Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 241
R. Daniel Evans
R. Daniel Evans was a founding editor of Philadlephia’s Painted Bride Quarterly. He has been published in several publications, including Cleaver, Jonathan, HGMFQ, Art/Mag, Periwinkle and Pangolin Papers, which printed three of his stories and nominated one for a Pushcart Prize.
Laura Leffler
Laura Leffler is a writer and art historian. Her non-fiction has appeared in various literary and art journals and parenting magazines, including Art Journal, Art Papers, Connotation Press, Manifest-Station, Mothers Always Write, Motherwell, and Rosebud Magazine. She is in the final stages of editing for her first novel “The Big Want,” a glimpse into the ugly underbelly of the New York art world. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and three children.
Robert Laughlin
Robert Laughlin lives in Chico, California, and received his BA from California State University, Sacramento. “Men at Work: Dion, a contractor” is Mr. Laughlin’s first fiction sale to Crack the Spine, but he has published six poems in earlier issues. Apart from his ongoing Men at Work flash fiction series, Robert Laughlin has published 200 poems and 100 short stories; two of his stories have been chosen as *storySouth* Million Writers Award Notable Stories. Visit Mr. Laughlin’s author page.
Benjamin Harnett
Benjamin Harnett is a historian, fiction writer, poet, and digital engineer. His works have appeared recently in Pithead Chapel, Brooklyn Quarterly, Moon City Review, and Tahoma Literary Review. His story “Delivery” was chosen as Longform’s “Story of the Week.” He holds an MA in Classics from Columbia University and in 2005 co-founded the fashion brand Hayden-Harnett. He lives in Beacon, NY with his wife Toni and their pets. He can be found most days on Twitter. He works for The New York Times.
Betsy Kassoff
Betsy Kassoff is a psychologist, the mother of a college-aged daughter, a teacher, a psychoanalyst, a lesbian activist, and a writer living in San Francisco.
J. Edward Kruft
J. Edward Kruft received his MFA in fiction writing from Brooklyn College. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in several online and print journals, including Crack the Spine, Flash Fiction Magazine, and MoonPark Review. He hates the word “slacks” as a synonym for pants and viscerally cringes whenever he hears it. He also hates when people pronounce “probably” as “prolly.” He lives in Astoria, NY and Livingston Manor, NY with his husband, Mike, and their adopted Siberian Husky, Sasha. His recent fiction can be found on his website.
Dave Petraglia
A Best Small Fictions 2015 Winner, Dave Petraglia’s writing and art has appeared in Bartleby Snopes, bohemianizm, Cheap Pop, Crab Fat, Crack the Spine, Chicago Literati, Five:2:One, Gambling the Aisle, Hayden’s Ferry, Medium, McSweeney’s, Mud Season Review, Necessary Fiction, New Pop Lit, North American Review, Per Contra, Pithead Chapel, Points in Case, Prick of the Spindle, Prairie Schooner, Popular Science, Razed, SmokeLong Quarterly, Up the Staircase, Vestal Review, and others. His blog is at www.davepetraglia.com
Elanda-Isabella Atencio
Elanda is a taurus who loves to sit in her trees in Portland, especially with green tea. A writer, a singer, a yogi, she likes to dip her toes in as much life as she can. She is the editor-in-chief of the online literary magazine Independent Noise.
Rachael Peralez
Rachael Peralez completed her undergraduate degree at University of Texas and her MFA in creative writing at the University of New Orleans, where she received the award of Best Thesis for a collection of her short stories. Her work has recently been published in the Eunoia Review and Five on the Fifth literary magazines.