Issue Nine Contributors

 

Alan Passman strives for impossibility. His aesthetic, one that blends blatant pop cultural nerdery with red hot American male deviancy, masks the empathetic heart of one who has hurt and one who has been hurt. He has had two chapbooks, Pop Monger and These Vertigo Transmissions, published by Viva Vox Press. Ever the renaissance man, he is not only a poet and a writer of prose but also a musician in the Los Angeles-based band The Terrapin. He received his BA and MFA from Cal State Long Beach for Creative Writing and Poetry respectively. Currently, he teaches English as a Second Language at CSULB.

Suzanne Allen’s poems appear in Not a Muse, (Haven Books, 2009) Strangers in Paris (Tightrope Books, 2011) and Villanelles (Random House, 2012) and in literary journals such as Tears in the Fence, Nerve Cowboy, Upstairs at Duroc, Spot Lit Mag, Pearl, California Quarterly, and Cider Press Review—who nominated her for a Pushcart Prize. She is a co-editor of the Paris based issue.ZERO, and her chapbook, Verisimilitude, is available at Corrupt Press.

Thomas Mundt lives in Chicago.  He is the author of the short-story collection You Have Until Noon to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe (Goldfish Press, 2011) and a 2012 Pushcart Prize nominee.  

Susan Adams is an Australian poet who has been published extensively in anthologies, online and print literary journals both in Australia and internationally. She has been read numerously on ABC Radio National. Recent publications have included Eureka Street,  Nth Position (UK),  Great Works (UK), Eclecticism Aus), Sugarmule (USA), Bacopa (USA),  Hecate (Aus,) Social Alternatives (Aus), Ascent Aspirations (Ca), Cordite (Aus), The Chaffey Review (USA). She is preparing her first collection. 

Peter fell into fiction by writing stories to amuse his grammar-school classmates, which helped him overcome his shyness, but led to very few completed homework assignments.  He has an abiding love of cheese in all its gloriously stinky forms, horror movies with a sense of humor and trashy punk and garage-rock.  He was raised and currently resides in Chicago with his wife and cats.  His writing has appeared in The Delinquent, Candlelight, Black Words On White Paper and Spook City.

Amit Parmessur
Born in 1983 Amit Parmessur is one of the editors of poetry magazine The Rainbow Rose. His poems have appeared in around 100 literary magazines, such as: Ann Arbor Review, Burnt Bridge, Black-Listed Magazine, Calliope Nerve, Damazine, Front Porch Review, Nefarious Ballerina, Poetry Bulawayo, Primalzine, Scythe, The Houston Literary Review, Zouch Magazine and many others. He is nominated for the 2011 Pushcart Award and lives in Quatre-Bornes, Mauritius. In 2007 his poetry collection The Words I Loved was published locally. His book on blog entitled Lord Shiva & Other Poems was published in July 2011 by The Camel Saloon.

JW Mark is a poet living in Sagamore Hills, Ohio. Publications to include his work include The Ampersand Review, Eunoia Review, The Midwest Literary Magazine, flashquake, and The North Chicago Review. He is the author of a novel, entitled Artifice, as well as a book of poems entitled Patched Collective.