Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 244
Kathryn H. Ross
Kathryn H. Ross is an LA-based writer, reader, and storyteller. Her works cover spirituality and the soul, recurring dreams and fears, and racial trauma inflicted on brown bodies in America and in the world. To read her, visit speakthewritelanguage.com
Marie Baleo
Marie Baleo is a French writer born in 1990. Her work was nominated for a Best of the Net award and has appeared in Passages North, Yemassee, Litro, Lunch Ticket, Tahoma Literary Review, and elsewhere. She is an editor for Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel. www.mariebaleo.com
Dave Petraglia
A Best Small Fictions 2015 Winner, Dave Petraglia’s writing and art has appeared in Bartleby Snopes, bohemianizm, Cheap Pop, Crack the Spine, Chicago Literati, Five:2:One, Gambling the Aisle, Hayden’s Ferry, matchbook, Medium, McSweeney’s, Necessary Fiction, North American Review, Per Contra, Points in Case, Prairie Schooner, Popular Science, Razed, SmokeLong Quarterly, Up the Staircase, and others. His blog is at www.davepetraglia.com
Jason Schiren
Jason Schiren is a queer, white-privileged, neurologically atypical poor boy/girl from the wealthy conservative outskirts of Annapolis, MD. He has Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder, little-known to the medical system, thereby making it practically impossible for him to get treatment, aside from being aware of/ consciously controlling his experience. It’s basically an everlasting acid trip, without the purple bunnies and dragons, coupled with anxiety every waking second. Jason is a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park. He aspires to become a therapist, being the kind of help he’s always needed, for others. His first essay, ‘In the Blind,’ was published in Gravel (University of Arkansas, Monticello, 2017).
Elizabeth Wing
Elizabeth Wing is an incoming freshman at the Pratt Institute. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in venues such as Hanging Loose, Teen Ink Magazine, Euphony: Prose and Poetry of the University of Chicago, and are forthcoming in the West Marin Review. Her influences are Haruki Murakami, the Californian landscape, and cats that have human-looking eyes.
Layla Lenhardt
Layla Lenhardt is founder and Editor-in-Chief of 1932 Quarterly. She has been most recently published in Brine, Eskimo Pie, Rag Queen Periodical, and Third Wednesday to name a few. She is a Pushcart Nominee and was repeatedly featured as Poet of the Week on Poetry Super Highway. Additionally, she has been deported from the U.K. and she eats peanut m&ms for breakfast every day.
Ellen Morris Prewitt
In 2001, Ellen Morris Prewitt gave up a 19-year career as a lawyer to become a writer. While she learned to write, she worked as a fashion model in Memphis, Tennessee. Her first published short story was in the “Elvis” issue of River City. For eight years, she facilitated a writing group of men and women experiencing homelessness; she edited their book, Writing Our Way Home: A Group Journey Out of Homelessness (Triton Press, 2014). She now splits her time between Memphis and New Orleans. She’s been known to appear in public in costume.
Evan Steuber
Evan Steuber hails from Kentucky where they spent their first twenty-some years working in restaurants and retail, meeting the love of their life, and getting educated. Evan’s fiction has appeared in Packingtown Review, The Gravity of the Thing, and Noctua Review. They recently received their PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Evan is pretty excited about life and philosophizes about the undead in their spare time.
Michael Bleicher & Andy Newton
Michael Bleicher and Andy Newton’s work has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, National Lampoon, Splitsider, and the Weekly Humorist. Michael lives in Washington D.C. He is a trademark and copyright attorney and a graduate of Harvard Law School. Andy has a Master’s degree in Italian literature from UCLA. He is an editor living in New York City.