Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 243
Kevin Richard White
Kevin Richard White is the author of the novels The Face Of A Monster and Patch Of Sunlight. His work has been previously published by Akashic Books, Sundog Lit, Grub Street, Hypertext, The Hunger, Crack The Spine, Dime Show Review, Lunch Ticket, Digging Through The Fat and Ghost Parachute among others. He lives in Pennsylvania.
Candace Hartsuyker
Candace Hartsuyker is a first-year fiction student in McNeese State University’s MFA Program. She has been published in Foliate Oak, Foxglove Journal, Former Cactus, Bending Genres and others.
Joaquin Macias
Joaquin Macias was born in Sumter, South Carolina to a military brat and Californian expatriate. He attended Catholic School, which convinced him the best way to beat the system was from the inside. He is a student of English and Theater at Winthrop University.
Keith Moul
Keith Moul is now 72. He’s written poetry for more than 50 years; taken photos for 10 years or so. He’s widely published in both genres. He hails from the central plains, but is ecstatic in the pacific northwest.
Bailey Merlin
Bailey Merlin holds an MFA in fiction from Butler University. Her work has been featured by Not Your Mother’s Breast Milk, The Indianapolis Review, lipstickparty magazine, among others. She lives and writes in Boston with 2 dogs, 2 cats, and 7-9 other people (depending on the day). Check more of her stuff out at baileymerlin.com
Jim Cole
Jim Cole is a writer living on the Russian River in Northern California. He received a 2017 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. His story The Asphodel Meadow was published in the anthology PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2017. He has an MFA from the University of San Francisco, where the faculty nominated his novel ffrrfr for the AWP Intro Journals Project. When he’s not writing, he’s running trails on the Sonoma Coast and building his coffee roasting business Freezeout Coffee, which donates 50% of profits to preserving the environment.
Amanda DeNatale
Amanda DeNatale is an alumna of Creighton University’s MFA program. Her work has appeared in Toasted Cheese, and is forthcoming in CALYX. She is currently a junior editor for F(r)iction. Amanda is a writer by day and a waitress by night. She is a St. Louis native, currently residing in Omaha, Nebraska.
Danielle Hanson
Danielle Hanson is the author of Fraying Edge of Sky (Codhill Press Poetry Prize, 2018) and Ambushing Water (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2017). Her work won the Vi Gale Award from Hubbub, was Finalist for 2018 Georgia Author of the Year Award and was nominated for several Pushcarts. She is Poetry Editor for Doubleback Books, and is on the staff of the Atlanta Review.
Mike Nagel
Mike Nagel’s essays have appeared in Hobart, Salt Hill, DIAGRAM, and The Paris Review Daily. His essay Beached Whales was a Best American Essays 2017 notable essay. Read more at michaelscottnagel.com. Or follow on Twitter @misternagel.