Issue 234 Contributors

Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 234

Tad Bartlett
Tad Bartlett’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in print and online at The Oxford American, The Bitter Southerner, The Baltimore Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Chautauqua Literary Journal, and The Stockholm Review of Literature, among others. He earned an MFA in fiction at the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of New Orleans; and is a graduate of Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama, and Tulane University Law School. He is a founding member of the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance.

Michael T. Smith
Michael T. Smith is an Assistant Professor of the Polytechnic Institute at Purdue University, where he received his PhD in English. He teaches cross-disciplinary courses that blend humanities with other areas. He has published over 30 poems in the last year in over 10 different journals (including Bitterzoet, Visitant, Tau Poetry Journal, Eunoia Review, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Bitchin Kitsch, and Taj Mahal Poetry Journal among others). He also has critical work recently published in Symbolism and Cinematic. He loves to travel.​

Eleanor Gallagher
Eleanor Gallagher writes and quilts in Tucson, Arizona. Her work has appeared in Jersey Devil Press and Jellyfish Review. She serves as Assistant Fiction Editor at Atticus Review.

Anne Valentino
Anne Valentino lives in the Finger Lakes region of New York with her two children and three dogs. Holding a PhD in English, she has taught at Temple University and The Eastman School of Music among others. She’s published articles on Alexander Pope as well as on 17th and 18th century poetry and is currently a full-time freelance writer.

Adrienne Krater
Adrienne Krater is a published writer and undergraduate student in the International Studies program at Cedarville University. She works as a university and wedding photographer, and plans on pursuing an MFA after graduation. She is from Altoona, Pennsylvania.

Arthur Lindenberg
Arthur Lindenberg is the founding editor of The MacGuffin, an international literary journal. His stories have been published in The Medulla Review, Forge, Licking River Review, and other journals. Lindenberg taught creative writing for nearly fifty years and has attended numerous AWP conferences. An avid amateur photographer, he has visited fifty-eight countries—and still counting.

Peter J. Stavros
Peter J. Stavros is a writer in Louisville, Kentucky. His work has appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, The Boston Globe Magazine, The East Bay Review, Hypertext Magazine, Fiction Southeast, Juked, and Literary Orphans, among others. Peter has also had plays produced, including as part of the Festival of Ten at The College at Brockport – SUNY, for which he was named Audience Choice Winner. More can be found on his website.

Brett Stout
Brett Stout is a 38-year-old artist and writer. He is a high school dropout and former construction worker turned college graduate and Paramedic. He creates controversial art while breathing toxic paint fumes from a small cramped apartment referred to as “the nerd lab” in Myrtle Beach , SC. His artwork has appeared in a wide range of various media from small webzines like the Paradise Review to the University of Oklahoma Medical School Journal.

Robert John Miller
Robert John Miller’s work has appeared in Bartleby Snopes, Camroc Press, Full of Crow, Metazen, Monkeybicycle, PoeticDiversity, Rattle, and others, available at robertjohnmiller.com. He lives in Chicago and is working on a novel.