Issue Ninety-Eight Contributors

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Jim Meirose

Jim Meirose’s work has appeared in numerous journals, including the Fiddlehead, Witness, Alaska Quarterly review, and Xavier Review, and has been nominated for several awards. Two collections of his short work have been published and his novels, “Claire”, “Monkey”, and “Freddie Mason’s Wake” are available from Amazon. 

Roy Dorman is retired form the University of Wisconsin-Madison Benefits Office. A voracious reader for almost 60 years, at the encouragement of an old high school friend, himself a retired English teacher, he is now a voracious writer. Roy has had poetry and flash fiction published recently in Burningword Literary Journal, Drunk Monkeys, The Screech Owl, and Lake City Lights, an online literary site that he has just agreed to be the editor of at the request of its publisher. 

Michael Lacare was born in Long Island, New York and moved to Florida when he was twenty-one. His essays and short stories have appeared in numerous literary journals. He currently lives in Tampa, Florida with his wife and children where he is at work on a novel. 

James Thomas is currently a Senior at the University of North Texas studying Creative Writing. He plans on attending graduate school in the relatively near future. While James considers fiction his primary focus, he finds poetry to be the crucible through which he can examine and develop his ideas and creativity.

Alyssa Hubbard was born March 19, 1994, in the small town of Vance, Alabama. She has previously published a short story collection titled “Humans and Their Creations” and published a young adult novel titled “Apocalyptia.” She is currently working towards a Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Alabama, after which she hopes to use her knowledge and prowess in English to teach others how to better express themselves in a creative manner.

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.