Have yourself a little preview of the contributors coming up this week…
Lia Woodall
Lia Woodall is an emerging nonfiction writer living in Denver with her husband and three cats. She is a member of Lighthouse Writers Workshop and Salon Denver. Her essay “Torn in Two” appears in Vol. 15 of South Loop Review: Creative Nonfiction + Art. Her essay, “The Scream” was awarded 2nd place by Sonora Review in its 2013 Essay Contest. Lia’s real name is Eolia–a goddess of the winds in Greek mythology. In reality, it’s merely a bunch of hot air and more than enough vowels for a good yodel.
Malcolm Graham Cooper
Malcolm Graham Cooper is currently pursuing a BA in Fiction at the University of Arizona. In his spare time, he makes books with Spork Press.
Mary Pat Musick
Mary Pat Musick’s short fiction have appeared in Bartleby Snopes, The Pedestal, Summerset Review, LitnImage, MacGuffin, Medulla Review, and elsewhere. Her travel essays are published in Traveler’s Tales and The Literary Traveler. She works and plays in Santa Cruz, California.
Will Walker
Will Walker lives in San Francisco with his wife and their dog. He is a former editor of the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, where his work has appeared often. His poetry has also been published in Bark, Passager, Spillway Review, Alimentum, Nerve House, Lame Duck, Street Spirit, and Street Sheet. His full-length collection of poems, “Wednesday after Lunch (available on Amazon), was the winner of the 2008 Blue Light Press Book Award. A chapbook of his called “Carrying Water” was published by Puddinghouse Press. He’s thankful to a bunch of relatively little-known poets, among them Joseph de Roche and Sidney Goldfarb, both former teachers. He’s also fond of other writers not appearing on a roster of the well-known, including Al Masarik and Lew Welch. He’s attended workshops with Thea Sullivan, Marie Howe, Mark Doty, Robert Pinsky, Gail Masur, Martha Rhodes, and (in another life) John Frederick Nims. His prose has appeared in Provincetown Arts and Morbid, as well as in several twelve-step publications without attribution. His claims to the footnotes of poetic fame include reading Frank Bidart’s first book, “Golden State,” in manuscript many decades ago, playing tennis with August Kleinzahler sometime after the death of disco, and sharing a very distant relative with Mark Doty (the slightly notorious Mayflower passenger, Edward Doty). His brief encounters with other literary luminaries include having pizza with J. D. Salinger (who expressed concern that Walker was ordering a pizza with two proteins on it) and offering to teach Norman Mailer to windsurf. Mailer declined, commenting that he was working on many different levels at once, but graciously offered to share his windsurfer. Walker knows only two poems by others reliably by heart: Frost’s “Dust of Snow” and Whitman’s “A Noiseless, Patient Spider.”
Colin Honnor
Widely published poet in numerous magazines in print and online, including: Poetry and Audience, 21 Years of Poetry and Audience Anthology, Agenda, Outposts, The Rialto, Fire, Smoke, Orbis, Ore, Iron, Lines Review, Envoi, Staple, Sepia, Hybrid, Poetry Nottingham, Tops, Pennine Platform, Ammonite, Terrible Work, Tandem, Odyssey, Headlock, The Swansea Review, Iota, The People’s Poetry, Outposts, 4×3 ,Arabesques International Review, The Dublin Quarterly, Braquemard, Poetry Manchester, Poetry Quarterly, Masques, Great Works, Aireings, The Wolf, Various Artists and many others. Collections, mostly from small presses and private presses include “From Underground” (Mirabilis 1986); “Dante;” “Cavafy;” “The Somme;” (Yew Tree Press). English Poetry is forthcoming from University Press of America.
Nathaniel Heely
Nathaniel Heely attends the University of Arkansas. His fiction has previously appeared in Revolver, Green Blotter, The Fat City Review and the NewerYork among others.
Stephen Massimilla is a poet, critic, professor, and painter. His latest book, “The Plague Doctor in His Hull-Shaped Hat,” was selected in the Stephen F. Austin State University Press Poetry Prize competition. He has received the Bordighera Poetry Prize for “Forty Floors from Yesterday;” the Grolier Prize for “Later on Aiaia;” a runner-up citation for the Salmon Run National Poetry Book Award for “Almost a Second Thought,” selected by X.J. Kennedy; a Van Rensselaer Award, selected by Kenneth Koch; an Academy of American Poets Prize; and multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Massimilla has recent work in AGNI, American Literary Review, Barrow Street, Chelsea, The Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Epoch, The Greensboro Review, The Literary Review, Marlboro Review, Provincetown Arts magazine, Quarterly West, The Southern Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Tampa Review, Verse Daily, and many other journals and anthologies. He holds an M.F.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University and teaches literary modernism, among other subjects, at Columbia University and the New School.