Meet the writers who will be featured in Issue 178.
Ivan De Monbrison
Ivan is French poet, writer and artist who lives in Paris and Marseille. His poems or short stories have appeared in several literary magazines in France, Italy, Belgium, The UK, Canada, Australia, Switzerland and in the US. Five poetry chapbooks of his works have been published: “L’ombre déchirée,” “Journal, La corde à nu,” “Ossuaire” and “Sur-Faces.” His first poem-novel “les Maldormants” has been published in 2014, in France
Sara N. Gardiner
Sara N. Gardiner will graduate in December 2015 with her BFA in Creative Writing from SFASU. She has been writing for over ten years and is finishing her first in a series of novels from her home in San Antonio, TX.
Alexander Payne Morgan
Alexander Payne Morgan’s poetry has appeared in The MacGuffin. He received an honorable mention in the 18th National Poet Hunt Contest in 2013 and first prize in poetry in the Springfed Arts writing contest in 2015. He’s a member of Detroit Working Writers. He has attended the Squaw Valley Writers Workshops and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Morgan works as a technical editor and ghost writer. He’s married and lives near Detroit with his wife and two teenage children.
Benjamin Harnett
Benjamin Harnett, born 1981 in Cooperstown, NY, is a fiction writer, poet, historian, and digital engineer. His essays, poems, translations, and short stories have appeared, recently, in Brooklyn Quarterly, Pithead Chapel, Wag’s Revue, the Columbia Review, and Queen Mob’s Tea House. He holds an MA in Classics from Columbia University, and lives in Brooklyn, with his wife, Toni, and their pets. In 2005, he co-founded the fashion brand Hayden-Harnett. He currently works at The New York Times. His occasional musings can be found at www.tinyletter.com/benjaminharnett.
Bart Bultman
Published by Forge, Straylight, and as well as The Transnational, Bart Bultman lives on the other west coast, commonly referred to as West Michigan.
Rachel Crawford
Rachel Crawford has worked as a waitress, bail bondswoman, high school and college English teacher, editor, poet, and writer. Her poetry appears in many print and online journals and she is a contributing co-editor of “Her Texas” (Wings Press, 2015), an anthology of Texas women poets, writers, artists, and songwriters.
JD Duff
JD Duff grew up in the suburbs of New York City. She has a Master of Arts in Writing and a Master of Arts in Teaching English Education from Manhattanville College. JD taught college writing for over seven years; she is currently in the process of starting a writing company, Uptown Writing Workshop, which will offer both academic and creative workshops. JD’s most recent poems, “The Deconstruction of Aunt Jemima” and “Alien Life” can be found in Melancholy Hyperbole. Her short story, “Playing Poker with Jesus” was recently published in London’s Storgy Magazine.
Kate LaDew
Kate LaDew is a graduate from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a BA in Studio Art.