Issue Forty-Five Contributors

After our holiday hiatus, we’re back, with some awesome new talent in tow!

Lisa J. Cihlar

Lisa J. Cihlar’s poems have been published in The South Dakota Review, Green Mountains Review, In Posse Review, Blackbird, and The Prose-Poem Project. One of her poems was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her chapbook, “The Insomniac’s House,” is available from Dancing Girl Press and a second chapbook, “This is How She Fails,” is available from Crisis Chronicles Press. She lives in rural southern Wisconsin.

Colleen Houlihan

Colleen Houlihan is an inept lesbian. She has no gaydar. She attracts middle-aged men with porn addictions. And, she lives in Iowa, not exactly a bustling gay metropolis. Another tale of woe from her pathetic love life will appear in Punchnel’ssoon.

Rasmenia Massoud

Rasmenia Massoud is an American writer living somewhere in France. She is the author of the short story collection, “Human Detritus” and some of her other work has appeared in places like Metazen, The Lowestoft Chronicle, Full of Crow and Underground Voices.

Craig Reishus

Eldon (Craig) Reishus lives just south of Munich just north of the Alps and is an anti-nuclear activist, all-around pro webGuy, and translator of a broad score of films and books. He originates from Fort Smith, Arkansas.

Sean Beld

Sean Beld’s poems have been published in Cartographer, The Whole Beast Rag, and The Apeiron Review. He currently lives in Corvallis, OR.

Gary Clifton

Gary Clifton, forty years a cop, has short fiction pieces pending with over thirty online sites. Clifton has been shot at, shot, stabbed, sued, and often misunderstood. Now retired to a dusty north Texas ranch, he has an M.S. from Abilene Christian University.

Diana Anhalt

Diana Anhalt, formerly a long-time resident of Mexico, is the author of A Gathering of Fugitives: American Political Expatriates in Mexico 1948-1965 (Archer Books) and numerous articles in both the U.S.A. and Mexico. Her chapbook, Second Skin, is forthcoming from Future Cycle Press, and her poetry has appeared in Nimrod, Atlanta Review, Poem and Constellations, among others.

Eleanor Leonne Bennett

Eleanor Leonne Bennett is a 16 year old internationally award winning photographer and artist who has won first places with National Geographic, The World Photography Organisation, Nature’s Best Photography, Papworth Trust, Mencap, The Woodland Trust and Postal Hertitage. Her photography has been published in the Telegraph, The Guardian, BBC News Website and on the cover of books and magazines in the United States and Canada. Her art is globally exhibited, having shown work in London, Paris, Indonesia, Los Angeles, Florida, Washington, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Canada, Spain, Germany, Japan, Australia and The Environmental Photographer of the Year Exhibition (2011) amongst many other locations. She was also the only person from the UK to have her work displayed in the National Geographic and Airbus run See the Bigger Picture global exhibition tour with the United Nations International Year of Biodiversity 2010.