Issue Thirty-Nine Contributors

Sometimes J.C.D. Kerwin wonders about rocket ships and Jupiter. Sometimes the kid thinks they’re some sort of superhero and they’re supposed to save the whole damn world with their stories. Find the wannabe hero at http://jcdkerwin.wordpress.com

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.  

Marie Lecrivain is a writer, photographer, and the editor/publisher of poeticdiversity: the litzine of Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in various journals, including Haibun Today, Illumen, The Los Angeles Review, Poetry Salzburg Review,Spillway, and, is forthcoming in Iodine Poetry Journal, Lummox Journal, and others. Her short story collection,Bitchess(copyright 2011 Sybaritic Press), is available through Amazon.com  and smashwords.com.

Carolyn Adams has been active in the art and literary communities of Houston, Austin, and other parts of Texas since the 1980’s. Her poetry, collage art and photography have appeared in Caveat Lector, The Alembic, Clare Literary Journal, The Weight of Addition: An Anthology of Texas Poetry,  and Common Ground Review, among others.  She has authored the chapbooks Beautiful Strangers (Lily Press, 2006), What Do You See? (Right Hand Pointing, 2007), and An Ocean of Names (Red Shoe Press, 2011).

Michael V. Gibson is an editor, language teacher and tutor, and published writer; recently his short fiction was featured in the literary journal Panâche. Over the last six years he’s traveled throughout the quiet corners of the United States and Europe, fascinated by the lives of those living in forgotten, overlooked areas. Consequently, he’s found that the most striking stories are the ones most seldom told. 

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.

René Houtrides’s short stories have appeared in The Georgia Review, New Ohio Review, The Mississippi Review, and a special fiction supplement of The Woodstock Times. The Georgia Review story is included in that journal’s Spring 2011 issue, given over to a retrospective of its finest short stories from the past 25 years. She was a staff writer for The Woodstock Times for five years, during which time she received a New York Press Association Award (first place) for best sports/outdoor column. More than half a dozen of her essays have aired on WAMC Public Radio. One of her plays, Calamity Jane, was produced in New York City; and a great deal of her original theater material was performed at theaters throughout the United States and on national television.She received an MFA in creative writing from Bard College and is currently on the faculty of Juilliard’s drama division. She was born and raised near Manhattan’s LIttle Italy and Chinatown.