Issue 191 Contributors

Meet the contributors up upcoming Issue 191

Tara Roeder
Tara Roeder is an Associate Professor of Writing Studies in New York City. Her work has appeared or will appear in multiple venues including The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Monkeybicycle, and Cheap Pop.

Zach Smith
Zach Smith grew up in Devault Pennsylvania, and as a young kid lived in Egypt and Indonesia. He is a graduate of Chestnut Hill College and now lives Chester County. He has been writing for more than a dozen years as both a passion and a tool to overcome Dyslexia. His work has previously appeared in: Fast-Forward Festival, the Short Humor Site, Schlock Magazine, and several others. You can see more of his published works and various reviews at his blog.

Rose Knapp
Rose Knapp is a poet, novelist, multimedia artist, and music producer. She has an experimental novel forthcoming and various poetry publications in Commonline Journal, Blue Lake Review, Danse Macabre, Turk’s Head Review, OccuPoetry, Shot Glass Journal, Chicago Literati, and others. She currently divides her time between Brooklyn and Minneapolis.

A.J. Huffman
A.J. Huffman has published twelve full-length poetry collections, thirteen solo poetry chapbooks and one joint poetry chapbook through various small presses. Her most recent releases, “Degeneration” (Pink Girl Ink), “A Bizarre Burning of Bees” (Transcendent Zero Press), and “Familiar Illusions” (Flutter Press) are now available from their respective publishers. She is a five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, a two-time Best of Net nominee, and has published over 2500 poems in various national and international journals, including Labletter, The James Dickey Review, The Bookends Review, Bone Orchard, Corvus Review, EgoPHobia, and Kritya. She is also the founding editor of Kind of a Hurricane Press. 

Ivan Faute
Ivan Faute is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago Program for Writers. His prose has appeared in a variety of on-line and print journals. He is completing a collection of stories on post-Chính sách Đổi Mới (Renovation Policy) Vietnam, of which this is one. His plays have been produced in Chicago, New York, and San Diego. His stage adaptation of Cris Mazza’s novella “Disability” will premiere at the Planet Connections Festivity in June 2016. He currently is a Lecturer in English at Christopher Newport University.

Nichole L. Reber
Nichole L. Reber’s work has been published in LunchTicket, The Fanzine, Entropy, PANK, and elsewhere. She writes a Ploughshares blog series on contemporary Asian lit and indigenous lit from around the world. She tends to the news less now and hopes to still be sober at press time. Find her at @NicholeLReber.

Andrew Weatherly
Andrew Weatherly hears inspiration from dying trees, Hawaiian shirts, fires, and other poets. He is blessed to live in the hood, teach adults to read, and dance in the streets in Asheville, NC. He’s been published in Belle Reve, Axe Factory, Former People, Danse Macabre, Cordite, the Literary Nest, Commonline Journal, and Hot News. Last year he led a workshop at the National Association for Poetry Therapy conference sbobet.

Steven Ablon
Steven 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. He won the Academy Of American Poets Award in 1963.