Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 235
John Grey
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident. Recently published in Examined Life Journal, Studio One and Columbia Review with work upcoming in Leading Edge, Poetry East and Midwest Quarterly.
Fabrice Poussin
Fabrice Poussin teaches French and English at Shorter University. Author of novels and poetry, his work has appeared in Kestrel, Symposium, The Chimes, and dozens of other magazines. His photography has been published in The Front Porch Review, the San Pedro River Review, Crack the Spine and more than 300 other publications.
Tom Richard Santos
Tom Richard Santos is a graduate of the Creative Writing program at the University of Houston. Formerly of Gulf Coast and Glass Mountain Literary Journals, he is currently on staff for both the Cine Las Americas and the Austin Film Festival. He currently resides with his wife Jennifer in Austin, where he is also a professional sommelier, pouring rotten grape juice whenever he isn’t writing stuff down. Occasionally, he also drinks and reads.
Shannon McMahon
Shannon McMahon has an M.A. in Creative Writing and a PhD in American Literature. She has lived in France, Italy, and Morocco but has also spent many years living in her home state of Nebraska where she currently resides. She is greatly inspired by her ex-patriot experience as well as by the small town and the people with whom she grew up. Shannon is currently at work on her first novel.
Ken Poyner
Ken’s collections of short fiction, “Constant Animals” and “Avenging Cartography”, and his latest collections of speculative poetry, “Victims of a Failed Civics” and “The Book of Robot”, can be obtained from Barking Moose Press. He serves as bewildering eye-candy at his wife’s power lifting affairs, where she continues to set world raw powerlifting records. His poetry lately has been sunning in “Analog”, “Asimov’s”, “Poet Lore”; and his fiction has yowled in “Spank the Carp”, “Red Truck”, “Café Irreal”. www.kpoyner.com.
Ernest Gordon Taulbee
Ernest Gordon Taulbee’s fiction has appeared in Litbreak, Door is a Jar, Sediments Literary-Arts Journal, Fried Chicken and Coffee, and others. He has had poetry published as well. He holds an MA in English from Eastern Kentucky University and lives in Louisville, KY with his family. He is on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ernestgordontaulbee.
M. A. Banash
Matt was born and raised in PA and has lived in the Carolinas for the past twenty years. He writes poetry and short fiction. His work has appeared in Penumbra, Poetry Quarterly, and SurVision.
Konstantin Rega
Born in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Konstantin studies British & American Literature and Creative Writing at The University of Kent in Canterbury, England. He has been published by The Claremont Review, Four Ties Lit Review, AOM, and has won the ZO Magazine Silver Prize for Poetry, and is currently a Review Assistant for Newfound.
Michael Carter
Michael Carter is an attorney who spent five years commuting over 140 miles a day on the trains in Southern California. He no longer braves the rails, which has allowed him more time to write, fly fish, and see his family. He’s online at michaelcarter.ink and @mcmichaelcarter.