Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 201
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.
Kit Maude
Kit Maude is a translator based in Buenos Aires.
Laura Huey Chamberlain
Laura Huey Chamberlain is a proposal manager in the Washington, D.C., area. Before that, she edited academic journals and books and taught literature and writing at various colleges and universities, including Penn State New Kensington and Duquesne University. She currently studies the craft of short fiction at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD, and she’s been a finalist for the Glimmer Train Award for New Writers.
Donald Hubbard
Donald Hubbard has written six books, one of which was profiled on Regis and Kelly and another that was a Boston Globe bestseller and Amazon (category) top ten. Another book has gone into a second edition and he was inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame as an author in 2015. A chapter of one of his books was published in the on-line edition of Notre Dame Magazine and a recent story was published in Funny in Five Hundred with another story scheduled to be published there in May. One of his poems and one of his short stories will be appearing in upcoming issues of Quail Bell Magazine. He studied English at Georgetown University and the University of Kent.
Paul Edward Costa
Paul Edward Costa has published in places such as “Timber Journal”, “Entropy”, “Thrice Fiction”, “Emerge Literary Journal”, “The J.J. Outre Review”, “Songs of Eretz Poetry Review”, “Alien Mouth”, and others. He has work forthcoming in “Mannequin Haus”, and “Literary Orphans Journal”. He is the founder of the ongoing “Paul’s Poetry Night” spoken word series in the Greater Toronto Area.
Francesca Brenner
Francesca Brenner has studied with Jim Krusoe and Jack Grapes and attended writing workshops with Mark Doty, Ellen Bass, Dorianne Laux, and Joe Millar. For over twenty-five years, she has been an active member of a monthly journal group created by poet Holly Prado. Her work has been published in FRE&D, and is forthcoming in Cutthroat and OxMag. She can be heard during many of the readings given by the LA Poets and Writer’s Collective, of which she is a member.
Bonnie Stanard
Bonnie Stanard draws on her rural upbringing and an interest in history to write novels, short stories, and poems with credits in publications such as Persimmon Tree, Harpur Palate, The South Carolina Review, Slipstream and The Museum of Americana. She has published five historical fiction novels with another due out summer of 2016. She lives in South Carolina. Her website is bonniestanard.com
Doug Steele
Doug Steele is a lifetime Wisconsin resident. His prose and free verse have been featured in numerous print and on-line publications including Maudlin House Magazine, Gambling the Isle, Straylight Literary Magazine, and Sediments Literary Arts Journal. Douglas was named “Poet of the Week” by Poetry SuperHighway.com for the week of February 15th 2016. He is a media personality, broadcaster, member of the Pauquette Wordcrafters, and a member of the Academy of American Poets. Doug’s recent Chapbook “Rivers, Streams, and Dreams” was released in December 2015. His work can be purchased at douglassteelepoetry.com
Michael H. Rand
Born in California, raised in Virginia, Michael H. Rand is a writer and a graduate student enrolled in the MA English writing program at Salem State University, where he was an editor for Soundings East, Salem State’s literary magazine. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in English from Lynchburg College, where he received the Charles H. Barrett Creative Writing Award. From 2007 until 2015, he worked as a bookseller at several Barnes & Noble locations. Although he is a great appreciator of poetry, Mike prefers to write in prose. he holds a special affinity for nonfiction. He lives in Beverly, Massachusetts, with his fiancée, Sarah.