Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 188
Qinglan Wang
Qinglan Wang is a multilingual writer, artist, and teacher originally from Hawaii. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize (2012), her work has been featured in Bone Bouquet, Deluge, and ROAR Magazine.
Rachel Hochhauser
Rachel Hochhauser is a writer living in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in Cleaver Magazine, Per Contra, Selfish, and Darling Magazine, amongst others. The recipient of the Pillsbury Foundation Creative Writing Award and an alumna of NYU, Rachel also has a Masters in Professional Writing from University of Southern California. Find out more at RachelHochhauser.com.
Lauren C. Lara
Lauren C. Lara is a summa cum laude graduate of the honors program at Sam Houston State University. She has a B.S. degree in psychology and special education and spent five years sharing her love of storytelling with elementary school students. She is now a mom and dance instructor, sharing that love with her son and dancers through both written word and movement. Lauren is currently earning her M.L.A. in creative writing with the University of Denver and volunteers with Writespace, a literary arts organization in Houston, TX.
Josef Krebs
Josef Krebs has a chapbook of his poems published by Etched Press and his poetry also appears in Agenda,Bicycle Review, Calliope, Mouse Tales Press, The Corner Club Press, The FictionWeek Literary Review,Burningword Literary Journal, the Aurorean, Crack the Spine, and The Cats Meow. A short story has been published by blazeVOX. He’s written three novels and five screenplays. His film was successfully screened at Santa Cruz and Short Film Corner of Cannes film festivals. The past seven years he’s been working as a freelance writer for Sound&Vision having previously worked at the magazine as a staff writer and editor.
Ted Jean
A carpenter, Ted writes, paints, plays tennis with lovely Lai Mei. Nominated for Best of the Net, and twice for a Pushcart Prize, his work appears in Beloit Poetry Journal, [PANK], DIAGRAM, Juked, and dozens of other publications.
D.G. Geis divides his time between Houston and the Hill Country of Central Texas. He has an undergraduate degree in English Literature from the University of Houston and a graduate degree in philosophy from California State University. His poetry has appeared in 491 Magazine, Lost Coast, Blue Bonnet Review,The Broadkill Review, and will be featured in a forthcoming Tupelo Press chapbook anthologizing 9 New Poets. He loves dogs, Irish whiskey, and redheads. (His wife is a redhead).