Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 259
Kelle Schillaci Clarke
Kelle Schillaci Clarke is a Seattle-based writer and journalist with L.A. roots. Her recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Barren Magazine, The Citron Review, Ghost Parachute, Pidgeonholes, Menacing Hedge, and others. She can be found on Twitter @kelle224.
L. Mari Harris
L Mari Harris splits her time between Nebraska and the Ozarks, and works as a copywriter in the tech industry. Her work has appeared in Atticus Review, Bending Genres, cahoodaloodaling, Gravel, Lost Balloon, Milk Candy Review, among others. Follow her on Twitter @LMariHarris and read more of her work at www.lmariharris.wordpress.com.
Tom Barlow
Tom Barlow is an Ohio Writer. Other works of his may be found in anthologies including Best American Mystery Stories 2013, Best of Ohio Short Stories #2, and Best New Writing 2011, and many periodicals including Hobart, Temenos, Redivider, The William and Mary Review, Anomalous Press, and The Sonder Review. His novel I’ll Meet You Yesterday and short story collection Welcome to the Goat Rodeo are available on Amazon. See more on his web site www.tjbarlow.com.
Jodie Filan
Jodie Filan was born in Saskatoon, Canada in May 1992 making her a Taurus. She is completely self taught. Unfortunately she like many others in her community, is suffering from addiction to methamphetamine .You can find her and her art at www.facebook.com/JodieFilanArt
Marty Carlock
Marty’s work has been published or is forthcoming in American Literary Review, Appalachia, Carbon Culture Review, Crack the Spine, Diverse Arts Project, Edison Literary Review, Fiction Fix, Glint Literary Journal, The Griffin, Halfway Down The Stairs, Hawaii Pacific Review, Hobart, Ink Pantry, Inscape, The MacGuffin, The Madison Review, MARY: A Journal Of New Writing, Menda City Press, Minetta Review, Moon City Review, Old Red Kimono, The Penmen Review, Pennsylvania English, RiverSedge, Phantasmagoria, Rosebud Magazine, Sanskrit, Schuylkill Valley Journal, The Storyteller, and Waxing & Waning. For almost 20 years, Marty was a regular contributor to The Boston Globe and other publications; more than 30 newspapers and magazines have published some 1,600 articles under her byline. She is an author of two editions of A Guide to Public Art in Greater Boston. At the present time Marty writes for Sculpture and Landscape Architecture magazines, and she reviews fiction and nonfiction for the Internet Review of Books.
Lorrie Ness
Lorrie Ness is an emerging poet, having just begun submitting work in 2019. She draws inspiration for her writing through time outdoors. Writing is her means of refuge and connection. She has forthcoming publications at Barren Magazine, FRiGG, Sky Island Journal, SOFTBLOW, The Maryland Literary Review, The American Journal of Poetry, Rosebud and the Big Windows Review.
Stephen Massimilla
Stephen Massimilla is a poet, scholar, professor, and painter. His multi-genre volume, Cooking with the Muse (Tupelo, 2016), won the Eric Hoffer Book Award, the National Indie Excellence Award, the Independent Author Network Book of the Year Award, and others. Previous books and awards include The Plague Doctor in His Hull-Shaped Hat (a Stephen F. Austin University Press Prize selection); Forty Floors from Yesterday (winner of the Bordighera/CUNY Poetry Prize); Later on Aiaia (winner of the Grolier Poetry Prize); Almost a Second Thought (runner-up for the Salmon Run National Poetry Book Award, selected by X.J. Kennedy); a study of myth in modern poetry; a Van Rensselaer Award, selected by Kenneth Koch; several Pushcart Prize nominations; and other honors. Massimilla has recent work in AGNI, American Literary Review, Barrow Street, Chelsea, The Collagist, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Diode, Epoch, Fields Magazine, Fogged Clarity, The Literary Review, Marlboro Review, Paterson Literary Review, Poet Lore, Poetry Daily, Posit, RHINO Poetry, The Round, Tampa Review, Verse Daily, and many other journals and anthologies. He holds an M.F.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University and teaches literary modernism, among other subjects, at Columbia University and The New School. For more info: www.stephenmassimilla.com and www.cookingwiththemuse.com
Jon Epstein
Jon Epstein is an emerging writer and a fine artist inspired by the daily trials and joys of simple life—as well as a father, grandfather musician, surfer, and recovering drug addict. He lives in the San Fernando Valley with his wife of thirty-one years.
Lisa Low
Lisa Low’s poetry, reviews, interviews, and academic essays have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, The Boston Review, Cross Currents, The Boston Herald, Phoebe, The Portland Press Herald, Potomac Review, and Aphros Literary Magazine, among others. She is one of the editors of Milton, the Metaphysicals, and Romanticism, published by Cambridge University Press in 1994. She received her doctorate in English Literature from the University of Massachusetts and spent twenty years as an English professor, teaching at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa; Colby College in Waterville, Maine; and Pace University in New York City. In addition to her work as an educator, Low was briefly a film and theatre critic for Christian Science Monitor.