Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 256
Anuja Ghimire
Anuja Ghimire is from Kathmandu, Nepal and currently lives near Dallas with her husband and two daughters. Her chapbook “Kathmandu” is forthcoming from the Unsolicited Press. Most recently, her work found home in Glass: A journal of poetry, Finished Creatures: London, Prakhsya Review: Bangladesh. She is a two times Best of the net and one time Pushcart nominee. She writes poetry and flash fiction. She works as a senior publisher in an online learning company.
Marisa Crane
Marisa Crane is a queer writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Wigleaf Top 50, Jellyfish Review, Hobart, The Rumpus, Barren Magazine, Longleaf Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of the poetry chapbook, “Our Debatable Bodies” (Animal Heart Press, 2019). Originally from Allentown, PA, she now lives in San Diego with her wife.
Andrea Marcusa
Andrea Marcusa’s literary fiction, essays and poetry have appeared in The Baltimore Review, River Styx, Citron Review, New South, and others. She’s received recognition from the writing competitions Glimmer Train, Third Coast, and New Letters and been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes. Andrea divides her time between creating literary works and photographs and writing articles on medicine, technology, and education. She serves as Director of Readings for The Writers Studio. To learn more, visit: andreamarcusa.com, or follow her on twitter @d_marcusa.
Jean-Luc Fontaine
Jean-Luc is a part-time middle school teacher and a part-time grocery bagger. He hails from New York and enjoys hot coffee and long naps.
Keith Moul
Keith Moul is a poet of place, a photographer of the distinction light adds to place. Both his poems and photos are published widely. His photos are digital, striving for high contrast and saturation, which makes his vision colorful (or weak, requiring enhancement).
Jenean McBrearty
Jenean McBrearty is a graduate of San Diego State University, who taught Political Science and Sociology. Her fiction, poetry, and photographs have been published in over two-hundred print and on-line journals. Her book, “Writing Beyond the Self; How to Write Creative Non-fiction that Gets Published” was published by Vine Leaves Press in 2018. She won the Eastern Kentucky English Department Award for Graduate Creative Non-fiction in 2011, and a Silver Pen Award in 2015 for her noir short story: “Red’s Not Your Color.” She lives in Kentucky and writes full time ⸺when she’s not watching classic movies and eating chocolate.
Skyler Nielsen
Skyler Nielsen grew up on a family farm in California’s San Joaquin Valley and graduated from the University of California, Riverside with a degree in History. His work has appeared in Crack the Spine, Adelaide Literary Review, Main Street Rag, Oddball Mag and The Literary Nest. Skyler’s first Novel, “One Left Inside the Well,” was published in January of 2019 from Adelaide Books.
Gwen Namainga Jones
Gwen Namainga Jones was born in Zambia to an indigenous teenage girl of the Ila tribe and a middle-aged prosperous Trader and Rancher of British lineage. She was given an English education but also spent time visiting in her mother’s hut. The result is a writer of both cultures, whose fiction and nonfiction is a new look into tribal life in Zambia. Her first novel, “Three Miles Too Far,” tells the story of her parents’ divorce when she was an infant and her shuttling between their disparate ways of life. Today, she lives in Arizona and returns often to Zambia with the aim of aiding impoverished and ill native women. Her work is forthcoming in Evening Street Review and Mount Hope Magazine.
James C. Ryan
James C. Ryan’s work has been published in The MacGuffin, Shenandoah, Entropy, Wellspring, Eureka, Inkwell, WHO WHAT WHY, Gravel Magazine, Euphony Magazine, Monthly Review, Turkish News and others. While living in Turkey, he was a columnist for Aydinlik newspaper in Istanbul. A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, he holds advanced degrees in economics and literature, and an MFA from Columbia University. He has studied with James Salter, Frank McCourt, Mary Gordon, Maureen Howard, A. Walton Litz, Alan Ziegler, and Michael Cunningham.