Issue 114 Contributors

Mara Buck writes and paints within a self-constructed hideaway in the Maine woods. She has won awards or been short-listed by the Faulkner Society, the Hackney Awards, Carpe Articulum, Maravillosa, and has been published in Drunken Boat, Huffington Post, Carpe Articulum, Living Waters, Pithead Chapel, Caper, Clarke’s, Poems For Haiti, The Lake, Apocrypha, and others. 

Robert Wexelblatt is professor of humanities at Boston University’s College of General Studies. He has published essays, stories, and poems in a variety of journals, two story collections, “Life in the Temperate Zone” and “The Decline of Our Neighborhood,” a book of essays, “Professors at Play,” and a short novel, “Losses.” His novel, “Zublinka Among Women,” won the Indie Book Awards First Prize for Fiction. A chapbook, “The Derangement of Jules Torquemal,” will be out in 2014 and a collection of stories, “The Artist Wears Rough Clothing,” is also forthcoming.

Ms. Van Dyk’s short story “Possession” was recently awarded honorable mention at the Writers’ Workshop of Asheville (2013) Fiction Contest. Her work has also appeared in FICTION on the WEB. She studies writing with Zelda Lockhart, North Carolina’s 2010 Piedmont Laureate, and Nancy Peacock, whose recent novel won Shelf Unbound’s 2013 Indie Book Award. Pam lives, works and writes in Raleigh, North Carolina. She holds a doctorate degree in education research and currently works as the principal research and program evaluation consultant at Evaluation Resources.

Barry Head received his BA and MA from Oxford University and went on to work as a reporter for TIME Magazine. He left to establish a career as a freelance writer and editor. His fiction and nonfiction have been published in Harper’s, Redbook, Mademoiselle, and Playgirl, he has coauthored five books and self-published a successful novel for children. He was the writer and artistic director of an award-winning television documentary for the Odyssey series on PBS and for many years served as vice president for creative projects of Family Communications, Inc., the producers of the landmark children’s television series on PBS, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. 

Jade Asta Quinn is a recent Graduate of SUNY New Paltz, where she received two B.A.s, one in English and one in Theatre. Well aware of her future in poverty, Jade wears her “starving artist” badge with pride. She carries her poetry like and addiction, bound in notebooks she never seems to buy, but that blossom in her hands anyway.

David Dill is a high school English teacher learning just where the value in education is placed in America. His current location is not his previous locations of Philadelphia or Michigan and by the time he considers it home, rural Virginia will probably be a memory. He lives in dreams and the isolation of 5 A.M. but only on non-school nights. If you google him, you might find his website or his previous publications at places such as Apiary, Marathon, and Silent Things.

Mia Hood is a doctoral student and graduate instructor at Teachers College, Columbia University and Assistant Professor of Practice at Relay Graduate School of Education. She teaches teachers. Previously, she taught middle school students how to read better and write better. She keeps a blog called Dinosaur Sweaters.

Jodi’s poem, “Lost Civilzations,” won first place in the Alabama State Poetry Society Fall Contest. She also had her poetry reviewed by NewPages.com. New work has appeared or is forthcoming in Amarillo Bay, Clackamas Literary Review, Forge, The Griffin, The Old Red Kimono, The Prelude, RiverSedge, The Starry Night Review, and the anthologies “Dreams of Steam III” and “It Was a Dark and Stormy Night.”

A Southern California native, Ren has been working in the visual arts for more than 20 years, with an emphasis on printmaking and painting, integrating traditional Chinese ink techniques with contemporary digital and mixed media concerns. She has a BFA in Studio Art (printmaking) from the University of New Mexico and is an MFA in Visual Arts candidate at the Art Institute of Boston (at Lesley University). Ren has participated in a number of regional and national exhibitions and continues active experimentation in hybrid printing techniques. She has also published visual art and poetry in a range of literary outlets. Ren’s primary body of work investigates the play of matter and non-matter, the emergence of being from non-being and the relativity of time and geographical-digital space in network relationships.