Issue Twenty-Five has graciously granted us a little sneak peek…
AV Boyd
AV Boyd was raised in Peralta, New Mexico, an obsessive basketball player good enough to sit the bench in high school and then again his freshman year at Knox College, Galesburg, IL. He tried track and field and fell twice trying to hand off the baton in separate relay races. He returned to Albuquerque where he studied evolutionary biology, and then pharmacy. After graduating he went to Richmond, VA to study Pharmacoepidemiology and withdrew after the first semester, promptly taking the train home, minus the tar and feathers. He currently resides in Los Ranchos, NM with his fiancé and their cat, Freddi, and would like to start a farm.
Joplin Rice
Joplin Rice is a writer currently residing in a small town just outside of Lexington, Kentucky. In the coming fall semester he will begin classes at the University of Kentucky where he plans on majoring in Secondary English Education and further honing his writing skills. When not reading or writing Joplin enjoys hiking in the Red River Gorge, a place teeming with artistic inspiration and near and dear to his heart. Currently, he is working on a collection of short stories accompanied by a novella, which he hopes will illuminate the pros and cons of being a teenager coexisting alongside a confederacy of dunces. Joplin’s fiction is forthcoming at The Zodiac Review and Fiction365.
Kate LaDew
Kate LaDew is a graduate from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a BA in Studio Art. She resides in Graham, NC with her cat, Charlie Chaplin, and is currently working on her first novel.
Chaya Murali
Chaya Murali is a second-year medical student at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. She studied English at Rice University, where she discovered her love of the personal essay form. Through personal essay, Chaya seeks to touch others’ lives while staying firmly grounded in her own. Chaya hopes to continue writing throughout her career as a physician, and she plans to use creative writing to empower children with genetic conditions, as well as their families. She has published two other personal essays during her years in college. Chaya’s favorite book is Kartography by Kamila Shamsie, and she is currently reading Louise Rennison’s Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants.
Joe Giordano
Joe Giordano was born in Brooklyn, and grew up in a blue-collar section of New York City. He and his wife, Jane, lived in Greece, Brazil, Belgium and Netherlands. They now live in Texas with their little Shih Tzu, Sophia, where Joe studies writing at the University of Texas in Austin. Joe’s story, “Small Men have Trouble,” was featured the weekend of March 23rd in “Black Heart Magazine,” and his story, “To See that Look Again,” will appear in “The Summerset Review” in June.
Caitlin O’Sullivan
Caitlin O’Sullivan is a novelist and MFA graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato. Someday she will reside below the snow line.
Penelope L. Mace
Penelope L. Mace writes fiction and an occasional one act play. She has been published recently in numerous small or literary journals such as “Moon Milk Review” and “Iconoclast.” She has returned to the artful punishment of writing and attempting to be published after a long hiatus during which she raised children and worked outside home in health care. She is currently finishing up a novel about coming of age in a racially charged, volatile and deliciously exciting time in history – the summer of 1968, the setting, the Poor People’s Campaign in Washington, DC. Currently she lives near Minneapolis and enjoys the great honor of helping to care for her younger granddaughter, Alexis, born in Dec. of 2011.
My thanks to Keri Farrell Foley for publishing my work.
Amazing Joplin……God Bless ya and your’ll family always.