Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 245
Susan Haar
To date, Susan Haar’s work has been primarily in theater. Her play The Darlings was published by Broadway Publishing (2006). Her plays have also been published in The Best Men’s Stage Monologues of 2007 and in The Best 10-Minute Plays of 2018. Haar’s work has been produced at Primary Stages, The Women’s Project, 13th Street Rep, and a variety of other venues. Her work has been recently published in bioStories, The Borfski Press, Forge, The Furious Gazelle, Glint Literary Magazine, and Saint Ann’s Review. Haar is a member of The Actors Studio, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and HB Playwright’s Unit, was a selected participant at The Women’s Project, and served a residency at New River Dramatists. Haar received her J.D. and a B.A. in visual studies from Harvard University. She is currently a real estate consultant to the dean of New York University Law School. When Haar is not writing, she enjoys gardening and beekeeping.
Wim Hylen
Wim Hylen’s work has been published in Four Chambers, Café Irreal, Boomer LitMag and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, among other places. He lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
Matthew Talamini
Matthew Talamini is a recent graduate of the Brown University Literary Arts MFA program. He lives and works in Providence, RI.
Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar
Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar is an Indian American, born in a middle-class family in India and will forever be indebted to her parents for educating her beyond their means. She is a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee and her work has appeared online in The Ellipsis zine, Lunch Ticket, Star82 Review, and also in print, most recently in the National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2018. She blogs at Puny Fingers. Twitter @PunyFingers.
Marc Meierkort
Marc Meierkort is a life-long Chicago resident and currently teaches English and Film Studies at Thornton Fractional North High School in Calumet City, IL, where he has taught for the past 19 years. He is a graduate of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (B.S.) and National-Louis University (M.A.T.) He currently lives in the western suburbs of Chicago.
Sheree La Puma
Sheree is a Los Angeles based author/producer. She holds an MFA in critical studies & writing from California Institute of The Arts and has published poetry/fiction on a myriad of topics. Her flash fiction piece, ‘Assumptions’ is featured in the July, 5th issue of Burningword literary journal and she has work forthcoming in the I-70 Review, Ginosko Literary Journal and the Oct, 5th issue of Burningword Literary Journal.
Monica Kagan
Monica Kagan lives by the sea in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa with her wonderful cat. She is a reader at FICTION on the WEB. She is also a contributing writer at Rhythm & Bones Literary Magazine on their blog #Necropolis. Her work appears in Fourth & Sycamore (USA), Bonnie’s Crew (UK), and at FICTION on the WEB (UK), among others.
Nikoletta Gjoni
Nikoletta Gjoni is a fiction and creative nonfiction writer living outside of Washington, DC. She currently has a collection of linked short stories out on submission about people living in Communist Albania, spanning the 1970s through to the present day. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in Kindling Volume III anthology, Cleaver Magazine, Cotton Xenomorph, and Riggwelter Press, among others. Her first published story was nominated for the 2018 PEN/Robert J. Dau prize. You can follow her @NikiGjoni.