Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 252
Ashley N. Roth
Ashley N. Roth writes from Nashville, Tennessee. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Jersey Devil Press, decomP, Moonsick Magazine, and others. You may find her daydreaming about moonlighting as a silent film star, conjuring up pity laughs at comedy open mics, or gorging on vegan donuts with her daughter—or find her here: www.ashleynroth.com.
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, Five:2:One, Gambling the Aisle, Gravel, Hayden’s Ferry Review, matchbook, Medium, McSweeney’s, Mojave River Review, 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
Daryl Scroggins
Daryl Scroggins lives in Marfa, Texas. He has taught creative writing and literature at The University of Texas at Dallas, The University of North Texas, and the Writer’s Garret, in Dallas. He is the author of “Winter Investments,” a collection of stories (Trilobite Press), and This Is Not the Way We Came In, a collection of flash fiction and a flash novel (Ravenna Press). His flash fictions and poems have recently appeared in Blink-Ink, Blue Lake Review, Cutbank, The Coil, Dime Show Review, Microfiction Monday, New Flash Fiction Review, Sky Island Journal, Star 82 Review, Third Wednesday, and Unbroken Journal.
Blaze Farrar
Blaze Farrar’s work has appeared in Gravel Literary Magazine, Dual Coast Magazine, and has been featured on NPR station KQED’s Perspectives series. Her flash fiction piece, “The Light,” won an Honorable Mention in the Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition. When not writing, she spends her free time relaxing with her partner Michael and her dog Betty or hiking in cemeteries and under redwoods in the San Francisco Bay Area. She works at the University of California.
Logan Thomas
Logan Thomas writes short stories and novels. Originally from Appalachian Maryland, he now lives in the Washington, D.C. area.
Jennifer Gravely
Jennifer Gravley makes her way in Columbia, Missouri. She is a writer of sentences, a watcher of bad television, and a reference and instruction librarian. Her work has recently appeared in Still: The Journal and Poetry Northwest, among others. Find her online at jennifergravley.com.
Katie-Ellen Hazeldine
Katie-Ellen Hazeldine lives in Lancashire in the UK, on the NW coast, and works from home as a professional tarot card and rune reader, and freelance English Tutor.
Philip Wexler
Philip Wexler lives in Bethesda, MD. He has had over 160 poems published in magazines. He organizes Words out Loud, a spoken word series, in Glen Echo Park, MD.
Diane DeCillis
Diane DeCillis’ debut poetry collection, “Strings Attached” (Wayne State Univ. Press, 2014) has been honored as a Michigan Notable Book for 2015, won the 2015 Next Generation Indie Book Award for poetry, and was a finalist for the Forward Indie Fab Book Award for poetry. Her poems have been nominated for three Pushcarts and Best American Poetry. Poems, stories and essays have appeared recently in Adirondack Review, Columbia Journal, Minnesota Review, Mizna and other journals.