Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue Seventy-One…
Ira Joel Haber
Ira Joel Haber was born and lives in Brooklyn New York. He is a sculptor, painter, book dealer, photographer and teacher. His work has been seen in numerous group shows both in USA and Europe and he has had 9 one man shows including several retrospectives of his sculpture. His work is in the collections of The Whitney Museum Of American Art, New York University, The Guggenheim Museum, The Hirshhorn Museum & The Albright-Knox Art Gallery. His paintings, drawings, photographs and collages have been published in over 100 on line and print magazines. He has received three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, two Pollock-Krasner grants, the Adolph Gottlieb Foundation grant and, in 2010, he received a grant from Artists’ Fellowship Inc. Currently he teaches art at the United Federation of Teachers Retiree Program in Brooklyn.
J. Kirk Maynard resides in his hometown of Portland, Oregon, with his wife Jessica and their dog Lucy. He received his MFA at the University of Alabama, where he was nominated by the department for Best New Poets 2011. His poems and reviews have been published in Arch, White Whale Review, 580-Split, Blood Lotus, and Blueline.
Tiffani Lomuto was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She recently received her Master of Arts degree in English Literature from The City University of New York, College of Staten Island. Tiffani considers her writing to be cathartic, raw and wonderfully freeing. She hopes to inspire others, as many great writers have inspired her. This is her first publication.
Alex Miklovic is a writer out of Huntington Beach, California. He has graduated from California State University, Long Beach with a degree in English and aspires to be a producer in the music industry.
Jim Richards completed a Ph.D. in creative writing and literature at the University of Houston and now teaches at Brigham Young University–Idaho. His poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and have appeared recently in Prairie Schooner, Comstock Review, Poet Lore, Texas Review, The Fertile Source, and Contemporary American Voices. He serves as poetry editor for Irreantum and lives in Idaho’s upper Snake River valley with his wife and five sons.
Author Eliot Parker is the author of two novels and various short stories. His short fiction has appeared in Speck Literary Journal, Apex Books, Kentucky Story Publications, and others. His first novel, The Prospect, was published in 2010. His latest novel, the sports murder mystery story Breakdown at Clear River, was published by Mid-Atlantic Highlands Pressin November of 2012 and was a finalist for the Weatherford Award for Outstanding Fiction in 2012. He currently teaches writing and literature at Mountwest Community and Technical College in Huntington, West Virginia.
Daniel Ising lives in St. Louis, MO with his wife, son, and familiars. He received an MA in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, where he now works as an Instructor of first-year composition and creative writing. His work has also been published in Knee-Jerk.
Christian Aguiar grew up in and around Providence, Rhode Island and currently lives in South Korea. His recent work has appeared in Boston Literary Magazine, Clockwise Cat, and other publications.
Alana I. Capria (born 1985) is the author of Hooks and Slaughterhouse. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Capria resides in Northern New Jersey with her husband and rabbit.