READ ISSUE SEVENTY-TWO
What kind of people get published in Crack the Spine these days? Find out…
Ken Haas
Ken Haas lives in San Francisco, where he works in healthcare and sponsors a poetry writing program at the UCSF Children’s Hospital. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Alabama Literary Review, Caesura, The Cape Rock, Forge, The Coachella Review, Freshwater, Hawai’i Pacific Review, Helix, Natural Bridge, Pigsah Review, Quiddity, Red Wheelbarrow, Schuylkill Valley Journal Of The Arts, Squaw Valley Review, Stickman Review, Tattoo Highway, and Wild Violet. His work has also been anthologized in The Place That Inhabits Us (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2010) and the Marin Poetry Center Anthology (2012, 2013).
Laura Pendell
Laura Pendell has an MFA from Mills College. She grew up in New York City and now lives in the Foothills of the Sierra with her husband and cat. She writes, makes hand bound journals and artists books and tends a garden. Her poems can be found in Jelly Bucket, The Tulane Review, Talking River and Soundings East or on line at Foliate Oak, Blue Lake Review, Wild Violet, Mary: A Journal of New Writing, OVS, Assisi Journal and The Edison LIterary Review. You can read her very occasional musings at www.womanrisingbooks.blogspot.com
Daniel DiFranco
Daniel DiFranco lives in Philadelphia where he is currently working on an MFA from Arcadia University. He received his B.S. in English education from Temple University. He teaches high school music and English. His work has appeared in Fiction at Work. Wanderlust bit him at an early age and he learned the hard way there is no peanut butter in Europe.
Marcus Pactor
Marcus Pactor’s collection, “Vs. Death Noises,” won the 2011 Subito Press Prize for Fiction. His work has recently appeared in Interim, Knock AUS, and The West Wind Review.
William Cass
William Cass has had a little over fifty short stories accepted for publication in a variety of literary magazines and anthologies, including the winning selection in The Examined Life Journal’s recent writing contest. He lives and works as an educator in San Diego, California.
Bridget Gage-Dixon
Bridget Gage-Dixon is a reformed troublemaker, and a lover of language who spends her days teaching teenagers where to place commas. Her work has appeared in several journals including Poet Lore, New York Quarterly, and The Cortland Review.
Kristina Ericksen
Kristina Ericksen is a native of Minneapolis. She wrote her first short story in the second grade about two girls playing with marbles and eating hot dogs at Dairy Queen. Kristina has been published in Firethorne Literary Journal, Heterodoxy Feminist Magazine, The Gustavian Weekly, Sun This Week, koistory.com, and now Crack the Spine. She will graduate from Gustavus Adolphus College in 2013 with a B.A. in English.
Dana Inez
Dana Inez is a recent graduate of the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College. Her poems have been published in Bone Bouquet Journal and Two Serious Ladies, and her fiction is forthcoming in Unsaid Journal.
