Issue Fifty-Seven is coming! Meet the contributors…
Darren R. Leo
Darren R. Leo holds an MFA in Fiction from Southern New Hampshire University. He is the author of the novel Keeping Score; a short heroic journey. Darren is currently in the final (hopefully) revision process of a new novel titled Trees and Other Remedies. His work has appeared in various publications. He resides in Rhode Island with a menagerie and a very patient woman, and he just returned from a very long walk on the Appalachian Trail.
Matthew Fogarty
Born and raised in the square-mile suburbs of Detroit, Matthew Fogarty currently lives and writes in Columbia, where he is an MFA candidate at the University of South Carolina. He is an alum of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in such journals as Revolution House, Midwestern Gothic, Umbrella Factory, and Zero Ducats.
Libby Goss
Libby Goss is an undergraduate student at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study of New York University. Her writing focuses on the use of poetic language in prose structures and the relationship between nature and humanity. Her past works have won awards in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.
Paulette Zander
Paulette Zander writes short stories, personal essays and creative nonfiction. A former editor and book store owner, she turned to full time writing in 2010. She has written a collection of short stories and is working on her first novel. Paulette and her husband divide their time between Connecticut, New Mexico and Sweden. Paulette owns two erudite cats, Raven and Daisy, who blog for her when she is away from home.
Nate Depke
Nate Depke is a groundskeeper in Maine.
Alyssa Moore
Ashley Luster currently teaches English composition at Lewis and Clark Community College in Godfrey, IL. She graduated from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in 2011 and is grateful to the many instructors and peers she worked with, all of whom continue to inspire her today. She resides in Edwardsville in a shoe box apartment with a man-child named Jess and a puppy named Riley. She knows it to be a charmed life.