Issue Forty-Eight Contributors

 

Good morning!  Good reading!  Good writers…

Maury Nicely
Maury Nicely lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee. His work has previously appeared in Prick of the Spindle and Clapboard House.


Linda Niehoff
Linda Niehoff studied Theatre & Film at the University of Kansas. While still a student her play, Childish Things, was produced by the university. She now lives in a small Kansas town where she enjoys writing and photography. Her stories have been finalists in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award and Short Story Award for New Writers. Most recently she won Honorable Mention in the Kansas Voices Writing Contest.

Robert Heath
“Forty something project manager in the engineering sector by day and in the very early hours, before work, a writer. Avid reader. Proud family man. Happy. Living with my long term partner. Two great kids. I am a recovered heroin addict who lost a good portion of his twenties to drugs. Having redeemed myself somewhat I am now in the position of being happy enough to try again for the only personnel dream I have ever had, that of being a writer. As a fiction writer and a poet I am influenced by the greats as I see them – Kafka, Dickens, Bret Easton Ellis, Hubert Selby, Cormack McCarthy, William Faulkner, William Burroughs, Phillip Larkin, W H Auden, Adrian Mitchell and most of all – Charles Bukowski, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Pablo Neruda  – people who could paint the inside of your mind with words. I like to think in some small way, I am following in their footsteps, or at least trying to. I have to date won an online short story competition and had several pieces of poetry published in various magazines such as Inclement, Poetry Now, Poetry North West, Bop Dead City, Bare Hands  and Gold Dust to name but a few.”

Christina Harrington
Christina Harrington is currently pursuing her MFA in Creative Writing, emphasis in Fiction, at Sarah Lawrence College. She’s the Editorial Assistant for Lumina Volume 12and her work has been a finalist at the Hollins University Fiction Contest in 2012. Christina loves reading as much as she loves writing and hopes to someday live in an English cottage.

Cory Saul
Cory Saul is a recent graduate of a small private college in San Diego. Now removed from his student-employed position as the school’s bathroom newsletter writer, he is suffering an existential crisis. He currently lives and writes in New York City.

Elena Botts
Elena grew up in Maryland, and currently lives in Northern Virginia. She is still attending school. She likes to run. And write. She’s been published in multiple magazines in the past year and is currently working with a small-press editor on a book of poetry titled “a littleluminescence.”

Marie Abate 
Marie Abate is a poet and writer from Baltimore. She completed an M.A. in Writing from Johns Hopkins University in December 2011. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Sewanee Theological Review, The Meadowland Review, Halfway Down the Stairs, Urbanite, 20Something Magazine, In Posse Review, Bank-Heavy Press, Loop Stories, Downer Magazine, and the Potomac Review, among other publications. She works as an editor and spends her free time working on Seltzer, a literary magazine based in Baltimore.