Issue 111 Contributors

David Rawding has a BA in English from The University of New Hampshire and an MFA in Fiction from Southern New Hampshire University where he teaches English as an adjunct professor. David’s Children’s Book, “Lucas the Traveling Crab” won the New Hampshire Literary Awards’ Reader’s Choice Award for Children’s Literature. David’s short fiction has been published in Black Heart Magazine, Barnstorm Literary Journal, The Write Room Literary Magazine, Steel Toe Review, Extract(s) Daily Dose of Lit, Black Lantern Publishing Magazine, and Forty Ounce Bachelors. In addition to his professor work, David works as a fly-fishing guide in Alaska. Keep up with David on his website. 

Jed Myers is a Philadelphian living in Seattle. Two of his poetry collections, “The Nameless” (Finishing Line Press) and “Watching the Perseids” (winner of the 2013 Sacramento Poetry Center Book Award), are soon to be released. He won the 2012 Mary C. Mohr Editors’ Award offered by Southern Indiana Review, and received the 2013 Literal Latte Poetry Award. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Nimrod International Journal, Crab Orchard Review, Barely South Review, Atlanta Review, Grey Sparrow Journal, Crab Creek Review, and elsewhere. 

Marc’s writing has been published in The Massachusetts Review, The New York Quarterly, The Painted Bride, and Paperstream, and he was the second runner-up for the Solstice literary magazine poetry prize in 2013. Conferences he has attended include 92nd Street Y, Colrain, and the West Chester Poetry Conference. He has studied with David Yezzi, Molly Peacock, Rachel Zucker, William Packard, and Emily Fragos. 

Dan Leach earned his BA in English from Clemson University in 2008. Since then, he has taught English at various high-schools across South Carolina. He currently works at a high-school on James Island, South Carolina. On weekends and summers, he writes short-fiction that explores connections between faith, masculinity, and the South. His work has been published in Deep South Magazine and drafthorse literary journal.

A creative writing professor at California University of Pennsylvania, Carole Waterhouse has an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a PhD in 20th Century Literature from Ohio University. Her publications include fiction in The Massachusetts Review, The Artful Dodge, The Ball State University Forum, Ceilidh, Eureka Literary Magazine, Crossconnect, Spout, Parting Gifts, Half Tones to Jubilee, Tucumcari Literary Review, Turnrow, The Styles, Potpourri, The Armchair Aesthete, The Baybury Review, Arnazella, The Pointed Circle, Rockhurst Review, Oracle, Seems, Minnetonka Review and The Griffin. Book-length publications include three novels, “Without Wings,” “The Tapestry Baby,” and “Winsome’s Delight,” as well as a short story collection, “The Paradise Ranch.”

JD DeHart is an English teacher and writer. His work has appeared in Eye On Life Magazine, The Commonline Journal, Steel Toe Review, and Garden Gnome Publications, among other publications. Visit his blog. 

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Janet Dale has been transplanted in Georgia for the last four years: first in Milledgeville (where she completed her MFA in Creative Writing) and now in Statesboro (where she teaches First Year Writing at Georgia Southern University). Her prose has appeared in Gravel, GERM Magazine, Foundling Review, and others.

Ralph Monday is an Associate Professor of English at Roane State Community College in Harriman, TN., where he teaches composition, literature, and creative writing courses. In fall 2013 he had poems published in The New Plains Review, New Liberties Review, Fiction Week Literary Review, and was represented as the featured poet with 12 poems in the December issue of Poetry Repairs. In winter 2014 he had poems published in Dead Snakes. Summer 2014 will see a poem in “Contemporary Poetry: An Anthology of Best Present Day Poems.” His work has appeared in publications such as The Phoenix, Bitter Creek Review, Impressions, Kookamonga Square, Deep Waters, Jacket Magazine, The New Plains Review, New Liberties Review, Dead Snakes and Poetry Repairs.