Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 199
James Platt
James, a retired professor and octogenarian, is a pushcart and best of web nominee, and his poems were chosen for inclusion in The 100 Best Poems of 2015 & 2014 Anthologies. He has published 3 collections of poetry, “The Silent Pond” (2012), “Ancient Rhythms,” (2014), and “LIGHT,” (2016), 3 novels, “The Ideal Society,” (2012), “The Monk” (2013), and “The Nostradamus Conspiracy,” (2015). 35 short stories, and over 890 poems. He earned his BS and MA from California State Polytechnic University, and his doctorate from BYU. His books are available on Amazon, and Barnes and Noble.
Michael Bartelt
Michael Bartelt was born in Pasadena, CA. He is a high school English teacher and basketball coach who makes poems. In his spare time, he’s a MFA candidate at the Jack Kerouac School at Naropa University. His work has most recently been published in Coup d’etat, The Offbeat, Cacti Fur, and The Harpoon Review, and is forthcoming in Straight Forward. His chapbook “Poems for the Future President” was published in 2014 by Four Chambers Press.
Claire Kortyna
Claire Kortyna is a MFA candidate in the Creative Writing and Environment program at Iowa State University where she teaches English Rhetoric with a dash of Creative Writing. Her poetry and non-fiction have been published in Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment as the winner of the Home Voices Contest, in Avatar Literary Magazine and in Minitar Online Literary Magazine.
El
El is a 24 year old Providence born and Mohawk blooded artist and poet. Battling chronic pain and P.T.S.D. via paint and pens, they are also contractually obligated to mention they are a vegan.
Chelsea Laine Wells
Chelsea Laine Wells been published in PANK, Hobart, Hippocampus, Knee-Jerk, The Butter, Third Point Press, The Other Stories, wigleaf, and Heavy Feather, among others, and has work forthcoming from The Collapsar and Corium. Recently she won a 2015 Best of the Net award. She is managing and fiction editor for Hypertext Magazine and founding editor of Hypernova Lit. You can find out more about her at www.chelsealainewells.com.
Anne Goodwin
Anne Goodwin’s debut novel, “Sugar and Snails,” about a woman who has kept her past identity a secret for thirty years, was published in July 2015 by Inspired Quill and longlisted for the 2016 Polari First Book Prize. Her second novel, “Underneath,” about a man who keeps a woman captive in his cellar, is scheduled for publication in May 2017. Anne is also a book blogger and author of over 60 published short stories. Catch up on her website: annethology or on Twitter @Annecdotist.
Adam Van Winkle
Adam Van Winkle was born and raised in Texoma and currently resides with his wife and two dogs on a rural route in Southern Illinois. Van Winkle is founder and editor of Cowboy Jamboree Magazine, a bi-annual online rag dedicated to western and rural stories with rough edges. His short fiction and creative nonfiction have been published in places like Pithead Chapel, Dirty Chai, and The Vignette Review (forthcoming). An excerpt from his novel-in-progress, “Abraham Anyhow,” appears in Steel Toe Review. Van Winkle was named for the oldest Cartwright son on the television series Bonanza.