Issue 232 Contributors – Crack the Spine

Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 232

Adam Lock
Adam wakes far too early in a morning to write before he teaches English at a secondary school in the Black Country, UK. His stories have appeared or in STORGY, Fictive Dream, Vending Machine Press, Fiction Pool, Literally Stories, Firefly Magazine, Occulum, Flash Fiction Magazine, The Harpoon Review, Ghost Parachute & The Green Light. You can find links to these stories on adamlock.net. He’s also active on Twitter: @dazedcharacter.

Jenifer Rowe
Jenifer Rowe devotes her time to writing stories, riding horses, and teaching English as a Second Language. She is a board member of the California Writers Club – Sacramento Branch, which has supported and encouraged writers for 109 years. She lives in El Dorado Hills, California with her partner and their two dogs.

Larry Duncan
Larry Duncan currently lives in Redondo Beach, CA. His poetry has appeared in Juked, the Mas Tequila Review, Danse Macabre, the Free State Review and John Grochalski’s Shipwrecked in Trumpland Blog. He is the author of two chapbooks, “Crossroads of Stars” and “White Lightning and Drunk on Ophelia.” To learn more about Larry and his writing, visit at http://larrydunc.wix.com/larry-duncan.

Jennifer Todhunter
Jennifer Todhunter’s stories have appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, Necessary Fiction, (b)OINK, and elsewhere. She is the managing editor of Pidgeonholes. Find her at www.foxbane.ca or @JenTod_.

Larry Rogers
Larry Rogers is a singer/songwriter. Growing up, he lived for a while in Berkeley and Compton, California, but was mostly raised in a potting shed trailer in the piney woods of west central Arkansas–a sanctuary for moonshiners, marijuana growers, and merry (and not-so-merry) pranksters. His poems and stories have appeared in Misfit, Hanging Loose, Nerve Cowboy, Pearl, Rattle, Wormwood Review, and The Denver Post.

Jeff Fleischer
Jeff Fleischer is a Chicago-based author, journalist and editor. His fiction has appeared in more than two dozen publications including the Chicago Tribune’s Printers Row Journal, Shenandoah, the Saturday Evening Post and So It Goes by the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library. He is also the author of non-fiction books including “Votes of Confidence: A Young Person’s Guide to American Elections” (Zest Books, 2016), “Rockin’ the Boat: 50 Iconic Revolutionaries” (Zest Books, 2015), and “The Latest Craze: A Short History of Mass Hysterias” (Fall River Press, 2011). He is a veteran journalist published in Mother Jones, the New Republic, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Magazine, Mental_Floss, National Geographic Traveler and dozens of other local, national and international publications.

Martina Reisz Newberry

Martina Reisz Newberry’s most recent books are “Never Completely Awake” ( from Deerbrook Editions), and “Take the Long Way Home” (Unsolicited Press). She is also the author of “Where It Goes” (Deerbrook Editions). “Learning by Rote” (Deerbrook Editions) and “Running Like a Woman With Her Hair on Fire: Collected Poems” (Red Hen Press). Newberry has been included in It Happened Under Cover, Ascent Aspirations’ first two hard-copy anthologies, also in the anthologies “In The Company Of Women,” “Blessed Are These Hands and Veils,” and “Halos & Shackles: International Poetry on the Oppression and Empowerment of Women.” She has been widely published in literary magazines in the U.S. and abroad. She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo Colony for the Arts, Djerassi Colony for the Arts, and Anderson Center for Disciplinary Arts.