Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 195
Jacob Little
Jacob Little is the Managing Editor of Brevity and Profane, and is also a PhD candidate in Creative Nonfiction at Ohio University. His recent poetry and creative nonfiction is published or forthcoming in DIAGRAM, Pithead Chapel, Word Riot, and Yemassee, where he won the 2015 Creative Nonfiction Award.
Catherine Moore
Catherine Moore is the author of “Story” (Finishing Line Press), “921b Elysian Fields Avenue (Return to Sender)” (KYStory, 2015), and “Wetlands” (dancing girl press, 2016). Her writing has appeared in Tahoma Literary Review, Cider Press Review, Southampton Review and in various anthologies. She won the Southeast Review’s 2014 Gearhart Poetry Prize and had work included in “The Best Small Fictions of 2015.” Catherine lives in the Nashville area where she enjoys a thriving writer’s community and was recently awarded a MetroArts grant. Catherine earned a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Tampa. She is tweetable @CatPoetic.
Jody Azzouni
Jody Azzouni was born in Brooklyn and started writing when he was twelve. He writes philosophy, fiction, and poetry. Because he’s from the NYC area, he has no sense of direction, and no real understanding of stars and other celestial phenomena that you’re supposed to see. This explains almost everything about him.
Christopher Woods
Christopher Woods is a writer, teacher and photographer who lives in Houston and Chappell Hill, Texas. His published works include a novel, “The Dream Patch,” a prose collection, “Under a Riverbed Sky,” and a book of stage monologues for actors, “Heart Speak.” HIs short fiction has appeared in many journals including The Southern Review, New Orleans Review and Glimmer Train. He conducts private creative writing workshops in Houston. His photography can be seen in his gallery.
Rebecca O’Bern
Rebecca O’Bern’s poetry has appeared in Blue Monday Review, Hartskill Review, South 85 Journal, Connecticut Review, and elsewhere. Her work has been awarded the Leslie Leeds Poetry Prize, and she is currently an MFA candidate at Southern Connecticut State University.
Robert Thimmesh
Robert Thimmesh currently lives in Minneapolis , MN. Before that, Robert lived in Saint Paul , MN. Robert has been CEO of multiple companies and is an alumni of the well-established liberal arts university, Saint John’s University. He currently is a retired businessman working on his poetry, memoire, and currently has written a screenplay. He has been published multiple times in ArtWord Quarterly, The Poetry Explosion Newsletter as well as Riversedge, University of Texas journal.
Dan Wiencek
Dan Wiencek is a writer and editor living in Portland, Oregon. His work has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and he is a regular contributor to Popdose.com. He is currently working on his first collection of poems.
Katherine Vondy
Katherine Vondy is a writer and director whose credits span film, theater and literature. Her award-winning short film “The Broken Heart of Gnocchi Bolognese” screened at festivals worldwide and her full-length play “The Fermi Paradox” received the 2015 Davey Foundation Theatre Grant. The recipient of writing residencies from Wildacres, Starry Night, the Vermont Studio Center and the HBMG Foundation/Creede Repertory Theatre, her work has appeared recently in the Beloit Fiction Journal, Briar Cliff Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Bartleby Snopes and Cobalt Review.