Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 198
Jean Wolff
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Jean Wolff studied fine arts at the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit and at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, receiving a BFA in studio arts. She then attended Hunter College, CUNY in New York, graduating with an MFA in painting and printmaking. She’s since had group and solo exhibits in various galleries in New York City and internationally and is part of the artistic community of Westbeth in Manhattan.
Brett Pribble
Brett Pribble teaches creative writing in Orlando, Florida and is in on the selection committee for the Kerouac Project writer in residence program. His work has previously appeared in Stirring: A Literary Collection, Saw Palm, The Molotov Cocktail, and 10,000 Tons of Black Ink. He spends his nights searching for his third nipple.
Nettie Farris
Nettie Farris is the author of “Communion” (Accents Publishing, 2013), “Fat Crayons” (Finishing Line Press, 2015), and the micro-chapbook “Story” (Origami Poems Project, 2016). Her chapbook “The Wendy Bird Poems” is forthcoming from dancing girl press.
Jan Stinchcomb
Jan Stinchcomb is the author of the novella, “Find the Girl” (Main Street Rag, 2015). Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Cease, Cows, Necessary Fiction, Conium Review Online Compendium, A cappella Zoo and Paper Darts, among other places. She reviews fairy tale-inspired works in Notes From Rapunzel’s Tower, her column for Luna Station Quarterly. She lives in Southern California with her husband and daughters. Visit her at janstinchcomb.com
Steven J. Rogers
Steven J. Rogers is an avid canoesman and beardsman from Northern Wisconsin. Alas, he currently lives in Los Angeles, California. Steven is not an absolutist, so he is willing to accept the idea that there might be a hell. If there is, he’s pretty sure that it would involve writing bios. He has a BA and MFA which he’d happily trade for some beer money. To learn more about him, and his upcoming publications please visit stevenjrogers.ink
Bonnie Lykes
Bonnie Lykes is a humanitarian free-thinker, musician, writer, and radio host. She has lived in the desert of Phoenix, AZ, later moved to San Francisco, Ca, then attended Antioch University in Seattle, Wa, and presently resides near Woodstock, NY. She is a also a professionally trained jazz/rock vocalist. She hosts the “Writer’s Voice” at WIOX, 91.3 FM every second Tuesday. She is also a founding member of the Reservoir Food Pantry.
Lee Landau
Lee writes with raw honesty about her interaction with the environment, family events, those dysfunctional backstories. She shelters emotional trauma from the snowy winters of Minnesota that spark her imagination. She writes about obsessions, both large and small that tumble through her poems. He work has appeared in Bluestockings Magazine at Brown University, Wisconsin Review, Crosswinds Poetry Journal. Burningword Literary Journal, One Trick Pony, Broad River Review, Broad Street Magazine, and others.
Chris Stewart
Chris Stewart is currently turning his life into a playable text-based adventure. He has a poem forthcoming in the international annual ‘The Careless Embrace of the Boneshaker’ by New York publishers Great Weather For MEDIA. He plays at the Cheltenham Literary Festival in 2017. He was long listed for the CYCLOP International Videopoetry Contest 2015. His poems and stories appear in a variety of magazines including The Wrong Quarterly, The Atticus Review, Maudlin House, Freak Circus and Outdoor Photography. He’s anthologised in “Break-Out” (Ek Zuban, 2013). Tweet him @SideBurnedPoet. See his award-winning filmpoems here.