Issue Eighty Five would like to introduce us all to some amazing contributors…
Erren Geraud Kelly
Erren Geraud Kelly’s work has appeared in magazines and literary journals such as The Main Street Rag, Red Fez, Ascent Aspirations, Convergence and over 100 publications in print and online in the United States and abroad. Kelly is author of the chapbook “Disturbing The Peace” on Night Ballet Press. Mr. Kelly recieved his B.A. in English–Creative Writing from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Kelly lives in Burlington, Vermont.
Martin Gibbs writes in several genres, from historical fiction to fantasy to bizarro. He enjoys cross-country skiing, biking, and burning béarnaise sauce. He has two very active boys who share his wild imagination, and a wonderful wife who supports all the craziness. He lives in the tropical paradise of MN.
Changming Yuan
Changming Yuan, 5-time Pushcart nominee and author of “Chansons of a Chinaman” (2009) and “Landscaping” (2013), grew up in an impoverished Chinese village and published several monographs and many journal articles before moving to Canada as in international student. With a PhD in English from the University of Saskacthewan, Changming currently tutors in Vancouver, where he co-edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Qing Yuan (Poetry submissions welcome at editors.pp@gmail.com). Recently interviewed by PANK, Changming has had poetry appear in Barrow Street, Best Canadian Poetry, BestNewPoemsOnline, Exquisite Corpse, London Magazine, Threepenny Review and more than 700 others across 28 countries.
Eileen Hennessy
Eileen Hennessy lives in and loves New York City. She is a translator of foreign-language documentation and books on art history into English from several other West European languages, and an adjunct associate professor in the Translation Studies program at New York University. Her poems and short stories have been published in numerous literary journals, including Confluence, The New York Quarterly, Paintbrush, The Paris Review, Western Humanities Review, and others. “This Country of Gale-force Winds,” a collection of her poems, was published by NYQ Books in 2011.
Xenia Taiga
Xenia Taiga lives in southern China with a cockatiel and an Englishman. Her work is in Asian Cha, Storm Cellar Quarterly, Four Way Review, Pithead Chapel, The Molotov Cocktail and other beautiful places. She’s a contributing editor for the online journal Eastlit.
Tim Cremin
Tim Cremin is a member of the Grey Court Poets (a community poetry group based in Methuen, Massachusetts) and several of his poems are included in their 2013 anthology, “Songs from the Castle’s Remains.” Tim’s poetry has appeared in Methuen Life and the Eagle-Tribune, and will appear in a forthcoming issue of Albatross. Video versions of several of Tim’s poems can be found on the Grey Court Poets channel on YouTube. Tim also led a poetry-on-video workshop at the 2013 Massachusetts Poetry Festival. Tim lives in Andover, Massachusetts with his wife and three children, and works professionally as an actuary.
Sean Prentiss
Sean Prentiss is the co-editor of an upcoming anthology on the craft of creative nonfiction entitled “The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre.” This book will be published in Spring 2014 by Michigan State University Press. Sean splits his time between a small cabin in the mountains of Colorado and a small lake in Vermont. You can view more of his work at his website.
James Peters
James Peters was born in Lancaster, PA in 1971. He’s lived in the breathtaking front range of the Rocky Mountains just outside of Denver for almost 20 years. He’s been selling real estate for over a decade. Yet, now in his 40’s, he chooses to devote more of his time to his lovely wife, Jen, his wonderful daughter, Kara, and to his writing, just for the joy of it.
Aleksander Plonski
Aleksander Plonski was born in Poland in 1977 where he grew up, benefitting from the excellent education provided by the communist regime. By 1992, when he emigrated to the USA, he was already inspired by 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 which culminated, in a way, 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 mending his broken heart and raising his 9 year old son. If you were to ask him, he would say that he was much more proud of surviving all the fucked up things he’s done than of anything he had written – but than again, its only the beginning.