Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 197
Eric G. Wilson
Eric G. Wilson has published several book-length essays, including “Against Happiness” and “Keep It Fake” (both with Farrar, Straus, and Giroux). His shorter essays have appeared or are appearing in THE FANZINE, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Oxford American, The Georgia Review, Salon, and Paris Review Daily. He has recently placed fiction in The Collagist and The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review and prose poetry in decomP and apt. He teaches at Wake Forest University.
Eric D. Goodman
Eric D. Goodman is the author of the forthcoming “Womb: a novel in utero” (Merge Publishing, fall 2016) and “Tracks: A Novel in Stories” (Atticus Books, 2011), winner of the 2012 Gold Medal for Best Fiction in the Mid-Atlantic Region from the Independent Publisher Book Awards. He’s also author of “Flightless Goose” (Writer’s Lair Books, 2007), a storybook for children. Eric is a regular literary contributor to Baltimore’s WYPR, and his work has appeared in The Baltimore Review, Pedestal Magazine, The Potomac, JMWW and Scribble, among others. Learn more at EricDGoodman.com or connect on Facebook.
Jacob Shelton
Jacob Shelton is a writer who lives in Los Angeles. His fiction has appeared in Nat. Brut, Lovers & Other Strangers, and Maudlin House among others. He serves as a fiction reader for Nat. Brut and as editor of Kill Pretty. His debut collection of short fiction, “Never Be Punk Again,” was released in 2015.
Clifford Browder
Clifford Browder has published two biographies, a novel (“The Pleasuring of Men,” Gival Press, 2011), and a selection of posts from his blog, “No Place for Normal: New York” (Mill City Press, 2015), that won first place in the Travel category of the 2015-2016 Reader Views Literary Awards, and the 10th Annual National Indie Excellence Award for Regional Non-Fiction. His poetry has appeared in Heliotrope, Runes, The Same, Pivot, The Bitter Oleander, Snake Nation Review, and other journals.
Katherine Clark
Katherine Clark is an English and Anthropology major at Mount Holyoke College. She wants to be in love with the world and most days, is. More of her work can be found in Alien Mouth Journal, Sea foam Magazine and Animal Literary Magazine.
S. A. Miller
S. A. Miller is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Davis. His work has appeared in the Montreal Review, Bookslut, the Short Review, the Sacramento News & Review, and the Pacific Sun.
Velicia Jerus Darquenne
Velicia Jerus Darquenne is from Clarksburg, West Virginia. She graduated from Fairmont State University in December 2015 with a BA in English, where she interned for Kestrel: A Journal of Art and Literature for two years and now remains as the media editor. During her undergrad experience, her writing was featured in the Student Scholarship Celebrations and accepted for the West Virginia Literary Symposium. She has been published in Whetstone, FSU’s undergrad journal, and won their 2016 Best Prose Award. Currently she attends West Virginia Wesleyan’s MFA program. She is a loving mother of a twenty-pound cat and a three-legged chinchilla.