Meet the writers who will be featured in Issue 179.
Laura M. Kiselevach
After twenty years of working as a visual designer and photo stylist for such clients as Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, DKNY, and The New York Times, Laura Kiselevach decided to pursue her passion for photography. Using only her well trained eye and a smart phone camera, she captures both the grandeur and minutia of her everyday life. Laura’s work has been published in Rip/Torn, Roadside Fiction, Temenos, Short, Fast and Deadly, Wilde Magazine, Quickest Flipest, The Casserole, Muzzle Magazine, among others, and exhibited at galleries in New York City, Florida and Los Angeles. A native of Pittston, Pennsylvania, Laura lives in New York City.
William Miller
William Miller is the author of five books of poems, twelve books for children and a mystery novel. He lives in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
Jennifer Valentine
Ms. Valentine is a suspicious-looking anthropology student, who seems to enjoy books just a tad too much for her own good.This could actually be said about all of her obsessions at present—bourbon, the color black, and television—which are probably as overused as Dionysus’ famed libations. Yet, her friends seem to tolerate her fairly well, mostly for her ready smile and lively personality. If she was god, then the world would be broken: perpetually autumn, rainy, and chilly so she wouldn’t have to suffer in the heat wearing her beloved jackets and tall black leather boots.
Mike Lambert
Mike Lambert is a fiction writer based in Pittsburgh, PA after a long stint of growing up in the south. He is an editor and co-founder of the After Happy Hour Review, a local workshop-based literary journal now in its second year of publication. He has been previously published in The Nude Bruce Review.
Brian Burmeister
Brian Burmeister is Program Chair of English and Communication at Ashford University. His writing has appeared in Cleaver Magazine, Eunoia Review, and The Furious Gazelle. He can be followed on Twitter @bdburmeister.
Yvonne Higgins Leach
Yvonne Higgins Leach is the author of “Another Autumn” (WordTech Editions, 2014). Her poems have appeared in South Dakota Review, South Carolina Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, Wisconsin Review, among others. She earned a Master of Fine Arts from Eastern Washington University in 1986. She spent decades balancing a career in communications and public relations, raising a family, and pursuing her love of writing poetry. Now a full-time poet, she splits her time living in Snohomish and Spokane, Washington.
James Hanna
James Hanna roamed Australia for seven years before settling on a career in criminal justice. He has recently retired from the San Francisco Probation Department where he was assigned to a domestic violence and stalking unit. His experience with criminals have provide fodder for his characters. James’ stories have appeared in multiple journals and have received three Pushcart nominations. His novels, “The Siege” and “Call Me Pomeroy,” are available on Amazon.
Katherine Quinby Stone
Katherine Quinby Stone is a Manhattan-based writer pursuing her MFA at the City College of New York. Her interests include Anna Nicole Smith conspiracy theories and Yiddish Literature.