Curly Red Stories, One Million Stories, Thick Jam, Linnett's Wings and others.
Chelsey Clammer received her MA in Women's Studies from Loyola University Chicago. She has been published in THIS, The Rumpus, Atticus Review, Sleet, The Coachella Review and Make/shift among many others. She received the Nonfiction Editor's Pick Award 2012 from both Revolution House and Cobalt, as well as a Pushcart Prize nomination.You can read more of her writing here.
Holly Day is a housewife and mother of two living in Minneapolis, Minnesota who teaches needlepoint classes in the Minneapolis school district. Her poetry has recently appeared in The Worcester Review, Broken Pencil, and Slipstream, and she is a recent recipient of the Sam Ragan Poetry Prize from Barton College. Her book publications include Music Composition for Dummies, Guitar-All-in-One for Dummies, Notenlesen für Dummies Das Pocketbuch, and Music Theory for Dummies, which has recently been translated into French, Dutch, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, and German. Her novel, “The Trouble With Clare,” is due out from Hydra Publications in 2013.
Jon Epstien is a contributor to The Judean and a member of The Los Angeles Poets and Writers Collective. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Forge, the Pierce College Voices Collective, Out On The Stoop, Poetic Diversity, and Poetry Superhighway. After a failed education, and fourteen years of dead end jobs and drug related crime, Epstein found sobriety. Today, he shares a life with his wife Kelly of 25 years in San Fernando Valley, California, and remains sober and active in a Twelve Step program, twenty six years and counting.
Grant Flint has appeared in Story Quarterly, The Nation, The King’s English, Poetry, Weber, Amelia, Slow Trains, Common Ties, and 37 other print and online journals. He was memoir winner in the 2007 "Soul Making Literary Contest," and appeared in the 2007 "Writer’s Digest Short Story Competition Collection". He was nominated for the 2009 Pushcart Prize.
Roland Goity lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he writes in the shadows of planes coming and going from SFO. His stories can be found in Fiction International, The Raleigh Review, Word Riot, Compass Rose, PANK, and more recently in The MacGuffin, Menacing Hedge, Bluestem, and Defenestration."
Kyle Hemmings has been published in Wigleaf, Storyglossia, Elimae, Match Book, This Zine Will Save Your Life, and elsewhere. . His latest collection of prose/poetry is Void & Sky from Outskirt Press. He lives and writes in New Jersey.
Gary Higgins is a photographer-artist from Alexander, Arkansas. He began taking photographs at the age of 14, using a film camera handed down by his brother. He seldom poses his subjects, allowing the image to form naturally. He then adds his own distinctiveness to achieve the final version.
Jack Hill works in recycling, edits Crossed Out Magazine, and lives in Northern California.
Kevin Hogg is a husband, father, teacher, writer, and Chicago Cubs fan. He was a winner in the 2005 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest and has published poetry with inner art journal and Mouse Tales Press. His favorite things include raccoons, the Smithsonian Institution, and George Orwell novels. His future goals include riding a gondola in Venice, completing a marathon, and learning to throw a boomerang.
Bryce Journey teaches composition at Iowa Western Community College. He recently finished an MA in English with focuses in Creative Nonfiction and American Literature. His creative work has been represented for sale in Hollywood and his poetry, creative nonfiction, and short fiction has appeared in thirteen different literary magazines. His comedy won him a film credit in Mike Nelson (of MST3K fame) and crew’s RiffTrax Live: Reefer Madness project. When he’s not entertaining his three-year-old son, Luke Ender, he likes watching bad movies with his wife, Laura, satiating his passion for board gaming, and increasing his skills as an amateur yo-yo enthusiast.
Joe Kapitan frequents northern Ohio, passing himself off as an architect. His short fiction has been published online and in print. He was invited to a war once, but kept to the edges.
Martin Kiel Since retirement, Marty Kiel has revisited his interest in literature, particularly poetry, and has participated actively in poetry writer’s workshops and local writer’s groups. He also enjoys painting, wood and stone carving, astronomy, and camping with his family in their small motor-home.
Conor Kelley was born in Seattle, WA, and played college baseball as an undergraduate while earning his BA in English literature from the University of Dubuque. His work has appeared in various publications in both the United States and Ireland. He is a staff writer for the fantasy sports site DobberSports.com. This spring, he will be published in Slow Trains literary journal and The Tenth Muse literary magazine. Conor is currently seeking representation for his first full-length work, a baseball instructional book.
Robert S. King's poems have appeared in hundreds of journals. He has published three chapbooks (When Stars Fall Down as Snow, Garland Press 1976; Dream of the Electric Eel, Wolfsong Publications 1982; and The Traveller’s Tale, Whistle Press 1998). His full‐length collections are The Hunted River and The Gravedigger’s Roots, both from Shared Roads Press, 2009).
Logan Larson Is an eighth grade student from Roosevelt Middle School. This is the first time he's ever submitted his work for publication. He's in advanced ILA, and is currently working on writing other short stories. In his free time, he likes to play baseball, basketball, and football.
Pete Madzelan resides in New Mexico with his wife and cat, Manny. Currently has fiction in The Dying Goose. Photography in San Pedro River Review, Catcus Heart, convergence: journal of poetry and art, and Vine Leaves Literary Journal; and forthcoming in Bellingham Review, Pachinko, and BRICKrhetoric. Has had fiction and poetry published in literary journals, including Cigale Literary Magazine, Bellowing Ark, Wind; essays in a variety of publications including the Santa Fe Reporter and Minor League News.
Lydia Matheny is an English Education major at Southeast Missouri State University. Her previously published works include "Spider's Cradle" in the magazine Halfway Down the Stairs and "Starvation Index" in the magazine Eskimo Pie.
Peter McMillan is a freelance writer and ESL instructor who lives on the northwest shore of Lake Ontario with his wife and two flat-coated retrievers. In 2012, he published his first book, Flash! Fiction.
Brandon Meyers lives and writes in colorful Colorado. He is co-author of the novels The Missing Link, Dead and Moaning in Las Vegas, and the forthcoming The Sensationally Absurd Life and Times of Slim Dyson. He also co-writes the web-comic A Beer for the Shower.
Tracie Morell is just a poet on a mission to engage a meaningful discourse about the treachery of beauty, and she’s eager to talk to anyone who is willing to discuss how terrible angels are.
Suzanne O'Connell volunteers with the American Red Cross and was presented with the Candlelight Award as the District Mental Health Volunteer of the Year. She has assisted in recovery during fifty-six disasters, including floods, fires, building collapses, train derailments, and the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
Brigita Orel has had her stories and poems published in Foliate Oak Literary Journal, Cantaraville, Autumn Sky Poetry, Islet, and other print and online magazines and collections. In 2010, she was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She studied writing at Swinburne, Australia, and she lives and creates in Slovenia. Discover more at Brigita's blog.
Chad Curtis Rose has been writing poetry for 26 years, and is currently working on compiling a collection of his works to present in book form. He is also nearing completion on his memoirs of enduring the trials and tribulations of Bipolar Disorder.
Catherine Batac Walder's writing appears in Fine Books and Collections, M-Brane SF, The Big Jewel and more. Born and raised in the Philippines, she moved across Norway, Finland and Portugal for a European MPhil. scholarship. She worked as a research group administrator at the Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, until her first child was born. You can learn more about Catherine here.
Melissa Wilson is an instructor in the Education Department at UAM. She loves to write poetry, fiction, and non-fiction.
Steve Wing lives in Florida under shifting skies. His photography and writing have appeared in Foliate Oak, BluePrint Review, Qarrtsiluni, and other on line journals.
Kirby Wright was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is a graduate of Punahou School in Honolulu and the University of California at San Diego. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Wright has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and is a past recipient of the Ann Fields Poetry Prize, the Academy of American Poets Award, the Browning Society Award for Dramatic Monologue, and Arts Council Silicon Valley Fellowships in Poetry and The Novel. He was the 2011 Artist in Residence at Milkwood International, Czech Republic.
