Robert McKean
Robert McKean, recipient of a Massachusetts Arts Council grant, has had work published in The Kenyon Review, The Chicago Review, the Dublin Quarterly, The MacGuffin, Ruminate, The Bacon Review, The Front Range Review, 34th Parallel, Shotgun/Armchair (forthcoming), and elsewhere. The setting for his fiction is a steel-mill company town in Western Pennsylvania. Over the decades that his fiction spans, the characters, who appear and reappear from story to story, form a diverse ethnic, racial, and generational stew of lives and passions. McKean’s collection of short stories was Finalist in the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, and a in the Sewanee Writers’ Series. A novel he is working on was a Finalist in the Heekin Group Foundation James Fellowship for the Novel in Progress and a Semi-Finalist in the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel.
Jay Merill
Fiction by Jay is published in the current issues of Anomalous Press, Citron Review, Corium and Night Train. Stories have appeared recently or are forthcoming in SmokeLong Quarterly, Spork, Eunoia Review, The Legendary, Blue Lake Review and Vine Leaves Press. Jay is the author of two short story collections – “Astral Bodies” (Salt, 2007) and “God of the Pigeons” (Salt, 2010) and has been nominated for the Frank O’Connor Award. Her story ‘As Birds Fly’ won the Salt Short Story Prize and is included in the ‘Salt Anthology of New Writing, 2013’. She has an Award from Arts Council England and is Writer in Residence at Women in Publishing.
Vincent Barry
Vincent Barry’s affection for creative writing is rooted in the theatre. More years ago than he prefers to remember, his one-act plays caught the attention of the late Arthur Ballet at the University of Minnesota’s Office for Advanced Drama Research and Wynn Handman at New York’s The American Place Theatre. Some productions followed, as well as a residency at The Edward Albee Foundation on Long Island. Meanwhile, Barry was teaching philosophy at Bakersfield College in California and authoring philosophy textbooks. Now retired from teaching, he has returned to fiction. His short story “Dear Fellow Californian” appeared in the June issue of Writing Tomorrow Magazine. Two others, titled “When It First Came Out” and “The Girl with the Sunflower Yellow Hot Rod Limo,” will appear in forthcoming issues of The Write Room and Blue Lake Review, respectively.
Marie Lecrivain
Marie Lecrivain is the edtior-publisher of poeticdiversity: the litzine of Los Angeles, a photographer, and a writer-in-residence at her apartment. She’s been published in various journals, including Non-Binary Review, Edgar Allan Poetry Journal, and Poetry Salzburg Review. Her newest book, “The Virtual Tablet of Irma Tre” (copyright 2014 Edgar & Lenore’s Publishing House), a series of alchemical poems, is available through Amazon.com.
Ann Robinson
Ann Robinson’s work is forthcoming or has appeared in American Literary Review, Coachella Review, Compass Rose, Connecticut Review, Diverse Voices Quarterly, The GW Review, Fourteen Hills, Freshwater, Hiram Poetry Review, Jelly Bucket, Natural Bridge, New York Quarterly, Passager, Poet Lore, The Portland Review, RiverSedge, Sanskrit, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Serving House Journal, Spoon River Poetry Review, Storyscape, Streetlight Magazine, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Weave Magazine, Whistling Shade, Willow Review, and Zone 3, among others. Her book of poetry, “Stone Window,” was published by Bark for Me Publications in 2014.
Gwendolyn Edward
Gwendolyn Edward writes nonfiction, poetry, and fiction. Her magical realism, slip stream, and fabulist short stories have appeared in Bourbon Penn, Jersey Devil Press, Lightning Cake, The Copperfield Review, and others. She retains a MA in Creative Writing from the University of North Texas and is currently pursuing a MFA at Bennington. She works with Fifth Wednesday Journal as an assistant non-fiction editor and also teaches Creative Writing.
Katherine Minott
Katherine Minott, M.A. is an artist whose photographic work reflects the Japanese aesthetic of wabi sabi–the celebration of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. Her work has appeared in Camas: Nature of the West, New Mexico Magazine, Visual Language Magazine, and the Santa Fe Reporter’s Annual Manual. Please visit her website at katherineminott.com.