Is everyone suffering from a scorching case of post-holiday blues? Don’t fret. These folks are going to help us survive the week.
Aleksander Plonski
Aleksander Plonski, Born in Gdynia, Poland in 1977. Loved jazz and poetry from infancy. Benefitted from the excellent public education provided by the communist regime. By 1992, when he emigrated to the USA, he was already in awe of many of the British and American writers such as Blake, Whitman and Kerouac among many others. Since his arrival in Brooklyn, he has dedicated himself to the mastery of the written English language, efforts which culminated when he graduated with honors in Philosophy and Literature in 2000. An author of innumerable poems and short stories he never pursued publication as much as the adventure of life. His story continues in Buenos Aires where he currently resides and works, raising his 9 year old son.
Joan Colby
Joan Colby has published widely in journals such as Poetry, Atlanta Review, South Dakota Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, New York Quarterly, the new renaissance, Grand Street, Epoch, and Prairie Schooner. Awards include two Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards, Rhino Poetry Award, the new renaissance Award for Poetry, and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Literature. She was a finalist in the GSU Poetry Contest (2007), Nimrod International Pablo Neruda Prize (2009, 2012), and received honorable mentions in the North American Review’s James Hearst Poetry Contest (2008, 2010). She is the editor of Illinois Racing News, and lives on a small horse farm in Northern Illinois. She has published 11 books including “The Lonely Hearts Killers,” “The Atrocity Book” and her newest book from Future Cycle Press: “Dead Horses.” FutureCycle has just published “Selected Poems.” A chapbook “Bittersweet” is forthcoming from Main Street Rag Press next winter.
Rhea Cinna
Rhea Cinna is a writer, film enthusiast and doctor. She loves big cities, museums, film festivals, animals in most non-reptilian incarnations and believes there’s no place like a moated chateau. She enjoys imposing her film taste on others as Senior Film Critic for The Missing Slate. Her work has appeared in Stone Highway Review, Rufous City Review and other publications.
Adam “Bucho” Rodenberger
Adam “Bucho” Rodenberger is a 34 year old writer from Kansas City living in San Francisco. He holds dual Bachelor’s degrees in Philosophy & Creative Writing and completed his MFA in Writing at the University of San Francisco in 2011. As of August 2013, he has been published in Number One Magazine, Alors, Et Tois?, Agua Magazine, The Red Pulp Underground, Offbeatpulp, Up The Staircase, The Gloom Cupboard, BrainBox Magazine, Cause& Effect Magazine, the Santa Clara Review, Aphelion, Glint Literary Journal, Criminal Class Review and Phoebe.
Amy Fanning
Amy Fanning is a writer and English teacher living with her partner and their three cats in Portland, Oregon, where she is lucky enough to have been part of a seriously irreverent and supportive weekly writing group for the past eight years. Amy has previously published short works in American Window Cleaner magazine. In a mad stroke of luck, one of these pieces was purchased for reprint by Harper’s. Though it was, sadly, never actually printed, she does have a nice letter for her wall.
Brandon Getz
Brandon Getz has never flashed anyone. He has his MFA from the Inland Northwest Center for Writers in Spokane, WA. His fiction has appeared in Versal and The Ampersand Review. He currently lives in Pittsburgh, PA, drawing monster cartoons, writing stories set on Mars, and hanging out with his dog, Marlo.
Max Vande Vaarst
Max Vande Vaarst is a Jersey-born, Denver-based author of imaginative fiction whose writing has appeared in various print and digital journals. He is currently beginning work on “Isle of Noise,” a novel of witchcraft, winged cats, proper musket-wielding technique and English nautical law in the age of Cromwell.