Issue 190 Contributors

Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 190

Andrew Bertaina
Andrew Bertaina currently lives and works in Washington, DC where he received his MFA in creative writing from American University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in: The Threepenny Review, Hobart, Literary Orphans, Fiction Southeast,Eclectica, Prick of the Spindle, Big Lucks, Whiskey Paper, Manifest-Station, Journal of Microliterature and elsewhere. He is currently a reader and book reviewer for Fiction Southeast.

Dylan Taylor
Dylan Taylor is a university drop-out who slings cheap coffee to cottagers and builds dry stone walls in Canada. When he is not working he is spending his wages on tickets to Virginia to see his Fiancé and Emerson the best duo on the continent. He has work published in Blotterature, the Kentucky Review, The Lost Country and decomP.

Lisa Harris
Lisa Harris, MFA, Bard College, writes poetry and fiction. Her novels, “Allegheny Dream” and “Geechee Girls”  (Ravenna Press, ’13 and ’14, respectively) have won awards from TAZ, The Author’s Zone and Bright Hill Press). Her fictions have appeared in The MacGuffin, The Coe Review, ginosko, and Phoebe, to name a few journals.

Abby Caplin
Abby Caplin’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Adanna, Burningwood, Forge, The Healing Muse, OxMag, The Permanente Journal, Poetica, The Scream Online, Tiger’s Eye, Tikkun, and Willow Review, and several anthologies. Her poem “Still Arguing with Old Synagogue” was a finalist for the 2015 Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Award. She is a physician and practices Mind-Body medicine in San Francisco. Her website is http://abbycaplin.com.

Taylor Han
Taylor Han is a literature and writing studies student at California State University San Marcos. He hopes to continue on to get his MFA later in life. He also hopes the whole writing thing works out, since he doesn’t have any backup plans.

Luke Otley
Luke Otley is a roaming poem composer and small-time thinker from Cornwall, UK. Some of his poems have found snug homes in literary journals. Others remain lonely on toilet walls, in waiter’s notepads. He currently writes in Western Australia, and is working on collating his first collection.

Steve Luria Ablon
Steve Luria Ablon has published four books of poems: “Tornado Weather,” (Mellen Press), 1993, “Flying Over Tasmania,” (Fithian Press), 1997, “Blue Damsels,” (Peter Randall Press), 2005, and “Night Call” (Plain View Press) 2011. His work has appeared in many magazines, including The Cafe Review, Main Street Rag, Off The Coast, Dos Passos Review and Ploughshares. Steve is an adult and child psychoanalyst and an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard University Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.