Issue Eighty Contributors have arrived!
Rose Mary Boehm
A German-born UK national, Rose Mary Boehm, short-story and novel writer, copywriter, photographer and poet, now lives and works in Lima, Peru. Two novels and a poetry collection, “TANGENTS,” have been published in the UK. Her latest poems have appeared – or are forthcoming – in US poetry reviews. Among others: Toe Good Poetry, Poetry Breakfast, Burning Word, Muddy River Review, Pale Horse Review, Pirene’s Fountain, Other Rooms, Requiem Magazine, Full of Crow, Poetry Quarterly, Punchnel’s, Avatar, Verse Wisconsin, Naugatuck River Review, Boston Literary… See more of her photography.
Scott Miller
Scott Miller was born in Philadelphia, PA, in 1978, under the sign of the Lion. He holds a degree in Mathematics from MIT and remains a software developer even as he pursues a writing career, in an effort to achieve the elusive left-brain/right-brain balance. In 2008, he completed an MFA program in Poetry from Antioch University Los Angeles. Scott has work published or is forthcoming in Barrow Street, Barefoot Muse, Raintown Review and numerous others, and has featured at several readings in the Los Angeles area. He served as the managing editor in poetry for The Splinter Generation, an online journal dedicated to encouraging the voices of younger writers. When not writing poetry or software, he can most likely be found baking desserts, working out to counteract those desserts, or beating the latest incarnation of The Legend of Zelda. Scott lives in the San Fernando Valley with his wife and newborn son.
J. Blake Gordon
J. Blake Gordon lives in Evanston, Illinois with a temperamental tuxedo cat. He collects records and works as a proofreader. Eating cookies in the middle of the night is a problem. He’d like to be a more comfortable dancer. He could learn to do a lot of things better. His poetry has recently been featured in Similar:Peaks:: and Third Wednesday. He can be reached by his name at gmail.
Stephen Mander
Stephen Mander is originally from Liverpool in the UK, but has lived and worked in Japan, Australia, Hungary, Slovakia, and Syria. His work has appeared in the Journal of Microliterature, Fiction365 and Flash Fiction World. He currently lives in Vietnam.
Michael K. Brantley
Michael K. Brantley has been a freelance writer and photographer for over 25 years, and is an English instructor at Louisburg College. His creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry has most recently been published or is forthcoming in Word River, Bartleby Snopes, Revolution House, Stymie, The Smoking Poet, The Fat City Review, Short, Fast, and Deadly, The Rusty Nail, The Circa Review, The Cobalt Review and Prime Number Magazine. Michael is pursuing an MFA in at Queens University.
Jon Pearson
A writer, speaker, and creative thinking consultant, Jon Pearson was once a cartoonist for the Oakland Tribune and an extra for the New York Metropolitan Opera. Secretly, though, Jon sees himself as a magician pulling hats out of rabbits or miracles out of the mundane. He writes now for the same reason he played with his food as a kid: to make the world a better place. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Barely South Review, Barnstorm, Carve, Cultural Weekly, Fiction Fix, OnTheBus, Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Sou’wester, West Wind Review, Wild Violet, and Existere.
Nancy Hightower
Nancy Hightower’s poetry explores mythic narratives from a post-modern and at times, feminist perspective. Her poetry and short fiction has appeared in The New York Quarterly, Word Riot, Prick of the Spindle, storySouth, Bourbon Penn, Big Muddy, Prime Number Magazine, and Strange Horizons, among others, and is forthcoming in Gargoyle. Her first novel, “Elementarí Rising,” will be published in September by Pink Narcissus Press.
Andrea Fekete
Andrea Fekete was born and raised in southern WV. She earned her MA from Marshall University and is currently teaching there. She will earn her MFA in creative writing from WV Wesleyan College in December, 2013. Her work has appeared in journals such as ABZ, The Barbaric Yawp and anthologies such as “Wild Sweet Notes II: More Great WV Poetry.” Her first novel “Waters Run Wild” was released in 2010.
Chelsey Clammer
Chelsey Clammer received her MA in Women’s Studies from Loyola University Chicago, and is currently a student with the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA program. She has been published in The Rumpus, Atticus Review, The Coachella Review and Make/shift among many others. She received the Nonfiction Editor’s Pick Award 2012 from both Revolution House and Cobalt, as well as Pushcart Prize nomination and an honorable mention for Best of the Net 2012. Clammer is a columnist for The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review, as well as the Managing Editor, Nonfiction Editor and workshop instructor for the journal. She is also the Nonfiction Editor for The Dying Goose.