Issue Seven Contributors

Carl Palmer, nominated for the Micro Award in flash fiction and three Pushcart Prizes by poetry magazine editors, is from Old Mill Road in Ridgeway, VA.  Carl now lives in University Place, WA without wristwatch, cell phone or alarm clock.  His Motto:  Long Weekends Forever.

Alexandra Oh
Alexandra Oh studies creative writing and East Asian history at the University of California-San Diego. She is working on her first novel.

Aaron Poller currently works as an advanced practice nurse-psychotherapist in Winston-Salem and teaches Mental Health Nursing at Winston-Salem State University. He has been writing since the 1960′s when he studied poetry with Jean Garrigue and Daniel Hoffman while a student at the University of Pennsylvania. His poems have appeared recently in Barnwood Poetry Magazine, Eunoia Review, Muddy River Poetry Review, The Writing Disorder, Cherry Blossom Review, Wild Goose Poetry Review, Poetry Quarterly, Poetic Medicine, The Yale Journal of Humanities in Medicine and Palimpsest. He lives in a small house with his wife, four rescued dogs and three rescued cats.

Peter Lingard, born a Briton sold ice-creams on railway stations, worked as a bank clerk, delivered milk, laboured in a large dairy, served in the Royal Marines and ‘bounced’ leery customers in a London clip-joint.  He was an accountant, a barman and a farm worker.  Peter lived in the US for a while, where he owned a freight forwarding business.  He went to Australia because the sun frequently shines there and the natives communicate in English.  His stories and poems have appeared in 50+ magazines and e-zines.  His first novel seeks publication.

Steve Klepetar’s work has appeared widely and has received several nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.  His latest chapbook is Thirty-six Crows, published in 2010 by erbacce-press.

James Piatt
James earned his BS and MA from California State Polytechnic University, one of his MA concentrations was Existential Literature, ergo the reason for his stories being somewhat dark. He earned a
doctorate from Brigham Young University. Twenty four of his short stories have been published these past two years by; Literary House Review, Greensilk Journal, Magic Cat Press, Welcome to Wherever, The Medulla Review, and others.

David Spicer has, over the years and in pursuit of the word, worked as a paper boy, dishwasher, bottle loader, record warehouser, carpet roll dragger, burger flopper, ditch digger, weather observer, furniture mover, Manpower flunky, gas pumper, bookseller, tutor, 11th & 12th grader babysitter, magazine and book editor and publisher, typesetter, proofreader, carney barker, chocolate twister, artist’s model, and last and certainly least, clinical trial subject for a laxative. He is the author of one full-length collection of poems, Everybody Has a Story, and four chapbooks plus five unpublished manuscripts of poems. His poems have appeared or will appear in The American Poetry Review, Alcatraz, Nitty Gritty, Ploughshares, Used Furniture, Hinchas de Poesia, and many others.