Courtney Leigh Jameson recently graduated from Saint Mary’s College of California with an MFA in Poetry. Her work has appeared in Similar:Peaks and is forthcoming in Clockwise Cat, Danse Macabre, FLARE: Flagler Review, Sierra Nevada Review, Slipstream Press and Cowboy Poetry. She currently resides in Arizona and is the The Bowhunter of White Stag Journal.
Willem Donahue
Willem Donahue is a recent college graduate who writes poetry to avoid getting a real job. In his spare time he runs through the woods and talks to his cats. He is not a romantic, but finds some selfish appeal in committing to a poor man’s profession. He hopes to live to see everyone of his poems contradicted and nullified.
Kathleen McCormick
Kathleen McCormick’s work has been widely published in such journals as CAYLX, Northwest Review, Paterson Literary Review, PMS poemmemoirstory, The Rambler, A River and Sound Review, South Carolina Review, Superstition Review, and Witness, among others. Her full-length memoir, “Riding Downhill with No Hands,” on growing up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the ‘60s and ‘70s as an Italian-Irish Catholic girl with a vivid imagination and a confused sense of selfhood, is currently in circulation, represented by Dystel & Goderich Literary Management. In 2009, Kathleen’s piece, “I Always Felt Like I Was On Good Terms With The Virgin Mary, Even Though I Hadn’t Gotten Pregnant In High School,” was awarded first prize for a personal essay by Tiny Lights, and a staged reading of it was performed in California in the summer of 2012. She is currently negotiating with a New York-based theater company to adapt her personal essay “Practice Boyfriend” for the stage. Kathleen is a professor of literature and writing at Purchase College, State University of New York, and has written/edited seven academic books, including “The Culture of Reading and the Teaching of English” (Manchester University Press and St. Martin’s Press, 1994), which won the MLA’s Mina Shaughnessy Award.
Steven Minchin
Steven enjoys capturing things he’s seen almost as much as things he has not. To date he has quite a collection of both. He makes facebook his artistic warehouse, but elsewhere his work has appeared in Mad Swirl, Heavy Hands Ink, Short, Fast and Deadly, vox poetica, and Blue 7 Yellow Dog.
Angela Consolo Makiewicz
Angela Consolo Mankiewicz has published 4 chapbooks, the most recent are “AN EYE,” published by Pecan Grove Press and “AS IF,” from Little Red Books-Lummox. Publications include: Poets/Artists, Full of Crow, Long Poem Magazine (UK), Poiesis, PRESA, Montserrat, Re)Verb, BrooklynVoice, Seldom Nocturne, Istanbul Literary Review, Arsenic Lobster, Temple/Tsunami, Slipstream, Chiron Review, Hawaii Review, Cerberus, Karamu, Lynx Eye, Pemmican, ArtWord. Other recognitions include 2 Pushcart nominations and 1st and Grand Prizes from Trellis Magazine, JerseyWorks, and Amelia. She has also been the Contributing Editor and Regional Editor, respectively, for the small (now defunct) journals Mushroom Dreams and The New Press Quarterly and is a regular contributor for Small Press Review. Last May, her chamber opera, “ONE DAY LESS,” music by D. Javelosa, was performed at the Broad 2nd Space in Santa Monica, CA.
Sven Hansen-Löve
Sven Hansen-Löve decided to focus on writing after being a DJ for more than 15 years in Paris and all over the world. He had a first story published in the Paris Lit Up mag, translated from french by Simon Rogghe. He has also co-written with his sister, the well-known French film director, Mia Hansen-Löve a script for a feature film titled “Lost In Music.” The shooting has already started in New York in September.
Rosabelle Illes
Rosabelle Illes (26), is an Aruban artist. She is the author of two collections of poetry and the creator of an art calendar. Her short story “Stars for sale: a buck each” (2013), about a woman who becomes mentally ill as a result of countless coffee cups bearing her misspelled name, is published in Gone Lawn Journal’s 11th issue. Her experimental piece “The invisible short story” (2013) features in the NewerYork Press. Presently, she is working on a children’s book in collaboration with singer songwriter Levi Silvanie. She holds a BA in Psychology (Hons) and a minor in English Literature from Webster University and an MSC. in Social and Organizational Psychology from Leiden University, where she is currently a doctoral candidate.
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