Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 250
Gregory Wolos
Nearly eighty of Gregory’s short stories have been published or are forthcoming in journals such as Glimmer Train, The Georgia Review, descant, The Florida Review, The Pinch, Post Road, Nashville Review, A-Minor Magazine, Yemassee, The Baltimore Review, The Los Angeles Review, PANK, Superstition Review, Tahoma Literary Review, and Thrice Fiction. His stories have earned six Pushcart Prize nominations and have won awards sponsored by descant, Solstice, the Rubery Book Awards, Gulf Stream, New South, and Emrys Journal. His full length collection “Women of Consequence” will be released in 2019 by Regal House Publishing; also scheduled for publication in 2019 is a short collection, “Turnpike,” winner of the Gambling the Aisle Chapbook Prize. For full lists of publications and commendations, visit gregorywolos.com.
Eric Rasmussen
Eric Rasmussen has placed short fiction in Fugue, Sundog Lit, Gulf Stream, Black Fox Literary, and South Carolina Review, among others. He serves as editor of the regional literary journal Barstow & Grand, and fiction reader for Split Lip Magazine. He earned his MFA at Augsburg University in Minneapolis and currently resides in Eau Claire, WI.
Célèste Fohl
Célèste Fohl holds a BA in creative writing with a poetry focus from the University of Cincinnati and is pursuing her MFA in the nonfiction program at Lesley University. Her work has been published in Gravel, Short Vine, and several indie-press anthologies. Célèste lives with her husband and their cat in Cincinnati.
Tucker Lieberman
Tucker Lieberman is the author of “Painting Dragons” and “Bad Fire.” His poems have appeared in Esthetic Apostle, The Conclusion, Déraciné, Neologism, Defenestration, and Snakeskin; his photography in Barren, Royal Rose, Dodging the Rain, Marias at Sampaguitas, and Paper Trains; his art in Burning House; and his fiction in Owl Canyon’s “No Bars and a Dead Battery” (2018) and Elly Blue’s “The Great Trans-Universal Bike Ride” (expected 2021). His essays have also been published widely. He lives in Bogotá, Colombia with his husband, the science fiction writer Arturo Serrano. www.tuckerlieberman.com
Annell Lopez
Annell Lopez is an emerging short fiction writer. Her work has been featured at the NYU Spring and Fall Literary Readings and has been selected by La Pluma y Tinta Reading series. She has participated in the Words & Music Writing Conference in New Orleans and is an alumna of the Cagibi Literary Hudson Valley Writing Retreat. Her non-fiction has been published by The Setonian and her fiction work is forthcoming in Abstract Magazine and WRBH Reading Radio.
Jade Freeman
Jade recently graduated with her Master in Fine Arts from Emerson College. Her work has appeared in The Cortland Review, Cactus Heart, and Paragraphiti, among others, and is forthcoming in Badlands. Jade currently lives in Denver with her dogs.
Jane Rosenberg LaForge
Jane Rosenberg LaForge’s poem, “If Water Were Religion,” appeared in Crack the Spine Number 55 (Feb 2013), as well as the spring 2013 print anthology. It was nominated by the magazine for the Best of the Net anthology. Her most recent book of poems is “Daphne and Her Discontents” (Ravenna Press) and her novel is “The Hawkman: A Fairy Tale of the Great War.” More information: jane-rosenberg-laforge.com.
Holly Day
Holly Day’s poetry has recently appeared in The Cape Rock, New Ohio Review, and Gargoyle. Her newest poetry collections are “A Perfect Day for Semaphore” (Finishing Line Press), “In This Place, She Is Her Own” (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press), “A Wall to Protect Your Eyes” (Pski’s Porch Publishing), “I’m in a Place Where Reason Went Missing” (Main Street Rag Publishing Co.), and “The Yellow Dot of a Daisy” (Alien Buddha Press).
Jay Merill
Jay Merill lives in London UK and is Writer in Residence at Women in Publishing. Jay is runner up in the 2018 International Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize, a Pushcart Prize nominee and the winner of the Salt short story Prize. She is the author of two short story collections (both Salt): God of the Pigeons and Astral Bodies and has fiction forthcoming in Occulum. Jay is published in 3 AM Magazine, A-Minor, Anomalous, CHEAP POP Lit, The Citron Review, Corium, Entropy, Epiphany, Eunoia Review, Foliate Oak, Ginosko, Gravel, Heavy Feather Review, Hobart, Jellyfish Review, Literary Orphans, Lunch Ticket, matchbook, Matter Magazine, Per Contra, Pithead Chapel, Prairie Schooner, SmokeLong Quarterly, Spork, Thrice Fiction, Toasted Cheese, upstreet Literary Journal, Wigleaf and other greats.