ISSUE SEVENTY-SEVEN
Make your Monday a little more bearable by meeting some new friends…
Susan Sweetland Garay
Born and raised in Portland Oregon, Susan Sweetland Garay received a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Brigham Young University, spent some years in the Ohio Appalachians and currently lives in the Willamette Valley with her husband where she works in the Vineyard industry. She spends her free time writing, growing plants and making art. She has had poetry and photography published in a variety of journals, on line and in print, and is a founding editor of The Blue Hour Literary Magazine and Press.
Glen Armstrong
Glen Armstrong holds an MFA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and teaches writing at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. He also edits a poetry journal called Cruel Garters.
Janelle Fine
Janelle Fine is a 22-year-old poet and artist from Los Angeles. She found her love for being creative as early as preschool when she began to draw and then started writing poetry in the third grade. She has grown considerably since then, self-publishing her first poetry anthology titled Wildfibers at the age of 18. She received her under graduate degree from The Evergreen State College in Olympia Washington. She is currently pursuing an MFA in writing and poetics from Naropa University and is obsessed with matchboxes and miniatures, founding Matchbook Press to publish travel size poems and art in matchboxes.
Jean Howard
Born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, performance poet, Jean Howard, resided in Chicago from 1979 to 1999. She has since returned to Salt Lake City. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Off The Coast, Clackamas Literary Review, Harper’s Magazine, Eclectica Magazine, Eclipse, Atlanta Review, Folio, Forge, Fugue, Fulcrum, Crucible, Gargoyle, Gemini Magazine, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Painted Bride Quarterly, decomP, The Burning World, The Distillery, The Oklahoma Review, Pinch, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Pisgah Review, ken*again, The Cape Rock, Quiddity Literary Journal, Grasslimb, Rattlesnake Review, Concho River Review, Spillway, Spoon River Review, Verdad, Wild Violet, Willard & Maple, Wisconsin Review, Chicago Tribune, among seventy other literary publications. Featured on network and public television and radio, she has combined her poetry with theater, art, dance, video, and photography. A participant in the original development of the nationally acclaimed “Poetry Slam,” at the Green Mill, she has been awarded two grants for the publication of her book, Dancing In Your Mother’s Skin (Tia Chucha Press), a collaborative work with photographer, Alice Hargrave. She has been organizing the annual National Poetry Video Festival since 1992, with her own award-winning video poems, airing on PBS, cable TV, and festivals around the nation.
Michael Andreoni
Michael Andreoni’s stories have appeared in U. of Chicago/Euphony, Pif, Iconoclast, Ducts, Calliope, Hippocampus, and other publications. He lives near ann Arbor, Michigan.
Brian Hobbs
Brian Hobbs finds the practice of writing to be the closest prayer to god he can come across. To that extent, he tries to worship with words once a day, even if it is a sentence or a phrase that he scrawls on a napkin in a restaurant and wants to carry in his pocket like everyday gold. He has a Lady of Leaves and a ‘Lil bean he loves and spends most of his important time with. He has been published in Glass: a Journal of Poetry, Red Fez, Crack the Spine, Milk Sugar: a Literary Journal, and an upcoming issue of Scissors and Spackle. He is also a huge fan of Frank Zappa, Doctor Who, and ASMR videos on Youtube.
Annelle Neel
Annelle Neel lives in Knoxville, Tennessee. She holds an MA with a Writing Option from the University of Tennessee where she served for 16 years as a writer in development and alumni affairs. She is a member of the Knoxville Writers Guild, Sisters in Crime, and SinC Guppies. Her work has appeared in Colere, Hardboiled, Caliban, Forge, The MacGuffin and The Storyteller.
Corey Howard
Corey Howard writes poems out of Boston, Massachusetts. Born and raised in Southern Mass, he currently attends Suffolk University in Boston, studying Creative Writing and History. Published in Suffolk’s literary magazine Venture this past Spring, Corey will be a Senior in his undergrad this Fall.