Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 264
Michael McGill
Michael McGill is an artist from Edinburgh, Scotland who has recently had written and visual work included in Versification, HARTS & Minds and The Bohemyth. He has recently had written work published by Lunate, Rejection Letters, FEED, 24 Unread Messages, The Cabinet of Heed and detritus. His overheard comments and photopoems regularly appear on Twitter and Instagram. He also has visual work forthcoming in Rejection Letters.
Rachel Laverdiere
Inspired by the vast Saskatchewan skies, Rachel Laverdiere anticipates that calm will erupt into thunderstorms, flocking geese will disappear into the sunset, and northern lights will traipse across the blackened stage. When pastures bloom into bouquets of crocus and sage, she forgets the chaos of a world that spins too quickly and remembers the pleasure of breathing. Her work is published in journals such as The Common, CutBank, The New Quarterly and Filling Station. Rachel’s flash CNF was shortlisted for CutBank‘s 2019 Big Sky, Small Prose Flash Contest. Visit www.rachellaverdiere.com to read more of her writing.
Ziaul Moid Khan
Ziaul Moid Khan grew-up in North India countryside named, Johri. He is the youngest among his six siblings. His father A.M. Khan (d. 1990) was an Urdu writer and a sensational human being while his mother, Ansar Fatima is a homely lady. He is a speculative fiction writer and a romantic poet. Zia is the author of short stories: “The Gold Research,” “A Country Singer,” and “The Farmers in the Fields.” His work has featured in Fiction Southeast, Artifact Nouveau, Literary Orphans, PLJ, Smoky Blue Literary & Arts Magazine and elsewhere. He teaches English at Gudha International School, Jhunjhunu and resides in Rajasthan with his beautiful wife, Khushboo Khan and a cute three-year-old son, Brahamand.
Krista Lukas
Krista Lukas is the author of a poetry collection, Fans of My Unconscious, from which poems have been selected for The Writer’s Almanac and The Best American Poetry 2006.
Angelica Whitehorne
Angelica is a recent college graduate from The College at Brockport in New York. She currently writes at her desk with her twenty-one houseplants as backdrop. One day she hopes to write at a desk with forty-two plants as backdrop and her own book on the shelf. She will be published in The Magnolia Review‘s next issue, and has been published in Jigsaw, her university’s literary magazine.
C. Christine Fair
C. Christine Fair is a provost’s distinguished associate professor at Georgetown University in the Security Studies Program within the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. She has previously published in 50-Word Short Stories, Echo, The Awakening, The Dime Review, Clementine Unbound, Sonder Midwest among other venues. Her most recent book is “In Their Own Words: Understanding the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba” (Oxford University Press, 2019). Her professional webpage is ChristineFair.net. Her blog is https://shortbustoparadise.wordpress.com/wp-admin/customize.php She tweets at @CChristineFair.
Robyn Ritchie
Robyn Ritchie is a writer who can’t see past the ’90s. Her work has appeared in Southern Indiana Review, Southeast Review, and she is an Assistant Fiction Editor at Sundog Lit. Her vaporwave struggles can be read at robynritchie.com.
Leland Seese
Leland Seese’s poems appear in Juked, After the Pause, The South Carolina Review, and many other journals. His chapbook, “Wherever This All Ends”, is forthcoming in 2020 (Kelsay Books). He and his wife live in Seattle with a revolving cast of foster, adopted, and bio children.
Gwendolyn Jensen
After many years in academia, Gwendolyn Jensen retired from the presidency of Wilson College in 2001. “Birthright,” her first book of poems, was published in 2011 in a letterpress edition (with a second printing in 2012). Her second book, “As If Toward Beauty,” was released in 2014. Her third book, “Graceful Ghost,” is a letterpress edition and was published in 2018. Birch Brook Press is her publisher for all three. The print and online journals where her poems and translations have appeared include the Beloit Poetry Journal, The Denver Quarterly, Harvard Review, and Salamander.