Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 187
Michelle Meyers
Michelle Meyers is a fiction writer and playwright originally from Los Angeles, CA. Her writing has been published in the Los Angeles Times, DOGZPLOT, jmww, Grey Sparrow Journal, Juked, and decomP, and she has received awards and honors from Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, and Wigleaf. She was a 2015 PEN Center Emerging Voices Fellow in Fiction and is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Alabama’s Creative Writing program. Her debut novel,”Glass Shatters,” will be published in April 2016.
Meghana Mysore
Meghana Mysore is a senior at Lake Oswego High School. Her work appears or will appear in Aerie International, Alexandria Quarterly, Burningword, Cadaverine, Crashtest, Pilcrow & Dagger, Third Wednesday, VoiceCatcher and more, and she is the recipient of several Gold Keys from Scholastic Art & Writing and an Honorable Mention from the Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest. She serves as a Portland Youth Poet Ambassador and was the editorial intern for VoiceCatcher‘s anniversary anthology, “She Holds the Face of the World: Ten Years of VoiceCatcher.”
Fletch Fletcher
Fletcher is a North Jersey poet and science teacher who spends his free time touring on a motorcycle. He received his MFA in Poetry from Drew University and thanks everyone (students and faculty) for fostering what will be a life-long passion.
Kartik Agarwal
Kartik Agarwal is a first year law student at Gujarat National Law University, India. Apart from writing, he is keen on photography, basketball and loving dogs. Kartik has previously worked with a few non-profit organisations.
L. Shapley Bassen
L. Shapley Bassen is the Fiction Editor for Prick of the Spindle and a Finalist for the 2011 Flannery O’Connor Award. The coming of age novel [Egyptian-American girl] MARWA was published in February 2016. In 2014, Typhoon Media published her alternative history novel in which Hitler is successfully assassinated, “Summer of the Long Lives.” Also in 2014, Texture Press published her collection “Lives of Crime & Other Stories.” She was an original Reader for Electric Literature, and won the 2009 APP Drama Prize & a Mary Roberts Rinehart Fellowship. She reviews for The Rumpus and others and is a prizewinning, produced, published playwright, ATA in NYC, OH, NC). Visit her website for more.
Sean Jackson
Sean Jackson’s debut novel, “Haw,” was published in June 2015 by Harvard Square Editions. He lives in North Carolina and his latest stories have been published in Main Street Rag, The Potomac Review, Niche, and Cleaver, among other literary magazines. He was a 2011 Million Writers Award nominee.
Stuart Friebert
Stuart Friebert has published 14 books of poems, 10 volumes of translations, and several anthologies. He has also published numerous critical essays, held an N.E.A. grant in poetry, and received a number of awards for his poetry and translations over the years.