Meet the contributors in upcoming Issue 51!
Adam J. Galanski
Tammy Adams
Tammy is six classes from obtaining a Bachelor’s in English, at the young age of 45. She has already earned two Associate’s, Liberal Arts and English. She loves being a student and her writing has been greatly influenced by her professors and classes. She is a mom whose kids are all grown and moved away. She lives with her husband and dogs. They love the “empty nest!” Traveling with her truck-driver husband has been an inspiration for much of her writing. She writes not for fun, but out of compulsion. Writing helps her to heal and deal with life’s issues. She has been a poet since age ten. When she took a college class on creative writing; she learned she also had a knack for fiction. Writing is not what she does, but who she is. Currently she spends her time searching for publishers. It is her dream to be a recognized and published author. She likes to multi-task and is working on her memoirs, some new pieces, as well as revising some older pieces. She recently completed a cookbook and a series of thirty stories called “The Cackleberrry Tales,” inspired by Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Some of her inspirations have been E.E. Cummings, “Variations on a Text by Vallejo” by Donald Justice, “The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams, “An Inventory of Being” by Lea (Eleanor) Wait, Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. Another recent inspiration is Leaks by Susan Mrosek.
Haden Verble
Haden Verble has been writing short stories for a couple of years. This story is linked to two others, one in press at the Arkansas Review and one published there in Spring, 2012. She has another unrelated story currently in press at Whistling Shade. She also has work published in Grey Sparrow Journaland Prime Mincer and a story anthologized in Broken Spades.
Max Henderson
Max Henderson is a doctoral student in physics at Drexel University. Originally from Coatesville, Pennsylvania, he researches neural networks and quantum computation when he’s not too busy watching Adventure Time. His poems are about making mistakes while drinking a good, dark beer. He has previously been published in Black Heart Magazine and has upcoming work in Citizen Brooklyn.
Krista Ramsay
Krista Ramsay holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Butler University, where she served as Poetry Editor for Booth: A Journal. Her work has appeared on vox poetica and will be featured in the Summer 2013 issue of Inclement Poetry Magazine. She is an avid musician and homebrew enthusiast, currently residing in Indianapolis, Indiana with her husband, Dave, and two turtles, Gary and Otis.
John Grochalski
John Grochalski is the author of “The Noose Doesn’t Get Any Looser After You Punch Out” (Six Gallery Press 2008), “Glass City” (Low Ghost Press, 2010), “In The Year of Everything Dying” (Camel Saloon, 2012), and the forthcoming “The Sun Causes Cancer.” Grochalski currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he constantly worries about the high cost of everything.
Chris Crittenden
Chris Crittenden writes next to a spruce forest, fifty miles from the nearest traffic light, though two months of the year he is in Los Angeles. He teaches various ethics courses for the University of Maine. His dark, full-length collection “Jugularity” was recently published by Lazarus Media.
Olyn Ozbick
Olyn Ozbick’s fiction is published and forthcoming in Fourthirtythree, Splinterswerve and was a finalist in the CBC Literary Prize. She is a recent addition to the Splinterswerveeditorial team. Her essays, reviews and creative non-fiction have been published in Chatelaine, Harrowsmith, Equinox, Avenue, Bloom, Journal and other fine places.