Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 236
Cheyenne Avila
Cheyenne Avila is an Afromexicana competitive Slam Poet from Bellflower, California. She has had a nonfiction essay published by the University of La Verne’s Prism Review. Her writing centers around experience, identity, race, womanhood, and spirituality.
Ken Massicotte
Ken Massicotte is from Vancouver Island but currently lives in Berlin. He has published in several journals, including: River Poets Journal; Turk’s Head Review; Glass: A Journal of Poetry; Wilderness House Literary Review; Gray Sparrow; Every Day Poems; Poetry Quarterly and (upcoming) Ginosko.
Alan Swyer
Alan Swyer is an award-winning filmmaker whose recent documentaries have dealt with Eastern spirituality in the Western world, the criminal justice system, diabetes, boxing, and singer Billy Vera. In the realm of music, among his productions is an album of Ray Charles love songs. His novel ‘The Beard’ was recently published by Harvard Square Editions.
Gilles Ansiaux
Born in the flemish side of Belgium, Gilles Ansiaux studied theatre. During a training in contemporary dance he read out loud a self written texte about movement in front of the audience and found himself extremely free. Since then as an addiction he write to reach this freedom again.
Redfern Jon Barrett
Redfern Jon Barrett is a writer and activist with a Literature Ph.D. from the University of Wales. They are author to novels “Forget Yourself” and “The Giddy Death of the Gays & The Strange Demise of Straights” (finalist for New York’s Bisexual Book Awards). Their short fiction has been shortlisted for Scotland’s HISSAC prize and exhibited at the National Museum of Denmark. Redfern’s nonfiction writing has been published in Guernica, Pinknews, and Strange Horizons. They have also worked as a reader for Guernica and PEN America, whilst their polyamorous campaign work and personal life have been referenced throughout British and international media. Read more at redjon.com.
Carlos Franco-Ruiz
Carlos Franco-Ruiz graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Miami in 2011. In 2013, he moved to Uruguay where he was recently part of a group exhibition “Colecciones Privadas” at the Museo Mazzoni. Currently living in Sauce, Uruguay.
Rachele Salvini
Rachele Salvini is a 24-year-old Italian student of Creative Writing. She is working on her PhD at Oklahoma State University, where she is an instructor and assistant editor of Cimarron Review. She writes both in English and Italian, and her fiction in English has been published on Takahe Magazine, The Machinery Magazine and others.
Robin Landa
Robin holds the title of Distinguished Professor at Kean University and she is the author of 23 published nonfiction books, a short story, and children’s book. Robin has won numerous awards for design, writing and research, including awards from the National Society of Arts and Letters and the National League of Pen Women. She received the 2015 Human Rights Educator award, 2013 Kean Teacher of the Year, and the Carnegie Foundation lists Robin among the great teachers of our time.
Kathryn Fitzpatrick
Kathryn Fitzpatrick is a student at Central Connecticut State University and a prose reader for the Adroit Journal. Her work has been previously published in Out Magazine, as well as in several undergraduate publications, and is forthcoming in Fjords Review and the collection “Flash (non) Fiction Funny” (Woodhall Press, 2018) edited by Dinty Moore and Tom Hazuka. She is the recipient of the 2013 Connecticut Young Writer’s Trust Prize, and lives in Thomaston, CT.