Issue 180 Contributors

Fabrice Poussin
Fabrice Poussin is assistant professor of French and English. Author of novels and poetry, his work has appeared in France at La Pensee Universelle, and in the United States in Kestrel, and Symposium. His photography has also been published in Kestrel, is upcoming in Sand Pedro Rive magazines and more than a dozen other on-line and in-print publications.

Catherine A. Brereton
Catherine A. Brereton is from England, but moved to America in 2008, where she is now an MFA candidate at the University of Kentucky. Her essay, “Trance,” published by SLICE magazine, was selected by Ariel Levy and Robert Atwan as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays, 2015. More of her work can be found in Literary Orphans, The Spectacle and Graze, and is forthcoming in The Indianola Review and The Watershed Review. Catherine is the current Editor-in-Chief of Limestone, the University of Kentucky’s literary journal. She lives in Lexington with her wife and their teenage daughters.

Mir-Yashar
Mir-Yashar is a graduate of Boise State University, with a BA in political science. He currently attends Colorado State’s MFA program in fiction. His short-stories have been published or are forthcoming in various online literary journals and magazines including Monkeybicycle, The Bookends Review, and Gravel Magazine.

Patrick Erickson
Patrick, a resident of Garland, Texas, a Tree City just south of Duck Creek, is a retired parish pastor put out to pasture himself, a former shepherd of sheep, a small flock with no sheep dog and no hang-dog expression. Secretariat is his mentor, though he has never been an achiever and has never gained on the competition. He resonates to a friend’s definition of change; though a bit dated with the advent of wifi, it has the ring of truth to it: change coming at us a lot faster because you can punch a whole lot more, a whole lot faster down digital broadband “glass” fiber than an old copper co-axial landline cable.

Richard Widerkehr
Richard Widerkehr earned his M.A. from Columbia University. He has two collections of poems: “The Way Home” (Plain View Press) and “Her Story of Fire” (Egress Studio Press), along with two chapbooks. Tarragon Books published his novel, “Sedimental Journey,” about a geologist in love with a fictional character. Recent poems have appeared in Rattle, Floating Bridge Review, Crack The Spine, Soundings, Cirque, Clover, and Penumbra. He is one of the poetry editors for Shark Reef Review. He enjoys’ old rock and roll and singing in a chorus at synagogue, though not at the same time.

Karen Vande Bossche
Karen Vande Bossche is a Bellingham, Washington, poet and short story writer who teaches middle school. Some of her more recent work can be found in Burningword, Damselfly, Silver Birch Press and Sediment. Other poems are forthcoming in Straight Forward Poetry, Lunch Ticket, and Clover, a Literary Rag. Karen was born in the Midwest, raised in Southern California, and is firmly planted now in the Pacific Northwest. She believes that writing is one of the few venues to continued sanity in today’s world and that she has finally (finally) begun her real work.

Andrea Ruggirello
Andrea lives in Morgantown, West Virginia by way of New York and Boston, where she is completing an MFA in fiction at West Virginia University. She most enjoys traveling and eating other people’s cooking. Andrea’s fiction has been published or is forthcoming in Pacific Review, The Cadaverine, The Legendary, and The Molotov Cocktail.

Tracey Levine
Tracey Levine grew up in northeast Philadelphia and teaches creative writing and film courses at Arcadia University where she coordinates the creative writing concentration for undergraduates. She earned a BFA in screenwriting from University of the Arts, an MA in English from Arcadia University, and a MFA in fiction from Syracuse University. She has worked on many documentary projects for WHYY and her creative writing work has appeared in Verbal Seduction, Metropolis VoxPop, Literary Mothers, The Literary Yard, The Halcyon Review, The Philadelphia City Paper, and has forthcoming work in Streetlight Magazine, Eunoia Review and The Corner Club Press. She currently lives in Philadelphia with her cat and boyfriend. She is a yogi and plays shoots in a dart league and is hard at work on a collection of short fiction and a longer thing.