Issue Twenty-Nine Contributors

Who’s coming up in Issue Twenty-Nine…

Steven Minchen
Steven has spent the past three years confused, believing he was an asteroid. Once back on Earth, a trip which mearly required him to lift his head,he found himself again crashing hard in New York’s capital city. There he found his mistakes, murmurs and travels appearing in Four and Twenty, mad swirl, Short, Fast and Deadly, vox poetica, and Heavy Hands Ink. Steven continues, unless he’s dead, at which point he will not.  He plans, at that point, to switch from continuing to silently cohabitating in an omnipresent way.

Karie McNeley
Karie McNeley is a mid-twenties poet, artist, and student from Lakewood, CA. Her poetry has been published in Gutter Eloquence, Pagan Friends, Prospective Journal, and Bank-Heavy Press. She has forthcoming publications in Tears in the Fence, and PEARL and is an editor and artist for Bank-Heavy Press, a small-press publishing group founded in 2011 and located in Long Beach, CA.

Stephen Mead
A resident of NY, Stephen Mead is a published artist, writer and maker of short collage-films.  Much can be learned of his multi-media work by placing his name in any search engine.  His latest project, a collaboration with composer Kevin MacLeod, is entitled “Whispers of Arias“, a two volume CD set of narrative poems sung to music.

Phil Lane
Phil Lane’s poems have been periodically appearing in print and online for the past decade. He lives in New Jersey with his Boston Terrier, Tug, and teaches English for a private tutoring company.

John Biesecker
John  Biesecker lives in Colorado, where he spends his time chasing after his small children and writing in the wee hours of the morning.  Links to his other published stories and excerpts from his novels can be found at JohnBiesecker.com.

Patrick Jackson
Patrick Jackson holds an MFA in Creative Writing, Fiction from Fairleigh Dickinson University.  He has had works published in Grey Sparrow Journal, and The Cynic Online Magazine. He grew up in the small town of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  After graduating college, Patrick moved to New York City, where he has lived for the past 8 years.  He teaches and tutors writing for several different CUNY colleges.

Jamie Nichols

Jamie Nichols hails from Torrance, California where she studies art at the local community college. She is a supporter of local farmers and sustainable living and you can find her clerking at Whole Foods Market on the weekends. She never once gave poetry a chance until she took a class with Clint Margrave, a local Long Beach poet, who changed her paradigm on that.
 

Todd J. Donery
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After many years of being diverted from my original career path in photography I am back in school to finish my degree in Photography/Digital Imaging. Over the years, I have had various exhibits of my work in the Minneapolis, MN area, which is where I reside. My images have been used for websites, a calendar, album covers, and slide shows for musical performances. Most recently I have been published on the online literary journal, Midwestern Gothic and exhibited in the Edina Art Crawl. I enjoy all aspects of photography, but I have found my preferred artistic expression is in composite imagery.