Our Fabulous Contributors
Heather Adams lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she writes short fiction and practices law, not necessarily in that order.
Carrie Lynn Barker is an avid writer who has been writing all her life. She is the author of four novels, the second of which was nominated in the paranormal category at EPICon 2012. Her fifth novel will be released in February 2013.
Eleanor Leonne Bennett has been published widely and frequently around the world. She tries to not cut off her finger while making sandwiches.
CL Bledsoe 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. A poetry chapbook, Goodbye to Noise, is available online at www.righthandpointing.com/bledsoe. Another, The Man Who Killed Himself in My Bathroom, is available here. His story, "Leaving the Garden," was selected as a Notable Story of 2008 for Story South's Million Writer's Award. His story “The Scream” was selected as a Notable Story of 2011. He’s been nominated for the Pushcart Prize 5 times. He blogs at Murder Your Darlings, here. 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.
Graeme Brasher is an Australian teacher working at an international school in Hong Kong. His poetry has been published in Foliate Oak and Asian Cha.
Lisa Braxton, a native of Bridgeport, Connecticut, earned her MFA in Creative Writing at Southern New Hampshire University. She is the immediate past president of the Women’s National Book Association/Boston Chapter and an Emmy-nominated journalist. She is a former television news anchor and reporter and spent her television career at stations in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. She is also a former newspaper reporter and radio reporter. She currently lives in the Boston, Massachusetts area. Lisa has been published in numerous literary journals, including Snake Nation Review, Foliate Oak, Meetinghouse: A Journal of New England Fiction, and Clockhouse Review.
Frank de Canio Born & bred in New Jersey, Frank works in New York. He loves music from Bach to Dory Previn, Amy Beach to Amy Winehouse,
World Music, Latin, opera. Shakespeare is his consolation, writing his hobby. He likes Dylan Thomas, Keats, Wallace Stevens, Frost , Ginsburg, and Sylvia Plath as poets.
Cecelia "Cece" Chapman is an artist working in writing, video and photography. You can learn more here.
Gina DeLorenzo is an almost-50 year old native New Yorker, born and raised on the lower east side of Manhattan. She loves to write, cook, and hang out with her son, Angelo, and dog, Shadow. Gina is a kidney transplant recipient and believes that positive thoughts lead to positive actions and outcomes.
Leighanne Ellenson is a Junior at UAM and is currently seeking a Bachelors degree in English with a concentration in creative writing.
Michael Estabrook is Marketing Communications Manager by day and a struggling poet by night who began getting his poetry published in the late 1980s. Over the years he has published 15 poetry chapbooks, his most recent entitled When the Muse Speaks. His interests include history, art, music, theatre, opera, and his wife who just happens to be the most beautiful woman he has ever known.
David Einhorn is a teacher and fledgling writer who lives in Welland, Ontario, Canada. He holds degrees from St. John’s College of Maryland, Canisius College and the University of Western Ontario. He has just completed his first novel, The Fireflies of Eden, and is looking for a publisher.
Grant Flint has been published in Story Quarterly, The Nation, The King’s English, Poetry, Weber, The Courtland Review, The Sun, Slow Trains, Northwind, and 37 other print and online journals. He won the memoir prize in the 2007 "Soul Making Literary Contest," was published in the 2007 "Writer’s Digest Short Story Competition Collection,” and nominated for the 2009 Pushcart Prize. He has been writing for 60 years, does stand-up comedy, composes jazz on the keyboard, and meets wonderful women in the personal ads. His seven E-books are on Amazon.
Paul Germano lives in Syracuse, NY; with his dog April, a strong, muscular and lovable pit bull. Germano’s fiction (flash and otherwise) has been published in roughly 25 print and online magazines including the Journal of Microliterature, Marco Polo, the Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette and the Vestal Review.
Charles Haddox's work has appeared in a number of literary journals including Folio, The Sierra Nevada Review and The Summerset Review.
Alan Haider is an emerging writer who currently resides in South Florida, where he was born and raised. His work has appeared—or will appear soon—in publications such as Star*Line, Bête Noire, and Wilderness House Literary Review.
Beppy Huls An administrative assistant by day, Beppy Huls enjoys both reminiscing about past "adventures" and looking for new ones to write about. She lives in Overland Park, KS with her husband, dog, and two cats.
Scott Jones currently lives in northern New Mexico, after stints in the Netherlands, Scotland and Norway, and believes that this exposure to other cultures makes him well suited to tell a story of a rural area, a battered woman, and cultural clashes.
Rosalind Kaliden has been an English & speech teacher, reading specialist, real estate & insurance agent, voice-over artist, & TV commercial actor, print model, writing student of poet & memoirist Walt Peterson & playwright Janyce Lapore, & has directed, written, & starred in her own interview show on a community cable channel.
Haley Kissell is a new and upcoming writer, new to the world of publishing. The publishing of "Put into a Vial" is her first published work. She looks forward to this being the first of many.
Marianne LaValle-Vincent is a published author with many of her works available world wide. Her credits include three full length poetry collections and hundreds of short stories. She is also a regular contributor to the Erma Bombeck network. She works as a CEO for an assisted living community and still resides in Syracuse, NY with her daughter, Jess and extended family.
Cathrine Lødøen(her art) (her writing) lives in Norway. Her work has appeared in The Blue Print Review, All things girl, Oprah's Breathing Space and In Our Own Words: Generation X, Ed M. P. Weaver.
Elexus Lohman is currently a college student that is inspired by the most unique things. She loves to write about things she has experienced and things she observes out in the world.
Brian Looney has gone to the chapel and wedded his work. He writes to(and for) anyone who respects these bonds. He's been published here and there. See his website here.
Paul J. McNeil has been previously published in Foliate Oak Literary Magazine.
Corey Mesler has published in numerous journals and anthologies. He has published five novels, three books of short stories, numerous chapbooks and two full-length poetry collections. He has been nominated for a Pushcart numerous times, and two of his poems have been chosen for Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. He runs a bookstore in Memphis.
Devon Newhouse is a native of California, studying history at Harvard University. She has increasingly come to realize the joy of writing things that are completely invented-- and has thus turned to fiction as well as historical research papers.
Rachel Newton has a MFA in Creative Writing from Naropa University in July, 2013.
Richard Osgood lives in a city on a river where the north meets the south. Publication credits include Tin House, Hobart, Night Train, Mudluscious, Kill Author, decomP, Los Angeles Review, among others, to include two Pushcart Prize nominations. He continues to mourn the deaths of Steve Marriott and Syd Barrett.
Ania Payne is a creative writing major at Hendrix College. She has been published in Imitation Fruit and The Rusty Nail. On her free time, she enjoys petting cats and eating chocolate ice cream.
Sy Roth is a retired school administrator and has finally found the sounds of silence and the time to think whole thoughts. This has led him to find words and the ability to shape them. He has published in Visceral Uterus, Amulet, BlogNostics, Every Day Poets, Barefoot Review, Haggard and Halloo, Misfits Miscellany, Mad Swirl, Larks Fiction Magazine, Danse Macabre, Bitchin’ Kitch, Bong is Bard, Humber Pie and The Eloquent Atheist.
Fabio Sassi has had several experiences in music, photography and writing. He has been a visual artist since 1990 making acrylics using the stenciling technique on canvas, board, old vinyl records and other media. He uses logos, icons, tiny objects, discarded stuff and shades. He often puts a quirky twist to his subjects or employs an unusual perspective that gives a new angle of view. He lives in Bologna, Italy. His work can be viewed here.
Dan Upton is a full time student and stay at home father of four. In his spare time, and surprisingly he does have some, he enjoys writing short stories and working on graphic novels with his oldest son.
Mark Vogel has published short stories in Cities and Roads, Knight Literary Journal, Whimperbang, SN Review, and Our Stories. Poetry has appeared in English Journal, Dark Sky, Cold Mountain Review, and other journals. He is currently Professor of English at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina.
Olga Wojtas is a writer living in Edinburgh, Scotland where she attended theschool which inspired Muriel Spark's "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie". She
has a Diploma in Literature and Creative Writing with distinction from the Open University. A number of her short stories have been published in literary magazines
and anthologies in the UK and USA. She was recently investigated by a university psychology researcher who concluded that, in one respect, she "did not behave abnormally relative to the population".
Davyne DeSye's stories have appeared in Tomorrow, and others are forthcoming in MindFlights and Nth Degree.
Terry Wright teaches creative writing at the University of Central Arkansas. His latest chapbook is "Fractal Cut-Ups" (Kattywompas). His art has been widely published, including venues like Potion, Pure Francis, Third Wednesday and USA Today. Terry believes his sunrise can beat up yours.
Lynette Yetter, lover of nature and equilibrium, spends this life in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres -- from the Arctic Circle to the Andean altiplano. Lynette makes music, movies, books and art, which she hopes will continue to inspire people even after her leaf falls. You can learn more here.
Heather Adams lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she writes short fiction and practices law, not necessarily in that order.
Carrie Lynn Barker is an avid writer who has been writing all her life. She is the author of four novels, the second of which was nominated in the paranormal category at EPICon 2012. Her fifth novel will be released in February 2013.
Eleanor Leonne Bennett has been published widely and frequently around the world. She tries to not cut off her finger while making sandwiches.
CL Bledsoe 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. A poetry chapbook, Goodbye to Noise, is available online at www.righthandpointing.com/bledsoe. Another, The Man Who Killed Himself in My Bathroom, is available here. His story, "Leaving the Garden," was selected as a Notable Story of 2008 for Story South's Million Writer's Award. His story “The Scream” was selected as a Notable Story of 2011. He’s been nominated for the Pushcart Prize 5 times. He blogs at Murder Your Darlings, here. 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.
Graeme Brasher is an Australian teacher working at an international school in Hong Kong. His poetry has been published in Foliate Oak and Asian Cha.
Lisa Braxton, a native of Bridgeport, Connecticut, earned her MFA in Creative Writing at Southern New Hampshire University. She is the immediate past president of the Women’s National Book Association/Boston Chapter and an Emmy-nominated journalist. She is a former television news anchor and reporter and spent her television career at stations in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. She is also a former newspaper reporter and radio reporter. She currently lives in the Boston, Massachusetts area. Lisa has been published in numerous literary journals, including Snake Nation Review, Foliate Oak, Meetinghouse: A Journal of New England Fiction, and Clockhouse Review.
Frank de Canio Born & bred in New Jersey, Frank works in New York. He loves music from Bach to Dory Previn, Amy Beach to Amy Winehouse,
World Music, Latin, opera. Shakespeare is his consolation, writing his hobby. He likes Dylan Thomas, Keats, Wallace Stevens, Frost , Ginsburg, and Sylvia Plath as poets.
Cecelia "Cece" Chapman is an artist working in writing, video and photography. You can learn more here.
Gina DeLorenzo is an almost-50 year old native New Yorker, born and raised on the lower east side of Manhattan. She loves to write, cook, and hang out with her son, Angelo, and dog, Shadow. Gina is a kidney transplant recipient and believes that positive thoughts lead to positive actions and outcomes.
Leighanne Ellenson is a Junior at UAM and is currently seeking a Bachelors degree in English with a concentration in creative writing.
Michael Estabrook is Marketing Communications Manager by day and a struggling poet by night who began getting his poetry published in the late 1980s. Over the years he has published 15 poetry chapbooks, his most recent entitled When the Muse Speaks. His interests include history, art, music, theatre, opera, and his wife who just happens to be the most beautiful woman he has ever known.
David Einhorn is a teacher and fledgling writer who lives in Welland, Ontario, Canada. He holds degrees from St. John’s College of Maryland, Canisius College and the University of Western Ontario. He has just completed his first novel, The Fireflies of Eden, and is looking for a publisher.
Grant Flint has been published in Story Quarterly, The Nation, The King’s English, Poetry, Weber, The Courtland Review, The Sun, Slow Trains, Northwind, and 37 other print and online journals. He won the memoir prize in the 2007 "Soul Making Literary Contest," was published in the 2007 "Writer’s Digest Short Story Competition Collection,” and nominated for the 2009 Pushcart Prize. He has been writing for 60 years, does stand-up comedy, composes jazz on the keyboard, and meets wonderful women in the personal ads. His seven E-books are on Amazon.
Paul Germano lives in Syracuse, NY; with his dog April, a strong, muscular and lovable pit bull. Germano’s fiction (flash and otherwise) has been published in roughly 25 print and online magazines including the Journal of Microliterature, Marco Polo, the Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette and the Vestal Review.
Charles Haddox's work has appeared in a number of literary journals including Folio, The Sierra Nevada Review and The Summerset Review.
Alan Haider is an emerging writer who currently resides in South Florida, where he was born and raised. His work has appeared—or will appear soon—in publications such as Star*Line, Bête Noire, and Wilderness House Literary Review.
Beppy Huls An administrative assistant by day, Beppy Huls enjoys both reminiscing about past "adventures" and looking for new ones to write about. She lives in Overland Park, KS with her husband, dog, and two cats.
Scott Jones currently lives in northern New Mexico, after stints in the Netherlands, Scotland and Norway, and believes that this exposure to other cultures makes him well suited to tell a story of a rural area, a battered woman, and cultural clashes.
Rosalind Kaliden has been an English & speech teacher, reading specialist, real estate & insurance agent, voice-over artist, & TV commercial actor, print model, writing student of poet & memoirist Walt Peterson & playwright Janyce Lapore, & has directed, written, & starred in her own interview show on a community cable channel.
Haley Kissell is a new and upcoming writer, new to the world of publishing. The publishing of "Put into a Vial" is her first published work. She looks forward to this being the first of many.
Marianne LaValle-Vincent is a published author with many of her works available world wide. Her credits include three full length poetry collections and hundreds of short stories. She is also a regular contributor to the Erma Bombeck network. She works as a CEO for an assisted living community and still resides in Syracuse, NY with her daughter, Jess and extended family.
Cathrine Lødøen(her art) (her writing) lives in Norway. Her work has appeared in The Blue Print Review, All things girl, Oprah's Breathing Space and In Our Own Words: Generation X, Ed M. P. Weaver.
Elexus Lohman is currently a college student that is inspired by the most unique things. She loves to write about things she has experienced and things she observes out in the world.
Brian Looney has gone to the chapel and wedded his work. He writes to(and for) anyone who respects these bonds. He's been published here and there. See his website here.
Paul J. McNeil has been previously published in Foliate Oak Literary Magazine.
Corey Mesler has published in numerous journals and anthologies. He has published five novels, three books of short stories, numerous chapbooks and two full-length poetry collections. He has been nominated for a Pushcart numerous times, and two of his poems have been chosen for Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. He runs a bookstore in Memphis.
Devon Newhouse is a native of California, studying history at Harvard University. She has increasingly come to realize the joy of writing things that are completely invented-- and has thus turned to fiction as well as historical research papers.
Rachel Newton has a MFA in Creative Writing from Naropa University in July, 2013.
Richard Osgood lives in a city on a river where the north meets the south. Publication credits include Tin House, Hobart, Night Train, Mudluscious, Kill Author, decomP, Los Angeles Review, among others, to include two Pushcart Prize nominations. He continues to mourn the deaths of Steve Marriott and Syd Barrett.
Ania Payne is a creative writing major at Hendrix College. She has been published in Imitation Fruit and The Rusty Nail. On her free time, she enjoys petting cats and eating chocolate ice cream.
Sy Roth is a retired school administrator and has finally found the sounds of silence and the time to think whole thoughts. This has led him to find words and the ability to shape them. He has published in Visceral Uterus, Amulet, BlogNostics, Every Day Poets, Barefoot Review, Haggard and Halloo, Misfits Miscellany, Mad Swirl, Larks Fiction Magazine, Danse Macabre, Bitchin’ Kitch, Bong is Bard, Humber Pie and The Eloquent Atheist.
Fabio Sassi has had several experiences in music, photography and writing. He has been a visual artist since 1990 making acrylics using the stenciling technique on canvas, board, old vinyl records and other media. He uses logos, icons, tiny objects, discarded stuff and shades. He often puts a quirky twist to his subjects or employs an unusual perspective that gives a new angle of view. He lives in Bologna, Italy. His work can be viewed here.
Dan Upton is a full time student and stay at home father of four. In his spare time, and surprisingly he does have some, he enjoys writing short stories and working on graphic novels with his oldest son.
Mark Vogel has published short stories in Cities and Roads, Knight Literary Journal, Whimperbang, SN Review, and Our Stories. Poetry has appeared in English Journal, Dark Sky, Cold Mountain Review, and other journals. He is currently Professor of English at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina.
Olga Wojtas is a writer living in Edinburgh, Scotland where she attended theschool which inspired Muriel Spark's "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie". She
has a Diploma in Literature and Creative Writing with distinction from the Open University. A number of her short stories have been published in literary magazines
and anthologies in the UK and USA. She was recently investigated by a university psychology researcher who concluded that, in one respect, she "did not behave abnormally relative to the population".
Davyne DeSye's stories have appeared in Tomorrow, and others are forthcoming in MindFlights and Nth Degree.
Terry Wright teaches creative writing at the University of Central Arkansas. His latest chapbook is "Fractal Cut-Ups" (Kattywompas). His art has been widely published, including venues like Potion, Pure Francis, Third Wednesday and USA Today. Terry believes his sunrise can beat up yours.
Lynette Yetter, lover of nature and equilibrium, spends this life in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres -- from the Arctic Circle to the Andean altiplano. Lynette makes music, movies, books and art, which she hopes will continue to inspire people even after her leaf falls. You can learn more here.
