Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 204
Marisa Manuel
Marisa Manuel is an MFA candidate at the University of Memphis, where she works as an editor for The Pinch. She has four younger siblings, three dogs, and two very supportive parents. Her favorite genres are horror and fantasy, and she has a special interest in anything involving clowns or zombies. In the future, she hopes to write for a living and devote her free time to community service.
Todd J. Donery
Todd is a professional photographer based in Minneapolis with a Associates degree in Photography and Digital Imaging from the Minneapolis Community Technical College. Along with Todd’s commercial photography he is also a fine art photographer, and he has had his work published in multiple publications, and publicly exhibits his work.
Gabriela Frank
Gabriela Frank’s fiction and essays appear in Flash Fiction Magazine, Two Hawks Quarterly, Brevity, The Rumpus, Word Riot and ARCADE. A fiction reader for Indianola Review, she lives and writes in Seattle.
Nathan Rucker
Nathan recently won a Maier Award as well as a WV Writers Emerging Prose award for 2016 and he has also published in multiple issues of Et Cetera. Nathan holds (rather tenderly) a Master’s degree at Marshall University and lives in Huntington, West Virginia, with his partner and daughter. They live in a townhouse. He says it’s nice.
Maximilian Harry Schramel
Maximilian Harry Schramel is a 24 year old student currently pursuing his MFA at Sarah Lawrence College. He is from New Orleans, Louisiana and has an odd hobby of chronicling the weird idiosyncrasies of his family. If only they could stop him, the world might be a better place.
Julie Murphy
Julie Murphy teaches Embodied Writing at John F. Kennedy University, and through the years, has led and taught numerous writing workshops. She also teaches poetry, as a volunteer, in the Salinas Valley State Prison. A member of the Academy of American Poets, Julie has work forthcoming in CALYX Journal and Pennsylvania Literary Journal.
Tracy M. King-Sanchez
Tracy M. King-Sanchez is an award-winning screenwriter, as well as a playwright, filmmaker and writer. Her short film, “Artistic Closure,” screened at the Stony Brook, Big Apple and Great Lakes Independent Film Festivals. Her writings have appeared in The Southampton Review, The Normal School, Atticus Reviews, as well as other publications. Tracy received her MFA from Stony Brook Southampton and completed a VONA/VOICES Residency. She is currently working on a collection of short stories set in Paris and a memoir (The Sum of All My Parts).
Brett Connors
Brett Connors graduates in May 2016 from the University of Houston with a B.A. in Creative Writing. Hoping to cultivate a career in publishing, he worked as an Assistant Prose Editor for the Glass Mountain publication during 2016. Previously he has published poetry, creative nonfiction, and an essay in the Creative Communications anthologies. He was a finalist in the University of Houston’s Student Success Essay Contest in 2014 and earned an honorable mention in 2012 from the Scholastic Writing Awards for his short fiction. Like all artists, Brett spends his free time exploring his various passions and pondering the future.
Dave Petraglia
A Best Small Fictions 2015 Winner, Dave Petraglia’s writing and art has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Bartleby Snopes, Cheap Pop, Crack the Spine, Chicago Literati, Gambling the Aisle, Hayden’s Ferry, McSweeney’s, Necessary Fiction, New Pop Lit, North American Review, Per Contra, Pithead Chapel, Prick of the Spindle, Popular Science, Prairie Schooner, and others.