Issue Thirty-Six Contributors

 

Guess who’s coming to breakfast next Monday…

Mila Anhielo is a 21 year old from Los Angeles, an avid blogger, reader, and student. You can find her face-deep inside a notebook after a poetry class, or jotting down thoughts on napkins in the local downtown doughnut shops. Mila hopes to publish more poetry, connect further with her literature-loving colleagues, and continue to work toward a promising career.

Caroline Muise goes to Hampshire College and studies psychology and creative writing. Caroline makes the same face in every photograph and, on occasion, will look up words in the dictionary and then mispronounce them.

Kamden Hilliard is a rising freshman at Sarah Lawrence College studying creative writing, education, survival, and philosophy.. His respect for language has led him to numerous prizes including: the Easterday Prize and a gold medal in the Scholastic Art and Writing program. He was also named a YoungArts level one winner in creative nonfiction. Kamden has expanded his writing interests to include a poetry editorship position with the Adroit Journal. He looks forward to the future, in which he’ll be writing profusely without distractions, like math. He has been published (or has forthcoming work) Crashtest, Emerge Literary Journal, Missive, Fortunates, and The Enuoia Review. His ultimate goal is to discover a healthy and interesting way to survive his life. If he wasn’t writing, he’d be a mad scientist.

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 He is the author of one full-length collection of poems, “Everybody Has a Story”, and four chapbooks plus six unpublished manuscripts of poems. He has two poems in Crack the Spine 7. His poems have appeared or will appear in Alcatraz, Nitty Gritty, Aura, Brown God, Hinchas de Poesia, shuf, Dirtflask, Spudgun, Mad Rush, Used Furniture Review, Fur-Lined Ghettos, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Resurgo, and elsewhere.

J. B. Hogan was nominated for a 2010 Pushcart Prize for his story “Kerosene Heat.”  His dystopian novel “New Columbia” was published in Aphelion and his prize-winning e-book “Near Love Stories is” online at Cervena Barva Press.  He has many stories and poems in such journals as: Cynic Online Magazine, Istanbul Literary Review, Every Day Poets, Ranfurly Review, and the Dead Mule.  His work has been anthologized in Flash of Aphelion and The Best of Frontier Tales: Volume 1. His book of fiction “The Apostate” is due out late summer/early fall 2012 from Pen-L Publishing. He lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Brian Kayser is a writer who lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. Brian’s fiction has appeared in 34th Parallel Magazine, Alliterati Magazine, Down Dirty Word, Writing Raw, and Bursting Plethora and forthcoming in The Orris Journal, Bartleby Snopes, and Eunoia Review. He has been editor-in-chief at HipHopGame.com since 2003, where he has interviewed and written about a variety of hip-hop artists. His writings about music have also appeared in The Source and various websites and magazines.

Stephen Byrne is originally from Dublin who now lives in Galway west Ireland and is a chef for his sins. His work has been published in various places in Ireland and Canada and recently in Emerge Literary Journal. He was a featured reader at Over the Edge readings in November and was shortlisted for last year’s Over the Edge Poetry competition 2011.

Geoffrey Miller (Cover Artist)

Geoffrey Miller is a lecturer of composition currently teaching at Qatar University in Doha, Qatar.  His most recent publications are “Kyoung Bok Palace 004” (photography) cover of Willows Wept Review Winter 2012, “Ascension” (short fiction) in Stepping Stone Magazine May 2012, “Worldly Temptation – 005” (photography) in Existere Journal of Arts and Literature Vol. 33 No. 2, “Hanoi – Dissemination” (photography) in Superstition Review Vol. 9, “On a Balcony in Cusco – 008” (photography) in THIS Literary Magazine Vol. 14, “Manila” (short fiction) in Anok Sastra, Vol. 6, “Motionless Movement” (photography) in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal Vol. 15 and “Istanbul” (photography) in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore Vol. 10 No. 4.  His photography series “The Streets of Sri Lanka” is also on permanent display in the Prick of the Spindle Online Gallery.